Matthew Del Nevo – The Center for Critical Research on Religion

Matthew Del Nevo

Matthew Del Nevo grew up in England. He moved to Israel and studied Creative Writing at ‎בצלאל אקדמיה לאמנות ועיצוב ירושלים – Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem.

Matthew is an alumni of the University of Sydney. He has an academic background in Social Science and in Theology. He has been based in Sydney since 1987. He wrote a doctoral dissertation on Le Livre des questions (7 vols) by Egyptian-born French Jewish poet Edmond Jabès.

Matthew is the Dean of Nisibis Assyrian Theological College, and a Professor of Philosophy within the Sydney College of Divinity. Matthew is Research Director of the Gabriel Marcel Institute of Philosophy Sydney.

Matthew has written about soul and soulfulness in a trilogy of books on melancholy, on enchantment, and on music, currently published by Routledge. He has written a book of philosophy and religious poetics, The Metaphysics of Night. His latest book, Finding Harmony is a slim set of three essays, on religion, humanism and harmony. Matthew’s main research areas are history of ideas, contemporary philosophy, psychoanalysis, theology, Western and Eastern spiritual and wisdom traditions.

Editor

Matthew Del Nevo (ed), Beauty and Christian Tradition. Sydney: St. Pauls, 2020.

Andreas-Salomé, Lou. Sex and Religion: Three Early Feminist Psychoanalytic Texts. Translated by Maike Oergel and Kristine Jennings. Edited with an Introductory essay by Matthew Del Nevo and a Preface by Gary Winship. New York: Routledge, 2017.

Andreas-Salomé, Lou. The Erotic. Translated by John Crisp. Edited with a Preface by Matthew Del Nevo. Introduction by Gary Winship. New York: Routledge, 2017.

Picard, Max. The Flight From God. Translated by Marianne Kuschnitsy and J. M. Cameron. Edited with an Introduction by Brendan Sweetman and Matthew Del Nevo. South Bend IN: St. Augustine’s Press, 2015.

Articles

Dialogues with Michael Eigen: Psyche Singing, The European Legacy, DOI: 10.1080/10848770.2023.2178738, (2023).

#2 “Into the New World (다시 만난 세계)”. Girls’ Generation (소녀시대), 2007. The Story of the Song…Story Behind the Song. Melbourne: Monash University 2022.

With Vama Suvani, #3 “Dionysus”. BTS (방탄소년단), 2019. The Story of the Song…The Story Behind the Song. Melbourne: Monash University 2022.

‘Lebensphilosophie.’ ‘Gender.’ ‘Liberated Woman.’ Entries under Lou Andreas-Salomé in The Encyclopedia of Concise Concepts by Women Philosophers. General Editors, Ruth Hagengruber, Mary Ellen Waithe et al. Paderborn University, Germany, 2021.

‘Eroticism.’ ‘Faith.’ ‘Feminism.’ Entries under Lou Andreas-Salomé in The Encyclopedia of Concise Concepts by Women Philosophers. General Editors, Ruth Hagengruber, Mary Ellen Waithe et al. Paderborn University, Germany, 2019.

2015, God is Love: in Theory, Australasian Pentecostal Studies, #17 Jan 2015

2015, ‘Pussy Riot at the Crossroads of Faith and Politics Today’, Philosophy Study, August 2014, Vol. 4, No. 8 ISSN 2159-5313

Žižek, Atonement Theory and Pentecostal Theology After Metaphysics. Australasian Pentecostal Studies 16 Jan 2014

The Kabbalistic Heart of Levinas. Culture, Theory and Critique. (2011) 54.

Baudelaire’s Aesthetic. Sophia, (2010) 49/4.

Parameters of Pentecostal Aesthetics. CyberJournal of Pentecostal-Charismatic Research #18 Feb.2009

Pentecostalism and the Age of Interpretation. Australasian Pentecostal Studies 11 (Jan 2009).

Pentecostalism and the Three Ages of the Church. Australasian Pentecostal Studies 10 (2006-7).

Edmond Jabès and Kabbalism After God. Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 65/2, (1997) 403-442.

Edmond Jabès and The Book. Literature and Theology, 10/4, Oxford University Press, (1996) 301-336.

Reading Edmond Jabès. Literature and Theology, 2/4, Oxford University Press, (1995) 399-422.

Edmond Jabès, Jewish Destiny, & Deconstruction. Australian Journal of Jewish Studies, 6/2, (1993) 37-52.

Book Chapters

Introduction to Philosophy in a Post-Secular Age,’ in Theology and the People of God. Sydney: St. Paul’s 2022.

‘Old Age’ in Embracing Life and Gathering Wisdom: Theological, Pastoral and Clinical Insights into Human Flourishing at the End of Life. Sydney: SCD Press, 2020. 301-313.

‘Tragic Beauty’ in Beauty and Christian Tradition. Sydney: St Pauls, 2020.

Love in the Christian Period, in Love in the Religions of the World, ed. W. Cristaudo. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2012.

Johannine Christianity and Secularisation, in Religion and Spirituality in a Postmodern Globe, ed. Seyed Javad Miri. Köln, Germany: Lambert Academic, 2011.

Goethe, First Father of the Third Age of the Church in The Cross and the Star: The Post-Nietzschean Christian and Jewish Thought of Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy and Franz Rosenzweig, ed. Wayne Cristaudo and Frances Huessy. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009.

Spirituality in a Feminine Key, in Raising Women Leaders: perspectives on liberating women in Pentecostalism (with Robyn Wrigly-Carr). ed. Shane Clifton. Sydney: APS/SCD, 2009.