Employee Detail

Dr. Paul J. LaChance

Title: Associate Professor
Office Building: Annunciation Center
Floor: Upper Level
Room: 313
Phone: 973-290-4390
Email: plachance@cse.edu

Courses Taught

THEO 110 Hebrew (First) Testament
THEO 113 New (Second) Testament
THEO 221 Fundamental Moral Theology
THEO 235 Children of Abraham, Sarah and Hagar
THEO 320 Fundamentals of Christian Faith
THEO 609 Scriptural Theology
THEO 615 The Mystery of the Church
THEO 627 Catholic Moral Theology
PHIL 205 Survey in the History of Philosophy
PHIL 213 American Philosophy
MC 626 Ethical Issues in Human Services Leadership
Special Topics Course on Intelligence and Doctrine

Educational Background

PhD, Theology, Boston College
MA, Theology, Boston College
MA, Philosophy, Boston College
BA, Psychology, Merrimack College

Research Interests

Life and work of Fr. Bernard Lonergan, SJ
Patristics (early Christian philosophy and theology)
Topics related to the relationships among psychology and theology
Philosophical Psychology

Publications

“Reflections on Integration”, The Lonergan Review.(Seton Hall University) Forthcoming.
“Transcendental Prediction in Boethius’ Signification Theory: The Hebdomadibus in the context of the Perihermeneias commentaries” in Medieval Philosophy and Theology from the Fathers to the Reformation: A Tribute to Stephen F. Brown. E.J. Brill, 2011.
“Eclipse of God: Voegelin and Lonergan on Constitutive Meaning", Annals of Spiru Hare University. Sociology-Psychology Series 5 (Bucharest, 2010): p. 115-121 & Symposium 16(1) 2009: p. 69-79
“Value, Active Meaning and the Method of Praxis: Soundings in Lonergan’s Thought” in Theology, Philosophy, and History: Essays in Honor of Robert Doran, Marquette University Press, 2009
“Theology as Praxis in Augustine’s Confessions: A Community Founded on the Humanity of Christ”, Lonergan Workshop Journal, vol. 20 (2008).
“The Christian Aeneid: Augustine’s Critique of Pagan Education in the Confessions” in Augustine and World Religions, Lexington Books, 2008.
“Christ Our Salvation: An Intersection of Christology and Soteriology”, Josephinum Journal of Theology, 12 (1) Winter/Spring, 2005
“Boethius on Human Freedom”, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, 78 (2) Spring, 2004

Dissertation

Theology in Boethius

Bernard Lonergan Research Centers

Boston College (http://bclonergan.org/)
Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles (http://www2.lmu.edu/lonergan/)
Marquette University (http://www.bernardlonergan.com/)
Regis College, University of Toronto (http://www.lonergan-lri.ca/greeting)
Saint Anselm Abbey, Washington, D.C. (http://lonergan.org/)
Seton Hall University (http://www.shu.edu/catholic-mission/lonergan/)

Boethius Links

Psychology and Theology