Emily J. Dumler-Winckler, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Constructive Theology
Theological Studies
Courses Taught
Theological Foundations; Incarnation and Incarceration; Gender and Sexuality: Doctrinal Considerations; Political Theology: Community Organizing and Movements; Theology, Race, and Gender: Great Books; Methods in Historical Theology; Survey of Modern Christianity
Education
Ph.D. in Religion and Society, Princeton Theological Seminar, 2015
Th.M. in Moral Theology, Princeton Theological Seminary, 2009
M.Div., Princeton Theological Seminary, 2007
Research Interests
- Constructive Theology (Social, Moral, Political)
- Christian Ethics, Religious Ethics
- Virtue Theory
- Modern Religious Thought
- Social Theory (Gender, Sexuality and Race)
- Science and Theology
Labs and Facilities
Publications and Media Placements
Books
Select Refereed Journal Articles
2021: Forthcoming: 鈥淩alph Waldo Emerson鈥檚 Anthropology: From Foil to Fertile Soil for Eco-Justice?鈥�
Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture, special issue: 鈥淎mbiguous Legacies, Contested Futures: Re-Assessing Cornerstone
Figures in the American Environmental Tradition.鈥�
2019: 鈥淧rotestant Political Theology and Pluralism: From a Politics of Refusal to
Tending and Organizing for Common Goods鈥� in Religions vol. 10. Sept 10, 1-18.
2018: 鈥淓mersonian Virtues of the Anthropocene: Faith, Hope, and Love鈥� Zygon, vol. 53.4, 971-991.
2018: 鈥淒istinguishing Intellectual and Moral Virtues in Scientific Practice鈥� Philosophy, Theology, and the Sciences vol. 5.1, 80-103.
2018: 鈥淧ersonal Responsibility in the Face of Structural Evil: Transcendentalist Debates
Reconsidered鈥� Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, vol. 38.1, Spring/Summer.
2018: 鈥淐an Genius be Taught?鈥�: Emerson鈥檚 Genius and the Virtue of Self-Trust鈥� Journal for Moral Education, vol. 47.1, 1-17.
2017: 鈥淭he Virtue of Emerson鈥檚 Imitation of Christ: Reflections from William Ellery
Channing to John Brown鈥� Journal of Religious Ethics vol. 45.3, 510-538.
2015: 鈥淩omanticism as Modern Re-Enchantment: Burke, Kant, and Emerson on Religious
Taste鈥� in Journal for the History of Modern Theology / Zeitschrift f眉r Neuere Theologiegeschichte, vol. 22.1, 1-22.
2015: 鈥淧utting on Virtue Without Putting Off Feminists: Mary Wollstonecraft鈥檚 Religious
Moral Imagination鈥� Journal of Religious Ethics vol. 43.2, 342-367.
Select Chapters in Edited Volumes
2019: 鈥淣ew Directions in Protestant Social Ethics鈥� in T&T Clark Companion to Political Theology, ed. Ruben Rosario-Rodriguez, 433-448.
2019: 鈥淭heology and Religion" in The Wollstonecraftian Mind. in The Routledge Philosophical Minds series. eds. Sandrine Berg猫s, Eileen Hunt Botting, and Alan Coffee, 297-310.
2019: 鈥淏eyond the Territories of Science and Religion鈥� in Science and Religion in Education, eds. Berry Billingsley, Keith Chappell and Michael Reis (in the Contemporary Trends and Issues in Science Education Book Series) Springer Press, 47-61.
2019: 鈥淥n Making the World Habitable鈥� ebook edited volume with the Center for Theology,
Science, and Human Flourishing at Notre Dame.
Honors and Awards
- Collaborative Inquiries in Theological Anthropology, Project funded by John Templeton Foundation. Project title: "Virtue, Habituation, and Exemplarity." (2020-2023)
- Donald G. Brennan Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching, College of Arts and Sciences, 91女神. (2020)
- University of Notre Dame; Center for Theology, Science, and Human Flourishing, Theology post-doctoral research fellowship, funded by Templeton Religion Trust (2016-2018)
- Center for Theological Inquiry: Workshop on Religious Experience and Moral Identity (2014)
- Institut fur die Wissenschaften vom Menschen: Philosophy, Religion, Politics Summer Program (2010)
- Kuyper Research Fellowship Award (2010)
- Princeton University, Center for the Study of Religion, Research Fellow (2009)
- Graduate Study Fellowship for Parish Pulpit Ministry (2008)
Professional Organizations and Associations
American Academy of Religion, Society of Christian Ethics, Fellowship for Protestant Ethics