Deacon Owen Cummings

Deacon Owen F. Cummings, DD

Distinguished Regents’ Chair of Theology
Professor of Systematic Theology

Contact

owen.cummings@mtangel.edu

Education

DD: University of Dublin, Trinity College (1995)
MTh: University of Glasgow (1982)
Higher Diploma in Education: University of Dublin, Trinity College (1976)
BD: University of Dublin, Trinity College (1975)
Certificate in Theology, Milltown Institute of Philosophy and Theology, Dublin (1973)
BA: University College Dublin (1969)

Courses taught
  • Fundamental Theology
  • Ecclesiology
  • Eucharist
  • Theology of Liturgy
  • Ecumenism
  • Old Testament Prophets
  • Synoptic Gospels
  • Gospel of St. Matthew
  • Christology
  • Doctrine of the Trinity
  • Theological Anthropology
  • Christian Spirituality
  • New Testament Greek
  • From Benedict XV to Benedict XVI
  • Early Church History to 600 AD
  • Medieval Church History
  • Biblical Hebrew
  • Advanced Preaching
  • Spirituality
  • Holy Orders
  • Introduction to the Bible
Interests
  • All aspects of Christian Doctrine, but especially:
  • Ecclesiology
  • Mariology
  • Liturgical and Sacramental Theology
  • Eucharist
Select projects
  • Angels, In Scripture and Tradition (New York-Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 2023)
  • Amazing Grace: Windows on the Christian Theology of Grace (Eugene: Cascade Publications/Wipf and Stock, 2023)
  • Mary in the Christian Tradition (New York-Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 2022)
  • Miracles in the Christian Tradition (New York-Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 2021)
  • Popes, Councils and Theology: From Pope Pius IX to Pope Francis (Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications/Wipf and Stock, 2021)