Sarah Stewart-Kroeker

Biography

Sarah Stewart-Kroeker is the Associate Professor of Early Christian Theology. She received degrees from McMaster University, Yale University, and Princeton Theological Seminary. Stewart-Kroeker’s work has been largely focused on Augustine and Augustinianism (both historical and contemporary), virtue ethics, and aesthetics. Her work has been published in the Journal of Religion, Augustinian Studies, Journal of Religious Ethics, and others. Her previous experience includes serving as the Jacques de Senarclens Associate Professor of Theological Ethics at the University of Geneva, where she taught classes on emotions and affectivity, forced migrations, ecumenical methodologies, and feminist ethics and theology. She is the author of Pilgrimage as Moral and Aesthetic Formation in Augustine’s Thought (2017) and La Terre martyre (2022).

Select Publications

• La Terre Martyre (Genève: Labor et Fides, 2022).
• Pilgrimage as Moral and Aesthetic Formation in Augustine’s Thought (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017). Winner of the 2020 Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise.
• Karl Barth’s Epistle to the Romans: Retrospect and Prospect, ed. Christophe Chalamet, Andreas Dettwiler, and Sarah Stewart-Kroeker (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022).
• “Sacrifice in Environmental Ethics and Theology,” Journal of Religion 102/2 (2022), 237-61.
• “Love of and For the Martyrs: Resurrected Wounds and the ‘Order’ of Restoration,” Studia Patristica CXVI (2021), 91-98.
• “‘Scattered in Times’: An Augustinian Meditation on Temporal Fragmentation, Imagination, and Climate Change,” Journal of Religious Ethics 48/1 (2020), 45-73.
• “‘What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men?’ Betrayal and the Feminist Ethics of Aesthetic Involvement,” De Ethica 6/1 (2019), 1-24.
• “A Wordless Cry of Jubilation: Joy and the Ordering of the Emotions,” Augustinian Studies 50/1 (2019), 65-86.