Jack Nuelle
PhD Candidate
Jack Nuelle is a Ph.D. Candidate in Theology in the Integrative Studies in Ethics and Theology (ISET) Program at Loyola University Chicago. He holds an M.T.S. from the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry and a B.A. in English Language and Literature from the University of Chicago. His research areas include dogmatic, fundamental and sacramental theology, the continental philosophy of religion, especially the theological turn in phenomenology, and critical philosophies of race. His dissertation offers a critique of a metaphysics of presence in certain Eucharistic theologies and their potential connection to white supremacy. In addition to his academic work, he has also written for publications such as America, Commonweal, and the National Catholic Reporter, among others.
Dissertation: Real Presence(s): Eucharistic Metaphysics and White Supremacy, (dir. Miguel Díaz)
Research Interests
Sacramental theology, dogmatic theology, continental philosophy of religion, theological turn in phenomenology, critical philosophy of race, political theology, theology and culture
Professional/Community Affiliations
Courses Taught
THEO 100: Introduction to Christian Theology
Publications/Research Listings
Books
Book Chapters
Book Reviews
Peer Reviewed Academic Articles
Popular Scholarship
“Jean-Luc Marion and a Saturated Politics” invited essay in the “Catholic Re-Visions, Anti-Fascism as Constitutive of the Gospel Ethic Symposium”, Political Theology Network, September 2024
“Sartre’s Nativity Play: Christian existentialism in a Nazi POW camp” Commonweal,
December 2023
(In print in the December 2023 issue as “A Great Void, A Great Expectancy”)
“A Radical Hospitality: Season 2 of The Bear” Commonweal, August 2023
“Failure at the Pool Table,” Commonweal, July 2023
Selected Presentations
“Eucharistic Revelation: The Eucharist as Site of Personal and Ecclesial Interpretation”,
Revelation, Hermeneutics, and Phenomenology International Conference, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA (October 2026)
“Foiled Real Presence? The Possibility of Eucharistic Renewal with Coakley and Chauvet”, Catholic Theological Society of America Annual Convention, St. Louis, MO (June 2026)
“Slow Theology: Kairos in the Theological Classroom” Leuven Encounters in Systematic Theology (LEST) XV: Catholicity, Theology, and the University: Conjectures in a Complex World, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, (October 2025)
“Whiteness and Sacramental Symbol: Chauvet, Lacoste, and the Sacramental Dismantling of White Supremacy?” European Academy of Religion Conference, Vienna, Austria, (July 2025)
“Non-Experienced Memory: Lacoste, Chrétien, and Liturgical Remembrance," Phenomenology, Religious Experience, and Spiritual Practices, Fordham University, New York, NY, (June 2025)
“One Baptism for the Forgiveness of Sins: Symbolic Efficacy, Encounter, and Structural Sin” Catholic Theological Society of America Annual Conference, Portland, OR, (June 2025)
“‘Beyond Operativity and Command’: Agamben and Chauvet on Liturgical Metaphysics and the Eucharist," College Theology Society Annual Convention, Dayton, OH, (May 2025)
“A De-Justified In Persona Christi: Re-imagined Natural Resemblances” Leuven Encounters in Systematic Theology (LEST) XIV: 60 Years Vatican II: The End of the Western Church?, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, (November 2023)
Awards
Full Tuition Award and Graduate Teaching/Research Assistantship, LUC (2022-Present)
Full Tuition Award, Boston College School of Theology and Ministry (2016-2018)
University Scholar, University of Chicago (2011-2015)
Dean’s List, University of Chicago (2011-2015)