Part-time Staff » Dr. James Kelly

Lecturer in Theology

Academic Degrees:

• B.Ph., S.T.B., M.A., S.T.L., Ph.D., Th.D., University of Leuven

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Posts:

• 2006 - 2010; 2012 - 2013: Lecturer in Theology, Departmentl of Religions & Theology, Trinity College.
• 1984-2006: Lecturer in Religious Studies, St. Catherine's College, Dublin.
• 1983-1985: Lecturer in Theology, Department of Religions & Theology, Trinity College.
• 1976-1983: Lecturer in Historical Theology, University of Leuven.
• 1975-1976: Research Assistant: Historical Theology, University of Leuven.
• 1973-1975: St. Leonard's Fellow, University of St. Andrew's, Scotland

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Positions:

Member of International Advisory Board, Louvain Studies and of the Louvain Theological and Pastoral Monographs

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Teaching and Departmental Responsibilities:

• JF Introduction to Theology, Part 2
• Hermeneutics

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Research Interests:

British and Continental Modernism, Historical Theology: From the Enlightenment to Modernity, The Philosophy of Religion

 

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Publications -

Books:

• Selected Writings Thematische Geschriften: Thomas Aquinas. J.H. Newman. Theologia Fundamentalis by J.H. Walgrave. Co. Editor with G. De Schrijver, Louvain, 1982, XLIII. (Bibliotheca Epheridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium LVII).
• Baron Friedrich von Hugel's Philosophy of Religion, Louvain, 1983, (Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium LXII).
• Theological Explorations - Some Irish Contributions, Louvain Studies (Editor, Foreword and contributor), Summer, 1999.
• The Letters of Baron Friedrich von Hugel and Maude D. Petre: The Modernist Movement in England. Edited with Introduction, Louvain, 2003, (Anna Nuntia Lovaniensia XLIV).
• Towards a Methodology: Jan H. Walgrave in Critical Dialogue with Bernard J. Lonergan (In Progress)

Selected Articles:

• 'Von Hugel on Bremond's L'Histoire du Sentiment Religieux,' The Downside Review, July, 1998: 157-182.
• 'Quietism - The Root of the Mystics,' (1), Spirituality, Sept.-Oct., 1998: 316-319.
• 'Quietism - Miguel de Molinos,' (2), Spirituality, Now.-Dec., 1998: 351-354.
• 'Quietism - Madam Guyon,' (3), Spirituality, Jan.-Feb., 1999: 30-33.
• 'Quietism - Francois Fenelon,' (4), Spirituality, March-April, 1999: 91-94.
• 'Quietism - Fenelon and Bousset: The Controversy,' (5), Spirituality, may-June, 1999: 165-169.
• 'The varieties of Symbolic Forms,' Louvain Studies, Summer, 1999: 171-185.
• 'Religion - Towards a Different Paradigm,' Louvain Studies, Fall, 2002: 306-334.
• 'Modernism: A Unique Perspective,' The Downside Review, April, 2004: 94-112.
• 'Exorcism: Psychopathology and Religion,' Doctrine and Life, July-Aug., 2005: 32-39.
• 'Bush's Other Brain, Doctrine and Life, April, 2006: 45-53.
• 'Mr. Schmitt Goes to Washington,' Doctrine and Life, September, 2006: 33-48.
• 'The Hermeneutical Debate within Modernism: Loisy, Blondel and von Hugel,' Irish Theological Quarterly, 71, 2006: 287-303.
• 'Liberal Education and the University,' Historical and Contemporary Reflections, Editor, Anne Moran, Dublin, 2007: 188-199.
• 'Roman Catholic Modernism: Some Centennial Reflections,' Louvain Studies, 2008.

Contact: jwelch@tcd.ie | Last updated: Nov 16 2012 | Back to top