Dr. Elgendy teaches public theology and ethics and administers Wesley’s academic programs in public theology.  His research interests are animated by asking questions of subjectivity, spirituality, and politics at the intersection of political theology, systematic theology, and critical theory.  He is the author of Life Among the Powers: A Political Spirituality of Resistance, co-editor and contributor to Renegotiating Power, Theology, and Politics, and is working on a book introducing public theology to those interested in Christian life and our various forms of belonging.  In addition to WTS, he has taught at Lake Forest College and the University of Chicago.

Education

Ph.D, University of Chicago

M.A., University of Chicago

B.A., Georgetown University

Research Interests

Public Theology

Political Theology

Critical Theory

Social and Political Ethics

Systematic Theology

Theologies of Love and Desire

Speculative Fiction

Publications

Life Among the Powers: A Political Spirituality of Resistance, Cascade Books, 2024.

Renegotiating Power, Theology, and Politics, edited volume (with Joshua Daniel) of conference proceedings, including introduction and chapter, “Revelation without Authority” (October, 2015, from Palgrave MacMillan)

“Hope, Cynicism, and Complicity: Worldly Resistance in Barth,” Political Theology 17:2, 182-198.

“Practices of the Self and (Spiritually) Disciplined Resistance: What Michel Foucault Could Have Said about Gregory of Nyssa,” Studia Patristica LXII, 103-113.

“Reconsidering Resurrection, Incarnation, and Nature in Schleiermacher’s Glaubenslehre,” International Journal of Systematic Theology 15:3, 301-323.

Relevant Classes Taught

What’s Public about Theology?

Saints, Sinners, and Society

God and Money

Queer Theology, Queer Lives

Salvation, Redemption, and Atonement