Staff Publications
Neil Ormerod
Publications:
Books
- Faith and Reason: The Possibility of a Christian Philosophy, Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2017, 209pp.
- Foundational Theology: A New Approach to Catholic Fundamental Theology, with Christiaan Jacobs-Vandegeer, Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2015, xiv+359pp.
- A Public God: Natural Theology Reconsidered. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2015, xi+196pp.
- Re-Visioning the Church: An Experiment in Systematic-Historical Ecclesiology. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2014, 416pp.
Refereed articles:
- “Method in Theology: ‘all my work has been introducing history into Catholic theology.’” Gregorianum 101/4 (2020) 887-904.
- “The quest for the historical Jesus as an experiment in theological method” Irish Theological Quarterly, 85, no. 4 (2020): 389-404.
- “The curious case of a priest who had lost his faculties?” Australasian Catholic Record, 97 (2020) 206-15.
- “How natural is natural theology?”, St Mark’s Review (2019), 20-30.
- “Sexual abuse, a Royal Commission and the Australian Church”, Theological Studies 80 (2019): 950–66.
- “Grace, Nature and the theorem of the supernatural – a Trinitarian perspective”, Louvain Studies,42 (2019): 26-42.
- “Statistically Ordered: Gender, Sexual Identity, and the Metaphysics of ‘Normal’” with Jonathan Heaps, Theological Studies. 80 (2019), 346–369.
- “Sacred heart, beatific mind: exploring the consciousness of Jesus” with Christiaan Jacobs-Vandegeer, Theological Studies 79 (2018): 729–744
- “Doing the will of the Father: Jesus’s Freedom and the Beatific Vision”, Irish Theological Quarterly,83/3 (2018), 203–216.
- “Newman and the trajectories for the development of doctrine”, Louvain Studies 41 (2018), 3–18.
- “A trajectory from Augustine to Aquinas and Lonergan: Contingent predication and the Trinity,” Irish Theological Quarterly 82, no. 3 (2017): 208-21.
- “‘For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily’– the Trinitarian depths of the Incarnation” Theological Studies 77 (2016): 803–22.
- “Laudato Si’ in the context of Catholic Social Teaching”, St Mark’s Review 236 (2016): 2-15.
- “Global Pentecostal consultations – receptive ecumenism in practice or ‘Any friend of Jesus is a friend of mine’”, Pacifica 28/2 (2015): 149-59.
- “Ecological conversion: what does it mean?” with Cristina Vanin, Theological Studies, 77 (2016): 328-352.
- “Gilson and Lonergan and the Possibility of a Christian Philosophy,” Heythrop Journal 57, no. 3 (2016): 532-41.
- “A (Non-Communio) Trinitarian Ecclesiology: Grounded in Grace, Lived in Faith, Hope, and Charity.” Theological Studies 76, no. 3 (2015): 448-67.
- “Operative and Cooperative Grace and the Question of Justification by Faith: A Contemporary Transposition.” Irish Theological Quarterly 80, no. 3 (2015): 248-58.
- “Doran’s The Trinity in History: The Girardian connection”, Method: Journal of Lonergan Studies 4/1 (2013): 47-59. (appeared in 2015)
- “An addendum to the grace-nature distinction” Theological Studies 75 (2014), 890–898.
- “Questioning desire – Lonergan, Girard and Buddhism”, Louvain Studies 36 (2012): 356-371 (appeared in 2014).
- “The Grace-Nature Distinction and the Construction of a Systematic Theology,” Theological Studies 75 (2014): 515–536.
- “The metaphysics of holiness: created participation in the divine nature” Irish Theological Quarterly 79/1 (2014): 68–82.
Book Chapters:
- “The technocratic paradigm: diagnosis and therapy”, in Dennis O’Hara et al (eds) Integral Ecology for a more Sustainable Worlds: Dialogues with Laudato Si”. (Lanham: Lexington, 2020) 209–220.
- “Social science and ideological critiques of ecclesiology” in Paul Avis (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Ecclesiology (Oxford: OUP, 2018), 553–72.
- “Cultural Considerations in the Decline of Christianity” in Paul Silas Peterson ed. The Decline of Established Christianity in the Western World: Interpretations and Responses, (New York: Routledge, 2018), 87–98.
- “Sensus fidei and Sociology: How Do We Find the Normative in the Empirical?” in Learning from All the Faithful: A Contemporary Theology of the Sensus Fidei, Bradford E. Hinze and Peter C. Phan (eds), Wipf & Stock, 2016, 89–102.
- “The Place of the Papacy in a Historically Conscious Ecclesiology”, in Primacy in the Church: The Office of Primate and the Authority of Councils (Volume 1 & 2), John Chryssavgis (ed), St Vladimir’s Press: Yonkers NY, 2016, 2/767-83.
- “Bernard Lonergan’s contribution to inter-religious dialogue” in Lonergan’s Anthropology Revisited: The next fifty years of Vatican II. Gerald Whelan (ed), Rome: Gregorian and Biblical Press, 2015, 205-20.
- “A voice cries in the wilderness: the place of the social sciences in ecclesiology,” A Realist Church: Essays in Honor of Joseph A. Komonchak, eds. Christopher Denny, Patrick Hayes & Nicholas Rademacher. Maryknoll: Orbis, 2015, 203-220.