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Recent Books and Scholarship by The Rt. Rev. Dr. Craig J. N. de Paulo
A Christian Existential phenomenologist and philosopher of ambiguity, he refers to his scholarly work as "Augustinian phenomenology," which is founded upon existential insights from Augustine and Martin Heidegger's Sein und Zeit methodology. Professor de Paulo is also interested in hermeneutical approaches back to other ancient sources (and especially Christian patristic writers.) with a philosophical focus on ambiguity, confusion, paradox, anxiety, struggle, conversion and restlessness.
Having studied and worked with some of the luminaries of philosophy, theology, patrology and hermeneutics, including John D. Caputo (his former mentor at Villanova), Cardinal Georges Cottier, O.P., Robert Dodaro, O.S.A., Cardinal Avery Dulles, S.J., John Macquarrie, Camille Paglia, Jaroslav Pelikan, Roland J. Teske, S.J. and Tarcisius van Bavel, O.S.A., Professor de Paulo is associated with the current "theological turn in phenomenology" movement, and he is a recognized scholar of Augustine of Hippo and his influence on Western thought and especially on existentialism and phenomenology.
In Search of Authenticity, Happiness and the Good: A Collection of Readings in Ancient Greek Philosophy. (Editor) Dubuque: Kendall Hunt Publishing Company, 2020. Details: A Collection of readings from Plato and Aristotle, including an Introductory essay and Glossary of Greek terms.
On the Months (De Mensibus), Volume I of The Works of Ioannes Lydus, trans. Anastasius C. Bandy and edited by Anastasia Bandy, Demetrios J. Constantelos and Craig J. N. de Paulo, Senior Editor. (Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2013) Details: Original translation and critical commentary by Anastasius C. Bandy. Preface by Michael Maas. Forward by Demetrios Constantelos. Forward by Craig J. N. de Paulo. The four volumes deals with the three important works by the Sixth-century Byzantine antiquarian and writer, Ioannes Lydus, who served at the Court of the Emperor, Justinian I, the Great.
On Celestial Signs (De Ostentis), Volume II of The Works of Ioannes Lydus, trans. Anastasius C. Bandy and edited by Anastasia Bandy, Demetrios J. Constantelos and Craig J. N. de Paulo, Senior Editor. (Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2013) Details: Original translation and critical commentary by Anastasius C. Bandy. Preface by Michael Maas. Forward by Demetrios Constantelos. Forward by Craig J. N. de Paulo. The four volumes deals with the three important works by the Sixth-century Byzantine antiquarian and writer, Ioannes Lydus, who served at the Court of the Emperor, Justinian I, the Great.
On Powers, or the Magistracies of the Roman State (De Magistratibus), Volume III of The Works of Ioannes Lydus, trans. Anastasius C. Bandy and edited by Anastasia Bandy, Demetrios J. Constantelos and Craig J. N. de Paulo, Senior Editor. (Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2013) Details: Original translation and critical commentary by Anastasius C. Bandy. Preface by Michael Maas. Forward by Demetrios Constantelos. Forward by Craig J. N. de Paulo. The four volumes deals with the three important works by the Sixth-century Byzantine antiquarian and writer, Ioannes Lydus, who served at the Court of the Emperor, Justinian I, the Great.
Index to the Three Volumes of Ioannes Lydus (De Mensibus, De Ostentis, De Magistratibus), Volume IV of The Works of Ioannes Lydus, trans. Anastasius C. Bandy and edited by Anastasia Bandy, Demetrios J. Constantelos and Craig J. N. de Paulo, Senior Editor. (Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2013) Details: Original translation and critical commentary by Anastasius C. Bandy. Preface by Michael Maas. Forward by Demetrios Constantelos. Forward by Craig J. N. de Paulo. The four volumes deals with the three important works by the Sixth-century Byzantine antiquarian and writer, Ioannes Lydus, who served at the Court of the Emperor, Justinian I, the Great.
Confessions of Love: The Ambiguities of Greek Eros and Latin Caritas, edited by Craig J. N. de Paulo, Senior Editor, et al. American University Studies Series, vol. 7: Theology and Religion. New York: Peter Lang Publishers, 2011. Details: Collection of scholarly essays on love. Distinguished contributors include Roland Teske, S.J., Phillip Cary, Leonid Rudntyzky, Bernhardt Blumenthal, et al.
The Influence of Augustine on Heidegger: The Emergence of an Augustinian Phenomenology, edited with an Introduction by Craig J. N. de Paulo Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2006. Details: Preface by John Macquarrie and distinguished contributors include Robert Dodaro, O.S.A., Peg Birmingham, Theodore Kisiel, Daniel Dahlstrom, George Pattison, James K. A. Smith, Wayne Hankey and Matthias Fritsch. (Advance Praise by James J. O’Donnell, Jaroslav Pelikan and Joseph Margolis and reviewed in the American Catholic Philosophy Quarterly, vol. 82, Spring 2008, issue no. 2, in article form.) Bishop de Paulo is the founder of "Augustinian phenomenology," a field within phenomenology that merges the Christian existential thought of Augustine with the methodology of Martin Heidegger.
Ambiguity in the Western Mind, edited with an Introduction by Craig J. N. de Paulo, Senior Editor, et al. New York: Peter Lang Publishers, 2005. Details: Preface by Joseph Margolis and distinguished contributors include John D. Caputo, Camille Paglia, Jaroslav Pelikan, Roland Teske, S.J. et al. (Reviewed in the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 80, Spring 2006, issue no. 2 among other journals)
Being and Conversion. Philadelphia: Xlibris, 2002. Details: (Reprint of PhD dissertation from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome) concerning the influence of Augustine on Heidegger’s Sein und Zeit. (Advance Praise by John Macquarrie).
For other scholarly publications by Dr. Craig J. N. de Paulo, please see the following links:
Augustinian Just War Theory and the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq: Confessions, Contentions and the Lust for Power,edited by Craig J. N. de Paulo, Senior Editor, et al. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2011. Details: A work concerning Augustine’s influence on Christian just war theory and the rhetoric of just war theorists from two symposia in addition to an Augustinian critique of the wars. Preface by Most Rev. Sean Cardinal O’ Malley, O.F.M. Cap., Archbishop of Boston. Foreword by Roland J. Teske, S.J. Chapter One is a brief history of Augustine’s influence on the theory. Chapter Two includes a transcript of a symposium on the topic that includes the following distinguished contributors: Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J., John D. Caputo, Most Rev. Edwin Cardinal O’Brien, Ambassador Thomas Melady, Col. Jack Jacobs, Dr. Joseph Hagan. Chapter Three includes a transcript of a colloquium on the topic that includes the following distinguished scholars and contributors: Joseph Margolis, Frederick Van Fleteren, Brian Kane, et al. (Advance Praise by James J. O’Donnell and Arthur Waldron.)
