Willemien Otten is the Dorothy Grant Maclear Professor of Theology and the History of Christianity and Associate Faculty in the Department of History (The University of Chicago Divinity School). She studies the history of Christianity and Christian thought with a focus on the medieval and the early Christian intellectual tradition – especially in the West – and an emphasis on the continuity of Platonic themes. Her latest book is Thinking Nature and the Nature of Thinking: From Eriugena to Emerson (Stanford, 2020).
Personal reflections on the papacy, an American pontiff, and hope that faith and leadership may yet shape our fractured world.
By Willemien Otten, Professor at the University of Chicago Divinity School. With an Introduction by Andreas Telser.
