John Dadosky

B.A.; M.A.; S.T.L.; Ph.D.; S.T.D.

Professor of Theology and Philosophy
Director, Msgr. John Fraser Centre for Practical Theology

john.dadosky@utoronto.ca
Room 205; ext. 262

Teaching Level: Basic Degree, GCTS Full (Regular Faculty)
Specializations: Systematic Theology
Departments: Theological

TST Profile

Prof. Dadosky received his S.T.L. from Regis College (1999), Ph.D. from the University of St. Michael’s College (2001); S.T.D. from Regis College (2004). He joined the faculty in July 2001 and teaches systematic theology and philosophy.

He is past Treasurer to the Board of Catholic Theological Society of America (2016-2021) and current Treasurer of the American Theological Society.

Awards: Visiting Professor, University of New Mexico (2010-2011)

Research Interests and Expertise
- Philosophical Theology
- Lonergan
- Comparative Theology
- Systematic Theology
- Merton
- Interreligious dialogue (with Buddhism)
- Mariology

Courses
- Philosophical Theology
- Lonergan Studies
- Systematic Theology
- Faith and Culture
- RGT6410HF – Ecclesiology
- RGT3410HF – Ecclesiology
- RGT6712HF – Theology as Biography
- RGT3712HF – Theology as Biography
- RGT2943HF – Social Faith, Eco-Justice and Transforming Beauty
- RGT6530HS – Thought of Bernard Lonergan
- RGT3530HS – Thought of Bernard Lonergan
- RGT5578HF – Lonergan’s Method in Theology

Selected Publications
Monographs

Image to Insight: The Art of William H. McNichols. University of New Mexico Press, 2018.

The Eclipse of Beauty and its Recovery: A Lonergan Approach. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014.

The Structure of Religious Knowing: Encountering the Sacred in the Thought of Eliade and Lonergan. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2004.

Edited

Bernard Lonergan, A Second Collection, (with Robert Doran), Collected Works of Lonergan, Vol. 13 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016).

Bernard Lonergan, A Third Collection, (with Robert Doran), Collected Works of Lonergan, Vol. 16 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, est. 2017).

Bernard Lonergan, Method in Theology, (with Robert Doran), Collected Works of Lonergan, Vol. 15 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, est. 2017).

Meaning and History in Systematic Theology: Essays in Honor of Robert M. Marquette University Press, 2009.

Mission, Inculturation, and Contextual Theology: Doran, S. J. Milwaukee, WI: Essays in Honour of Carl Starkloff, S.J. Special edition of the Toronto Journal of Theology 21/1 (Spring 2005).

Essays

“Enlightened Ecclesia: Engaging De Lubac on Buddhism,” Journal of Ecumenical Studies 57/3 (Summer 2022): 432-53.

Co-authored by Christian Krokus, “What are Comparative Theologians doing when they are doing Comparative Theology?: A Lonerganian Perspective with Examples from the Engagement with Islam.” Studies in Interreligious Dialogue, accepted for publication 32/1 (2022): 67-93.

“Reaching up to the Mind of Lonergan: The Achievement of Robert M. Doran, SJ”. Theological Studies 83/2 (June 2022): 293–316.

“God is Inter-religious: Honouring the Legacy of Ovey Mohammed, SJ,” Toronto Journal of Theology, 38/1 (April 2022): 101-112.

“Family and Friendship: The Implicit Ecclesiologies ad extra in Pope Francis’ Fratelli Tutti and the legacy of Vatican II’s Dual Theologies of Church,” Gregorianum (June 2022); 103, 3 (2022): 519-537.

“Searching For Wisdom: Towards a Systematic Integration of Sophiology into Theology,” Philosophy and Theology, 1&2 (2020): 3-25.

“Mediation, Culture and Religion: Approaching Lonergan’s Method in Theology,” The Lonergan Review (Seton Hall University), 11/1 (2020): 53 – 75.

“Further Along the Fourth Stage of Meaning: Lonergan, Alterity and Genuine Religion,” Irish Theological Quarterly, 85/1 (February 2020): 64-79.

Review essay of Grant Kaplan’s An Unlikely Apologist: René Girard and Fundamental Theology, Pro Ecclesia, 28/4 (2019): 446-453.

“Breton and Lonergan on the Mystical Participation in the Passion of Christ,” Gregorianum 100/2 (June 2019), 321-341.

“The Original Green Campaign: Dr. Hildegard of Bingen’s Viridtas as Complement to Laudato Si’,” Toronto Journal of Theology 34/1 (2018): 79-95.

“Healing and Transformation: Lonergan, Girard and Buddhism,” New Blackfriars (2018).

“‘God’s Eternal Yes!’: An Exposition and Development of Lonergan’s Psychological Analogy of the Trinity”, Irish Theological Quarterly (November, 2016).

“The Transformation of Suffering in Paul of the Cross, Lonergan, and Buddhism.” New Blackfriars 96/1065 (September 2015):542-563.

“Has Vatican II been Hermeneutered?: Recovering and Developing its Theological Achievements following Rahner and Lonergan,” Irish Theological Quarterly 79/4 (November, 2014), 327-49.

“Lonergan on Wisdom,” Irish Theological Quarterly 79/1 (February, 2014): 45-67.
Currently Teaching

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RGT5578H – Lonergan’s Method in Theology
Theology

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RGT3530H – Thought of Bernard Lonergan
Theology

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RGT6530HS – Thought of Bernard Lonergan
Archive

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RGT2943HF – Social Faith, Eco-Justice and Transforming Beauty
Archive

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RGT3712HF – Theology as Biography
Archive

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RGT6712HF – Theology as Biography
Archive

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RGT3410HF – Ecclesiology
Archive

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RGT6410HF – Ecclesiology
Archive

John Dadosky

Professor of Theology and Philosophy Director, Msgr. John Fraser Centre for Practical Theology

Research Interests and Expertise

Courses

Selected Publications

Currently Teaching

Professor of Theology and Philosophy
Director, Msgr. John Fraser Centre for Practical Theology