Nomi Pritz-Bennett
Thesis title: Between Nothingness and All: Maurice Blondel's Ressourcement of Christian Mysticism in Conversation with Pantheism and Pessimism
PhD in Theology and Ethics
- New College School of Divinity
Contact details
- Email: n.pritz@sms.ed.ac.uk
PhD supervisors:
Background
Nomi Pritz-Bennett is a doctoral candidate at the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh. She is from Jerusalem, where she developed an interest in the formative role theology plays in shaping identities of solidarity, belonging, and difference. This resulted in early-age involvement in Israeli-Palestinian reconciliation efforts and later in non-profit work. Pritz-Bennett moved to Canada to further pursue her theological questions, developing a particular interest in modern Catholic thought during her undergraduate and graduate studies.
Qualifications
M.A. (Church History), Regent College, British Columbia
Thesis Title: “Metaphysics in Act”: History, Tradition, and the Supernatural in the Thought of Maurice Blondel and Yves Congar
B.A. (Theology; International Relations), Trinity Western University, British Columbia
Responsibilities & affiliations
Member of Advisory Board, Centre for Theology and Public Issues
http://ctpi.div.ed.ac.uk/people/nomi-pritz-bennett/
Undergraduate teaching
Course Lecturer:
University of Edinburgh:
- The God(s) of the Philosophers (Autumn 2021)
Course Tutor:
University of Edinburgh:
- God and the Philosophers (Autumn 2019)
- Ethics and Society (Spring 2018)
- Christian Theology: Approaches and Themes (Autumn 2018)
Current research interests
Philosophical theology, phenomenology, theological anthropology, political theology, Christian theological engagements with Jewish thoughtInvited speaker
2021 Invited Plenary Respondent to Dr C. A. Strine, "Back Where you Came From: The Ancestral Narrative and the Migrant Exegetical Imagination," Society for the Study of Theology Conference, Warwick University.
2020 “Theodicy and Anti-Theodicy in Post-Shoah Jewish Thought,” University of St. Andrews.
2018 “The Role of Conscience in John Henry Newman,” University of Edinburgh.
Papers delivered
2022 “‘No One Sees God without Dying’”: Mortification, Death, and Deification in Maurice Blondel,” The Society for the Study of Theology, University of Warwick.
2020 “Passion, Prayer, and Nihilism: The Prophetic Voice of Medieval Mysticism in Modern Culture,” “Watch and Pray”: Spirituality, Mysticism and Prayer in Times of Political Unrest, University of Fribourg.
2019 “Faith and Nihilism: Revisiting Maurice Blondel’s Argument Against Schopenhauerian Pessimism,” Early Career Conference in Catholic Theology and Catholic Studies, University of Durham.
2019 “Grace and Nothingness: Schopenhauer’s Pessimism as Transcendent Opening,” The Society for the Study of Theology, University of Warwick.
2019 “The Will to be Powerless: Salvation and Nihilism in Maurice Blondel and Arthur Schopenhauer,” University of Edinburgh.
2018 “‘Attaining Christ’: Revisiting the Blondel-Loisy Debate on Tradition and the Role and Use of the Historical Critical Method,” The American Academy of Religion, Denver.