David James Stewart is a philosopher, theologian, and woodworker.

Stewart is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion at St. Olaf College and an Adjunct Professor of Theology at St. Catherine University. He earned a Ph.D. in theology from Luther Seminary, where he was trained in continental and analytic traditions. His areas of expertise are Hegel, philosophical theology, and the intersection of science and religion. In 2019 Stewart published The Truly Infinite Universe, a book that examines the relationship of God, the world, and the self in light of Hegel’s speculative philosophy and Hawking’s quantum cosmology.

Past work includes publications on the thought of Charles Taylor, Carl Jung, Michael Polanyi, and David Brown. Current research interests involve the question of the origins of self-conscious subjectivity, the genesis of religion, the phenomenon of modernity, political theology in the early church, religion and violence, and a variety of other things people might enjoy talking about around a campfire.