Jeffrey Lehman

Jeffrey S. Lehman is co-founder and Dean of Fellows at the Boethius Institute. He earned a B.A. in Biblical Literature and Philosophy from Taylor University, an M.A. in Philosophy of Religion and Ethics from Biola University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Dallas. He is the founder and President of the Arts of Liberty Project, a Founding Fellow of the Center for Thomas More Studies, and he has served on the teaching faculty at Biola University, Thomas Aquinas College, and Hillsdale College. He is currently Professor of Humanities and Philosophy at the University of Dallas, where he received the Haggerty Award for Excellence in Teaching. While at the University of Dallas, he has also served as director of the Classical Education Graduate Program and executive director of the St. Ambrose Center for Catholic Liberal Education. He has several publications on a wide array of authors, including Augustine: Rejoicing in the Truth and Socratic Conversation: Bringing the Dialogues of Plato and the Socratic Tradition into Today’s Classroom. Beginning in the fall of 2023, as Professor of Philosophy and Theology he will build and direct a new M.A. in Catholic Education program at the Augustine Institute’s Graduate School of Theology (Denver, CO).

Monographs & Edited Volumes

Author: Socratic Conversation: Bringing the Dialogues of Plato and the Socratic Tradition into Today’s Classroom, Classical Academic Press, 2021 (front matter and first chapter)

Author: Augustine: Rejoicing in the Truth, Classical Academic Press, 2018 (front matter and first chapter)

Editor: Life of John Picus Earl of Mirandola: 500th Anniversary Edition, Center for Thomas More Studies, 2010 (entire work published online)

Articles in Academic Journals & Essays in Collections

Article: “The Cave and the Quadrivium: Mathematics in Classical Education,” Principia: A Journal of Classical Education, Vol. 1. Iss. 1, 2022 (article)

Essay in Collection: “Book 3: Augustine’s Pedagogy of Presence, Truth, and Love,” in Augustine’s Confessions and Contemporary Concerns, edited by Fr. David Vincent Meconi, SJ, Catholic University of America Press [Imprint: St. Paul Seminary Press], 2022 (table of contents and introduction to collection of essays)

Essay in Collection: “Passing Strange, Yet Wholly True: On the Political Tales of Plato’s Critias and More’s Hythlodaeus,” in Thomas More: Why Patron of Statesmen?, edited by Travis Curtright, Rowman & Littlefield, 2015 (table of contents)

Article: “Seeing Tyranny in More’s History of King Richard III,” Moreana, June 2013, Vol. 50, No. 191-192 (abstract)

Article: “’As I read, I was set on fire'”: On the Psalms in Augustine’s Confessions,” Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture, Vol. 16, No. 2., Spring 2013 (entire article)

Essays & Excerpts: “Chapter 3: Aristotle” and “Chapter 4: Virgil”, in The Great Books Reader, Excerpts and Essays on the Most Influential Books in Western Civilization, edited by John Mark Reynolds, Baker Publishing, 2011 (table of contents)

Public Lectures & Podcasts

Podcast: “Episode 1: Plato’s Apology,” The Examining Life: A Podcast of the Arts of Liberty Project (recording)

Podcast: “Episode 3: Raphael’s School of Athens,” The Examining Life: A Podcast of the Arts of Liberty Project (recording)

Podcast: “Episode 8: Anselm’s Proslogion,” The Examining Life: A Podcast of the Arts of Liberty Project (recording)

Public Lecture: “On the Psalms in St. Augustine’s Confessions,” St. Vincent de Paul Lecture & Concert Series, Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA,  2015 (recording)

Teaching Awards and Commendations

“Educating by Example: A Tribute to Dr. Lehman,” by Avery Lacey, Hillsdale College, 2019 (article)

Haggerty Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of Dallas, 2022 (press release)