Professor
B.A., Kilroe Seminary, Honesdale, PA.; S.T.B., Gregorian
University, Rome; Special Research Student, Oxford; Ph.D., Columbia
University.
Systematic Theology, Foundational Theology
Professor Bulman's 1981 publication, A Blueprint for
Humanity (Bucknell University Press) was selected by Choice
Library Journal as an Outstanding Academic Book for that year. His
more recent work,
Paul Tillich: A New Catholic Assessment, the Liturgical
Press (1994),The Lure of the Millennium, Orbis, (1999) and
Religion in the New Millennium: Theology in the Spirit of Paul
Tillich, Mercer University Press, (2001). He has also
published numerous articles in scholarly journals, such as
Theology Today, The Journal of Church and State and The Journal
of Ecumenical Studies. He participated in the
Lutheran-Catholic Bilateral on behalf of the Brooklyn Diocese's
Ecumenical Committee and served as President of the North American
Paul Tillich Society (1988-1989). He teaches both graduate and
undergraduate theology, with courses in the areas of Foundational
Theology, Theological Anthropology, Eschatology and Ecumenical
Studies. Since 1986 he has been a member of the interdisciplinary
steering committee of the Doctor of Arts Program in Modern World
History, in which he also participates as Religious Studies
representative, offering courses on world religions and peace and
on the impact of secularization on religious belief systems. He
currently chairs the Columbia University Seminar on Studies in
Religion.