Robert Elliot

relliot@providence.edu

Education:

Ph.D. – Systematic Theology Boston College

Brief Biography:

Robert Elliot was born and raised in the suburbs of New York City. He has a B.A. in Philosophy from the Templeton Honors College of Eastern University, an M.A. in Philosophy and Theology from Boston College, and a Ph.D. in Systematic Theology from Boston College. He is currently writing a book on how our conception of the imago Dei could be informed by recent research in contemporary evolutionary anthropology and in comparative and developmental psychology. He lives in Framingham, MA with his wife (a poet herself) and two beautiful daughters.

Area(s) of Expertise:

Theological Anthropology, Theology and Science, Trinitarian Theology

Selected Publications:

“Joint Attention and the Imago Trinitatis,” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 58, no. 4 (December 2023): 860-885.

“Givenness and Hermeneutics: The Saturated Phenomenon and Historically-Effected Consciousness,” Heythrop Journal 57, no. 6 (July 2017): 662-677.