Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley
Professor of Historical Theology and Spirituality

At GTU since 1977

Ph.D., Univ. of St. Michael's College, Toronto, 1977
M.A., Univ. of St. Michael's College, Toronto, 1972
S.T.L., Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley, 1981
M.Div., University of Detroit, 1971
B.A., College of Mount St. Joseph, 1961

Phone: 510/549-5027
E-mail: mdonovan@jstb.edu

Current Research and Teaching Interests

• History of Early Church; Early Christian Women; Irenaeus
• Culture, Church and Change to 850
• Patristic and Medieval Spirituality
• Feminist questions, especially regarding the theology of the human person
• Trinity
• Ecumenism

Selected Publications

• One Right Reading? A Guide to Irenaeus (Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 1997).