Associate Professor
Theology Department (Systematic Theology)
De Lubac Chair (2025-2028)
Joseph Ogbonnaya (Ph.D., University of St. Michael鈥檚 College, Toronto, 2011), specializes in Lonergan鈥檚 philosophy and Theology, World Christianity, and Theology and Development. His current research interest is in Theology, Modernity and Postmodernity, African philosophy and Theology, constructing theology for World Christianity. He is the author of Under the Shade Tree: Reading the Bible in Africa (2025); African Perspectives on Culture and World Christianity (2017); African Catholicism and Hermeneutics of Culture (2014); Lonergan, Social Transformation and Sustainable Human Development (2013); Moral Integrity and Igbo Cultural Values (2011), Deepening the Christian Faith (2011). He is the editor of Perspectives on Psychic Conversion (2024) and Robert M. Doran鈥檚 The Trinity in History: A Theology of the Divine Missions: Redeeming History 3 (2022). He is the co-editor of the forthcoming Globalization and the New World Order (2025) and Ethical Challenges of Globalization (2026). He equally co-edited Conscious in Two Ways: Robert M. Doran Remembers (2021), Intellect, Affect, and God: The Trinity, History, and the Life of Grace (2021), Everything is Connected: Towards a Globalization with a Human Face and Integral Ecology (2019), Christianity and Culture Collision (2016) and The Church as Salt and Light (2011).His articles have appeared in Bulletin of Ecumenical Theology, Association of Catholic Universities and Higher Institutes of Africa and Madagascar [ACUHIAM Journal], International Journal of African Catholicism, Irish Theological Quarterly, Toronto Journal of Theology, The Ecumenist: A Journal of Theology, Culture, and Society, HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, Australian EJournal of Theology, Journal of Inculturation Theology. He has chapters in many edited books.
Courses Taught
- Lonergan鈥檚 Philosophy and Theology
- World Christianity
- Theology and Development
Additional Information
Office Hours - Spring 2025
- Tu 12:30-1:30
- Th 9:30-10:30
- Or by appointment via email