Associate Professor
George Faithful studied at Wake Forest University, the Université de Nantes, the Humboldt-Universtität zu Berlin, and Covenant Theological Seminary, before completing his Ph.D. in historical theology and certificate in clinical healthcare ethics at Saint Louis University. Based on his dissertation, his book Mothering the Fatherland (Oxford, 2014) analyzes the interrelationship of religious, national, and gender identities in the Ecumenical Sisterhood of Mary, whose concepts of collective German national guilt for the Holocaust drove their work in Jewish-Christian reconciliation but ironically demonstrated the influence of German nationalism. Faithful's teaching and research interests include mysticism, apocalypticism, the religious dimension
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About George Faithful
George Faithful studied at Wake Forest University, the Université de Nantes, the Humboldt-Universtität zu Berlin, and Covenant Theological Seminary, before completing his Ph.D. in historical theology and certificate in clinical healthcare ethics at Saint Louis University. Based on his dissertation, his book Mothering the Fatherland (Oxford, 2014) analyzes the interrelationship of religious, national, and gender identities in the Ecumenical Sisterhood of Mary, whose concepts of collective German national guilt for the Holocaust drove their work in Jewish-Christian reconciliation but ironically demonstrated the influence of German nationalism. Faithful's teaching and research interests include mysticism, apocalypticism, the religious dimension
| 2022 - Present | Associate Professor, Dominican University of California ‐ Department of Social Justice | |
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| 2017 - 2022 | Assistant Professor, Dominican University of California ‐ Department of Religion and Philosophy | |
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| 2011 - 2017 | Teaching Fellow, Seton Hall University ‐ The Core | |
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| 2010 | Instructor, Saint Louis University ‐ Theology | |
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Disciplines
Research Interests
Christianity, Judaism, Historical Theology, Comparative Theology, Inter-religious Dialogue, Ecumenism, Apocalypticism, Mysticism, Religion and the Arts, Religion and Migration, Modernity, Genocide, Psychology of Religion, Theological/Philosophical Anthropology, and Social-scientific Study of Religion
Professional Service and Affiliations
| 2017 - Present | Member, Book and Essay Awards Committee, College Theology Society | 2016 - Present | Co-convener, History of Christian Life and Thought Section, College Theology Society | 2015 - Present | Reviewer, annual volume, College Theology Society | 2014 - Present | Member, Steering Committee, Religion in Europe Section, American Academy of Religion | 2014 - Present | Member, Steering Committee, Religion and Science Fiction Group, American Academy of Religion | 2013 - Present | Member, Technology and Communications Task Force, College Theology Society | 2008 - 2010 | Editor, Credo ut Intelligam: Graduate Theological Bulletin, Saint Louis University |
Honors and Awards
- Edward L. and Rhelda Marbry Morgan, Ph.D., Scholarship, 2008
- Excellence in the Humanities, 2nd Place Award, Graduate Research Symposium, 2009
- Jesuit Language Immersion Scholarship, 2010
- Graduate Diversity Fellowship 2007-2010
- Comprehensive exams passed with distinction, 2012
| 2012 | Ph.D., Saint Louis University ‐ Historical Theology | |
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| 2006 | M.Div., Covenant Theological Seminary ‐ Theology | |
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| 2001 | B.A., Wake Forest University ‐ Religion and German | |
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Contact Information
Dominican University of California
50 Acacia Ave.
San Rafael, CA 94901
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