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What I'm Reading

  • Calvin, Participation, and the Gift: The Activity of Believers in Union with Christ (Changing Paradigms in Historical and Systematic Theology)
    Calvin, Participation, and the Gift: The Activity of Believers in Union with Christ (Changing Paradigms in Historical and Systematic Theology)
    Author: J. Todd Billings
  • The Philosophical Vision of John Duns Scotus: An Introduction
    The Philosophical Vision of John Duns Scotus: An Introduction
    Author: Mechthild Dreyer
  • The Confessions (Works of Saint Augustine, a Translation for the 21st Century: Part 1- Books)
    The Confessions (Works of Saint Augustine, a Translation for the 21st Century: Part 1- Books)
    Author: St. Augustine
  • Luke for Everyone (For Everyone)
    Luke for Everyone (For Everyone)
    Author: Tom Wright
  • The Philosophy of John Duns Scotus
    The Philosophy of John Duns Scotus
    Author: Antonie Vos

Academic History

University of North Florida

  • Bachelor of Music, Jazz Studies
  • Jacksonville, FL
  • Graduated magna cum laude

University of Texas

  • 12 hours of graduate coursework (philosophy)
  • Arlington, TX

University of Dallas

  • M.A. Philosophy (August, 2006)
  • current doctoral student of philosophy
  • Irving, TX

Westminster Theological Seminary

  • M.A. Religion (May, 2005)
  • Philadelphia, PA
  • Graduated summa cum laude.

Moscow State University

  • Advanced Language Studies
  • Moscow, Russia
  • I studied Russian at MSU (intensive language program for international students) for 6 months and with a private tutor for 3 years while living in Moscow.

Portland State University

  • Advanced Language Studies
  • Portland, OR 

Languages

  • Biblical Hebrew
  • German
  • Koine Greek
  • Latin
  • Russian

Awards

McDermott Fellowship in Philosophy

University of Dallas, 2007-2008 

Edwin L. Jones Graduate Fellowship 

Westminster Theological Seminary, 2005-2006

Graduate Fellowship 

University of Texas (Arlington), 2003-2005

Full-tuition Scholarship 

Westminster Theological Seminary, 2002-2005

Various Music Scholarships 

Northlake, University of Texas (Arlington), University of North Florida, 1989-1994

Papers Presented & Published Works

“St. Augustine on Text and Reality (and a Little Gadamarian Spice),”  forthcoming in the Heythrop Journal (Jan 09)

Baylor Symposium on Faith and Culture, Friendship:  Quests for Character, Community and Truth 

“A Glimpse at Christocentric Friendship in the Heartbeat of Hans Urs von Balthasar”
Date:  Oct, 2007  

Villanova University:  Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance Conference 

“St. Augustine on Text and Reality (and a Little Gadamerian Spice)”
Date: Oct, 2007

University of Dallas:  IPS Colloquium

“Hermeneutical Continuities Between Augustine and Hans-Georg Gadamer”
Date:  Oct, 2007

Review 

Louis Dupré’s, The Enlightenment and the Intellectual Foundations of Modern Culture. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2004.  (Philotheos 6, 2006).

Midwest Regional Conference of the Society of Christian Philosophers (Notre Dame)

“Does God’s Incomprehensibility Combined with Human Finitude (and
Fallen-ness) Make Reasonable (a qualified) Fideism and a Certain Kind of Defeat Immunity?”
Date: 2006

Review

James K.A. Smith. Who’s Afraid of Postmodernism? Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2006.
(American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Issue No. 4, Vol. 80, Fall 2006).

Baylor University; “The World and Christian Imagination”

The Anti-Enlightenment Nature of Jazz: Embracing Particularity and Universality, Freedom and Form, Tension and Resolution
Date: Fall, 2006

Midwest Meeting of the Society of Christian Philosophers (Lincoln Christian College)

“Plantinga’s Construal of Calvin’s Sensus Divinitatis
Date: Spring, 2005

Review

Jean-Luc Marion. Being Given. Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press, 2002. 
(Ars Disputandi: The Online Journal for Philosophy of Religion,
Vol. 5 (2005), http://www.ArsDisputandi.org. ISSN 1566-5399).

Review

James K.A. Smith. Introducing Radical Orthodoxy: Mapping a Post-secular Theology. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2004. (Christian Scholar’s Review, Number 1, Vol. XXXV, Fall 2005).

Texas State University Philosophy Symposium

“A Fresh Look at Newton’s Laws”
Date: Spring, 2004

Regional Meeting of the Society of Christian Philosophers (Biola University)

“An Analysis of the Doctrine of Analogy of St. Thomas Aquinas and Cornelius Van Til”
Date: Spring, 2004

Societies & Associations

  • American Catholic Philosophical Association
  • Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy
  • North Texas Philosophical Association
  • Phi Sigma Tau (International Honor Society in Philosophy)
  • Society of Christian Philosophers
  • Calvin Studies Society

Career Goals

I am currently a doctoral student of philosophy at the University of Dallas. Upon graduating, I hope to teach and mentor university students and to continue to publish.

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Cynthia Nielsen

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