Professor Tracey Rowland BA (Hons), LLB (Qld), B Litt, MA, Grad Dip Mod Lang (Melb), PhD (Cantab), STL (Lateran), Dip Ed St FCollT (London), ODM (Poland),
Continental Theology; Political Philosophy Dean
Email: trowland@jp2institute.org
CURRENT POSITION:
- Dean and Permanent Fellow of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family (Melbourne).
- Adjunct Professor, Centre for Faith Ethics and Society, University of Notre Dame, Sydney.
- Honorary Fellow, Campion College, Sydney.
- Fellow, Center for Scriptural Exegesis, Philosophy and Doctrine, University of Dayton, Ohio.
- Member, Centre for Theology and Philosophy, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom.
- Member, Editorial Board, Communio:International Catholic Review, North America Edition.
- Member, Editorial Board, Radical Orthodoxy: A Journal of Theology, Philosophy and Politics.
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor of Arts (Honours), Department of Government, University of Queensland, 1985.
- Bachelor of Laws, University of Queensland, 1989.
- Bachelor of Letters, Department of Philosophy, Melbourne University, 1992.
- Master of Arts, Melbourne University, 1992.
- Graduate Diploma in Modern Languages (German), University of Melbourne, 1993.
- Zertifikate Deutsch als Fremdsprache, Goethe Institute, Melbourne, 1993.
- Doctor of Philosophy, Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge University, 2002.
- Licentiate in Sacred Theology, Pontifical Lateran University, Rome 2007.
- Diploma of Educational Studies, University of London, 2010.
CIVIL HONOURS:
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
I. Books:
Sale la Guía para perplejos sobre el pensamiento de Joseph Ratzinger (Granada: Editorial Enicio, 2011).
Benedict XVI: A Guide for the Perplexed (London: T & T Clark, 2010).
Zmysł Wiary: Wizja teologiczna Benedykta XVI (Warsaw: Wam, 2010).
La fe de Ratzinger. La teologia del Papa Benedicto XVI (Granada, Editorial Nuevo Inicio: 2009), (Traduccion de Sebastian Montiel).
Ratzinger’s Faith: the Theology of Pope Benedict XVI (Oxford University Press, 2008).
Culture and the Thomist Tradition after Vatican II (London: Routledge, 2003). To be translated into French by Ad Solem Publishing House as Gaudium et spes et modernite: Apres Vatican II, forthcoming.
II. Articles:
- 'Generation and the sacramental vision of love', Anthropotes 28 (2012): 47-55
- 'La Mediazione della Tradizione All'Interno Della Famiglia', in Livio Melina and Jose Granados (eds); Famiglia e nuova evangelizzazione: la chiave dell'annuncio (Siena: Cantagalu, 2012).
- 'The Wars of Love: A Review of Fergus Kerr's Twentieth Century Catholic Theologians', Josephinum Journal of Theology, Vol.18 (1) (2011): 1-8
- 'Globalisation, Postmodern Theories of Culture and the Trinity’, Oxford Handbook on the Trinity (Oxford University Press, 2011).
- 'Theology and Culture' in Being Holy in the World: Theology and Culture in the Thought of David L Schindler, edited by Nicholas J Healy and D.C. Schindler (Grand Rapids: Eerdmanns, 2011).
- 'The Contribution of the Polish Intelligentsia to the Breakthrough of 1989', Humanities Research, Australian National University, Vol. XVI (3), 2010.
- 'An Earthly Reflection of the Trinity' London Catholic Herald Christmastide Supplement, December 24, 2010.
- ‘Review of Aquinas, Ethics and Philosophy of Religion: Metaphysics and Practice by Thomas Hibbs’, Nova et Vetera 7:1 (2009): 284-289.
- ‘Response to Minlib Dallh’, Conversations in Religion and Theology 7: 2 (2009): 178-183.
- ‘Niedokończona budowla’ in Tygodnik Powszechny, Nr. 14 (3117) 5 Kwietnia 2009.
- 'Augustinian and Thomist Engagements with the World', American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 83(3), 2009.
- ‘Lady Margaret Beaufort’ in English Catholic Heroines, Joanna Bogle (ed), (Leominster: Gracewing, 2009).
- 'A Catholic Appropriation of Romantic Themes' in How Hans Urs von Balthasar Changed My Mind, Chapp, L and Howsare, R (eds); Herder and Herder, 2008.
- ‘Una Fragile Icona: L’Amore Tra Uoma e Donna’, in Il logos dell’ agape: Amore e ragione come principi dell’agire, a cura di Juan José Pérez-Soba e Luis Granados, (Cantagalli: Roma, 2008)
- ‘Variations on the Theme of Christian Hope in the work of Joseph Ratzinger – Benedict XVI’, Communio: International Catholic Review 35 (Summer, 2008): 200-220
- ‘Natural Law: From Neo-Thomism to Nuptial Mysticism’, Communio: International Catholic Review 35 (Fall, 2008): 374-396.
- 'Reflections on the Democratisation of Intimacy and the Construction of the Self, Anthropotes XXIII/2007/2
- 'John Paul II and Human Dignity', in John Paul II: Legacy and Witness, Gascoigne, R(ed) (St. Pauls: Sydney, 2007)
- Entry on Charles Journet and Yves Simon in Thomistenlexikon, Berger, D et. al. (ed), (Bonn: Nova et Vetera, 2006)
- 'Response to Burrell, Cessario, Chapp, Lamb and Murphy'
Nova et Vetera, Spring, 2005
- 'Thomism without Caricatures', Oriens, Summer, 2004, 18-19.
- 'Divine Gifts to the Secular Desert', Reviews in Religion and Theology, Vol. II (2), April 2004, 182-187.
- 'The Authority of 'Experts' and the Ethos of Modern Institutions,' Communio: International Catholic Review (Winter, 2002).
- 'The Liberal Doctrine of State Neutrality: A Taxonomy,' University of Notre Dame Law Review 2 (December, 2000): 53-66.
- 'Reflections of a Romantic Thomist: Alasdair MacIntyre's Interview with Dmitri Nikulin' Political Theory Newsletter, 9, 1 (March, 1998): 47-55.
- The Jurisprudence and a substantial component of the Administrative Law entries, in the Australian Legal Dictionary (Sydney: Butterworths, 1997).
- 'Contemporary Central European Reflections on Civic Virtue,' History of European Ideas 21 (4, 1995): 505-513.
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Theological anthropology, the development of a theology of culture, and the theology of Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI.
SUBJECTS TAUGHT AT THE INSTITUTE:
- JP 528/628 The New Evangelisation in Post-Modern Culture
- JP 571/671 Catholic Social Teaching
- JP 506/606 The Nuptial Mystery in Contemporary Theological Anthropology
- JP 572/672 Redeeming Beauty: Principles of Sacral Aesthetics
- JP 503/603 Contemporary Thomisms
- JP 504/604 The Theology of Benedict XVI
- JP 520/620 Nature and Method in Theology