Jennifer Bryson
Fellow
Jennifer Bryson, Ph.D., is a Fellow in EPPC’s Catholic Women’s Forum. Currently, she is translating the works of Ida Friederike Görres (1901-1971) from German to English while in residence at the Pope Benedict XVI Philosophical-Theological Institute, known as Hochschule Heiligenkreuz, in Austria.
Jennifer Bryson, Ph.D., is a Fellow in EPPC’s Catholic Women’s Forum. Currently, she is translating the works of Ida Friederike Görres (1901-1971) from German to English while in residence at the Pope Benedict XVI Philosophical-Theological Institute, known as Hochschule Heiligenkreuz, in Austria.
Dr. Bryson grew up in California. She has studied and worked in Egypt and Yemen, been an intelligence agent for the Defense Intelligence Agency, including two years as an interrogator at Guantanamo, and worked at several research institutes, including the Witherspoon Institute and Religious Freedom Institute. Dr. Bryson has written extensively on foreign affairs, sex, marriage, and other issues. Her articles are at jenniferbryson.net.
Dr. Bryson earned her B.A. from Stanford in Political Science, her M.A. in medieval European intellectual History from Yale, and her Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from Yale, with a focus on Greco-Arabic and Islamic studies. She learned German in high school in Austria and while studying Marxism-Leninism for a year in former East Germany as an undergraduate. Bryson was an Earhart Fellow, a Richard M. Weaver Fellow of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, and a Fulbright Scholar. Her Ph.D. work included the study of translation theory. Her translations include the German government’s report, “Anti-Semitism among Islamists in Germany” and Görres’ 1970 lecture, “Trusting the Church.”
Bryson is an adult Catholic convert.
Through Lent with the Stations of the Cross
Jennifer Bryson
This book is not about helping Catholics compete in some sort of Lenten Olympics, in which the gold medal goes to the person who can tallying up the most laps around the Lenten track.
Articles
OnePeterFive / February 20, 2024
Ida Friederike Görres: A Forgotten Catholic Rediscovered
Jennifer Bryson
Ida Friederike who??
OnePeterFive / October 24, 2023
Does Modern Man Have a Capacity for Liturgy?
Jennifer Bryson
Does modern man still have a capacity for liturgy?
OnePeterFive / August 17, 2023
Fratelli Non Tutti: Trads Not Included
Jennifer Bryson
Though American tradition-loving Catholics, truly on the margins in the era of Pope Francis, know that we are not included in the “margins” deemed worthy of being “listened” to.
OnePeterFive / August 12, 2023
Teach Children About Creation: Why and How
Jennifer Bryson
Complicated debates about creation rage.
Articles
One Peter Five / July 10, 2023
Introduction to “The Bride of Alexius”
Jennifer Bryson
Jennifer Bryson has published an introduction to a story by Ida Friederike Görres in a new collection of short stories by twentieth-century Catholic authors.
Neue Schau: Große christliche Erzählungen im 20. Jahrhundert / May 15, 2023
US Bishops Anchor Opposition to Gender Body Mutilation in Creation
Jennifer Bryson
“We did not create human nature; it is a gift from a loving Creator.”
Articles
The Creation Theology Fellowship / March 29, 2023
Why do heretics remain in the Church?
Jennifer Bryson
The counterfactual optimism of heretics keeps them in the Church while working to destroy it.
Articles
Crisis Magazine / March 24, 2023
Germany’s Synodal Way Hymnal, Part 2: Trojan Horse Hymns
Jennifer Bryson
The fate of one of the most famous traditional German Catholic hymns following the Second Vatican Council offers an example of how the Church in Germany used what I call “Trojan Horse hymns” to influence Catholics to think about the Church in new ways, thus helping to pave the way to today’s German Synodal Way.
Articles
One Peter Five / March 7, 2023
The German “Catholic” Hymnal Before the Synodal Way
Jennifer Bryson
A deep dive into the differences between hymns today and those of the past.
Articles
One Peter Five / March 4, 2023