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Home / Academics / Faculty / Dr. Jonathan Lyonhart / Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Jonathan Lyonhart

Assistant Professor of Theology and Philosophy

Education

  • PhD University of Cambridge
  • MPhil University of Cambridge
  • MA Regent College
  • Graduate Diploma in Theological Studies Regent College
  • BTH Ozark Christian College

Professional Experience

Teaching

  • University of Cambridge, Regular Guest Lecturer in Philosophy of Religion (2017-2020)
  • Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, University of Cambridge, Adjunct (2020)
  • University of Cambridge, Department of Philosophy, Teaching Supervisor (2020-2021)
  • Public Programs (6-9 Month courses I taught for the public), BC Mennonite Brethren (2012-2017)
  • Regent College, Teaching Assistant (2013)
  • Regent College, Helped teach and oversee the graduate writing program, tutoring masters students (2011-2012)
  • Ozark Christian College, Teaching Assistant and Guest Lecturer (2009-2010)

Academic Experience

  • Co-Founder of the New Trinitarian Ontologies Conference, University of Cambridge, 2019
  • SSHRC Research Assistant, German Mysticism in Early Modern England, Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada, Cambridge/McGill, 2020-2023
  • Editor of Noesis, University of Cambridge, 2019-Present
  • Philosophy of Religion Subject Committee, University of Cambridge, 2019-2021
  • Writing Consultant, ShatterBooks Publishing, 2015-2017
  • Media and Public Engagement
    • Designed and hosted a personal website (jdlyonhart.com) enabling the public to engage with my on-going content (2018-Present)
    • Published an on-going YouTube channel (JD Lyonhart), featuring over 60 of my lectures, dramatizations, public debates and sermons (2014-Present).

Additional Experience

  • Minister, Vancouver Christian Logos Church, 2012-2017
  • Campus Ministry, College Heights Christian Church/Missouri Southern State University, 2009-2011
  • Youth Ministry, Camp Artaban, 2005-2008, 2011, 2016

Publications

Books

  • MonoThreeism (Cascade Books, Wipf & Stock, 2021, Accepted). A dialogical monograph on metaphysics and Trinitarian theology.

Articles

  • ‘Rethinking Truth: Assessing Heidegger’s Critique of Aquinas in light of Vallicella’s critique of Heidegger’, New Blackfriars vol. 101 (May 2020).
  • ‘Being and Time-less Faith: Juxtaposing Heideggerian Anxiety and Religious Experience’, Open Theology 6, no. 1 (January 2020): 15-26.
  • ‘The Monstrous Other and the Biblical Narrative of Ruth’, Journal of Religion and Film vol.24, no.2, art.3 (October 2020). With Jennifer Matheny.
  • ‘Heidegger for the Perplexed: Some Possible Ways Forward After Being and Time’, Crux: A Quarterly Journal of Christian Thought and Opinion, vol. 56 (December 2020).

Chapters

  • “Alternative History and Eschatological Justice,” in Ethics and Religion in Contemporary Speculative Fiction. Ed. Sarah Gallant and Jennifer Matheny. (Fortress Press
    Academic/Lexington Books, 2021, Accepted).
  • “The Defeat of Death: The Philosophy of Death in Mainstream Cinema.” in The Infinity Saga and Philosophy. Ed. Heather Rivera. (OpenCourt Pub., 2020)
  • “Thanos is no Abraham: A Kierkegaardian Analysis of Ethics” in The Infinity Saga and Philosophy. Ed. Heather Rivera. (OpenCourt Pub., 2020)
  • “The Modern Manichaeans: Binaries of Light and Dark in Contemporary Culture” In Theology and the Star Wars Universe. Ed. Ben Espinoza. (Fortress Press Academic/Lexington Books, 2020, Accepted)

Edited Works

  • Noesis: Journal of Theology, Philosophy, and Poetics Vol 7 (Graduate Society for the Study of Philosophical Theology and Systematics, Cambridge, UK: October 2020).
  • The Mirrored Hall (Burnaby, BC: ShatterBooks Pub., April 2017).

Book Reviews

  • Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime (Boston, MA: Dutton, 2019). Review in Public Understanding of Science Vol 29 (2020).
  • Ron Cowen, Gravity’s Century: From Einstein’s Eclipse to Images of Black Holes (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019). Review in Physics in Perspective Vol 22 (2020).
  • Brian Greene, Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe (New York, Knopf, 2020). Review in Theology and Science Vol 18 (Accepted and Forthcoming 2021).
  • Jim Al-Khalili, The World According to Physics (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020). Review in Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith Vol 69 (Accepted and Forthcoming 2021).
  • Alister McGrath, A Theory of Everything (That Matters): A Brief Guide to Einstein, Relativity, and His Surprising Thoughts on God (Illinois: Tyndale, 2019). Review in Science and Christian Belief Vol 32 (2) (Accepted and Forthcoming 2021).

Other Publications

  • ‘Wittgenstein on Divine Hiddenness’, Noesis Review Vol 7 (Graduate Society for the Study of Philosophical Theology and Systematics, Cambridge, UK: October 2020).
  • ‘3rd Corinthians’, Noesis Review Vol 5 (Graduate Society for the Study of Philosophical Theology and Systematics, Cambridge, UK: November 2018). Republished.
  • ‘3rd Corinthians’, Et Cetera Issue 9 (Regent College Student Association, BC: March 2017)
  • Interview by Regent Web (June 2019) regarding the New Trinitarian Ontologies Conference I co-founded at Cambridge. Available here: https://www.regent-college.edu/about-us/news/2019/regent-alumni-start-new-trinitarian-ontologies-conference-at-cambridge

Professional Presentations

Conference Lectures

  • “The Trinity and Cosmology.” (EUARE, Münster, August 2021)
  • “Locke and Cudworth on Innate Ideas.” (John Locke Conference, Naples, June 2021)
  • “Introduction to Philosophy of Religion.” (Divinity Online, University of Cambridge, June 17, 2020)
  • “Hemsterhuis on Space: A response to Adrian Mihai.” (The D Society, University of Cambridge, November 15, 2019)
  • “God is Dead? An introduction to Philosophy of Religion.” (Cambridge Festival of Ideas, Oct 17, 2019)
  • “Heidegger and Aquinas on the location of Truth.” (AHRC ‘Trust and Truth’ International Interdisciplinary Conference, Peterhouse College, Cambridge, September18-20, 2019)
  • “The On-going Necessity of Trinitarian Ontology.” (New Trinitarian Ontologies Conference, University of Cambridge, September 13-15, 2019)
  • Panel Chair for “Evolution and Pan(en)theism” discussion, feat. Celia Deane-Drummond and Johannes Hoff. New Trinitarian Ontologies Conference, University of Cambridge, September 13-15, 2019.
  • “Nietzsche, Cosmos and Morality.” (Sutton Trust, University of Cambridge, August 23, 2018)
  • “John Locke and Ralph Cudworth on the source of Reason and Morality.” (Lehrstuhl für Religionsphilosophie und Wissenschaftstheorie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany, May 11, 2019)
  • “Wrangling about Innate Ideas? Reflections upon Locke and Cudworth.” (British Society for the History of Philosophy Annual Conference, King’s College London, April 24, 2019)
  • Response to Christian Hengstermann’s “Holiness and Love — Divine Sensation and Agency in Ralph Cudworth’s Early Sermons,” (‘Ralph Cudworth at the Crossroads of Modernity’, conference co-sponsored by the British Academy, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, March 11, 2019)
  • “Arguments for and against the Existence of God.” (University of Cambridge, Outreach at Mill Hill, November 9, 2018)
  • “Cudworth on Atoms, Motion and Nothingness.” (Beierwaltes Seminar, Claire College, Cambridge, October 20, 2018)
  • “What is Philosophy of Religion?” (Sutton Trust, University of Cambridge, August 15, 2018)
  • “Re-evaluating the Cosmological Argument.” (July 26, 2018, University of Cambridge, UK)
  • “God is dead? Surveying the Status of God in Recent Philosophy.” (Hewett Academy, Norwich, March 29th 2018)
  • Response to Gavin Hyman’s “Between Hegel and Wittgenstein: Reflections in the Wake of Gillian Rose and Rowan Williams,” (The D Society, University of Cambridge, February 2, 2018)
  • “Is Duns Scotus responsible for Onto-Theology, Immanence and Nihilism?” (Academic Symposium, Regent College, Canada, March 2017)
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