Todd Gooch, Ph.D.
Professor
Education
- Ph.D. Philosophy of Religion & Theology, Claremont Graduate University
- M.A. Religion, Claremont Graduate University
- B.A. University of California, Santa Barbara, Religious Studies
Publications
- The Numinous and Modernity: An Interpretation of Rudolf Otto’s Philosophy of Religion (Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 2000). Pp. vi + 233.
- “Ludwig Feuerbach and the Challenge of Atheism,” in The Oxford History of Modern German Theology, 3 vols., David Lincicum, Judith Wolfe, and Johannes Zachhuber, general editors, Volume 1: 1781–1848, ed. Grant Kaplan and Kevin Vander Schel (Oxford University Press, 2023), 633-649.
- “Rudolf Otto’s Post-Kantian Platonism,” in The Holy in a Pluralistic World: Rudolf Otto’s Legacy in the 21st Century, ed. Ulrich Rosenhagen and Gregory D. Alles (Sheffield: Equinox, 2022), 11-32.
- “Critique of Religion: Strauss, Feuerbach, Marx,” in A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Philosophy, Blackwell Companions to Philosophy, ed. John Shand (Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, 2019), 212-235.
- “Atheism,” in The Oxford Handbook of German Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century, ed. Michael Forster and Kristin Gjesdal (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), 829-851.
- “Faith, Knowledge, and the Ausgang of Classical German Philosophy: Jacobi, Hegel, Feuerbach,” forthcoming in a special issue of the of the open-access journal, Religions (ISSN 2077-1444), on The Impact of German Idealism on Religion, ed. Christian Danz.
Awards & Accolades
- Election to EKU Society of Foundation Professors, 2024
- EKU University Fellow, 2016-17
- EKU College of Arts & Sciences Excellence in Research and Creative Activities award, 2014
