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2009 News
Graduate student Mark Nixon has recently published two articles: "Christian Responsibility and the Economic Crisis" in the upcoming (July/August 2009) issue of The Clergy Journal and "Proclaiming and Performing the Gospel: Language,Truth and Action in Postmodern Christian Faith" in The Heythrop Journal 50/3 (May 2009).
Dr. Benjamin Dunning has published "What Sort of Thing Is This Luminous Woman?: Thinking Sexual Difference in On the Origin of the World" in Journal of Early Christian Studies 17/1 (Spring 2009), pp.55-84.
Dr. Maureen O'Connell has been named a Fellow of the Wabash Center's Pre-Tenure Workshop on Learning and Teaching Theology and Religious Studies for 2009-10.
Graduate Student Daniel Rober has presented a paper entitled "Ecumenism and Theological Method: A Catholic Proposal" at the Boston Theological Institute's Conference, New Challenges in Faith and Order,April 4, 2009.
Graduate students Monika Pierce, Catherine Osborne, Michael Canaris, and Erica Olson have had papers accepted for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion in Montreal, November, 2009.
Graduate student Catherine Petrany has had a paper accepted for presentation to th Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature in New Orleans in November, 2009.
Dr. Elizabeth Johnson has won the 2009 Sophia Award from the Washington Theological Union in DC. She has also published an essay in the centennial issue of America, April 13, 2009: "An Earthy Christology," pp. 27-30.
Dr. Brenna Moore has published "Feminized Suffering in Modern French Catholicism: Raïssa Maritain (1883–1960) and Léon Bloy
(1846–1917)" in Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality (Spring 2009).
Graduate student Daniel Kim presented a paper entitled “The Disappearance of the Jew: The Glossa Ordinaria on Genesis 22 and the (Dis)continuity of Signification" to the Inter-University Doctoral Consortium Colloquium in Medieval Studies on March 20, 2009 at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Dr. Michael Lee's has published "Galilean Journey Revisited: Mestizaje, Anti-Judaism and the the Dynamics of Exclusion" in
Theological Studies 70/2 (June 2009). He has also published the essay "La conversión de Monseñor Romero, un proceso de evolución" in El Faro (March 2009).
Graduate student Eric Meyer's paper "Gregory of Nyssa an Adam's naming the animals (Genesis 2:19-20)" has been accepted for reading at the July 2009 Conference, "Genesis and Christian Theology" at St. Andrew's Univesity, Scotland.
Dr. Charles C. Camosy presented a paper 'Should We Consider Cost When Doing Prenatal Diagnosis?' at the International Days of Bioethics: When the Beginning of Life Comes to an End. Strasbourg, March 27th, 2009.
Graduate student Jukka Kaarianen has published written "In Memory of My Teacher, Avery Cardinal Dulles." in the June 4, 2009 issue of Crossings.
Dr. Christine Firer Hinze published "Social and Economic Ethics," in Theological Studies 70/1 (March 2009) and "Women, Families,and the Legacy of Laborem Exercens: An Unfinished Agenda" in the Journal of Catholic Social Thought 6/1 (January 2009).
Post-doctoral teaching fellow Stephen Finlan has published The Family Metaphor in Jesus' Teaching, Gospel and Ethics (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2009).
Graduatestudent Ann Michaud's article, "Sex and Love as a Pathway to God: Toward a Vision of the Catholic Vocation of Marriage Today," has been accepted for publication in the upcoming 54th Annual Volume of the College Theology Society.
Dr. Terrence Tilley's paper, "Some Ontological Arguments," was read before the Annual Meeting of the Society for Philosophy of Religion on 26 February 2009. In addition, his paper, “Principles toward a Theology of Religious Diversity,” was read before the Greer-Heard Dialogue, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary on March 26, 2009.
Dr. Charles C. Camosy has published, "Common ground on surgical abortion?--engaging Peter Singer on the moral status of potential persons." Journal of Medicine and Philosophy Dec. 2008 33(6): 577-93.
Dr. Tom Shelley was recently featured in several New York City newspapers on the transition from Cardinal Egan to Archbishop Dolan.
Dr. Aristotle Papanikolaou has published "Personhood and its exponents in twentieth-century Orthodox theology" in the Cambridge Companion to Orthodox Christian Theology and "Orthodox Theology," in The Encyclopedia of Christianity.
Dr. Papanikolaou was also elected to the Board of Director of the Society of Christian Ethics at the Annual Conference in Jan. 2009, where he presented his paper, "Does Forgiveness in Politics make any sense?"
Dr. J. Patrick Hornbeck II has published "Antifraternalism and the Upland Series: Evidence from a Fifteenth-Century Ballad," in Notes and Queries 56 (2009).
Dr. Michael E. Lee has published Bearing the Weight of Salvation: The Soteriology of Ignacio Ellacuria, with a foreword by Gustavo Gutieerez (New York: Crossroad/Herder and Herder, 2009)
Dr. Terrance W. Klein has published Vanity Faith: Searching for Spirtuality among the Stars (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2009).
Dr. Ben Dunning has been awarded one of the Harvard Women's Studies and Religion Fellowships for 2009-10.
Dr. Dunning has also published "Virgin Earth, Virgin Birth: Creation, Sexual Difference, and
Recapitulation in Irenaeus of Lyons" in The Journal of Religion (Jan. 2009) 89:1: 57-88.
Dr. Jim Fisher's work, The Irish Waterfront and the Soul of the Port: New York/ New Jersey, 1912-1954, was featured in the Feb. 4-10, 2009 issue of Irish Echo.
Dr. Judith Kubicki, as president of the North American Academy of Liturgy, planned and ran the Academy’s annual meeting in Baltimore, Jan. 2-5, 2009.
Dr. Bradford Hinze delivered a paper entitled "Ecclesial Impasse: What Can We Learn From Our Laments?" at the Second International Receptive Ecumenism Conference, in Durham, England, on Jan. 13th, 2009.
Dr. Elizabeth Johnson appears in this year's Library of Congress’ engagement calendar which is constructed around the theme "Women Who Dare." Dr. Johnson appears as "theologian, educator" for the week of June 22, after Lady Bird Johnson and before Mother Jones.
Dr. Terrence Tilley has appeared on the TV program, World Focus with Martin Savidge (PBS), on Jan. 26, 2009 to discuss Pope Benedict XVI's intention in rehabilitating the four excommunicated bishops.
Dr. Terrence Tilley has also published "Experience and Narrative" in Tradition and Pluralism: Essays in Honor of William M. Shea, in the Series Studies in Religion and the Social Order (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2009) 1-26.
2008 News
David Paul Deavel, one of our graduate students, published an article
"Bad Neighbor, Good Neighbor" in the Sept. 2008 issue of America Magazine.
Dr. Karina Hogan has recently published Theologies in Conflict in 4 Ezra: Wisdom Debate and
Apocalyptic Solution, JSJ Supp. 130, (Leiden: Brill, 2008).
Dr. Terrance Klein has published an article on teaching titled, "A Space for Inquiry," in
a recent issue of America Magazine.
Grad student, Michael Azar, has published a review of Byzantine Orthodoxies: Papers from
the Thirty-sixth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of
Durham, 23–25 March 2002 in Church History 77:2 (2008), 438-440.
Dr. Stephen Hultgren was elected to membership in Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas,
the international society of New Testament scholars, at its annual meeting this summer in
Lund, Sweden.
Dr. Franklin Harkins published "Unwitting Witnesses: Jews and Judaism in
the Thought of Augustine," in Augustine and World Religions
(Lantham: Lexington Books, 2008), 37-69.
Dr. Elizabeth Johnson has delivered the annual Sophia Lecture and received the annual Sophia Award
from Washington Theological Union in Washtington DC for theology that has pastoral influence.
Dr. John Denniston has recently published Give Them What You Have: Interpreting the New
Testament for Today (Ligouri MO: Ligouri Press, 2008)
Dr. Patrick Hornbeck has published: "Of Captains and Antichrists: The Papacy in Wycliffite Thought" in Revue d'histoire ecclesiastique 103:3-4 (2008).
Dr. Stephen Finlan has published The Apostle Paul and the Pauline Tradition
(Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2008).
