Paul Lakeland
Paul Lakeland is an American academic and former
Biography
Lakeland received his MA from
Lakeland, a former
Lakeland served as the inaugural Rev. Aloysius P. Kelley, S.J., Professor of Catholic Studies and Chair of the Center for Catholic Studies at Fairfield University in Fairfield, Connecticut, from 2004 through 2023.[3] Lakeland was named the 2005 Fairfield University Teacher of the Year.[4]
Lakeland was awarded the first place 2004 Catholic Press Award, in the category of theology, for his book, The Liberation of the Laity: In Search of an Accountable Church (Continuum International, New York, N.Y., 2003).
Lakeland is a contributing blogger to
Lakeland has come out in support of controversial theologian Roger Haight in the magazine Commonweal. In January 2007, he published an impassioned apologia of his thought by the title "Not So Heterodox. In Defense of Roger Haight."[8]
Views
Lakeland believes that
In his view, the church is in crisis and losing credibility due to, "the wholly human predilection for rules, regulations, buildings, status, power over others, secrecy, silence, ambition and expediency." Demands for unthinking obedience to a hierarchical authority reduce the church to something purely human. Lakeland believes good order in the church is God given but pyramidal power structure that existed since medieval times is not conducive to good order. The church has lost credibility because it has lost accountability.
Books
- The Wounded "Angel: Fiction and the Religious Imagination (Liturgical, 2017)
- A Council That Will Never End (Liturgical, 2013)
- Church: Living Communion (Liturgical, 2009)
- Catholicism at the Crossroads: How the Laity Can Save the Church (Continuum, March 2007)
- The Liberation of the Laity: In Search of an Accountable Church (2004)
- Postmodernity: Christian Identity in a Fragmented Age (1997)
- Theology and Critical Theory: The Discourse of the Church (1990)
- Free in Christ: The Challenge of Political Theology (1984)
- The Politics of Salvation: The Hegelian Idea of the State (1984)
- Can Women Be Priests? (1975).
References
- ^ [1]
- ^ Catholic Dissidents Pressing For Liberalization Of Church Authority
- ^ "John E. Thiel, PhD, Named Aloysius P. Kelley, S.J., Chair in Catholic Studies". fairfield.edu (Press release). October 2023. Retrieved March 12, 2024.
- ^ Fairfield University students choose Dr. Paul Lakeland as 2005 Teacher of the Year
- ^ Fairfield University :: Catholic Press Association awards first place in theology to book on laity by Fairfield University professor
- ^ Voice of Others Archived 2008-09-08 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Paul Lakeland – Living on The Huffington Post
- ^ The Vatican Muzzles the Jesuit Roger Haight. And Jesus Is Why
- ^ "Accountability, Credibility and Authority" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-02-25. Retrieved 2013-06-09.
- ^ Sexual Diversity and the Catholic Church: Time for a Serious Conversation?