Theology, Imagination and the Arts
Jennifer Reek has a PhD from the Centre for Literature, Theology and the Arts, University of Glasgow, and a Master of Divinity from Regis College, the Jesuit Faculty of the University of Toronto. Her research often engages intersections of poetry and faith between Ignatian spirituality and postmodern theory and literature. She is the author of A Poetics of Church (forthcoming, Routledge, 2017). Her essays have appeared in Heythrop College’s ‘Power of the Word’ project’s first two volumes, and she is co-editor of the fourth volume, Thresholds of Wonder: Poetry, Philosophy and Theology in Conversation (forthcoming, Routledge, 2017). She currently teaches seminars in the Catholic Intellectual Tradition as an adjunct professor at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut.
Gerard Loughlin has referred to interdisciplinary scholars as ‘those who work at the edges … who wander, though determinedly, in the lands between, in…