Meet the Faculty: Cyril O’Regan

Cyril O’Regan is the Catherine F. Huisking Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. He was born in Ireland where he received my BA and MA in Philosophy. His Ph. D is from Yale where he taught in the Department of Religious Studies before he came to the Department of Theology at Notre Dame in 1999. His work spans a number of areas, systematic theology, historical theology, and continental philosophy, and he is especially active at the intersection of theology and continental philosophy. He has done considerable work in 19th-century theology and philosophy, postmodern thought, mysticism, apocalyptic, Gnosticism, religion and literature, major Catholic figures such as Newman, de Lubac, Hans Urs von Balthasar, and Benedict XVI, and on the doctrines of the Trinity and “last things.” He will shortly complete two volumes dealing with the relationship between the Swiss theologian, Hans Urs von Balthasar and Martin Heidegger. He will then turn to complete his Gnosticism in Modernity project. He intends to write in order a volume on Gnosticism and German Idealism and subsequently a volume on Gnosticism and German and English Romanticism. He teaches a wide array of courses on all levels and is very active in directing doctoral students.