Contact Information:
Email: theresa.okeefe.1@bc.edu
Office Phone: 617-552-0932
Address:
Boston College
School of Theology and Ministry
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Areas of Interest:
Youth and young adult faith, developmental theory, feminist theology, ministerial and educational formation, Catholic-Jewish dialogue.
About:
Dr. O’Keefe has been teaching in the area of youth and young adult faith, assisting ministerial and educational leaders in that field to read the context of contemporary culture and analyze it impact on their constituencies. Drawing from multiple disciplines her intent is unpack the complexity of the ministerial setting so that educational and ministerial efforts may be more effectively constructed to enrich the lives of youth and young adults.
Dr. O’Keefe also leads the Contextual Education program, in which students use field opportunities to develop their praxis. Her aim is to assist students to develop reflective practices that help them better understand themselves as ministerial leaders.
Courses:
Summer 2009 /Fall 2009
TM 530- Contextual Education
TM 604- The Practice of Miniistry w/Youth & Young Adults
Spring 2010
TM 994- Education of Justice and Peace
Recent Publications:
"The Same but Different: The culture in which our adolescents live," Journal of Youth and Theology, Vol 7, no. 2 (2008).
"Learning to Talk: Conversation across Religious Difference," Religious Education Journal, Vol 104, No 2 (2009)
Coming to Know the Other Coming to Know Oneself: A study of Jewish-Catholic dialogue at the congregational level - APRRE/REA (2004)
The report of a qualitative research study on an experience of Jewish-Catholic interreligious learning on the congregation level, focusing on the workings of conversation in that setting - how it worked and what it accomplished.
Concerns About Covenant: A critique of Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger's Many Religions One Covenant - BC Website (2002)
A review and an analysis of Cardinal Ratzinger's theology of covenant and its implications for relations with non-Christian religions, particularly Judaism.
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