Philosophy, Logic, Rhetoric and Theology
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Leigh Edwards is instructor in the humanities. She teaches chiefly in philosophy and theology. “I am a native North Carolinian, the granddaughter of an eastern tobacco farmer and a mountain family.” These two influences of place and faith have shaped her intellectual interests. “There are two things that are traditionally taken for granted in the South: religion and regional identity. There is no doubt that Flannery O’Connor hit it on the head when she referred to the ‘Christ-haunted South.’ These two influences prompted my own interests.”

Miss Edwards says that her theological education “led to a sort of epistemic humility grounded in the givens of Christianity: faith, hope and charity. What attracts me to St. Thomas More is the emphasis on learning to think well, where the theological virtues are taken for granted in a way which gives a true freedom in considering the world as it is gifted, which, really, is all that theology and philosophy do.”

Miss Edwards studied religion and history as an undergraduate at Duke University and earned her M.T.S. from Duke Divinity School, where she studied with Edgardo-Colón Emeric and Paul Griffiths.