At a glance...
Adjunct Professor
Theology Department
francis.sullivan@bc.edu
Residence
St. Mary's Hall
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Phone: 617.552.8152
Fax: 617.552.2977
Personal Web Site
n/a
Office Hours
By appointment at St. Mary's Hall 2-8152.
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EDUCATION
MA, Philosophy, Boston College, 1945; MA Classics, Fordham University, 1948; STD, Gregorian University, 1956.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY
Before coming to Boston College in 1992, Fr. Sullivan was professor of ecclesiology in the Faculty of Theology at the Gregorian University in Rome for thirty-six years. He was dean of that faculty from 1964 to 1970.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Ecclesiology, Ecumenism, Church history
TEACHING
He has given courses to graduate students at Boston College on the following topics: Church, Sacrament of Salvation; Ministry in the Early Church; Evaluation and Interpretation of Documents of the Magisterium; Ecclesiological Issues in Ecumenical Dialogues; Documents of Vatican II.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND AWARDS
He serves as a theological advisor to the USA Anglican-Roman Catholic Dialogue Commission He is a member of the Catholic Theological Society of America, which in 1994 awarded him its John Courtney Murray Award for Distinguished Achievement in Theology.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
Charisms and Charismatic Renewal, 1982. Magisteriium: Teaching Authority in the Catholic Church, 1983. The Church We Believe In: One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic, 1988. Salvation Outside the Church? 1992. Creative Fidelity. Weighing and Interpreting Documents of the Magisterium, 1996. From Apostles to Bishops. The Development of the Episcopacy in the Early Church, 2001.
PUBLICATIONS SINCE 2002
2006 “Évolution de la question de l’autorité doctrinale dans l’Église catholique depuis Vatican II,” in Gilles Routhier et Laurent Villemin, eds., Nouveaux Apprentissages pour l’Église. Mélanges en l’honneur de Hervé Legrand, O.P. Paris: Cerf, 401-15.
2006 “A Response to Karl Becker, S.J. on the Meaning of subsistit in.” Theological Studies 67, 395-409.
2006 “Do the Sins of its Members affect the Holiness of the Church?” in Jaroslav Z. Skira and Michael S. Attridge, eds., In God’s Hands. Essays on the Church and Ecumenism in Honor of Michael A. Fahey, S.J., Leuven/Paris/Dudley, MA: Leuven University Press, 247-268.
2004 “Comments of a Roman Catholic on Called to Common Mission and the Porvoo Agreement, The Anglican 33/2, 5-12.
2004 “Dialogues and Agreements between Anglican and Lutheran Churches,” in Sapere theologico e unità della fede. Studi in onore del Prof. Jared Wicks. Edited by C. Aparicio Valls, C. Dotolo, G. Pasquale. Roma: Pont. Università Gregoriana, 2004, 571-588.
2004 “St. Cyprian on the Role of the Laity in Decision Making in the Early Church,” in Stephen J. Pope, ed., Common Calling. The Laity and Governance of the Catholic Church, Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 39-49.
2004 “The Charism of Vocation to Lay Ecclesial Ministry,” New Theology Review 17/4, 80-82.
2003 “Clement of Alexandria on Justification through Philosophy,” in In Many and Diverse Ways, In Honor of Jacques Dupuis, Edited by Daniel Kendall and Gerald O’Collins. Maryknoll: Orbis Books, pp. 101-113.
2003 “The Bishop’s Teaching Office,” in Unfailing Patience and Sound Teaching. Reflections on Episcopal Ministry in Honor of Rembert G. Weakland, O.S.B. Edited by David A. Stosur. Collegeville: Liturgical Press, pp. 67-86.
2003 “Faith and Order: The Nature and Purpose of the Church: Comments on the ‘material inside the boxes’, ” Ecumenical Trends 32/10, 1-9.
2003 “The Authority of the Diocesan Bishop in The Roman Catholic Church,” Lutheran Forum 37/1, 30-35.
2003 “Vatican II on the Charisms of the Faithful,” in Vatican II: Forty Personal Stories, ed. by Wm. Madges and Michael J. Daley, 23rd Publications, Mystic, Conn., 2003, 94-97.
2002 “The Sense of Faith: The Sense/Consensus of the Faithful,” in Bernard Hoose, ed.,Authority in the Roman Catholic Church. Theory and Practice, Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., pp. 85-93.
2002 “The Teaching Authority of Episcopal Conferences,” Theological Studies 63/3, 472-93.
2002 “Introduction and Ecclesiological Issues,” in Sic et Non. Encountering Dominus Iesus, Edited by Stephen J. Pope and Charles Hefling, Maryknoll: Orbis Books, pp. 47-56. |
