Contact:

joseph.papa@mtangel.edu

Education

PhD: Pontifical Athenaeum of St Anselm (2007)
PhL: Pontifical Athenaeum of St Anselm (2005)
STB: Pontifical Lateran University (2002)
MTS: Pontifical John Paul II Institute (2000)
MBA: The George Washington University (1987)
BA: The University of Maryland (1980)

Courses taught

• Philosophy of God
• Philosophy of Being
• Contemporary Philosophy
• Modern Philosophy
• The Thomistic System
• Logic I & II
• Epistemology
• Philosophy of the Human Person
• Introduction to Christian Humanism
• MA Thesis Seminar: Issues in Contemporary Thomism
• Questions in Phenomenology
• Philosophy of Religion
• Art of Philosophy
• Selected Questions: Luigi Giussani’s The Religious Sense

Research interests

• Classical (early 20th Century) Phenomenology
• Contemporary Philosophy
• Philosophy of Language
• The thought of Edith Stein
• Carmelite Mysticism & Spirituality
• Spiritual Theology generally
• History of the American West

Select projects

• “The Implications of Edith Stein’s Early Christian Experience as Reflected in ‘Freiheit und Gnade’” in Edith Stein’s Itinerary: Phenomenology, Christian Philosophy, and Carmelite Spirituality, eds. H. Klueting, E. Klueting (Aschendorff, Munster, 2021), 441–450.
• Translation: God: Introduction to Problems in Theology, C. Fabro (IVE Press, 2017).

Professional associations

• Member, International Association for the Study of the Philosophy of Edith Stein (IASPES)