Gary A. Macy
John Nobili, S.J. Professor Dr. Macy was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where he developed a love for good food, good beer, good wine and good conversation. An English literature major at Marquette University in Milwaukee who couldn’t decide if he wanted to study medieval literature, philosophy, or history realized that he could do all three if he majored in theology. After graduating with an undergraduate and a master’s degrees from Marquette, he traveled to Cambridge University where he earned a doctoral degree in historical theology (and developed a taste for very dry sherry). For the next twenty-nine years, Dr. Macy taught courses on the medieval church and on Christian ritual at the University of San Diego. Here he met, fell in love with, and married his wife, Saralynn Ferrara. During his years in San Diego, Dr. Macy published several books and over twenty articles on the theology and history of the Eucharist and on women’s ordination. In 1991-2, Dr. Macy was Heroditus Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and during the 2005-2006 academic year was Senior Luce Fellowship at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina (where he developed a taste for barbeque). In 2007, Dr. Macy was appointed John Nobili, S.J. Professor of Theology at Santa Clara University. He continues his interest in Christian ritual and his love for good food, good beer, good wine and good conversation. Update: to hear a recent talk given by Dr. Macy, click here. Also, for an interview with Gary Macy from Brazil, please click here.
Courses -
Courses taught at Santa Clara University -
Academic Appointments - John Nobili, S.J. Professor, Santa Clara University
| 9/07 – Present | - Professor, University of San Diego
| 9/78 – 9/07 | - Visiting Professor, Marquette University
| Summer, 1982 | - Visiting Lecturer, Notre Dame University
| 1/78 - 5/78 | - Teaching Assistant, Marquette University
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9/72 - 6/73 |
Research Research Interests
Publications Books Theologies of the Eucharist in the Early Scholastic Period, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984. The Banquet's Wisdom: A Short History of the Theologies of the Lord's Supper, Mawah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1992; 2nd ed. Akron, OH: The Order of St. Luke’s Press, 2005. Editor, Theology and the New Histories (Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the College Theology Society, 1998) Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Press, 1999 Treasures from the Storehouse: Essays on the Medieval Eucharist, Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press of America, 1999. Editor with Bernard Cooke, A History of Women and Ordination: Volume 1: The Ordination of Women in a Medieval Context, New York: Scarecrow Press, 2002. Editor with Bernard Cooke, A History of Women and Ordination: Volume 2: Ida Raming, The Priestly Ministry of Women: God's Gift for a Renewed Church, New York: Scarecrow Press, 2004. Author with Bernard Cooke, Christian Symbol and Ritual: An Introduction, New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Editor with Orlando O. Espín, The Future Of Our Past: Explorations In The Theology Of Tradition, Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2006. The Hidden History of the Ordination of Women: Female Clergy in the Medieval West (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007) Articles, Chapters in Books, Dictionary Articles: "Women in the Middle Ages," Women and the Shaping of Catholicism: Women Through the Ages, edited by Richard W. Miller (Liguori, MO: Liguori Publications 2009) 270 articles in the Dictionary of Theology and Religious Studies, edited by Orlando Espín, and James Nickoloff (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2007) "A Bibliographical Note on Richardus Praemonstratensis," Analecta Praemonstratensia, vol. 52, fasc. 1-2 (1976), pp. 64-69. "The Theological Fate of Berengar's Oath of 1059: Interpreting a Blunder Become Tradition," Interpreting the Tradition (Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the College Theology Society, 1983), edited by Jane Kopas (Scholar's Press, 1984), pp. 27-38. "Some Examples of the Influence of Exegesis on the Theology of the Eucharist in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries," Recherches Théologie Ancienne et Médiévale, vol. 52 (1985), pp. 64-77. Co-authored with George Bryjak, "The Fall of Sun Myung Moon and the Unification Church in America" USA Today, vol 114 (November, 1985), pp. 62-65. "Reception of the Eucharist According to the Theologians: A Case of Diversity in the 13th and 14th Centuries," Theology and the University (Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the College Theology Society, 1987) edited by John Apczynski (University Press of America: Lanham, MD, 1990), pp. 15-36. "Berengar's Legacy as Heresiarch," Auctoritas und Ratio: Studien zu Berengar von Tours, edited by Peter Ganz, R. B. C. Huygens and Friedrich Niewöhner, Wolfenbütteler Mittelalter-Studien, vol.2 (In Kommission bei Otto Harrassowitz: Wiesbaden, 1990), pp. 47-67. "Of Mice and Manna: Quid mus sumit as a Pastoral Question," Recherches Théologie Ancienne et Médiévale, vol. 58 (1991), pp. 157-166. "The Dogma of Transubstantiation in the Middle Ages," Journal of Ecclesiastical History, vol. 45 (1994), pp. 11-41. The entries "Eucharistic Spirituality," "Gertrude the Great," "Hildegard of Bingen," "Joachim of Fiore," "Nicholas of Cusa," "Stigmata," and "Victorines" for the Encyclopedia of Catholicism , edited by Richard McBrien (HarperCollins Publishers: New York, 1995). “Demythologizing ‘the Church’ in the Middle Ages,” Journal of Hispanic/Latino Theology, vol. 3 (1995), pp. 23-41. "Was there a 'the Church' in the Middle Ages?" Unity and Diversity in the Church, edited by Robert Swanson, Studies in Church History, vol. 52 (Blackwell: Oxford, 1996), pp. 107-116. "Commentaries on the Mass in the Early Scholastic Period," Medieval Liturgy : A Book of Essays, edited by Lizette Larson-Miller (Garland Press: New York and London, 1997), pp. 25-59. “The Eucharist and Popular Devotion,” Proceedings of the Fifty-second Annual Convention of the Catholic Theological Society of America, vol. 52, edited by Judith A. Dwyer (Catholic Theological Society of America, 1997), pp. 39-58. "A Re-evaluation of the Contribution of Thomas Aquinas to Thirteenth-Century Theology of the Eucharist." The Intellectual Climate of the Early Universities: Essay in Honor of Otto Gründler, ed. by Nancy Van Dusen, Studies in Medieval Culture, 39 (Medieval Institute Publications: Kalamazoo, MI, 1997), pp. 53-72. “Nicolas Eymeric and the Condemnation of Orthodoxy” The Devil, Heresy, and Witchcraft in the Middle Ages: Essays in Honor of Jeffrey B. Russell edited by A. Ferreiro (E. J. Brill: Leiden, 1998), pp. 369-381. Preface to Ute Eisen, Women Officeholders in Early Christianity: Epigraphical and Literary Studies (The Liturgical Press: Collegeville, MN, 2000). "The Ordination of Women in the Early Middle Ages," Theological Studies, vol. 61, no. 3 (September, 2000) pp. 481-507. Translated into Japanese in Shingaku Digest, 92 (Summer, 2002), pp. 32-53. "L’Eucharistie en occident de 1000 à 1300," Eucharistia: encyclopédie de l'eucharistie, (Paris: Éditions du Cerf, 2002), 175-193. “The ‘Invention’ of Clergy and Laity in the Twelfth Century,” A Sacramental Life: A Festschrift Honoring Bernard Cooke, edited by Michael Horace Barnes and William P. Roberts (Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2003), 117-35. “Transubstantiation,” in the Supplement to the Dictionary of the Middle Ages (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2003). "The Eleonore and Nathaniel F. Philips, Sr. Memorial Lecture, An Old Perspective -- The Church in the Middle Ages”, Religions and the American Experience, Frank T. Birtel, ed. (Hyde Park, NY: New York City Press, 2005). “Heloise, Abelard and the Ordination of Abbesses,” Journal of Ecclesiastical History, vol. 57, no. 1 (January, 2006), pp. 16-32. “The Future of the Past: What Can the History Say About Symbol and Ritual,” Practicing Catholic: Ritual, Body, and Contestation, edited by Bruce Morrill, S.J., Susan Rodgers, Joanna E. Ziegler, (New York: Palgrave-Macmillan Press, 2006) 29-37. “The Iberian Heritage of U.S. Latino/a Theology,” Orlando O. Espín and Gary Macy, The Future Of Our Past: Explorations In The Theology Of Tradition (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2006), 43-82. “The Church as Medieval and Free,” in The Many Marks of the Church, Michael Daley and William Madges, eds.,(New London, CT: Twenty-third Publications, 2006) 152-56. “A Response to Columba Stewart,” Catholic Theological Society of America: Proceedings of the Sixty-first Annual Convention, edited by Jonathan Y. Tan (Catholic Theological Society of America, 2006), 14-18. “Christian Sign Language,” Church, vol. 23, no. 3 (Fall, 2007), pp. 8-11. Presentations -
Santa Clara Lecture, Santa Clara University 2007 -
Susan B. Horton Cone Family Distinguished Lecturer, University of Wyoming 2007
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"Morality and the Canonists," at the convention Philosophical Enquiry on Morality, Spode House, Staffordshire, England, September, l974. "Morality and the Eucharist in the Middle Ages," Annual Convention of the College Theology Society, Windsor, Canada, June 2, l978. "The Influence of Exegesis on the Theology of the Eucharist in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries," Annual Meeting of the American Catholic Historical Association, Los Angeles, California, December 30, 1981. "The Theological Fate of the Berengarian Oath of 1059: Interpreting a Blunder Become Tradition," Annual Convention of the College Theology Society, Radnor, Pennsylvania, June 3, l983. "Of Mice and Manna: Quid Mus Sumit as a Pastoral Question," International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 10, l984. "The People-to-People Program of USD: A New Approach to Teaching Social Concern," Annual Convention of the College Theology Society, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, May 31 - June 2, l984. "The Theology of the Eucharist in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries: Reception According to the Franciscans," International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 10, 1986. "The Theology of the Eucharist in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries: Reception According to the Dominicans," International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 7, 1987 "Reception of the Eucharist According to the Theologians: A Case of Diversity in the 13th and 14th Centuries," Annual Convention of the College Theology Society, May 30, 1987 During the summer of 1987, I helped Professor Robert B.C. Huygens prepare the Lanfrank index to his new edition of Berengar of Tour's tract, De sacra coena. "The Theological Legacy of Berengar of Tours: Berengar as Heresiarch," Colloquium on Berengarius of Tours, Herzog August Bibliothek Wofenbüttel, October 2-5, 1988. I directed a workshop on the use of computers in the Humanities, Annual Convention of the College Theology, New Orleans, LA, May 29, 1990. "The Sources of Thomas Aquinas' Theology of the Eucharist," Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, Princeton University, April 13, 1991. "Lateran IV and the Dogma of Transubstantiation," Meeting of the Delaware Valley Medieval Association, December 7, 1991. "A Re-evaluation of the Contribution of Thomas Aquinas to Thirteenth-Century Theology of the Eucharist," Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, December 10, 1991. "Salvation, Miracles and Heresy: Theology of the Eucharist in the Early Thirteenth Century," Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, April 21, 1992. "Nicholas Eymeric and the Persecution of Orthodoxy," Annual Convention of the College Theology Society, May 31, 1992. "Was Transubstantiation Ever a Dogma in the Middle Ages?" Conference on Heresy and Literacy c. 1000-c. 1530, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University, July 7-9, 1992 "Church Leadership and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion," Future of the Church Conference, Washington, D.C., September 25, 1992. "Nicholas Eymeric and the Condemnation of Orthodoxy," Tradition and Ecstasy: The Agony of the Fourteenth Century, Symposium held at the Claremont Graduate Schools, Claremont, CA, November 20, 1992. Convener, Panel Discussion, "The Future of the Sacraments," Annual Convention of the College Theology Society, June 4, 1993. Panelist, Panel Discussion, Inventing the Middle Ages: The Lives, Works, and Ideas of the Great Medievalists of the Twentieth Century, by Norman Cantor, Annual Convention of the College Theology Society, June 4, 1993. "The Role of the Eucharist in Salvation According to the Medieval Theologians," NEH Summer Seminar, University of Santa Barbara, July 28, 1993. "Miracles as Theological Proof In Eucharistic Theology of the Late Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Century," the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch, Loyola Marymount University, August 12, 1993. "Theologies of the Eucharist in the Biblical Commentaries on I Corinthians in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries," the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 7, 1994 "L'eucaristia e la vita religiosa nel secolo XIII," a series of lectures presented at the Centro Interuniversitario di Studi Francescani in Assisi, Italy, June 28- 29, 1994. "Was there a 'the Church' in the Middle Ages?" annual meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society of England, Nottingham, England, Thursday, July 21, 1994. "Was there a 'the Church' in the Middle Ages?" "Reinventing the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Constructions of the Medieval and Early Modern Periods," first annual conference of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Tempe, Arizona, February 18, 1995. "The Christian Tradition of Using the Eucharist to Secure Public Morality," Annual Convention of the College Theology Society, The College of the Holy Cross, Worchester, MA, June 2, 1995. Response to the Honorable John J. Noonan,Jr., "The Place of Religious Belief and Ethics in a Catholic University and in Law and Public Life," University of San Diego School of Law, November 6, 1995. "Fourteenth -Century Propaganda in Orvieto: The Case of the Miracle Corporal of Orvieto," "The Future of the Middle Ages and Renaissance," second annual conference of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Tempe, Arizona, February 16, 1996. "Eucharistic Images as Propaganda: The Miracle Corporal of Orvieto," "Images of the Middle Ages and Renaissance: A Conference and Discussion," University of San Diego, April 19, 1996. Response to three papers on popular religion and the lower clergy at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 10, 1996 "The Impact of Historicity on Theological Disciplines," Annual Convention of the Catholic Theology Society of America, San Diego, CA, June 8, 1996. "Politics, Popular Devotion and the Miracle Host of Orvieto," Homeland Lecture Series in Roman Catholic Theology, Duke University, February 14, 1997. "The Eucharist and Popular Devotion," Plenary Address, Annual Convention of the Catholic Theological Society of America, Minneapolis, MN, June 5, 1997. "The Eucharist and Popular Devotion: A Discussion," North American Academy of Liturgy, San Antonio, January 5, 1998. "Laity: the Once and Future Church," The Dominican College of St. Rafael, March 26, 1998; Call to Action, College of Notre Dame, Belmont, CA, August 1, 1998. "Catholic? Popular? Oh, Dear!" University of Dayton, July 15, 1998. "Ordination in the Early Middle Ages," North American Academy of Liturgy, Vancouver, January 4, 1999. "The Church in the Middle Ages," The Eleonore and Nathaniel P. Phillip, Sr. Memorial Lecture, Tulane University, February 25, 1999. "Ordination and Celebration in the Early Middle Ages," Annual Convention of the College Theology Society, St. Norbert’s College, DePere, WI, June 4, 1999. "Ethics and the Eucharist: A Roundtable Discussion." Paper presented with Phil LeMasters, Therese Lysaught, and Gaile Pohlhaus at the joint Meeting of the College Theology Society and the National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion, St. Norbert’s College, DePere, WI, June 5, 1999. "The Ordination of Women in the Early Middle Ages, 35th International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 6, 2000. "Did Abelard Consider Heloise to Be Ordained?" Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy, Tempe, Arizona, March, 2000 "Heloise, Abelard and the Ordination of Abbesses," Conférence internationale, "Pierre Abélard, à l'aube des universités," Université de Nantes, Nantes (France) October, 2000. (paper accepted, not delivered) "The Future of the Past: What Can the History Say About Symbol and Ritual?" Practicing Catholic: Body, Performance, and Contestation in Catholic Faith: A Conference of Invited Scholarly Papers, Ritual and Artistic Performances. The Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, October 19, 2002. "Who and How: Debates about Consecration in the Twelfth Century." Annual Meeting of the North American Academy of Liturgy, Indianapolis, Indiana, January 4, 2003. "The Eucharist: The Reluctant Miracle," Joint meeting of the British National Commission of CIHEC and The Ecclesiastical History Society, University of Exeter, July 23, 2003. "The Iberian Heritage of U.S. Latino/a Theology," Center for the Study of Latino/a Catholicism, San Diego, January 8-12, 2004. "The Incarnational Theology of Iberian Ritual Practice," Annual Meeting of the Academy of Catholic Hispanic Theologian of the United States, Georgetown University, June 7, 2004. "The Theological Implications of the Church’s Teaching on Homosexuality Historical Theology Implied in this Teaching," Catholic Theological Society of America, Washington, D.C., June 12, 2004. "Misogyny and the Catholic Church," Catholicism for a New Millennium Series, Gonzaga University, April 7, 2005 "Currents in Medieval Eucharistic Theology," Eucharistia ed escatologia: Arte e teologoia nel Duomo di Orvieto, Orvieto, Italy, May 26, 2005. "Female Clergy in the Middle Ages," Princeton University, November 30, 2005. Awards & Grants -
Susan B. Horton Cone Family Distinguished Lecturer, University of Wyoming2007
Luce Senior Fellow, National Humanities Center2005-6
Plenary Speaker, American Academy of Catholic Theologians
Of the United States2004
Eleonore and Nathaniel F. Philips, Sr. Memorial Lecture, Tulane University2/25/99
Plenary Speaker, Catholic Theological Society of America1997
Homeland Lecture, Duke University1997
Essay of the Year Award, College Theology Society1995
NEH Summer Stipend6/95 - 8/95
Book of the Year Award, College Theology Society1992
Herodotus Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study9/91 - 9/92
Participant, NEH Summer Seminar6/91 - 8/91
Associated Church Press Award, Best Fictional Humor1984
Activities Professional Societies
"Ordination rites for Deaconesses and Abbesses," North American Academy of Liturgy, January 5, 2008
American Academy of Religion
The American Catholic Historical Association
American Historical Association
Catholic Theology Society of America
College Theology Society
Ecclesiastical History Society of England
The Medieval Academy of America
The Medieval Association of the Pacific
North American Academy of Liturgy
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