Peter Dula

Peter Dula is Assistant Professor of Religion and Culture. He received a Ph.D from Duke University in theology and ethics in 2004 after completing a dissertation on the intersection of theology and philosophy in the work of Stanley Cavell. Before coming to EMU in 2006 he was the Mennonite Central Committee Iraq Program Coordinator. He has taught at Lancaster Mennonite High School and at the Meserete Kristos College in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia where he was a Fulbright scholar in 2001-2.

Ph.D., Duke University, 2004

Beautiful Enemies: Cavell, Companionship and Christian Theology (Oxford: Oxford University Press) forthcoming, 2010.

The New Yoder (co-editor), (Eugene, OR: Cascade) forthcoming 2009.

Borders and Bridges (co-editor), (Telford, PA: Cascadia), 2007

General editor (with Chris K. Huebner, Canadian Mennonite University, Alex Sider, Bluffton University and Jennifer Graber, College of Wooster) of the Herald Press series Polyglossia: Radical Reformation Theologies, Fall 2006 to present.

“Scriptural Reasoning and War,” Journal of Scriptural Reasoning, Vol. 8, No. 1, Jan 2009.

Easter in Baghdad, Commonweal, March 28, 2008

“Questions, Answers, Stories: Speaking of God and Suffering,” Vision: A Journal for Church and Theology, Vol. 8, No. 2, Fall 2007.

“Radical Democracy, Radical Ecclesiology,’ Crosscurrents, Winter 2006 (co-authored with Alex Sider).

“MCC, Intervention, and Humanitarianism,” Mission Focus, Vol. 13, 2005 (co-authored with Alain Epp Weaver).

“Columbus’ America and Emerson’s America,’ Conrad Grebel Review, Spring 2005.

“The War in Iraq: How Catholic Conservatives Got It Wrong,” Commonweal, December 3, 2004.

‘The Disavowal of Constantine in an Age of Global Capital,’ in Seeking Cultures of Peace: Perspectives from the Historic Peace Churches, (Pandora Press U.S. and World Council of Churches, 2003).

‘A Theologian in Baghdad,’ Keynote address at the conference, ‘Cynicism and Hope: Reclaiming Discipleship in a Postdemocratic Society,’ Reba Place, Evanston Illinois, Nov. 3, 2007.

Constantine, Colonialism and the NGOs, USA in the World Conference, Sept. 14-16, 2006, Gordon College.

‘History, Religion and the NGOs’, Imam Moussa Al Sadr Center Conference on Human Development, December 2 2005, Beirut.

“Should the Troops Pullout?: A Response to Phyllis Bennis,” Lancaster Interchurch Peace Witness consultation, Lancaster PA, April 15 2007.

“Hope and Cynicism in a Time of War,” MCUSA Peace and Justice Network, Washington DC, March 17 2007.

American Academy of Religion

Resolutions on the Road to Peace and Justice, Harrisonburg VA, May 2009

American Academy of Religion, Chicago, November 2008

“Jonah’s Call: A Training Session in Scriptural Reasoning,” University of Virginia, July 2008

American Academy of Religion, San Diego, November 2007

“The Jewish-Christian Schism Revisited,” EMU, March 15 2007.

American Academy of Religion, Washington DC, November 17-20 2006.

“The USA in the World”, Gordon College, September 13-15 2006.

Reading Genesis Philosophically
Cultural Anthropology: Christianity and Social Change
Globalization and Justice

Creation Care Council
Center for the Study of the Abrahamic Traditions committee
Advisor, Cycling club
Faculty Coordinator, Campus Garden