Hackett Family Professor in Theology (Inaugural Holder), 2019-.
Professor, 2018.
Associate Professor (with tenure), 2000-17.
Assistant Professor (Philosophy of Religion and Systematic Theology), 1993-2000.
Ordained priest, 1986; deacon, 1985; entered Jesuit order, Wernersville, PA, 1977.
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS: Preparing an edition of my selected essays, invited by "Retrieval in Tradition" series of Emmaus Academic Press, entitled "The Jesuit Dialogue with Modernity: Essays on Aquinas and Newman"; Planning a seminar under the auspices of the Lumen Christi Institute at the University of Chicago on the mission of Catholic faculty in higher education, Hyde Park, August 2025; Address on "Newman's Prophetic 'Cura Personalis'", Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, Fall 2025; Remote planning of a series of lectures on "Catholic Models of Faith and Reason" as forming the basis of a book.
COURSES:
Graduate seminars: Three Paradigms in Medieval and Reformation Christian Thought; Problem of Liberalism in Modern and Contemporary Christian Thought; John Henry Newman (also undergraduate seminar and intermediate course); Nature and Grace (also undergraduate seminar); Transcendental Thomism: Kant, Marechal, Rahner; Thomist Moral Thought.
Majors' seminars: History of Christian Thought I (Didache through Augustine); History of Christian Thought II (Anselm through Newman); Systematic Theology; Christian Theology of Religious Pluralism; Lonergan's ''Insight''
Intermediate courses: Thomas Aquinas; Christian Mysticism; Catholic Vision of Love; Augustine-Anselm-Bonaventure; Truth, Relativism, and Natural Law.
Basic courses: Problem of God; Philosophy of Human Person
OTHER POSTS:
Invitation to hold the Endowed Jesuit Chair, Loyola University Maryland, for spring term, 2026.
Visiting Scholar, Campion Hall, Oxford University, Michaelmas Term 2023, Trinity Term 2017, Trinity Term, 1997.
Loyola Chair, Fordham University, spring 2009.
Donald I MacLean Chair, St Joseph's University, Philadelphia, fall 2006.
Bannan Foundation visiting professor, Santa Clara University, 1996-97.
Teaching Assistant, Yale Divinity School, Yale College, Spring 1989.
Visiting Lecturer, English and Philosophy, St Joseph's University, 1981-83; Adjunct Lecturer, English, spring 1979.
SELECTED SERVICE (extramural):
President, Jesuit Philosophical Association, 1996-97.
Chair, Higher Education Advisory Committee, Maryland Province Jesuits, 2004-08.
Board of Directors, Georgetown Jesuit Community, 1999-2005.
Academy of Catholic Theology (elected 2012).
Board of Advisors, ENCYLCOPEDIA OF CATHOLIC THEOLOGY, 2024-.
Board of Advisors, THE NEW RESSOURCEMENT, 2023-.
International Advisory Board, LOUVAIN STUDIES, 2014-.
Board of Trustees, THEOLOGICAL STUDIES, 2000-2008.
Peer reviewer: Fides Quaerens Intellectum, Heythrop Journal, International Journal of Systematic Theology, Irish Theological Quarterly, Journal of World Christianity, Louvain Studies, Modern Theology, The New Ressourcement, Theological Studies, The Thomist; Catholic University of America Press, University of Notre Dame Press; Austrian Academy of Science.
OTHER:
Dorothy M Brown Award, 12th Recipient (by election of the undergraduates of the four Main Campus schools for commitment to their educational and extracurricular advancement), 2013.
Conductor, Annual summer seminar on the thought of John Henry Newman for American graduate students, sponsored by Lumen Christi Institute at University of Chicago, June-July 2021-2024.
Georgetown University's faculty residency in Campion Hall, Oxford University, spring 2017, fall 2023.
Vicennial Medal, Georgetown University, 2013 (for twenty years' service).
Varsity Letter ''G'' (for service to athletics).
National Society of Collegiate Scholars (inducted as distinguished member, 2013).
WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA, 2003.
Fulbright Grant to Germany, 1991-92 (awarded, but declined for Yale dissertation grant).
Carrell English Medal (for distinction in the major, ex aequo), Loyola College, commencement 1974.
Alpha Sigma Nu (National Honor Society of Jesuit Colleges and Universities, elected 1973).
Academic Appointment(s)
- Primary
- Professor, College - Department of Theology and Religious Studies