Boston College teaching record
Joseph Kimmel
Adjunct Faculty
Biography
I am a scholar of early Christianity, comparative religion, and comparative theology. Specifically, I study how early Christians understood proper names and how they invoked proper names (e.g., “Jesus”) to access otherworldly power for an array of goals: from healing to harming. Having spent years living in Tibet and studying Tibetan, I bring a comparative lens to this analysis. Moreover, through my work, I aim to show the significance of these ancient beliefs and practices for contemporary posthumanist and neo-materialist philosophies. Outside of academia, I work as an Episcopal priest at a parish near Boston.
Official evaluation summary
4.69 / 5