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Dr. Gregor teaches courses in the history of philosophy, philosophy of religion, and religious studies. His research concerns the relation between religious faith and human subjectivity. This interest has motivated his work in post-Kantian Continental philosophy (especially Kierkegaard, Bonhoeffer, and Ricoeur).聽 This research has resulted in numerous articles and two books: A Philosophical Anthropology of the Cross: The Cruciform Self (Indiana University Press, 2013), and Ricoeur's Hermeneutics of Religion: Rebirth of the Capable Self (Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield, 2019).

Dr. Gregor also studies ancient and medieval models of ethical and religious formation.聽 He teaches this topic in PHI 201: The Good Life, and he is nearing completion of a book on the practice of philosophy as the art of living, tentatively entitled A Short History of Philosophical Life.聽 More recently, his long-standing interest in hermeneutics has led from the theory of interpretation to a more direct practice of interpreting myth and literature, both in his current articles and in teaching PHI 352: Myth as Reality.

Selected Publications

Books Authored

• A Philosophical Anthropology of the Cross: The Cruciform Self. (Indiana University Press, 2013).
• Ricoeur's Hermeneutics of Religion: Rebirth of the Capable Self. (Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield, 2019).

Books Edited

• Being Human, Becoming Human: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Social Thought. Eds. Jens Zimmermann and Brian Gregor. (Wipf & Stock, 2010).
• Bonhoeffer and Continental Thought: Cruciform Philosophy. Eds. Brian Gregor and Jens Zimmermann. (Indiana University Press, 2009).

Articles

• 鈥淣either Ape nor Angel: Engaging Tallis鈥� Atheistic Incarnational Anthropology.鈥� Palgrave鈥檚 Companion to the Philosophy of Raymond Tallis. Ed. Robert P. Doede. Palgrave, 2026.
• 鈥淩ecovering Language in a Secular Age: Charles Taylor and Paul Ricoeur on the Poetics of Religion.鈥� Who is My Neighbor? Christian Education in a Secular Age. Eds. Joy Demoskoff and Matthew Zantingh. Routledge, 2026.
• 鈥淭oward an Ontology of Peace I: Ricoeur on Peace and Violence in the Ontology of Creation.鈥� Approaching Religion. Special Issue: Peace and Understanding: A Ric艙urian Perspective. Vol. 14 No. 3 (2024), pp.25-40. https://journal.fi/ar/article/view/146535
• 鈥淭oward an Ontology of Peace II: Ricoeur on the Heart of Conflict and Thumotic Peace.鈥� Approaching Religion. Special Issue: Peace and Understanding: A Ric艙urian Perspective. Vol. 14 No. 3 (2024), pp.41-53. https://journal.fi/ar/article/view/146536
• 鈥淏ecoming Psyche: The Stoic Way and the Platonic Way in Till We Have Faces.鈥� Journal of Inklings Studies 14.1 (2024), pp.1-24.
• 鈥淢eaning and Persons: The Ontology of the Word as Revelation.鈥� Paul Ricoeur, Philosophical Hermeneutics, and the Question of Revelation. Ed. Christina M. Gschwandtner. (Lexington Books, 2024).
• 鈥淪trangers, Gods, and Demons: Toward a Carnal Hermeneutics of the Demonic.鈥� Anacarnation: Returning to the Lived Body with Richard Kearney. Eds. Brian Treanor and James L. Taylor. (Routledge, 2023).
• 鈥淓pistles as Revelation: Expanding Ricoeur鈥檚 Account of Biblical Discourse.鈥� Reading Scripture with Paul Ricoeur. Eds. Joseph A. Edelheit and James F. Moore. (Lexington Books, 2021).
• 鈥淥n Narrating More Wisely: A Prosaic Supplement to Ricoeur鈥檚 Poetics of Narrative Identity.鈥� B@belOnline Vol. 8 (2021): Narrative Identity between Hermeneutics and Psychoanalysis.
• 鈥淏etween Barth and Eliade: Ricoeur鈥檚 Mediation of the Word and the Sacred.鈥� A Companion to Ricoeur鈥檚 Symbolism of Evil. Ed. Scott Davidson. (Lexington Books, 2020).
• 鈥淩eflection, the Body, and Fallibility: The Mysterious Influence of Marcel in Ricoeur鈥檚 Fallible Man.鈥� A Companion to Fallible Man. Ed. Scott Davidson. (Lexington Books, 2019).
• 鈥淩icoeur鈥檚 Askesis: Textual and Gymnastic Exercises for Self-Transformation.鈥� Continental Philosophy Review. Vol.51, Issue 3 (September 2018), pp.421-38.
• 鈥淭he Critique of Religion and Post-Metaphysical Faith: Bonhoeffer鈥檚 Influence on Paul Ricoeur鈥檚 Hermeneutics of Religion.鈥� Engaging Bonhoeffer: The Impact and Influence of Bonhoeffer鈥檚 Life and Thought. Ed. Matthew Kirkpatrick. (Fortress Press, 2016).
• 鈥淭he Transcendence of the Person: Bonhoeffer as a Resource for Phenomenology of Religion and Ethics.鈥� Early Phenomenology: Metaphysics, Ethics, and the Philosophy of Religion. Ed. Brian Harding and Michael R. Kelly (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016).
• 鈥淪hame and the Other: Bonhoeffer and Levinas on Human Dignity and Ethical Responsibility.鈥� Ontology and Ethics: Bonhoeffer and Contemporary Scholarship. Eds. Michael Mawson and Adam Clark. (Pickwick Publications, 2013).
• 鈥淭he Text as Mirror: Kierkegaard and Hadot on Transformative Reading.鈥� History of Philosophy Quarterly Vol. 28, Number 1 (January 2011), pp.65-84.
• 鈥淒exter the Self-Interpreting Animal,鈥� in Dexter and Philosophy (Open Court, 2011).
• 鈥淜ierkegaard and the Phenomenology of Temptation.鈥� Kierkegaard as Phenomenologist. Ed. Jeffrey Hanson. (Northwestern University Press, 2010).
• 鈥淔ollowing-After and Becoming Human: A Study of Bonhoeffer and Kierkegaard.鈥� Being Human, Becoming Human: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Social Thought (Wipf & Stock, 2010), pp.152-75.
• 鈥淏onhoeffer鈥檚 鈥楥hristian Social Philosophy鈥�: Conscience, Alterity, and the Moment of Ethical Responsibility.鈥� Bonhoeffer and Continental Thought: Cruciform Philosophy (Indiana University Press, 2009), pp.201-25.
• 鈥淭hinking through Kierkegaard鈥檚 Anti-Climacus: Art, Imagination, and Imitation.鈥� The Heythrop Journal Vol. 50, Number 3 (May 2009), pp.448-65.
• 鈥淔riends and Neighbors: Kierkegaard and the Possibility of Transformative Friendship.鈥� Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia: 鈥淪酶ren Kierkegaard and Philosophy Today.鈥� Volume 64, Numbers 2-4, (April- December 2008), pp.921-41
• 鈥淔ormal Indication, Philosophy, and Theology: Bonhoeffer鈥檚 Critique of Heidegger.鈥� Faith and Philosophy Vol. 24, No.2. April 2007: pp.185-202.
• 鈥淪elfhood and the Three R鈥檚: Reference, Repetition, and Refiguration.鈥� International Journal for Philosophy of Religion. (2005) 58: pp.63鈥�94.
• 鈥淓ros that Never Arrives: A Phenomenological Ethics of the Erotic.鈥� Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy, Vol. 9, No.1. (2005): pp.67-88.