Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology
Professor of Philosophy and Theology
Core Doctoral Faculty Member

At GTU since 1990

Dr. Theol., Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet, Munich, 1986

Phone: 510/883-7150
E-mail: rschenk@dspt.edu

Current Research and Teaching Interests

• Medieval Studies, especially around Thomas Aquinas, His Critics and Defenders
• Roman-Lutheran Dialogue
• Christian Theologies of Non-Christian Religions: Historical and Systematic
• 20th Century Continental Philosophy and Transcendental Theology
• Theological and Philosophical Anthropology

Selected Publications

• Officium signa temporum perscrutandi. New Encounters of Gospel and Culture in the Context of the New Evangelisation, in: Scrutinizing the Signs of the Times and Interpreting them in Light of the Gospel (Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium), Leuven, University Press & Peeters 2006.

• Zwischen "Projekt Weltethos" und "The Clash of Civilizations." Religioese Identitaet im Zeitalter der Globalisierung, in: A. Rauscher (ed.), Nationale und kulturelle Identität im Zeitalter der Globalisierung (Berlin, Duncker & Humblot 2006), 111-124.

• “Views of the Two Covenants in Medieval Theology,” in: Nova et Vetera (English) 4:4, 2006, 891-916.

• “And Jesus Wept. Notes Towards a Theology of Mourning,” in: Michael Dauphinais and Matthew Levering (ed.), Reading John with St. Thomas Aquinas. Theological Exegesis and Speculative Theology (Washington, D.C., Catholic University of America Press 2005), 212-237.

• “The Unsettled German Discussions of Justification: Abiding Differences and Ecumenical Blessings,” in: Dialog. A Journal of Theology (44:2, 2005), 153-164.

• Co-editor (with P. Koslowski), Ambivalenz – Ambiguitaet – Postmodernitaet. Begrenzt Eindeutiges Denken (Collegium Philosophicum Vol. 5) frommann-holzboog, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 2004.