Peter Dula

Professor of Religion & Culture

School of Theology, Humanities and Performing Arts
Theology & Religion

LocationRoselawn Academic 319

Phone4466

E-Mailpeter.dula@emu.edu

Education

PHD, Duke University (Religion-Theology and Ethics)
MA, Associated Mennonite Bibilical Seminary (Theological Studies - Pacifism)
BS, Eastern Mennonite University (History)

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Biography

Peter Dula is Professor of Religion and Culture. He received a Ph.D from Duke University in theology and ethics in 2004. He is the author of Cavell, Companionship, and Christian Theology (Oxford, 2011). Before coming to EMU in 2006 he was the Mennonite Central Committee Iraq Program Coordinator. He has taught at Lancaster Mennonite High School and at the Meserete Kristos College in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia where he was a Fulbright scholar in 2001-2. He has received several grants and fellowships including, most recently, the Louisville Institute Sabbatical Grant for Researchers.

Mission Statement

Publications

	Citation	Pub. Date	Month
1090	Cavell, Companionship and Christian Theology (New York: Oxford University Press), 2011.	2011
1092	“Six Scenes of Instruction in Stanley Cavell’s Little Did I Know,” Philosophy and Literature 40/2 (2016).	2016
1094	“The Politics of Friendship in the Gospel of John,” in Reading Scripture as a Political Act, eds. Matthew A. Tapie and Daniel Wade McClain (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2015).	2015
1095	“Theology is a Kind of Reading,” Conrad Grebel Review 31/2 (Spring 2013).	2013
1096	“Wittgenstein Among the Theologians,” in Unsettling Arguments, ed., Kelly Johnson, Charles Pinches and Charles Collier (Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2010).	2010
1097	“For and Against Hauerwas Against the Mennonites,” Mennonite Quarterly Review 84/3 (July 2010).	2010
1098	Easter in Baghdad, Commonweal, March 28, 2008	2008
1099	The War in Iraq: How Catholic Conservatives Got It Wrong, Commonweal, December 3, 2004.
1588	"The Melodrama of the Unknown Man," in Stanley Cavell on Aesthetic Understanding, Garry L. Hagberg, ed. (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).	2018
1715	"Anabaptist Environmental Ethics: A Review Essay," Mennonite Quarterly Review 94/1 (January 2020).	2020
1842	"The Accidental New Atheist," Conrad Grebel Review 38, no. 3 (Fall 2020).	2020	9

Scholarly Presentations and Abstracts

“To Put Away Childish Things: I Corinthians 13 in Stanley Cavell’s Memoir.” Paper presented at “Confessional Improvisation,” Center for Theological Inquiry, Princeton Theological Seminary, June 9-13 2014.

“The Poetics of Identity in Julia Spicher Kasdorf’s Early Poetry,” Keynote Address at “Wading Deeper: Anabaptist-Mennonite Identities Engage Postmodernity,” Canadian Mennonite University, May 31, 2014.

“Friends and Enemies in the Gospel of John,” Paper delivered at the American Academy of Religion, Mid-Atlantic regional meeting, Mt. St. Mary’s College, Newburgh, NY, March 8, 2014.

“The Limits of Theology: A Response to Jonathan Tran,” Paper delivered at “The Difference Christ Makes: Celebrating the Life, Work and Friendship of Stanley Hauerwas,” Duke Divinity School, Durham NC, Nov. 1, 2013.

Church, Community and Professional Service

“Love in the Gospel of John,” Weekend workshop at Kairos Retreat Center, Feb 7, 2015.

Professional Memberships

American Academy of Religion

Professional Conferences Attended

“Designing Learning Experiences that Last,” Loyola University, Chicago, May 25-27, 2016.

“Leading from the Middle,” CIC Workshop for Department and Division Chairs, May 10-12, 2016, Portland, ME.

American Academy of Religion, Atlanta, GA, Nov. 2016.

“The Difference Christ Makes: Celebrating the Life, Work and Friendship of Stanley Hauerwas,” Duke Divinity School, Durham NC, Nov. 1, 2013.

New Courses Taught

EMU Service

Mission and Identity Task Force
Fall Conference Planning Committee
Academic Review Committee