ADMINISTRATION AND FACULTY

Associate Professor Tracey Rowland

BA LLB (QLD), B LITT, MA, GRAD DIP MOD LANG (MELB), PHD (CANTAB), STL (Lateran), Continental Theology; Political Philosophy

CURRENT POSITION:
Dean and Permanent Fellow of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family (Melbourne).
Member, Centre for Theology and Philosophy, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom.
Member, Editorial Board, Communio:International Catholic Review, North America Edition.

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.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

I. Books:
Ratzinger’s Faith: the Theology of Pope Benedict XVI, Oxford University Press, 2008.

La fe de Ratzinger. La teologia del Papa Benedicto XVI (Granada, Editorial Nuevo Inicio: 2009), (Traduccion de Sebastian Montiel).

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.

Reviewed in:

• The Thomist, January 2004, Theology Jan/Feb;
• Blackwell’s Reviews in Religion and Theology February Vol. II (I), 2004;
• First Things, May 2004;
• The New Pentagruel 1 (2), 2004;
• Review of Politics, Vol.67, Winter 2005;
• Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly, 28(1) Spring 2005;
• Modern Theology, January, 2006

Subject of Symposia:

• Nova et Vetera (international journal based at the Ave Maria University, Florida, USA) Symposium, February, 2005;
• International Institute for Culture, Philadelphia, USA, February 20, 2004;
• Ethics and Culture Forum of the University of Notre Dame Indiana, USA, September 3, 2004;
• Lumen Christi Institute Colloquium, University of Chicago, USA, February 11, 2005;
• Jacques Maritain Association Conference, 13-15 October 2005, Washington DC.

II. Articles:

• '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.
• 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.
• ‘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.

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Theological anthropology, the development of a theology of culture, and the theology of Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI.

COURSE INVOLVEMENT AT THE INSTITUTE:

• JP 500/600 The Human Person (2001/3/4/5/6)
• JP 520/620 Nature and Method in Theology (2002/3/4/5)
• JP 522/622 Marriage in the Catholic Tradition (2001/3/4)
• JP 527/627 Vatican II and John Paul II (2002/3/4/5)
• JP 528/628 The New Evangelisation in Post-Modern Culture (2002 Melbourne & Sydney/3/4/6)
• JP 523/623 The Theology of the Family as the Domestic Church (2002)
• JP2 503/603 St Thomas in the 21st Century (2004/5)
• JP 530/630 Themes in systematic Theology I & II (2003/4)
• JP 531/631 The Theology of Benedict XVI (2006)

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