James Patrick Patrick MACKEY

Background

MACKEY, James was born on February 9, 1934 in Ireland. Son of Peter Mackey and Esther Morrissey.

Education

Bachelor, Pontifical University, 1960. Doctor of Divinity, Queen's University, Belfast. Doctor of Philosophy, Queen's University, Belfast, 1965.

Career

Philosophy lecturer Queen's University Belfast, 1960—1969. Professor, religious studies and theology University San Francisco, 1969—1979. Professor University Edinburgh, 1979—1999, dean, faculty of divinity, 1984—1988.

Visiting professor University California, Berkeley, 1974—1975, Dartmouth College, 1989, Trinity College, University Dublin, since 1999. Invited lecturer International Congress Philosophy, Vienna, 1969, North America Congress Celtic Studies, Halifax, 1989, Australian Congress Celtic Studies, 1992, Association Commonwealth University, 1993, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 1994, Chinese Academy Social Sciences, Beijing, 1999, Templeton Symposium on Science and Theological Imagination, London, 2000, Villanova University, Philadelphia, 2003.

Achievements

• James Patrick Mackey has been listed as a noteworthy philosopher, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Modern Theology: A Sense of Direction

    (Examining religion in the context of modern atheism, Jame...)

  • Christianity and Creation: The Essence of the Christian Faith and Its Future among Religions

    ( Thirty years ago James Mackey wrote Jesus the Man and t...)

  • Power and Christian Ethics (New Studies in Christian Ethics)

    (In the conventional analysis of human behaviour, power an...)

  • The Critique of Theological Reason

    (The Critique of Theological Reason describes the nature a...)

  • The Critique of Theological Reason

    (The Critique of Theological Reason describes the nature a...)

  • Religion and Politics in Ireland: At the Turn of the Millennium

    (Essays in Honour of Garret FitzGerald on the Occasion of ...)

  • The church; its credibility today (Faith and life)

    (spiritual)

  • The Cultures Of Europe: The Irish Contribution
  • Christian Experience of God as Trinity

Membership

Member of College Theology Society America, Catholical Theological Society Great Britain, Irish Theological Association, British Irish Theological Society, Irish Philosophical Association.

Interests

• Sailing.

Connections

Married Noelle Quinlan in 1973.

Father:

Peter Mackey

Mother:

Esther Morrissey

Spouse:

Noelle Quinlan