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Dr. Mary Doak

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., The Divinity School, University of Chicago

Contact Information

Office: Maher 292, Phone: (619) 260-7844, Fax: (619) 260-2260, E-mail: mdoak@sandiego.edu

Research and teaching specialities

Systematic and political theology, narrative, hermeneutics, theologies of history, and eschatology.

Selected publications

Reclaiming Narrative for Public Theology. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 2004.

"Resisting the Eclipse of Dignitatis Humanae." Horizons 33 (Spring, 2006): 33-53.

"A Pragmatism Without Plurality? John Milbank's 'Pragmatic' New Christendom." Contemporary Pragmatism 1 (December, 2004): 123-135.

"Feminism, Pragmatism, and Utopia: A Catholic Theological Response." The American Journal ofTheology and Philosophy 24 (January, 2003), 22-39.

"Hope, Eschatology, and Public Life: The Contributions of Rauschenbusch, Mathews, and Niebuhr to Reopening the American Imagination." The American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 23 (May, 2002): 108-128.

"Cornel West's Challenge to the Catholic Evasion of Black Theology." Theological Studies 63 (March, 2002): 87-106.