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Nathan-Cartagena

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Nathan Luis Cartagena, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Philosophy

Biography

Nathan Luis Cartagena is an Associate Professor of Philosophy. His teaching and scholarship focus on Thomas Aquinas, James Baldwin, Critical Race Theory, Military Ethics, Evangélic@ Theology, and Christian Pedagogy.

Education

Baylor University
Ph.D., Philosophy

Texas A&M University
M.A., Philosophy

Grove City College
B.A., Philosophy and Christian Thought

Areas of Expertise

  • Thomas Aquinas
  • Critical Race Theory
  • Military Ethics
  • Evangélic@ Theology
  • James Baldwin
  • Philosophies of Liberation
  • Hermeneutics

Media

Chapel Message for Unidad Chapel, September 16, 2019 (Matthew 2:13-23)
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Selected Publications

The Theology of Fear in Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologiae
Nathan Luis Cartagena, 2024
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Transgressive teaching and the Kingdom of God: Celebrating the 30th anniversary of Teaching to Transgress, International Journal of Christianity & Education
Nathan L. Cartagena and Danielle J. Corple, 2025
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Mercy’s Impediments: Thomas Aquinas and Critical Race Theory in Dialogue, Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia
Nathan Luis Cartagena, 2023
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Suffering Our Forefathers' Sins: A Latino's Reflection on White Supremacy, Mere Orthodoxy
Nathan Luis Cartagena, August 12, 2019
An essay in response to the El Paso shooting.
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Resilience, Emotion Regulation, and Thomas Aquinas, The Heythrop Journal
Nathan L. Cartagena, 2016
Resilience is a hot topic. Resilience research is burgeoning and discourse about resilience is ubiquitous in Western societies and institutions. In his groundbreaking book Resilience and the Virtue of Fortitude, moral theologian Craig Steven Titus puts Thomas Aquinas' …
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Developing Good Soldiers: The Problem of Fragmentation Within the Army, Journal of Military Ethics
Paul T. Berghaus & Nathan L. Cartagena, 2014
Fragmentation – a form of which involves the division of soldiers' lives into professional and personal domains that are insulated from each other – is a significant problem for members of the US Army profession. The past 12 years of combat along with the US Army's posture of persistent conflict seem to have intensified this perennial problem in military service. We argue that the Army Profession campaign – the Army's main program for moral development – fails to recognize the problem of fragmentation. Instead, it seems to further the fragmentation of soldiers' lives. Some might contend that the Comprehensive Soldier Fitness program – which emphasizes the emotional, social, familial and spiritual domains of soldiers – addresses this problem. We maintain that this is not the case. The Comprehensive Soldier Fitness program fails to view the domains of soldier fitness as constitutive of moral development. We conclude by recommending that the Army begin to address the problem of fragmentation by drawing from the resources of its commitment to the virtue tradition. Leaders and soldiers should use the resources that the virtue tradition provides with respect to self-perception, virtue-relevant goals and the emotions to promote soldiers' moral development.
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Involuntary Sins, Social Psychology, and the Application of Redemption, The Heythrop Journal
Paul T. Berghaus Nathan L. Cartagena, 2014
In his essay 'Involuntary Sins,'Robert Adams argues that some states of mind that human beings experience are blameworthy and involuntary. That is, human beings are objectively culpable for these mental states that they do not deliberately or actively produce.
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