Father Stephen Fields, S.J., is a Professor of Philosophy of Religion and Systematic Theology at Georgetown University, serving in the Department of Theology. He has served as an Assistant Professor from 1993 to 2000. He entered the Jesuit order in 1977, and was ordained as a priest in 1986. He has been the Bannan professor at Santa Clara and has held the Maclean Chair at St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia and the Loyola Chair at Fordham University. He is also the former president of the Jesuit Philosophical Association.
Fr. Fields received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Yale University, and his B.A. in English Language and Literature from the University of Oxford. He also holds degrees from the Weston Jesuit School of Theology, Fordham University, and Loyola College in Maryland.
Fr. Fields is an expert in philosophical theology and the history of Christian thought. He is the author of Analogies of Transcendence: An Essay on Nature, Grace and Modernity (2016), Being as Symbol: On the Origins and Development of Karl Rahner’s Metaphysics (2000), and numerous scholarly articles. He teaches classes on Christian thought, John Henry Newman, Thomas Aquinas, Christian mysticism, the Catholic vision of love, and the Natural Law at Georgetown University. He also serves as the Faculty Moderator and Chaplain of the Knights of Columbus at Georgetown. He has received the Dorothy M. Brown Award, the Main Campus's highest undergraduate-elected teaching recognition.
