Divinity School Teaching Fellow in the College

Owen Joyce-Coughlan is a scholar of early modern Christian theology and philosophy. He completed his PhD in Theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School in 2024.

His dissertation was entitled “On the Systematicity of Meister Eckhart’s Works” and argued for the coherence of the great diversity of texts Eckhart produced across Latin and the vernacular, in metaphysics and ethics, and in a wide variety of genres including sermons, treatises and commentaries. It drew upon a conceptual framework developed from contemporary philosophy of science to make the case that Eckhart’s works are systematic in a quite different sense than has generally been supposed.

Owen’s areas of wider research interest include: the broad history of Neoplatonism both before and after Eckhart’s time; the various ways philosophical and mystical strands of thinking have overlapped and interpenetrated in European philosophical and religious traditions; what the study of religion has to teach the philosophy of science and vice versa.