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Rev. Dr. Tegha Afuhwi Nji is a Catholic Priest of the Diocese of Buea, Cameroon. He specializes in Dogmatic/Systematic Theology, with particular research interests in the works of Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict XVI) and his philosophical and theological interlocutors, including Descartes and Nietzsche, Balthasar and De Lubac, in the dialogue of modern culture and religion, and in African theology.
His most recent publications include “Memoria-time and the Rescue of Time in the ‘After Time’: Ratzinger and Rahner on the Intermediate State and the Nature of Eternity,” in Modern Theology (June 2026); and “Imago Dei as an Eschatological Promise: Genesis 1:26-27 in Light of Ratzinger’s Augustinianism,” in Eschatology at the Beginning of the Third Millennium.
He is the 2025 recipient of the Eli J. and Helen Shaheen Graduate School Award in Humanities at the University of Notre Dame. He is currently working on the publication of his award-winning dissertation, “The Burden of Election and Modern Individualism: Toward a Ratzingerian Critique.”
