Paul E. McKeever Chair in Moral Theology
In the 1991-1992 Academic Year, the Department of Theology
and Religious Studies at St. John's University inaugurated the Paul
E. McKeever Chair in Moral Theology. Established as a living
memorial to an esteemed colleague whose breadth and depth of
theological vision embraced service as a peritus at Vatican II,
presidency of the Catholic Theological Society of America and
editorship of The Long Island Catholic and The Priest magazine,
this Chair continues his commitment to rigorous theological studies
and priestly ministry. During each term the occupant of the
Chair teaches graduate courses and also offers a public lecture on
a current question of Moral Theology.
2003-2004 - Daniel Sulmasy, O.F.M.
Dr. Sulmasy, a Franciscan friar, holds the Sisters of
Charity Chair in Ethics at Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers,
St. Vincent's Manhattan, and serves as professor of Medicine and
Director of the Bioethics Institute of New York Medical College,
Valhalla, NY. He received his A.B. and M.D. degrees from
Cornell University and completed his residency, chief residency and
post-doctoral fellowship in General Internal Medicine at the John's
Hopkins Hospital. His received his PH.D. in philosophy form
Georgetown University in 1995. From 1991-1998 he served on
the faculty at Georgetown, where he was Director of the Center of
Clinical Bioethics and Senior Research Scholar of the Kennedy
Institute of Ethics. His is a Soros Faculty Scholar of the
Project on Death in America. His research interests include
both theoretical and empirical studies of end-of-life
decision-making, ethics education, and the ethics of
cost-containment in medicine. He is the author of a book on
spirituality for health care professions, entitled The Healer's
Calling, and is co-editor of Methods in Medical Ethics. He
begins service as editor-in-chief of Theoretical Medicine and
Bioethics in 2002. His numerous articles have appeared in
medical, philosophical, and theological journals and he has
lectured widely both in the United States and abroad.
2002-2003 - Sidney Callahan, Ph.D.
Sidney Callahan, Ph.D. is an author, lecturer and licensed
psychologist. She earned her B.A. in English (magna cum
laude) from Bryn Mawr College, her M.A. in Psychology from Sarah
Lawrence College and a Ph.D. in Social and Personality Psychology
from the City University of New York. Dr. Callahan was
Professor of Psychology with Tenure at Mercy College,
1980-1997. Sidney Callahan has written many articles, books,
and columns devoted to religious, psychological and ethical
questions. She has been awarded many honors in the course of
her career and served on many boards.
She is author of In Good Conscience: Reason and
Emotion in Moral Decision Making (San Francisco: Harper
San Francisco, 1991), With All Our Heart and Mind: The
Spiritual Works of Mercy in a Psychological Age (New
York: Crossroads/Continuum, 1988). Winner of
Christopher Award, 1988; Abortion: Understanding Differences,
Co-edited with Daniel Callahan. (New York: Plenum
Press, 1984), and Parenting: Principles and Politics of
Parenthood (New York: Doubleday, 1973) .
1997-1998 - Anne E. Patrick
Anne Patrick holds a Ph.D. in Religion and Literature from
the University of Chicago, 1982. She also earned an M.A. in
Divinity from the University of Chicago, 1976. Since 1991 she
has been Professor of Religion at Carleton College. She has
served on the Board of Directors of the Society of Christian Ethics
from 1987-91, and on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of
Religious Ethics, Religious Book Club, and Theological
Horizons.
Publications include Liberating Conscience: Feminist
Explorations in Catholic Moral Theology, Continuum, 1996; and
London: SCM Publications, 1996.
1996-1997 - Kenneth Robert Himes
Fr. Himes holds a Ph.D. from Duke University in Religion
and Public Policy, 1981. He received an M.A. from Washington
Theological Union, Moral Theology, 1975 and a B.A. from Siena
College, History, 1971. Since 1980 he has been Professor of
Moral Theology at Washington Theological Union.
He is the author of Fullness of Faith: Public Significance
of Theology (with Michael Himes), and numerous articles. He is
a sought-after keynote speaker and frequent contributor to
conferences, colloquia, and task forces on religion and public
issues.
1995-1996 - Edward Collins Vacek, S.J.
Fr. Vacek earned his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in
1978. He studied at the Weston Jesuit School of
Theology/Boston College, earning an M.Div. with distinction in
1973. He received an A.B. in Philosophy and Classics (Magna
cum Laude) and an A.M. in Philosophy, 1965-67 from Saint Louis
University. Fr. Vacek holds an S.T.L from Loyola University
of Chicago and a Ph.L. from
Saint Louis University.
Since 1981 he has taught at Weston School of Theology as
Associate Professor of Christian Ethics. Publications
include: Love, Human and Divine: the Heart of Christian
Life, Georgetown University Press, 1994.
1993-1994 - Sandra M. Schneiders, IHM
Dr. Schneiders is Professor of New Testament Studies and
Christian Spirituality at Jesuit School of Theology at
Berkeley. She has been on the faculty at Graduate Theological
Union since 1976. Dr. Schneiders received an S.T.D. from the
Gregorian University, 1975; an S.T.L. from the Institut Catholique
in 1971; her M.A. from the University of Detroit, 1967, and holds a
B.A. from Marygrove College.
Publications include "The Bible and Feminism: Biblical
Theology." Freeing Theology: The Essentials of
Theology in Feminist Perspective, 31-57, edited by Catherine
Mowry LaCugna. San Francisco: Harper, 1993. Dr.
Schneiders is co-editor of Christian Spirituality Bulletin
and associate editor of Biblical Theology Bulletin, Horizons,
Journal of Peace and Justice Studies.
Her inaugural Lecture for the McKeever addressed the topic:
"Scripture: Tool of Oppression or Resource for
Liberation?"
1992-1993 - Rev. John Kavanaugh, S.J.
Fr. Kavanaugh, S.J. received his Ph.D. from Washington-St.
Louis in 1971. He is professor of philosophy and Director of
the Ethics Across the Curriculum program at Saint Louis University.
His interests are the ethics of killing (euthanasia, abortion,
war/terrorism), advertising/capitalism/ idolatry/iconography, and
the theory of intrinsic value.
Publications include: On Christian Faith vs. Capitalism;
Following Christ in a Consumer Society; and Faces of
Poverty. Recent graduate seminars include: Taylor/Hegel;
Hegel/Marx; Freud and Philosophy; and Aquinas and Natural Law. He
is a columnist for America Magazine. He has worked in
India and taught in Africa. He has lectured on
consumerism/capitalism/advertising (critique) on all continents
1991-1992 - Rev. Enda McDonagh
Fr. Enda McDonagh, Professor of Moral Theology at the
Pontifical University, St. Patrick's College, Maynooth, Ireland,
was named the first occupant of the Paul E. McKeever Chair in Moral
Theology at St. John's University during the 1991-92 academic
year. Father McDonagh's expertise is in the areas of
Christian ethics and social justice. His current work is in
the use and influence of the arts in the development and teaching
of moral theology.
Fr. McDonagh holds doctorates in theology and canon law and has
taught or held research positions at the University of Notre Dame,
the Irish School of Ecumenics, the Universities of Manchester and
Cambridge in England and other colleges and universities as well as
at Maynooth and is the author of many books and articles.
The inaugural lecture was "The Artist and The Believer: A
Christian Vision of Social Justice," given Monday, October 28,
1991, at 8:00 p.m. in Bent Hall Auditorium.