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Scott Bader-Saye, Associate Professor of Theological Ethics, received a PhD from Duke University, an MDiv from Yale Divinity School, and a AB from Davidson College. His teaching and research interests include theology and culture, social ethics, political theology, suffering and violence, and Jewish-Christian dialogue.
His publications include Following Jesus in a Culture of Fear (Brazos 2007), Church and Israel After Christendom: The Politics of Election (Wipf and Stock, 2005) and contributions to The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics and The Cambridge Companion to the Gospels. His articles have been published in journals such as The Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, Modern Theology, Studies in Christian Ethics, Pro Ecclesia, Cross Currents, and Christian Century. Professor Bader-Saye also serves as abbot of Peacemeal, an emerging Episcopal community in Scranton.
Father
Begley has undergraduate and graduate degrees from
Boston
College
and completed doctoral
studies at the
Gregorian University
in Rome. He has published in a number of
theological periodicals including Worship, Commonweal, American Ecclesiastical Review, and Review for Religious. He has
served as a translator for and contributed to the collection
Reconciliation. His primary interest is in the areas of Spirituality,
Liturgy and Sacraments. He has published Christian Initiation and The
Welcoming Church.
Professor
Benestad received a Ph.D. from Boston College in Boston, MA, an S.T.L. from the
Gregorian University in Rome, Italy, and B.A. from
Assumption College
in Worcester, MA. His teaching and
research interests include moral theology, Catholic social thought, St Augustine, St.
Thomas Aquinas, the Italian novelist, Alessandro Manzoni and the writings
of Joseph Ratzinger and Avery Dulles.
He has authored over 50 articles for various journals
and magazines, written numerous book reviews, and edited several books. He
is currently working on a book for the Catholic University of America
Press, which deals with Catholic social ethics. In his spare time
Professor Benestad enjoys cycling, studying
languages, traveling
to Cape Cod, and visiting his four children, all of
whom live in Massachusetts.
Professor Casey was born in
New York City, and educated at Iona College (New Rochelle, NY), and the
University of Wisconsin, Madison in American Intellectual History, and
Marquette University (Milwaukee, WI) in Theological Studies.
His teaching and research interests include questions of nonviolence and violence in the Christian tradition, the relationships of prejudice / violence as well, as the study of ‘religion’ within the social sciences and the theological tradition. Recently attention to the role of multi-cultural education within the undergraduate curriculum has been important. He is currently the coordinator of the Peace and Justice Concentration for the University, and soon he will also be teaching courses for the Latin American Studies Concentration.
Publications have included the articles on ‘Aggression’ and ‘Force’ in The New Dictionary of Catholic Social Thought as well as separate piece of defining ‘power’, ‘nonviolence’, ‘violence’, and ‘assaultive speech’ as a pedagogical problem in other publications.
Interests outside of the classroom include participation in local private organizations that deal with social issues such as transitional housing and homes for those without traditional resources for home ownership. In addition to being married to a literature professor at the University, he is the father of three children and the grandfather of two children. The ‘theological’ and craft side of woodworking are a personal interest – the results are seen in his interest in the Shakers and furniture he has built.
Professor Foley received a Ph.D. from Yale University, and an
M.T.S from Weston Jesuit School of Theology. Her major area of interest is
the history of Christian spirituality, especially as lived by women. She
continues to be a student of Eastern religions and ecological theology.
Most of her research has centered on the history of women religious, especially that of her own community, the Congregation of Notre-Dame of Montreal [www.cnd-m.com] . Recent publications include "'With My Whole Living': Christian Women's Ways of Worship" in Woman and Worship and "Another Window on the Crisis in Women's Religious Communities" in Review for Religious. She loves liturgical music and all aspects of theater.
Professor
Frein did her undergraduate work at
Gonzaga
University
and received her Ph.D.
in Biblical Languages and Literature from
Saint Louis
University
.
Her teaching and research interests include Synoptic Gospels, literary
approaches to New Testament study, and the historical Jesus. She has
published articles in New Testament Studies, Biblica, and Biblical
Theology Bulletin.
Her four children, who range in age from 17 to 4, make it difficult for her to remember what free time is! She does enjoy skiing, traveling with them and watching them play soccer.
Professor
Johnson grew up in
Scotland,
and has studied at
Oxford University
and at the University
of
Virginia.
Her research and teaching interests include the history of Christianity
with an emphasis on Victorian England, and the interaction between
Christianity and culture, in particular art and literature. She is
committed to using literary texts and primary historical sources in the
classroom whenever possible.
She has published articles in such journals as Logos,
Pro Ecclesia, Clio, and Anglican and Episcopal History. She is currently
working on a translation of a Biblical commentary from the Italian, and
looking for a publisher for her book manuscript on the sermons of John
Keble. Professor Johnson enjoys traveling to visit friends and family in
I was born in Portland, ME (Oct. 7, 1958) and raised in the mill-town of Westbrook, a suburb of Portland. My father was Field Supervisor of Technical Services for Western Union for all of Maine, NH, and northern MA. My mother stayed at home to rear me and my four natural siblings along with my foster sister. I attended public schools.
I received an A. B. from St. Anselm College (Manchester, NH) in 1980, with a major in Theology, graduating summa cum laude. I then earned my M.A. (1983) and Ph. D. (1987) in Biblical Studies from the Catholic University of America. The late N.J. McEleney, C.S.P., directed my M.A. thesis, and the renowned Joseph A. Fitzmyer, S.J. directed my doctoral dissertation (“A Critical Evaluation of the Allusions to the OT in Apoc 1:1-8:5”). From 1983-1987 I was supported in part by the Catholic Biblical Association (CBA) Memorial Stipend Award. I have been a member of the CBA since 1982. For over twenty years I have been writing exegetical notes on weekday liturgical readings for St. Anthony Messenger Press. I do regular consulting work for the Diocese of Scranton. For many years I directed the RCIA at the Cathedral parish of St. Peter’s, Scranton.
In 1985 I married a patristic scholar. We lived in Belgium in 1987-88 on a grant my husband received to do dissertation work there. We moved to Scranton, PA in 1988 so that I could begin my position as faculty member of the Theology/Religious Studies Dept. at the University of Scranton. I was awarded tenure there in 1993, and promoted to full professor in 2000. I spent a sabbatical year in Israel in 1994-95, thanks in part to a CBA Young Scholar’s Award.
My first love has always been teaching, and in 1991 I was awarded the Univ. of Scranton’s Alpha Sigma Nu Award for Teaching, the first woman at the Univ. of Scranton to receive this honor. In 1996 I became the first Director of the Catholic Studies Program at the Univ. of Scranton, which I co-founded and in which I teach. I also teach both Old and New Testament courses, many of which I developed for the Theology program curriculum. A favorite teaching opportunity of mine is the team teaching of an interdisciplinary course with my art historian colleague (entitled “The Bible in Image and Text”).
I live in the country with my two German Shepherds, and think it is grand that the Universal Church now also has a German Shepherd! I live in close association with the Capuchin Sisters of Nazareth, who are my neighbors. My hobbies include running (I ran on a men’s cross country team in college, since there was no women’s team in those days. I once qualified for the Boston Marathon.); gardening (flowers and herbs – I try to grow as many biblical varieties I can, e.g., Hyssop and Wormwood – corny, but true!); and baking (Je suis nee Fournier). I enjoy reading novels by Dorothy Sayers and Sigrid Undset.
Cyrus P. Olsen is Assistant Professor of Catholic Systematic Theology. He is completing his doctorate at the University of Oxford entitled Toward a Catholic Theology of Act and Event: The Contribution of Karl Rahner and Hans Urs von Balthasar.
A Graduate of the Universities of Washington and Oxford, New Blackfriars will be publishing Cyrus' first article in November. He has published reviews in New Blackfriars, The Chesterton Review, The Heythrop Journal, Review of Metaphysics, The Journal of Theological Studies, Literature and Theology, The International Journal of Systematic Theology, and Religion and Literature.
Charles R. Pinches, Department Chair
Charles R. Pinches is Department Chair and Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Scranton in Scranton, Pennsylvania, where he has taught since 1990. He has also taught at Princeton University, the University of Central Arkansas and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.
Professor Pinches received his Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame in Theological Ethics where he worked closely with the well-known American theologian and ethicist Stanley Hauerwas. In 1997 the two co-authored the book Christians Among the Virtues (Notre Dame). Dr. Pinches has written widely in the field of theological ethics, publishing articles in scholarly journals such as the Journal of Religious Ethics, Modern Theology, Pro Ecclesia and Political Theology. He has also retained an active interest in philosophy, publishing articles in such journals as the Southern Journal of Philosophy and the International Journal of Applied Ethics, and an ongoing touch with medical ethics, with publications in such journals as the Southern Medical Journal. His strongest writing interests concern the Christian virtues and the meaning of human action.
Dr. Pinches is the author of four books including Theology and Action: After Theory in Christian Ethics (Eerdmans, 2002). His most recent A Gathering of Memories: Family, Nation and Church in a Forgetful World, was published from Brazos Press in 2006. In this book Dr. Pinches considers the pattern and power of communal memory and offers suggestions concerning why it is so difficult to maintain in modern societies. He marks three communities of memory—family, nation and church—and shows how, for Christians, memories held in the church can form, critique and also redeem memories in both family and nation.
Dr. Pinches lives with his wife Robin and their four children in Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania. They are members in a local parish of the Episcopal Church. It supports their lives and connects them to the Church worldwide, especially to Uganda in East Africa where they helped found Epiphany School, a primary school for children of the Batwa Pygmy tribe. Accompanied by students from the University of Scranton, they travel yearly to Uganda to encounter Ugandan culture and learn of its rich Christian history.
Eric Plumer holds a degree in English from Fairfield University and degrees in Theology from Oxford University
and the University of
Notre Dame. His book on Augustine's Commentary on Galatians will be
published in January 2003 by Oxford University Press. It will be the first time that this work by St. Augustine
has been translated into English.
Dr. Plumer has also published an essay in The Gift of the Church (Liturgical Press, 2000) and a chapter in A Reader's Guide to Augustine's
Confessions (Westminster/John Knox, forthcoming).
During his 13 years studying and teaching at Oxford, Dr. Plumer became an incorrigible Anglophile and developed a keen interest in various authors associated with Oxford, especially John Henry Newman.
Father Sable received a Ph.D. from Graduate Theological Union, an M.Div. from
Jesuit School of Theology, a M.S. from
Georgetown
University, and an A.B. from
Boston College. His teaching and
research interests include Byzantine Studies and American
Catholicism. His current research focuses on Dumitru Staniloae, a
Romanian Orthodox Theologian.
He has published articles and reviews in American Catholic Historical Review, Encyclopedia of Religion, Dictionary of American Christianity, and Diakonia. Father Sable is editor of Diakonia, a local journal published by the University of Scranton, which is “dedicated to promoting a knowledge and understanding of Eastern Christianity.”
In his spare time, Father Sable works at the Center for Eastern Christian Excitement on campus, and he also has his own radio show on WUSR – Royal Radio. You can catch his jazz show on Thursday’s from 2-4 PM and Sundays from 4-6 PM. Visit his website at: http://nyssa.cecs.scranton.edu/.
Marc B. Shapiro holds the Weinberg Chair in Judaic Studies. A graduate
of Brandeis and Harvard Universities, he is the author of Between the
Yeshiva World and Modern
Orthodoxy and The Limits of Orthodox Theology, both of which were
National Jewish Book Award Finalists. He is also the author of Saul
Lieberman and the Orthodox. His newest book, Studies in Maimonides and
His Interpreters will appear in 2007.
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