Rev Declan Marmion, SM, MTh, STD, HDE, DipPastTheol

Lecturer in Systematic Theology

 

 

Tel: +353 (0)1 708 3627

E-mail: declan.marmion[at]spcm.ie

Office Location: Room 7, Dunboyne House

Office Hours: Tuesdays, 2.00–3.00 pm

 

Biography:
Member of the Society of Mary, ordained 1988. Undergraduate studies at the University of Passau, Germany and Milltown Institute (BD). Graduate studies at Heythrop College, (M.Th); All Hallows, (Dip. Past. Theol.), Trinity College, (H.Dip. Ed.) and the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium (STL, 1993; STD, 1996). Since 1997 taught at the Milltown Institute and Head of the Dept. of Systematic Theology (2006-2010).

 

Research Interests:

• Trinitarian Theology.
• The Theology of Karl Rahner
• Christian Identity in a Postmodern Age
• The Relationship between Theology and Spirituality
  

Select Publications:

• A Spirituality of Everyday Faith: A Theological Investigation of the Notion of Spirituality in Karl Rahner, Louvain Theological & Pastoral Monographs 23, Louvain, Peeters Press/Eerdmans, 1998.
• The Cambridge Companion to Karl Rahner [ed.] with M. E. Hines. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005.
• Christian Identity in a Postmodern Age: Celebrating the Legacies of Karl Rahner and Bernard Lonergan [ed.] Dublin, Veritas, 2005.
• Theology in the Making: Biography, Contexts, Methods [ed.] with G. Thiessen. Dublin, Veritas, 2005.
• Trinity and Salvation: Theological, Spiritual and Aesthetic Perspectives, [ed.] with G. Thiessen. Studies in Theology, Society and Culture, Vol. 2 Oxford/Bern: Peter Lang, 2009.
• An Introduction to the Trinity, with R. van Nieuwenhove, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Current Research

• “Some Recent Trends in Trinitarian Theology from a Western Perspective.” Paper delivered at the East-West Theological Forum, Seoul, Korea, 8 April, 2011.
• “Trinity and Tradition: Re-visiting the Trinitarian Tradition East and West.” Paper delivered at the Leuven Encounters in Systematic Theology, Leuven, Belgium, 27 October 2011.
• “Transcendental Thomisms.” Chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Catholic Theology, ed. L. Ayres, et al. OUP. Forthcoming 2013.
  

Courses

Undergraduate:

• ST 104: Introduction to Christianity
• ST 107: Revelation and Faith
• ST 110: Eschatology
• ST 205 The God of Jesus Christ
• ST 305: The Christian God

Postgraduate:

• PG 434 The Theology of Karl Rahner

Links and Other Interests:

Co-editor with Dr. Norbert Hintersteiner (Irish School of Ecumenics) and Dr. Gesa Thiessen (Milltown Institute) of the “Theology, Society and Culture Series” with Peter Lang (2009–present; 8 vols. published to date).