| College: | University of St. Michael's College, Faculty of Theology |
| Degrees: | PhD (St. Michael's) |
| Email: | darren.dias@utoronto.ca |
| Phone: | 416-926-1300 ext 3395 |
| Teaching Category: |
Regular Tenure Stream
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| Appointment Status: |
Basic Degree
GCTS Full
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| Research Interests: |
Systematic / Philosophical / Contextual Theology
History / Historiography / Methodology
Ecumenism / World Christianity / Comparative / Interfaith
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Bio
I serve as the Executive Director of the Toronto School of Theology and I have been on the faculty of the University of St. Michael’s College since 2008. I completed my doctoral dissertation under the supervision of Robert M. Doran on the contributions of Bernard Lonergan’s Trinitarian Theology to an understanding of religious diversity. My current areas of interest include post-colonial and liberation approaches to theology. This includes Christian relations with other religions. I also have an interest in method and hermeneutics.
In collaboration with colleagues, I’ve been awarded several research grants, for example, Social Sciences and Research Council of Canada, Knowledge Grants (2017, 2023), Templeton Foundation (2022), American Academy of Religion Collaborative International Research Grant (2020).
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Specializations
- Trinitarian Theology
- Pnuematology
- Post-colonial Theology
- Interfaith relations/dialogues
- Trinitarian Theology
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Publications
- “Colonizing Salvation,” Toronto Journal of Theology 40/1 (2024) 84-97.
- “Settling and Unsettling Theology,” Concilium 5 (2023) 77-87.
- “Hard Sayings: New Questions for a Pilgrim Church,” in Stumbling Blocks for Ecumenism, Interfaith Dialogue, and World-Church. Relations, ed. Peter De Mey and Judith Gruber. New York: Palgrave McMillan, 2023, 139-151.
- “Lonergan and Freire: An Initial Conversation,” in Freire and Illich Fifty Years Later, ed. M. Attridge, R. Bruno-Joffre, et al. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2023.
- “Paulo Freire and Pope Francis on Dialogue: An Anticolonial Interpretation,” Espacio, Tiempo y Educion 9/1 (2022) 83-98.
- “Trinity, Elemental Meaning and Psychic Conversion: A Pastoral Consideration,” in Intellect Affect and God. The Trinity, History and the Life of God, ed. Joseph Ogbannaya and Gerard Whelen. Ashland: Baker and Taylor, 2021.
- “The Pedagogy of Migration: The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto’s response to Migration 1934-1963,” in Global In-difference: The Church and Migration, ed. Darren Dias, Michael Attridge, Jerry Skira, Gerard Mannion, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, 369-392.
- “Shaping Curriculum: Interreligious Education at the Toronto School of Theology,” Toronto Journal of Theology 37 (2021) 23-42.
- “Interreligious Dialogue as Language Negotiation,” Religious Studies and Theology 39 (2020) 210-224.
- “Pierre Claverie: Holiness in a World Church,” in Changing the Church, ed. Mark Chapman and Vladimir Latinovic. NewYork: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, 155-165.
- “A Province of Their Own: Dominique-Ceslas Gonthier and the First Canadian Dominican Communities,” Itinerantes, Revista de Historia y Religion 12 (2020) 11-30.