Rev Martin Henry, BA, BD, DPhil (Oxon)

Lecturer in Systematic Theology

Tel: +353 (0)1 708 3629
E-mail: md.henry@may.ie

Office Location: Room 3, Dunboyne House

Office Hours:
Monday — Friday: Any time by appointment.

 

Biography:
Priest of the Diocese of Down and Connor, ordained in 1975. Undergraduate studies in Belfast (QUB) and Maynooth; graduate studies at Oxford. Has taught Dogmatic Theology in Maynooth since 1982. Co-ordinator of the Erasmus Programme for the Faculty of Theology, SPCM, since 1993. Review Editor of Irish Theological Quarterly (1997-2007); acting Editor of Irish Theological Quarterly (2000-2001).

Research Interests:

• The modern God-question
• Nineteenth-century German Protestant Theology
• The history of the Christian mystical tradition

Select Publications:

Books 

• Franz Overbeck: Theologian? Religion and History in the Thought of Franz Overbeck (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1995) 
• On not understanding God (Dublin: The Columba Press, 1997)
• Franz Overbeck, How Christian is Our Present-day Theology? Annotated translation with an introduction by M. Henry; with a Foreword by David Tracy (London: T & T Clark/Continuum, 2005) 
• Tangents: Essays and Reflections (Dublin: Veritas, 2008) 
  

Articles 

• ‘Transcendence’, ITQ, vol. 43/1, 1976, 55-63
• ‘Les divers courants de la théologie de la grâce aujourd’hui’, Revue de l’Institut Catholique de Paris, 52, juillet-septembre, 1994, 57-92 
• ‘God in Postmodernity’, ITQ, vol. 63/1, 1998, 3-21
• ‘The Enlightenment and Romanticism from a Theological Perspective’, ITQ, vol. 63/3, 1998, 250-62 
• ‘How Christian is Christian Mysticism?’, ITQ, vol. 64/1, 1999, 29-54 
• ‘Le Mysticisme Est-Il Chrétien?’, in: Actes du Colloque d’Irlande, Octobre 1998: Littérature et sources spirituelles: l’œuvre de Jean Sulivan. Sous la direction de Pádraig Ó Gormaile et Máire-Áine Ní Mhainnín, Paris: Association des amis de Jean Sulivan, 1999 [= Rencontres avec Jean Sulivan N°11], 120-39 (translated by Toby Garfitt) 
• ‘Pascal’s God’, ITQ, vol. 64/2, 1999, 188 
• ‘Original Sin: A Flawed Inheritance’, ITQ, vol. 65/1, 2000, 3-12 
• ‘Franz Overbeck: An Introduction’, ITQ, vol. 65/4, 2000, 307-18 
• ‘Translation of Franz Overbeck’s How Christian is our Present-day Theology? [First Preface and Chapter One]’, ITQ, vol. 66/1, 2001, 51-66 
• ‘Environment or Creation?’, ITQ, vol. 66/2, 2001, 108 
• ‘Reflections on Grace (Part One)’, ITQ, vol. 66/3, 2001, 195-210 
• ‘Reflections on Grace (Part Two)’, ITQ, vol. 66/4, 2001, 295-314 
• ‘Religion and Death’, ITQ, vol. 66/4, 2001, 390 
• ‘Reflections on Grace (Part Three)’, ITQ, vol. 67/1, 2002, 55-68 
• ‘The Kabbalah, Paul Celan, and a View of Redemption’, ITQ, vol. 67/2, 2002, 152 
• ‘The Weakness and Strength of Christianity’, ITQ, vol. 67/4, 2002, 352 
• ‘Otherness’, ITQ, vol. 68/1, 2003, 34 
• ‘The Annunciation’, ITQ, vol. 68/2, 2003, 160-62 
• ‘On Nothing’, ITQ, vol. 68/4, 2003, 324 
• ‘Franz Overbeck on Carl Albrecht Bernoulli’, ITQ, vol. 68/4, 2003, 392-95 
• ‘Christianity and the Enlightenment’, ITQ, vol. 69/2, 2004, 188 
• ‘Karl Barth on Creation’, ITQ, vol. 69/3, 2004, 219-23 
• ‘Mysticisme et christianisme’, Etudes Théologiques et Religieuses, Tome 80, 2005/2, 235-259
• ‘Christianity and Europe’, ITQ, vol. 70/2, 2005, 132 
• ‘G. W. F. Hegel: A Secularized Theologian?’, ITQ, vol. 70/3, 2005, 195-214 
• ‘Catholicism and Protestantism’, ITQ, vol. 70/3, 2005, 262 
• ‘Christianity and Anti-Semitism’, ITQ, vol. 70/4, 2005, 362
• ‘Christianity and Hellenism’, ITQ, vol. 70/4, 2005, 366
• ‘Is Christianity Life-affirming?’, ITQ, vol. 71/3&4, 2006, 348-49 
• ‘Christianity and Europe,’ The Furrow, January 2007, 56–58 
• ‘Christianity: a Blessing or a Scandal?’, Doctrine & Life, vol. 57, no. 5, May/June 2007, 39-43
• ‘Franz Overbeck: A Review of Recent Literature (Part 1)’, ITQ, vol. 72, 2007, 391-404
• ‘Franz Overbeck: A Review of Recent Literature (Part 2)’, ITQ, vol. 73, 2008, 174-191
• ‘Le péché originel : un héritage défectueux’, Etudes Théologiques et Religieuses, Tome 83 (2008/1), 15-25 (translated by Toby Garfitt)
• ‘Is Christianity credible in the present age?’ A Review of Christianity and Creation. The Essence of the Christian Faith and Its Future among Religions: A Systematic Theology, by James P. Mackey (New York/London: Continuum, 2006), Doctrine & Life, vol. 58, no. 9, November 2008, 54-64
• ‘An Atheist Gospel?’, The Furrow, January 2009, 23-24
• 'È possibile un futuro per la teologia nel mondo moderno?' (tr. Antonia Pellegrino), Humanitas 64 (2009/4-5), 589-605
• ‘Change,’ Doctrine & Life, vol. 60, No. 2, February 2010, 38-40
• ‘Living with Betrayal,’ New Blackfriars, Vol. 91, No. 1034, July 2010, 439-444

Current Research

• History of the Doctrine of Grace
• Editing and translating selected works of Franz Overbeck
• The history of the Christian mystical tradition

Courses

Undergraduate:

• ST 201: Theology of Creation and Redemption
• ST 203: The Theology of Grace
• ST 303: The Trinitarian God (with Revd Dr Thomas Norris)
• ST 304: Readings in the Theology of the Mystery of God

Postgraduate:

• STL Reading Course: Introduction to Selected Modern Theologians
• STL Seminar Course: Aspects of the Christian Mystical Tradition

Links and Other Interests:

See archive of e-texts in the Maynooth College Library