The Rev. Nathaniel Aram Warne Adishian, PhD

Email: saintpauls.mishawaka@gmail.com

Nathaniel (Fr Nate) began his ministry at St Paul’s August 1, 2020. He is passionate about adult education and spiritual formation.

As a proud Armenian-American, Nate cares deeply about a number of social issues and is involved in local community action through the Michiana Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression and Faith in Indiana. He is also a member of the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee for the South Bend Symphony.

He received his PhD in history of ideas and moral and political theology from Durham University (UK) in 2016 and has since published in a number of academic journals, popular blogs, and had a book come out in 2020 with Fortress/Lexington Press on happiness and the doctrine of calling. He also had another book published in 2023 with University of Notre Dame Press on contemplative spirituality, ethics, and the doctrine of creation, which won an award from the Catholic Media Association.

Fr Nate has also taught courses in theology and ethics at University of Notre Dame and Bexley Seabury Seminary Federation. He is also co-host of a podcast on theology and culture called The Two Cities.

If you would like to meet up with Nate, he is in the office on Tuesdays after 11am, and by appointment.

If you are interested in spiritual direction, email Nate to schedule a time to meet.

Selected Publications:

Monographs

• Josef Pieper on the Spiritual Life: Creation, Contemplation, and Human Flourishing. University of Notre Dame Press, 2023.

• The Call to Happiness: Eudaimonism in English Puritan Thought. Minneapolis, MN: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2020.

Edited Volumes

• Cultural History of Death in the Renaissance. Bloomsbury, 2024.

• Emotions and Religious Dynamics. Co-edited with Douglas J. Davies. Farnham, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2013.

Peer Reviewed Journals

• “Humanism and History as an Ethics of Institutions” Religions, 15(1), 73 (2024),  DOI:10.3390/rel15010073.

• “Avishai Margalit and Theology of Institutions,” Studies in Christian Ethics, (2022) DOI: 10.1177/09539468221090399

• “Institutional Justice and the Virtue of Gratitude,” Anglican Theological Review 103, no. 3 (2021): 286–97, DOI:10.1177/00033286211023902

• “Things Seen and Unseen: Josef Pieper’s Negative Philosophy, Science, and Hope,” Theological Studies 79, no. 2 (2018): 294–313, DOI:10.1177/0040563918766726.

• “Forward on Shared Paths: Josef Pieper on the Importance of Common Language for Justice and Interdisciplinary Learning,” Philosophy, Theology and the Sciences 4, no. 1 (2018): 104–126, DOI 10.1628/ptsc-2018-0007.

Chapters in Edited Volumes

• “Virtues, Science and the Good Life.” In Virtues, Science and Science Education. Co-authored with Emanuele Ratti. Edited by Wayne Melville and Donald Kerr. London: Routledge, 2020.