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LaReine-Marie Mosely, SND, Ph.D.

Title: Assistant Professor

Office #: Crown Center 433

Phone: 773.508.8372

E-mail: lmosely@luc.edu

CV Link: My CV

About

LaReine-Marie Mosely, S.N.D. is an Assistant Professor of Theology at Loyola University Chicago, where she teaches on the undergraduate and graduate levels. Her areas of specialization include Christology, soteriology, black theology, black Catholic theology, and womanist theology. In her recent work Dr. Mosely engages the Christological projects of Edward Schillebeeckx, Delores S. Williams, and M. Shawn Copeland and the manner in which their soteriological premises speak meaningfully to late modern people, acknowledge difference, and attend to excessive human suffering and cosmic abuse. Further, Dr. Mosely argues that by putting these theologians in conversation, productive insight will emerge that can contribute to a critical Christian soteriology informed by the experiences of African American women. Dr. Mosely earned the Ph.D. in Theology from the University of Notre Dame in 2008.

Program Areas

Dr. Mosely's present research interests include the role of race in the projects of newer theologians, liberation movements and their corresponding theologies, African American theologies in the United States, and Black Catholic Chicago.

Research Interests

Theologies of Mary, the contributions of women religious, and the theology of Edward Schillebeeckx.

Professional & Community Affiliations

• American Academy of Religion
• Catholic Theological Society of America
• Black Catholic Theological Symposium
• The Society for the Study of Black Religion

Publications

Recently Dr. Mosely was a panel member during the Black Catholic Consultation at the Catholic Theological Society of America's June 2008 meeting. She presented on "Black Catholic Theologians Across the Generations." Dr. Mosely was also one of six theological reflectors who provided feedback at "Solidarity in Christ's Mission," a June 2008 gathering of U.S. and Canadian Jesuits and their lay collaborators involved in social ministries.

Resource Recommendations:

• Copeland, M. Shawn. Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2008.
• Hayes, Diana L. Hagar's Daughters : Womanist Ways of Being in the World. New York: Paulist Press, 1995.
• Hilkert, Mary Catherine, "Introduction" and "Experience and Revelation." In The Praxis of the Reign of God: An Introduction to the Theology of Edward Schillebeeckx. Edited by Mary Catherine Hilkert and Robert J. Schreiter, xix-xxx, 59-77. New York: Fordham University Press, 2002.
• Massingale, Bryan N. "Poverty and Racism: Overlapping Threats to the Common Good." i-22. Alexandria, VA, 2007.
• Phelps, Jamie T. "Joy Came in the Morning Risking Death for Resurrection: Confronting the Evil of Social Sin and Socially Sinful Structures." In A Troubling in My Soul: Womanist Perspectives on Evil and Suffering. Edited by Emilie M. Townes, 48-64. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1993.
• Ross, Susan. Extravagant Affections: A Feminist Sacramental Theology. New York: Continuum, 2001.
• Schillebeeckx, Edward. Jesus : An Experiment in Christology. New York: Seabury Press,
  1979.
• ______.Christ, the Experience of Jesus as Lord. Translated by John Bowden. New York: Seabury Press, 1980.
• ______.Church : The Human Story of God. New York: Crossroad, 1990.
• Williams, Delores S. Sisters in the Wilderness : The Challenge of Womanist God-Talk. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1993.