David Dault, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Office: Kenrick Hall 118-A
Phone: (901) 321-3341
E-Mail: ddault@cbu.edu

Dr. Dault joined the Religion faculty in 2009.  Prior to teaching at CBU, he served for two years as assistant professor of theology at American Baptist College in Nashville, Tennessee.  His training has included analytic and continental philosophy, systematic theology, the history of Christian thought, Judaic studies, and biblical exegesis.  He holds degrees from Vanderbilt University (Ph.D. 2009, M.A. 2006), Columbia Theological Seminary (M.A.-T.S. 2002) and The University of the South (B.A. 1993).  In accord with the Code of Canon Law, Dr. Dault also holds a mandatum, conferred in 2009 by Bishop David Choby of the diocese of Nashville.

Dr. Dault studies printed Bibles of the present day and the past, analyzing the subtle (and often not so subtle) theological authority exerted by such extra-scriptural elements as footnotes, editorial insertions, marginalia, introductions, and translational methodologies.  Since 2008 he has been developing this research through a series of conference presentations and on his blog, Material Scripture (http://materialscripture.blogspot.com).  Dr. Dault's forthcoming book, The Accessorized Bible (Yale UP, 2011), extends these research interests into the realm of popular culture, focusing particularly on the recent explosion in Bible publishing with regard to the printing and marketing of a multitude of "identity themed" versions of the Scriptures.

Beyond the CBU campus, he has served as a youth pastor and stated supply pastor for the Prebsyterian Church (USA), as well as a catechist for the Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults program at his home parish in Nashville.  He is committed to robust interfaith and intra-faith dialogue.  In the past he served for three years on the national board of the Middle East Peace Education program of the American Friends Service Committee.  Dr. Dault currently serves on the Board of Advisers and as a member of the traveling faculty for the "1000 Cities" project, an ecumenical undertaking of the Society for Scriptural Reasoning.  The project, invites Jews, Muslims and Christians to study Scripture together in the full acknowledgment of their differing traditions, and draws upon each faith's strong commitment to hospitality as the basis for ongoing dialogue based in honest difference, rather than upon syncretism.

A convert to the Catholic faith, Dr. Dault is thankful for the opportunity at Christian Brothers to teach in an environment shaped by Catholic traditions and whose heart is centered on the Eucharist and service to others.  He is pleased as well to join his old friends Dr. Fulmer and Dr. Wallace here on the faculty.

More information about Dr. Dault's conference presentations, publications, and research can be found on his personal Web site (www.daviddault.com)