Rev. Philip J. Rossi, S.J.
Rev. Philip J. Rossi, S.J.
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Philip J. Rossi, S.J. (Ph.D., University of Texas [1975]), specializes in the philosophy of religion and Christian ethics; he has published extensively on the theological import of the work of Immanuel Kant. He has been visiting professor at Sogang University, Seoul, Korea (1985) and the Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines (1998), a research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh (1992, 1999), and visiting scholar (1979-80) and visiting fellow (2004-05) at the Woodstock Theological Center, Washington, DC. He served ten years as Theology Department Chair and was Associate Dean for Graduate Affairs in the Helen Way Klingler College of Arts and Sciences from 2005-2008. He is author of The Social Authority of Reason: Kant’s Critique, Radical Evil and the Destiny of Humankind, (State University of New York Press, 2005), Together Toward Hope: A Journey to Moral Theology (University of Notre Dame Press, 1983), co-editor (with Michael J. Wreen) of Kant’s Philosophy of Religion Reconsidered (Indiana University Press, 1992) and co-editor (with Paul Soukup, S. J.) of Mass Media and the Moral Imagination (Sheed and Ward, 1994). He has presented papers at meetings of the American Philosophical Association, the American Academy of Religion, the Catholic Theological Society of America, the College Theology Society, the Society of Christian Ethics, the Russian Kant Society and five International Kant Congresses. He has published more than thirty-five articles in books and professional journals, was editor of Philosophy & Theology (1993-2000) and served on the board of editorial consultants for Theological Studies (1991-98). He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Creighton University (Omaha) and of the Global Ethics and Religion Forum (California). He is the Executive Director of National Conventions for the College Theology Society and served two terms as a member of its Board of Directors. His current research focuses on Kant’s anthropology as a resource for a post-modern theology of grace, the theological appropriation of the work of the Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor, and the theological warrants for human rights discourse and for just war theory in a globalized, post-modern culture.

Recent publications: “Finite Freedom, Fractured and Fragile: Kant’s Anthropology as Resource for a Postmodern Theology of Grace,” Philosophie et théologie: Festschrift Emilio Brito, SJ, Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium, 206, ed. Éric Gaziaux, Leuven: Peeters Press, 2007: 47-60; “Theology from a Fractured Vista: Susan Neiman’s Evil in Modern Thought,” Modern Theology 23, 2007: 47-61; “Globalization and Cosmopolitanism: Tracing a Kantian Trajectory to Peace,” In Quest of Peace: Indian Culture Shows the Path, Vol I, ed. Intaj Malek, Sunanda Shastri, and Yajneshwar Shastri, Delhi, India: Bharatiya Kala Prakashan, 2006: 162-174; “Reading Kant through Theological Spectacles” Kant and the New Philosophy of Religion, ed. Chris L. Firestone and Stephen R. Palmquist, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006: 107-123; “The Authority of Experience: What Counts as Experience?” Religious Experience and Contemporary Theological Epistemology, ed. Lieven Boeve, Yves de Maeseneer and Stijn Van den Bossche, Leuven, Belgium: Peeters Press, 2005: 269-284; “Zur Bedeutung Kants für die gegenwärtige katholische Theologie in den USA”, Kant und der Katholizismus. Stationen einer wechselhaften Geschichte, ed. Norbert Fischer, Freiburg: Verlag Herder, 2005: 441-460.

Recent Conference Papers: “Sojourners, Guests, and Strangers: The Church as Enactment of the Hospitality of God,” Leuven Encounters in Systematic Theology VI, “Believing in Community: Ecumenical Reflections on the Church,” Leuven, Belgium, November 2007. “Human Rights as Grammar of Human Solidarity,” Conference on “America, Human Rights and the World,” Institute for Human Rights Leadership, Marquette University, September 2007; “Fractured Meaning: Post-modernity and the Discourse of Grace,” Plenary Address, World Congress, “Jesuits and Philosophy,” Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule Sankt Georgen, Frankfurt, Germany, September 2007. “Historical and Cultural Contexts for Just War Doctrine,” Eighth International Conference on Military Pedagogy, Jerusalem Centre for Ethics, Jerusalem, Israel, June, 2007.

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