Regis College

Director, Master of Divinity Program
Associate Professor, Systematic Theology john.dadoskyutoronto.ca
Room 215; ext. 262

Prof. Dadosky received his B.A. in philosophy and psychology from Northern Kentucky University (1989), M.A. in Theological Studies from the University of Dayton (1991), S.T.L. from Regis College (1999), Ph.D. from the University of St. Michael’s College (2001); S.T.D. from Regis College (2004). He joined the faculty in July 2001 and teaches systematic theology.

Publications:

• Editor. Meaning and History in Systematic Theology: Essays in Honor of Robert M. Doran, S. J. Milwaukee, WI: Marquette University Press, 2009.
• The Structure of Religious Knowing: Encountering the Sacred in the thought of Eliade and Lonergan. SUNY Press, 2004.
• “Is There a Fourth Stage of Meaning?” Heythrop Journal. Forthcoming, July, 2010.
• “Circumdata Varietate: The Multiple Dimensions of the Church: Towards an Explanatory Account.” New Blackfriars. Accepted for publication.
• “Merton’s Dialogue with Zen: Pioneering or Passé?” Fu Jen International Religious Studies, Vol. 2 No. 1 (N. Summer 2008), 53-75.
• “Philosophy for a Theology of Beauty.” Philosophy & Theology, 19 1-2 (2007): 7-34.
• “Towards a Fundamental RE-Interpretation of Vatican II.” Heythrop Journal, 49 (September, 2008): 742-763
• “The Official Church and the Church of Love in Balthasar’s Reading of John: An Exploration in Post-Vatican II Ecclesiology.” Studia Canonica, 41 (2007), pp. 453-471
• “Sacralization, Secularization, and Religious Fundamentalism.” Studies in Religious/Sciences Religieuses, 36.3-4 (Fall, 2007): 513-529.
• “The Church and the Other: Mediation and Friendship in Post-Vatican II Roman Catholic Ecclesiology.” Pacifica: Australian Journal of Theology, (October, 2005), 302-322.
• “Healing the Psychological subject: Towards a Fourfold Notion of Conversion?” Theoforum, 35/1 (2004).
• “Foundations for a Diné (Navajo) Contribution to a Theology of Beauty.” In Christianity and Native Cultures, Cross Cultural Publications, 2004.
• “The Experience of the Sacred: Eliade and Lonergan.” Studia z filozofii Boga,religii i czlowieka (Studies in Theodicy, Philosophy of Religion and Human Nature), Warsaw, Poland.
• “Walking in the Beauty of the Spirit: A Phenomenological and Theological Case Study of a Navajo Blessingway Ceremony.” Mission: Journal of Mission Studies/Revue des sciences de la mission, VI/2 (Fall 1999).
• “The Dialectic of Religious Identity: Lonergan and Balthasar.” Theological Studies 60/1 (March 1999): 31-52.

Areas of Enthusiasm:

• Christian interface with traditional Aboriginal religions
• Philosophical Theology
• Religious identity in a pluralistic context (i.e. Fundamentalism).
• Interfaith Dialogue—World Religions
• The relationship between theology and religious studies
• Philosophical foundations for interdisciplinary studies
• Lonergan Studies
• Religion and Culture
• Theology of Beauty (Beauty as a transcendental notion)
• Possession and Exorcism
• Shamanism and Indigenous Healing Methods
• Thomas Merton
• Mariology

Courses:

Theology as Biography; Faith and Culture; Ecclesiology; Eschatology; Lonergan’s Insight, Lonergan’s Method in Theology (Fall, 2010), Lonergan’s Triune God: Systematics (Winter, 2011).

Current Projects:

Working manuscript: The Eclipse of Beauty and its Recovery: Philosophy for a Theological Aesthetics [Supported in part by an ATS administered Lilly Foundation Research Grant, 2005]

Working Manuscript: Communion & Friendship: An Exploration in Post-Vatican II Theology of Church.