Rev. Joseph Mueller, S.J.
Associate Professor, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

Joseph G. Mueller, S.J. (S.T.D., Centre Sèvres, Paris, 2005), [Systematics/Ethics], specializes in ecclesiology and early Christian theology, especially the Church order literature of the first five centuries and its Old Testament exegesis. His book, L'Ancien Testament dans l'ecclésiologie des Pères: Une lecture des Constitutions apostoliques, was published by Brepols in February 2005. His article on some of the ecclesiological implications of the mandatum appeared in Recherches de science religieuse in July 2004. In the same month his article entitled "Old Testament and Church Ministries in Two Ecumenical Dialogues" appeared in the International Journal of Systematic Theology. He has completed entries on "Church Order, Early," "Cyril of Jerusalem," "Disciplina arcani," and "Excommunication" for The New Westminster Dictionary of Church History (forthcoming from Westminster John Knox Press). He is on the team that is translating some of Yves Congar's works. Recent articles engage the following topics: re-evaluation of alleged evidence for post-baptismal anointing in the second-century Christian East (Journal of Theological Studies, 2006), Yves Congar's theory of Church reform (Communio, 2007), and an examination of aspects of John Paul II's style of magisterium (in Pope John Paul II on the Body, Human, Eucharitic, Ecclesial: Festschrift Avery Cardinal Dulles [Philadelphia: St. Joseph's University Press, 2007]). His article on a neo-Arian scriptural canon of the 380's appeared in the latest collection of Studia patristica, and his study on the ancient Church order tradition appeared in the Journal of Early Christian Studies in 2007. He is currently working on a systematic study of continuity and discontinuity in tradition, as well as on the history of the Christian interpretation of Proverbs. A study on the Jewish roots of ancient episcopal election is in press, and he is currently studying the Jewish origins of some of Tyconius’ exegetical rules.  He is also preparing a study of Benedict XVI’s recent book on Jesus.  He has recently joined the team representing the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops on the Faith and Order Commission of the National Council of Churches of Christ.

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