Curriculum Vitae

 

Kilian McDonnell, osb

Saint John's Abbey

Collegeville, Minnesota 56321

E-Mail KMcDonnell@csbsju.edu

FAX 320 363 2504

 

Born 16 September 1921, Great Falls, Montana

 

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

 

1940 Completed public high school, Velva, North Dakota

1947 B.A., Saint John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota.

1948 Graduate study in liturgy, University of Notre Dame.

1949 Graduate study in library science, Catholic University of America, Washington D.C.

1960 Licentiate in Theology, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

1960-1964 A year or a semester or year at the following university faculties: Trier, Tübingen, Münster, Heidelberg. Did research in ecumenical institutes or universities in Paderborn, Geneva, Paris, Oxford, Edinburgh.

1964 STD Magna cum Laude from the Theological Faculty at Trier, Germany.

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

Three years of parish work, Hastings, Minnesota: 1951-1954; One year of parish work, Detroit Lakes, Minnesota: 1955 Founder of the Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research, 1967-1973.

Executive Director of the Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research, 1967-1973.

President of the Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research,1973-

Professor of Theology in the Seminary and Graduate School of Theology 1964-1992.

 

PRESENT POSITIONS

 

President of Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research 1973- Professor Emeritus of Theology, Graduate School, St. John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota. 1992-

Consultor of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, 1987-        

 

AWARDS

 

1983 Papal award for ecumenism: Pro Pontifice et Eccelesia,

1984 University award for work in ecumenism: Pax Christi, St. John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota.

1993 John Courtney Murray Award for Distinguished Contributions to Church and Theology given by the Catholic Theological Society of America.

1999  Honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters, Loyola University, Chicago.

2001 James Fitzgerald Award for Ecumenism, National Association of Diocesan Officers.

EDITORIAL

 

Associate Editor: One In Christ, ecumenical quarterly published in England.

Scripture editor of Worship - three years.

Editor of Sponsa Regis - four years.

Columnist in Sign magazine - seven years.

 

ECUMENICAL ACTIVITIES                                                                                      

                                                                                                                                                 

National:

 

Secretary of national Presbyterian-Roman Catholic Consultation 1967--?

 

Member of national Lutheran-Roman Catholic Consultation. 1969--?

       Participant in national Southern Baptist-Roman Catholic Dialogue. 1968

 

Member of national Ecumenical Institute on Spirit Life. 1969-1972

 

Theological consultant to National Service Committee of Catholic Charismatic Renewal. 1968--

 

Consultant to American Catholic Bishops on Charismatic Renewal. 1973-

            (Note: these dates are approximations)

 

International:

 

Guest of World Council of Churches, 4th Assembly, Uppsala, Sweden, 1968.

 

Consultor and Participant, United Council (Presbyterian/Congregational Uniting Council) Nairobi, Kenya, 1970.

 

Participant, Faith and Order Conference on Ordination, Geneva, Switzerland, 1970.

 

Consultor, Methodist World Alliance - Roman Catholic Consultation, 1970.

 

Liaison between the Vatican and the Catholic Charismatic Renewal at international level, 1974-

 

Co-chair, World Alliance of Reformed Churches (Presbyterian- Congregationalist) and Roman Catholic Consultation, 1970-1973.

 

Co-chair, International Dialogue between Pentecostal Churches and Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, Rome, 1972-2001

 

Member, International Disciples - Roman Catholic Dialogue, 1973-2001.

 

Member, National Lutheran - Roman Catholic Dialogue, 1969-1992 (?)

 

 

 

BOOKS

 

Nothing But Christ, (Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 1954).

 

Chapter in Research in Religious Psychology: Speculative and Positive, (Brussels: Lumen Vitae Press, 1957).

 

Restless Christian, (New York: Sheed and Ward, 1958).

 

John Calvin, the Church and the Eucharist, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1967).

 

Chapter: “Holy Spirit and Pentecostalism,” God:  Father, Son and Holy Spirit, (New York: Sheed and Ward, 1969).

 

Theological and Pastoral Orientations on the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, (Ann Arbor, Word of Life, 1973). Principal author
            together with an international team. Translated into French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, Dutch.          

 

The Baptism in the Holy Spirit as an Ecumenical Problem, co-authored with A. Bittlinger, (Ann Arbor: CRS, 1972).

 

The Holy Spirit and Power:  The Catholic Charismatic Renewal, (New York: Doubleday, 1975).

 

The Charismatic Renewal and the Churches, (New York: Seabury, 1976).

 

The Charismatic Renewal and Ecumenism, (New York: Paulist, 1978).

Presence, Power, Praise:  Documents on the Charismatic Renewal, 3 vols., Collegeville:Liturgical Press, 1980).

    

            (with George Montague) Christian Initiation and Baptism in the Holy Spirit: Evidence from the First Eight Centuries (Collegeville:
            Liturgical Press, 1991).   

 

            The Baptism of Jesus in the Jordan: The Trinitarian and Cosmic Order of Salvation (Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 1996).

 

            The Other Hand of God: The Holy Spirit Along the Trinitarian Highway (Collegeville: Liturgical Press,k 2003).

 

            Swift, Lord, You Are Not:  The Experience of the Word of God (Collegeville: St.John's Abbey and University Press
            [distributed by the Liturgical Press], 2003.

 

 

ARTICLE ON KILIAN MCDONNELL BY OTHER AUTHOR:

 

Brenkus, Josef, “Catholic Scholarship in a Pentecostal Context: The Significance of the Writings of Kilian McDonnell for Classical Pentecostalism,” Gregorianum 83/2 (2002) 335-361.

 

 

ARTICLES

 

“Lay Spirituality and Spiritual Reading,” Catholic World, 185 (1957), 118-123.

 

“Psychiatry and Pastoral Psychology,” Lumen Vitae, 12 (1957), 253-259.

 

 

“Art and the Sacramental Principle,” Liturgical Arts, 25 (1957), 92-93

.

 

“The Meaning of Tradition,” Worship, 32 (1958), 149-158.

 

“New Directions in Ecumenical Literature,” American Benedictine Review, 11 (1960), 132-153.

 

“Architecture and the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy,” Liturgical Arts, 34 (1965), 2-6ff.

             

             “Problems and Perspectives: an Epilogue,” Worship, 39 (1965), 660-669.

 

          

    “Free and Formal Prayer in Protestant England,” Worship, 40 (1966), 472-482.

 

“The Ecumenical Significances of the Pentecostal Movement,” Worship, 40 (1966), 608-629.

 

 

“Themes in Ecclesiology and Liturgy from Vatican II,” Worship, 41  (1967), 66-84.

 

 

 

“Psychiatrists in An Abbey,” America, 97 (1967), 545-547.

 

“The Constitution on the Liturgy as an Ecumenical Document,” Worship, 41 (1967), 486-497.

 

“The Ecclesiology of John Calvin and Vatican 11,” Religion and Life, (1967), 542-556.

 

“The Ideology of Pentecostal Conversion,” Journal of Ecumenical Studies, 5 (1968), 105-126.

 

“I Believe That I Might Experience,” Continuum, 5 (1968), 673-685.

 

“The Pentecostals and Drug Addiction,” America, 118 (1968), 402-406.

 

“Rome and Worship at Uppsala,” Worship, 42 (1968), 393-413.

 

“Holy Spirit and Pentecostalism,” Commonweal, 89 (1968), 198-204.

 

“Uppsala: Anthroplogy, Evangelism and Revolution,” Worship, 43 (1969), 24-45.

 

“Liturgy and the Perils of Experience,” America, 121 (1969), 93-95. Death and Cosmic Resurrection,” Priest, 25 (1969), 593-598. “Religious Life in Low Profile,” America, 123 (1970), 16-20.

 “The Concept of Church in the Documents of Vatican II as Applied to Protestant Denominations,”   Worship, 44 (1970), 332-349.

 

“A Catholic Looks at Evangelical Protestantism,” Commonweal, 92 (1970), 408-413.

 

“Ways of Validating Ministry,” Journal of Ecumenical Studies, 7 (1970), 209-265.

 

“Church Order and the Ontologizing Function of Liturgy,” Worship, 44 (1970), 528-540.

 

 

“Does Liturgy Call for the Church?” Catholic Theological Society of America Proceedings, 25 (1970), 174-187.

            “New Dimensions in Research on Pentecostalism,” Worship, 45 (1971), 214-219.

 

“Catholic Pentecostalism: Problems in Evaluation,” [reprint from Dialog, 9 (1970), 35-54] Theological Digest, 19 (1971), 46-51.

 

“Literature Available on Catholic Pentecostalism,” [reprint from Dialog, 9 (1970)] Theological Digest, 19 (1971), 53-54.

 

“Ecumenism: Who Cares?” Commonweal, 95 (1971), 55-59.

 

“Pentecostal Culture: Protestant and Catholic,” One In Christ, 7 (1971), 310-318.

 

“Catholic Charismatics,” Commonweal, 96 (1972), 207-211..

 

“Calvin's Conception of the Liturgy and the Future of the Roman Catholic Liturgy,” 2 (1969), 43-48; Spanish edition, 251-262;     Portuguese edition, 75-84; German edition, 112-117; French edition, 75-84: All are found in the respective editions of Concilium.

 

“Response to Jurgen Moltmann ‘s God Reconciles and Makes Free, Bulletin, 10 (1970), 6-7.

 

“Roman Catholicism and Calvin's Ecclesiological Transcedentalism,” The Reformed and Presbyterian World, 29
             (1966), pp. 150-162.

 

“Protestans es Katolikus Punkosdhivok,” Merleg, 8 (1972), 130-134.

 

“Catholiques charismatiques,” le Supplement, 102 (1972), 311-322.

 

“The Catholic Charismatic Movement: Reassessment and Critique,” Theology Today, 1973.

 

“Baptism: Pentecostal,” A Dictionary of Liturgy and Worship, J.G. Davies, ed., SCM Press, London, 1972.

 

“Prayer and Thomas Merton,” Commonweal, 98 (1973), 437-438.

 

“A Sociologist Looks at the Catholic Charismatic Renewal,” Worship, 49 (1975), 378-392.

 

 

“Prayer in the Ancient Western Tradition,” Worship, 55 (1981), 34-61.

 

 

“The Determinative Doctrine of the Holy Spirit,” Theology Today, 39 (1982), 142-161.

 

“Towards a Critique of the Churches and the Charismatic Renewal,” One In Christ, 16 (1980), 329-337.

 

“Anglicans and Catholics: Where We Stand,” America, 147 (1982), 326-330.

 

 

           “The Legacy of Luther: Bridging the Divide,” (London)Tablet, (1983), 1127-1128.

 

            “Lutherans and Catholics on Justification,” America, 149 (1983), 345-348.

 

 

             “US Bishops Challenged,” (London) Tablet (1983) 126-127.

 

Contributions to national Lutheran/Catholic dialogue publications:

 
“The Concept of ‘Church' in the Documents of Vatican II as Applied to Protestant Denominations,” Lutherans and Catholics in Dialogue, IV, Eucharist and Ministry, Bishops' Committee for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs, 1970, 307-324.

“Papal Primacy: Development, Centralization and Changing Styles” Papal Primacy and the Universal Church, Augsburg Publishing House, Minneapolis, 1974, 173-193.

 
“Infallibility as Charism at Vatican I,” Teaching Authority and Infallibility in the Church, Augsburg Publishing House, Minneapolis.

“In the Holy Spirit,” Christian Theology: A Case Method Approach ed. R.A.Evans, T.D.Parker (New York: Harper & Row, 1976) 171-177.

 

“Infallibility as Charism at Vatican I,” One in Christ 15 (1979) 21-39.

 

 

“A Trinitarian Theology of the Holy Spirit,” Theological Studies

46 (1985) 191-227.

 

“Vatican II (1962-1965), Puebla (1979), Synod (1985):

Koinonia\Communio as an Integral Ecclesiology,” Journal of Ecumenical Studies 25 (1988) 399-427.

 

“Catholic Charismatic Renewal and Classical Pentecostalism:

Growth and the Critique of a Systematic Suspicion,” One in Christ

23 (1987) 36-61. Delivered first as the Lowell Lectures at Boston

University, October 15, 16, 1986.

 

(with Catherine M.LaCugna), “Returning from ‘The Far Country':

Theses for a Contemporary Trinitarian Theology,” The Scottish

Journal of Theology 41 (1988) 191-215.

 

“Communion Ecclesiology and Baptism in the Holy Spirit: Teertul­han and the Early Church,” Theological Studies 49 (1988) 671-

693.

 

Open the Windows: The Popes and Charismatic Renewal (South Bend, Greenlawn Press, 1989).

 

(with George Montague) Christian Initiation and Baptism in the

Holy Spirit: Evidence from the First Eight Centuries (Col- legeville: Liturgical Press, 1991). Translated into French,

Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, with translations into German,

Czech, and Polish nearing completion.

 

“Fanning the Flame: What Does Baptism in the Holy Spirit Have to Do with Christian Initiation?” eds George Montague and Kihian

McDonnell (Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 1991). Translations in nineteen languages.

 

“The Pentecostal Dimension,” The Tablet vol. 246, no.7947, 28 November, 1992) 1500-1501,

 

“The Marian Liturgical Tradition,” The One Mediator, the Saints. and Mary: Lutherans and Catholics in Dialogue VIII,” eds.

H.George Anderson et al (Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1992) 177-191.

 

“Luther and Trent on Penance,” Luteran Ouarterly 7 (1993) 261-

276.

 

“Does Origen have a Trinitarian Doctrine of the Holy Spirit?” Gregorianum 75 (1994) 5-35.

 

“A Year Afterwards: The Vatican Response to ARCIC, a Slammed Door?” One in Christ 29 (1993) 113-117.

 

“The Baptism of Jesus in the Jordan and the Descent into Hell,” Worship 69 (1995) 98-109.

 

“Can Classical Pentecostals and Roman Catholics Engage in Common Witness?” Journal of Pentecostal Theology 7 (1995) 97-106.

 

“Improbable Conversations: The International Classical Pentecos­tal/Roman Catholic Dialogue,” Pneuma 17 (1995) 163-174. Also in One in Christ 31 (1995) 20-31.

 

“Five Defining Issues: The Interntional Classical Pentecos­tal/Roman Catholic Dialogue,” Pneuma 17 (1995) 175-188. Also in One in Christ 31 (1995) 110-121.

 

“The Death of Mythologies: The Classical Pentecostal/Roman Catholic Dialogue,” America 172 (March 25, 1995) 14-19.

 

The Summae Confessorum on the Integrity of Confession as Prolegomena for Luther and Trent,” Theological Studies 54 (1993)

405-426.

 

“Jesus' Baptism in the Jordan,” Theological Studies 56 (1995)

209-236.

 

“Le conversazioni improbabili: il dialogo internazionale pentecostale classico/cattolico-romano,” La Chiesa Cattolica Oggi nel Dialogo: Aggiornamento: 1988-1995 (Rome: Centro Pro Unione, 1995) 141-164.

 

(with Robert McDonnell) “For Thine is the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory... Neither Chaos nor Death: Charism and Institu­tion,” The Inteerfaith Sexual Trauma Institute Sun 2 (October 1996) 1-3.

 

 

 

The Baptism of Jesus in the Jordan: The Trinitarian and Cosmic Order of Salvation (Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 1996).

 

“Canon and Koinonia: The Formation of the Canon as an Ecclesiological Process,” submitted to Gregorianum, August, 1997.

 

“Spirit and Experience in Bernard of Clairvaux,” Theological Studies 58 (1997) 3-18.

 

“Dangerous Memory” (poem), The Interfaith Sexual Trauma Institute Sun 3 (July 1997) 2.

 

“A Catholic Response to Peter Hocken's Catholic Response,” Pneuma 19 (1997) 109-113.

 

“Canon and Koinonia/communio,” Gregorianum 79 (1998) 29-54.

 

“Theological Presuppositions in our Preaching About the Spirit,” Theological Studies 59 (1998) 219-235.

 

 

“After a Church Burning in Ecuador, Evangelicals and Catholics Reach an Accord,” Pneuma 20 (1998) 191-195.

 

“Does the Theology and Practice of the Early Church Confirm the Classical Pentecostal Understanding of Baptism in the Holy Spirit?”  Pneuma 21 (1999) 115-134.

 

(with Sister Mary Anthony Wagner,osb) “A Past Editor Interviews a Present Editor,” Sisters Today 72 (2000) 461-468.

 

“Truth and Fiction in Hitler's Pope,” Dialog 39 (2000) 284-290.

 

“Imperial Claims,” Christian Century (October 18, 2000)

 

“The Unique Mediator in a Unique Church: A Return to Pre-Vatican Theology?” The Ecumenical Review 52 (2000) 542-548.                    [Also in Ecumenical Trends 29, no.11 (December, 2000) 1-6.]

 

“The Pros and Cons of Dialogue with Roman Catholics,” Journal of Pentecostal Theology, issue 16 (2000) 90-101.

 

“Confession of Sins,”  The Spirit & Church (Korea) 2 (2000) 139-143. Also appeared in Pneuma and Journal of Pentecostal Theology.

 

“Confession of  Sins,” Pneuma 22 (2000) 23-24; “Confession of Sins,”  The Spirit & Church (Korea) 2 (2000) 139-143   “Belijdenis van Zonden,” Parakleet (Dutch)  20, no. 76 (2000) 6-7;  [ See also “Belijdenis van Zonden: Een Reactie,” P.B.Sleebos, B.Niehof, H.van den Born, Parakleet  21, no.77 (2001) 12-15.]  [It also appeared in Communicazioni Christiane, July (2000) (Italy); [ See also “Belijdenis van Zonden: Een Reactie,” P.B.Sleebos, B.Niehof, H.van den Born, Parakleet  21, no.77 (2001) 12-15.] [It also appeared in Journal of Pentecostal Theology (2000).

 

“What I have Learned,” Celebration 30, no. 7 (2001) 294-295.

 

 

“Our Dysfunctional Church,” The Tablet (8 September 2001) 1260-1261. Also appeared in One in Christ 37 (2002) 35-40.

 

“The Ratzinger/Kasper Debate: The Universal and the Local Churches,” Theological Studies 63 (2002) 1-24.

“Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust: Fear of Reprisals and Generic Diplomacy,” Gregorianum 83/2 (2002 313-334.

“Teacher of the Century: Godfrey Diekmann, osb 1908-2002,” Liturgy 17, no. 4 (2002)  25-28.

 

“Walter Kasper on the Theology and the Praxis of the Bishop's Office,” Theological Studies 63 (2002) 1-19.

 

“Pentecost in Relation to the Ontological and Temporal Priority of the Universal Church,” in Kirche in oekumenischer Perspektive Festschrift for Walter Cardinal Kasper, ed. Peter Walter, Klaus Kraemer, and George Augustin (Freiburg im Breisgau: Herder, 2003) 102-114.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Poems

 

“Dangerous Memory” The ISTI Sun (Newsletter of the Interfaith Sexual Trauma Institute) (July 1997) 2.

 

“From Monastery to Cemetery: St. Michele, Venice,” American Benedictine Review 49 (March 1998)

 

“The Death of My Mother” America (May 16. 1998).

 

“From Monastery to Cemetery: St.Michele. Venice” American Benedictine Review vol 49 (March) 1998.

 

“Lauds: The Monastic Struggle,” American Benedictine Review vol. 49 (l997) “Matins on Monday,” ibid.

 

“Fatima Yasif Bears a Son,” National Catholic Reporter December 11 , 1998

 

“ Lauds: The Monastic Struggle,” American Benedictine Review 49 (1998);

“Matins on Monday,” ibid.

 

“St.John's Monks File in For Prayer.” Minnesota Monthly. February 1999.

Idem, National Catholic Reporter, April 2. 1999

 

“The Day the Fire Fell.” Ibid;

 

“The Papal Mass in St.Peter' s,” Ibid.

 

“Adam on the Lam,”  Theology Today 56 (1999) 245.

 

“The Birth of Isaac,” Weavings

 

Adam on the Lamb (Waite Park: Park Press, 2000) (collection of poems)

 

“The Death of Emeric Lawrence,” American Benedictine Review 51 (March 2000) 116;

“Within Reach of Violin and Pillow (For Arnold Dittberner,osb,” ibid.

 

“Cana, or, Not a Perfect Carpenter,”   National Catholic Reporter (August 11,  2000) 12.

 

“You Alone,”  National Catholic Reporter (Septembeer 15, 2000) 15.

 

“Lauds: The New Song,”  National Catholic Reporter (October 22, 1999) 25.

 

“Lazarus Gives a Banquet,” National Catholic Reporter (June 16, 2000)

 

“Eve's Version,”  Sisters Today 72 (September 2000) 373.

 

“Toward My First Hearing Aid,”  National Catholic Reporter (October 13, 2000) 17.

 

“Must you Mumble?” National Catholic Reporter (January 5, 2001) 17.

 

“The Call of Abraham,”  National Catholic Reporter (March 9, 2001) 12.

 

“The Dictionary at the Pentagon,”  National Catholic Reporter (October 10, 2001) 17.

 

“The Day of the Cardboard Cutters,” National Catholic Reporter ( November 9, 2001) 12.

 

“Unkept Promises,”  National Catholic Reporter (February 20, 2002) 10.

 

“Things I Dread,”  National Catholic Reporter (March 15, 2002) 17.

 

Supplement to the Curriculum Vitae

 

“Pelagius Undone,”   National Catholic Reporter (April 12, 2002) 16.

 

“Abraham Binds Isaac,”  (retitled “Lessons in Piety)  National Catholic Reporter (April 12, 2002) 16.

 

“The Con,” “The Prayer of Impertinence,” National Catholic Reporter (May 24, 2002).

 

“Perfection, Perfection,” National Catholic Reporter (date ?); also in Spirituality (Ireland) vol. 8 (September/October, 2002) 294.

 

“At Fourteen I Drive the Car,” National Catholic Reporter (September  20, 2002) 20.

 

“Jonah's Flight,” National Catholic Reporter (November 29, 2002) 15.

 

“The Moment of Decision,” National Catholic Reporter (January 24, 2003) 15.

“The Parable of the Prodigal Son”  Four Poems:  “The Younger Son,”  “The Father of the Younger Son,” “The Elder Son,” “The Father of the Elder Son.”  National Catholic Reporter (April 4, 2003) 16.

“Mary Magdalene the Apostle,” National Catholic Reporter (April 18, 2003) 15.