James J. Buckley, Ph.D.
Dean of Faculty
College of Arts and Sciences
Loyola College in Maryland

I.  PERSONAL

Address:            4501 N. Charles St., HU234a, Baltimore, Maryland 21210
Voice:               410-617-2563 (office)
Fax:                  410-617-2595
Email:                jbuckley@loyola.edu
Family:              Married to Christine Krajenta Buckley; son, David Timothy

II.  EDUCATION

Ph.D.                Yale University Graduate School         1977
                       (Department of Religious Studies)

M.A., M.Phil.      Yale University Graduate School         1975
                       (Department of Religious Studies)

                       Graduate Theological Union               1971-1973
                       (Berkeley, California)

                       Kenrick Seminary                             1969-1971
                       (St. Louis, Missouri)

B.A.                  Cardinal Glennon College                  1969
                       (St. Louis, Missouri)

III.  EMPLOYMENT

2000-Present:    Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Loyola College in
                       Maryland

1980-Present:    Professor, Loyola College in Maryland, Theology
                       Department; Chair 1988-1995; 1997-2000;

1977-1980:       Assistant Professor of Historical and Systematic
                      Theology, University of Detroit, Department of
                      Religious Studies; Chair 1979-1980.

IV.  TEACHING COMPETENCE

Primary:            Christian Theology (Catholic and Evangelical), History
                       of Christianity (18th through 20th centuries).

Secondary:       Theological Ethics, Theology of Religions; Philosophical
                      Theology.

• Course Syllabi and other auxiliary class materials available on request.

V.  PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

   A.  Memberships in Professional Organizations

• American Academy of Religion, 1977-present.
• The Catholic Theological Society of America, 1977-present.
• Board of the Center for Catholic and Evangelical Theology, 2006-present.
• College Theology Society, 1981-present.
• Yale-Princeton Theology Group, 1981-present.
• Karl Barth Society of North America, 1981-present.
• Center of Theological Inquiry, Resident 1995-1996.
• The Children of Abraham Institute, Planning Board, 2002- present.

   B.  Publications

     1. Books, authored

     Seeking the Humanity of God. Practices, Doctrines, and Catholic Theology (Collegeville, MN.: The Liturgical Press, 1992)

     2. Books, edited

     Spirituality and Social Embodiment, edited with L. Gregory Jones (Oxford: Blackwells, 1997).

     Theology and Scriptural Imagination, edited with L. Gregory Jones (Oxford: Blackwells, 1998). 

     Knowing the Triune God. The Work of the Spirit in the Practices of the Church, edited with David Yeago (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2001)

     Theology and Eschatology at the Turn of the Millenium, edited with L. Gregory Jones (Oxford: Blackwells, 2001).

     The Church in a Postliberal Age by George Lindbeck (London: SCM, 2002 and Grand Rapids, Mi: Eerdmans, 2003)

     The Blackwell Companion to Catholicism, with Frederick C. Bauerschmidt and Robert Trent Pomplun (Oxford: Blackwells, forthcoming 2007).

     Sharper than a Two-Edged Sword, Preaching, Teaching, and Living the Bible, with Michael Root (Grand Rapids, Mi: Eerdmans, forthcoming 2007).

     3. Articles and Chapters in Books

     "On Being a Symbol: An Appraisal of Karl Rahner," Theological Studies 40 (#3, September, 1979), pp. 453-73.

     "Karl Rahner as a Dogmatic Theologian," The Thomist 47 (#3, July, 1983), pp. 364-94.

     "A Dialogue with Barth and Farrer on Theological Method" (with William McF. Wilson), Heythrop Journal XXVI (#3, July, 1985), pp. 274-93.

     "Christological Inquiry. Barth, Rahner, and the Identity of Jesus Christ," The Thomist 50 (#4, October, 1986), pp.  568-98. 

     “The Language of Dogma and Theological Discourse,” The Catholic Theological Society of America Proceedings , ed. George Kilcourse 42 (1987) 140-143 [Precis of a session onGeorge Lindbeck’s The Nature of Doctrine.]

     "Barth, Schleiermacher, and Theological Decisions," Barth and Schleiermacher. Beyond the Impasse, James Duke , ed. (Fortress Press and T. & T. Clark, 1988), pp. 178-86.  

     "The Hermeneutical Deadlock Between Revelationalists, Functionalists, and Textualists," Modern Theology 6 (#4, July, 1990), pp. 325 - 39 [Slightly revised as “Beyond the Hermeneutical Deadlock” in Theological Method after Liberalism, eds. George Schner and John Webster (Blackwells, 2000).]

     "The Doctrine of God in the Post Conciliar Church," in The Church in the Nineties: Its Legacy, Its Future , ed. Pierre Hegy (The Liturgical Press,1992), c. 3 (pp. 32-39).

     "Contemporary Issues in Religious Thought," The Reader's Adviser. A Layman's Guide to Literature, 14th ed. volume IV, The Best in the Literature of Philosophy and Religion (New York: R.R. Bowker, 1993), chapter 18. [A bibliographical essay initiating non-academic readers into academic “religious thought”.]

     "A Field of Living Fire. Karl Barth on the Holy Spirit and the Church," Modern Theology 10 (#1, January, 1994), pp.  81 - 102.

     "Liberal and Conservative -- or Catholic and Evangelical?," Pro Ecclesia III (#3, Summer, 1994), pp. 324 - 333 [A debate over the significance of Erik Peterson.]

     "Balthasar's Use of the Theology of Aquinas," The Thomist 59 (#4, October, 1995), pp. 517 - 545.

     "Postliberal Theology: A Catholic Reading," Contours. An Introduction to North American Religious Thought, ed. Roger Badham (Westminster John Knox Press, 1998), pp. 89 - 102.

     “Why go to Church?” in Why are we Here?, eds. Ronald Thieman and William Placher (Valley Forge, Pa.: Trinity Press International, 1998), pp. 84 - 97.

     “The Invisible Made Visible: Angels from the Vatican,” New Blackfriars (1999), pp. 244 - 57.

     “Christian Community, Baptism, and Lord’s Supper,” in The Cambridge Companion to Barth, ed. John Webster (Cambridge University Press, 2000), chapter 12 (pp. 195 - 211).

     “Intimacy. The Character of Robert Jenson’s Theology,” Trinity, Time, and Church. A Response to the Theology of Robert W. Jenson, ed. Colin E. Gunton (Grand Rapids, Michigan/Cambridge, U.K.: William B. Eerdmans, 2000), pp. 10 - 22. 

     “A Catholic and Evangelical Theology?” (with David Yeago) in Knowing the Triune God. The Work of the Spirit in the Practices of the Church, ed. James J. Buckley and David Yeago (Eerdmans, 2001), pp. 1 - 20.

     “The Wounded Body. The Spirit’s Ecumenical Work on Divisions Among Christians” in Knowing the Triune God. The Work of the Spirit in the Practices of the Church, ed. James J. Buckley and David Yeago (Eerdmans, 2001), pp. 205 - 230.

     “The Fullness of God. Catholics and Religious Exclusiveness,” New Blackfriars 83 (March 2002), pp. 120 - 135.

     “Radical Traditions: Evangelical, Catholic, Postliberal” in The Church in a Postliberal Age by George Lindbeck, ed. James J. Buckley (London: SCM, 2002 and Grand Rapids, Mi: Eerdmans, 2003), pp. vii - xviii.

     Valerie Lester Leyva, Joanne M. Greer, James J. Buckley, and Anthony F. Krisak, "Women's Response to Terrorism: The Stability of Psychological Hope and Theological Hope," Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion 14 (2003), pp. 77 - 102.

     "Lectio Divina and Arguing over Jesus: An Ascetic for Christological Rebukes" in Who do you say that I am? Confessing the Mystery of Christ, ed. John Cavadini and Laura Holt (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004), pp. 87 - 108.

     "Revisionist and Liberals," Modern Christian Theologians. An Introduction to Christian Theology since 1918, ed. David Ford with Rachel Muers (Third Edition. Basil Blackwell, 2005), pp. 213-328. [Revision of similar essays in the first (1989) and second (1997) editions.]

     "The End" in The Blackwell Companion to Catholicism, ed. Frederick C. Bauerschmidt, James J. Buckley, and Robert Trent Pomplun (Oxford: Blackwell, forthcoming 2007).

        4. Sample Essays and Reviews
          [A more complete list of reviews can be provided on request.]

     "Letters 1961 1969," Karl Barth in Re View. Posthumous Works Reviewed and Assessed , ed. H. Martin Rumscheidt (Pittsburgh, Pa.: The Pickwick Press, 1981), pp. 83-93. [Anthologizing of a review of Karl Barth's Briefe 1961 1968, by Karl Barth.  Edited by Jurgen Fangmeier and Hinrich Stoevesandt. Karl Barth Gesamtausgabe, V Briefe. Zurich: Theologischer Verlag, 1975.  Also translated in  Verkündigung und Forschung . Beihefte zu "Evangelische Theologie." 30 (1985) 102-108.] 

     Review of The Analogical Imagination.  Christian Theology and the Culture of Pluralism, by David Tracy (New York: Crossroad, 1981) in The Thomist 46 (#4, October, 1982) 626- 31.

     Review of Models of Revelation, by Avery Dulles, S.J. (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1983) in Horizons. The Journal of the College Theology Society 10 (#2, Fall, 1983) 379-380.

     "Doctrine in the Diaspora," The Thomist 49 (#3, July, 1985), pp. 443 - 59. [Review essay on George Lindbeck's The Nature of Doctrine (Westminster Press, 1984).]
 
     Review of Foundational Theology. Jesus and the Church. By Francis Schüssler Fiorenza. (New York: Crossroad 1984) in The Thomist (#2, April, 1985) 288 - 91.

     "A Return to the Subject. The Theological Significance of Charles Taylor's Sources of the Self,, " The Thomist 55 (#2, April, 1991), pp. 497 - 509.

     "Adjudicating Conflicting Christologies," Philosophy & Theology. (Marquette University Quarterly) VI (#2, Winter, 1992), pp. 117 - 135 [Review essay of Bruce Marshall's Christology in Conflict. The Idea of a Saviour in Barth and Rahner {Basil Blackwell, 1987})

     Review essay of Unbaptized God. The Basic Flaw in Ecumenical Theology. By Robert W. Jenson.  (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1992.), The Thomist 58 (#4, October, 1994), pp. 677 - 682.

     "Catechism of the Catholic Church: Ecumenical Despite Itself," Pro Ecclesia IV (#1, Winter, 1995), pp. 59 - 67.

     “A Different Doubt about the Priestly Ordination of Women,” Pro Ecclesia V (#2, Spring, 1996), pp. 133 - 37. [A review, of sorts, of the 1996 Dubium on ordination.] 

     “The Eternal Recurrence of Modern Christian Theology,” Religious Studies Review 24 (1998), pp. 17 - 22. [A review of recent books in Protestant systematic theology by Hall, Hodgson, McClendon, McGrath, and Morse.]

     “Trying Again, and Better,” Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education 16 (1999) 40 - 46 [Review essay on  James Tunstead Burtchaell, C.S.C., The Dying of the Light.  The Disengagement of Colleges and Universities from their Christian Churches (Grand Rapids, Michigan and Cambridge, U.K.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1998)]

     Review of Fergus Kerr, Immortal Longings. Versions of Transcending Humanity (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press and London: SPCK, 1997) in Pro Ecclesia VIII (#2, Spring, 1999), pp. 239 - 40.

     Review of John Thiel, Senses of Tradition. Continuity and Development in Catholic Faith (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000) in Theology Today

     Review of  Bruce Marshall, Trinity and Truth (Cambridge University Press, 2000), Pro Ecclesia 

     Review of Oliver Davies.  A Theology of Compassion.  Metaphysics of Difference and the Renewal of Tradition (London:  SCM Press, 2001) in International Journal of Systematic Theology 5 (2003), pp. 247 - 256.

     "Invocation of Saints: A Theological Interpretaion," Pro Ecclesia XIII (2004), pp. 1 - 4.

     "Roger Haight's Mediating Christology," Modern Theology 23 (2007), pp. 107 - 112. 

     "The Biblical Sword in the Cause of Peace" with Michael Root in Sharper than a Two-Edged Sword, Preaching, Teaching and Living the Bible, ed. James J. Buckley and Michael Root(Grand Rapids, Mi.: Eerdmans, forthcoming 2007), introduction 

     5. Dissertation

     Karl Barth and Karl Rahner on the Christian Community.  Analysis, Comparison, and Assessment (Yale University Ph.D. 1977.  Directors: Hans Frei and George Lindbeck)

     6. Editorial Posts

     Associate Editor, Modern Theology (published by Blackwell Publishers [Oxford, England]), 2003 - present; Co-editor (with L. Gregory Jones and then Jim Fodor, 1996 - 2002.

     Associate Editor, Pro Ecclesia. A Journal of Catholic and Evangelical Theology. (A  journal of theology published quarterly by the Center for Catholic and Evangelical Theology, in partnership with the American Lutheran Publicity Bureau.) 1992 - 2005.

     General Co-Editor, Blackwell Readings in Modern Theology (A multi-volume set of constructive anthologies on important topics in modern theology) 1994 - 2001. 

   C.  College Posts: Elected Posts at Loyola College

[There are, of course, numerous other posts I have served by selection or appointment, including my current status as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.]

• Faculty Compensation Committee, 1983-1986; Chair 1984-1986.
• Board of Rank and Tenure, 1986-1991; Chair 1990-1991.
• Chair, Theology Department, 1988-1995; 1997-2000.
• Humanities Representative, College Council 1993 - 1994.
• Faculty Affairs Committee, Chair, Spring-Summer 2000.

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