Casey Spinks
Postdoctoral Fellow
Casey Spinks is a postdoctoral fellow at the School of Civic Leadership. His research and teaching focus on the foundations of thinking in light of revelation and reason’s fundamental claims. His first book, Kierkegaard’s Ontology, is forthcoming from Bloomsbury. His peer-reviewed work has appeared in Scottish Journal of Theology, Heythrop Journal, and International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, among others. He is also a contributing editor to Front Porch Republic. A native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Spinks earned his B.A. and M.A. in philosophy and religious studies from Louisiana State University, and Ph.D. in religion from Baylor University.
EDUCATION
BA in Philosophy and Religious Studies from Louisiana State University
MA in Philosophy from Louisiana State University
Ph.D. in Religion from Baylor University
Theology, Philosophy, and Politics
Kierkegaard’s Ontology: The Faith to Be (Forthcoming)
2025
“Leo Strauss on Plato’s ‘Euthyphro,’ by Leo Strauss, ed. Hannes Kerber and Svetozar Y. Minkov,” in Journal of Church and State, vol. 67, no. 3.
2024
“Kierkegaard and Natural Law” in Heythrop Journal, Vol. 65, no. 4, 380-402.
“God and Being at an Impasse: The Case of John Duns Scotus and Jean-Luc Marion” in Scottish Journal of Theology, Vol. 77.1, 45-62.
2021
“The Ontology of the Offense: Johannes Climacus and Rowan Williams on the Incarnation” in International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Vol. 90.1, 19-41.
2020
“Thinking Through the Cross: on Luther’s Heidelberg Disputation and its Contributions to Philosophy” in Philosophy & Theology, Vol. 31.1/2, 21-37.
2019
“Faith in the Commonplace: the Knight of Faith in Local Community” in Perspectives in Religious Studies, Vol. 46.1, 29-37.
By appointment.
