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Solomon Parditey

Solomon Parditey is a graduate student at Yale University Divinity School. His work in political theology and moral theology examines how traditions of natural law and the common good can be retrieved under conditions of historical contingency and democratic contestation. He brings theological inquiry into sustained dialogue with moral and political philosophy, postcolonial and decolonial theory, African theologies and ethical traditions, critical theory, and democratic theory. He will begin doctoral studies at Princeton Theological Seminary in Fall 2026.

Essays

Fragile Grammar: Natural Law and the Discipline of Authority After Catholic Social Teaching’s Universalizing Turn

In presenting natural law as an inscribed a priori, CST circumvents difficult questions about whose reason discerns this law, which historical mediation informs its articulation, and what constitutive exclusions its putative universality has required.