Harvey Egan, S.J.

EDUCATION
Dr. Theol. magna cum laude from Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, West Germany. Dissertation: An Anthropocentric-Christocentric Mystagogy. A Study of the Method and Basic Horizon of Thought and Experience in the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola. Directed by Karl Rahner, S.J., 1973.

S.T.L. and M.A. in Theology magna cum laude from Woodstock College, Woodstock, Maryland, 1969.

S.T.L. and M.A. in Philosophy magna cum laude from Boston College/Weston College, Weston, Massachusetts, 1965.

B.S. Electrical Engineering cum laude from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1959.

BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Karl Rahner as Mystical Theologian; Christian Mystics

TEACHING
Mysticism East and West
Christian Mysticism
Foundations of Catholic Theology I & II
Seminar for Theology Majors
M.A. Methods Seminar
The Mysticism and Theology of St. John of the Cross
The Theology of Karl Rahner
The Spiritual and Mystical Theology of Karl Rahner
Systematic Theology I & II (graduate level)

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND AWARDS
Member of the American Academy of Religion; Catholic Theological Society of America; The College Society. Six month lecture tour in Australia. Presented lectures on Christian Mysticism at the Elijah Institute International Interreligious Symposium on Mysticism in Jerusalem.

Recipient of the Robert H. Goddard Distinguished Alumni Award from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1999.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
An Anthropocentric-Christocentric Mystagogy. A Study of the Method and Basic Horizon of Thought and Experience in the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola. (University of Münster Offset, 1973). Dissertation, 535 pages. Distributed by the Program to Promote the Spiritual Exercises (Jersey City, New Jersey).

The Spiritual Exercises and the Ignatian Mystical Horizon. Foreword by Karl Rahner. (St. Louis: Institute of Jesuit Studies, 1976).

What Are They Saying About Mysticism? (Ramsey, New Jersey: Paulist Press, 1982). Also published in England by Fowler Wright.

Christian Mysticism. The Future of a Tradition. (New York: Pueblo Publishing Company, 1984).

Translator of Karl Rahner-I Remember, (New York: Crossroad, 1985).

Translation editor for Karl Rahner In Dialogue. Conversations and Interviews 1965-1982, (New York: Crossroad, 1986).

Ignatius Loyola The Mystic. (Wilmington, Delaware: Michael Glazier, 1987). (Collegeville, Minn.: The Liturgical Press, second revised edition, 1991).

Translation editor and partial translator of Faith in a Wintry Season. Conversations and Interviews with Karl Rahner in the Last Years of His Life (New York: Crossroad, 1990).

An Anthology of Christian Mysticism (Collegeville, Minn.: The Liturgical Press, 1991).

Translation editor of The Content of Faith: The Best of Karl Rahner's Theological Writings (New York: Crossroad, 1993).

Translation editor of The Great Church Year: The Best of Karl Rahner's Homilies, Sermons, and Meditations (New York: Crossroad, 1993).

I Mistici e la mistica: Antologia dell mistica Cristiana, cura di Luigi Borriello, O.C.D. (Vatican City: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1995).

An Anthology of Christian Mysticism (Collegeville: The Liturgical Press, 1996), second edition.

Karl Rahner: Mytic of Everyday Life (New York: Crossroad Publishing Co., 1998).

"Reflections of Saint Faustina," Budhi: A Journal of Ideas and Culture VI/2&3, 2002. pp. 189-221.

"Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's Christocentric Mysticism," Budhi: A Journal of Ideas and Culture VIII/1&2, 2004 pp. 121-36.

"Karl Rahner's Theological Life," Budhi: A Journal of Ideas and Culture VIII/1&2, 2004 pp. 179-89.

"A Rahnerian Response," Sic et Non: Encountering Dominus Iesus, ed. Stephen J. Pope and Charles Hefling (Maryknoll, New York: Orbis, 2002), 57-68.

"Theology and Spirituality," The Cambridge Companion to Karl Rahner, ed. Declan Marmion and Mary Hines (Cambridge University Press, 2005), 13-28.

Foreword for The Discernment of Spirits: An Ignatian Guide for Everyday Living, Timothy M. Gallagher, O.M.V. (Crossroad Publishing Co.: New York, 2005), xiii-xvii.

"The Church is Mystagogical," The Many Marks of the Church, ed. William Madges and Michael J. Daley (Twenty-Third Publications: New London, CT, 2006), 162-66.