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Dr Peter John McGregor

Dr Peter John McGregor

Dogmatic Theology

BA (UNE, 1982), DipEd (Sydney, 1984), BTh (SCD, 1991), GradDipTh (SCD, 1996), TheolM (MCD, 2009), PhD (ACU, 2014)

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Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy (Summa cum laude), Australian Catholic University (2014)
  • Master of Theology, Melbourne College of Divinity (2009)
  • Graduate Diploma of Theology, Sydney College of Divinity (1996)
  • Bachelor of Theology, Sydney College of Divinity (1991)
  • Diploma of Education, University of Sydney (1984)
  • Bachelor of Arts, University of New England (1982)

 

Areas of Research Interest

The theology of Joseph Ratzinger, postmodern theology, theological anthropology, fundamental theology, missiology

 

Personal

Peter has over 35 years of experience in evangelisation, catechesis and religious education. He is a member of the Emmanuel Community (Communauté de l’Emmanuel), a community of lay people, priests and consecrated people within the Catholic Church. As a community member, he has been involved in various evangelistic outreaches: prayer meetings, parish missions, mercy nights, Zacchaeus (a course on Catholic social teaching), Love and Truth (a marriage enrichment program), retreats for priests, ministry to couples without children, youth outreaches, an international youth forum, World Youth Day 2008, street evangelisation, and parish visitations. Peter was a lecturer at the Emmanuel School of Mission in Manila. He currently serves as a spiritual and theological formation provider to community members and, with his wife, is responsible for ‘companioning’ in the Emmanuel provinces of Sydney and Melbourne.

 

Select Publications

  • “Holy Spirit.” In Joseph Ratzinger Dictionary: Central Concepts, edited by Rudy Albino de Assunção et al., San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2024. (forthcoming)
  • “The Theological Virtues.” In The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Ratzinger, edited by Uwe Michael Lang and Daniel Cardó, 296–312. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024.
  • “Enhancing Catholic School Identity: Shedding More Light.” Irish Theological Quarterly 89, no. 1 (2024): 20–40.
  • “Pneumatology at the Beginning of the Third Millennium.” In Pneumatology at the Beginning of the Third Millennium, edited by Kevin Wagner, Peter John McGregor and M. Isabell Naumann, 1–19. Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2023.
  • “Placing Joseph Ratzinger within the ‘Synthetic’ Tradition of the Theological Anthropology of the Heart.” Wrocławski Przegląd Teologiczny 31, no. 2 (2023): 5–43.
  • “De identiteit van de katholieke school versterken?” [“Strengthening the Identity of the Catholic School?”], translated by Vincent Kemme. Internationaal katholiek Tijdschrift Communio 48, no. 3 (2023): 216–27.
  • “A Szinódus és az ausztrál katolikus egyház [“Synodality and the Australian Catholic Church”], translated by Görföl Tibor. Vigilia 87, no. 1 (2022): 12–
  • “The Leuven Project: Enhancing Catholic School Identity?” Irish Theological Quarterly 87, no. 2 (2022): 106–30.
  • “Theology and Spirituality.” In Healing Fractures in Contemporary Theology, edited by Peter John McGregor and Tracey Rowland, 1– Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2022.
  • “Synodality and the Australian Plenary Council: Listening to and Looking at those who are Living in the Spirit.” Irish Theological Quarterly86, no. 1 (2021): 21–38.
  • “Reading Deus Caritas Est ” In Ecclesiology at the Beginning of the Third Millennium, edited by Kevin Wagner, M. Isabell Naumann, and Peter John McGregor, 167–88. Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2020.
  • “Is Lonergan’s Method Theological?” Radical Orthodoxy: Theology, Philosophy, Politics5, no. 1 (2019): 61–99.
  • “Conversion of Heart According to Luke.” Journal of Gospel and Acts Research 3 (2019): 56–
  • Leitourgia: The Missing Link in Evangelii Gaudium.” Irish Theological Quarterly84, no. 1 (2018): 57–76.
  • “Theologising with a Pure Heart According to Joseph Ratzinger.” Australasian Catholic Record 96, no. 2 (2019): 178–
  • “Is there a Pneumatological Lacuna in the ‘Spiritual Christology’ of Joseph Ratzinger?” Pro Ecclesia 25, no. 2 (2016): 200–19.
  • Heart to Heart: The Spiritual Christology of Joseph Ratzinger. Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2016.
  • “Joseph Ratzinger’s Understanding of Freedom.” Radical Orthodoxy: Theology, Philosophy, Politics 2, no. 3 (2014): 335–78.
  • “Priests, Prophets and Kings: The Mission of the Church According to John Paul II.” Irish Theological Quarterly78, no. 1 (2013): 61–78.
  • “The Universal Mission of the Church According to Pope John Paul II.” New Blackfriars 93, no. 1046 (2012): 457–74.