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Daniel Castillo

Associate Professor
Daniel Castillo

Curriculum Vitae

Recent Publications

  • An Ecological Theology of Liberation: Salvation and Political Ecology (n.b. recipient of College Theology Society's Best Book Award, 2020)
  • “The Age of Cain: The ‘Anthropocene,’ Western Extractive Colonialism, and the Christian Imagination” Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 44.1 (2024): 27-45.
  • “Reconfiguring Ignacio Ellacuría’s symbol of ‘the Crucified People’: Jesus, the Suffering Servant, and Abel,” Theological Studies 84.1 (2023): 8–29.
  • “The Meek Shall Inherit the Earch: Surfacing the Politico-Ecological Dimensions of Nonviolent Struggle," Journal of Catholic Social Thought 20.2 (2023): 241-257.
  • “On Grieving for the Garden of the World: Catholic Education and the Cultivation of an Ecologically Sensitive Conscience” in Conscience and Catholic Education: Theology, Administration, and Teaching, eds. David DeCosse and Kevin Baxter (Maryknoll: Orbis, 2022), 183–197.

Grants and Awards

  • 2020-2021 Sabbatical Research Grant, Louisville Institute (for Confronting the Age of Cain: Christian Faith in the "Anthropocene," in progress)
  • 2020-2021 Research Fellow, Kroc Institute for Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame
  • 2017 First Book Grant, Louisville Institute (for An Ecological Theology of Liberation)

Courses Taught

  • Introduction to Christian Theology
  • Christian Environmental Ethics
  • World Christianity
  • Violence and Holiness in Twentieth Centery El Salvador
  • Liberation Theology: Roots and Brances (seminar)
  • Justice, Peace, and the Integrity of Creation (seminar)
  • The Resurrection (seminar)