Theology: Faculty & Staff
Full Time Faculty
Departmental Faculty
Departments: Biblical | Historical | Pastoral | Theological | Jewish Studies in Jerusalem
Biblical Department
John S. Kloppenborg, BA, MA, PhD (St. Michael’s)
Professor, Chair of Department and Centre for the Study of Religion
Synoptic Gospels; Q Document; Social Description of Earliest Christianity
john.kloppenborg@utoronto.ca
John L. McLaughlin, BA, MA, MDiv, PhD (St. Michael’s)
Associate Professor, Director of Advanced Degree Programs
Ugarit; Israelite Origins; Ancient Israelite Religion; Pre-exilic Prophets; Wisdom Literature; Psalms; Hebrew Poetry
Cross-appointed to the Graduate Faculty, Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto
johnl.mclaughlin@utoronto.ca
Colleen Shantz, BA, MDiv, PhD (St. Michael’s)
Assistant Professor
New Testament Social World, Social Scientific Approaches, Early Christian Religious Experience
c.shantz@utoronto.ca
Historical Department
Pablo Argárate, BTh, MPhil, PhD (Buenos Aires), DTheol (Tübingen)
Associate Professor, Director of the Eastern Christian Studies Program
Patristics; Historical Theology; Liturgy; Pneumatology; History, Theology, and Spirituality of the Christian East; Orthodox and Eastern Churches; Languages and Cultures of the Christian East (Syriac, Classical Armenian, Ethiopic or Geez, Coptic)
Cross appointed to Theological Department and the Centre for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto
pablo.argarate@utoronto.ca
(Research Leave 01/01/2010 - 30/6/2010)
Martin Dimnik, CSB, BA, MA, MDiv, DPhil (Oxford)
Senior Fellow, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Kievan Rus, 9th to 13th century; History of Medieval Slavs in the Balkans
martin.dimnik@utoronto.ca
Mark McGowan, BA, MA, PhD (Toronto)
Professor, Principal and Vice-President (Academic), St. Michael’s College
Canadian Catholic History; Catholic Social Teaching; Religion and Culture
mark.mcgowan@utoronto.ca
T. Allan Smith, csb, BA, MA, MDiv, DTheol (Erlangen)
Associate Professor, Fellow, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Early and Medieval Church History; Russian Church History and Theology; Eastern Orthodox Spirituality; Monasticism; 19th and 20th Century Orthodox Theology; Sergei Bulgakov
Cross-appointed to Theological Department.
allan.smith@utoronto.ca
Pastoral Department
Anne Anderson, CSJ, RegN, BA, MHA, MA, DMin (Regis College/UT)
Associate Professor, President, Pastoral Ministry; Pastoral Theology
anne.anderson@utoronto.ca
Mario O. D' Souza, CSB, B.A.(Hons), MEd, MDiv, CAES, PhD. (Toronto)
Dean, Faculty of Theology, University of St. Michael's College, Associate Professor Religion and Education
Philosophy of Education, Catholic Educational Theory, Culture and Education
Associate Member of the School of Graduate Studies and the Department of Theory and Policy Studies, OISE/UT
mario.dsouza@utoronto.ca
Christian McConnell, Christian McConnell, BA, BTh, MA, PhD (Notre Dame)
Assistant Professor, Director of Basic Degree Programs
Early Liturgical history, Christian Initiation, Liturgical Theology, Sacramental Theology
christian.mcconnell@utoronto.ca
Maurice Restivo, CSB, BA, MDiv, STL, STD (Pontifical Gregorian)
Adjunct Faculty
Pastoral Theology, Homiletics
maurice.restivo@utoronto.ca
Mary Ellen Sheehan, ihm, BA, MA, STB, STL, STD (Louvain)
Professor emerita, Director of Pastoral Formation & Field Education
Theology of Ministry; Feminist Theory and Theology
maryellen.sheehan@utoronto.ca
Theological Department
Michael Attridge, BA, MA, STL, PhD (St. Michael’s)
Assistant Professor, Basic Degree Director
Systematic Theology; Christology; Vatican II
michael.attridge@utoronto.ca
Research Leave (July 1, 2009 to December 31, 2009)
Jacqueline Brunning, PhD (Toronto)
Adjunct Faculty
Logic and Contemporary Philosophy
brunning@chass.utoronto.ca
Lee F. Cormie, BA, MA, PhD (Chicago)
Associate Professor
Christian Ethics; Systematic Theology and Social Sciences; Liberation Theologies; Feminist Theologies
lee.cormie@utoronto.ca
Darren Dias, OP, BA, M Div, PhD (St. Michael’s)
Assistant Professor
Trinitarian Theology, Religious Diversity, Lonergan Studies
darren.dias@utoronto.ca
Moira M. McQueen, LLB, MDiv, PhD (St. Michael’s)
Sessional Lecturer, Executive Director, Canadian Catholic Bioethics Centre
Foundational Themes in Christian Ethics; Natural Law; Human Sexuality and Marriage; Justice: Individual and Social
moira.mcqueen@utoronto.ca
Margaret O’Gara, BA, MAR, PhD (St. Michael’s)
Professor, Systematic Theology; Ecumenism; Rahner; Ecclesiology
margaret.ogara@utoronto.ca
Dennis Patrick O’Hara, DC, ND, BA, MDiv, PhD (St. Michael’s)
(Research Leave: 01/07/2009 to 31/12/2009)
Assistant Professor, Director of the Elliott Allen Institute for Theology & Ecology
Associate Member of the Graduate Faculty for the Centre for Environment, University of Toronto
Ecological Ethics; Christian Ethics; Theology and Ecology; Spirituality and Ecology
dennis.ohara@utoronto.ca
Cora Twohig-Moengangongo, BA, MEd, STB, MDiv, STL, ThD (Regis/UT)
Sessional Lecturer, Systematic Theology; Theological Foundations and Conversion; Theology and Religious Education
cora.twohig.moengangon@utoronto.ca
Jewish Studies in Jerusalem
Dan Bahat, BA, MA, PhD (HebrewUniversity)
Professor, Sessional Lecturer in Toronto
Biblical Archaeology
dan.bahat@utoronto.ca
Allon Goshen-Gottstein, PhD (Hebrew University)
Professor
Jewish Theology
David Ilan, BA, MA, PhD (TelAviv University)
Associate Professor
Biblical Archaeology
davilan@ccsg.tau.ac.il
Pesach Schindler, BA, M.S., PhD (New York University)
Professor
Jewish Theology
Emeritus Faculty
William H. Irwin, CSB, BA, MA, STL, SSD (Pontifical Biblical Institute)
Professor emeritus
Old Testament; Biblical Hebrew Poetry; comparative Northwest Semitic; Biblical Spirituality
bill.irwin@utoronto.ca
Ellen M. Leonard, CSJ, BA, MA, PhD (St. Michael’s)
Professor emerita
Christology; Ecclesiology; Feminist Theology; Theology of Religious Life; Roman Catholic Modernism
ellen.leonard@utoronto.ca
Michael Vertin, BA, STB, MA, STL, PhD (Toronto)
Professor emeritus
Philosophy of Theology; Theological Foundations of Multi-disciplinary Studies
michael.vertin@utoronto.ca
Administration & Staff
Chancellor
The Most Reverend Archbishop Thomas Collins
President and Vice-Chancellor
Anne Anderson, CSJ
Bursar
Peter Venton
Dean of the Faculty of Theology
Mario O. D' Souza CSB
Student Services Officer
Emil Iruthayathas
Executive Assistant to the Dean
Cicily Tang
Director of Advanced Degree Programs
John L. McLaughlin (effective July 1)
Director of Basic Degree Programs
Christian McConnell (effective July 1)
Director of Theological Field Education and Pastoral Formation
Mary Ellen Sheehan, IHM (effective July 1)
Director of the ATS Self-Study Program, Director of Israel Program
Darren Dias, OP
Director of The Eastern Christian Studies Program
Pablo Argárate
Director of The Elliott Allen Institute for Theology and Ecology
Dennis O'Hara
Director of Library and Archives
Jonathan Bengtson
