He received his doctorate in Philosophy from Boston College in 2005. His research area includes philosophy of religion, phenomenology, ancient Greek philosophy (especially Plato and the Neo-Platonic Tradition) and Patristics. Among other publications, he wrote God After Metaphysics: A Theological Aesthetic (Indiana University Press, 2007), edited After God: Richard Kearney and the Theological Turn in Continental Philosophy(Fordham University Press, 2005), and co-edited Phenomenology and Eschatology: Not Yet in the Now (Ashgate 2009).