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CURRICULUM VITAE
July 2008 MICHAEL H. BARNES. Ph.D. Religious Studies, 1976; Marquette
University
University of
Dayton, Religious Studies Dept
Assistant Professor, 1968-1980; Associate Professor,
1980-1987;
Professor 1986.
Director of the
CORE Program, 1991-1993.
Teacher of the Year Award, College of Arts and
Sciences, 1992.
Alumni Award for Teaching, University of Dayton,
1992.
Templeton
Foundation Award for Exemplary Paper in Humility Theology, 1996
Templeton
Foundation Award winner for course in Religion and Science, 1996.
Templeton Foundation Award winner for Quality and
Excellence
in Teaching Religion
and Science, 1998.
Alumni Chair in the
Humanities, 1997-2001
College of Arts and Science Award for
Outstanding Scholarship, 2002.
Alumni Award for Scholarship, University of Dayton.
2004.
President of the College Theology Society, 2008-2010
PUBLICATIONS
Books:
A Sacramental LIfe: Essays in Honor of Bernard Cooke.
Co-edited with William Roberts. Marquette
University Press, 2003.
In the Presence of Mystery. An Introduction to the Study of
Religion.
Twenty-Third Publications, 1984, 1990, and 2003.
Theology and the Social Sciences (edited).
College Theology Society Volume #46, Orbis Books,
2001.
Stages of Thought: The Co-Evolution of Science and Religious Thought.
Oxford University Press, 2000.
An Ecological Spirit (edited).
College Theology Society Volume #36, UPA, 1993.
Articles:
"Science and the Soul: Keeping the Essentials." Terrence
W. Tilley, ed., New Horizons in Theology. Orbis Books,
2005.
"Student Responses to a Teacher's Religious Goals." CSSR
Bulletin, 32/1 (Feb., 2003)
"Intelligent Design: The New Creationism; A Review
Article," in Horizons, 344-362, Fall, 2002.
"Universalist Pluralism and the New Histories," in Theology
and the New Histories, Gary Macy, ed.,
Vol. 44 of the Annual
Publication of the College Theology Society, Orbis Books, 1999.
"Rationality in Religion" in Religion, Vol 27, 1997,
375-390.
"Community, Clannishness, and the Common Good," in James
Donahue and M. Theresa Moser, eds., Religion, Ethics, and the Common
Good.
Vol. 41 of The Annual Publication of the College Theology
Society (Mystic, CT: XXIII Publications, 1996), 27-52.
"The Presence and Absence of God," Praying, Jan-Feb,
1996, 4-8, 43.
"Parallels in Cultural and Individual Development." Peter
Phan, ed.,Ethnicity, Nationality, and Religious Experience ,
Vol.
37 of the CTS Annual Volumes. Lanham, MD: University Press of America,
1995, 173-208.
"A Reply to Michael Raschko," Theological Studies,
56/3, Sept., 1995, 555-59.
"The Evolution of the Soul from Matter and the Role of Science
in the Theology of Karl Rahner," Horizons 21/1
(Spring, 1994), 85-104..
"Demythologization in the Theology of Karl Rahner," Theological
Studies 55/1 (March, 1994), 24-45.
"Having Faith, Being Critical, and Seeking Truth: A Response to
Dale W. Cannon," Method and Theory in the Study of Religion,
6/1 (1994), 63-79.
"Primitive Religious Thought and the Evolution of
Religion," Religion, 22/1 (January, 1992), 21-46.
"Are There Two Catholicisms?", with B. Johnson & D.
Doyle, Sociological Analysis 49/4 (Winter, 1989), 430-439.
"The Formation of a Fowler Scale: An Empirical Assessment among
Catholics," Review of Religious Research 30/4 (June, 1989),
with Doyle and Johnson, 412-420.
"In Defense of Developmental Theories of Religion," Journal
for the Scientific Study of Religion, 28/2 (June, 1989), 230-232.
"Religious Development and the Value of Storytelling: A Response
to Thomas Boomershine"
in James McDonnell & Frances Trampiets,eds., Communicating Faith in a Technological Age (St.
Paul Publ, 1989),104-111.
"Creationism" in The New Catholic Encyclopedia,
Update: Vol.18. (1989), 109-110.
"Stages of Authority: Kung vs. the Vatican in Fowler's
Categories," Theology and Authority, Richard Penaskovic, ed.
(Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1987), 106-117.
"Pluralism or Polarization? The Result of a CTS Survey,"
with Dennis Doyle and Byron Johnson, Raising the Torch of Good News,
Bernard Prusak, ed.
(Lanham, MD: University Press of American and the
College Theology Society, 1986), 275-286, 293-295.
"Religion & Science: Focusing the Light of Imagination"
Word and World V/3 (Summer ,1985), 240-247.
"Creationism as a Rejection of Responsibility," Fundamentalism
Today, Marla Selvidge, ed. (Elgin, IL: Brethren Press, 1984),
125-132.
"Faith and Imagination in Science and Religion," Theology
Today XL/1 (April, 1983).
Book Reviews in recent years:
John Polkinghorne, Science and the Trinity. In Commonweal.
March 8, 2005
Ray Billington, Religion without God for a
Theological Studies book notice.64/4, Dec., 2003
Thomas M. KELLY Theology at the Void: The Retrieval of Experience.
Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002.
In Catholic
Issues, an online journal, 2002.
Cornelius G. HUNTER Darwin’s God: Evolution and the Problem of
Evil. Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2001. Catholic Issues,
2002.
Joseph BRACKEN The One in the Many: A Contemporary Reconstruction
of the God-World Relationship. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2001. Catholic
Issues, 2002.
Paul Brockelman, Cosmology and Creation: The Spiritual
Significance of Contemporary Cosmology. NY: Oxford, 1999. Catholic
Issues, 2002.
Blue Twilight: Nature, Creationism, and American Religion. By
Langdon Gilkey. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2001. Theological
Studies. June 2002. 63/2.
Donald Wiebe, The Politics of Religious Studies: The Continuing
Conflict with Theology in the Academy. For the University of Toronto
Review. Jan., 2001.
David Griffin, Religion and Scientific Naturalism: Overcoming the
Conflicts. For Horizons, Fall, 2001.
Jerry D. Korsmeyer, Evolution and Eden: Balancing Original Sin and
Contemporary Science. New York: Paulist, 1998. Appeared in Horizons,
Spring, 2000, 204-205.
E. M. Adams, A Society Fit for Human Beings. SUNY Series in
Constructive Postmodern Thought. Albany: SUNY, 1997. For Theological
Studies, Spring, 1999.
George W. Stocking, ed. Romantic Motives: Essays on
Anthropological Sensibilities (History of Anthropology, Vol. 6), for
Religion, Jan. 1998 (28/1), 101-103.
Deborah Tanner’s Theories of Culture, for Theological
Studies. Sept. 1998 (59/2), 535-36.
Diarmuid ÓMurchú, Quantum Theology, for Horizons,
Spring (25/1), 1998., 115-16.
Warren S. Brown, Nancey Murphy, H. Newton Malony, eds., Whatever
Happened to the Soul? Scientific & Theological Portraits of Human
Nature.
For Horizons, Fall, 1999.
Mikael Stenmark, Rationality in Science, Religion, and Everyday
Life, for the International Journal of Philosophy and Religion
Daniel C. Matt, God and the Big Bang: Discovering Harmony Between
Science and Spirituality for The Living Light
One of four contributing to a review symposium on Denise Lardner
Carmody's book, Christian Feminist Theology, in Horizons,
23/1, Spring, 1996, 128-31.
John Haught, Science and Religion: From Conflict to Conversation,
for Horizons, Fall, 1996.
David S. Cunningham, Faithful Persuasion: In Aid of a Rhetoric of
Christian Theology, Notre Dame Press, 1991, for Horizons,
Fall, 1994.
Langdon Gilkey, Nature, Reality, and the Sacred. Theological
Studies, Sept. 94, 567-69.
John Hitchcock, The Web of the Universe, Paulist, 1992. For Horizons,
Fall, 1993.
Radical Pluralism and Truth: David Tracy and the Hermeneutics of
Religion. Edited by Werner G. Jeanrond and Jennifer L. Rike. New
York: Crossroad, 1991. For Horizons, 1992.
George Marsden, Understanding Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism;
for The Living Light, March, 1991.
Recent PAPERS for national meetings
American Academy of Religion, Toronto Nov. 23, 2002, annual
meeting, session of the section of the Academic Teaching: "The
Effect of Teacher’s Goals on Student Receptivity."
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Salt Lake City, Nov
2, 2002, annual meeting, session of section on Images of God,
"Evolution of Concepts of the Divine: Some Clues to Current
Varieties."
Society for Research in Adult Development, New York, June 22, 2002,
annual meeting, "Conversation among Civilizations."
College Theology Society, May 31, 2002, annual meeting, St. John’s
University (NY), respondent to a panel on my book Stages of
Thought.
Conference on Intelligent Design and Its Critics, Concordia
University, Mequon, WI, June 23, 2000, "Intelligent Design and
Karl Rahner."
"On Finding God in All Things." For Mysticism &
Politics section of the annual College Theology Society meeting in
Green Bay, June 1, 1999.
"Universalist Pluralism and the New Histories" at the
national College Theology Society annual meeting, May 28-31, St Louis,
1998.
"Naturalistic Theism," for the Conference on Naturalism,
Theism, and the Scientific Method, University of Texas, Feb. 20-23,
Austin, TX, 1997.
Respondent to papers on the evolution of religion, at History of
the Study of Religion section of the national American Academy of
Religion, Philadelphia, Nov. 20, 1995
"Community, Clannishness, and the Common Good," at
national CTS, section on mysticism and politics. Worcester College,
June 4, 1995
Report to the American Association for the Advancement of Core
Curriculum on integrating first year philosophy and religious studies.
Chicago; November, 1991.
Courses Taught
Graduate:
Methods in Theology II (Rel 600) Winter, 2003
God and Human Experience, 1992, 1995 summer
Process Theology, 1994 summer (2 cr)
Karl Rahner, 1995 summer (1 cr.)
Undergraduate
ASI 101-102, CORE introductory course in religion and philosophy, 2
sections
Rel. 103 (formerly Dynamics of Religion, Rel. 146) every year;
usually multiple sections
Berry Scholars Program version, Rel 198, Fall 2001 - 2008.
Science and Religion 375 [formerly 477], most years.
Honors program version, from 1990 to 1995, Honors sections
2005-2008.
CORE capstone -- Values in a Pluralistic Society. Rel
361. Fall 2002
God and Atheism -- Religious Studies capstone course.
Spring, 2004.
Theology and the Social Sciences -- honors section, Spring,
2005; for CORE subsequently
Additional courses as Humanities Chair, 1997-2001
Freedom and Determinism
Theology and the Social Sciences
God in Christian Tradition
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