Dr. James C. Kruggel is professor of systematic theology and a member of the University Senate at Catholic International University, where he has taught since 2015. He is adjunct professor of theology at the Catholic University of America Metropolitan School of Professional studies. For eight years, he was the acquisitions editor for philosophy and theology at the Catholic University of America Press. He has also taught graduate-level theology courses at the Franciscan University of Steubenville. Dr. Kruggel is also a Catechetical Accompaniment Specialist with the Institute for the Catechism at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Dr. Kruggel is a systematic theologian specializing in the theology of Divine revelation, and the relationship of faith and reason. How can theology best combine a scholastic approach, that is starting from looking at the world, and a personalistic approach, starting from the person as knower and actor? He is also interested in Christology, the Trinity, and the intellectual relationship of Christianity and Islam.
Dr. Kruggel holds his Ph.D. from the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. His dissertation is entitled Scripture, Tradition, and the Magisterium in the Teaching of Vatican II. He argues that there is a continuity of intellectual realism in the Church’s conception of revelation as taught before, by, and after Vatican II.
Dr. Kruggel lives in Washington, DC. He is a native of Rochester, New York, and holds degrees from Miami University of Ohio and Franciscan University. He has made academic presentations at universities, and has offered parish presentations on a variety of theological topics.
Area of Teaching Specialty: Theology
Course Level: Graduate
Courses Taught: THEO 503 The Catholic Theological Tradition; THEO 632 Christology; THEO 617 Father Spitzer’s Evidence for God
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