1. Michael T. Mc Laughlin, S.T.D.
4425 Deborah Ct. Apt 3
Chesapeake, Va. 23321
michael.mclaughlin@saintleo.edu
mtmcl8272@cox.net
Professional memberships:
American Academy of Religion
Catholic Theological Society of America
College Theology Society
American Catholic Philosophical Association
Society for Hindu Christian Studies
Languages: fluent; French, Italian, some: German, credits in Latin, Biblical Greek, Sanskrit (8 hrs
)
Education:
Pontifical Gregorian University-Rome, 1996-1999 Doctor of Sacred Theology
Gregorian University 1994-96 Licentiate in Fundamental Theology
Sant’ Anselmo Liturgical Institute-Rome 1982-83
St. Meinrad School of Theology 1978-1982 Master of Divinity
Dartmouth College 1973-1977 A. B. Biology
Honors and Awards: Tuition Scholarship 1996-1999
Licentiate- Magna Cum Laude, 1996
Teaching Areas: Undergraduate
Fundamental Theology, Sacraments, Liturgy, Christology, Trinity, Catholic Tradition, Survey of
Christian Theology I and Survey of Christian Theology II, Christian Foundations, World
Religions, Christian Social Ethics, Christian Ethics, Pauline Literature, Ecclesiology, Senior
Seminar
Graduate Teaching : Masters in Theology Program
Theological Foundations I and Theological Foundations II
Theology and Spirituality of Ministry
Liturgy and Sacraments
Church History
Christology
Christian Scriptures
Hebrew Scriptures
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2. Philosophical Foundations of Theology
Theology of Karl Barth -directed study
THY 525 Christian Ethics
Research Areas: Comparative Theology, Theology of Revelation, Theology and Postmodern
Thought, Theology of Religions, World Religions
Teaching Experience:
Associate Professor-Saint Leo University-(South Hampton Roads Center) Norfolk, Va
2001-present
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Religious Studies- Iona College-2000 -2001
Adjunct Assistant Professor –College of New Rochelle-Summer 2001
Teaching 3 sections of Introduction to Religion-approx. 100 students
Archivium Historiae Pontificae (Gregorian University) editing assistance
Vatican Information Service. Rome, Italy - Theological summaries and translations
Director- Glastonbury Abbey Theology Program, Hingham, M.A. 1989-92
Instructor in Scripture Holy Heart of Mary Sisters (SSCM) Novitiate 1987-89
Instructor in Theology- Marmion Academy- Aurora, IL. 1983-89, 92-94
Research and Publications:
Book:
Knowledge, Consciousness, and Religious Conversion in Sri Aurobindo and Bernard Lonergan
Documenta Missionalia n. 28 (Gregorian University Press, 2003) 318 p.
This is monograph is an edited version of my dissertation, directed by Prof.
Mariasusai Dhavamony S.J. -Chair of Theology and Phenomenology of Religions and Hinduism
and was accepted for publication in the above series. Distributed by Loyola Univ. Press.
Articles-in Peer Reviewed Journals
“Lonergan’s Philosophy of Religion” Lonergan Workshop Journal, Rome Conference 2001
Volume, ed. Fred Lawrence- in Conference Volume published in 2011
“John Thatamanil and The Immanent Divine: Some Questions” Journal of Hindu-Christian
Studies 2009
“Mimamsa and Eucharist: Starting Points for Postmodern Hindu Christian Theology of Ritual”
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies 2005 editor Brad Malkovsky- Notre Dame
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3. “Prof. Dhavamony, Lonergan and the Christian Theology of World Religions” Studia
Missionalia 53 2004
Co-authored with Elena Procario-Foley, “A Propaedeutic for a Framework: Fostering Ethical
Awareness in Business Students” in Teaching Business Ethics ( Kluwer Academic Publishers:
Dordrecht) 2003, p.1-23.
“The Experience of Solitude: Hermitage Writings of Thomas Merton” Tjurunga: Australasian
Benedictine Review 38 (1990) 73-84.
Book Reviews:
-N. T. Wright, The Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovery of Who Jesus Was and Is (Downers Grove,
Ill.: Intervarsity Press, 2000) in Josephinum Journal of Theology, 2001.
The following books were reviewed in Cistercian Studies Quarterly:
-Paradigm Change in Theology, ed. Hans Küng and David Tracy (New York: Crossroad, 1989)
CSQ 25 (1990:4) No. 497.
-Grace M. Jantzen, Julian of Norwich: Mystic and Theologian (Mahwah, N.J. : Paulist Press,
1988) CSQ 25 (1990:4) No. 471.
-Gregory the Great, Be Friends of God, ed. John Lienenweber ( Cambridge, MA. Cowley, 1990)
CSQ 28 (1993:1) No.1.
-Edward Sellner, Soulmaking: The Telling of a Spiritual Journey (Mystic, CT: Twenty Third,
1991) CSQ 27 (1992:2) No.6.
-Mary Wolff-Salin, The Shadow Side of Community and the Growth of Self (New York:
Crossroad, 1988) CSQ 25 (1990:3) No.473.
-Judith Sutera, O.S.B., True Daughters: Monastic Identity and American Benedictine Women’s
History (Atchison: Mount St. Scholastica, 1987) CSQ 24 (1989:1)
-Simeon Kholmogorov, One of the Ancients: The Life and Struggles of a Russian Man of
Prayer: Elder Gabriel of Pskov and Kazan (Platina, CA.: St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood,
1988) CSQ 26 (1991:2).
Licentiate Thesis in Fundamental Theology: Ghislain Lafont’s Dieu, le temps et l’être: A
Critical Response. (Ghislain Lafont, Dieu, le temps et l’ être (Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 1986).
Directed by Prof. Elmar Salmann, O.S.B. The thesis involves Lafont’s response to Heidegger,
Derrida, and others.
Doctoral Examinations
Licentiate examinations and final examination grades determine admission to the doctoral
cycle. The doctoral defense was passed with a grade of magna cum laude.
Dissertation Summary
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4. This work represents a contribution to the emerging field of comparative theology and to
interreligious dialogue. It contrasts the work of two contemporary theologians Sri Aurobindo
Ghose and Bernard Lonergan with respect to their understandings of knowledge, consciousness
and religious conversion. Each author has a metaphysics, a theory of knowledge, and a theory of
religious conversion. Special interest is focused on the connection between the unconscious, the
emotions and religious conversion in each author. In the case of the Lonergan school, the interest
is in the criticism and re-elaboration of Jungian psychology so as to permit an opening o the
transcendent God beyond the self. Aurobindo essentially rejected psychoanalysis. Instead, to the
Lonerganian psychological explanations there corresponds Aurobindo’s integral yoga as a way of
converting the psyche. To Lonergan’s metaphysics (Insight) there corresponds Aurobindo’s
speculative Life Divine.
In a more general sense, the Hindu philosopher Aurobindo represents a typically Hindu
realization of the unity of all things at the level of the cosmos, while Lonergan represents a typical
Christian contemporary search for the unity of all individual beings working together to promote
the reign of God in history (the cosmopolis). In its own context, Bernard Lonergan’s system can
be seen as a response to Kant while that of Aurobindo is a response to the Advaitic Vedanta of
Shankara.
Professional Activities:
Conference Papers and Presentations: Given
Lonergan’s Philosophy of Religion: The Case of Sri Aurobindo- International Lonergan
Conference- Gregorian University -Rome, Italy 2001
Dupuis, Clooney, and Dominus Iesus –College Theology Society-Portland, Oregon 2001
Lonergan and World Religions: Afternoon Workshop 2001-Boston College Lonergan Workshop
Lonergan and World Religions: Afternoon Workshop 2002-Boston College-Lonergan Workshop
CTSA Faith and Historicity: Theological Interpretation of Scripture given June 5-8, 2003
(w./ Dr. Jim Keating) Cincinnati, Ohio, paper, selected session
CTS-Philosophical Theology Section: Response to Joseph Bracken: The One and the Many. May
29, 2003, paper.
Young Lonergan Scholars Workshop-“Robert Doran’s: Theology and Dialectic of History:
Updates and Questions”—invited paper, travel and per diem stipend. October 2003
Boston College, Lonergan Research Center.
American Academy of Religion –Mimamsa, Liturgy and Community- brief paper for panel ,
Christianity and Hinduism Section Nov. 2004 San Antonio, Texas.
Forty –Three Remarks in Response to Terrance Klein’s How Things are in the World
College Theology Society Panel June 2005
“Problematizing Religion in Lonergan” Catholic Theological Society panel discussion of
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5. John Dadosky’s The Structure of Religious Knowing : Encountering the Sacred in Eliade and
Lonergan (SUNY, 2004) Method in Theology section CTSA June 2006
American Academy of Religion –Nov. 2007 San Diego-“John Thatamanil’s The Immanent
Divine: Some Questions”
Catholic Theological Society of America Jun. 2008 Miami “Krishna, Gopis and Human
Flourishing in Asian Theologies” A Response to Tracy Tiemeier Asian Theology Consultation
Catholic Theological Society Montreal 2009 Selected Session “ Ravi Ravindra’s Hindu
Commentary on the Gospel of John: Texts, Contexts, and the Battle for Discursive Space”
Postcolonial Theology Network conference -Lincoln Institute University of Manchester and
United Theological College held in Bangalore, India Jan 20-23 2010 “Comparative Theology: the
Postcolonial Corrective”
American Academy of Religion-Atlanta, Georgia
Comparative Theology Group and Mysticism Group “What has Bhakti to Do with Mysticism?
Embodiment., Aesthetics and Models of Realization”-panel: Barbara Holdrege, Michelle Voss
Roberts, Tracy Tiemeier, Charlotte Radler- Respondent Michael T. McLaughlin Oct. 31, 2010
Post-Colonial Studies Network-Pressing On: Legacy of Marcella Althaus-Reid
ISDET Seminary-Buenos Aires, Argentina - 9-12th
July 2013 paper: “Marcella Althaus-Reid and
Jean-Luc Marion on Erotic Desire and Love: A Brief Encounter”
“Connecting to the Postcolonial Studies Network”: Workshop Presentation and Video
Teleconference panel for School of the Americas Conference and Protest November 2013 Fort
Benning, Georgia
“Dignitatus Humanae” of Vatican II - 50 Years Later - Conference moderator and respondent to
panelists Oct 31, 2015 Chesapeake Center, Saint Leo University
“Buddha in the Age of Mass Incarceration” presentation and discussion United Church of Christ
Richmond Virginia May 1, 2016
Service to the Academy:
Board Member; Society for Hindu Christian Studies (2005-2008)
Vice President Society for Hindu Christian Studies (2008-2010)
President-Society for Hindu-Christian Studies (2010-2012)
Past President and Board Member –Society of Hindu Christian Studies (2012-2014)
Convener -Asian Theology Consultation- Catholic Theological Society 2009, 2010
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6. Reviewer of proposal for Asian American Theology Series-Palgrave Press
Reviewer for publisher of updates for Christ Alive: Catholic Social Teaching
Peer reviewer on occasion for Journal of College Theology Society and Sophia: International
Journal of Philosophy and Traditions
Reviewer of Aurobindo book manuscript for Routledge Press Hindu Studies Series
Conference paper proposals accepted:
Workshop Attended
National Humanities Center June 2003 -3 weeks Introduction to Cultural Studies, Research
Triangle, N.C.
Training Attended:
Teaching on Video Transmission Technology Summer 2005
Teaching on Video Transmission Technology July 2006
Using Technology in Teaching
Constructing Teaching Modules led by Susan Colaric
Web CT training
Writing Across the Curriculum II led by Chris Anson Aug 2006
VTT Training Certificate 2013
Completed Blended Course Training 2014
Teaching and Your Classroom Persona Conference online Nov 6 2015
Online Course Design:
Rel 427 Ecclesiology-for Center for Online Learning and Distance Learning completed June 2011
THY 575 Christology M.TH. degree program online completed June 2012
Rel 2XX Catholic Tradition and Social Change: Popes, Prophets and Protestors
(Explorations course put on hold)
Administrative Service:
Coordinator of all adjunct religion professors in Virginia Saint Leo campuses.
Chair-Professional Development Fund for Centers 2011-2012
Saint Leo Faculty Senate 2003-2004, 2004-2005, 2008-2009, 2010-2012, 2013-2014, 2015-
2016
Curriculum Committee 2004, 2005
Committee on Revising University Gen Ed Objectives (led by Cindy Lee) 2005-2006
Library Committee 2008-2009, 2009-2010, 2011-2013 and 2013-2014
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7. Graduate Academic Standards Committee 2008-2009
Responsible for all religion majors in Virginia Centers - 40-50 students
Revision and administration of Comprehensive Exam in religion 2001-2011
Extensive Advising and Registration of incoming students (25 hrs per week 2001- Sept. 2008)
10 Instructional assessments per year including travel to various locations (2001-2006)
Selecting Textbooks for all religion courses in Va. Centers (2001-2008)
Teaching Workshop and Discussion for Adjunct Religion Faculty-May 15, 2004
Teaching Workshop and Discussion for Adjunct Religion Faculty- Oct. 2005
Organized Faculty Development Workshop on University Values Fall 2006
Extensive experience in online teaching 2003-present
Contact person for Diocese of Richmond, Va. (2001-to 2011)
Paulson Religion Scholarship Chair- 2001-2011
Graduation Mass Organization-2001-2016
Presentation of Religion Major at Thomas Nelson Community College April 2014
Goal #4 Committee Student Competence and Employability -Arts and Sciences Division
Strategic Planning Process 2015-2016
Local Community Service
Lead Adult Sunday School -Parables Class-First Lutheran Church, Norfolk, Va. (July-Oct 2013)
Lead Adult Sunday School- Luther by Martin Marty discussion Oct 2013-Nov. 2013
Volunteer -Catholic Worker House- street breakfast for the homeless- Norfolk Va.- Sept.-2013
to present-Saturday morning group
Sandhill Creative Writing Workshop on the Road April 2015 Chesapeake Center, attendee
Tibetan Buddhist Sangha Portsmouth, Virginia, member 2013- 2015
Cricket Hollow Civic League Board Member 2013-2015
Organizer- History of Slavery Lecture by Prof. Robert Watson (Hampton Univ.) Sept 26 2015
at
Virginia Wesleyan University- One Love Festival
References:
Prof. James Keating- Dept. Of Theology-Providence College, River Ave and Eaton St,
-Providence, R. I. 02918 Tel. 401-865-1349
Prof. Elena Procario-Foley-Dept. of Religious Studies-Iona College, 715 North Ave., New
Rochelle, N.Y. 10801-1890 Tel. (914) 633-2000 ext. 2744 eprocario-foley@iona.edu
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8. Prof. Francis X. Clooney, S. J. Harvard University, Cambridge Massachusetts clooney@bc.edu
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