Santa Clara University

Paul G. Crowley, S.J.

Department Chair
Professor

Prof. 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, Prof. Crowley was founding Director of the interdisciplinary Catholic Studies minor. Specializing in topics of systematic theology, Prof. 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

Courses taught at Santa Clara University

	TESP 4	Christian Traditions
	TESP 5	Catholic Theology: Foundations
	TESP 6	Catholic Theology: Spirituality
	TESP 12	Medieval & Renaissance Religion
	TESP 38	Contemporary Catholic Theology
	TESP 39	Catholic Theology: Christology
	TESP 115	Seminar: Tradition and Interpretation (Hermeneutics)
	TESP 129	Seminar: Ecumenical Theology
	TESP 139	Catholic Theology & Human Sexuality
	TESP 139	Seminar: Karl Rahner
	TESP 151	Seminar: Issues in Theology and Science
	CATS 190	Colloquium: Catholic Imagination
	PMIN 203	Christology (graduate)

Teaching Appointments

Associate Professor, Religious Studies, Religious Studies Dept., Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA	1996-present
Visiting Associate Professor, Systematic Theology, Weston Jesuit School of Theology, Cambridge, MA	2001-2003
Assistant Professor, Religious Studies, Religious Studies Dept., Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA	1989-1996

• theologies of hope
• theological method as approached through the spiritual senses
• religious pluralism and ecclesiology
• religious pluralism and Christology

Selected Publications

Books

In Ten Thousand Places: Dogma in a Pluralistic Church. New York: 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.

Articles

"Rahner, Doctrine and Ecclesial Pluralism." Philosophy and Theology 12 (1 2000) 131-54.

"Rahner's Christian Pessimism: A Response to the Sorrow of AIDS." Theological Studies 58 (1997) 286-307.

"United States Catholic Theology: An Overview." In E.T. (Europaischen Theologie) 1 (1993) 4-11.

"Catholicity, Inculturation and Newman's Sensus Fidelium." The Heythrop Journal 33 (1992) 161-74.

Popular Articles

"Music of the Invisible: Messiaen's 'Saint Francis.'" Commonweal 129/11 (20 December 2002) 17-18.

"The Jesuit University and the Search for Transcendence." Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education 22 (Fall 2002) 10-15.

"Finding 'the Catholic Thing': Catholic Studies should be 'catholic.'" Commonweal 128/8 (20 April 2001).

 

Activities

Professional Memberships

• American Academy of Religion
• Catholic Theological Society of America

Service

Member, Rank and Tenure Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, Santa Clara University, 2000-2001.

Founding Director, Catholic Studies Minor, Santa Clara University, 1994-2000.

Editor, Proceedings of the Catholic Theological Society of America, 1991-1995

Member, Governing Board, Theological Studies, 1997-2000