Emeritus
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David Aune
Professor Emeritus
| | HONORS: Elected a fellow of The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi), Oslo, Norway, in 2009. Elected a fellow of The Norwegian Royal Society of Sciences and Letters (Det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskab), Trondheim, Norway, in 2001. Festschrift: The New Testament and Early Christian Literature in Greco-Roman Context: Studies in Honor of David E. Aune. Edited by John Fotopoulos. Supplements to Novum Testamentum, 122. Leiden: Brill, 2006. Named honorary president for life of the Chicago Society of Biblical Research at its last meeting on October 21, 2012.
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Gerard Baumbach
Professor Emeritus
| History and theory of catechesis; catechetical leadership formation | Gerard F. Baumbach is emeritus faculty in the McGrath Institute for Church Life and director emeritus of the Institute’s Echo Program. He joined the faculty in 2003 after a distinguished career in publishing, writing, and parish catechetical leadership. He was a concurrent professor in the Department of Theology, where he served for many years on the Master of Divinity and the Master of Arts in Theology committees. Baumbach was part of the preparation process for numerous catechetical publications during his nearly 25 years at William H. Sadlier, Inc., where his last position was executive vice president and publisher. He also served on task groups of the U.S. Bishops’ Conference. He was selected for inclusion in the “Christian Educators of the 20th Century Project,” recognizing his contributions to Christian religious education. Other recognitions include two in 2018 for his book, The Way of Catechesis: Association of Catholic Publishers: Resources for Ministry (a first place award) and Catholic Press Association: Pastoral Ministry (a second place award); the 2008 NCCL Catechetical Award (with the Institute’s Center for Catechetical Initiatives), which recognized the Echo initiative; and in 2003 the F. Sadlier Dinger Award for leadership of and service to the ministry of catechesis.
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Joseph Blenkinsopp
Professor Emeritus
| |Born in Durham, England. Taught at International Theological College, Romsey, U.K., Chicago Theological Seminary, Vanderbilt University and University of Notre Dame from 1970; Guest-Professor at Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome, 1998. Member of several learned societies including Society of Biblical Literature, Society for the Study of the Old Testament (U.K., President 1999-2000), Catholic Biblical Association (President 1988-1989), European Association of Biblical Studies. ATS Research grant 1978, Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford 1982-1983 with NEH grant, Mellon Retiree Research Grant 2005-2006. Excavated at Tel Dan, Israel 1977 and at Capernaum, Israel with Notre Dame University support 1980-1987. Rector of Ecumenical Institute, Tantur, Israel, 1978.
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Paul Bradshaw
Professor Emeritus
|Continuing to study Christian liturgy of the first four centuries. |A specialist in early Christian liturgy, he received his B.A. and M.A. in theology, Cambridge University (1966, 1970), Ph.D. in liturgical studies, London University (1971), and Doctor of Divinity, Oxford University (1994) for his published works; also honorary DD from the General Theological Seminary, New York. Ordained in the Church of England in 1969, after holding several positions there, he taught at Notre Dame from 1985 until 2013. Between 1995 and 2008 he served as Director of Notre Dame’s London Undergraduate Program. He has been president of the North American Academy of Liturgy (1993-94) and of the international body Societas Liturgica (1993-95). From 1987 to 2005 he was also editor-in-chief of the scholarly journal Studia Liturgica. He is an honorary Canon of the Episcopal Diocese of Northern Indiana, Priest-Vicar Emeritus of Westminster Abbey, and a Consultant to the Church of England Liturgical Commission.
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David Burrell, C.S.C.
Professor Emeritus
|Comparative issues in philosophical theology in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam |Recipient of honorary doctorate in theology from Lund University (Sweden) 2008, Aquinas medal from American Catholic Philosophical Association (2008), and John Courtney Murray award from Catholic Theological Society of America (2009).
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Lawrence Cunningham
Professor Emeritus
|Theology and Culture, Christian Spirituality, Systematic Theology |2013 Recipient of the CSC Spirit Award
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Mary R. D'Angelo
Professor Emerita
|Women and gender in Christian Origins; Roman political contexts of early Jewish and Christian sexual and familial ethics. |Before her years at Notre Dame, Mary R. D’Angelo taught at the Toronto School of Theology in Canada and Maryknoll School of Theology, as well as other institutions throughout the US. Specializing in New Testament and Christian Origins, she lectures and writes on women, gender, sexuality, feminist theology and ethical questions in Christian Origins, ancient Judaism and the early Roman empire. Besides Women and Christian Origins, a joint project with Ross Shepard Kraemer, she has published numerous articles on women, gender and imperial politics in the beginnings of Christianity. She is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry and lives in Boston, where she is working on a feminist commentary on 1 Corinthians and a book on the Roman political context of “family values” in emerging Christianity and early Judaism.
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Robert M. Gimello
Research Professor Emeritus
|Buddhism & Christianity |Gimello is a historian of Buddhism with special interests also in the Theology of Religions and in Comparative Mysticism. In the field of Buddhist Studies he concentrates especially on Buddhism in East Asia (China, Korea, & Japan), most particularly on the Buddhism of medieval and early modern China. The traditions of Buddhist thought and practice on which he especially focuses are Huáyán/Hwaŏm/Kegon 華嚴 (The “Flower-Ornament” Tradition), Chán 禪 (Zen), and Mijiao/Milgyo/Mikkyō 密教 (Esoteric/Tantric Buddhism), in the study of of which he is particularly concerned with the relationships between Buddhist thought or doctrine and Buddhist contemplative and liturgical practice, on the other. In the area of Theology of Religions, against the background of contemporary debates about the theological implications of religious pluralism, and in critical response to major trends in the ongoing Buddhist-Christian dialogue, he is concerned chiefly with the question of what Catholic Christian theology can, should, or must make of Buddhism. In the field of the study of mysticism, he joins regularly in the debates, chiefly among philosophers of religion, about the differences and similarities among various mystical traditions and about the relationship between mystical experience and the practices and beliefs that comprise religious traditions.
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Gustavo Gutiérrez
Professor Emeritus
| |After studies in medicine and literature in Peru, Gustavo Gutierrez studied psychology and philosophy at Louvain, and eventually took a doctorate at the Institut Catholique in Lyons. He is most well-known for his foundational work in Latin American liberation theology, A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, Salvation. His other major books - which have been translated from Spanish into multiple languages besides English - touch as well on issues of spirituality and Latin American history, and include, We Drink From Our Own Wells: The Spiritual Journey of A People, On Job: God-Talk and the Suffering of the Innocent, The Truth Shall Make You Free, The God of Life, and Las Casas: In Search of the Poor of Jesus Christ. His essays have appeared in Theological Studies, La Revista Latinoamericana de Teología, and Páginas. He has also published in and been a member of the board of directors of the international journal, Concilium. Gutierrez has been a principal professor at the Pontifical University of Peru, and has been visiting professor at many major universities in North America and Europe. He is a member of the Peruvian Academy of Language, and in 1993 he was awarded the Legion of Honor by the French government for his tireless work for human dignity and life, and against oppression, in Latin America and the Third World. He is currently working on a book exploring the historical background and continuing theological relevance of the preferential option for the poor.
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Nathan Mitchell
Professor Emeritus
|Ritual Studies, Sacramental and liturgical theology |Mitchell’s research interests lie primarily in the areas of liturgical and sacramental theology. In 1998, Mitchell was presented with the Berakah Award from the North American Academy of Liturgy. In 2003, colleagues celebrated Mitchell's 60th birthday with a Festschrift entitled Ars Liturgiae: Worship, Aesthetics, and Praxis: Essays in Honor of Nathan D. Mitchell, edited by Clare V. Johnson (Chicago: Liturgy Training Publications, 2003).
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James VanderKam
John A. O'Brien Professor of Hebrew Scriptures, Emeritus
Christianity and Judaism in Antiquity |Second temple literature and scholarship on it |James VanderKam received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1976. He began teaching at North Carolina State University in 1976 and remained there until 1991, at which time he accepted an invitation to the University of Notre Dame where he is the John A. O’Brien Professor of Hebrew Scriptures. VanderKam’s areas of interest are the history and literature of Early Judaism and the Hebrew Scriptures. His research in the last 30 years has focused on the Dead Sea Scrolls and related literature. As a member of the editorial committee preparing the scrolls for publication, he edited thirteen volumes in the series Discoveries in the Judaean Desert. He is one of the two editors in chief of the Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls (2000). His The Dead Sea Scrolls Today (1994), has been translated into six languages and appeared in a second edition in 2010. His commentary on the Book of Jubilees (Hermeneia) was published in November 2018. Among his other books are From Revelation to Canon: Studies in the Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Literature (2000), An Introduction to Early Judaism (2001), The Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls (2002), From Joshua to Caiaphas: High Priests after the Exile (2004), 1 Enoch 2 (2012), and The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible (2012). He has published numerous essays in journals and books. For six years he was the editor of the Journal of Biblical Literature and is on the editorial boards of Dead Sea Discoveries and several series. VanderKam has delivered papers at many conferences and has offered lectures in a wide variety of places.
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Randall Zachman
Professor Emeritus
|Calvin, Kierkegaard, Jewish-Christian relations |Randall Zachman taught Reformation and post-Reformation theology at the University of Notre Dame from 1991-2017. Since his retirement, he has moved to Lancaster, PA with his wife Carrie Call, and is now Adjunct Instructor of Church History at Lancaster Theological Seminary. Their son Johnny Zachman is a singer-songwriter living in Austin, Texas.