Christopher Grodecki, SJ, is a priest of the Society of Jesus and joined the Jesuit School of Theology as Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology in 2026. His research focuses on the continuing influence of Christian mysticism in both modern theology and modern philosophy, especially those of German-speaking thinkers of the 19th and 20th centuries, and particularly in the areas of theological anthropology, fundamental theology, and theologies of history.
A native of Chicagoland, Fr. Grodecki entered the Society of Jesus in 2009 after a few years of working for a non-profit public interest law firm in the Washington, D.C. area. He holds degrees from Georgetown University (A.B., 2005; M.A. in German, 2006), Loyola University Chicago (M.A. in Philosophy, 2014), the University of Toronto (M.Div., 2018; Th.M, 2020), Regis College, Toronto (S.T.B., 2018, S.T.L., 2020), and the University of Notre Dame (Ph.D., 2026), where his dissertation focused upon the theological anthropology of the twentieth-century German Jesuit philosopher-theologian Erich Przywara. He was also previously Visiting Instructor of Philosophy at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia.
- Trinity: God in the Christian Tradition
- Modern Church History
- Assistant Editor, The Oxford Handbook of Apophatic Theology. Eds. John R. Betz and Rik Van Nieuwenhove. Oxford: Oxford University Press [in press].
- “Ratzinger, Romanticism, and Revelation in History.” The New Ressourcement 2, no. 2 (2025): 498–514.
- Review of The Roman School, eds. Justin M. Anderson, Matthew Levering and Aaron Pidel, Jesuit Studies vol. 43 (Leiden: Brill, 2024). In Archivum Historicum SI xciii.ii (2024): 607–610.
- Review of Nature and Naturalism in Classical German Philosophy, eds. Luca Corti and Johannes-Georg Schülein, Routledge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy (Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2023). In Heythrop Journal 64.4 (2023): 854–855.
- Translator, Major Jesuit Thinkers. Eds. Janez Percic and Johannes Herzgsell. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2019.