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Dr. Richard Bernier

  • Assistant Professor, Theological Studies

Research areas: Christian Spirituality, Pastoral Theology, Philosophical Theology

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Biography

Education

PhD, Religious Studies, McGill University, 2014
MA, Theological Studies, Concordia University, 2004
MDiv, Pontifical Lateran University, 2002

Research and Teaching Areas

Systematic and Pastoral Theology, Christian Spirituality, Philosophical Theology, Christian Universalist Eschatologies (apokatastasis)

Teaching activities

THEO 201: Introduction to Theological Studies, Fall 2021, Summer 2022, Winter 2023

THEO 205: Introduction to Christian Spirituality, Winter 2022

THEO 236: Spirituality: Personal, Social and Religious Dimensions, Winter 2022, Fall 2022

THEO 322: History of Christianity: Reformation and Modernity, Winter 2023

THEO 331: The Christian Understanding of God, Fall 2021, Fall 2022

THEO 333: Jesus Christ in History and Faith, Winter 2022, Winter 2023

THEO 403: Ignatian Spirituality: Theory and Method, Fall 2016

THEO 651: Topics in Theology: Universalist Eschatologies Ancient and Modern, Summer 2022

THEO 653: Seminar in Contextual Theology, Fall 2021

PHIL 236: Environmental Ethics, Winter 2019

(McGill) CATH 200: Introduction to Catholicism, Fall 2017; Fall 2018; Fall 2019

(McGill) EDEC 261: Catholic Philosophy of Education, Fall 2009

(McGill) EDEC 360: Ethics and Religious Culture (Elementary), Winter 2008; Winter 2009

Research activities

Christian SpiritualityPastoral TheologyPhilosophical TheologyChristian Universalist eschatologies (apokatastasis)

Publications

Contributor (28 entries), Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, (4th edition, 2022)


LOGOS: Journal of Eastern Christian Studies (2019)Where is Everyone? Apokatastasis, Divine Charity, and Human Freedom

Canadian Parliamentary Review (2011)House of Commons Legislative Reports

AV Akademikerverlag (2008)The Existence of Mind

"Distinguer pour unir”, A study on nationalism and clericalism in the thought of Claude Ryan, appearing in the collection Ruptures et continuité de la société québécoise (Université de Montréal, 2005).

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