Santa Clara University

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Courses taught at Santa Clara University

Paul G. Crowley, S.J. Department Chair Jesuit Community Professor Fr. Crowley earned his B.A. with honors in Political and Legal Philosophy from Stanford University in 1973.  In 1975 he completed an M.A. in the Philosophy of Religion from Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary in New York where he also studied with the Jesuit faculty at Woodstock College. In 1984, he took his Ph.D. in Philosophical Theology from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. Post-graduate studies took him to the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies in Toronto, and in 1992 he was awarded the S.T.L. from the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley. From 1996-97, he held a fellowship at the Jesuit Institute at Boston College, where he investigated the theological implications of AIDS, and from 2001-2003 he was Visiting Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A full member of the Religious Studies Faculty since 1989, Fr. Crowley was founding Director of the interdisciplinary Catholic Studies minor. Specializing in topics of systematic theology, Fr. Crowley's research interests include the theology of Karl Rahner, hermeneutics and ecclesiology, theologies of suffering and sexuality, religious pluralism, and the nature and methods of theology.  He has also written on Jesuit education and Ignatian spirituality.    Courses Research Activities CV

	TESP 50	Catholic Theology: Foundations
	TESP 185	Rahner: Foundations of Faith

Academic Appointments

Jesuit Community Professor, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA	2008-present
Professor, Religious Studies Department, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA	2006-Present
Chair, Religious Studies Department, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA	2005-Present
Visiting Associate Professor, Weston Jesuit School of Theology, Cambridge, MA	2001-2003
Associate Professor, Religious Studies Department, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA	1996-Present
Assistant Professor, Religious Studies Department, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA	1989-1996

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Research

Publications

Books

In Ten Thousand Places: Dogma in a Pluralistic Church. Crossroad/Herder, 1997. Spanish Translation: En lugares sin cuento: El dogma en una Iglesia pluralista. Trans. José Manuel Lozano-Gotor Perona. Santander, Spain: Sal Terrae, 2003.

Unwanted Wisdom: Suffering, the Cross and Hope. New York: Continuum, 2005.

Rahner beyond Rahner: A Twentieth Century Theological Giant Meets the Pacific Rim. Rowman and Littlefield/Sheed & Ward, 2005.

Articles & Chapters

“Philosophic Hermeneutics and Dogmatic Tradition,” Krisis 5/6 (1986-87).

“Truth and Value: Notes on Collaboration between Science and Religion,” Toward a Common Vision (Pomona: California Polytechnic University, 1987).

“Instrumentum Divinitatis in Thomas Aquinas: Recovering the Divinity of Christ,” Theological Studies 52 (1991) 451-75.

“Technology, Truth and Language: The Crisis of Theological Discourse,” Heythrop Journal 32 (1991) 323-39.

“Catholicity, Inculturation and Newman's Sensus Fidelium.” Heythrop Journal 33 (1992) 161-174. [Given in various versions as refereed papers at the University of Pennsylvania and at Creighton University in 1990].

“The Sensus Fidelium and Catholicity: Newman’s Legacy in the Age of Inculturation,” in John Henry Newman: Theology and Reform, ed. Michael E. Allsopp and Ronald R. Burke (New York: Garland Press, 1993). [Another appearance of the 1992 article above].

“Theology in the Jesuit University: Reassessing the Ignatian Vision,” in Jesuit Education in a World Perspective, ed. Christopher Chapple (Scranton: Scranton University Press, 1993).

“United States Catholic Theology: An Overview,” E.T. (Europaischen Theologie) 1 (1993) 4-11.

“The Crisis of Transcendence and the Task of Theology,” in Finding God in All Things: Essays in Honor of Michael J. Buckley, S.J., ed. Michael J. Himes and Stephen J. Pope (New York: Crossroad), 1996.

“Rahner’s Christian Pessimism: A Response to the Sorrow of AIDS.” Theological Studies 58 (1997) 286-307. (See also “Rahner’s Christian Pessimism: The Problem of Perplexity.” Philosophy and Theology 9/1-2 (1996) 151-76—published later but dated earlier).

“Between Earth and Heaven: The Dialectical Structure of Ignatian Imagination,” in Through a Glass Darkly: Essays in the Religious Imagination, ed. John Hawley (New York: Fordham University Press, 1997).

“An Ancient Catholic: An Interview with Richard Rodriguez,” in Catholic Lives, Contemporary America, ed. Thomas J. Ferraro (Durham: Duke University Press, 1997). [reprint of popular article, with introduction by Ferraro featuring Crowley’s ideas on the notion of “the Catholic”]

“Rahner, Doctrine and Ecclesial Pluralism,” Philosophy & Theology 12/1 (2000) 131-54.

“Homosexuality and the Counsel of the Cross,” Theological Studies 65 (2004) 500-29. (See also “Homosexuality and the Counsel of the Cross: A Clarification,” Theological Studies 69 (2008).

“Theology in the Light of Human Suffering: A Note on “Taking the Crucified Down from the Cross,” in Hope and Solidarity: Jon Sobrino’s Challenge to Christian Theology (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2008.