Sarah Elizabeth Maple
Assistant Professor of Theology & Religious Studies
Bio
Dr. Sarah Maple is a painter and theologian who holds advanced degrees in Ethics and Comparative Religious Studies from Drew University, and Masters of Theological Studies from the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Marriage & Family Studies at the Catholic University of America. She wrote her Ph.D. in the Institute for Theology, Imagination & the Arts at the University of St Andrews with joint supervision from the University of Oxford, Blackfriars Hall.
Dr. Maple has taught courses in Theological Ethics, Catholic Theology, Scripture, Homiletics, and John Paul II's 'Personalist Theology.' She has lectured at the Monasteries in Pluscarden, Ryde, and Quarr, and given papers at the Universities of Pennsylvania, Princeton, Durham, St. Andrews, Cambridge, Oxford, and The Catholic University of Leuven.
She has co-published her work on the interior life of artists alongside the first-ever English translation of Karol Wojtyla's retreat for artists, God Is Beauty. She has published on the topics of Marriage, Liturgy, Beauty, and Catholic Imagination in The Journal of Homiletic & Pastoral Review, Syndicate Theology, Transpositions, The Journal of Inklings Studies, and Humanum.
She has received an emerging scholars grant from University of Oxford to complete work on Aquinas’ Tertia Pars and Creative Intuition, funded by the MacDonald Agape Foundation. She has been a Doctoral Research Fellow at The Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal, a Fellow at the Leonine Forum in NYC, held a Summer Residency at the Hildebrand Project, and is a Researcher at The William G. Congdon Foundation in Milan, Italy. An avid practitioner and supporter of the Arts, her current research also focuses on the dialogue between creative expression in liturgy, and the phenomenology of the body for artists.
Since Fall 2019 she has taught undergraduates as Assistant Professor of Theology & Religious Studies at Mount Saint Mary College in Newburgh, New York. As a Visiting Professor, she teaches on Theology, Beauty & Culture to graduate students at University of Notre Dame, and the same in formation aid at New York’s Major Seminary.
Degrees
PhD, University of St Andrews, Institute for Theology, Imagination & the Arts
MTS, Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage & Family at the Catholic, University of America, Washington, DC
BA, Drew University, Ethics & Comparative Religious Studies
Courses
Theology of Beauty
Fairy Tales & Sacraments
Religion & Personal Growth
Religion & Justice
Introduction to Theology
Dominican Spirituality
Memberships and Professional Associations
The William G. Congdon Foundation
American Academy of Religion
Academy of Catholic Theology
Catholic Women's Forum