JOHN J. O’KEEFE, PH.D.
Director, Brueggeman Center for Dialogue
Xavier University

EDUCATION

The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.

Ph.D., Early Christian Theology.
MA, Early Christian Theology.

Weston Jesuit School of Theology, Cambridge, MA.

MTS, with distinction, Theology.

Stetson University, Deland, FL. BA, French.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Books

Cyril of Alexandria, Festal Letters 13-30.  Translated by Philip Amidon. Edited and introduced by John J. O’Keefe. The Fathers of the Church. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2013.

Cyril of Alexandria, Festal Letters 1-12.  Translated by Philip Amidon. Edited and introduced by John J. O’Keefe. The Fathers of the Church. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2009.

O’Keefe, John J. and Reno, R. R.  Sanctified Vision: An Introduction to Early Christian Interpretation of the Bible.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.

Edited Books

O’Keefe, John J., Cameron, Michael. Augustine on Heart and Life: Essays in Honor of William Harmless, S.J. Omaha, NE: The Kripke Center, 2018.

Simkins, Ronald A. and O’Keefe, John J. The Greening of the Papacy. Omaha, NE: The Kripke Center, 2013. [http://moses.creighton.edu/jrs/toc/SS09.html]

O’Keefe, John J., Merys, Gina, and Keegan, Bridget, eds. The Catholic Intellectual Tradition: Scholarship, Faith, and Higher Education. Omaha, NE: The Kripke Center, 2011. [http://moses.creighton.edu/JRS/toc/SS06.html]

Articles and Book Chapters

“Greif, Loss and Restoration on America’s Last Prairie.” Great Plains Research. Vol. 33. Number 1 (Spring, 2023): 1-5.

John O’Keefe, Jay Leighter, and Mary Ann Vinton. “Ecology, Culture, and Spirituality in the Nebraska Sandhills.” Great Plains Research. Vol 29. Number 2 (Fall, 2019).

“Reconciliation with Material Creation: Lessons from the Second Century.” in The Surprise of Reconciliation in the Catholic Tradition, edited by James J. Carney and Laurie Johnston. New York: Paulist, 2018.

“Augustine and the Anthropocene.” In Augustine on Heart and Life: Essays in Memory of William Harmless, S.J. Edited by John J. O’Keefe and Michael Cameron. Omaha, NE: The Kripke Center, 2018.

“Toward an Augustinian Eco-theology.” In Augustine and the Environment, edited by John Doody, Kim Paffenroth and Mark Smillie. Lexington Books, 2016.

“God Through the Camera Frame: Backpack Journalism and the Catholic Imagination.” In Religion and the Visual. Edited by Ronald A. Simkins and Wendy M. Wright. Omaha, NE: The Kripke Center, 2012. [http://moses.creighton.edu/jrs/2012/2012-12.pdf]

“Spiritual practice and Sustainability: Resources from Early Christian Monasticism.” In Spirit and Nature: The Study of Christian Spirituality in a Time of Ecological Urgency. Edited by Timothy Hessel-Robinson and Ray Maria McNamara. Eugene, Oregon: Pickwick, 2011.

“Creation, Incarnation, and Resurrection,” In God, Creation, and Climate Change: A Catholic Response to the Environmental Crisis. Edited by Richard W. Miller. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2010.

“A Letter that Killeth: Toward a Reassessment of Antiochene Exegesis.” Journal of Early Christian Studies 8, no. 1 (2000): 83-104.

“Impassible Suffering? Divine Impassibility and Fifth-Century Christology.” Theological Studies 58 no. 1 (March 1997): 39-60.