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Prof. Wendy Cotter, C.S.J., Associate Professor of New Testament and First Generation Christianity Prof. Hille Haker, Professor of Moral Theology Prof. Marcia K. Hermansen, Professor and Director of Islamic World Studies Prof. Edmondo Lupieri, John Cardinal Cody Professor of Theology Prof. Jon Nilson, Professor of Theology
Prof. Susan A. Ross, Professor of Christian Ethics Prof. Thomas H. Tobin, S.J., Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity
Prof. Wendy Cotter, C.S.J. Associate Professor of New Testament and First Generation Christianity
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Theology Department
Loyola University Chicago
1032 W. Sheridan Road
Chicago, IL 60660, USA
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Homepage: http://luc.edu/theology/facultystaff/faculty_layout_3_35939_33793.shtml Research ProfileMiracle Narratives, Parables, Lukan sondergut, Greco-Roman culture, Social Dynamics and Economic Systems in the Imperial Period. Teaching ProfileSynoptic Gospels, Q, Gospel of Mark, Miracle Narratives, Parables, New Testament, Popular Religious Trends in Greco-Roman Antiquity. Selected PublicationsThe Christ of the Miracle Stories: Portrait Through Encounter. Peabody, PA: Hendrickson (Forthcoming, 2010). "'Welcome Him as You Would Welcome Me,' Philemon 17: Does Paul Call for Virtue or the Actualization of a Vision?” in: P. Walters (ed.): Kairos and Kronos: The Promise within and beyond this Age. Leiden: Brill, forthcoming 2011. "Christopher Tuckett and the question of Q,"in: Timothy Larson (ed.): Biblical Scholarship in the Twentieth Century: The Rylands Chair of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis at the University of Manchester 1904-2004. Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 86 (2004), 141-174. "Miracle Stories: The God Asclepius, the Pythagorean Philosophers, and the Roman Rulers," in: A. J. Levine/D. C. Allison Jr. (ed.): The Historical Jesus in Context. Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006, 166-179. "The Feisty Widow and the Threatened Judge," New Testament Studies 51 (2005), 328-343. "Mark’s Hero of the Twelfth Year Miracles: The Healing of the Woman with the Hemorrhage and and the Raising of Jairus’ Daughter (Mk 5:21-42)," in: A. J. Levine (ed.): Mark: A Feminist Companion. Sheffield: Sheffield Press, 2001, 54-78. "Greco-Roman Apotheosis Traditions and the Resurrection Appearances in Matthew," in: David E. Aune (ed.): The Gospel of Matthew in Current Study. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000, 128-154. "Cornelius, the Roman Army and Religion," in: T. L. Donaldson (ed.): Religious Rivalries and Struggle for Success in Caesarea Maritima. Studies in Christianity and Judaism/Études sur Le Christianisme et Le Judaïsme 8. Waterloo, Canada: Laurier University Press, 279-301. The Miracles in Greco-Roman Antiquity: A Source-Book. London: Routledge, 1999. Prof. Hille Haker Professor and Richard McCormick S.J. Chair of Moral Theology
Theology Department
Loyola University Chicago
315 Crown Center
1032 W. Sheridan Rd.
Chicago, IL 60660, USA Phone: (773) 508-2368
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Homepage: http://www.ethik.uni-frankfurt.de/ Research Profile Foundational Ethics, Bioethics, Ethics and Literature, Feminist Ethics Teaching ProfileNew Approaches to Christian Ethics: Hermeneutics in Ethics, Narrative Ethics, Human Rights and Responsibility
Concepts of the Self and Moral Identity; the Question of Otherness
Questions in Social and Political Ethics: Justice, Forgiveness and Reconciliation, Solidarity, Belonging and Citizenship, Ethics in Economics
Bioethics and Ethics in New Technologies: Reproductive Medicine and Genetic Diagnosis, Medical Ethics in Health-Care Chaplaincy, Neonatology, Ars Moriendi and the question of ageing and dying, Nanomedicine, Novel Food, Synthethic Biology, Methods in Bioethics
Narrative Ethics and Ethics in Literature: Contemporary German novels
Feminist Ethics: Gender and Identity, Women’s Rights, Feminist Bioethics and Gender Studies, Critical Analysis of the “Gift-Discourse” Selected Publicationsed. together with K. Bentele/G. Wanderer et al.: Perspektiven der Medizinethik in der Klinikseelsorge: Berlin/Münster et al.: Lit, 2009; english: Medical Ethics in Health-Care Chaplaincy, 2009. "Gerechtigkeit und globale Armut - Neuere Ansätze zur Ökonomie und Ethik," in: Dietmar Mieth (ed.): Solidarität und Gerechtigkeit: Die Gesellschaft von morgen gestalten. Stuttgart: Katholisches Bibelwerk, 2009, 158-178. "Citizenship, Ethik und Gesellschaft," in: V. R. Azcuy/M. Eckholt (ed.s): Citizenship - Biographien - Institutionen: Perspektiven lateinamerikanischer und deutscher Theologinnen auf Kirche und Gesellschaft. Berlin/Münster et al.: Lit, 2009, 41-55. "Ethical Reflecions on Nanomedicine," in: J. S. Ach/B. Lüttenberg (ed.s): Nanobiotechnology, Nanomedicine and Human Enhancement. Berlin/Münster et al.: Lit, 2008, 53-75. "A Critical Ethics of Responsibility in the Age of HIV/AIDS and Inter-religious Dialogue," in: P. Gnanapragasam/E. Schüssler-Fiorenza (ed.s): Negotiating Borders: Theological Explorations in the Global Era. Essays in Honour of Prof. Felix Wilfred. Delhi: ISPCK, 2008, 225-241. ed. together with R. Ammicht-Quinn: HIV/AIDS. Concilium 2007. ed. together with U. Konnertz/D. Mieth: Ethik - Geschlecht – Wissenschaften: Der ethical turn als Herausforderung für die interdisziplinären Geschlechterstudien. Paderborn: Mentis, 2006. ed. together with S. Ross/M.-T. Wacker: Women’s Voices in World Religions. Concilium 2006. Ethik der genetischen Frühdiagnostik: Sozialethische Reflexionen zur Verantwortung am Beginn des menschlichen Lebens. Paderborn: Mentis, 2002. Moralische Identität: Literarische Lebensgeschichten als Medium ethischer Reflexion. Mit einer Interpretation der "Jahrestage" von Uwe Johnson. Tübingen: Francke, 1999. Prof. Marcia K. Hermansen  Professor and Director of Islamic World Studies Crown Center 441
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Web page: http://orion.luc.edu/~mherman/ Research Profile Islamic Studies, Islamic Mysticism, Classical and Contemporary Islamic Thought, Global Islam, Islam in South Asia, Muslims in America, Women’s Studies and Gender Studies, Comparative Theology/Theologies of Religious Pluralism Teaching Profile World Religions; The South Asian Muslim Experience; Islamic Spirituality; Contemporary Islamic Thought and Movements Selected Publications Shah Wali Allah of Delhi's Hujjat Allah al-Baligha (The Conclusive Argument from God). E. J. Brill, 1996. Pakistani edition Islamabad: Islamic Research Institute 2003. “What’s American about American Sufi Movements?” in: D. Westerlund (ed.): Sufism in Europe and North America, Routledge, 2004, 36-62. “Dimensions of Islamic Religious Healing in America,” in: S. Sered/L. L. Barnes (ed.s): Religion and Healing in America. Oxford, 2004, 407-422. "The Evolution of American Muslim responses to 9/11," in: R. Geaves (ed.): Religious Responses to 9/11. Ashgate, 2004, 77-96. “The ‘other’ Shadhilis of the West,” in: E. Geoffroy: The Shadhiliyya. Paris: Maisonneuve et Larose, 2005, 481-499. “Keeping the Faith: Convert Muslim Mothers in America and the Transmission of Islamic Identity,” in: K. van Nieuwkerk (ed.): Women Embracing Islam: Gender and Conversion in the West. University of Texas Press, 2006, 250-276. “Western Sufis and Sufi Literatures in the West,” in: J. Hinnells/J. Malik (ed.s): Sufism in the West. Routledge, 2006, 28-48. “Islamic Eschatology,” in: T. J. Winter (ed.): Cambridge Companion to Islamic Theology. Cambridge, 2008, 308-324. “Global Sufism: Theirs and Ours,” in: R. Geaves/M. Dressler (ed.s): Sufis in Western Society: Global Networking and Locality. Routledge, 2009, 26-45. “Conversion to Islam: Historical and Theological Perspectives,” in: L. Rambo/Ch. Farhadian (ed.s): The Oxford Handbook of Religious Conversion, forthcoming Oxford, 2010.
Prof. Edmondo Lupieri
Professor and John Cardinal Cody Chair of Theology  Crown Center 439
Loyola University Chicago
1032 W. Sheridan Rd.
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Homepage: http://www.luc.edu/theology/facultystaff/lupieri.shtml Research Profile Early Christianity (The Apocalypse of John, John the Baptist, etc.), Church History of the antique and medieval world Teaching Profile
Introduction to the History of Christianity, Introduction to Church History, New Testament, the Synoptic Gospels, the historical Jesus, the figure of John the Baptist, Apocalypticism, Revelation, Gnosticism, Catharism, the history of the missions and pre-Reformation Catholicism Selected Publications A Commentary to the Apocalypse of John. Grand Rapids/Cambridge (UK): Eerdmans, 2006. Identità e conquista: Esiti e conflitti di un'evangelizzazione. Bologna: Dehoniane, 2005. (English version to be published by Eerdmans). The Mandaeans: The Last Gnostics, Italian Texts & Studies on Religion & Society. Grand Rapids/Cambridge (UK): Eerdmans, 2002. "Fra Gerusalemme e Roma," in: G. Filoramo/D. Menozzi (ed.), Storia del Cristianesimo, vol. I: L'Antichità. 3rd reprint, Rome-Bari, 2006. Gesù Cristo e gli altri dei: Diffusione e modificazione del cristianesimo nei paesi extraeuropei. Oscar Saggi 394. Milan: Mondadori, 1994. Giovanni e Gesù. Storia di un antagonismo. Uomini e Religioni 60. Milan: Mondadori, 1991. "La comunità di Matteo e il gruppo dei ‘fratelli’ di Gesù," in: S. Guijarro (ed.), Los comienzos del Cristianismo: IV Simposio Internacional ... sobre los Orígenes del Cristianismo. Bibliotheca Salmanticensis 284. Salamanca: 2006, 171-180. "La figura di Gesù di fronte al potere politico, a partire dai testi evangelici," in: E. Manicardi/L. Mazzinghi, eds., Il potere politico: bisogno e rifiuto dell'autorità. Ricerche Storico Bibliche 18. Bologna: 2006, 165-182. "Perfidia Judaica: Le radici dell’antigiudaismo cristiano," Atti dell’Accademia udinese di scienze, lettere ed arti XCVIII (2005), Udine 2006, 83-95. "The Law and the Prophets Were Until John: John the Baptist between Jewish Halakhot and Christian History of Salvation," Neotestamentica 35 (2001), 49-56. Prof. Jon Nilson  Professor of Theology
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Loyola University Chicago
1032 W. Sheridan Road
Chicago IL 60660, USA
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Homepage: http://luc.edu/theology/facultystaff/faculty_layout_14_35939_33834.shtml Research Profile Black theology; Ecumenism; Ecclesiology; Theological Method; Modern and Contemporary Roman Catholic Theology Teaching Profile Ecumenism; Ecclesiology; Modern and Contemporary Roman Catholic Theology Selected Publications Nothing Beyond the Necessary: Roman Catholicism and the Ecumenical Future. New York: Paulist Press, 1995. Hearing Past the Pain: Why White Catholic Theologians Need Black Theology. Mahwah: Paulist Press, 2007. "Tradition and the Ordination of Women," Origins 27 (1997), 76-79. (Co-author) "Anglican-Roman Catholic Consultation in the United States’ Agreed Statement on the Church as Local and
Universal," Origins 30 (2000), 85-95. (Co-author) “The Laity,” in The Gift of the Church, ed. Peter C. Phan. Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 2000. 395-413. “The Gift of Authority: An American, Roman Catholic Appreciation,” One in Christ 36 (2000), 133-144. “The Church and Homosexuality: A Lonerganian Approach,” in: Sexual Diversity and Catholicism: Toward the Development of Moral Theology. Patricia Beattie Jung with Jospeh Andrew Coray, eds., Collegeville:Liturgical Press, 2001. 60-73. “Confessions of a White Catholic Racist Theologian,” Proceedings of the Catholic Theological Society of America 58 (2003), 64-82; also in Origins 33 (2003), 129-138. "The Gift of Authority: Mountain or Milestone?" in One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism: Studies in Christian Ecclesiality and Ecumenism in Honor of J. Robert Wright, ed. By Marsha L. Dutton and Patrick Terrell Gray. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2006, 316-324. "Beyond Moral Suasion: Reading Method in Theology in "Racist America," Lonergan Workshop 21 (2008), 295-301. Prof. Susan A. Ross
Professor of Christian Ethics, Chair of the Department of Theology  Theology Department
Loyola University Chicago
315 Crown Center
1032 W. Sheridan Rd.
Chicago, IL 60660, USA Phone: (773) 508-2364
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Homepage: http://luc.edu/theology/facultystaff/faculty_layout_18_35939_33839.shtml Research Profile Feminist Theology; Theological Anthropology; Feminist Ethics Teaching Profile
Reformation and Modern Christian Thought The Historical Development of Roman Catholic Theology Phenomenology of Religion Theological Anthropology The Sacramental Life of the Church Feminist Issues in Theology and Ethics Intellectual and Institutional Foundations of Women’s Studies, etc. Selected Publications For the Beauty of the Earth: Women, Sacramentality, and Justice. New York: Paulist Press, 2006.
Extravagant Affections: A Feminist Sacramental Theology. New York: Continuum, 1998; paperback edition, 2001. Susan Ross and Maureen A. Tilley, eds., Broken and Whole: Essays on Religion and the Body. Washington, DC: University Press of America, 1995. Susan Ross, H. Haker and M.-T. Wacker, eds., Women’s Voices in World Religions. Concilium (2006). ed., Marriage: Sacrament or Civil Union? Liturgy 20 (2005). Bread and Roses: Women, Beauty, and Justice (forthcoming). “Christian Anthropology and Gender Essentialism: Classicism and Historical-Mindedness,” Concilium (1/2006), 43-50. “Women, Beauty, and Justice: Moving Beyond von Balthasar,” Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 25 (2005), 79-98. “Feminist Theology and Sacramental Theology: Old and New Challenges,” in: G. Rowell/C. Hall (ed.), The Gestures of God: Essays in Sacrament and Sacramentality. New York/London: Continuum, 2004, 109-25. “The Complexities and Ambiguities of the ‘Prophetic Dimension’: A Response” in M. O’Brien Steinfels (ed.), American Catholics, American Culture: Tradition & Resistance. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2004, 43-48. Prof. Thomas H. Tobin, S.J.  Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity
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Theology Department
Loyola University Chicago
1032 W. Sheridan Road
Chicago, IL 60660, USA
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Homepage: http://luc.edu/theology/facultystaff/faculty_layout_22_35939_33848.shtml Research Profile Pauline Literature, Hellenistic Judaism, Philo of Alexandria, Hellenistic Philosophy, Middle Platonism, Gnosticism Teaching Profile New Testament, Early Christianity, Hellenistic Judaism, Christology Selected Publications The Creation of Man: Philo and the History of Interpretation (Catholic Biblical Quarterly Monograph Series 14; Washington, D.C.: Catholic Biblical Association of America, 1983).
Timaios of Locri: On the Nature of the World and the Soul. Introduction, Translation, and Notes (Texts and Translations 26, Graeco-Roman Religion Series 8; Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1985).
Paul’s Rhetoric in Its Contexts: The Argument of Romans. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 2004.
“The Prologue of John and Hellenistic Jewish Speculation,” Catholic Biblical Quarterly 52 (1990), 252–69.
“Logos” in The Anchor Bible Dictionary, eds. David Noel Freedman, et al.; 6 vols. (New York: Doubleday, 1992) 4.348–56.
“Philo and the Sibyl: Interpreting Philo’s Eschatology” The Studia Philonica Annual 9 (1997), 84–103.
“The Beginning of Philo’s Legum Allegoriae 1,” The Studia Philonica Annual 12 (2000) 29–43.
“The World of Thought in the Philippians Hymn (Philippians 2:6–11)” in The New Testament and Early Christian Literature in Greco-Roman Context: Studies in Honor of David E. Aune, ed. John Fotopoulos (Supplements to Novum Textamentum 122; Leiden: Brill, 2006) 91–104.
“Romans,” The Blackwell Companion to the New Testament; ed. David E. Aune (Oxford: Blackwell, 2010), 398–413.
“The Importance of Hellenistic Judaism for Studying Paul’s Ethics,” in Early Christian Ethics in Jewish and Hellenistic Contexts; edited by Joseph Verheyden and Jan Willem van Henten (Studies in Theology and Religion; Leiden: Brill), forthcoming.
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