An Interdisciplinary Pedagogical Model for Catholic Studies: Rooted in Vatican II, Growing Through the 21st Century

Ines Angeli Murzaku is Professor of Religion at Seton Hall University in New Jersey, Director of Catholic Studies Program and the Founding Chair of the Department of Catholic Studies at Seton Hall University, United States of America. She earned an S.E.O.L. as well as a research doctorate from the Pontifical Oriental Institute, Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, and has held visiting positions at the Universities of Bologna and Calabria in Italy and University of Münster in Germany. She has won grants including the Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Grant (SSHRC); and is a five times Fulbright Senior Research Scholar. She has published extensively in scholarly outlets, contributing to numerous articles and at least eight books. She is presently working on a book entitled Mother Teresa’s Revolutionary Theology: Tenderness, Prayer, Suffering, Poverty, Service and Hope, under contract with Routledge.

Joseph P. Rice is Associate Professor of Philosophical Theology at Seton Hall University, United States of America. He earned his Ph.D. with distinction from the School of Philosophy at The Catholic University of America and holds degrees from the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum (Rome), and the University of Notre Dame (Australia). His primary interests lie in investigating the philosophical thought of Karol Wojtyła, human ecology, marriage and family ethics, and the ethics of globalization. He has held research fellowships from Princeton Theological Seminary, Seton Hall University, the Catholic University of Lublin (Poland), the Kosciuszko Foundation, the Dr. Robert R. Banville Foundation, and the Earhart Foundation, and has served on the editorial staff of The Review of Metaphysics.