Part-time Staff » Dr. John Scally

Beresford Assistant Professor in Ecclesiastical History

Academic Degrees:

• Ph.D. Trinity College Dublin
• M.Phil Ecumenics, Irish School of Ecumenics

Research Interests:
History of Christian Thought, medical ethics, social ethics, media ethics, spirituality, ethics and sport, ecclesiology, the mystics, ecumenism.

Teaching:

JF Inculturations of Christianity  in Europe and Ireland

SF/JS Medieval Christianity

SF/JS Reformation and Enlightenment

SS Ethics and Politics

Publications - Books:

30 books published to date including:

• A Layman Reflects on the Sunday Gospels  Dublin: Columba Press, 1993.
• To Speed on Angels’ Wings: The Story of the Sisters of Saint John of God, Dublin: Columba  Press, 1995.
• Whose Death is it Anyway? Euthanasia and the Right to Die. Dublin: Basement Press, 1995.
• A Brave New World?: Ethics and Genetics. Dublin: Veritas, 1998.
• Doctors’ Orders: Towards A New Medical Ethics Dublin: Veritas, 2001

Caring for Life: Dublin: Priory Institute, 2009

Books Edited:

• Ethics in Crisis?  Dublin: Veritas, 1997.
• A Just Society?: Dublin, Liffey Press, 2002
• An Easter People, Dublin: Veritas, 2005.

Forthcoming Publications - Books

• As I Have Loved You  USA: Liguori Press, November, 2012

I am currently working on a book called Living Wells: The Christian Tradition as a Resource for Hope.
Articles in Journals:

Over fifty articles in academic theological journals to date Including:

 ‘Faith at the Frontiers: Pannenberg’s Theology of Faith," in The Irish Theological Quarterly Vol 58, 1992:2, pp. 129-140.

• “The Best of Times. The Worst of Times: Ethics and the Genetic Revolution," in Studies, 1999. pp. 141-53.
• “The Spirituality of John McGahern," in Doctrine and Life. December, 2010, pp. 17-27.
• "A Woman For our Time: The Enduring legacy of Catherine of Siena," in Religious Life Review March-April, 2011, pp: 17-27.
• Why Waste Time with Holy Saturday? Spirituality, March-April, 2001, pp. 71-75.
• ‘After the Fr. Reynolds Affair’, in The Furrow, January, 2012, pp. 54-55.
• ‘Does The Winner Take it All?: Ethics and Sport’ in Doctrine and Life, March, 2012, pp.46-56.

Research Students:
Theses supervised include: ‘Ethics and the Terminally Il’, ‘Elizabeth of the Trinity and Karl Rahner: Resources for Theology Today’, ‘The Twelfth Century as Seminal Period in Irish Ecclesiastical  History’; ‘The Quest for the Historical Saint Patrick’.

Contact:

• Room 5011,
• Phone: 01 896 3493
• Email: jscally@tcd.ie

 

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