Research & Scholarship

The research and scholarly efforts of our faculty ensure that our students are educated in a vibrant and engaged environment. Recent research and scholarship projects are listed below.

Books

Barnes, M. H. Understanding Religion and Science: An Introduction to the Debate. New York: Continuum, 2010.

Johnson, K. S. (2010). In Pinches, C., Johnson, K. S., Collier, C. (Ed.), Unsettling Arguments: A Festschrift on the Occasion of Stanley Hauerwas’s 70th Birthday. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers.

Levering, M. W. (2010) Christ and the Catholic Priesthood. Chicago, IL: Hillenbrand Books.

Levering, M. W. (2010) Jewish-Christian Dialogue and the Life of Wisdom. London, England: Continuum.

Levering, M. W. (2010) In Levering, M., Huetter, R. (Ed.), Ressourcement Thomism. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press.

Smith, A. B. (2010). The Look of Catholics: Portrayals in Popular Culture from the Great Depression to the Cold War. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas.

Book Chapters

Bennett, J. M. (2010). Being ‘Stuck’ Between Stanley and the Feminists (Or The Proverbial Rock and a Hard Place). In Collier, C. (Ed.), Festschrift on the Occasion of Stanley Hauerwas’ 70th Birthday. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books.

Bunta, S. (2010). In Heaven or on Earth: A Misplaced Temple Question about Ezekiel’s Visions. In Arbel, Daphna V. (Ed.), With Letters of Light: Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls, Early Jewish Apocalypticism, Magic and Mysticism in Honor of Rachel Elior (1st ed., pp. 28-44). Berlin/New York: W. de Gruyter.

Johnson, K. S. (2010). Worshiping in Spirit and Truth. In Pinches, C., Johnson, K. S., Collier, C. (Ed.), Unsettling Arguments: A Festschrift on the Occasion of Stanley Hauerwas’s 70th Birthday. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers.

Johnston, W. H. (2010). The Call of ‘Co-Workers in the Vineyard of the Lord’ for Cultural Diversity in Lay Ecclesial Ministry Formation Programs. In Fox, Z. (Ed.), Lay Ecclesial Ministry: Pathways Toward the Future (pp. 159-179). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Kallenberg, B. J. (2010). Dynamical Similarity and the Problem of Evil. God, Grace and Creation: College Theology Society Annual Volume, 2009, Vol. 55 (pp. 163-186). Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books.

Levering, M. W. Ordering Wisdom. In Levering, M., Huetter, R. (Ed.), Ressourcement Thomism. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press.

Book Reviews

Barnes, M. H. Without Nature: A New Condition for Theology. Edited by David Albertson and Cabell King. Theological Studies Dec. 1, 2010. (71/4)

Bennett, J. M. (2010). Review of Racial Justice and the Catholic Church by Bryan Massingale (vol. Spring 2010). College Theology Society: Horizons.

Bennett, J. M. (2010). Review of Singing the Ethos of God: On the Place of Christian Ethics in Scripture by Brian Brock (vol. Spring 2010). Lanham, MD: Pro Ecclesia.

Bunta, S. (2010). Review of ‘You Are a Priest Forever’: Second Temple Jewish Messianism and the Priestly Christology of the Epistle to the Hebrews by Eric F. Mason (Leiden: Brill, 2008) (1st ed., vol. 32, pp. 176-180). Brescia: Henoch: Studies in Judaism and Christianity from Second Temple to Late Antiquity.

Doyle, D. M. (2010). Review of Everything is Sacred: Spiritual Exegesis in the Political Theology of Henri de Lubac by Bryan Holon (2nd ed., vol. 71, pp. 1). Milwaukee, WI: Theological Studies.

Doyle, D. M. (2010). Review of Christian Community Now by Paul Collins et al. (1st ed., vol. 84, pp. 93-95). Collegeville, MN: Worship.

Kallenberg, B. J. (2010). In James Fodor (Ed.), Review of Wittgenstein and Theology by Tim Labron (3rd ed., vol. 26, pp. 475-478). Malden, MA: Modern Theology.

Levering, M. W. (2010) Review of Wesley, Aquinas, and Christian Perfection by Edgardo Colon-Emeric. Oxford, England: Modern Theology.

Moore, C. A. (2010). Review of Thea’s Song: The Life of Thea Bowman (10th ed., vol. 117, pp. 54-56). Cincinnati, OH: St. Anthony Messenger.

Portier, W. L. (2010) Review of Redeeming the Enlightenment, Christianity and the Liberal Virtues by Bruce K. Ward (vol. CXXXVII, pp. 24-25). New York, NY: Commonweal.

Grants

Bennett, J. M. “Globalization and Theologies of Reconciliation.” Sponsored by Forum on the Catholic Intellectual Tradition, $4,000. (May 15, 2010 – August 15, 2010).

Leming, L. M. (Co-Principal), Zukowski, A. A. (Co-Principal). “Religious Revitalization Project.” Sponsored by National Religious Retirement Office of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, $5,000. (February 2007 - May 2011).

Orji, C. (Principal). “Grant in Aid.” Sponsored by University of Dayton Research Institute, $1,000. (May 15, 2010 - August 15, 2010).

Orji, C. (Principal). “Seed Grant.” Sponsored by University of Dayton Research Institute, $5,000. (May 15, 2010 - August 15, 2010).

Journal Articles

Barnes, M. H. “The Spoils of the Egyptians: Borrowing from the Culture.” Horizons, Fall 2010 (37/2), 327-341.

Branick, V. P. (2010). The Gifts of the Spirit in a Divided Church: 1 Corinthians 12-14. The Bible Today, 48(9), 253-260.

Bunta, S. (2010). The Fifth Enoch Seminar: 2 Enoch Rediscovered. Henoch: Studies in Judaism and Christianity from Second Temple to Late Antiquity, 32(1), 18-21.

Kozar, J. F. (2010). Forsaking Your Mother-in-Law to Go Fishing: The Call of the First Disciples in Mark and the Abandonment of Family Ties as Exemplar of Markan Discipleship (Mark 1:9-39). Eastern Great Lakes Bible Society, 29, 37-50.

Levering, M. W. (2010) God and Greek Philosophy in Contemporary Biblical Scholarship. Journal of Theological Interpretation, 4(2), 169-185.

Moore, C. A. (2010). Conversion Narratives: The Dual Experiences and Voices of African American Catholic Converts. U.S. Catholic Historian, 28(1), 27-40.

Moore, C. A., Flint-Hamilton, K. (2010). Cyprian Davis: To Walk a Path, To Be Transformed and To Transform. The Journal of the Black Catholic Theological Symposium, IV, 29-56.

Magazines/Trade Publications

Johnson, K. S. (2010). In Waddle, R. (Ed.), The Body Politic of the Body of Christ (Fall, vol. 2010). New Haven, CT: Reflections: A Magazine of Theological and Ethical Inquiry.

Miller, V. J. (2010). Memo to the Bishops: A Call to Teach the Fullness of Catholic Doctrine. New York, NY: America Magazine. http://www.americamagazine.org/blog/blog.cfm?blog_id=2&category_id=162

Portier, W. L. (2010). Angling for Anglicans on Pope Benedict XVI’s Anglicanorum Coetibus (Winter 2010, vol. 12, pp. 8-10, 21). Hartford, CT (Greenberg Center, Trinity College): Religion in the News.

Newspapers

Miller, V. J. (2010). Are Taxes Cuts for the Rich Immoral? Washington, DC: Washingtonpost.com On Faith Blog. http://onfaith.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/guestvoices/2010/10/are_tax_cuts_for_the_wealthy_morally_wrong.html

Other

Doyle, D. M. (2010). “Presentation” (Introduction). In Chantraine, G. (Ed.), Paradoxe et mystère de l’Église, suivi de L’Église dans la crise actuelle (vol. IX). Paris, France: Les Editions du Cerf.

Levering, M. W. In Levering, M., Keating, D. (Ed.), Commentary on the Gospel of John. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press.

Miller, V. J. In All Things - Group Blog America Magazine. New York, NY: America Magazine. http://www.americamagazine.org/blog/blog.cfm?blog_id=2&category_id=162

Miller, V. J., Aquiline, T., Bausch, T., Dalla Costa, J., Douglas, M., Khan, I. A., Knapp, J., Miller, D., Meyers, L. A., Panken, A., Young, S. (2010). In Young, S. (Ed.), Repairing our Stewardship of Creation: Abrahamic Social Thought and the Global Economic Crisis. Caux: Caux Round Table Scholars’ Retreat on Core Themes of Abrahamic Social Thought. http://www.cauxroundtable.org/view_file.cfm?fileid=165

Presentations

Barnes, M. H. President’s Address, annual meeting of the College Theology Society, June 5, 2010, Portland, OR.

Bennett, J. M. “Resurrection and Adoption.” Theology of Adoption: Critical Reflections from Practical Theology and Christian Ethics, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom. (May 24, 2010).

Bennett, J. M. “Singling Out Singles: Holiness and the Non-Vowed Life.” Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church, Boston College, Trento, Italy. (July 26, 2010).

Bennett, J. M. “The Thomistic Internet: Theology on a Web 2.0 Age.” Society of Christian Ethics Annual Meeting, Society of Christian Ethics, San Jose, CA. (January 6, 2010).

Bennett, J. M. “What Type of Family is Needed for the Domestic Church?” The Household of God and Local Households: Revisiting the Domestic Church, Ecclesiological Investigations International Research Network, Centre for Ecumenical Research, KU Leuven, Catholic University Leuven, Belgium. (March 11, 2010).

Bunta, S. “Review of Eric F. Mason, ‘You Are a Priest Forever’: Second Temple Jewish Messianism and the Priestly Christology of the Epistle to the Hebrews (Leiden: Brill, 2008).” Society of Biblical Literature Midwest Meeting, The Society of Biblical Literature, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN. (February 12, 2010).

Bunta, S. “The Convergence of Adamic and Merkabah Traditions in the Christology of Hebrews.” Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, Society of Biblical Literature, Atlanta, GA. (November 21, 2010).

Bunta, S. “Whose Son Was Cain Anyway? Genesis 4:1 as a Case of Textual Innuendo.” Illinois Wesleyan University Annual Religion Colloquium, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL. (March 8, 2010).

Cadegan, U. M., Fitz, R. L., Miller, V. J., O’Brien, D., Ensalaco, M. “Making Invisible Things Visible.” Romero Symposium, Roesch Chair in Social Sciences, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH. (March 30, 2010).

Cadegan, U. M., Smith, A. B., Ferraro, T., May, L. “Response to Anthony Smith’s ‘The Look of Catholics’.” American Catholic Studies Seminar, University Professor of Faith and Culture, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH. (September 24, 2010).

Doyle, D. M. “Debate: Friedrich Nietzsche and Pope Benedict XVI.” University of Dayton, Dayton, OH. (November 3, 2010).

Doyle, D. M. “Preparing to Teach 103 Experimental: Five Full Days.” University of Dayton, Dayton, OH. (August 20, 2010).

Doyle, D. M. “Response to Dr. Corvino.” Dr. Corvino Lecture, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH. (October 26, 2010).

Doyle, D. M. “Response to Wolgang Vondey’s Beyond Pentecostalism.” American Academy of Religion, Atlanta, GA. (October 31, 2010).

Doyle, D. M. “The Church Emerging from Vatican II.” St. Brigid Catholic Church, Xenia, OH. (November 11, 2010).

Doyle, D. M. “Vision Two of Hildegard’s Book of Divine Works.” University of Dayton, Dayton, OH. (August 23, 2010).

Johnson, K. S. “Against Romanticism: Response to John Corvino.” University of Dayton, Dayton, OH. (October 26, 2010).

Johnson, K. S. “Communion at Friendship Park.” Annual Meeting of the Society of Christian Ethics, Society of Christian Ethics, San Jose, CA. (January 9, 2010).

Johnson, K. S. “Realism and the Saints.” Ohio Wesleyan Campus Ministry, Maria Stein, OH. (October 14, 2010).

Johnson, K. S. “Reflections on Realism and the Saints.” Ohio Wesleyan Campus Ministry, Dayton, OH. (May 11, 2010).

Johnson, K. S. “Whose Economics? Which Religion?” The Uses of Economics, Past and Future, History of Political Economy, Duke University, Durham, NC. (March 27, 2010).

Johnston, W. H. “Fish on Friday? What’s Essential and Distinctive about Being Catholic?” Theology on Tap, Archdiocese of Cincinnati, Dayton, OH. (March 18, 2010).

Johnston, W. H. “Prayer in Ministry.” St. Charles Borromeo and St. Francis of Assisi Parishes, Dayton, OH. (July 27, 2010).

Johnston, W. H. “Report on Book-in-Progress, ‘Care for the Church and Its Liturgy: Studies of Pope Benedict XVI’s Apostolic Letter Summorum Pontificum’.” University of Dayton Research Institute Seed Grants (Catholic Intellectual Tradition), University of Dayton, Dayton, OH. (February 22, 2010).

Johnston, W. H. “Sustaining Worship Renewal.” Worship Renewal Grants Colloquium, Calvin Institute of Christian Worship, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI. (July 1, 2010).

Johnston, W. H., Helmes, J. “Being Present to Christ’s Presence: Eucharistic Celebration and Adoration.” Hungry Hearts, Campus Ministry, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH. (January 27, 2010).

Johnston, W. H., Sullivan, C. C. “Faith That Quests for Understanding: Keeping Faith Alive While Studying Theology.” Department of Religious Studies, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH. (January 12, 2010).

Kozar, J. F. “Forsaking Your Mother-in-Law to go Fishing: The Call of the First Disciples in Mark and the Abandonment of Family Ties as Exemplar of Markan Discipleship (Mark 1:9-39).” Annual Meeting of the Eastern Great Lakes Bible Society, Eastern Great Lakes Bible Society, Perrysville, OH. (April 8, 2010).

Kozar, J. F. “Introducing the Gospel of Mark.” Priestly Formation of Archdiocese of Cincinnati, Archdiocese of Cincinnati, West Milton, OH. (March 18, 2010).

Kozar, J. F. “Introducing the Gospel of Matthew.” Priestly Formation Archdiocese of Cincinnati, Archdiocese of Cincinnati, Cincinnati & Dayton, OH. (November 16 & 18, 2010).

Kozar J. F. , “Mission Impossible: The Living Legacy of Blessed Chaminade,” President’s St. Mary’s University Peace Commission Forum, March 29, 2011 (San Antonio, Texas).

Kozar, J. F. “Novitiate Classes on ‘Devotion to Blessed Chaminade’.” Marianist Novitiate, Marianist Province of the United States, Dayton, OH. (October 11, 2010).

Levering, M. W. “Augustine’s Theology of History.” Society of Biblical Literature, Theological Hermeneutics of Christian Scripture Group, Atlanta, GA. (November 20, 2010).

Levering, M. W. “Eternal Life, a Merited Free Gift?” Nova et Vetera Conference, Augustine Institute, Denver, CO. (March 13, 2010).

Levering, M. W. “Exegesis and Eschatology.” Biblical Exegesis as Mystical Experience in Judaism and Christianity, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA. (April 22, 2010).

Levering, M. W. “Inviting David Novak to Re-Appraise Natural Theology.” American Maritain Association Annual Meeting, American Maritain Association, Canton, OH. (October 15, 2010).

Levering, M. W. “Learning to Receive.” Identity and Act, Archdiocese of Chicago & Archdiocese of Cincinnati, Chicago, IL. (October 20, 2010).

Levering, M. W. “The Restoration of Israel and the Intermediate State.” Aquinas Lecture, Aquinas Institute of Theology, St. Louis, MO. (January 31, 2010).

McGrath, J. A. “A Single Human Family: The Social Teaching of Pope Benedict XVI in Caritas in Veritate.” Series on the Catholic Intellectual Tradition, Chaminade University of Honolulu, Honolulu, HI. (February 22, 2010).

McGrath, J. A. “’It All Depends Where You are Standing’: James McCartlin’s ‘Prayers of the Faithful’.” American Catholic Studies Seminar, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH. (April 10, 2010).

McGrath, J. A. “The Future of the Marianist Educational Associates.” Video Meeting of the Association of Marianist Universities, Association of Marianist Universities, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH. (June 7, 2010).

Miller, V. J. “Commodification, Religion, and Marketing.” Marketing Lecture Series, Marketing Department, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN. (March 26, 2010).

Miller, V. J. “Media Constructions of Space, the Permutations of Secularity and the Changing Predicaments of Religious Traditions.” Faith, Secularity and Public Life Working Group, Center for Culture and Values, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC. (December 9, 2010).

Miller, V. J. “The Body Globalized: Problems for a Sacramental Imagination in an Age of Global Commodity Chains.” College Theology Society Annual Meeting, College Theology Society, University of Portland, Portland, OR. (May 15, 2010).

Miller, V. J. “The Church and Culture: Theology’s Tasks and Temptations.” Inaugural Lecture Gudorf Chair in Catholic Theology and Culture, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH. (February 18, 2010).

Miller, V. J. “The Evanescence of Culture and the Task of Constructive Theology.” Working Group for Constructive Theology Annual Meeting, Working Group for Constructive Theology, Union Seminary, New York, NY. (April 30, 2010).

Miller, V. J. “Where Are We Now? Responsibility, Spirituality, and Place in a Global Age.” Scarboro Missions Lecture, Scarboro Mission (Religious Order), Toronto & St. Jerome’s University Centre Lectures in Catholic Experience, St. Jerome’s University/University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. (March 5 & 6, 2010).

Miller, V. J. “Where is the University Now? Education and Place in Global Space.” Lilly Fellows Program in Humanities and the Arts 20th Anniversary Conference, Lilly Fellows Program in Humanities and the Arts, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN. (October 15, 2010).

Orji, C. “God as Cosmo-Theandric in ATRs: A Postcolonial Critique.” College Theology Society, Portland, OR. (June 6, 2010).

Orji, C. “Lonergan and Gardner in Conversation on Learning Strategies.” 25th Annual Fallon Memorial Lonergan Symposium, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA. (April 8, 2010).

Orji, C. “Lonergan and the Challenge of Dialogue.” Lonergan Center, Washington, DC. (April 2, 2010).

Orji, C. “Muslim-Christian Conflict in Africa: What Can African Interlocutors Learn from Muslim-Christian Conflict Dialogue in the USA?” Inter-Religious Dialogue, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA. (October 22, 2010).

Orji, C. “Why Are They After ‘Gays’ in Uganda? Interplay of Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Sexual Orientation.” American Academy of Religion, Atlanta, GA. (November 1, 2010).

Portier, W. L. “Five Reflections on the Centenary of the Oath Against Modernism.” American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Societe Internationale d’Etudes d’Alfred Loisy, Atlanta, GA. (October 30, 2010).

Portier, W. L. “Musings of an Erasmian Christomonist: A Response to Peter Casarella.” Annual Meeting, Catholic Theological Society of America, Cleveland, OH. (June 12, 2010).

Portier, W. L. “The Modernist Crisis and the Triumph of Maurice Blondel.” Annual Michael J. Kerlin Lecture, La Salle University, Philadelphia, PA. (March 22, 2010).

Portier, W. L. “Till We Have Integration: Blessed John Henry Newman and the University.” Mount Saint Mary’s University, Emmitsburg, MD. (November 8, 2010).

Portier, W. L. “Twentieth-Century Catholic Theology and the Triumph of Maurice Blondel.” Center for Catholic and Evangelical Dialogue, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH. (October 13, 2010).

Smith, A. B., Cadegan, U., Ferraro, T. J., May, L., O’Brien, D. J. American Catholic Studies Seminar, University Professor in Faith and Culture, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH. (September 25, 2010).

Yocum, S. “Daily Acts of Faith: Seeing in the Dark, Listening in the Silence.” Perspectives on Faith and Life, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH. (September 28, 2010).

Yocum, S. “Putting Theology in Its Place.” Tenth Anniversary of the Doctorate in Theology, Religious Studies Department and College of Arts and Sciences, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH. (April 23, 2010).