Mark S. Massa
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Mark S. Massa, SJ is the Karl Rahner Distinguished Professor of Theology at Fordham University in New York.
Massa founded the Curran Center for American Catholic Studies in 2001 and now serves as its co-director with Dr. James T. Fisher.[1] Massa has written a number of books including Anti-Catholicism in America: The Last Acceptable Prejudice? and Catholics and American Culture: Fulton Sheen, Dorothy Day, and the Notre Dame Football Team, which won the AJCU/Alpha Sigma Nu Award for Outstanding Work in Theology for 1999-2001.[2]
Massa is currently working on a history of Catholic theology in the United States since the Second Vatican Council.[3]
[edit] Education
- Th .D., Church History, Harvard University
- M.Div., Weston Jesuit School of Theology
- M.A., History Department, University of Chicago
- A.B. , History and Theology, University of Detroit
[edit] Publications
- Anti-Catholicism: The Last Acceptable Prejudice? New York: Crossroad Press, 2003.
- Catholics and American Culture: Fulton Sheen, Dorothy Day, and the Notre Dame Football Team New York: Crossroad, 1999.
- Charles Augustus Briggs and the Crisis of Historical Criticism Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1990.
