Kevin Mongrain, Ph.D. Curriculum Vitae Duquesne University Theology Department Home Phone 724-485-2931 600 Forbes Avenue Cell Phone (210) 273-3582 Pittsburgh, PA 15282 mongraink@duq.edu Associate Professor, Duquesne University, 2011 Present Ph.D. in Religious Studies, Yale University, 1999 Awarded McAnulty College and Graduate School NEH funds in Summer 2017 and December 2017. BOOKS AND CD/DVD The Systematic Thought of Hans Urs von Balthasar: An Irenaean Retrieval. New York: Crossroad- Herder Publishing Company, 2002. Twelve Part Lecture Series (each lecture 10-11 pages, 25 minutes): Back to the Fertile Land: Hans Urs von Balthasar s Vision of an Organic and Holistic Christian Faith. Recorded and distributed by Now You Know Media, Inc., Rockville, Maryland. October 2014. REFEREED, PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS Published in Refereed Journals Poetics and Doxology: Von Balthasar on Poetic Resistance to Modernity s Turn to the Subject. Pro Ecclesia. 16/4 (Winter 2007), pp. 381-415. Von Balthasar s Way from Doxology to Theology Theology Today 64/1 (2007), pp. 58-70. Newman on Theology and Contemplative Receptivity in the Liberal Arts. Newman Studies Journal, 4/2 (Fall 2007), pp. 11-21. John Henry Newman on Ecclesial Spiritual Life. Newman Studies Journal. 5.1 (2008), pp. 19-34. Rule-Governed Christian Gnosis: Hans Urs von Balthasar on Valentin Tomberg s Meditations on the Tarot. Modern Theology 25:2 (April 2009), pp. 285-314. The Eyes of Faith: Newman s Critique of Arguments from Design. Newman Studies Journal 6:1 (Spring 2009), pp. 68-86. "John Henry Newman on Liberal Learning and Openness to the Mystery of Creation 1
in The Idea of a University," in Substance, Judgment, and Evaluation: Seeking the Worth of a Liberal Arts, Core Text Education, edited by J. Scott Lee, Patrick Flynn, et. al. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2010, pp. 23-30. Reasonable Religion: Intelligent Design as the New Preambula Fidei? Heythrop Journal 52:2 (March 2011), pp.191-210 Theologians of Spiritual Transformation: A Proposal for Reading René Girard Through the Lenses of Hans Urs von Balthasar and John Cassian, Modern Theology 28:1 (January 2012), pp. 81 111. Newman and the Spirituality of the Oratory: Embracing the Presence of the Indwelling Spirit in Newman & Life in the Spirit: Theological Reflections on Spirituality for Today, edited by John R. Connolly and Brian W. Hughes (Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress Press, 2014), pp. 187-200. Newman sur les arts libéraux en théologie et réceptivité contemplative. Etudes Newmaniennes No. 30: Fall 2014. The Burden of Guilt and the Imperative of Reform: Pope Francis and Patriarch Bartholomew Take Up the Challenge of Re-Spiritualizing Christianity in the Anthropocene Age in Horizons: The Journal of the College Theology Society 44:1 (June 2017), pp. 80-107. Anxiety or Equanimity: Christoph Schönborn and Hans Urs von Balthasar on the Relationship of Science and Christian Truth in Theologos: A Theological Review 2/2017 (December 2017), pp. 34-48. PUBLICATIONS IN PEER EDITED VOLUMES Worship in Spirit and Truth: Louis-Marie Chauvet s Sacramental Reading of John 4:21-24 in The Multivalence of Biblical Texts and Theological Meaning, eds. Christine Helmer and Lincoln Galloway. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2006, pp. 125-144. Newman and the Spirituality of the Oratory: Embracing the Presence of the Indwelling Spirit in Newman & Life in the Spirit: Theological Reflections on Spirituality for Today, edited by John R. Connolly and Brian W. Hughes (Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress Press, 2014). Hans Urs von Balthasar, Oxford Handbook of Catholic Theology, edited. By Lewis Ayres and Medi Ann Volpe (forthcoming Winter 2016); 21 pages. Shrewd as Serpents and Innocent as Doves: Patriarch Bartholomew and Pope Francis Green Apocalypse in The Urgency of Climate Change: Pivotal Perspectives (Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K.: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017), pp. 240-262. 2
REVIEWS Review of Balthasar, a (Very) Critical Introduction by Karen Kilby. Horizons (June 2013, Vol. 40, No.1), pp. 96-100. Review of De Lubac: A Guide for the Perplexed by David Grumett. International Journal of Systematic Theology (October 2010, Vol. 12, No. 4), pp. 492-494. Review of Centering Prayer and the Healing of the Unconscious by Murchadh Ó Madagáin. Spiritus (Fall 2009 Vol. 9, No. 2), pp. 259-261. Review of Gregory of Nyssa, Ancient and (Post)modern by Morwenna Ludlow. Theological Studies 70/2 (June 2009) Review of From Trent to Vatican II: Historical and Theological Investigations edited by Raymond F. Bulman and Frederick J. Parrella. International Journal of Systematic Theology (January 2008, Vol. 10, No. 1), pp. 93-96. Review of Hans Urs von Balthasar s Theological Aesthetics: A Model for Post-Critical Biblical Interpretation by W.T. Dickens. International Journal of Systematic Theology (July 2006, Vol. 8, No. 3) Review of Universal Salvation: Eschatology in the Thought of Gregory of Nyssa and Karl Rahner by Morwenna Ludlow. The Thomist, (January 2004, Vol. 68, No. 1) Review of Erich Przywara, S.J.: His Theology and His World by Thomas F. O Meara, O.P., Theological Studies (December 2003, Vol 64, No. 4) Review of The Power of God: Dunamis in Gregory of Nyssa's Trinitarian Theology by Michel Rene Barnes, Theological Studies (September 2002, Vol. 63, No. 3) Review of Doctrines of the Trinity in Eastern and Western Theology: A Study with Special Reference to K. Barth and V. Lossky by Alar Laats. Theological Studies (March 2001, Vol. 62, No. 1) INVITED LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS Politics of Glory: Hans Urs von Balthasar s Theology as Source of Resistance presented at the Catholic Theology Society of America Annual Meeting, St. Louis, June 2012. A Benedictine Reflection on Listening: Being Attuned to the Silent Mystery of God s Trinitarian Love Whispering from Its Secret Dwelling Place in the Innermost Recesses of the Heart presented to the Lay Cistercians of Gethsemani Annual Meeting, Gethsemani Abbey, Kentucky, September 25, 2010. 3
Mary in Catholic in Doctrine: A Study in the Unity of Spirituality and Theology presented at the Annual Meeting of Bridgefolk: Mennonite-Catholic Dialogue, Collegeville, Minnesota, July 28, 2008. Idolatry Critique in the Gospel of John presented to the Crossroad Authors Group session at the annual meeting of the Catholic Theological Society of America, St. Louis, June 10, 2005. CONFERENCE PAPERS (abstracts refereed) Reading René Girard and Hans Urs von Balthasar as Theologians of Spiritual Transformation: Setting the Table for a Mutually Illuminating Dialogue at The Annual Meeting of the Colloquium on Violence and Religion (COV&R), University of Notre Dame, July 3, 2010 Valentin Tomberg on the Distinctive Character of Christian Spirituality at The Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion s Christian Spirituality Group, November 5, 2009. Newman s Ideal of Sanctified Reason at the Annual Meeting of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, New Orleans, November 13, 2009. The Eyes of Faith: John Henry Newman's Critique of Arguments from Design at The Venerable John Henry Newman Association 2009 Annual National Conference, The University of Notre Dame, August 14, 2009. Anxiety or Equanimity: Christoph Schönborn and Hans Urs von Balthasar on the Relationship of Science and Christian Truth, at the Annual Meeting of the Catholic Theological Society of American in Halifax, Nova Scotia, June 5, 2009. Balthasar, Rahner, and Secularism, at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion s Roman Catholic Theology Group, November 1, 2008. [accepted and scheduled but not read at conference] Newman on Physical Theology, at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion s Nineteenth Century Theology Group, November 2, 2008. [accepted and scheduled and read aloud in full by moderator of the session] Newman on Ecclesial Spiritual Life, at the 2007 Annual National Conference of the Venerable John Henry Newman Association, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, August 10, 2007. Machine or Gift? A Christian Theological Critique of Intelligence Design, at the American Academy of Religion Regional Meeting, Chicago, March 31, 2007 Redemptive Violence and the Creation of Nonviolent Mimetic Desire: Hans Urs von Balthasar and Rene Girard on Sacrifice, at the American Academy of Religion Regional Meeting, Chicago, April 1, 2006 4
Newman on Liberal Learning and Openness to the Mystery of Creation at the Twelfth Annual Conference of The Association for Core Texts and Courses, Chicago, April 7, 2006. Daniel M. Bell Jr. and Louis-Marie Chauvet on Ritual and Forgiveness: Inscribing God s Forgiveness on the Human Body of Christ at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion s Christian Spirituality Group, Atlanta, November 23, 2003. Aesthetics and Metanarrative: Hans Urs von Balthasar's Theology of Providence at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion s Christian Systematic Theology Group, November 18, 2000. MISC. PUBLICATIONS Instructor's Manual for Religions of the World (8 th Edition) by Lewis M. Hopfe and Mark R. Woodward. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall Publishing, 2003. Instructor's Manual for Many Peoples, Many Faiths: Women and Men in the World Religions (9 th Edition) by Robert S. Ellwood and Barbara A. McGraw. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall Publishing, 2005. Instructor's Manual for The Sacred Paths: Understanding the Religions of the World (4 th Edition) by Theodore M. Ludwig. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall Publishing, 2005. Instructor's Manual for Religions of the World (10 th Edition) by Lewis M. Hopfe and Mark R. Woodward. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall Publishing, 2006. Instructor's Manual for Religions of the World (11 th Edition) by Lewis M. Hopfe and Mark R. Woodward. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall Publishing, 2008. Instructor's Manual for Many Peoples, Many Faiths: Women and Men in the World Religions (10 th Edition) by Robert S. Ellwood and Barbara A. McGraw. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall Publishing, 2008. 5