Judith Tonning

The daughter of an Austrian and an American, Judith holds a BA in Literature and Philosophy from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, an MPhil in English Literature and an MA in Theology from the University of Oxford, and is completing a doctoral thesis entitled ‘Heidegger’s Secular Eschatology’ at Oxford’s Theology and Philosophy Faculties. 

Judith’s work is at the intersections between theology, philosophy and literature, with a particular interest in the relations between eschatology and epistemology.

At ECLA, Judith has been teaching the following courses:

Forms of Love (BA/AY Core Course, Winter 2009/10)
Not Yet in the Now: Waiting for the Apocalypse (Elective, Fall 2009)
Theology & Phenomenology (Elective, Fall 2009)

Publications include:

‘C.S. Lewis on Power’. In Rob MacSwain and Michael Ward, eds. The Cambridge Companion to C.S. Lewis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2010.

‘“Hineingehalten in die Nacht”: Heidegger’s Early Appropriation of Christian Eschatology’. In J.P. Manoussakis and Neal DeRoo, eds. Phenomenology & Eschatology. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008.

‘A Romantic in the Republic: Some Critical Comments about The Abolition of Man’. The C.S. Lewis Chronicle 5, no. 1 (Winter 2008): 27-39.

‘Acknowledging a Hidden God: A Theological Critique of Stanley Cavell on Scepticism’. The Heythrop Journal 48, no. 3 (2007): 384-405.

‘“Like This Insubstantial Pageant Faded”: Eschatology and Theatricality in The Tempest’. Literature & Theology 18, no. 4 (2004): 371-382.