Professor,
Emmett Doerr Chair in Catholic Systematic Theology
Robert
Doran, S.J. (Ph.D., Marquette University, 1975), [Systematics],
specializes in Catholic systematic theology and the philosophy
and theology of Bernard Lonergan. He is general editor of The
Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan (University of Toronto
Press), which will eventually be a set of twenty-five volumes,
twelve of which have already been published. The focus of his
current research is the theology of grace and the analogies for
understanding the Trinity. He is the author of articles in a number
of professional journals (e.g., Theological Studies, The
Thomist, Journal of Religion, Communio, Toronto
Journal of Theology, Method: Journal of Lonergan Studies),
and of several books, including Theology and the Dialectics
of History (University of Toronto Press, 1990/2001) and What
Is Systematic Theology? (University of Toronto Press, 2005).
He has been Director of the Lonergan Research Institute, Toronto,
where he continues to serve on the Board of Directors. Recently
published articles include: "Insight and Language: Steps
toward the Resolution of a Problem," Divyadaan: Journal
of Philosophy and Education 15:3 (2004): 405-26; "Reception
and Elemental Meaning: An Expansion of the Notion of Psychic Conversion,"
Toronto Journal of Theology 20:2 (2004): 133-57; "Implementation
in Systematics: The Structure," Journal of Macrodynamic
Analysis 3 (2003): 264-72; "Reflections on Method in
Systematic Theology," Lonergan Workshop 17 (2002):
23-51; "The Truth of Theological Understanding in Divinarum
Personarum and De Deo Trino, Pars Systematica," Method:
Journal of Lonergan Studies 20: 1 (2002): 33-75; "Intelligentia
Fidei in De Deo Trino, Pars Systematica," Method: Journal
of Lonergan Studies 19:1 (2001): 35-83; "The First Chapter
of De Deo Trino, Pars Systematica: The Issues," Method:
Journal of Lonergan Studies 18:1 (2000): 27-48; "System
and History: The Challenge to Catholic Systematic Theology,"
Theological Studies 60:4 (1999): 652-78; "Bernard
Lonergan and the Functions of Systematic Theology," Theological
Studies 59:4 (1998): 569-607.
Curriculum
Vitae
Teaching
Fields
- Systematic Theology
- Theological Method
- The Thought of Bernard Lonergan
Office
Location & Contact
Office
Hours
Fall 2008
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TuTh 2:00-4:00, and by appointment
Teaching
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