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• Chair, Department of Theology
• Professor of Theology

• St. Mary's Seminary and University - Ph.D. in Theology, 1981 
• Johns Hopkins University - M.A. in Ancient Near Eastern Languages & Literature, 1972
• Catholic Theological Union & De Paul University - M.A. in Theology, 1970
• Quincy College - B.A. in Philosophy, 1967

• Development of Western Civilization I & II
• Old Testament: Literature and Theology
• New Testament: Literature and Theology
• Pauline Epistles
• Introductory Biblical Hebrew (Graduate)
• Introductory Biblical Greek (Graduate)

I believe that the best introduction to the Western religious heritage is to read the primary texts which have shaped our religious consciousness.  My teaching and research have focused on providing undergraduates with the tools to read “the great texts” of the Western religious tradition.  Rather than impose presuppositions on the material, I attempt to give the relevant historical, philosophical and theological background so that the students can respond to the texts in a sympathetic and enlightened way.

My research has had two directions.  The first is related to my teaching in interdisciplinary programs at Providence College, especially in the Development of Western Civilization Program. My books and articles have been related to this.  The second is in the area of pastoral commentary on the Roman Lectionary used for liturgy in the Catholic Church.  I hope that my weekly columns for The Providence Visitor have made a contribution to the spiritual life of the Catholic Church in Rhode Island.

• Member of Catholic Biblical Society 1975-present

Books

• Moses’s Staff and Aeneas’s Shield: The Way of the Torah Versus Classical Heroism (University Press of America, 2005)
• Readings in Western Religious Thought: Middle Ages through Reformation (Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1994).
• Readings in Western Religious Thought: The Ancient World (Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1987).

Articles

• "What Paul Really Said: Was Paul of Tarsus the Real Founder of Christianity? and Paul: the Mind of the Apostle: a review of works by N.T. Wright and A.N. Wilson," Providence: Studies in Western Civilization 4.1 (Fall, 1998) 83-98.
• "The Real Jesus: a review of Luke Timothy Johnson's work," Providence: Studies in Western Civilization 3.3 (Spring, 1996) 322-26.
• "Paul as a Model for Evangelization," Listening: Journal of Religion and Culture 30.2 (Spring, 1995).
• "shbty in 2 Samuel 7:7," The Catholic Biblical Quarterly 37 (1975), 17-20.
• "The Origins of the Monarchy in Israel," The Bible Today 63 (1973), 1178-1187.

• Annual presentations on Biblical and Lectionary topics at the Religious Education Workshops for the Diocese of Providence in March of each year 1987-present and the Diocese of Fall River in September of each year 1987-2004.
• Workshops for the Catholic School Teachers of the Diocese of Providence in September 1991 and September 1992, entitled "Journey through the Old Testament."
• "Women for All Seasons: A Study of the Key Women in the Biblical Tradition," paper delivered at The National Catholic Education Association Meeting in Spring of 1991 at Boston.
• Workshops on "Preaching from the Lectionary" in the summers of 1990-91 for the clergy of the Diocese of Fall River.
• Workshops in the summer and fall of 1988 for the clergy and religious educators of the Diocese of Fall River on "The Problem of Biblical Fundamentalism."
• 5 Papers on the Development of Royal Messianism at the Fifth Annual Sinsinawa Biblical Institute held at the Dominican Education Center in Sinsinawa, Wisconsin, June 1979.

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