Jack Nuelle
3rd Year PhD Student
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 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, Fundamental theology, the Eucharist, Theological turn in phenomenology, Philosophy of race (whiteness), Louis-Marie Chauvet, Jean-Yves Lacoste, Edward Schillebeeckx, Yves Congar
Professional/Community Affiliations
The College Theology Society
The American Academy of Religion
The Catholic Theological Society of America
Political Theology Network
Courses Taught
THEO 100: Introduction to Christian Theology
Publications/Research Listings
Book Chapters
“‘Beyond Operativity and Command’: Agamben and Chauvet on Liturgical Metaphysics and the Eucharist,” in The Eucharist and Continental Philosophy, Zechariah Mickel, ed.
(Forthcoming from Fordham University Press)
Book Reviews
“A Divine Seed: ‘Sensing the Spirit’” Commonweal, April 2024
(In print in the April 2024 issue as “A Divine Seed”)
Articles (for full list, please see CV)
“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
Selected Presentations
“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
Michael J. Garanzini, S.J. Fellowship in the Catholic Intellectual Tradition, Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage, (Summer 2025)
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)