Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley
Professor of Modern Christian History
Core Doctoral Faculty Member

At GTU since 1996

Ph.D. Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, 1973
M. Div., Boston College (Weston School of Theology), 1970
M.A. Loyola University of Los Angeles, 1969
Ph.L., St. Michael's Institute of Philosophy and Science, Spokane, WA, 1964
A.B. Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA, 1963

Phone: 510/549-5034
E-mail: TBuckley@JSTB.edu

Current Research and Teaching Interests

• U.S. Church-State Relations
• American Religious History
• The English Reformation
• American Catholics and Vatican II
• Modern Christianity

Selected Publications

• “The Religious Rhetoric of Thomas Jefferson,” in Daniel L. Dreisbach, Mark David Hall, and Jeffrey H. Morrison, eds. The Founders on God and Government, Latham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004. Pp. 53-82.
• "The Use and Abuse of Jefferson's Statute: Separating Church and State in Nineteenth Century Virginia," in James H. Hutson, ed. Religion and the Founding of the Republic. (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000), pp. 41-64.
• "After Disestablishment: Thomas Jefferson's Wall of Separation in Antebellum Virginia," Journal of Southern History, 61 (1995): 445-800.
• The Great Catastrophe of My Life: Divorce in the Old Dominion. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.
• "If You Love That Lady Don't Marry Her": The Courtship Letters of Sally McDowell and John Miller, 1854-1856. Edited with an introduction. (Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri Press, 2000).
• Church and State in Revolutionary Virginia, 1776-1787. Charlottesville, Va., University Press of Virginia, 1977.