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Scott Huelin

Director for the Honors Community | Professor of English

About

Dr. Scott Huelin has taught literature and theology at the secondary, undergraduate, and graduate levels. His research interests include philosophical hermeneutics; literary theory; the history and sociology of reading; biblical hermeneutics; the history of Christian theology, ethics, and spirituality; and classical, medieval, and Renaissance literature. His published essays and book reviews have appeared in Literature and Theology, Religion & Literature, Christian Scholar’s Review, Christianity & Literature, Christian Reflection, the Journal of Religion, the Cresset, and the Journal of the National Council of Honors Colleges. Dr. Huelin was selected as Union’s Faculty of the Year for 2017-18.

Education

  • Ph.D, University of Chicago

  • M.A., University of North Carolina

  • B.A., University of North Carolina

Programs

Scholarship

Books

  • Learning the Good Life: Wisdom from the Great Hearts and Minds That Came Before (2022)

    Zondervan Academic

  • KJV 400: The Legacy and Impact of the King James Version (2012)

    BorderStone Press

  • Faith and Learning: A Handbook for Christian Higher Education (2012)

    B&H Academic

  • Dark Faith: New Essays on Flannery O’Connor’s The Violent Bear It Away (2012)

    University of Notre Dame Press: South Bend, IN

  • For the Whole of Creation: Christianity and Scholarship in the Public Square, the Guild, and the Church (2010)

    Valparaiso University Press: Valparaiso, IN

Articles

  • The Hospitality of Abraham: A Meditation (2014)

    SEEN Journal

  • Norman Wirzba’s Food and Faith: A Theology of Eating (2012)

    Renewing Minds

  • Religio et Eruditio (2012)

    Renewing Minds

  • Losing Sight of the Image: Reading (in) Plato’s Republic (2010)

  • Peregrination, Hermeneutics, Hospitality (2008)

    Literature and Theology

  • Christian Wisdom: Desiring God and Learning in Love by David F. Ford (2008)

    The Cresset

  • Interpreting the Parables’ Recent Interpreters (2006)

    Christian Reflection: Parables

  • The Heart Set Free’ and ‘In Praise of Wisdom’ (2006)

    Christianity and Literature

  • Reading, Writing, and Memory in Hamlet (2005)

    Religion & Literature

  • Toward a Theological Ontology of Textual Meaning (2005)

    Christian Scholar's Review

  • The Promise, Peril, and Practices of Multiperspectivism (2004)

    Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council

  • Fritz Oehlschlaeger’s Love and Good Reasons: Postliberal Approaches to Christian Ethics and Literature (2004)

    Cresset

  • William Brown’s Seeing the Psalms: A Theology of Metaphor (2004)

    Journal of Religion

Presentations

  • Academic Friendship in the Christian University (2019)

    Baylor University Symposium on Faith and Culture

  • Academic Friendship (2019)

    Christianity in the Academy, Oxford University

  • King Lear and the Wisdom of Love (2018)

    Augustine School

  • Shaping Curriculum and Pedagogy for ordo amoris: Educational Experiments in the General Honors Program at Union University (2014)

    Augustine Across the Curriculum, Samford University

  • “Mission Faithfulness and Faculty Hiring Practices at Valparaiso and Union Universities (2014)

    Lilly Fellows Program Reunion Conference

  • Only Prophets and Devils Speak King James: Flannery O’Connor and the Literary Uses of English Bible Translations (2011)

    KJV 400 Conference

  • Discernment of the Spirits in the College Classroom (2009)

    Teaching, Learning and Christian Practices Conference at Calvin College

  • Dual Citizenship: The Politics of Belonging to Church and Academy (2007)

    Lilly Fellows Program Reunion Conference

  • The Violent Bear It Away as Theological Ethics (2006)

    Flannery O'Connor in the AGe of Terrorism

  • The Violent Bear It Away’ as Theological Ethics (2006)

    Flannery O'Connor in the Age of Terrorism Conference

  • Arts, Literature, and Humanities Secularity and Globalization: What Comes After Modernity (2005)

    Lilly Fellows Program National Research Conference

  • Milton as a Reader of Plato and St. Augustine (2005)

    Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance Conference

  • Personal Integration (2004)

    Faith in the Academy

  • The Ethics of Irony in Rabelais (2003)

    Johnston Scholars Program

  • Peregrination, Hermeneutics, Hospitality (2002)

    MLA

  • Entertaining Stranger: Toward a Hermeneutics of Hospitality (2001)

    Midwest Conference on Christiantiy and Literature

  • Augustine and the Uses of Secular Literature (2000)

    American Academy of Religion

  • Traveling Light: Basil and Augustine on the Use of the Classics (2000)

    Southeastern Conference on Christianity and Literature

  • The Moral Voice in Poetry: A Response to a Reading by Fred Dings (1999)

    The Moral Voice in Poetry conference

Dissertations

  • Spiritual Reading: Tropology, Discernment, and Early Modern European Literature. (2002)

    University of Chicago

Awards