Thomas Patrick Burke
Thomas Patrick Burke (born 1934) is an Australian-born theologian and former academic working in the United States. He was professor of religion at Temple University (1967-1996)[1] and currently operates The Wynnewood Institute.[2]
Education and academic career
Burke was born in Brisbane, Australia. He studied at the University of Munich, completing a doctorate in theology with a dissertation on nineteenth-century theologian Matthias Scheeben.[1][3]
Burke taught in the School of Religion at the University of Iowa before becoming director of the John XXIII Institute at Saint Xavier College, Chicago. In 1966, he introduced the ideas of the Second Vatican Council to the United States by organizing a historic conference of its leading theologians, later publishing the conference papers under the title The Word in History. He also edited and translated Professor Michael Schmaus’s multi-volume Dogma into English.[1]
In 1967, Burke joined the faculty of Temple University, where he changed his area of study to world religions. He retired from Temple University in 1996 and remains a Professor Emeritus and adjunct professor.[4]
Burke completed a doctorate in philosophy at the University of Buckingham in 2010 with a thesis on justice that resulted in the book The Concept of Justice: Is Social Justice Just?.[1]
The Wynnewood Institute
In 2002, Burke established The Wynnewood Institute in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, a non-profit, non-partisan research institute concerned with the fundamental questions and problems of Western civilization in a post 9/11 era.[5] The Institute offers courses, seminars, public lectures and also sponsors research promoting a better understanding of Western civilization, especially in areas related to classical liberal and conservative thought.[6]
Publications
Books
Burke has authored six books and has translated or contributed to several more.[7] His publications (41 works in 193 publications in 7 languages and 3,945 library holdings) may be found in the OCLC: world catalog.[8]
- The Word in History: The St. Xavier Symposium Collins, London, 1968.
- Dogma / 4, The Church. Its origin and structure. by Michael Schmaus (transl. T. Patrick Burke, Mary Ledderer) Sheed & Ward, 1972.
- Faith and the Human Person: An Investigation of the Thought of Scheeben Doctoral dissertation, Munich, 1964.
- Searching in the Syntax of Things: Experiments in the Study of Religion: Essays by Maurice Friedman, T. Patrick Burke, Samuel Laeuchli. Fortress Press, Philadelphia, 1972. ISBN 9780800601034 Search this book on
. - The Reluctant Vision: An Essay in the Philosophy of Religion. Fortress Press, Philadelphia, 1974. ISBN 9780800610685 Search this book on .
- The Fragile Universe: An essay in the philosophy of religions] Barnes & Noble, New York, 1979. ISBN 9780064907767 Search this book on .
- The Moral Basis of Capitalism Australian Adam Smith Club, Crows Nest, 1983. ISBN 9780958869126 Search this book on .
- No Harm: Ethical Principles for a Free Market Paragon House, New York, 1994. ISBN 9781557786180 Search this book on .
- The Major Religions: an introduction with texts. Blackwell, Cambridge, Mass. 1996. ISBN 9781557867148 Search this book on .
- The Concept of Justice: Is Social Justice Just? Continuum International, London,2011. ISBN 9781441160522 Search this book on .
Articles
- Burke, P. (1968). Man without Christ: An Approach to Hereditary Sin. Theological Studies, 29(1), 4-18.
- Burke, T. P. (1977). The Theologian as Storyteller and Philosopher. Horizons, 4(2), 207-215.
- Burke, T. Patrick (2008). "Must the Description of a Religion be Acceptable to a Believer?". Religious Studies. 20 (04): 631. doi:10.1017/S0034412500016589. ISSN 0034-4125.
- Burke, T. P. (2010). "The Origins of Social Justice: Taparelli d'Azeglio." Modern Age 52(2): 97-106.
- Burke, P. (1979). Alternative world views: an introductory course in religion. Religious Traditions: A New Journal in the Study of Religion, 2(1).
- Burke, T. P. (1983). Can There Be Positive Human Rights. Bull. Austl. Soc. Leg. Phil., 44.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "About Thomas Patrick Burke". Wynnewood.org. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
- ↑ "Thomas Patrick Burke". MercatorNet. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
- ↑ Faith and the Human Person: An Investigation of the Thought of Scheeben Doctoral dissertation, Munich, 1964.
- ↑ "Library of Congress Authority Record". Library of Congress. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
- ↑ "About the Institute | The Wynnewood Institute". wynnewood.org. Retrieved 2018-07-30.
- ↑ "Courses, Lectures, and Writing of Thomas Patrick Burke". Wynnewood.org Research. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
- ↑ "T. Patrick Burke". GoodReads.com. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
- ↑ Burke, T. Patrick (Thomas Patrick) 1934- OCLC: WorldCat. Retrieved 2 November 2018.
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