DeSales University
Center Valley Campus
2755 Station Ave
Center Valley, PA
610.282.1100
Get Directions

Philosophy and Theology

Faculty Record 1999-2000

Listed below are the publications and presentations of the faculty members in our department for the academic year. These contributions reflect the faculty's commitment to professional growth and development, as well as the desire to share with others the results of our individual and collective work. It is hoped that this service to the academic community will further the mission of DeSales University to provide a Catholic education in the tradition of Christian Humanism.

Larry Chapp, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor - Systematic Theology / Acting Academic Dean)

• "To The Unknown God: The Church and Science at the Areopagus" -- published in the Summer 1999 issue of Pro Ecclesia.
• "The Dying of the Light and the Contemporary Catholic University" - a review essay published in The Thomist, vol. 63 (1999).
• Participant in Ex Corde Ecclesiae: A Conversation "From the Heart of the Church" -- a national conference held at the Catholic University of America (Washington DC) on September 17, 1999.
• Participant in a series of conferences on Fides et Ratio sponsored by Communio, in Washington, DC on October 19, 1999 and November 18, 1999.
  • Fides et Ratio and the Thought of Emmanual Levinas
  • Fides et Ratio and Catholic Political Theory
  • Fides et Ratio and the Relationship between Faith and Natural Science; presented a paper entitled "Methodological Naturalism in Science and Fides et Ratio"
• Invited panelist for "The Unsettling of America: A Conversation with Wendell Berry" -- a conference sponsored by Communio: International Catholic Review on the occasion of its 25th anniversary, at the Columbus School of Law at the Catholic University of America (Washington, DC) on 7-8 January 2000.
• "A Response to Dr. Howsare's Analysis of Balthasar's Eucharistic Theology" -- to be presented at the annual conference of the College Theology Society, at Villanova University (PA) on June 4-8, 2000

• "The Wisdom of Irreverence: Job as an Icon for Postmodern Spirituality" -- Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology, volume 53/3 (July 1999), pp. 276-289.
• "God the Father in the Thought of Pope John Paul II" -- invited lectures for the Spirituality Institute at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, Overbrook (PA) on July 19-21, 1999.
• Participant in annualConference on Salesian Spirituality, held at Georgetown Visitation School (Washington, DC), on August 4-8, 1999.
• Participant in Ex Corde Ecclesiae: A Conversation "From the Heart of the Church" -- a national conference held at the Catholic University of America (Washington DC) on September 17, 1999.
• "The Eucharist for Today's Culture " -- conferences for the in-service retreat of the Department of Religious Education of the Diocese of Allentown (PA) on October 20, 1999.
• "From Resistance to Faith: Renewing the Idea of a Catholic University" -- respondent and panelist at the Cardinal Newman Society annual conference in Washington (DC) on October 8-10, 1999.
• "Salesian Friendship and the Educational Community" -- an in-service presentation to the faculty at the Salesianum School (Wilmington, DE) on November 15, 1999.
• Participant in "A Future of Service-Learning: A National Conference on Service-Learning in Theology/Religious Studies," as part of the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion (Boston) on November 18-19, 1999.
• "Hiring and Firing for Mission: The Need for a New Campus Culture" -- in the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly, volume 22/4 (Fall 1999), pp. 34-37
• "Introduction to the Introduction: St. Francis de Sales and the Devout Life" -- a presentation in the continuing education program at St. Maria Goretti parish (Hatfield, PA) on January 27, 2000.
• "Toward a Culture of Truth: Higher Education and the Thought of Pope John Paul II" -- to be published LOGOS: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 3:2 (Spring 2000): 122-141.
• "Preaching in the Salesian Tradition" -- a continuing education workshop for the North Carolina region of the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales (Raleigh, NC) on March 2, 2000.
• "Toward a Culture of Forgiveness" -- presentation in a symposium at the Eastern Psychological Assocation meeting in Baltimore (MD) on March 24-25, 2000.
• "The Soulful Homily" -- published in Homiletic & Pastoral Review(May 2000), pp. 56-60

Rodney Howsare, Ph.D.(Assistant Professor - Systematic Theology)

• "Hans Urs von Balthasar and Protestantism: The Ecumenical Implications of His Theological Style" -- forthcoming from T & T Clark publishers.
• Invited panelist for "The Unsettling of America: A Conversation with Wendell Berry" -- a conference sponsored by Communio: International Catholic Review on the occasion of its 25th anniversary, at the Columbus School of Law at the Catholic University of America (Washington, DC) on 7-8 January 2000.
• "The Mass as Sacrifice in the Light of 'Communio' Ecclesiology" -- a paper to be presented at the annual convention of the College Theology Society, June 2000.

Brian Kane, Ph.D.(Associate Professor - Moral Theology / Acting Department Chair)

• Appointed to the Institutional Review Board of the Lehigh Valley Hospital Center in Allentown (PA).
• Panelist on business ethics for the "Project Management Institute" at Air Products & Chemicals, Inc. in Trexlertown (PA).
• "A Wealth of Information: Catholic Social Thought and the Ethics of the Dissemination of Health Information" -- a paper to be presented at the Fourth International Symposium on Catholic Social Thought and Management Education, in Puebla (Mexico), on July 12-14, 2000

Gregory Kerr, Ph.D.(Associate Professor - History of Philosophy)

• "On Pope John Paul II's Fides et Ratio" -- published in the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly, vol.22 / no. 2 (Spring 1999), pp. 13-14.
• "Knowing Our Knowings" -- presentation at the annual meeting of the American Maritain Association, held in Berkely (CA) on October 21-24, 1999.
• Editor of the Maritain Notebook, the official newsletter of the American Maritain Association.

Stephen Loughlin, Ph.D.(Assistant Professor - Medieval Philosophy)

• Appointed co-coordinator of the "Aquinas Translation" -- a web-based project which seeks to provide the scholarly and religious communities with translation of St. Thomas Aquinas' works not available in English.
• "A Seeming Incompatibility between Augustine's Definitions of Emotions in De Civitate Dei"-- published in Mediterranean Studies, volume 8 (1999), pp. 1-15.
• "The Complexity of Timor in Aquinas's Summa Theologiae" -- a paper to be presented at the Sixth Annual Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Interdisciplinary Conference in Tempe (AZ) on February 18, 2000.

Copyright © 2010 - All Rights Reserved