Education
Ph.D., Docteur es Sciences Religieuses, Strasbourg, France (1968)
S.T.L., University of Ottawa, (1961)
Specialization
Systematic Theology (Christology)
Academic Interests
What I love to study and teach is Systematic Theology, especially the areas of Christology and Theology of God (Trinity). I constantly read in these areas in view of perfecting my teaching of those subjects.
Previous Appointments
Academic Dean: 1970-1973, 1983-1990, 2002-2007
President: 1973-1975, 1976-1978, 1990-1992
Vice-Rector of Seminary: 1973-1979
Courses Taught
SYT 184 Christology
SYT 185 Theology of God
SYT 188 Ecclesiology
STD 450 Christology
STD 451 Theology of God
STD 453 Ecclesiology
Publications and Presentations
Publications
“The Theological Formation of Seminarians According to Recent Roman Documents”, Communio (Summer, 2002): 424-437
“Articuler l’histoire en exegese et dogmatique. Jesus d’avant Paques et Christ ressuscitee”, Nouvelle Revue Theologique (Janvier-Mars, 2003): 89-98;
“The Catholic Church on the Eve of the Second Vatican Council”, Celebrate (vol.3, no. 1, Winter, 2012) pp. 14-15.
Review of P. Lakeland’s A Council That Will Never End: Lumen Gentium and the Church Today in Worship (May, 2015); 268-270.
Presentations
I have given so many over the years that I wouldn’t know where to start. For years, I taught Christology in the Archd. Of Edmonton Diaconal Program (also in Calgary’s); I’ve given talks on contemporary Christology to the Anglican clergy in Calgary; talks on particular aspects of Christology to Catholic teachers in Edmonton and Calgary; talks on the mission of the Church to the Religious Order Superiors in Western Canada; talks on the Creeds at the Edmonton Pastoral Centre during the Year of Faith. Some years ago, I did a fair amount of research on Fundamentalism and gave a talk on it at Campion College, Regina, in 1992. I had previously given a talk to the Edmonton Catholic teachers on the same topic. I preached the annual retreat to the priests of the Edmonton Archdiocese as well as the annual retreat to the RC Bishops of Western Canada in Mission, BC. I presented a talk to Faculty on the relationship between theology and spirituality in November, 2013.
Memberships
Member of the Society of American Franciscan History, 1992-2001