Articles, papers, presentations, and other materials authored by faculty from the Theology department of Loyola University Chicago's College of Arts & Sciences.
Submissions from 2023
Archaeology and Hauntology: An Ongoing, Stalled Conversation, Colby Dickinson
Vulnerability in Times of War: The Necessity of the Moral Third, Hille Haker
Submissions from 2022
Submissions from 2021
Introduction, Miguel H. Diaz
Ending Christian Hegemony: Jean-Luc Nancy and the Ends of Eurocentric Thought, Colby Dickinson
Locating Love Amid the Violence: Girard, Vattimo, and the Radicality of Love, Colby Dickinson
Submissions from 2020
Geneva Statement on Heritable Human Genome Editing: The Need for Course Correction, Roberto Andorno, Françoise Baylis, Marcy Darnovsky, Donna Dickenson, Hille Haker, Katie Hasson, Leah Lowthorp, George J. Annas, Catherine Bourgain, Katherine Drabiak, Sigrid Graumann, Katrin Grüber, Matthias Kaiser, David King, Regine Kollek, Calum MacKellar, Jing-Bao Nie, Osagie K. Obasogie, Mirriam Tyebally Fang, Gabriele Werner-Felmayer, and Jana Zuscinova
We Breathe Together, Arturo J. Bañuelas, M.T. Dávila, Miguel H. Diaz, and Carmen Nanko-Fernández
Neighbors with Nowhere to Rest their Heads, Miguel H. Diaz
¡Virgen de la Caridad, save the United States! A Cuban American Reflects on the Upcoming Elections, Miguel H. Diaz
Metaphor as Dynamic Myth in Ricoeur, Colby Dickinson
From Political Theology to Critical Political Ethics, Hille Haker
The Fury That Destroys the World, Michael Murphy
Narrative Readings of the Religious Authorities in John: A Response to Urban C. von Wahlde, Christopher W. Skinner
Revealed History as Prophetic Rivalry: John’s Apocalypse, the Sibylline Oracles, and the Prophecy of Apollo, Olivia Stewart Lester
Sibylline Oracles, Olivia Stewart Lester
The Care Economy as Alternative Economy, Sandra Sullivan-Dunbar
An Unpleasant Little Jolt: Flannery O’Connor’s Creation ex Chaos, Thomas Wetzel
Submissions from 2019
An Enduring Peace, Andy R. Alexis-Baker
Bruno Latour and The Myth of Autonomous Academic Discipline: Rethinking Education in the Light of Various Modes of Existence, Colby Dickinson
Exercises in New Creation from Paul to Kierkegaard, Colby Dickinson
Polarized Readings of René Girard: Utilizing Girardian Thought to Break a Theological and Philosophical Impasse, Colby Dickinson
Habermas and the Question of Bioethics, Hille Haker
Towards a Decolonial Narrative Ethics, Hille Haker
Beyond East Meets West: Space and Simultaneity in Post-Millennial Western Sufi Auto-Biographical Writings, Marcia Hermansen
Cultural Diversities: The Implications for Radicalization Theory & Practice on Pakistani College Campuses, Marcia Hermansen
Introduzione, Edmondo Lupieri
The Earliest Magdalene: Varied Portrayals in Early Gospel Narratives, Edmondo Lupieri
The Text and Its Problems, Edmondo Lupieri
Fragile Beauty: Tension & Transcendence in Denise Levertov's Eco-Theological Poetics, Michael Murphy
Srinivas, Tulasi: The Cow in the Elevator. An Anthropology of Wonder. Durham: Duke University Press, 2018. 269 pp. ISBN 978-0-8223-7079-6. Price: $ 26.95, Tracy Pintchman
Introduction to "Echoes of Scripture in the Gospels", Christopher W. Skinner
Sibylline Oracles 4–5, Olivia Stewart Lester
Submissions from 2018
Medically Modified Eyes: A Baptismal Cataract Surgery in Clement of Alexandria, Emily R. Cain
Making America Inclusive Again, Miguel H. Diaz
Dealing with the Fragmentation of Knowledge: The Complex Grounds for Faith in Newman, Adorno, and Later, Colby Dickinson
Developing A Theologically Self-Reflexive Critique With Comparative Theologians And The Sociological Analysis Of Pierre Bourdieu, Colby Dickinson
Compassion und eine prophetische Ethik des Friedens, Hille Haker
Going It Alone: Political Ethics and the Rights of Unaccompanied Migrant Children, Hille Haker
Homeland Theology? Decolonizing Christianity and the Task of Public Theology, Hille Haker
Illness Narratives in Ethical Counseling, Hille Haker
The Right to Religious Freedom - A Theological Comment, Hille Haker
'The Good Shepherd Lays Down His Life for the Sheep' (John 10:11, 15, 17): Questioning the Limits of a Johannine Metaphor, Christopher W. Skinner
Submissions from 2017
Pope Francis and Ignatian Discernment, Peter Bernardi SJ
Book Review: Catholic Theology after Kierkegaard. By Joshua Furnal. Pp. xv, 255, Oxford University Press, 2016, $99.00., Colby Dickinson
Fragmented, Messianic, Paradoxical, Antinomian, Revolutionary, Secular: The Hermeneutics of Eschatology, Colby Dickinson
What if Anything Comes After the Insurrection of Theology?, Colby Dickinson
The Continuing Relevance of “Queer” Theology for the Rest of the Field, Colby Dickinson and Meghan Toomey
Die Genveränderung von Embryonen bürdet Kindern eine unzumutbare Last auf, Hille Haker
Die Wahrheit ist dem Menschen zumutbar (I. Bachmann), Hille Haker
Mehr als die Weitergabe von Genen: Eine neue Ethik der Elternschaft, Hille Haker
No Space. Nowhere: Refugees and the Problem of Human Rights in Arendt and Ricœur, Hille Haker
Transcending Liberalism – Avoiding Communitarianism: Human Rights and Dignity in Bioethics, Hille Haker
Wissenschaft und Ethik - Mit den Augen eines Affen gesehen. Ein Bericht, Hille Haker
American Milad: Celebrating the Birthday of the Prophet, Marcia Hermansen
Enoch A Patmos: In margine al cosiddetto "approccio canonico", Edmondo Lupieri
A Spirituality of Citizenship: Cultivating the Ignatian Charism for Dialog, Michael Murphy
Shame and the Signs of Hope: Encyclical as Examen, Michael Murphy
The Prince of This World, Michael Murphy
White Supremacy, the Election of Donald Trump and the Challenge to Theology, Susan Ross
The World Cathedral: Lessons from Standing Rock, Michael Schuck
War in the Bible, Thomas Wetzel
Submissions from 2016
Police, Technique, and Ellulian Critique: Evaluating Just Policing, Andy R. Alexis-Baker
"Homicide," IV. Christianity, Hille Haker
Aux Origines du Mandéisme : la Question de Jean le Baptiste, Edmondo Lupieri
Ambivalent Solidarity, Tisha Rajendra and Laurie Johnston
Power and Weakness: Liturgy, Justice, and the World, Susan A. Ross
Editorial: Families, Susan Ross, Lisa Cahill, Erik Borgman, and Sarojini Nadar
The Jesuit Difference in International Education: Two Projects That Teach a Lot, Michael Schuck
Submissions from 2015
Maurice Blondel: Precursor of the Second Vatican Council, Peter J. Bernardi SJ
Slavoj Žižek on Jacques Derrida, or On Derrida’s Search for a Middle Ground Between Marx and Benjamin, and His Finding Žižek Instead, Colby Dickinson
What Christians Need No Longer Defend: The Political Stakes of Considering Antinomianism as Central to the Practice and History of Theology, Colby Dickinson
Swipe Left: A Theology of Tinder and Digital Dating, Michael Murphy
Why Teach Theology?, Susan Ross
The Hair: Reflections by a White Parent, Aana Marie Vigen
Submissions from 2014
Are the Only True Atheists Actually Theologians?, Colby Dickinson
Book review: René Girard and Secular Modernity: Christ, Culture, and Crisis, written by Scott Cowdell, Colby Dickinson
Citing ‘Whatever’ Authority: The Ethics of Quotation in the Work of Giorgio Agamben, Colby Dickinson
Searching for a Self-Reflexive Theology: Ways Forward for Systematic Theology in Relation to (Non) Religious Thought in Contemporary Western Culture, Colby Dickinson
The Problem of Having both a Body and a Name in the Work of Jean-Luc Marion: Names, Fathers and the Hopeful Possibilities of a Queer Phenomenology, Colby Dickinson
The Profanation of Revelation: On Language and Immanence in the Work of Giorgio Agamben, Colby Dickinson
The Profanation of Revelation: On Language and Immanence in the Work of Giorgio Agamben, Colby Dickinson
Soziale Roboter für ältere Menschen? Ethische Überlegungen zur sozialen Interaktion mit Robotern im Gesundheitswesen, Hille Haker
Business and Merchants Will Not Enter The Places of My Father: Early Christianity and Market Mentality, Edmondo Lupieri
Suspicious Minds: The Spirituality of the Postmodern Nones, Michael Murphy
Justice Not Benevolence: Catholic Social Thought, Migration Theory, and the Rights of Migrants, Tisha Rajendra
The Rational Agent or the Relational Agent: Moving from Freedom to Justice in Migration Systems Ethics, Tisha Rajendra
To Speak of God in a Feminine Way in the Churches and Theologies of the Americas, Susan Ross
Christian-Jewish Relations 1000-1300: Jews in the Service of Medieval Christendom, Devorah Schoenfeld
The Challenge of Received Tradition: Dilemmas in Radak's Biblical Commentaries, Devorah Schoenfeld
Submissions from 2013
God & Being: An Enquiry, by George Pattison, Colby Dickinson
The "Violence" of the Canon: Revisiting Contemporary Notions of Canonical Forms, Colby Dickinson
The “Violence” of the Canon: Revisiting Contemporary Notions of the Canonical, Colby Dickinson
Introduction: The New Voices of Muslim Women Theologians, Marcia Hermansen
To Bible or Not to Bible: How on Earth Does a Text Become Scripture? (In Jewish, Christian, and Derived Traditions), Edmondo Lupieri
Review of Piety and Responsibility: Patterns of Unity in Karl Rahner, Karl Barth, and Vedanta Decika, Hugh Nicholson
