Jonathan C. Rutlege

Jonathan C. Rutlege

Human Flourishing Program
Jonathan C. Rutlege

Jonathan C. Rutledge, Ph.D., is a John and Daria Barry postdoctoral fellow with the Human Flourishing Program. He has held postdoctoral fellowships previously at the University of Notre Dame (Center for Philosophy of Religion) and the University of St Andrews (Logos Institute for Analytic and Exegetical Theology). After receiving his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Oklahoma (2016), Jonathan completed a second Ph.D. in theology at the University of St Andrews (2018). Unsurprisingly, then, his primary areas of research interest are at the intersection of those two fields—analytic philosophy and contemporary theology—with a focus on issues in metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics. While he continues to work on questions surrounding the problem of suffering and the limits of human knowing—which was the focus of his early work in philosophy—he has also moved into more interdisciplinary waters including projects on interpersonal knowing, the ways in which the stories we tell about ourselves (i.e., our self-narratives) can imbue our experiences of suffering with positive meaning, the nature of love, and how to think about paradox and contradiction in relationship to the divine.

In addition to his article length works, Jonathan is the author of Forgiveness and Atonement: Christ’s Restorative Sacrifice (Routledge 2022), editor—with Oliver D. Crisp and Joshua Cockayne—of the T&T Clark Reader in Analytic Theology, and a series editor for Cascade Publishing’s Analyzing Theology featuring new directions in analytic and systematic theology. He is also editing a collection of essays, Paradox and Contradiction in Theology (Routledge forthcoming) that is projected to be published by the fall of 2023.

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 Selected Recent Papers

  1. “Separating the Theological Sheep from the Philosophical Goats,” Journal of Analytic Theology Vol. 9 (2021): 205-222.
  2. “Tempering the Cosmic Scope Problem of Christian Soteriology,” Religious Studies Vol. 57, no. 2 (2021): 266-286.
  3. “Analyzing the Muddles of Analysis: (Some of) What Analytic Theologians Can Learn from the History of Analytic Feminism,” Modern Theology Vol. 36, no. 3 (2020): 569-581.
  4. “Perspectival Skeptical Theism,” Faith and Philosophy 36.2 (2019): 244-264.
  5. “Purgatory, Hypertime and Temporal Experience,” Journal of Analytic Theology 6 (2018): 151-161. 

Select Presentations

  1. Blueprint 1543 – “Forgiveness, Philosohpy and Fun with Jonathan Rutledge” (Podcast)
  2. The Analytic Christian – “Jonathan Rutledge on Restorative Penal Substitution” (YouTube)