Adam Eitel
Professor Eitel holds appointments in the Divinity School, the Program in Medieval Studies, and the Humanities Program. His research and teaching bring topics in the history of Christian theology to bear on questions of fundamental moral concern. A specialist in medieval scholasticism, his particular research interests span doctrinal and moral theology, especially in the works of Thomas Aquinas and his contemporaries. His first book, Thomas Aquinas and the Invention of the Preacher, examines the need for gifts of the Holy Spirit in light of the eliminable conditions of human folly; as this volume approaches the final stages of revision, he is also preparing a translation and critical introduction to Aquinas’s Contra impugnantes. His contributions to various journals include published and forthcoming essays in the Journal of Religious Ethics, Nova et Vetera, Studies in Christian Ethics, and The Thomist. Longer term aspirations include projects on the virtue of charity, the nature of sin, grace, eschatology, grief, and infant mortality.
A 2004 Baylor University graduate and a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland), Professor Eitel received his M.Div. and Ph.D. from Princeton Seminary, completing the latter in 2016. He and his wife, Alison, reside with their children in New Haven, where they are members of St. Mary Catholic Church.
Recent Courses
Augustine of Hippo’s City of God
Catholic Moral Theology
Catholic Social Teaching
Directed Studies in Philosophy
The Ethics of Thomas Aquinas
Preaching in the Middle Ages
