Curriculum Vitae

Kenneth L. Parker Department of Theology Ryan Endowed Chair for Newman Studies Fisher Hall 614A Professor of Historical Theology Duquesne University Editor in Chief, Newman Studies Journal Pittsburgh, PA 15282 [email protected]

Degrees Earned

October 1987 to July 1990: Post-doctoral studies in nineteenth-century Roman Catholic Theology and Church History, Faculty of Theology (French and German sections), University of Fribourg, Switzerland. Research project: The theological development leading to conversion of John Henry Newman

Awarded Ph.D. in Divinity, June 1984, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge. Dissertation title: “The English Sabbath: 1558-1640.” Supervised by Professor Eamon Duffy, Magdalene College, Cambridge

Awarded M.A. in Theology, June 1978, Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California. Area of concentration: Late Medieval and Reformation Theology. Studies guided by Dr. Geoffrey Bromiley

Awarded B.A. in History, December 1975, Houghton College, Houghton, New York. Major: European History; Minors: Writing, Secondary Education. Academic Advisor: Dr. Katherine Lindley

Administrative Experience:

May 2016 to June 2017: Interim Executive Director, National Institute for Newman Studies

August 2007 to June 2014: Founding Director, Saint Louis University Prison Program

August 1994 to June 1997: Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Theological Studies

Academic Experience:

July 2017 to Present: Ryan Endowed Chair for Newman Studies, Professor of Historical Theology, Department of Theology, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

July 2014 to June 2017: Clarence Louis and Helen Irene Steber Professor in Theological Studies, Department of Theological Studies, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, Missouri

August 1992 to June 2017: Associate Professor of Historical Theology, Department of Theological Studies, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, Missouri

Summer 1995: Visiting Professor of Historical Theology, South Asia Institute of Advanced Christian Studies, Bangalore, India

January 1991 to May 1992: Visiting Professor, Department of History, Westmont College, Santa Barbara, California

[October 1985 to December 1990: Benedictine monk at Saint Andrew’s Abbey, Valyermo, California]

August 1984 to May 1985: Bankhead Fellow in European History, Department of History, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama

August to October 1983: Lecturer in Renaissance and Reformation History, University of Maryland Extension Program, England

Recent Professional Service:

Editor in Chief, Newman Studies Journal, 2016 to present

Contributing Editor, Newman Studies Journal, 2014 to 2016

Trustee, Incarnate Word Foundation of Saint Louis, 2010 to 2016

Research and Publications

Monographs, Critical Editions, and Edited Volumes The Rise of Historical Consciousness among the Christian Churches, eds. Kenneth L. Parker and Erick Moser. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2012. Authority, Dogma, and History: The Role of Oxford Movement Converts in the Papal Infallibility Debates, eds. Kenneth L. Parker and Michael Pahls. Bethesda, MD: Academica, 2009. Tradition and Pluralism: Essays in Honor of William Shea, eds. Kenneth L. Parker, Petter Huff, and Michael Pahls. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2008. ‘Practical Divinity’: The Works and Life of Richard Greenham, St Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Aldershot, Hants: Ashgate Press, 1998. The English Sabbath: A Study of Doctrine and Discipline from the Reformation to the Civil War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Articles and Essays: “Historiography.” In The Oxford Handbook of the Oxford Movement, edited by Fredrick Aquino and Benjamin King. Oxford: Oxford University Press, in the press 2019.

“Tractarian Visions of History.” In The Oxford Handbook of the Oxford Movement, edited by Stewart Brown, Peter Nockles, and James Pereiro. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.

“Tract Ninety.” In The Oxford Handbook of the Oxford Movement, edited by Stewart Brown, Peter Nockles, and James Pereiro. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. with C. Michael Shea, “Roman Catholic Receptions of Newman’s Essay on Development.” In Receptions of John Henry Newman, edited by Fredrick Aquino and Benjamin King. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.

“The Saint Louis University Prison Program: An Ancient Mission, a New Beginning.” Saint Louis University Public Law Review, Spring 2014.

“Coming to Terms with the Past: The Role of History in the Spirituality of John Henry Newman.” In Contemporary Perspectives on Newman’s Spirituality, edited by Brian Hughes and John Connolly. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2014. with C. Michael Shea.“Johann Adam Möhler’s Influence on John Henry Newman’s Theory of Doctrinal Development: The Case for a Reappraisal." Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses 89, no. 1 (2013): 73–95.

“Re-visioning the Past and Re-sourcing the Future: The Unresolved Historiographical Struggle in Roman Catholic Scholarship and Authoritative Teaching.” In The Church On Its Past (Studies in Church History, vol. 49), edited by Peter D. Clarke and Charlotte Methuen, 389–416. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Ecclesiastical History Society and Boydell, 2013.

“The Rise of Historical Consciousness among the Christian Churches: An Introduction.” In The Rise of Historical Consciousness among the Christian Churches, edited by Kenneth L. Parker and Erick Moser, 1–16. New York: University Press of America, 2012.

“Historical Consciousness and the First Vatican Council: Manning, Döllinger, Newman, and Acton’s Uses of History in the Papal Infallibility Debates.” In The Rise of Historical Consciousness among the Christian Churches, edited by Kenneth L. Parker and Erick Moser, 89–122. New York: University Press of America, 2012. with Daniel Handschy. “Eucharistic Sacrifice, American Polemics, the Oxford Movement and Apostolicae Curae.” The Journal of Ecclesiastical History 62, no. 3 (July 2011): 515–42.

“‘Cor ad cor loquitur’: Heart Speaking unto Heart—The Beatification of John Henry Newman is an Important Gift to Today's Church.” Homiletic and Pastoral Review 111, no. 4 (January 2011): 6–13.

“Sabbatarianism in Early Modern England.” The English Parish Church through the Centuries: Daily Life and Spirituality, Art and Architecture, Literature and Music, CD/DVD-ROM. York: Christianity and Culture, 2010.

“Converts and the Council.” In Authority, Dogma, and History: The Role of Oxford Movement Converts in the Papal Infallibility Debates, edited by Kenneth Parker and Michael Pahls, 1–8. Bethesda, MD: Academica Press, 2009.

“Henry Manning and Neo-Ultramontanism: The Life Context for an Oxford Movement Convert’s Faith in Papal Infallibility.” In Authority, Dogma, and History: The Role of Oxford Movement Converts in the Papal Infallibility Debates, edited by Kenneth Parker and Michael Pahls, 95–114. Bethesda, MD: Academica Press, 2009.

“Francis Kenrick and Papal Infallibility: How Pastoral Experience in the American Missions Transformed a Roman Ultramontanist.” In Tradition and Pluralism: Essays in Honor of William Shea, edited by Kenneth Parker, Peter Huff, and Michael Pahls, 181–200. New York: University Press of America, 2008.

“Richard Greenham’s ‘Spiritual Physicke’: The Comfort of Afflicted Consciences in Elizabethan Pastoral Care.” In Penitential Practice in Early Modern Europe, edited by K Lualdi and A. Thayer, 71–83. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2000.

“La Chiamata alla Sanctificazione: ritlessione sul cammino di un pellegrino metodista/benedettino.” In La Santificazione nelle Tradizioni Benedettina e Metodista, edited by Reginald Greggoire and Bruno Corsani, 291–305. Verona: “Il Segno,” Gabrielli Editori, 1998.

“Never on a Sunday: Why Sunday Afternoon Sports Transformed Seventeenth Century England.” South Atlantic Quarterly 95, no. 2 (Spring 1996): 339–64.

“The Call to Sanctification: Reflection on the Journey of a Methodist/Benedictine Pilgrim.” Asbury Theological Journal 50, no. 2 (Fall 1995): 71–82.

“The Role of Estrangement in Conversion: The Case of John Henry Newman.” In Christianity and the Stranger: Historical Essays, edited by Francis Nichols, 169–201. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995.

“Newman's Individualistic Use of the Caroline Divines in the Via Media.” In Discourse and Context: An Interdisciplinary Study of John Henry Newman, edited by Gerry Magill, 33–42. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1993.

“Thomas Rogers and English Sabbatarianism: The Case for a Reappraisal.” Church History 53, no. 3 (September 1984): 332–47.

Publishing Projects in Progress:

Monograph Projects:

“The Kenrick Brothers and Papal Infallibility: Irish Ecclesiology in the American Catholic Church, 1823- 1875.”

“‘Gallican to the Core’: Gallicanism in pre-1850 Ireland and the Emergence of the Irish Conciliar Tradition.”

“Truth is the Daughter of Time: An Introduction to Historical Theology.”

“Henry Cardinal Manning, Johann Ignaz Döllinger, John Cardinal Newman and Lord John Acton’s Uses of ‘History’ in the Controversy over Papal Infallibility during the 1860s and 1870s.”

Articles and Essays:

“‘Gallican to the core’: Early Nineteenth-Century Irish Ecclesiology and the Catholic Church in the United States,” commissioned for Transatlantic Religion (Oxford University Press).

Edited Works:

Critical Edition of Newman’s Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, in collaboration with Peter Erb, Michael Moore, and C. Michael Shea.

Annotated Bibliography with lengthy introduction of Newman’s Oriel College Library Reading from 1823- 1845 (based on a decoding of the college library register from the period). Site visit completed. Monograph length introduction and annotations current in development.

Recent Review Essays for Scholarly Journals: The French Idea of History: Joseph de Maistre and his Heirs, 1794-1854 (2011), in The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 2014. Ressourcement: A Movement for Renewal in Twentieth-Century Catholic Theology (2012), in Irish Theological Quarterly 2013 78: 83-4. Review Essay: Cambridge Companion to John Henry Newman (CUP, 2009); Newman and the Alexandrian Fathers (OUP, 2009), in Church History 2013: 474-479. Recent Selected Publishing for Popular Audience: Your Grown-Up Faith: Blending the Three Elements of Belief (Saint Louis, MO: Liguori Publications, 2012). Catholic and Cornered: Answers to Common Questions About Your Faith (Saint Louis, MO: Liguori Publications, 2011). Review Article: “Unabridged: Christianity, The First Three Thousand Years, by Diarmaid MacCulloch,” Commonweal, 5 November 2010. “Priestless,” Commonweal, 25 September 2009.

Recent Awards and Recognition:

Innovative Teaching Fellowship, Reinert Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning, 2014-2016 Donald G. Brennan Award for Excellence in Graduate Mentoring, April 2013 Student Government Association George C. Wendell Civic Engagement Award, April 2012 Honorary Member of Alpha Sigma Nu, selected by officers and members of the Saint Louis University Chapter (April 2011) “Last Lecture”: Selected by student nomination to give a lecture as though it was my last (April, 2010) Helen Mandeville Award for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities, College of Arts and Sciences, Saint Louis University (April 2008)

Recent Grants

Cushwa Center Travel Grant, $1500 [Cushwa Conference in Rome and Archival Research] Cushwa Center Travel Grant, $500 [Irish Gallicanism] Lutheran Foundation of Saint Louis, $10,000 received [Prison Program] Raskob Foundation Application ($53,000 requested), $38,000 received [Prison Program] [Anonymous] Foundation ($200,000 requested), $150,000 received [Prison Program] Mercy Health System ($20,000 requested): $20,000 received [Prison Program] Franklin Grant, American Philosophical Society ($6,000 requested): $6,000 received [Newman/Oriel Bibliographical Project] Hibernian Research Award, Cushwa Center, University of Notre Dame ($5,730 requested): $1500 received [Monograph on Kenrick brothers and papal infallibility] Incarnate Word Foundation ($3,500 requested): $3500 challenge grant awarded [Prison Education Conference] Mellon Fund ($3,500 requested): $3,344 matching funds for IWF grant [Prison Education Conference] St. Joseph’s Parish, Cottleville ($5,000 requested): $5,000 awarded, 9/1/12 to 8/31/13 [Prison Program] Raskob Foundation For Catholic Activities ($35,000): $25,000 awarded, 1/1/12 to 12/31/12 [Prison Program]

President’s Research Fund: ($16,000 requested): $16,000 awarded, 7/1/11 to 6/30/12 [Prison Program]

Lutheran Foundation of Saint Louis ($15,000 requested): $10,000 awarded, 7/1/11 to 6/30/12 [Prison Program]

Center for Service and Community Engagement Interfaith Challenge Grant, SLU ($1000 requested): $1000 awarded, Spring Semester 2012 [Interfaith Symposium on Prison Ministry]

Kenrick Seminary/Aquinas Institute/Fontbonne Univ/SLU Campus Ministries: $2000 received for video production of Second Newman Convocation, November/December 2011 [Second Annual Newman Convocation]

Department of Theological Studies Travel Fund ($2100 requested): $2100 awarded, August 2011 [Newman/Oriel Bibliographical Project]

Mellon Grant ($2500 requested): $2050 for the Newman/Oriel Bibliographical Project and lecture given at Kent University, March 2011

Hearst Foundation ($250,000 requested): $150,000 for the SLU College-in-Prison Program, June 2010 [Prison Program]

Summer Research Award in the Humanities, Saint Louis University: $9,392, July-August 2010 [Monograph on Kenrick brothers and papal infallibility]

Mellon Grant ($2700 requested): $2700 for the Newman/Oriel Bibliographical Project, March 2010.

Funds raised for the Academic Convocation and Dinner to Honor the Legacy of Professor Lawrence Barmann (Voices Project, $450; College of Arts and Sciences, $450; Graduate School, $300; Department of Theological Studies, $200; Department of History, $200; Institute for Jesuit Sources, $100; Jesuit Community, $100; donations from Barmann’s former dissertation students, $350). Total funds raised: $2150.

Lutheran Foundation, for the Pilot Certificate Program in Theological Studies ($10,000 requested): $5,000 received, April 2009 [Prison Program]

Provost Research Leave, Saint Louis University, Spring Semester 2009: Full salary [Monograph on Kenrick brothers and papal infallibility]

Mellon Grant, College of Arts and Sciences, Saint Louis University ($2300 requested): $2100 received, March 2009. [For research in archives at Cambridge University and Oxford University]

Summer Research Award, Graduate School, Saint Louis University: $9,392, July-August 2008. For research in five American archives [Monograph on Kenrick brothers and papal infallibility]

Mellon Grant, College of Arts and Sciences, Saint Louis University, $1,500, April 2008. For research in the Westminster Cathedral archives and at Oxford University [1860s Papal Infallibility Debates]

Incarnate Word Foundation, $15,500, awarded August 2007. For the creation of the SLU Prison Initiative, to bring undergraduate courses to Bonne Terre Prison [Prison Program]

Summer Research Award, Graduate School, Saint Louis University, $6,147, July 2006. For research in archives in Munich, Germany [1860s Papal Infallibility Debates]

Sabbatical Leave, College of Arts and Sciences, Saint Louis University, Fall Semester 2006. Full Salary [1860s Papal Infallibility Debates]

Mellon Grant, College of Arts and Sciences, Saint Louis University, $1,500, July 2005. For research at the Pitts Library, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia [1860s Papal Infallibility Debates]

Lectures, Papers, Speeches Presented at Professional Meetings or Educational Institutions “Newman and Historiography: The Enduring Significance of ‘Development’ in Roman Catholic Theological Discourse,” Coloquio Internacional 2017 - Círculo John Henry Newman, Talca, Chile (5 October 2017)

“John Henry Newman’s Use of the Oriel College Senior Library, 1824-1843: A Chronological Bibliographical Resource for Newman Scholars,” Newman Association of America Conference, University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, MN (4 August 2017)

“Newman and the Oriel College Senior Library: A Biblio-Detective Story,” Spring Newman Lecture, National Institute for Newman Studies, Pittsburgh, PA (6 April 2017)

“The Sense of the Faithful in the Development of Doctrine: John Henry Newman’s Influence in the Era of Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis,” Baronius Lecture, Brooklyn Oratory (9 November 2016)

“Higher Education in Missouri Prisons: A Call to Action,” Faculty/Staff Assembly, Rockhurst University, Kansas City, MO (15 August 2016)

“Newman’s Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine: A New Critical Edition,” Newman Association of America Conference, Duquesne University (29 July 2016)

“Newman and the Magisterium’s Teaching on Sensus Fidelium Today,” Newman Association of America Conference, Seton Hall University (30 July 2015)

“The Long Farewell: Henry Manning’s Conversion to Roman Catholicism,” Westminster Diocesan Archives Conference: 150th Anniversary of Henry Cardinal Manning's Appointment as Archbishop, Westminster Cathedral Archives, London (9 May 2015)

“Nachash Theology: The De-Humanization of Negro Origins And the Theological Pretext for Jim Crow Laws,” Conference on Race, Monmouth University (17 April 2015)

“The Social and Spiritual Value of Higher Education in Prison,” Social Action Summer Institute, Washington University in Saint Louis (22 July 2014)

Plenary Presentation: “Newman Bibliography Project, Oriel College Senior Library,” Ecclesiastical History Society/American Society of Church History Joint Spring Conference, Oxford (4/4/14)

“The Kenrick Brothers, Irish Gallicanism, and the American Missions: The Irish influence on the nineteenth-century American Roman Catholic Ecclesial Tradition,” Ecclesiastical History Society/American Society of Church History Joint Spring Conference, Oxford (4/3/14)

“The Decline of Jacobitism and the Rise of Irish Gallicanism,” New Directions in Jacobite Studies Colloquium, Institute of Historical Research, University of London (8/20/13)

“Origins of the Saint Louis University Prison Program,” Third National Conference on Higher Education in Prisons, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis (4/27/13)

“Four Metanarratives of the Christian Past,” University of Durham, Durham, England (3/22/13)

“The Three Elements of Belief,” University of Durham, Durham, England (3/21/13)

“So … Is Benedict XVI Infallible for Life?: The Scope of Papal Authority in the Roman Catholic Church,” for the “Between Popes” Symposium, Saint Louis University (3/6/13)

“David Kolb’s Experiential Learning Cycle,” Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning, Saint Louis University (2/26/13; 3/1/13)

“Reflections on an Academic and Spiritual Journey,” Houghton College, Houghton, NY (11/9/12)

“Coming to Terms with the Past: How our Understanding of the Christian Past Shapes Our Future,” Center for the Study of Religion, Culture and Ethics, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA (11/7/12)

“Saint Louis University Prison Program: Living the Jesuit Mission,” Center for the Study of Religion, Culture and Ethics, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA (11/7/12)

“Johann Adam Möhler’s Influence on Newman’s Theory of Doctrinal Development: The Case for a Reappraisal,” Saint Louis Catholic Theologians Group, Fontbonne University (9/6/12)

“Coming to Terms with the Past: The Role of History in the Spirituality of John Henry Newman,” Catholic Theological Society of America, Saint Louis (6/7/12-6/10/12)

“Prison Higher Education at Saint Louis University,” Prison Ministries Conference, Boston College, Boston, MA (4/27/12-4/29/12)

“‘A perpetual doctrine tested by a perpetual rule needs a perpetual Judge’: Papal Authority and the Infallibility Debates of Nineteenth-Century Roman Catholicism,” plenary lecture at “The Divine Courtroom” Conference, Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, New York, NY (3-6 February 2012)

Missouri Reentry Conference, "The Saint Louis University Prison Program: The Associate of Arts Degree at the Bonne Terre Prison Campus," Missouri Department of Corrections, Osage Beach, MO. (17 November 2011)

Transformative Education Behind Bars, "The Mission-Driven Character of the SLU Prison Program," University of Washington, Seattle, WA (5 November 2011)

Society for the Study of Cardinal Newman, "Newman, Development, and Historical Consciousness," American Catholic Philosophical Association, Saint Louis, MO (28 October 2011)

Greenville College Faculty and Administration Forum, "Undergraduate Education in Prisons and the Mission of Christian Colleges and Universities," Greenville College, Greenville, IL (19 September 2011)

Greenville College Student Assembly, "The Three Elements of Faith," Greenville College, Greenville, IL. (19 September 2011)

Ecclesiastical History Society Conference, “Re-visioning the Past and Re-sourcing the Future: The Unresolved Historiographical Struggle in Roman Catholic Scholarship and Authoritative Teaching,” Ecclesiastical History Society, Christ Church, University of Oxford, Oxford. (19 August 2011)

“Viktor Frankl and Man’s Search for Meaning,” Education Justice Project (Danville Correctional Facility), University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL (April 2011).

“Early Nineteenth-Century Irish Catholicism, Papal Authority, and the Kenrick Brothers,” University of Kent, Canterbury, UK (March 2011)

“The Saint Louis University College-in-Prison Program: The Story of a Department of Corrections/Community Partnership,” The Missouri Re-Entry Conference, Lake of the Ozarks, MO (November 2010)

“Archbishop Peter Kenrick and Collective Forgetfulness: Why a Leader at the First Vatican Council faded from Local Memory,” Conference on Collective Memory in St. Louis: Recollection, Forgetting and the Common Good, Fontbonne University (22 October 2010)

“The Prison Initiative of Saint Louis University,” National Symposium on Higher Education in Prisons, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL (9 October 2010)

“‘Cor ad Cor Loquitur [Heart Speaks to Heart]’”: Address given at the Academic Convocation Celebrating the Beatification of John Henry Cardinal Newman, Saint Louis University (4 October 2010)

“The Saint Louis University College-in-Prison Program,” event sponsored by Saint Louis University (September 2010)

“The Lion of Saint Louis at the Vatican: Archbishop Peter Kenrick and his Rome at the First Vatican Council,” Missouri History Museum (June 2010)

“Last Lecture: The Three Elements of Life,” Saint Louis University (April 2010)

“John Henry Newman and the Oriel College Library: A New Lens on the Life and Work of an Oriel Fellow,” Oriel College, Oxford (March 2010)

“Historical Consciousness and the First Vatican Council: Manning, Döllinger, Newman, and Acton’s Uses of ‘History’ in the Papal Infallibility Debates,” Meeting of the Catholic Theologians of Saint Louis (September 2009)

Graduation Address: “Who Are You?” Bonne Terre Prison, Bonne Terre, MO (August 2009)

Plenary Address: “Promoting College-in-Prison Programs,” National Convocation of Jail and Prison Ministers, Baton Rouge, Louisiana (May 2009)

“Peter Kenrick and Apostolicae Curae,” American Society of Church History, Montreal (April 2009)

“The Aftermath of the Enlightenment and the Counter-Enlightenment in the Ultramontane Phase of Ignaz von Döllinger,” American Catholic Historical Association, New York (January 2009)

“Peter Kenrick and the First Vatican Council: A Gallican Archbishop’s Last Stand,” Meeting of the Catholic Theologians of Saint Louis (November 2008)

“Ignaz von Döllinger and the Discipline of History,” American Academy of Religion, Chicago (November 2008)

“John Henry Newman and Ignaz von Döllinger on the Development of Doctrine,” Annual National Meeting of the Venerable John Henry Newman Association, University of Dallas, Irving, TX (August 2008)

“Pluralism and Tradition: Honoring the Work of William Shea,” chaired colloquium at College Theology Society Meeting, Newport, RI (May 2008)

“A Question of Sacrifice: The Edwardine Ordinal, Peter Kenrick, and the Validity of Anglican Orders,” The Reformation Studies Colloquium, University of York, York, England (April 2008)

“Henry Manning and Neo-Ultramontanism: The Life Context for an Oxford Movement Convert’s Faith in Papal Infallibility,” presented at the American Catholic Historical Association Meeting, along with three graduate students on the same panel. Milwaukee (March 2007)

“The Four Historiographies of Christian Theology,” Conference on Faith and History, Shawnee, Oklahoma (September 2006)

“Henry Cardinal Manning, Lord John Acton and John Cardinal Newman’s Uses of History in the Controversy over Papal Infallibility during the 1860s and 1870s,” for the Working Group on the Rise of Historical Consciousness in 19th Century Theology, at the American Academy of Religion, Atlanta (November 2003) “Newman’s Use of History,” plenary address, National Newman Conference, Rensselaer, Indiana (July 1998)

“Richard Greenham and Puritan Identity: A Case Study,” Reformation Studies Colloquium, Oxford (March 1998)

Respondent to three papers at the Sixteenth Century Conference, Atlanta (October 1997)

“From Unchanging Truth to the Development of Doctrine: The Impact of Historical Studies on the Anglican Theology of John Henry Newman,” Featured Lecture at the Annual General Meeting of the Church of England Record Society, Lambeth Palace, London, England (July 1996)

“Outcomes-Based Education: Political Weapon, Educational Fad, or Pedagogical Opportunity?”, Academic Teaching and Study of Religion Section, American Academy of Religion, Philadelphia (November 1995)

“Response” to “The Politics of Moral Education: Alfred Loisy’s Modernism in Context”, by Harvey Hill, Roman Catholic Modernism Seminar, American Academy of Religion, Philadelphia (November 1995)

“The Conversion of John Henry Newman: A Life in Context”, Theology Lecture Series, Newman Center, Washington University, Saint Louis (October 1995)

“John Henry Newman’s Shifting View of History: A Key to his Conversion,” plenary address, Oxford International Newman Conference: Newman and Conversion, Oxford (August 1995)

“John Henry Newman’s Estrangement from the Church of England: The Role of Alienation in his Conversion to Roman Catholicism,” The British History Association, Champaign-Urbana (February 1995)

“Rethinking the Place of Theology in a Humanities Curriculum”, Theology/Religious Studies Conference of the American Jesuit Colleges and Universities, Chicago (November 1994)

“The Call to Sanctification: Reflection on the Journey of a Methodist/Benedictine Pilgrim,” World Ecumenical Conference: Sanctification in the Benedictine and Methodist Traditions, Rocca di Papa, Italy (July 1994)

“Beyond the Appearances: Positivism and Catholicism in Zola's Lourdes - A Response,” Roman Catholic Modernism Group, American Academy of Religion, Washington (November 1993)

“John Henry Newman and the Caroline Divines: The Importance of the Mundane in Historical Research,” Manuscripta Conference, Saint Louis (October 1993)

“Christ the Teacher: Toward a Spirituality of Education,” Address to the Faculty of Nazarene Theological Seminary, Kansas City, Missouri (October 1993)

“John Henry Newman's Estrangement from the Church of England: An Experimental Historiography of the Anglican Years,” Catholic Theological Society of America, San Antonio (June 1993)

“Are We Answering Questions Students have not Asked?”, Workshop for High School Teachers of Religion, Saint Louis (November 1992)

“John Henry Newman as Academic Reformer: A Study of His Early Educational Ideals,” History of Christianity Conference, University of Notre Dame, South Bend (March 1992)

“John Henry Newman and the Educational Reforms of Oriel College,” Distinguished Faculty Lecture, Phi Kappa Phi Society, Westmont College, Santa Barbara (March 1992)

“Anatomy of a Conversion: John Henry Newman and His Search for the Via Media,” AAR/SBL Meeting, History of Christianity Section, Kansas City (November 1991)

“Early Influences on the Theological Development of John Henry Newman,” Journée Newman, Institut d'Etudes Oecuméniques, Université de Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland, December 1990; also presented to Departments of History and Religion, Westmont College, Santa Barbara, California (March 1991)

“Newman and the Caroline Divines: Observations on Newman's ‘Paper Religion,’ the Via Media,” Newman Centenary Conference, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis (November 1990)

“Thomas Rogers and English Sabbatarianism: The Case for a Reappraisal,” American Society of Church History, American Historical Association Meeting, San Francisco, December 1983. Also presented at the Local Reformation History Colloquium, Nottingham (March 1984)

“Sabbatarianism in the Tudor and Early Stuart Period,” Church History Seminar, Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge (January 1983)

“English Sabbatarianism: The Case for a Reappraisal,” Early Modern English History Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, London (November 1982)

“Sabbatarianism and Its Use in the Reformation of Manners,” Early Modern English History Seminar, Faculty of History, Cambridge (May 1982)

“The Uses of Sabbatarianism in the English Reformation of Manners,” The Local Reformation History Colloquium, Oxford (April 1982)

“The Sabbath in the Diocese of Ely: 1575-1600,” Commission Internationale d'Histoire Ecclésiastique Comparée, Third British Colloquium, Durham (September 1981)