Josh Blanchard

Books

• Confessing Ourselves: Augustine’s Anthropology of Confession in The City of God. (Under Review with Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming 2025)

Articles, Reviews, and Book Chapters

• ‘Love of God as Love of Wisdom: Augustine’s Moral Theology’. Perichoresis 23. Forthcoming, November 2025.
• ‘Severe Mental Illness: Personal Identity, Memory, and the Totus Christus’. In Theology and Severe Mental Illness. Edited by John Swinton. Forthcoming from Wiph and Stock, 2025.
• ‘The Grammar of Incarnation: Confession as Political Discourse’. Augustinian Studies. Accepted: Special Issue, August 2025.
• ‘Review of Educating Character through the Arts by D’Olimpio, Laura, et al.’ Journal of Moral Philosophy vol 21 5–6. Forthcoming, 2025.

Presentations

• Invited Guest Lecturer, ‘The Council of Nicaea.’ College of St George, Windsor Castle (4 days of teaching, Lent 2025).
• Invited Guest Lecturer, ‘Reading Theology Together: Robert Jenson’s Theology in Outline,’ St. Georges House, College of St George, Windsor Castle (4 days of teaching, November 2024).
• ‘Identity Politics and Political Identities.’ Public Theology Series. The Cathedral of St Luke and St Paul, Charleston South Carolina. October 6, 2024.
• The Divided Mind and the Unified Body: Reimagining Severe Mental Illness in the Totus Christus’. International Network for Theology, Mental Health, and Dementia. Duke University. September 26–27, 2024.
• ‘The Grammar of Incarnation: Augustine’s Semiotic Account of Political Discourse’. XIX International Conference on Patristic Studies. Oxford, UK. August 6, 2024.
• ‘Signs of Confession: Rethinking Augustinian Ethics’ North American Patristics Society. Chicago, IL. May 24, 2024.
• ‘The Beauty of Goodness: Rethinking Aesthetic Moral Formation’ Aberdeen Dogmatics Society. May 22, 2024’
• ‘Reconciling the Moral Gap: Finding Peace in Moral Failure’. Society for the Study of Christian Ethics. Westcott House, Oxford. March 28th, 2024.
• Invited guest lecturer, ‘Theology of Reconciliation: Reconciling the Self,’ St. Georges House, College of St George, Windsor Castle (5 days of teaching, October 4–9, 2023)
• Augustine’s Decolonizing Critique: Desiring Virtue Beyond Rational Ethics.’ Society for the Study of Christian Ethics Annual Meeting. Cambridge, UK. Sept. 8, 2023
• ‘Confessing Our Selves: Confession as Martyrdom after Constantine’ University of Aberdeen Postgraduate Symposium, June 2, 2023
• ‘Paradoxes of Virtue: Epistemic Humility and Moral Formation.’ Makarios. Australian Catholic University, Rome. May 29, 2023
• ‘Invalid identities: Political Discourse Beyond Identity.’ Political Theologies After Christendom. Blavatnik School of Government. Oxford, UK. March 29, 2023
• ‘Interruptions Toward Humanity: Rowan Williams on Augustine’s Anthropology,’ Society for the Study of Christian Ethics March 11, 2022