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News & Events
Quick Notes (updated April 23, 2008):
Ashley Hall has been offered, and accepted, a one-year position at Creighton University in Omaha.
Ben Dunning's article, "Virgin Earth, Virgin Birth: Creation and Sexual Difference in Irenaeus of Lyons" was accepted for publication in The Journal of Religion.
Mark Nixon's paper, "Christian Ethics and 'The Changing Face of Economics'" has been accepted for reading at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Christian Ethics in January, 2009.
Beth Johnson can be heard on a podcast at www.ncrcafe.org where she is "babbling away" (her words) about her book Quest for the Living God in
an hour-long interview with Tom Fox . Frank Oveis says part two is eloquent about the reality of God.
Alumna Elizabeth K. Tillar, Ph.D. (Contemporary Theology 2000) has been invited to give a faculty lecture at the University of Louvain in Belgium in the fall of 2008 at an international symposium on the relevance of theology for the 21st Century, co-sponsored by the University of Nijmegen. Elizabeth was selected to contribute to the
symposium because of her dissertation "Suffering for Others in the Theology of Edward Schillebeeckx" and series of articles on Schillebeeckx in The Heythrop Journal (2000-2003). Elizabeth's interest in his work stems from the research and writing on human rights that she undertook while working at the Church Center of the United Nations. Her dissertation director was Richard Viladesau.
Lois Gandt, Joe Lienhard, Matt Lootens, George Demacopoulos, Ben Dunning, H. Ashley Hall, and Carl Baechle at the Annual Meeting of the North American Patristics Society the weekend after graduation. Maureen Tilley as immediate past president serves on the
board.
Maureen O'Connell, Terry Tilley, Jim Fisher, and Ann Michaud at the Annual Meeting of the College Theology Society at the end of the month.
Maureen O'Connell, Jeannine Hill Fletcher, Beth Johnson, Brad Hinze, Michael Lee, Christine Firer Hinze, Franklin Harkins, Terry Tilley, Terry Klein, and Judith Kubicki at the Catholic Theological Society of America Annual Meeting in June
Fr. Richard Viladesau's new book, The Triumph of the Cross has just been published by Oxford UP. Its predecessor, The Beauty of the Cross, has now been put out in paperback. (RV's comment: I suppose this counts as "good
news," although not for the poor trees that have been cut down...)
Fr. John Denniston has just published Give them What You Have: Interpreting the New Testament for Today (Ligouri Press, 2008).
Undergraduate student Doug Ballas received a Fulbright Award to teach English.
Fr. Anthony Taylor (Ph.D., 1989 in New Testament) has been named bishop of Little Rock, AK.
Linh Hoang, O.F.M. (Ph.D., 2006) has published a version of his dissertation, Rebuilding Religious Experience: Vietnamese Refugees in America (Saarbrucken, Germany: VDM Verlag Dr. Muller).
Mark Nixon won first place at the Communitas poster competition in March for his poster, "Heinrich Pesch's Solidarist Economics and its Legacy of Catholic Social Teaching and Action"
Johannes Ro (adjunct instructor, Fall 2007) has been appointed as an associate professor at the International Christian University in Tokyo, Japan effective September 1, 2008.
Catherine Osborne has received a Summer Fellowship for Summer, 2008. She is the second person to receive a fellowship in this department for summer 2008.
Maureen O'Connell has received a grant from the Louisville Foundation that will enable her to have a whole year research leave to work on her murals project and other projects.
Tom Shelley has a lovely article in the current issue of America on the demise of the Dunwoodie Review in the wake of the modernist controversy a century ago. More info here.
Beth Johnson, as previously announced, was given the Barry University Yves Congar award for theological excellence. Follow this link for details and excerpts.
Mara Brecht's paper, "Epistemology and Religious Diversity" was accepted for reading at the sixth annual "Engaging Particularities Conference" sponsored by Boston College's Compararative Theology program.
Mary Veeneman, Ph.D. Candidate was offered and accepted aposition at North Park University in Chicago.
Edwin Van Driel, our post-doctoral teaching fellow for the last two years, was offered and accepted a position at the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary of the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. He and Kimberley are also expecting their first child.
Christine Firer Hinze, Professor of Theology, has been invited to be on a panel on Catholic Social Thought and economic empowerment for women at an event sponsored by the Permanent Observer from the Holy See at the
United Nations on March 7.
Ben Dunning, Assistant Professor of Theology, passed along that the Journal of Early Christian Studies has accepted his article, "What Sort of Thing Is This Luminous Woman?: Thinking Sexual Difference in 'On the Origin of the World'" ("On the Origin of the World" is a Nag Hammadi
text, in case you're not familiar.)
Mara Brecht, Ph.D. student in theology, has had her article on Jacques Dupuis's christology accepted for publication this spring in Horizons, a double-blind review journal.
Erica Olson has had two papers accepted for presentation at the regional meeting of the AAR coming up in March: ''The Delightful Terror of Theology: Approaching God in Rahner's Theology'"and 'Learning to be Attentive: Reading Mujerista Theology as an Outsider."
Alumna Dr. Gloria Schaab (2005) has published a number of pieces recently: A book, The Creative Suffering of the Triune God: An Evolutionary Theology is recently out form Oxford University Press. Also articles: “The Divine Welling Up and Showing Through: Teilhard’s Evolutionary Theology in a Trinitarian Panentheistic-Procreative Paradigm.” Teilhard Studies 55 (2007): 1-30; “The Creative Suffering of the Triune God: An Evolutionary Paradigm." Theology and Science 5, no. 3 (2007): 289-304; “I Will Love Them Freely: A Metaphorical Theology of Hosea 14.”American Journal of Biblical Theology 8:30 (2007); “Midwifery as a Model for Ecological Ethics: Expanding Arthur Peacocke’s Models of Man-in-Creation.” Zygon 42, no. 2 (2007): 489-501.
Elizabeth A. Johnson, Distinguished Professor, will receive another doctorate honoris causa from Saint Paul University in Ottawa on April 13th.
Mary Veeneman also presented "Does Diversity within Evangelicalism Undermine the Idea of a Unifying Evangelical Tradition?" at the Evangelical Theology Group of the American Academy of Religion, November 19, 2007 and will present "Evangelicals, Ecumenism and Emerging Questions: The Paradox of Diversity and Unity at Oberlin 2007," with R.
Keenlan Downton,John L. Drury and Christina Busman at the Mid-Atlantic Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, in March 2008.
Katherine Kueny, Clinical Associate Professor of theology published "The Birth of Cain: Reproduction, Maternal Responsibility and Moral Character in Early Islamic Exegesis" in the November 2008 issue of History of Religions, and co-authored with J. Andrew Foster (Classics, Fordham University, ""From the Bodies of Bees: Classical and Christian Echoes in Surat al-Nahl," in the upcoming issue of Comparative Islamic Studies.
Catherine Osborne, Ph.D. student, and Mark Massa, S.J., Karl Rahner Chair in Theology and Head of the Curran Center, have co-edited American Catholic History: A Documentary Reader to be published by NYU Press later this month.
Ben Dunning has contracted with the University of Pennsylvania Press to publish his monograph, Aliens and Sojourners: The Early Christian Self as Other in the distinguished "Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion" series ) edited by Daniel Boyarin and Virginia Burrus.
J. P. Hornbeck, assistant professor of theology has had The Journal of Ecclesiastical History accept his article "Theologies of Sexuality in English Lollardy."
Maureen O'Connell has received a major grant from the Louisville Foundation that will enable her to spend the entire academic year on research leave next year to continue here work on the religious, theological, and ethical significance of the the community murals in Philadelphia.
Fordham University and Graduate School of Artsand Sciences Calendars
Much of the theology faculty are involved with the following centers. Please click on the links below to find out about upcoming events with which the theology department might be involved.
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