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Jennifer Newsome Martin

Jennifer Newsome Martin is the director of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture and the John J. Cavanaugh Associate Professor of the Humanities in the Program of Liberal Studies and the Department of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. She is a systematic theologian with areas of interest in 19th and 20th century Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox thought, trinitarian theology, theological aesthetics, religion and literature, ressourcement theology, and the nature of religious tradition. Her first book, Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Critical Appropriation of Russian Religious Thought (University of Notre Dame Press), was one of ten winners internationally of the 2017 Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise. Over twenty articles and book chapters have appeared in such venues as Modern Theology, Communio: International Catholic Review, The Newman Studies Journal, International Journal of Systematic Theology, and in a number of edited volumes and collections of essays.
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How Catholic Should a Catholic Institution Be? 

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The University of Notre Dame does not and ought not have the luxury of relegating moral and theological questions to the margins.
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In Defense of the Liberal Arts and the “Queen of the Sciences”

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The problem with the way that discussions surrounding university education are often framed is that they seem to accept as inevitable a pernicious anthropology that presumes students are autonomous subjects, consuming in order to be consumed. But we are more than what we achieve, more than we produce, more than our billable hours.