Finding God in All Things: Celebrating Bernard Lonergan, John Courtney Murray, and Karl Rahner

Contributors

Contributors Mark Bosco, S.J., is assistant professor at Loyola University Chicago, holding a joint position in the Departments of Theology and English. His teaching and research interests include theological aesthetics and the Catholic literary tradition. He has written on Graham Greene and Flannery O’Connor, as well as on the theological aesthetics of Hans Urs von Balthasar. His most recent publication was a book-length study, Graham Greene’s Catholic Imagination (2005). He is contributor and coeditor of Academic Novels as Satire: Critical Studies of an Emerging Genre (Edwin Mellen Press, 2007). Patrick H. Byrne is professor and chairperson of the Department of Philosophy at Boston College and the founder and first director of the Boston College PULSE Program for Service Learning. He is coeditor of Method: A Journal of Lonergan Studies. His recent publications include : The Dialogue Between Science and Religion: What We Have Learned from One Another (2005); Analysis and Science in Aristotle (1997); ‘‘The Good Under Construction and the Research Vocation of a Catholic University,’’ in Catholic Education: A Journal of Inquiry and Practice (2003). He is currently working on a book on Bernard Lonergan ’s ethics. His centenary essay on Bernard Lonergan was presented October 8, 2004, as part of the Jesuit Centenary Lecture Series at Seattle University. 196 / Contributors Harvey D. Egan, S.J., received his Doctorate of Theology under the direction of Karl Rahner from Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität and is currently professor of Systematic and Mystical Theology at Boston College. His books include: Christian Mysticism: The Future of a Tradition ; An Anthology of Christian Mysticism; and Karl Rahner: Mystic of Everyday Life. He is well known for his studies on Christian mysticism and Karl Rahner. His essay on Karl Rahner first appeared in Budhi: A Journal of Culture and Ideas (2004). Donald L. Gelpi, S.J. has been teaching Systematic Theology at the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley since 1973. He cofounded the Institute for Spirituality and Worship, a one-year renewal program at the Jesuit School; as well as the John Courtney Murray Group, a research seminar in theological enculturation in the United States. He has authored twenty-four books and numerous articles, including his theological autobiography, Closer Walk: Confessions of a US Jesuit Yat (2006). His essay was presented on September 30, 2004, as part of the anniversary celebrations at the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley. George E. Griener, S.J., is associate professor of Systematic Theology at the Graduate Theological Union and the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley, where he was formerly academic dean. He took his Doctor of Theology at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen, Germany, where he compared Ernest Troeltsch and Hermann Schell on the absoluteness of Christianity. His research interests include eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Roman Catholic theology, Enlightenment Catholicism , and emerging East Asian theologies. His essay was presented October 14, 2004, as part of the anniversary celebrations at the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley. John C. Haughey, S.J., is on a leave of absence from Loyola University Chicago to Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown University. He is the author or editor of 12 books; has been an appointee to two international ecumenical dialogues by the Vatican’s Council on Christian Unity; has held year-long chairs at three universities; and has had a stint as pastor of St. Peter’s Church in Charlotte, North Carolina. His current project is a theology of catholicity for Catholic institutions of higher education. His essay on Lonergan was presented March 26, 2004, as part of Loyola University Chicago’s Centenary Celebration. Contributors / 197 Leon Hooper, S.J., is a fellow at the Woodstock Theological Center. He currently serves as director of the Woodstock Theological Center Library at Georgetown University and as the book review editor for the journal Theological Studies. He has written on the links between John Courtney Murray’s later arguments supporting civic religious freedom and the Trinitarian systematics that Murray borrowed and adapted from Bernard Lonergan. He is currently working on a comparison of the theological approaches of Murray and Dorothy Day. His essay was delivered at a Centennial Conference at the Catholic Academy, Erbacher Hof, in Mainz, Germany, on February 26, 2005. Thomas Hughson, S.J., obtained his PhD from the University of St. Michael ’s College, University of Toronto. He is on the faculty of theology at Marquette University specializing in Systematic Theology in...