Harvey Egan, S.J.

Professor Emeritus

Department

Theology

Selected Publications

BOOKS:

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: Mystic of Everyday Life (New York: Crossroad Publishing Co., 1998).

Soundings in the Christian Mystical Tradition (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2010).

The Christology and Mystical Theology of Karl Rahner, co-authored with Joseph H. Wong, O.S.B. Cam (New York: Crossroad, 2020).

Paul: Christianity’s Premier Apostolic Mystic (Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2021).

Homilies in a New Key (Eugene, OR: Resource/Wipf&Stock, 2021).

A New Encyclopedia of Christian Theology: Rethinking Faith and Doctrine (Mahwah, NJ: Paulist, 2023).

 

CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOOKS:

 "'Der Fromme von morgen wird ein "Mystiker" sein.' Mystik und die Theologie Karl Rahner," Erfahrungen mit der Theologie Karl Rahners, hrsg. Herbert Vorgrimler (Freiburg i Br.: Herder, 1979), pp. 99-112.

 "Rahner's Mystical Theology," Theology and Discovery. Essays in Honor of Karl Rahner, edited by William Kelly, S.J. (Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 1980), pp. 139-158.

"Indifference" and "Consolations, Desolations," The Westminster Dictionary of Christian Spirituality, ed. Gordon S. Wakefield (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1983), pp. 211-213, 94-95.

Foreword to Karl Rahner's Spirituality of the Pierced Heart. A Reinterpretation of Devotion to the Sacred Heart, Annice Callahan, RSCJ (Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1985), pp. iv-viii.

An excerpt from, "Heilsoptimistische Konsequenzen der Theologie Karl Rahners," in Karl Rahner: Bilder Eines Lebens, ed. by Paul Imhof and Hubert Biallowons (Freiburg im Breisgau: Verlag Herder, 1985), p. 158.

"St. Ignatius of Loyola: Mystic at the Heart of the Trinity, Mystic at the Heart of Christ," Spiritualities of the Heart: Approaches to Personal Wholeness in Christian Tradition. Ed. Annice Callahan, R.S.C.J. (Mahwah, New Jersey: Paulist Press, 1990), pp. 97-113.

 "A Jesuit Looks at Jesuit prayer,"A Hunger for Prayer: Ten Approaches to Prayer, ed. William A. Barry, S.J. and Kerry A. Maloney (Kansas City, Mo.: Sheed and Ward, 1991), pp. 11-17.

 "Affirmative Way," "Ignatian Spirituality," "Negative Way," Dictionary of Spirituality, ed. Michael Downey (Collegeville, Minn.: The Liturgical Press, 1993), 14-17, 521-29, 700-4.

Introduction to Karl Rahner’s The Need and the Blessing of Prayer, tr. Bruce Gillette (Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 1997), vii-xviii.

“Karl Rahner,” and “Evelyn Underhill,” The Dictionary of Historical Theology, ed. Trevor Hart (Paternoster Press: Carlisle, England, 1997), 449-451, 556-57.

 “Delbrel,” “Marie of the Incarnation,” “Karl Rahner,” Dizionario di Mistica, ed. Luigi Borriell, et al. (Rome: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1997), 394-95, 784-86, 1060-62.

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

“Rahner’s Sapiential Interlocking of 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. (New York: Crossroad Publishing, 2005), xiii-xvii.

 “The Church is Mystagogical,” The Many Marks of the Church, ed. William Madges and Michael J. Daley (New London, CT: Twenty-Third Publications, 2002), 162–66.

“Karl Rahner’s Theological Life,” Finding God in All Things,” ed. Mark Bosco and David Stagaman (New York: Fordham University Press, 2007), 143-50.

“Ignatius of Loyola,” “Teresa of Avila,” “John of the Cross,” “Francis de Sales,” “Cloud of Unknowing,” “Thomas Merton,” “Karl Rahner,” “The Mystical Tradition,” Encyclopedia of Christian Civilization, ed. George Thomas Kurian (Oxford & Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011).

“Delbrél, Joseph,” “Maria dell’Incarnazione,” “Rahner, Karl,” Nuovo Dizionario di Mistica, ed. Luigi Borriello, Edmono Caruana, Maria Rosaria del Genio, Raffale di Muro (Rome: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2016) pp. 626-27, 1327-29, 1846-48.

"The Eschatological Consciousness of the Christian mystics, The Renewal of Mystical Theology: Essays in Memory of John N. Jones, ed. Bernard McGinn (Crossroad-Herder, 2017).

“Karl Rahner  (1904-84) and His Mystical Theology,” A Companion to Jesuit Mysticism, ed. Robert A. Maryks (Leiden/Boston: Brill Publishers, 2017), 310-33.

“Mysticism—Christianity—Medieval Times and Reformation Era,” Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception multi-volume by De Gruyter Press. Will appear in 2020.

ARTICLES:

"Towards a Theology of the Development of Dogma," Canadian Journal of Theology (1969), pp. 227-239.

 "Christian Apophatic and Kataphatic Mysticisms," Theological Studies (September, 1978), pp. 399-426.

"The Cloud of Unknowing and Pseudo-Contemplation," Thought (June, 1979), pp. 162-175).

"Mystical Crosscurrents," Communio (Spring, 1980), pp. 4-23.

 "Prayer and Contemplation as Orthopraxis," The Catholic Theological Society of America Proceedings (June, 1980), pp. 102-112.

"The Christian Mystics and Today's Theological Horizon," Listening 17/3 (Autumn, 1982), pp. 203-216.

"Selected Reflections on the Christocentrism of St. Teresa of Avila," Word and Spirit 4(1983), pp. 14-31.

 "Christian Mysticism and Psychedelic Drugs," Studies in Formative Spirituality V/1 (February, 1984), pp. 33-41.

"A Friend Remembers Karl Rahner's Theological Life," Biweekly (April 19, 1984); The Boston Pilot (May 18, 1984); Homiletic and Pastoral Review (January, 1985), pp. 60-64.

"Bernard Lonergan and the Future of Spiritual and Mystical Theology," Compass, A Jesuit Journal (Spring, 1985), pp. 18-19.

"Konkrete Mystik," Geist und Leben 4(July/August 1988), pp. 241-2.

"The Mysticism of Everyday Life," Studies in Formative Spirituality X/1(February, 1989), pp. 7-26.

 "Karl Rahner (1904-1984)--théologien des Exercices Spirituels," Cahiers de Spiritualité Ignatienne (Québec, Canada) XV-57 (janvier-mai 1991), pp. 199-216.

"Karl Rahner: Theologian of the Spiritual Exercises," Thought 67/266 (September 1992), pp. 257-270.

  “Reflections of Saint Faustina,” Budhi: A Journal of Ideas and Culture VI/2&3, 2003. pp. 189-221.

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

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

 “Evelyn Underhill Revisited," The Way 51/1 (January 2012), pp. 223-39.

”In Purgatory We Shall All be Mystics,” Theological Studies 73 (December 2012), pp. 870–89.

 "The Mystical Theology of Karl Rahner," The Way 52/2 April 2013, pp. 43–62.

“Hell: the Mystery of Eternal Love and Eternal Obduracy,” Theological Studies March 2014) 75:52-73.

“Ignatius, Prayer and the Spiritual Exercises,” The Way, 60/2 (Apr 2021), 47–58.

SIGNIFICANT PUBLISHED LECTURE SERIES

The Christian Mystics (12 lectures: audio/visual/MP-3 recordings) Now You Know Media, 2016.

 Karl Rahner: Theological Giant of the 20th Century (12 lectures: audio/visual/MP-3 recordings ) Now You Know Media, 2017.

Exploring Catholic Theology (24 lectures: audio/visual/MP-3 recordings ) Now You Know Media, 2018.

Seventy-Seven Great Catholic Haudio/visual/MP-3 recordings) Now You Know Media, 2018.

Ignatius Loyola the Mystic (12 MP3 recorded lectures), Now You Know Media, 2018,

Eschatology: The Theology of Ultimate Hope (15 lectures/MP3 Recordings) Now You Know Media, 2019.

The Apostle Paul, Christianity’s Original Mystic (15 lectures/MP3 Recordings. Learn25.com, 2020.

These lectures series are also on nowyouknowmedia.com, audible.com, and Learn25.com.