Large, Renowned Faculty
Students in the M.Div. program benefit from the many scholars and course options in Notre Dame’s Department of Theology. Faculty members come from all over the world and are internationally acclaimed for their scholarship in a vairety of fields.
John Cavadini (PhD, Yale University). Patristic and early medieval theology, Augustine, history of exegesis. Chair, Dept. of Theology.
Lawrence Cunningham (PhD, Florida State). Systematic theology, Catholic studies, spirituality.
Rev. Brian Daley, SJ (DPhil, Oxford University). Historical theology, the early Church and the development of Christian doctrine in 4th-8th centuries.
Rev. Virgilio Elizondo (PhD, Institut Catholique de Paris). Mestizaje theology. Latino evangelization. Liberation theology.
David Fagerberg (PhD, Yale University). Liturgical theology, sacramental theology, linguistic and scholastic philosophy, G.K. Chesterton.
Robert Gimello (B.A., M.A., Seton Hall University; Ph.D., Columbia University, Post-Doctoral Study at Tokyo University) Medieval and early modern Buddhist thought.
Rev. Gustavo Gutiérrez, O.P. (PhD, Université Catholique de Lyon). Systematic theology, Latin American liberation theology.
Mary Catherine Hilkert OP (PhD, Catholic Univ. of America). Systematic theology, especially theological anthropology, fundamental theology, and feminist theology.
Rev. Richard P. McBrien (S.T.D. Gregorian University). Ecclesiology.
Rev. John Meier (S.S.D. Biblical Institute, Rome). Biblical studies, Gospel of John.
Cyril O’Regan (PhD, Yale University). Systematic theology, especially the doctrine of God (Trinity), theological anthropology, and sin and redemption.
Jean Porter (PhD, Yale University). Christian theology, moral theology.
Lawrence Sullivan (Ph.D., University of Chicago) Religions of South America, Central Africa.
Eugene C. Ulrich (PhD, Harvard University). Hebrew scriptures.
James C. VanderKam (PhD, Harvard University). Hebrew scriptures and intertestamental studies.
“The pastoral requirements, such as preaching and pastoral administration, coupled with the highest-quality academic classes—in which students are formed by professors who are top scholars in their fields—help shape this program as truly distinct."
--STACEY NOEM
“The faculty at Notre Dame has a huge commitment to the students. It is a commitment based on collegiality in that we’re all in this together, striving toward the same thing. This has been helpful in integrating the pastoral with the strictly theological. The faculty are so accessible, and pastoral questions are viewed as being so relevant."
--TARA McKINNEY (M.Div. ’04)
