Full-time and Part-time Staff » James P. Mackey

Thomas Chalmers Professor Emeritus of Theology at the University of Edinburgh, Honorary Professor, Trinity College Dublin

Contact:

• Room 3139, Arts Building
• Phone: 01-896-1375
• Email: jpmackey_ie@yahoo.co.uk

Academic Degrees:

• B.A., National University of Ireland
• Licentiate in Philosophy and Doctor of Divinity, Pontifical University of Maynooth
• Ph.D. in the Philosophy of Religion, The Queen's University of Belfast, 1965

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Posts:

• Assistant lecturer in Hebrew and Old Testament at Maynooth
• Lecturer in Philosophy, The Queen's University of Belfast
• Lecturer in Dogmatic Theology, St. John's College, Waterford
• Associate professor of systematic and philosophical theology at the University of San Francisco, 1969-73
• Professor of Systematic and Philosophical Theology at the University of San Francisco, 1973-79
• Chalmers Professorship in Edinburgh, 1979-1999

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Positions:

• Dean of Edinburgh's Faculty of Divinity
• Founding director of its Graduate School in Divinity, 1995 to 1998
• Visiting professor at The Catholic University of America, the University of California at Berkeley, and Dartmouth
• The founding editor of Studies in World Christianity: The Edinburgh Review of Theology and Religion
• Member of the advisory editorial board of Cosmos
• He has served as an associate editor of Herder Correspondence, Concilium , and Horizons General editor (with J.D.G. Dunn) of the SPCK monograph series Biblical Foundations of Theology (1985-1991)

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Teaching and Departmental Responsibilities:

• Professor Mackey teaches a Senior Sophister course on Celtic Christianity and supervises postgraduate students.

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Research Interests:

Dominant movements in contemporary Christian theology from the perspective of contemporary philosophy; Celtic Christianity

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Publications:

The author of some sixty journal articles, James P. Mackey has contributed chapters to twenty-two books, edited five volumes, and is the author or co-author of a dozen other books. His scholarly work has been translated into six languages.

Dr. Mackey's most recent study is The Critique of Theological Reason , Cambridge University Press, 2000 and he has co-edited with Enda McDonagh Religion and politics in Ireland at the turn of the millennium: essays in honour of Garret FitzGerald on the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday . Blackrock 2003.

Contact: jwelch@tcd.ie | Last updated: Jan 25 2008 | Back to top