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That principle also applies to the greater Church as Fr. O’Collins concluded in the book.
Even for these years very little chronology can be established. “Driven by the pastoral needs of our world and church, too many up and coming theologians are reluctant to learn the languages, ancient and modern, and do the research required by their calling,” he told America in 2015. A rigorous scholar, Fr. O’Collins was nevertheless dismissive of those who took a purely intellectual approach to the question of the “historical Jesus,” as he felt those interpretations inevitably descended into self-reflection or ideology.
Most famously, in 2010 he published Philip Pullman’s Jesus, a response to that writer’s novel The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ.
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- Catholic Church and ecumenism
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Gerald Glynn O'Collins
priesttheologiantheology studies educator
Gerald Glynn O'Collins, Australian theology studies educator, theologian, priest.
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O'Collins's has received several honorary doctorates:[6] from the University of San Francisco (1991), University of Surrey (2003), Sacred Heart University (Bridgeport, Conn.) (2004); John Carroll University (Cleveland, Ohio) (2007); and a DD from Melbourne College of Divinity (2007); Honorary adjunct professor of Australian Catholic University (2007–2010).[7]
O'Collins organised and co-chaired international ecumenical symposia on the Resurrection (1996), the Trinity (1998), the Incarnation (2000), the Redemption (2003), and the legacy of Pope John Paul II (2008), also co-editing their proceedings.[8] He returned to Australia in 2009.
It is not so much right theory about him as loving discipleship which establishes that ‘Jesus is Lord.’
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Biography:Gerald O'Collins
Short description: Australian Catholic priest and theologian (born 1931)
Gerald Glynn O'CollinsSJ AC (born 1931) is an Australian Jesuit priest and academic.[1] He was a research professor and writer-in-residence at the Jesuit Theological College (JTC) in Parkville, Victoria, and a research professor in theology at St Mary's University College in Twickenham.[2] For more than three decades, he was professor of systematic and fundamental theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University (Rome).[3]
In 2006, O'Collins was made a Companion of the General Division of the Order of Australia (AC), in recognition of his outstanding commitment to theological scholarship and ecumenical initiatives.[4]
Life and career
O'Collins was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1931 and educated at Xavier College.
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“But we have little help here from the philosophers, and in any case this belief points to a unique mystery, the qualitatively new, personal presence of God in our world.” And more:
Christmas shows us that we contact God not only through what we see and hear, but also through what we touch. And third, “we need to respect the nature of the Gospels as brief testimonials of faith,” meaning they are not historical sources in the way we think of such, but at the same time they are not just the “devotional literature of the early Church.”
The teaching moments in O’Collins’s life did not all come in print, however: He knew and taught many scholars who have become leading figures in Christology, ecclesiology, interreligious dialogue and more.
“Over the years I have learned the need to ‘watch my language’ in the presence of God. We theologians need to be scrupulous about the words we use.”
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Our poetry selection for this week is “Original Bodies,” by R/B Mertz. He was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1963 and went on to earn a Licentiate in Sacred Theology (STL) at Heythrop College, Oxfordshire, in 1967.
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