Theology Department Faculty
Catherine Cornille
Professor; Newton College Alumnae Chair of Western Culture
Director, Interreligious Studies Minor
Catherine Cornille
Ph.D.
Contact
Stokes Hall 433N
Telephone: 617-552-3896
Email: cornille@bc.edu
Education
- A.B., K. U. Leuven, Belgium
- M.A., University of Hawaii
- Ph.D., K. U. Leuven, Belgium
Research Interests
Theology of Religions, the theory of Interreligious Dialogue, questions in Hindu-Christian and Buddhist-Christian Comparative Theology, methods in Comparative Theology
Expertise
- South Asia
- Religion & Philosophy
Selected Publications
"Meaning and Method in Comparative Theology"Â Hoboken: WILEY Blackwell, 2019.
âSoteriological Agnosticism and the Future of Theology and Interreligious Dialogueâ in The Past, Present and Future of Theologies and Interreligious Dialogue (Terrence Merrigan and John Friday, eds.) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.
âThe Problem of Choice in Comparative Theologyâ (Francis Clooney and Klaus von Stosch, eds.) New York: Fordham University Press, 2017.
âDiscipleship in Hindu-Christian Comparative Theologyâ in Theological Studies 77, 2016, pp. 869-885.
âStrategies of Negotiation in Buddhist-Christian Dual Belongingâ in Buddhist-Christian Dual Belonging: Affirmations, Objections, Explorations (Gavin DâCosta and Ross Thompson, eds.) Surrey: Ashgate, 2016, pp. 143-160.
Christian Identity between Secularity and Plurality (co-authored with Jeffrey Bloechl) Bangalore: Dharmaram Publications, 2015.