Darren Dias

B. A., MDiv, PhD

I teach courses such as the Mystery of the Triune God; Creation, Fall, Grace and Glory; Research Methods; Theology of the Holy Spirit; Trinitarian Approaches to Religious Diversity.  My area of research is, generally speaking, in the intersection of Trinitarian theology and historical movements and realities.  Currently I am working of a SSHRC funded project with colleagues Gilles Routhier (Laval) and Michael Attridge (St Michael’s) entitled: “One Canada Two Catholicism: Divergent Evolutions in the Catholic Church in Quebec And Ontario, 1965-1985.”

Inculturation: A Conditio Sine Qua Non for Effective Evangelization in Cameroon

The Plural Self

A Core Pneumatology of Confirmation and Chrismation: Ritual Origins, Development, and Ecumenical Implications

Nature, Grace and Political Theologies

Purgatory and Penance: A study on the interpretations on the doctrine of Purgatory in the writings of Caesarius of Heisterbach, Etienne de Bourbon, and Catherine of Genoa

“Sanctifying Liberalism: The Canadian Dominican Province

1873-1960,” Archivum Fratum Praedicatorum, Nova Series

II (2017) 349-370.

The Promise of Renewal: Dominicans and Vatican II eds. M. Attridge, D. Dias, M. Eaton, N. Olkovich (Adelaide: ATF Theology, 2017).

[Co-authored with M. Attridge] “Can We Still Speak of a Psychological Analogy After Vatican II?,” in The Promise of Renewal: Dominicans and Vatican II eds. M. Attridge, D. Dias, M. Eaton, N. Olkovich (Adelaide: ATF Theology, 2017) 183-202.

“Fifty Years and Learning: Developments in the Roman Catholic Church’s Encounter with Religions,” Toronto Journal of Theology 32 (2016) 341-361.

“Each in Their Own Language: Dialogue in the New Pentecost,” Science et Esprit 68 (2016) 243-256.

“’A Prey to History’: Religious Life in Canada, 1959-1988,” in Understanding the Consecrated Life in Canada: Critical Essays on Contemporary Trends, Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier Press, 2015, 269-288.

“Embracing Absence : A Trinitarian Spirituality of Consecrated Celibacy, ” CRC Bulletin  12 (2015) 6-7.

“Peace and Religions in a Changing World: From Consensus to Difference,” in Lorenzo Milani’s Culture of Peace, Essays on Religion, Education and Democratic Life, new York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2014, 29-40.

“A Circuitous Route: Implementing Nostra Aetate in Canada,” in Theologia semper iuvenescit ed. Michael Quisinsky, Karim Schelkens, Francois-Xavier Amherdt.  Fribourg: Academic Press Fribourg, 2013, 125-152.