Leo J. O'Donovan
American Jesuit academic administrator and theologian
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Leo J. O'Donovan's Degrees
- PhD Theology University of Münster
- Masters Philosophy Fordham University
- Bachelors Classics Princeton University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Leo Jeremiah O'Donovan III is an American Catholic priest, Jesuit, and theologian who served as the president of Georgetown University from 1989 to 2001. Born in New York City, he graduated from Georgetown, and while studying in France, decided to enter the Society of Jesus. He went on to receive advanced degrees from Fordham University and Woodstock College, and received his doctorate in theology from the University of Münster, where he studied under Karl Rahner. Upon returning to the United States, he became a professor at Woodstock College and the Weston Jesuit School of Theology, before becoming the president of the Catholic Theological Society of America and a senior administrator in the Jesuit Maryland Province.
Leo J. O'Donovan's Published Works
Published Works
- A World of Grace: An Introduction to the Themes and Foundations of Karl Rahner's Theology Edited by Leo J. O'Donovan New York, Seabury, 1980. 198 pp. $14.50 (1981) (23)
- Catholic universities in church and society : a dialogue on Ex corde ecclesiae (1993) (23)
- A Profession of Trust: Reflections on a Fundamental Virtue (1998) (9)
- A Changing Ecclesiology in a Changing Church: A Symposium on Development in the Ecclesiology of Karl Rahner (1977) (4)
- A Journey into Time: The Legacy of Karl Rahner's Last Years (1985) (4)
- Equal to the Demands of Justice in the World (2002) (3)
- The Mystery of God as a History of Love: Eberhard Jüngel's Doctrine of God (1981) (3)
- Conley lecture. A profession of trust: reflections on a fundamental virtue. (1998) (2)
- Sister President: Ruth J. Simmons (1995) (2)
- The bicentennial history of Georgetown University (1993) (2)
- Karl Rahner, SJ (1904–84): A Theologian for the Twenty-First Century (2005) (2)
- Methodology In Some Recent Studies of Analogy (1967) (1)
- Memories Before the Mystery: In Tribute to Karl Rahner (1904–1984) (2005) (1)
- Was Vatican Ii Evolutionary? A Note on Conciliar Language (1975) (1)
- Book Review: Salvation as the Center of Theology (1982) (1)
- Evolution under the Sign of the Cross (1971) (1)
- On Continuity and Change. A Symposium (2013) (0)
- Book Review: Fritz, Peter Joseph: Freedom Made Manifest: Rahner’s Fundamental Option and Theological Aesthetics (2020) (0)
- Book Review: What Kind of God? A Question of Faith, God the Problem (1973) (0)
- Book Review: The Craft of Theology: From Symbol to System (1993) (0)
- The Pasch of Christ: Our Courage in Time (1981) (0)
- Orthopraxis and Theological Method: Rahner (2013) (0)
- John Conley Lecturer on Medical Ethics (1997) (0)
- A Time to Reminisce, a Time to Celebrate Four Theological Giants of the 20th Century (2004) (0)
- Presidential Address: God of Power and Might (2013) (0)
- Foundational Theology: Jesus and the Church. Four Perspectives - I (1984) (0)
- APPENDIX A: Committee Report on Cooperation between Theologians and the Church's Teaching Authority (2013) (0)
- A University that Evangelizes? Ex corde ecclesiae Six Years Afterwards (1996) (0)
- The Courage of Faith: An Essay in Honor of William F. Lynch's Seventieth Birthday (1978) (0)
- Karl Rahner and Ignatian Spirituality. Philip Endean (2003) (0)
- Book Review: Karl Rahner’s Theological Aesthetics. By Peter Joseph Fritz (2015) (0)
- Found in God: In Memory of John Carmody (1996) (0)
- Transforming Grace: In Memory of Anne E. Carr, BVM (2008) (0)
- Getting at the Rapture of Seeing: Ellsworth Kelly and Visual Experience (2002) (0)
- Word and mystery : biblical essays on the person and mission of Christ (1968) (0)
- Book Review: A Theological Anthropology (1968) (0)
- Book Review: Jesus—Word and Presence: An Essay in Christology (1973) (0)
- Book Review: The Way to Nicea: The Dialectical Development of Trinitarian Theology (1977) (0)
- COMING AND GOING: THE AGENDA OF AN ANNIVERSARY (1985) (0)
- Book Review: The Theology of Rudolf Bultmann (1967) (0)
- Book Review: Chance and Necessity (1972) (0)
- Ambassador of Christ in Memory of Walter J. Burghardt, S.J. (1914–2008) (2008) (0)
- 10. On Reading Rahner in A New Century (2007) (0)
- Two Sons of Ignatius: Drama and Dialectic (1998) (0)
- A World of Grace (2017) (0)
- Book Review: What Do You Seek? The Questions of Jesus as Challenge and Promise. By Michael J. Buckley (2017) (0)
- Moral Theology: Ethical Implications of Schillebeeckx's Christology (2013) (0)
- Representing Renewal an Epochal Religious Event and Subsequent Sculpture (2013) (0)
- A Share in the Passion: Letters to a Dying Friend (1978) (0)
- Book Review: On Being Unfinished: Collected Writings By Anne E. Patrick. Ed. Susan Perry (2018) (0)
- In All Seasons: Karl Rahner on All the Saints (2012) (0)
- Fritz, Peter Joseph: Freedom Made Manifest. Rahnerʼs Fundamental Option and Theological Aesthetics (2020) (0)
- Book Review: Foundations of Theology, Language Truth and Meaning (1974) (0)
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