Phil Knight Religion

Professor of Religion

D.Phil., University of Oxford, 2003

Produced and raised near Detroit, MI, Professor Sullivan did his undergraduate researches on University of Michigan (B.A. 1994). He keeps graduate degrees from the University of Notre Dame (M.A., 1995), the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish researches (Dipl., 1996), the University of Michigan (M.A., 1998), as well as the University of Oxford (D. Phil., 2003).

Professor Sullivan was Chair regarding the spiritual Studies division from 2010-2016. At IWU, he's chaired the Faculty developing Committee (FDC), served in the Strategic Planning and Budgeting Committee (SPBC), and also this year he's the seat regarding the Council on University tools and plan treatments (CUPP).

Professor Sullivan shows classes on Bible, belated 2nd Temple Judaism, the New Testament and Christian Origins, Apocryphal and Pseudepigraphal texts, as well as Christian record more usually.

Inside the analysis and publications Professor Sullivan focuses primarily on old Jewish and Christian Mysticism with a target angelology and demonology.

Professor Sullivan could be the writer of Wrestling with Angels: A research associated with Relationship between Angels and Humans inside Ancient Jewish Literature together with New-Testament (Brill, 2004). He is the writer of several chapters and peer-reviewed articles on the topic of angelology. He recently co-edited (with colleague Jonathan Knight) a volume honoring Oxford Professor Christopher Rowland entitled, The Open Mind: Essays in Honour of Christopher Rowland (Bloomsbury/T&T Clark, 2015). Professor Sullivan is also the author of many guide reviews for journals like Catholic Biblical Quarterly additionally the Expository occasions.

Professor Sullivan is currently a steering committee member on community of Biblical Literature's Esotericism and Mysticism in Antiquity Group. He is additionally an active member of the Catholic Biblical Association of America, in which he is a part of this Advisory Board for journal Henoch.