Lance Gracy | Philosophy & Religion

Lance Gracy

Lance Gracy
Teaching Fellow
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940.565.2266
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Highlights: 
M.A. Philosophy, University of Texas-San Antonio
B.A. Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of the Incarnate Word
Interests include Bonaventurian Thought; Medieval Philosophy; Philosophy of Religion; Environmental Philosophy/Ethics; Phenomenology; Asian and Comparative Philosophy

Lance Gracy is a Teaching Fellow and Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Texas. His dissertation is an exegesis of wisdom in St. Bonaventure's Collationes in Hexaëmeron. In exegeting/articulating this last great work of the "second-founder" of the Franciscan Order, Lance's dissertation conveys the "return to the wisdom of metaphysics and religion" as not only a return to exhortative and propaedeutical reading and instruction, sound doctrine, (re)conciliation, and so on, but also as something importantly related to the environment and ecology. Thus, one implication is that through a return to the wisdom of metaphysics of religion, one properly reorients themselves to the time, status, nature, being(s), etc. of creation.

Lance has also been involved with various organizations in support of an environmental focus, to include the St. Kateri Tekakwitha Conservation Center, the St. Basil Institute for the Theology of Creation, and American Pilgrims on the Camino.