MA Toronto (1987)
PhD Yale (1992)
Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, University of San Diego (2006)
Professor of Theology, St. John's University, New York (2005-)
Associate Dean, St. John's University, New York (1999-2005)
Professor Healy’s current research continues to focus on ecclesiology, broadly considered, which he expects to issue eventually in two books: a critical introduction to the ecclesial ethics of Stanley Hauerwas (Eerdmans), and a book of systematic ecclesiology, the working title of which is The Unsettled Church.
Major Publications
'Indirect methods in theology: Karl Rahner as an ad hoc apologist', The Thomist (1992)
‘The Logic of Karl Barth’s Ecclesiology: Analysis, Assessment and Proposed Modification’, Modern Theology 10 (1994)
'Communion Ecclesiology: A Cautionary Note', Pro Ecclesia 4 (1995)
'Some Observations on Ecclesiological Method', Toronto Journal of Theology 12.1 (1996), 49-54
Church, World and the Christian Life: Practical-Prophetic Ecclesiology (Cambridge, 2000)
'Practices and the New Ecclesiology: Misplaced Concreteness?', International Journal of Systematic Theology 5.3 (2003) 287-308
Thomas Aquinas: Theologian of the Christian Life (Ashgate, 2003)
'Karl Barth's Ecclesiology Reconsidered', Scottish Journal of Theology 57 (2004) 287-299
'Ecclesiology and Communion', Perspectives in Religious Studies 3.3 (2004) 273-290
'By the Working of the Holy Spirit: The Crisis of Authority in the Christian Churches', Anglican Theological Review (Winter 2006)
'Three Theological Appropriations of Analytic-Philosophical Readings of Thomas Aquinas' in Craig Paterson and Matthew S. Pugh (eds.), Analytical Thomism: traditions in dialogue (Ashgate, 2006)
'The Church in modern theology' in G. Mannion & L. S. Mudge (eds.), The Routledge Companion to the Christian Church (Routledge, 2008), 106-126
'What is Systematic Theology?', International Journal of Systematic Theology 11.1 (2009) 24-39
‘Ecclesiology and Practical Theology’ in David Lonsdale, Gemma Simmonds, James Sweeney (eds.), Keeping Faith in Practice: Catholic Pastoral Theology (SCM Press, 2010)
‘Ecclesiology, Ethnography and God: An Interplay of Reality Descriptions’ in Pete Ward (ed.), Perspectives on Ecclesiology and Ethnography (Eerdmans/SCM, 2011)
'Ordinary theology, theological method and constructive ecclesiology' in Jeff Astley and Leslie Francis (eds.), Exploring Ordinary Theology (Ashgate Press, 2012)
‘Three Ways of Engaging Theologically with Modernity’, New Blackfriars 94 (March 2013).
‘The Christian Life: In Addition to Augustine and Aquinas’, New Blackfriars 95 (March 2014)
Hauerwas: A (Very) Critical Introduction (Eerdmans, 2014)
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