Career
He pursued his undergraduate studies at Gettysburg College as a pre-ministerial student, majoring in Greek. An interest in Old Testament exegesis led him to postpone entry into the Lutheran seminary in order to pursue a degree at the Yale graduate school. He studied Hebrew, Akkadian, Aramaic, and other Semitic languages.
The impossibility of reconciling the historical-critical method of exegesis with the method of Jesus and his Apostles forced him to deeper philosophical and theological questions. editor from 1972-1975.
Since 1975, he has been married to Connaught Coyne, and they currently have four children, names being: Pearse, Michael, Caroline, and Brigid. from the University of Dallas and, more recently, the licentiate and doctoral degrees in sacred theology from the Lateran University in Rome. Since 1977, Marshner has taught theology at Christendom College.
