Dr James Hanvey SJ

Email: j.hanvey@heythrop.ac.uk
Telephone: 020 7795 4231

Biography

I received my doctorate from Oxford University (1990). The thesis was an investigation of the thought of Hegel, Barth and Rahner and the attempt to construct a contemporary metaphysics of the Trinity.  On completion of the doctorate, I was appointed Headmaster of St. Aloysius' College, Glasgow. During my tenure the College became a member of the HMC. Upon completion of this appointment I returned to theology as a visiting scholar at Weston Jesuit School of Theology, Cambridge Mass. and Campion Hall Oxford before taking up my appointment as lecturer in systematic Theology, Heythrop College. During this time I was also Head of the Systematic Theology Department.

I have also been a lecturer in dogmatic theology at Chesters Inter-Diocesan Seminary and Scotus College ( Scotland) and at Allen Hall, Seminary for the Archdiocese of Westminster.

Current teaching

Undergraduate:

Doctrine of God (ST1)

Graduate:

Ecclesiology (M.Th) also convenor for the degree.
Supervision of Doctoral research

Publications

Books in preparation:

God as Trinity, Ashgate. (2004/05)
The Riches of His Glory: Explorations in Theology and Postmodernity. (DLT 2004/05)

Published work:

 Healing the wound: Discourses of Redemption , Challenging Women’s Orthodoxies in the Context of Faith, 2000

Conclusion: Continuing the Conversation, Radical Orthodoxy? – A Catholic Enquiry, 2000

Refounding: Living in the middle time , The Way Supplement 2001/101

Tradition as Subversion , International Journal of Theology, January 2004

Von Blathasar's Theology of the Church, 2006 (.pdf)

Awaiting publication:

 ‘Karl Barth’s Doctrine of God, Recovering a Biblical Metaphysics’ Chapter in Radical Orthodoxy, ed. David Lindsay, Durham University (2004/05)

Kristeva and Von Balthasar: The Maternal Chora. Gregorianum, (Autumn 2004)

Papers read:

The Gift of the Holy Spirit. Senior Seminar, Cambridge November 2002
Mission Impossible – Determining the ‘Person’ of the Holy Spirit. Postgraduate Seminar, Oxford, February 2003
The Trinitarian Dynamic of the Church, NBRIA (National Board of Religious Inspectors and Advisors) Conference, March 2003

The Faces of Christ: The Appearing of the Other, International Conference of Catholic Catechists June 2003
In/Difference. Catholic Identity and Education Northern Conference of Catholic Head teachers November 2003

The Church in Postmodern Culture , Diocesan Priests’ Conference, Wrexham November 2003
Theological Resources for Ecclesial Life. Salford Diocesan Conference October 2003

Research Interests

Postmodernity and contemporary culture
Pnuematology
Ignatian Spirituality

Other information

I am Director of the Heythrop Institute for Religion, Ethics and Public Life