Department News

Some recent news from the Department's faculty:

Dr. Tom Dickens

Publication: Dr. Dickens had an article published in Japanese in 2021, Tenrei ga seishokaishaku ni oyobosu eikyou, a translation of "The Liturgical Shaping of Biblical Interpretation" which was published in 2009 in the Heythrop Journal. Shingaku Digest (Jesuit Theologate, Tokyo, Japan), 130, 8-22.

Service: 2020, Saint Elizabeth University. "Interdisciplinarity in Environmental Ethics Programs", NEH Grant Workshop. Dr. Dickens planned, developed and conducted a one-day workshop for faculty and administrators who are establishing a minor in environmental ethics.

Fr. Linh Hoang, O.F.M.

Fr. Linh gave a Keynote Address at the conference on “Re-imagining the World: Saint Francis and Pope Francis” held at the Franciscan School of Theology and the University of San Diego, January 27-28, 2023. The title was “Have you Eaten Yet?: Food, Christianity and Climate Change?” The presentation stems from his current work in theology and food.
He also gave a presentation at the Schreiter Institute Symposium on Trauma, Culture, and Spirituality held at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, IL, May 12-13, 2023. The title of the presentation is: “Intergenerational Trauma: Theology, Harmony, and Justice in Recounting War”

Dr. Perundevi Srinivasan

Summer 2022: Visiting Writer, Asia Creative Writing Programme, funded by National Arts Council of Singapore and the School of Humanities at Nanyang Technological University.

Publications:

Mucce Narumanamanal. A translation of one hundred and twenty vachana poems of Akkamahadevi, a Virasaiva saint and poet, from Kannada to Tamil. Nagercoil: Kalachuvadu, 2022
Goethe Enna Colliyiruntal Enna? A collection of microfiction stories in Tamil, Nagercoil: Kalachuvadu, 2022
Un Cinna Ulagattai Tarumarakattan Punarntirukkiray. An anthology of poems in Tamil. Chennai: Uyirmmai, 2021

Tesam-Cati-Camayam. An anthology of essays on nation, caste and religion in India. Nagercoil: Kalachuvadu, 2021

Fr. Dennis Tamburello continues to work as a Catholic delegate to the Reformed-Roman Catholic Dialogue in the U.S., representing the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. This ninth round of the dialogue is focusing on issues related to justification and justice. The dialogue team met twice in 2022 and again in June 2023. The team contains representatives of the U.S. Catholic church, Presbyterian Church U.S.A., the United Church of Christ, the Reformed Church of America, and the Christian Reformed Church of North America.

Fr. Dennis has co-authored a book manuscript with Rev. Dr. Ronald Feenstra of Calvin Seminary. The book is tentatively entitled Learning from Each Other: A Resource for Reformed-Roman Catholic Dialogue and is based on Rounds 7 and 8 of the national Dialogue, dealing with issues of sacraments and the Church. The authors hope to get a publishing contract in the coming year.

Fr. Dennis co-presented a paper at the International Congress on Calvin Studies in Grand Rapids MI in July 2023. He and Dr. Ronald Feenstra presented on the topic "Better Late Than Never: Vatican II as a Response to Calvin."

Past activities:

Dr. Peter Zaas contributed the Introduction and Annotations to the Letter to the Colossians in the revised and expanded edition of The Jewish Annotated New Testament, published by Oxford University Press.

On October 15 and 16, 2017 the Hayyim and Esther Kieval Institute for Jewish-Christian Studies presented its annual Fall Colloquium on the topic "Teaching Our Children About the Holocaust."Our scholars in residence were:

Dr. Mehnaz Afridi, Manhattan College
Dr. Daniel Reich, Curator and Director of Education, Holocaust Museum and Learning Center, St. Louis
Fr. David Bossman, Seton Hall University

Bishop Edward Scharfenberger was present on Monday to offer final greetings.