Dr. Jean-Pierre Fortin

Faculty

About

Holding a Ph.D. in theology (University of St. Michael’s College), a Ph.D. in philosophy (Université Laval/Namur University) and a Licentiate in Sacred Theology (Regis College), I am a scholar proficient in Christian spirituality and systematic theology, aesthetics, ancient philosophy, and philosophy of science actively involved in ecumenical dialogue. My research addresses the question of the human condition in the context of an evolving world where radical evil and suffering are found abiding, with a view to finding ways of addressing the religious concerns of twenty-first century citizens. Interpreting the Christian tradition using categories and methods drawn from practical theology and integrating the inputs of philosophy and experimental science, I attempt to provide a more comprehensive account of human existence. I see theologians as entrusted with a most demanding mission: to help their contemporaries decipher the presence and work of God in the complex, fast-paced and ever-changing context of their daily lives and actions. Listening to the challenging voices of Indigenous peoples, racialized communities and trauma survivors, engaging 19th century masterpieces of French literature and contemporary works of science fiction, I strive to articulate and live out inclusive and transformative Roman Catholic faith and theology.

Selected Publications

  • Fortin, Jean-Pierre. Evolving Grace: Spiritual History of a Christian Doctrine. Proposal approved by Fortress Press. In preparation.
  • Fortin, Jean-Pierre. Grace in Auschwitz: A Holocaust Christology. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2016.
  • Fortin, Jean-Pierre. L’apparaître humain. Essai sur la signification philosophique du principe anthropique [The Human Apparition: Essay on the Philosophical Significance of the Anthropic Cosmological Principle]. Science, Histoire, Philosophie Series. Paris / Lyons: Librairie philosophique J. Vrin / Institut Interdisciplinaire d’Études Épistémologiques, 2006.

Education

PhD, Theology (University of St. Michael’s College)
PhD, Philosophy (Université Laval/Namur University)
Licentiate in Sacred Theology (Regis College)

Research & Teaching Focus

  • Systematic Theology
  • Philosophical Theology
  • Practical Theology
  • Spirituality
  • Ecumenism

Dr. Darren Dias, OP

Faculty

About

Darren Dias teaches courses such as the Mystery of the Triune God; Creation, Fall, Grace and Glory; Research Methods; Theology of the Holy Spirit, Trinitarian Approaches to Religious Diversity. His area of research is, generally speaking, in the intersection of Trinitarian Theology and historical movements and realities. Currently, he is working on a SSHRC funded project with colleagues Gilles Routhier (Laval) and Michael Attridge (St. Michael’s) entitled: “One Canada Two Catholicism: Divergent Evolutions in the Catholic Church in Quebec and Ontario, 1695-1985.”

Selected Publications

  • “Trinity, Elemental Meaning and Psychic Conversion: A Pastoral Consideration,” in Intellect Affect and God. The Trinity, History and the Life of God, ed. Joseph Ogbannaya and Gerard Whelen. Ashland: Baker and Taylor, 2021.
  • “The Pedagogy of Migration: The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto’s response to Migration 1934-1963,” in Global In-difference: The Church and Migration, ed. Darren Dias, Michael Attridge, Jerry Skira, Gerard Mannion, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, 369-392.
  • “Shaping Curriculum: Interreligious Education at the Toronto School of Theology,” Toronto Journal of Theology 37 (2021) 23-42.
  • “Interreligious Dialogue as Language Negotiation,” Religious Studies and Theology 39 (2020) 210-224.
  • “Pierre Claverie: Holiness in a World Church,” in Changing the Church, ed. Mark Chapman and Vladimir Latinovic. NewYork: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, 155-165.
  • “A Province of Their Own: Dominique-Ceslas Gonthier and the First Canadian Dominican Communities,” Itinerantes, Revista de Historia y Religion 12 (2020) 11-30.

John Dadosky, PhD

Faculty

About

Prof. Dadosky received his S.T.L. from Regis College (1999), Ph.D. from the University of St. Michael’s College (2001); S.T.D. from Regis College (2004). He joined the faculty in July 2001 and teaches systematic theology and philosophy.

He is past Treasurer to the Board of Catholic Theological Society of America (2016-2021) and current Treasurer of the American Theological Society.

Awards: Visiting Professor, University of New Mexico (2010-2011)

Selected Publications

  • Image to Insight: The Art of William H. McNichols. University of New Mexico Press, 2018.
  • The Eclipse of Beauty and its Recovery: A Lonergan Approach. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014.
  • The Structure of Religious Knowing: Encountering the Sacred in the Thought of Eliade and Lonergan. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2004.

Education

STL (Regis College)
PhD (University of St. Michael’s College)

Research & Teaching Focus

  • Philosophical Theology
  • Comparative Theology
  • Systematic Theology
  • Merton
  • Mariology
  • Interreligious dialogue (with Buddhism)

Dr. Cynthia Cameron

Faculty

About

Dr. Cynthia Cameron is Associate Professor of Religious Education and the Patrick and Barbara Keenan Chair in Religious Education at the Faculty of Theology.  Dr. Cameron teaches core courses within the Masters of Religious Education program, including Faith Development Across the Lifespan and Catholic Educational Documents, as well as a wide variety of elective courses in religious education.

Dr. Cameron completed her BA at Denison University and has master’s degrees from Yale Divinity School and the Catholic University of America; she did additional theological studies at Washington Theological Union.  She earned her PhD in Theology and Education at Boston College in 2017 and served as assistant professor of religious studies at Rivier University in New Hampshire and as an adjunct instructor at Sacred Heart University, Boston College, and Loyola University, New Orleans.

A specialist in ministry and education with youth and young adults, her research focuses on the flourishing of mid-adolescents and the ways that the Church can support these young people in a healthy development towards adulthood.  In particular, Dr. Cameron is interested in female adolescence, questions of theological anthropology, and practices of Catholic schooling and ministry.  She is also interested in how the experiences of children and adolescents can inform a more capacious understanding of Catholic theology and ministry.

Selected Publications

  • Cynthia L. Cameron, “Genders, Sexualities, and Catholic Schools: Towards a Theological Anthropology of Adolescent Flourishing,” British Journal of Religious Education (summer 2024).
  • Cynthia L. Cameron, “You Are the Now of God: Christus Vivit and the Need for a Theological Anthropology of Youth,” Horizons 50, no. 1 (June 2023): 110-135.

Education

PhD, Theology and Education (Boston College)
MA, Catholic School Administration (Catholic University of America)
MAR, Hebrew Scriptures (Yale Divinity School)

Research & Teaching Focus

  • Religious Education
  • Catholic Education
  • Catholic Schools
  • Theological Anthropology
  • Feminist Theology
  • Liberative Pedagogy

Desmond C. Buhagar, SJ

Faculty

About

  • Registered Psychotherapist (RP) and Clinical Supervisor, College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO)
  • Licensed Clinical Marriage & Family Therapist & Supervisor (LCMFT), Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH)
  • Clinical Fellow and Approved Supervisor, Canadian and American Associations for Marriage and Family Therapy (CAMFT, AAMFT)
  • Psychospiritual Therapist (PT) and Psychospiritual Therapy Supervisor-Educator (PTE), Canadian Association for Spiritual Care (CASC)
  • Clinical Fellow and Diplomate (Teaching Supervisor), American Association of Pastoral Counselors (AAPC)
  • Clinician and Supervisor in Private Practice

Selected Publications

  • “A Tripartite Model of Evaluation for Forgiveness: A Commentary on the Definitional Drift within the Science of Forgiveness.” Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology 45, no. 1 (2025): 56–64. https://doi.org/10.1037/teo0000307
  • Thomas, Carla, M.; Buhagar, Desmond C. (2024) “The Satir Model of Family Therapy and Amoris Laetitia: Extending the Horizon of the Family as Domestic Church,” Gregorianum, Spring, 2024. https://doi.org/10.69080/Gregorianum.105/2.2024.325-349
  • Way-Skinner, C. & Buhagar, Desmond. (2024). “Traumatized and Traumatizing: Understanding Clerical Abuse through the Lens of Bowenian Systemic Family Therapy,” Integratus: Journal of Catholic Psychotherapy. 2(1), 37–63. https://doi.org/10.1521/intg.2024.2.1.37
  • Desmond Buhagar, “The Attachment Mapping Protocol (AMP): An Assessment and Treatment Tool for General Psychotherapy, Systemic Family Therapy and Multifaith Spiritual Care,” Journal of Religion and Health, vol. 62 (2023): 4112-57, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-023-01881-w
  • Desmond Buhagar, Ralph Piedmont, and Kari O’Grady, “The virtue of religious faith and its relationship to posttraumatic stress disorder in victims of torture: the unique outcomes of men and women,” Mental Health, Religion & Culture, vol. 25, no. 10 (2022): 991-1011, https://doi.org/10.1080/13674676.2022.2149718
  • Desmond Buhagar, “The Forgiveness Interview Protocol: A narrative therapy writing-process model for the treatment of moral injury,” Journal of Religion and Health, vol. 60, no. 5 (2021): 3100-3129, https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-021-01395-3
  • Desmond Buhagar, “Cheston’s “Ways Paradigm” applied to pastoral counseling supervision,” Reflective Practice: Formation and Supervision in Ministry, vol. 31 (2011): 245–262, https://journals.sfu.ca/rpfs/index.php/rpfs/article/view/119

Education

PhD (Loyola)

Research & Teaching Focus

  • Psychotherapy
  • Spiritual Care Education

John R. T. Berkman, PhD

Faculty

About

John Berkman obtained a BA in philosophy at the University of Toronto, and completed his PhD in the Graduate Program in Religion at Duke University. Before joining the Regis College Faculty in 2009, he taught at the Dominican School of Theology and Philosophy and at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA and in the School of Theology and Religious Studies at The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. He has also been a Visiting Professor at the Duke Divinity School and the Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life.

Selected Publications

  • “Justice and Murder: The Background to Anscombe’s ‘Modern Moral Philosophy.’ Roger Teichmann ed., The Oxford Handbook of Elizabeth Anscombe. Oxford: OUP, 2021.
  • “Embryo Adoption.” Dena Davis ed., The Oxford Handbook on Religious Perspectives on Reproductive Ethics. Oxford: OUP: 2021.
  •  “G.E.M. Anscombe’s ‘I am Sadly Theoretical: It is the Effect of being at Oxford’”(1938): A newly discovered article by Anscombe edited and with an editor’s introduction,” New Blackfriars, September 2021.
  • “In the Beginning:The Primordial Character of the Problem of Suicide in David Novak’s Scholarship.” Levering & Angier eds, The Achievement of David Novak: A Catholic-Jewish Dialogue. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock: 2021.
  •  “Must We Love Non-Human Animals: A Post-Laudato Si Thomistic Perspective,” New Blackfriars, November 2020.
  •  “St. Thomas Aquinas on Impairment, Natural Goods, and Human Flourishing.” (with Robyn Boere), National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, 20:2 (Summer 2020).
  • “The Evolution of Moral Wisdom: What some Ethicists Might Learn from Some Evolutionary Anthropologists.” Fuentes & Deane-Drummond eds., The Evolution of Wisdom: Major and Minor Keys.   Notre Dame: Center for Theology, Science, and Human Flourishing, 2019.
  • “The Story of Max.” Harvie, Eaton, and Bechtel eds., Encountering Earth: Thinking Theologically with a More-Than Human-World. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2018.
  • “Devons-Nous Aimer Les Animaux Non-humains?  Une Perspective Thomiste Apres Laudato Si” Bulletin de Littérature Ecclésiatique, No. 480 120.4, Decembre, 2018.

Research & Teaching Focus

  • Medical Ethics
  • Fundamental Moral Theology
  • Thomistic Ethics
  • Environmental/Animal Ethics

Dr. Michael Attridge

Faculty

About

I am an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Theology, University of St. Michael’s College in the University of Toronto working in the area of historical and systematic theology. I began at the Faculty in 2004 and received tenure and promotion to Associate Professor in 2010. I regularly teach courses in Christology, Ecclesiology, 19th and 20th century theologians and theological movements, Catholic Modernism and Vatican II. In 2020, I co-taught a new course with Prof. Darren Dias on “Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church”, which we will offer again.

In terms of research interests, I study the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) and am especially interested in the social, political, and ecclesial factors of the 18th to 20th centuries that gave rise to the need for a Council and of its effects on the religious and social landscape in Canada. To advance this work, I created the “Institute for Research on the Second Vatican Council in Canada” in 2012. I’m currently involved in two research projects. The first is a Social Sciences and Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Insight-Grant funded project comparing the different receptions of Vatican II in Quebec and Ontario from 1965 to 1985 through the lens of liturgy and catechesis, ecumenism and interfaith dialogue, and socio-political engagement. The second is a SSHRC, Connection-Grant funded project, the title of which is: “Paulo Freire’s “Pedagogy of the Oppressed” and Ivan Illich’s “Deschooling Society: Fifty Years Later.” In connection with this latter project, I’m a member of the Theory and History of Education International Research Group (THEIRG) at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario.

I’m a member of the American Academy of Religion, the Catholic Theological Society of America, the European Academy of Religion, and the European Society for Catholic Theology.

Interested doctoral students should contact me directly through my email address.

Selected Publications

  • (With R. Bruno-Jofre; J. Igelmo), Guest Editors for a Thematic Issue of Espacio, Tiempo Y Educación 9/1 (Spring 2022) Entitled: “Ivan Illich and Paulo Freire’s Ideas and Influences on Education in the Last Fifty Years.”
  • (With D. Dias; J. Skira), The Church and Migration: Global (In)Difference. Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. 419 pages.
  • (With D. Dias; N. Olkovich; M. Eaton), The Promise of Renewal. Dominicans and Vatican II. Adelaide: ATF Theology, 2017. 389 pages.
  • (With C. Clifford; G. Routhier), Vatican II. Expériences canadiennes – Canadian experiences. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2011. 568 pages.
  • Jews and Catholics Together: Celebrating 40 Years of Nostra Aetate. Ottawa: Novalis, 2007. 180 pages.

Education

PhD Theology (University of St. Michael’s College)
STL (Regis College, Toronto)
MA Theology (University of St. Michael’s College)
BA (Hons.) (University of Windsor)

Research & Teaching Focus

  • Second Vatican Council in Canada
  • 19th and 20th Century Theologians and Movements
  • Ecclesiology
  • Christology