- Associate Professor of Systematic Theology
Director of Academic Programs
Research Fellow, Lonergan Research Institute (Toronto) - darren.dias@utoronto.ca
- Alumni Hall 323
- 416.926.8552 ext: 68552
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- Education
B. A., MDiv, PhD
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- Teaching and Research Areas
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.”
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- Examples of titles of theses supervised:
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
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- Publications
“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.