Telephone: 617-552-4023
Email: jeffrey.bloechl@bc.edu
Phenomenology and Religion
The Enigma of Suffering
Philosophy and Mysticism
Levinas and Heidegger
Philosophy of Religion, Ethics, Phenomenology, Psychoanalysis
By Appointment
Department Chair and Arthur J. Fitzgibbons Professor of Philosophy at Boston College. Honorary Research Fellow at the Australian Catholic University of America. Studied philosophy, theology and psychology at the Catholic University of America and the Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven. Research and teaching concentrates in questions and problems found in the fields of religion and ethics. Has lectured and taught at many universities in North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Active research interest in Jesuit thought, Ignatian pedagogy and formative education.
Founding Series Editor, "Thresholds in Philosophy and Theology," University of Notre Dame Press.
Founding co-director of the Joint MA Program in Philosophy and Theology:https://www.bc.edu/content/bc-web/schools/mcas/departments/theology/graduate/ma-phil-theo.html
Founding co-convener of the Advanced Research Seminar in Philosophy and Theology: https://www.bc.edu/content/bc-web/schools/mcas/departments/philosophy/research/lectures/advanced-research-seminar.html
Founder and convener of Boston College's annual course on Self-Knowledge and Discernment: The Experience of Pilgrimage: www.bc.edu/camino
The Primacy of the Ethical in the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas (Northwestern University Press, 2022), (ed.), Fragility and Transcendence. Essays on the Thought of Jean-Louis Chretien (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023).