Rev. Adam D. Booth, C.S.C.
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Theology
Biography
Rev. Adam Booth, C.S.C., joined the Stonehill College community in 2021 as a Faculty Fellow with the Department of Religious Studies. He was later appointed Assistant Professor of Religious Studies in 2022. In addition to his responsibilities as a member of the faculty, Fr. Booth serves as priest-in-residence in Notre Dame du Lac dorm and as chaplain to the Cross Country and Track and Field teams.
He is an expert on the New Testament, the cultural context of its composition, and the history of its interpretation. His research has been published in Revue Biblique, the Journal of Biblical Literature, and in chapters of books published by Routledge and Oxford University Press.
Born in London, Fr. Booth was raised in the United Kingdom. He moved to the United States as an adult. He spent part of his career teaching math in California, including two years as an instructor at San Quentin State Prison. It was during this time that he answered the call to serve as a priest. He was ordained as a member of the Congregation of Holy Cross in 2014.
Education
- Undergraduate Master's Degree, Mathematics, Oxford University
- M.A., Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
- M.Div., University of Notre Dame
- Ph.D., Religion, Duke University
Courses Taught
- Hearing Jesus' Stories: A History of Parable Interpretation
- One Jesus, Many Portraits: Christology
- African American Biblical Interpretation
- Households of Faith: Family in Early Christianity
- Skyhawks on Stonehill: Mission and Experience (First-Year Writing Seminar)
Selected Publications & Awards
- “The Pervasiveness of Birth Imagery in 1 Pet 1:3–2:10.” BBR 35 (2025): 369–80.
- “The Reception History of 1-2 Peter and Jude.” Co-authored with Patrick Gray. Patrick Gray (ed.) Oxford Handbook of Hebrews and the Catholic Epistles (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024): 365–84.
- “A Circumcising Mission to the Gentiles and Hazing: Potential Cross-Cultural Connections.” Chris de Wet, Susan Holman, Jonathan Zecher (eds.), Disability, Medicine, and Healing Discourse in Early Christianity – New Conversations for Narrative Health (Abingdon: Routledge, 2023): 30–46.
- “How You Learned Christ: Petrine Christology Transformation of Pauline Vocabulary.” JBL 142 (2023): 171–82.
- “The Pastor Among the Physicians: 1 Tim 2:15 and Salvation in the Context of Contested Health Claims.” Revue Biblique 128 (2021): 593–608.
- “‘A death Like His’: Saul’s Privation and Restoration of Sight as Prophetic Formation in Acts 9.” Journal of Disability and Religion 22 (2018): 42–62.
- “Long Live the King: The Fourth Gospel’s Responses to Greco-Roman Suspicions Concerning Monarchy.” Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism 12 (2017): 189–212.
- James B. Duke Fellowship, Duke University (2016-2020)
- Schumacher Prize for Homiletics, Moreau Seminary, Notre Dame, Indiana (2013)
- Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, University of California, Berkeley (2007)