Eugene R. Schlesinger
| Santa Clara University 500 El Camino Real Santa Clara, CA 95053 | Phone: (408) 551-7153 eschlesinger@scu.edu |
Academic Employment
Santa Clara University Fall 2018 to Present
Lecturer (Renewable Term), Religious Studies
Trinity School for Ministry Fall 2017 to Summer 2020
Adjunct Instructor (Online)
Nashotah House Theological Seminary Spring 2018
Adjunct Instructor
Marquette University Fall 2012 to Fall 2017
Adjunct Instructor (2016–17)
Rev. John P. Raynor, SJ Fellow (2015–16)
Teaching Assistant (2012–15)
Carroll University Fall 2016
Adjunct Instructor
Education
PhD Marquette University, Religious Studies May 2016
Dissertation: Ite, Missa Est! A Missional Liturgical Ecclesiology
Advisor: Susan K. Wood, SCL
MDiv Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary May 2007
Summa Cum Laude
BA University of North Carolina Greensboro, Religious Studies August 2004
Summa Cum Laude
Minored in Classical Studies
Research Interests
Ecclesiology, Sacramental and Liturgical Theology, Ecumenism, Missional Theology, Christian Theologies of Sacrifice, Doctrine of God, The Supernatural Order, “Contextual Theologies,” Theology and Ecology, Theologies of Liberation (Black, Womanist, Feminist, Latinx, Queer), Henri de Lubac, Bernard Lonergan, Augustine of Hippo
Publications
Books
Salvation in Henri de Lubac: Divine Grace, Human Nature, and the Mystery of the Cross Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2023.
Reviewed:
- Thomas P. Rausch, Theological Studies 84 (2023): 736–37.
Sacrificing the Church: Mass, Mission, and Ecumenism. Lanham: Fortress Academic/Lexington Books, 2019.
Reviewed:
- John Bauerschmidt, The Living Church (June 14, 2020): 34–35.
- Paul Avis, Ecclesiology 17 (2021): 166–68.
- Michel Malèvre, Istina 66 (2021): 111–12
Missa Est! A Missional Liturgical Ecclesiology. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2017.
Reviewed:
- Paul Avis, Ecclesiology 14 (2018): 221–23.
- Dwight J. Zscheile, Anglican Theological Review 100 (2018): 446–47.
- Daniel Martins, The Living Church (September 10, 2017): 44–45.
- John Yocum, International Journal of Systematic Theology 21 (2019): 100–103
- Christopher A. Stephenson, Religious Studies Review 47, no. 4 (2021): 519.
Peer Reviewed Articles
“Semper Purificanda: Accounting for Ecclesial Deformity with Bernard Lonergan.” Ecclesiology 19, no. 1 (2023): 9–27.
“Opus Dei, Opus Hominum: The Trinity, the Four-Point Hypothesis, and the Eucharist.” Irish Theological Quarterly 88, no. 1 (2023): 56–75.
“Overcoming the ‘Distance’: Robert Doran as a Bridge between the Trinitarian Analogies of Bernard Lonergan and Hans Urs von Balthasar,” Theological Studies 82, no. 4 (2021): 626–45.
“Catholicity from an Anglican Perspective.” Journal of Biblical and Theological Studies 5, no. 2 (2020): 281–96. (Invited and refereed)
“Eucharistic Sacrifice as Anti-Violent Pedagogy.” Theological Studies 80, no. 3 (2019): 653–72.
“Revisiting Anglicanism’s Vocation to Disappear.” Journal of Anglican Studies 17, no. 1 (2019), 8–30.
“The Integrative Role of Sacrifice in the Theology of Henri de Lubac.” International Journal of Systematic Theology 20, no. 3 (2018): 402–22.
“A Trinitarian Basis for a ‘Theological Ecology’ in Light of Laudato Si’.” Theological Studies 79, no. 2 (2018): 339–55.
“Sacrifice, Metaphor, and Evolution: Towards a Cognitive Linguistic Theology of Sacrifice.” Open Theology 4, no. 1 (2018): 1–14.
“The Fractured Body: The Eucharist and Anglican Division.” Anglican Theological Review 98, no. 4 (2016): 639–59.
“The Sacrificial Ecclesiology of City of God 10.” Augustinian Studies 47, no. 2 (2016): 137–55.
“The Church’s Eucharistic Poverty in the Theologies of Jon Sobrino and Hans Urs von Balthasar.” Theological Studies 77, no. 3 (2016): 1–25.
“Sæcula Sæculorum: Missionary Ecclesiology and the Church-World Relationship.” Open Theology 2 (2016): 539–52.
“Trinity, Incarnation and Time: A Restatement of the Doctrine of God in Conversation with Robert Jenson,” Scottish Journal of Theology 69, no. 2 (2016): 188–202.
“Baptismal and Missional Ecclesiology in the American Book of Common Prayer,” Ecclesiology 11, no. 2 (2015): 177-98.
“Schleiermacher on the Necessity of the Church,” The Journal of Theological Studies 66, no. 1 (2015): 235–56.
“Exchanging Symbols for Symbolic Exchange: A Realistic, Ecumenical Reformed Sacramental Theology,” Journal of Reformed Theology 9, no. 2 (2015): 56–78.
“The Threefold Body in Eschatological Perspective: With and Beyond Henri de Lubac on the Church” Ecclesiology 10 no. 2 (2014): 186–204.
“Sacramental Efficacy in Karl Rahner and Cognitive Linguistics” Philosophy & Theology 25, no. 2 (2013): 337–60.
“Fire in the Water: Baptismal Aptness and Ecology in the Petrine Epistles” Journal of Theological Interpretation 7 no. 2 (2013): 123–42.
“Use Your Allusion: How Reformed Sacramental Theology Makes Sense of Sacramental Language in John 3 and 6” Westminster Theological Journal 74, no. 2 (2012): 355–66.
“From Rights to Rites: A Eucharistic Reframing of the Abortion Debate” Anglican Theological Review 94, no. 1 (2012): 37–57.
Chapters in Edited Volumes
“Worship and Mission.” In Theological Foundations for Engaging Worship, edited by Khalia J. Williams and Mark A. Lamport. Engaging Worship Series, 135–49. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2021.
“Ecological Conversion, the Four Point Hypothesis, and Social Grace.” In Intellect, Affect, and God: The Trinity, History, and the Life of Grace, edited by Joseph Ogbannaya and Gerard Whelan, 19–33. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2021.
“The Quest for Liturgical Meaning: Schmemann, Ressourcement, and Scholasticism” in We Give Our Thanks Unto Thee: Essays in Honor of Alexander Schmemann, edited by Porter Case Taylor, 35–51. Eugene: Wipf and Stock, 2019.
“One, Holy, Catholic and Missional Church: Hans Urs von Balthasar on the Church’s Identity and Mission.” In Marking the Church Essays in Ecclesiology, edited by Gregory Scott Peters and Matt Jenson, 164–83. Eugene: Wipf and Stock, 2016.
In Progress
Ruptured Bodies: A Theology of the Church Divided. Under contract at Fortress Press. Anticipated: Spring 2024.
“Anglicanism and Other Churches.” In The T&T Clark Companion to Anglicanism, edited by Porter C. Taylor, et al. Forthcoming from Bloomsbury.
Book Reviews
“The Queen is Dead. Long Live the Queen [Review of Ryan Hemmer, The Death and Life of Speculative Theology: A Lonergan Idea (Lexington Books, 2023)].” Covenant: A Weblog of The Living Church Foundation (August 22, 2023). https://covenant.livingchurch.org/2023/08/22/the-queen-is-dead-long-live-the-queen/
“The Seriousness of Trivial Things [Review of A. Edward Siecienski, Beards, Azymes, and Purgatory: The Other Issues that Divided East and West (Oxford University Press, 2023)].” The Living Church (July 2023): 34–35.
“Centered on Christ Crucified [Review of Kimlyn Bender, 1 Corinthians. Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible (Brazos Press, 2022).” The Living Church (February 19, 2023): 32–34.
“Building on the One Foundation [Review of Paul Avis, Jesus and the Church: The Foundation of the Church in the New Testament and Modern Theology (London: T&T Clark, 2020 and Reconciling Theology (London: SCM Press, 2022)].” The Living Church (November 13, 2022): 24–25.
Andrew Bishop, Eucharist Shaping and Hebert’s Liturgy and Society: Church, Mission and Personhood (London: Routledge, 2016) and Antonio Eduardo Alonso, Commodified Communion: Eucharist, Consumer Culture, and the Practice of Everyday Life (New York: Fordham University Press, 2021). Anglican Theological Review 104, no. 1 (2022): 113–19.
Kate Tyler, The Ecclesiology of Thomas F. Torrance: Koinōnia and the Church (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2019). Ecclesiology 17, no. 2 (2021): 284–87.
“Paradoxical and Compelling [Review of Jordan Hillebert, Henri de Lubac and the Drama of Human Existence (University of Notre Dame Press)].” The Living Church (May 2, 2021): 22–23.
David Grumett (ed. and intro.), Henri de Lubac and the Shaping of Modern Theology: A Reader (Ignatius, 2020). Ecclesiology 17, no. 1 (2021): 136–38.
“There’s Nothing Orthodox About Schism [Review of Charles Erlandson, Orthodox Anglican Identity: The Quest for Unity in a Diverse Religious Tradition (Wipf and Stock); Gerald McDermott, ed., The Future of Orthodox Anglicanism (Crossway)].” The Living Church (January 24, 2021): 28–29.
Erin Kidd and Jakob Karl Rinderknecht, eds., Putting God on the Map: Theology and Conceptual Mapping (Fortress Academic, 2018). Anglican Theological Review 102, no. 2 (2020): 336–38.
William Cavanaugh, ed. Fragile World: Ecology and the Church (Cascade, 2018). Theological Studies 80, no. 2 (2019): 492.
“Dialogue Among Presbyterians [Review of Joseph D. Small, Flawed Church, Faithful God: A Reformed Ecclesiology for the Real World (Eerdmans); Amy Plantinga Pauw, Church in Ordinary Time: A Wisdom Ecclesiology (Eerdmans); James Calvin Davis, Forbearance: A Theological Ethic for a Disagreeable Church (Eerdmans)]” The Living Church (August 4, 2019): 20–22.
Peter Schmiechen, Gift and Promise: An Evangelical Theology of the Lord’s Supper (Wipf and Stock, 2017). Anglican Theological Review 100, no. 4 (2018):842–44.
“Threading the Pauline Needle [Garwood P. Anderson, Paul’s New Perspective: Charting a Soteriological Journey (IVP Academic, 2016)],” The Living Church (May 6, 2018): 18–19.
“Francis Calls the Church to Joy [Leonardo Boff, Francis of Rome & Francis of Assisi: A New Spring in the Church (Orbis, 2014); Gregory Heille, The Preaching of Pope Francis: Missionary Discipleship and the Ministry of the Word (Liturgical Press, 2015); Walter Kasper, Pope Francis’ Revolution of Tenderness and Love: Theological and Pastoral Perspectives (Paulist Press, 2015); Pope Francis, Morning Homilies II: In the Chapel of St. Martha’s Guest House, September 2, 2013–January 31, 2014 (Orbis, 2016); Pope Francis, Open Mind, Faithful Heart: Reflections on Following Jesus (Herder & Herder, 2013)],” The Living Church (March, 2016): 20–21.
Thomas O’Loughlin, The Eucharist: Origins and Contemporary Understandings. (London: T&T Clark, 2014). Themelios 40, no. 2 (2015): 340–41.
Other Publications
Covenant: A Weblog of the Living Church Foundation: Regular Contributor (2017–Present).
“Dedicatory Plaques and the Communion of Saints,” The Living Church (October 21, 2018): 16–17.
“Sacraments—Critical Issues,” article in Lexham Bible Dictionary, ed. John D. Barry et al. Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software, 2015.
“Scholars Debate Radner’s Latest” The Living Church online December 3, 2013. http://livingchurch.org/scholars-debate-radner-latest
Conference Presentations
“Per Crucem ad Deum: Mysticism, Charity, and Catholic Renewal in Henri de Lubac” (Paper presented at “Catholicity as Gift and Task: The 50th Anniversary of Communio, Rochester, New York, September 30–October 2, 2022).
“Opus Dei, Opus Hominum: The Trinity, the Four-Point Hypothesis, and the Eucharist” (Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, San Antonio, Texas/Online, November 20–23, 2021).
“‘There is Nothing Hidden that Will not Be Brought to Light’: Christ’s Cross and the Discovery of Labor” (Paper Presented at the National Meeting of the Catholic Theological Society of America, Online, June 10–13, 2021).
“The Tie that Binds: Mysticism and Sacrifice in Henri de Lubac” (Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Online, November 29–December 10, 2020).
“Mysticism and Sacrifice in Henri de Lubac” (Paper Presented at the International Conference on Collaborative Philosophy, Theology, and Ministry, East Aurora, New York, February 28–29, 2020).
“Laudato Si’ and the Missio Dei: Theologia, Oeconomia, Ecology” (Paper Presented at the National Meeting of the Catholic Theological Society of America, Albuquerque, New Mexico, June 8–11, 2017).
“Response to Christopher Wells’s ‘Initiating Catholic Ecumenism: Conversion, Reconciliation, Martyrdom’” (Invited Response at Living Sacrifices: Repentance, Reconciliation, Renewal, Nashotah House Theological Seminary, June 6–9, 2017)
“Sacrifice as Communion in the Theology of Augustine of Hippo” (Paper Presented at The Upper Midwest Regional Meeting of The American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature, St. Paul, Minnesota, April 1–2, 2016)
“Sæcula Sæculorum: Church and World in Gaudium et Spes” (Paper Presented at the National Meeting of the American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature, Atlanta, Georgia, November 21-24, 2015)
“Closing the Gaps: Divine Missions And Divine Immutability” (Paper Presented at the National Meeting of the American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature, Atlanta, Georgia, November 21-24, 2015)
Invited Panelist: “Lonergan And the Church in Our Time” (Lonergan On The Edge, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, September 11-12, 2015).
Invited Participant: The Jewish Origins of Christian Doctrines of The Holy Spirit Colloquium (Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, August 29, 2015).
“The Eucharist and the Church of the Poor: Sobrino and von Balthasar in Dialogue” (paper presented at the Upper Midwest Regional Meeting of the American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature, St. Paul, Minnesota, April 17-18, 2015).
“One Holy Catholic and Missional Church: Hans Urs von Balthasar on the Church’s Identity in Mission” (paper presented at National Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, San Diego, California, November 18-20, 2014).
Panelist: “The Future of Ecclesiology” (National Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, San Diego, California, November 18-20, 2014).
“Beyond Cognition: Psychic Conversion, James K. A. Smith, and the Law of the Cross” (paper presented at Lonergan on the Edge, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, September 19-20, 2014).
“The Necessity of the Church in the Theology of Friedrich Schleiermacher” (paper presented at the Upper Midwest Regional Meeting of the American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature, St. Paul, Minnesota, April 4-5, 2014).
“Is Christ Divided? The Eucharistic Implications of Schism” (paper presented at the Upper Midwest Regional Meeting of the American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature, St. Paul, Minnesota, April 4-5, 2014). Co-authored with Kirsten Laurel Guidero.
“The Potential of Chauvet’s Sacramental Theology for Reformed-Catholic Ecumenism” (paper presented at the National Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Baltimore Maryland, November 23-26, 2013).
“Exchanging Symbols for Symbolic Exchange: Towards a Realistic, Ecumenical Reformed Sacramental Theology” (paper presented at the National Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, Baltimore Maryland, November 19-21, 2013).
“O Brave New World! Baptismal Imagery in the Petrine Epistles as an Ecological Resource” (paper presented at the Upper Midwest Regional Meeting of the American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature, St. Paul, Minnesota, April 5-6, 2013).
“A ‘Convenient’ Truth: Funding Ecological Commitment with Baptismal Aptness” (paper presented at the Midwest Regional Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, Lincoln, Illinois, March 8-9, 2013).
“Use Your Allusion: How Reformed Sacramental Theology Makes Sense of Sacramental Language in John 3 and 6” (paper presented at the Southeast Regional Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, Wake Forest, North Carolina, March 23-24, 2012).
Other Presentations
“Henri de Lubac on Mysticism and the Spiritual Interpretation of Scripture.” (Parish Talk, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Los Gatos, CA, September 9–10, 2023).
“Communion Across Difference.” (Guest Talk/Interview for the course “When Christians Disagree,” Regent College, Vancouver, BC, July 12, 2023).
“The Eucharist Makes the Church: What it Means and Why it Matters.” (Parish Talk, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Los Gatos, CA, February 5, 2023).
“The Locus of Encounter with God: A Discussion with Eugene Schlesinger” (Doth Protest Too Much: A Protestant Historical-Theology Podcast, February 9, 2022).
“Spiritual Communion, Pt. 2: Ecclesiology Edition” (Systematically Podcast, April 14, 2020).
“The Church in Departure: A Conversation on Missional Ecclesiology with Eugene Schlesinger” (Intersection Podcast, December 3, 2019).
“Eugene Schlesinger, Sacrificing the Church: Mass, Mission, and Ecumenism.” (New Books Network Podcast, November 5, 2019).
“Eugene Schlesinger – Sacrificing the Church.” (Theology Shorts Podcast, September 9, 2019).
“Liturgy, Mission, and the Paschal Heart of the Christian Church.” (Keynote Address, Annual Blessing of Liturgical Ministries, Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee, Nashville, Tennessee, August 24, 2019).
“The Eucharist, Poverty, and Affluence.” (Parish Talk, St. Francis Episcopal Church, San Jose, California, March 31, 2019).
Courses Taught (Primary Instructor)
Graduate Courses
PLIT 221: Eucharist. 4 Credits, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara California.
Course Description: An introduction to the theology and celebration of the Eucharist. The course includes New Testament beginnings, a brief historical overview, and pastoral and catechetical questions concerning contemporary celebration of the Eucharist. An elective course.
PMIN 203: Christology. 4 Credits, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara California.
Course Description: An introduction to contemporary Catholic Christology. This course will examine Jesus Christ as an historical figure and object of faith and, as such, the Christian answer to the human situation. Course work will center on Jesus’ proclamation of the Kingdom of God and will treat of his history through the Resurrection.
PMIN 205: Ecclesiology. 4 Credits, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara California.
Course Description: This course examines the Christian Church, the “meeting place of all mysteries,” from scriptural, historical, doctrinal, and practical perspectives. In particular we shall be concerned to understand and appropriate the ecclesiology of the Second Vatican Council in relation to previous expressions of Catholic ecclesiology and post-conciliar developments, and its implications for pastoral ministry and the mission of the church in contemporary contexts. A foundational Ecclesiology course
PMIN 213: Liturgy and Sacraments (Also listed as PLIT 202: Christian Liturgy). 4 Credits, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara California.
Course Description: An exploration of the great Christian symbols and the importance of the role of ritual in life and in Christian celebration. The course will include an introduction to worship as experienced and celebrated by the Christian community.
PMIN 214: Sacramental Theology. 4 credits, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara California. (Also listed as PMIN 297: Sacraments and Liturgy)
Course Description: Sacraments and Liturgy will explore primarily the role that symbols and rituals play in Christianity; how they shape Christian lives and renew our faith. On a second level, it will explore the ways that Christians have described the role of symbols and rituals in their lives and how those symbols and rituals aid in their salvation. Put another way, we will look at how human beings are symbolically-constructed creatures, and the way in which God communicates Godself to us through the symbolic order, and especially through the Church’s seven sacraments.
PLIT 235: The Sacraments of Healing. 4 credits, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara California.
Course Description: A consideration of liturgical prayer in relation to the experience of sickness and dying. Examination of the theological, historical, and pastoral aspects of ministry to the sick and dying based on the rites.
ST740: Advanced Church, Ministry, and Sacraments. 3 credits, Trinity School for Ministry, Ambridge, Pennsylvania. Fall 2017 (Online).
Course Description: This is an advanced course in the theology of the church, its ministry, and the sacraments. We will consider issues in church identity, discipline, and government from an Anglican and ecumenical perspective. Particular attention will be paid to the history and theology of the sacraments of baptism and Eucharist and the orders of ministry.
Undergraduate Courses
TESP 122: Good and Evil. 5 credits, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California.
Course Description: Alas, ours is a world of suffering, within which evil is pervasive. Thomas Hobbes once described life as “nasty, brutish, and short,” and, despite our advances in lengthening life, this description still applies. The mortality rate remains 100%. This course explores the theological theme of good and evil, with a particular focus upon evil. The nature of the good requires our attention, but not our explanation. By definition, the good should be; we desire it, and desire that it be. Evil, on the other hand, arrests our attention and demands a response. Why is there evil? Whence does it come? Is there a “solution” to the problem of evil? Is our suffering simply meaningless? Can it be understood? Or should it merely be recognized? Most centrally, the question arises: what is the relationship between good, and especially God, and evil? Should we hope? Can we? Is hell stronger than heaven? Does fire burn hotter than love?
TESP 50: Catholic Theology: Foundations. 4 credits, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California.
Course Description: An examination of the fundamental theological issues of Catholicism such as: the experience of God, revelation and faith, the historical foundations of the tradition, the mystery of Jesus, grace, sin and redemption, the Church sacraments, and religious pluralism, etc.
TESP 4: The Christian Tradition. 4 credits, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California.
Course Description: A theological examination of the Christian tradition covering such topics as religious experience and the meaning of God; Jesus in the Gospels; the development and history of the Christian churches; and the relevance of Christianity in the 21st century global world.
THEO 2310: Exploration in Christian Theology: Good and Evil. 3 credits, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Spring 2017.
Course Description: This course explores the theological theme of good and evil, with a particular focus upon evil. The nature of the good requires our attention, but not our explanation. By definition, the good should be; we desire it, and desire that it be. Evil, on the other hand, arrests our attention and demands a response. Why is there evil? Whence does it come? Is there a “solution” to the problem of evil? Is our suffering simply meaningless? Can it be understood? Or should it merely be recognized? Most centrally, the question arises: what is the relationship between good, and especially God, and evil? Should we hope? Can we? Is hell stronger than heaven? Does fire burn hotter than love?
THEO 1001: Introduction to Theology. 3 credits, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Fall 2014; Spring 2015; Fall 2016; Fall 2017.
Course Description: This course introduces key sources and questions of theology as reflection upon the worldview and core narrative found in Christian tradition and scriptures. Background in theology is not presupposed. Prerequisite to all other courses in theology.
CCS 100: “Latin America: ‘Christianity from Below.’” 4 credits, Carroll University, Waukesha, Wisconsin. Fall 2016.
Course Description: In this section of cultural seminar, we will consider the question: Do cultural forces determine religious beliefs and practices, or does religion determine culture, or both, or neither? This section will explore the distinct form that the Christian religion has taken in Latin America, and how particular cultural forces have given shape to this unique manifestation of Christianity.
Other Courses
STNC10: Introduction to Systematic Theology. Not for Credit, Trinity School for Ministry, Ambridge, Pennsylvania (Online). Fall 2017, Summer 2018, Fall 2019, Summer 2020.
Course Description: This course introduces the discipline of systematic theology, which provide an orderly account of the Christian faith. This course will introduce the basic categories and divisions of systematic theology, and encourage students to think through how they relate to one another. This will also provide us with an opportunity to be introduced to some of the major theologians of the Christian tradition.
University and Department Service
Committee Work
Committee on Lecturers and Adjuncts (COLA)
Santa Clara University Fall 2023 to Present
Graduate Program in Pastoral Ministries Committee
Santa Clara University Fall 2020 to Present
Religious Studies AYAL Evaluation Committee
Santa Clara University Winter 2023
RTC Core Syllabus Approval Committee
Santa Clara University Winter 2023 to Present
Departmental Task Force on Fixed Term Faculty Concerns
Santa Clara University Winter 2020 to Spring 2021
Catholic Theology Requirement for Religious Studies Major Working Group
Santa Clara University Fall 2019 to Fall 2020/Ongoing
Lecturer Committee, Department of Religious Studies
Santa Clara University Fall 2018 to Spring 2020
Chair, beginning Spring 2019
Association of Graduate Students in Theology 2013 to 2015
Marquette University
Presentations
“Something Old, Something New: Topics, resources & approaches for teaching theology in the GPPM.” Faculty Development Workshop. Santa Clara University, March 1, 2021. Co-led with Paul Schutz.
“Why Does an All-Powerful God Require Sacrifice?” Ask Us Anything for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. Campus Ministries, Santa Clara University, January, 2021.
“Tradition and Dissent: On the Evolution of Catholic Teaching.” Religious Studies Conversations Series. Santa Clara University, February 5, 2020. Co-led with Sally Vance-Trembath.
Professional Service
Theological Studies January 2022 to Present
Associate Editor
Covenant: A Weblog of the Living Church Foundation June 2019 to Present
Editor
Peer-Reviews for:
- Catholic University of America Press
- New Blackfriars
- Modern Theology
- Ecclesiology
- Theological Studies
- Anglican Theological Review
- European Journal for Philosophy of Religion
- Religions
Catholic Theological Society of America
Administrative Team: Christ Topic Session June 2022 to Present
Other Service
The Episcopal Church Fall 2022 to Present
Standing Commission on Ecumenical and Interreligious Relations
Awards
Provost’s Publication Grant Fall 2018, Fall 2022, Fall 2023
Santa Clara University
Graduate Scholar of the Year 2015–2016
Marquette University
Rev. John P. Raynor, SJ Fellowship 2015–2016
Marquette University
Professional Affiliations
American Academy of Religion
Catholic Theological Society of America
Languages
English: Native Language
French: Reading Knowledge. Some speaking and listening.
Spanish: Reading Knowledge. Some speaking and listening.
German: Reading Knowledge. Limited speaking and listening.
Latin: Reading Knowledge.
Greek (Attic and Koine): Reading Knowledge
Hebrew: Basic Reading Knowledge
Eugene R. Schlesinger 