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Phone: US 617 - 495 5761
Website: http://www.hds.harvard.edu/
Participating Scholars:
Prof. Francis X. Clooney, S.J., Professor of Divinity and Comparative Theology
Prof. Karen L. King, Professor of Divinity
Prof. Elisabeth Schuessler-Fiorenza, Professor of Divinity
Prof. Francis Schuessler-Fiorenza, Professor of Roman Catholic Theological Studies
Francis X. Clooney, S.J.
 Professor of Divinity and of Comparative Theology
Center for the Study of World Religions 209
42 Francis Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
USA
Phone: (617) 384-9396
Email:
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Homepage: http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k5866
Research Profile
Theological commentarial writings in the Sanskrit and Tamil traditions of Hindu India, comparative theology, Jesuit missionary tradition (particularly in India), dynamics of interreligious dialogue in the contemporary world
Teaching Profile
Hindu Goddesses and the Virgin Mary, Reading Hindu Texts Interreligiously, Tamil Love: Tiruvaymoli, Theories and Methods in the Study of Religion
Selected Publications
Seeing through Texts: Doing Theology among the Srivaisnavas of South India. State University of New York, 1996 (Indian edition published by Indian Book Centre, New Delhi)
Hindu Wisdom for All God’s Children. Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 1998. (French translation: Sagesse Hindoue pour qui cherche Dieu. Brussels: Editions Lessius, 2004)
ed. and transl. with A. Amadalass, S.J.: Preaching Wisdom to the Wise: Three Treatises by Roberto de Nobili in Dialogue with the Learned Hindus of South India. St. Louis: Institute of Jesuit Sources, 2000; Indian edition, 2005.
Hindu God, Christian God: How Reason Helps Break Down the Boundaries between Religions. New York: Oxford University Press. 2001
Divine Mother, Blessed Mother: Hindu Goddesses and the Virgin Mary. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005
Fr. Bouchet’s India: An 18th Century Jesuit’s Encounter with Hinduism. Chennai: Satya Nilayam Publications, 2006.
Jesuit Postmodern: Scholarship, Vocation, and Identity in the 21st Century. Lanham, MD: Lexington Press, 2006. (Editor, and author of "Introduction" and "On the Jesuit Tradition of Encountering Other Religions," and "This Jesuit’s Encounter with Hinduism Today")
Beyond Compare: St. Francis de Sales and Sri Vedanta Desika on Loving Surrender to God. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2008.
The Truth, the Way, the Life: Christian Commentary on the Three Holy Mantras of the Srivaisnava Hindus. Leuven: Peeters Publishing, 2008.
Comparative Theology: Deep Learning Across Religious Borders. Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
Prof. Karen L. King
 Professor of Divinity
Andover 503
Phone: 617.496.3398
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Homepage: http://www.hds.harvard.edu/faculty/king.cfm
Research Profile
Prof. King's academic work centers on the problematics and practices of how to write a critical-inclusive history of ancient Christianity. She works primarily with practice theory approaches, emphasizing ethical-theological issues and feminist/gender studies. Her prior work has analyzed the continued use of the ancient discourses of orthodoxy and heresy within modern historiographical practice, and offered attempts to analyze specific texts (Gospel of Mary, Secret Revelation of John, Letter of Peter to Philip) and specific issues (e.g., early Christian diversity, religion and violence, instrumental agency, women’s authority, textual criticism) outside the framework of that discourse. She is currently working on two research projects: Martyrdom and its Discontents in Ancient Christianity and Ambiguous Revolution: Sex and Sexuality in Ancient Christianity.
Teaching Profile
Trained in comparative religions and historical studies, her teaching and research specialties in the history of Christianity lie in women’s studies, orthodoxy and heresy, and Nag Hammadi and other Coptic literature. Her current masters-level courses include: “Orthodoxy and Heresy in Ancient Christianity,” “Women, Sex, and Gender in Ancient Christianity,” and Sahidic Coptic. She also teaches specialized doctoral courses on feminist and practice theory approaches to the study of ancient Christianity.
Selected PublicationsThe Secret Revelation of John. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006.
The Gospel of Mary of Magdala: Jesus and the First Woman Apostle. Santa Rosa, CA: Polebridge Press, 2003.
What is Gnosticism? Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003.
“Willing to Die for God: Individualization and Instrumental Agency in Ancient Christian Martyr Literature,” in: J. Rüpke (ed.): Religious Individualization in the Hellenistic and Roman Period. Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
“Toward a Discussion of the Category ‘Gnosis/Gnosticism’: The Case of the Epistle of Peter to Philip,” in: J. Frey/J. Schröter (ed.): Jesus in apokryphen Evangelienüberlieferungen. Beiträge zu außerkanonischen Jesusüberlieferungen aus verschiedenen Sprach- und Kulturtraditionen. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010, 445-465.
“Comparison: Categories, Methods, and Mischiefs—The Case of the Gospel of Judas,” in: W. Braun/R. T. McCutcheon (ed.s): Introducing Religion. Essays in Honor of Jonathan Z. Smith. London: Equinox Press, 2008, 178-191.
“Social and Theological Effects of Heresiological Discourse,” in: E. Iricinschi/H. M. Zellentin (ed.): Heresy and Identity in Late Antiquity. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2008, 28-49
“Which Early Christianity?” in: S. A. Harvey/D. Hunter (ed.s): The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies. Oxford Handbooks in Religion and Theology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008, 66-84.
“Why all the Controversy? Mary in the Gospel of Mary,” in: F. S. Jones (ed.): Which Mary? The Marys of Early Christian Tradition. SBL Symposium Series 20. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2002, 53-74.
“Prophetic Power and Women’s Authority: The Gospel of Mary Magdalene” and “Afterword. Voices of the Spirit: Exercising Power, Embracing Responsibility,” in: B. M. Kienzle/P. J. Walker (ed.s): Women Preachers and Prophets through Two Millennia of Christianity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998, 21-41; 335-43.
Prof. Elisabeth Schuessler-Fiorenza
Professor of Divinity
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Homepage: http://www.hds.harvard.edu/faculty/schusslerfiorenza.cfm
Phone: 384.6598
Research Profile
Biblical interpretation and feminist theology: biblical and theological epistemology, hermeneutics, rhetoric, politics of interpretation, issues of theological education, radical equality, and democracy
Teaching Profile
Gospel Stories of Women, Introduction to the New Testament: History and Interpretation, Democratizing Biblical Studies, Feminist Biblical Interpretation, New Testament Ethics and Rhetoric: Seminar, Religion and Politics in Early Christianity, Rhetoric, Power, and Gender: Seminar, Feminist Theologies - Contexts and Methods, Feminist Theory and Theology
Selected Publications
In Memory of Her. 10th ed., New York: Crossroad, 1994.
Discipleship of Equals: A Critical Feminist Ekklesialogy of Liberation. New York: Crossroad, 1993.
Revelation: Vision of a Just World. Proclamation Commentaries, Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 1998.
Jesus: Miriam's Child, Sophia's Prophet: Critical Issues in Feminist Christology. New York: Continuum, 1995.
Sharing Her Word: Feminist Biblical Interpretation in Context. Boston: Beacon Press, 1999.
Jesus and the Politics of Interpretation. New York: Continuum, 2001.
Wisdom Ways: Introducing Feminist Biblical Interpretation. Maryknoll: Orbis, 2001.
Grenzen überschreiten: Der theoretische Anspruch feministischer Theologie: Ausgewählte Aufsätze. Münster: LIT, 2004.
The Power of the Word: Scripture and the Rhetoric of Empire. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 2007.
Prof. Francis Schuessler-Fiorenza
 Professor of Roman Catholic Theological Studies
Phone: US 617.495.5750
Email (office):
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Homepage: http://www.hds.harvard.edu/faculty/fiorenza.cfm
Research Profile
Fundamental/foundational theology, contemporary hermeneutical theories, neo-pragmatic criticisms of foundationalism, theories of justice (John Rawls, Jürgen Habermas), political theology, work, welfare, nineteenth- and twentieth-century theology,
Teaching Profile
Selected Publications
transl. w. J. Duke: Friedrich D. E. Schleiermacher: On the Glaubenslehre: Two Letters to Dr. Lücke. American Academy of Religion Texts and Translations Series, 1981.
Foundational Theology: Jesus and the Church. New York: Crossroad, 1992.
ed. with J. Galvin: Systematic Theology: Roman Catholic Perspectives. 2 vol.s, Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 1991.
ed. with D. Browning: Habermas, Modernity, and Public Theology. New York: Crossroad, 1992.
ed. with W. Beinert: Handbook of Catholic Theology. New York: Crossroad, 2000.
with J. Livingston et al.: Modern Christian Thought, vol. 2: The Twentieth Century. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 2006.
Rights at Risk: Confronting the Cultural, Ethical, and Religious Challenges. New York: Continuum, 2010.
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Prof. Francis X. Clooney, S.J., Professor of Divinity and Comparative Theology
Prof. Karen L. King, Professor of Divinity
Prof. Elisabeth Schuessler-Fiorenza, Professor of Divinity
Prof. Francis Schuessler-Fiorenza, Professor of Roman Catholic Theological Studies
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