The Author takes pride in being and having wierd and wonderful combinations. His list was extended this week when he the received happy news that Dr. Tracey Rowland, Dean of the John Paul Institute for Marriage and Family in Melbourne, will supervise the Author's project on the evolution of Catholic Ecclesiology, Theology and Peacemaking Practice, alongside the School of Political Science and International Studies of the University of Queensland.Dr. Rowland has enjoyed an illustrious academic career, first as a political philosopher, and now as a theologian. Combining these streams in her book Culture and the Thomist Tradition: After Vatican II, Dr. Rowland is now THE Australian exponent of the Radical Orthodoxy movement, which as the previous wonderpost intimated, bears great potential in engaging in social inquiry on the Church's own terms (that is, without having to apologise for our faith). Through Dr. Rowland, the Church would be able, at least academically, be able to take theology out of its epistemological cocoon and counter the narratives of the (post?)modern world which, as the founder of the NeoCathecumenal Way, Kiko Arguello remarked, threatens to take ever more strident steps towards apostasy.
We are fortunate to have academics like Dr. Rowland in our midst to lead this intellectual charge.
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