Ryan G. Duns SJ

Ryan G. Duns, SJ, is a Jesuit priest, Associate Professor, and Chair of Marquette University's department of theology. His locates his work the intersection of philosophy and systematic theology and is interested in regarding theology as practice or "way of life." He has published on Karl Rahner, Jean-Luc Marion, René Girard, and his most recent work has involved a sustained engagement with William Desmond’s metaphysics. His award-winning “Spiritual Exercises for a Secular Age: Desmond and the Quest for God" argues that, when read as a form of spiritual exercise (Pierre Hadot), Desmond’s philosophy can re-awaken a sense of the Transcendent. He has also published "Theology of Horror," an effort to show how an unorthodox genre--horror films--can nevertheless lead to profoundly orthodox theological reflection.