Seminary and Graduate School of Theology - Mundelein Seminary

DENIS R. MCNAMARA, Ph.D., Assistant Director and Faculty Member,
Liturgical Institute.
B.A., History of Art, Yale University; M.Arch.H. and Ph.D., Architectural
History, University of Virginia. Author of Heavenly City: The Architectural
Tradition of Catholic Chicago (2005), Catholic Church Architecture and
the Spirit of the Liturgy (2009), How to Read Churches (2011) and articles
and reviews in historical, liturgical, and professional journals. Member
of the Society of Architectural Historians, Society for Catholic Liturgy
and the Institute for Classical Architecture.
*REV. MSGR. CHARLES R. MEYER, M.A., S.T.D. Professor
Emeritus in the Departments of Systematic Theology and Church
History
M.A., S.T.D., University of St. Mary of the Lake; B.S. in Library
Science at Rosary College. Cataloger at the Vatican Library and postdoctoral
student at the Gregorian University, Rome. Academic Dean
of the University of St. Mary of the Lake, 1976-1980. Author of: A
Contemporary Theology of Grace, The Touch of God: A Theological
Analysis of Religious Experience, Man of God: A Study of the
Priesthood, What a Modern Catholic Believes About the Holy Spirit,
Religious Belief in a Scientific Age and The Thomistic Concept of
Justifying Contrition. He has contributed articles to a wide variety of
general and theological periodicals and reference books. Member of
the Catholic Theological Society of America, the Catholic Biblical
Association, the American Catholic Historical Association and the
American Society of Church History.
ELIZABETH NAGEL, S.S.D., Professor in the Department of Biblical
Exegesis and Proclamation
M.A. in Theology with a major in Scripture from Mount Angel Seminary,
OR; S.S.L. and S.S.D. from the Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome, Italy.
Formerly, Full Professor of Sacred Scripture in the Theology Division of
Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary at Overbrook in Wynnewood, PA.
Author of Be a Blessing. A Spring of Refreshment on the Road of Daily
Life; Contributor to Bible Today, the National Catholic Education Association
Publication, Book Reviews for The Catholic Biblical Quarterly.
Articles published in Chicago Studies. Lived in Israel for one year and
was a Scripture Resource person for numerous Study Tours to the Holy
Land. Member of the Catholic Biblical Association of America and the
Society of Biblical Literature. Primary interested in teaching and communicating
Sacred Scripture in a way that helps contemporary Christians
enter into the biblical text and hear, for themselves, God who
speaks there. Additional professional work includes courses, lectures,
retreats, symposia, and theological updates for lay adults, priests, parishes,
religious orders and candidates for the Permanent Diaconate in
the Dioceses of Philadelphia, PA, and Dioceses of Wilmington, DE,
Allentown, PA, Camden, NJ, Harrisburg, PA, Pensacola, FL and Portland,
OR. Summer Scripture courses at St. Michael’s College, Colchester,
VT, and Jesuit School at Berkeley summer program in Berkeley, CA.
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