Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley
Emeritus Professor of Historical and Systematic
Theology; Adjunct
Core Doctoral Faculty Member

At GTU since 1973

M.A. Philosophy, magna cum laude, St. Louis University, 1958
Ph.L. St. Louis University, 1958
Th.L. St. Louis University, 1965
Ph.D. Fordham University, 1970

Phone: 510/549-5047
E-mail: dongelpi@yahoo.com

Current Research and Teaching Interests

• Christology
• Ecclesiology
• Trinity
• Theology of the Human Person
• Sacraments

Selected Publications

• The Divine Mother: A Trinitarian Theology of the Holy Spirit (University Press of America, 1984).
• Committed Worship: A Sacramental Theology for Converting Christians (2 vols.; The Liturgical Press, 1993).
• Varieties of Transcendental Experience: A Study in Constructive Postmodernism (The Liturgical Press, 2000).
• The Firstborn of Many: A Christology for Converting Christians (3 vols.; Marquette University Press, 2001).
• The Gracing of Human Experience: Rethinking the Relation between Nature and Grace (Liturgical Press, 2001).
• Pierce and Theology: Essays in the Authentication of Doctrine (University Press of America, 2001).