Thomas Aquinas Theology of Religious Pluralism and Comparative Theology

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1 ANNA BONTA MORELAND Associate Professor of Theology Department of Humanities and Augustinian Traditions Villanova University 800 Lancaster Avenue Villanova, Pennsylvania (610) RESEARCH INTERESTS ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE Thomas Aquinas Theology of Religious Pluralism and Comparative Theology Villanova University Department of Humanities and Augustinian Traditions Associate Professor, 2013-present Assistant Professor, Villanova School of Business Master of Science in Church Management Program Adjunct Faculty, 2013-present Courses: Christianity, Islam and Judaism: A Medieval Conversation Judaism, Christianity and Islam in Dialogue Humanities Gateway Seminar: God Augustine & Culture Seminar: Traditions in Conversation (Honors and College sections) Augustine & Culture Seminar: Modernity & Its Discontents Augustine and Culture Seminar: Love and Friendship Thomas Aquinas in the Modern World Introduction to Theology (Honors and College sections) Interreligious Dialogue (Honors) Master of Science in Church Management Introduction: Leadership in Religious Organizations/Organizational Ethics/Catholic Social Thought University of Notre Dame Myser Visiting Fellow Center for Ethics and Culture PUBLICATIONS The Qur an and the Doctrine of Private Revelation: A Theological Proposal, Theological Studies (forthcoming, 2015) Response to Stephen Fields, S.J., Louis Dupre s Model of Modernity, in Nature: Ancient and Modern, eds. R.J. Snell and Stephen McGuire (Lexington Books, forthcoming)

2 St. Paul, Aristotle, and the Virtues of Perfectionism, Comment on Nicholas Wolterstorff, The Mighty and the Almighty: An Essay in Political Theology, Journal of Law and Religion (forthcoming, 2015) Analogical Reasoning and Christian Prophecy: The Case of Muhammad Modern Theology 29 (October 2013) Comment on Per Erik Persson, Sacra Doctrina: Reason and Revelation in Aquinas, Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift 89 (2013) Teaching the Catholic Intellectual Tradition, Boston College Church in the 21 st Century Center, C21 Resources: The Catholic Intellectual Tradition (Spring 2013) What s Reason Got to Do With It? Examining Contemporary Theologies of Religious Pluralism, in New Voices in Catholic Theology, eds. Anna Bonta Moreland and Joseph Curran (Crossroad/Herder, 2012) Response to Martin Rhonheimer, Practical Reason, Human Nature, and the Epistemology of Ethics, Villanova Law Review 57 (2012) Known by Nature: Thomas Aquinas on Knowledge of God (Crossroad/Herder, 2010) EDUCATION Boston College M.A. (1997) and Ph.D. (2005) in Systematic Theology Dissertation: Aquinas and Natural Knowledge of God: Contemporary Considerations Dissertation Committee: Michael J. Buckley, S.J. (Director), Louis Roy, O.P., Thomas S. Hibbs Teaching Fellow: Introduction to Christian Theology I and II Teaching Assistant to Professor Michael Himes University Doctoral Fellowship, Lonergan Fellowship, University of Maryland at College Park B.A. in Philosophy, cum laude (1992) Honors Program High Honors in Philosophy Thesis: Reason and Belief in God: A Critical Appraisal of Alvin Plantinga University of Maryland Honors Best Project Award, 1992 University of Maryland Honors Scholarship, University of Maryland Arts and Humanities Scholar, University of Maryland Office of Minority Student Education Scholarship,

3 PAPERS PRESENTED Transcending Orthodoxies in Academic Departments: A Concrete Work in Progress at Villanova University (with Thomas Smith, Mary Hirschfeld, and James Wilson) Conference on Transcending Orthodoxies: Re-examining Academic Freedom in Religiously-Affiliated Colleges and Universities, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, University of Notre Dame, October 29-November 1, 2015 Respondent to Fabrice Hadjadj, Family: The One Anarchist Institution? (with Gerhard Cardinal Müller) World Meeting of Families, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 22, 2015 El Papa Francisco es Argentino (invited lecture) The Portsmouth Institute at Portsmouth Abbey, Portsmouth, Rhode Island Conference on Like a Shepherd He Will Tend His Flock: Understanding the Francis Papacy, June 19-21, 2015 Respondent to Stephen Fields, S.J. Louis Dupre s Model of Modernity Agora Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Conference on Nature: Ancient and Modern, April 17-19, 2015 Career Counseling in the Humanities? (with Peter Struck) Collegium Institute Humanities Forum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 15, 2015 Discerning Your Future: Navigating Life beyond Villanova (Annual Faith and Reason Lecture) Department of Humanities, Villanova University, March 24, 2015 Respondent to Rabbi Dr. Alan Brill The Varieties of Modern Orthodoxy Collegium Institute, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 5, 2015 The Joy of the Gospel: A Guide to the Thought of Pope Francis (invited lecture) Lumen Christi Institute, Chicago, Illinois, October 16, 2014 Interpreting Pope Francis: Evangelization and the Family (invited lecture) Lumen Christi Institute, Chicago, Illinois, October 15, 2014 Pope Francis: First Pope from the Americas (with Brian Daley, S.J. and Russell Reno) Lumen Christi Institute, Chicago, Illinois, October, 2013 Is Comparative Theology Catholic? (respondent to Francis X. Clooney, S.J., Paul Griffiths, Jeannine Hill Fletcher, and Klaus von Stosch) 3

4 American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, November 19, 2012 Justice and St. Thomas, (with Jean Porter and Kevin Flannery, S.J.) Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture Annual Conference November 9-11, 2012 Theology of Religious Pluralism and Analogy College Theology Society, June 1-3, 2012 AAR Summer Seminars in Theology of Religious Pluralism and Comparative Theology: A Report (invited plenary workshop) American Academy of Religion Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting, March 14-16, 2012 Christian Orthodoxy and Religious Pluralism: Epistemological Considerations Catholic Theological Society of America Annual Meeting, June 6-8, 2009 The Nature of Dialogue: Medieval Resources for a Contemporary Problem Notre Dame Ethics and Culture Annual Conference, November 29-December 1, 2007 Catholic Theologians and the University Catholic Theological Society of America Annual Meeting, June 6, 2003 Natural Knowledge of God: The Contemporary Debate American Maritain Association Meeting, October 21-24, 1999 Spirituality and Suffering: An Exploration of John of the Cross and Jerome Miller American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, November 20-23, 1997 Nietzsche the Sophist: Reading Thus Spoke Zarathustra Ecce Nietzche Conference, University of Southern Maine, March 16-17, 1995 GRANTS VERITAS University Research Grant: Is Muhammad a Prophet? An Analogical Question (Summer 2012) Villanova College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Faculty Development Grant: Thomas Aquinas Studium (invited workshop) in Toronto, Ontario and Providence, Rhode Island (June 2011, June 2012, and June 2015) American Academy of Religion/Luce Fellowship: Summer Seminars in Theology of Religious Pluralism/Comparative Theology in New York City and Chicago ( ) 4

5 Villanova College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Faculty Development Grant: Scriptural Reasoning Workshop for Jews, Christians, and Muslims in London, Ontario (Summer 2010) Villanova Institute for Teaching and Learning Minigrant: Expanding the architectural and artistic elements in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam course (Summer 2009) VERITAS University Research Grant: The Nature of Inter-Religious Dialogue: Medieval Resources for a Contemporary Problem (Summer 2008) SERVICE Manuscript Reviewer: University of Notre Dame Press, Ashgate Publishing Limited, Journal of Scriptural Reasoning, Journal for Peace and Justice Studies Editorial Board: Journal of Scriptural Reasoning (2012-present) Villanova University Committees: University International Leadership Team: Subcommittee on International Students and Scholars ( ) Civitas Dei Medal, University Committee ( ) Mission and Ministry Strategic Planning Committee ( ) College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Committees: Honors Program Curriculum Advisory Board (2011-present) Ad Hoc Honors Program Curriculum Committee ( ) Villanova Faith and Learning Mentor ( ) Villanova Undergraduate Research Fellowship Selection Committee (Spring 2012) Connelly-Delouvrier International Scholarship Selection Committee (Spring 2007) Harry S. Truman Scholarship Selection Committee (Fall 2006) Humanities Department Committees: Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (Interim Chair, Fall 2008 and Member, 2007-present) Humanities Department Literature Search Committee (2007) Speaking: Faculty speaker: Admitted Students Day The Importance of the Liberal Arts at Villanova University (April 18, 2015) Faculty speaker: Honors Program Early Action Accepted Candidates Day Why the Liberal Arts? (February 24, 2012) New Faculty Orientation Speaker, The Role of the Liberal Arts at Villanova University (September 11, 2008) 5

6 Faculty panelist: Spe Salvi: A Discussion by Villanova Faculty (January 31, 2008) Faculty Panelist: Faith, Reason and the University: Pope Benedict XVI at Regensburg (October 16, 2006) Conference Work: Director, Boston College Symposium in honor of Michael J. Buckley, S.J. (October 23-24, 2010) Session Moderator, Patristic, Medieval and Renaissance Studies Annual Conference, The Complexity of Communicatio in High Medieval Thought, (October 25, 2014) Session Moderator, Patristic, Medieval and Renaissance Studies 35 th Annual Conference: The Nature of Theology: Franciscan and Dominican Perspectives Grace Modifying Nature: How Christian Revelation Changed a Concept in the Thought of Thomas Aquinas (October, 2010) Session Moderator, Patristic, Medieval and Renaissance Studies 33 rd Annual Conference, Prophecy in the Abrahamic Faiths (October, 2008) Session Moderator, Patristic, Medieval and Renaissance Studies 31st Annual Conference, The Form and Content of Aquinas Disputed Questions (October 14, 2006) OTHER EXPERIENCE St. Mary Student Parish, University of Michigan Catholic Campus Ministry Education Director HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. Spanish Translator: The Wisdom of Pope John Paul II (1995, 2000) Assumptions Communications Translator for documents from Spanish to English for Catholic International SCHOLARLY SOCIETIES LANGUAGES Catholic Theological Society of America, co-convener, Aquinas Interest Group College Theology Society American Academy of Religion, regional co-chair, Scriptural Reasoning Group Spanish (fluent), French (reading), Latin (reading) 6