Rev Professor Thomas Norris

Lecturer in Systematic Theology

Tel: +353 (0)1 708 3627
E-mail: thomas.norris@may.ie

Office Location: Room 7, Dunboyne House

Office Hours:
Mondays, 4.00 pm – 5.30pm

 

Biography:
Priest of the Diocese of Ossory. BPhil, Pontifical Lateran University 1965; Academic Tutor, Pontifical Irish College, Rome 1970-72; Doctor S Theologiae, Pontifical Gregorian University 1973; HDE, UCC 1974; Professor of Dogmatic Theology, St Kieran’s College, Kilkenny 1975-84; weekend parish work, retreats, youth work in the Diocese of Ossory; founding member of the Maynooth Patristic Symposium (1984-present); member at various times of Irish Episcopal Commissions for Catechetics, Ecumenism and Theology; currently Joint Secretary of the Irish Inter-Church Meeting; Member, International Theological Commission (From1998-present); member of sub-committee that drafted the ITC’s Memory and Reconciliation: The Church and the Faults of the Past (2000); member Drafting Committee for the Charta Oecumenica (2001); renewal courses in Theology in Malta (Malta, September 1999) and Pakistan (2004); Visiting Scholar at the University of Chicago Divinity School, (March-July 2004).

Research Interests:

• The thought of John Henry Newman, Bernard Lonergan, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Henri de Lubac, Eric Voegelin
• Theological Method, Faith and Reason, History and Dogma
• Christology, Trinity, Ecclesiology, Mariology, Priesthood
• Trinitarian Ontology
• Philosophy and Theology of Education
  
  

Select Publications:

• Cardinal Newman for Today, Dublin: Columba Press, 2010
• The Trinity. Life of God and Hope for Humanity, New York: New City Press, 2009
• Living a Spirituality of Communion, Dublin: Veritas, 2008
  (Edition in Spanish due to appear in Argentina)
• A Fractured Relationship. Faith and the Crisis of Culture, Dublin: Veritas, 2007
• Getting Real about Education, Dublin: 2006
• With B. Leahy, Christianity: Origins and Contemporary Expressions, Dublin: 2004
• Only Life gives Life. Revelation, Theology and Christian Living according to Cardinal Newman, Dublin: Columba Press, 1996
• The Beauty of Christ. An Introduction to the Theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar, Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1994. Editor and contributor.
  

Current Research:

• The Meaning and the Methods of Theology
• Approaches to a Theology of Revelation
• The Act of Faith according to Cardinal Newman
• Cardinal Newman’s Theology of the Cross
• Theology of Communion and the Spiritual Life

Courses

• Divine Revelation [ST 103]
• Theology of Faith
• Holy Trinity
• Christology
• Mariology and the Great Theologians

Other Interests

• Pastoral Care of Young People
• Linking Theology and Daily Living (Spirituality)
• Ecclesial Movements
• New Evangelization