Roch Kereszty, O. Cist.
Adjunct Professor of Theology
Education
S.T.D., Athenaeum Anselmianum, Rome
S.T.L., Athenaeum Anselmianum, Rome
S.T.B., Athenaeum Anselmianum, Rome
Graduate degree in Library Science from University of Budapest
Personal
A native of Hungary, Fr. Roch Kereszty specializes in both Patristic and Medieval Theology and Systematic Theology. His dissertation was entitled "Wisdom in the Spiritual Theology of St. Bernard." He taught full time at the University of Dallas in the 1960s; in 1970, he was appointed to the chairman of the Theology department at the Cistercial Preparatory School in Irving, Texas, and in 1975, he was appointed novice master for the abbey. He is on the editorial board of Communio, and, along with William R. Farmer and Dvid L. Balas, O.Cist., he spearheaded the Eucharistic Conference hosted by the University of Dallas, November 2000 and edited the proceedings of the conference for publication in 2002. This fall his new book on the Eucharist will be published with the title: The Wedding Feast of the Lamb. Eucharistic Theology from a Biblical, Historical, and Systematic Perspective.
Courses Taught
THE 4335 - Christian Sacraments
THE 6333 - Christology and Soteriology
THE 6334 - Ecclesiology
THE 6336 - Sacramental Theolgoy I
THE 6337 - Sacraments II
THE 6377 - Christianity among Other World Religions
Selected Bibliography
Books
Rediscovering the Eucharist: Ecumenical Conversations (New York: Paulist, 2003)
Jesus Christ: Fundamentals of Christology, revised and expanded edition (New York: Alba House, 2002)
Sugárzó lelke tovább világit. 'Sigmond Lóránt irásai. Sajtó alá rendezte, bevezetéssel és jegyzetekkel ellátta: Kereszty Rókus (Budapest: Szent István, 2000). (A collection of the spiritual writings of a martyr Hungarian Cistercian with introduction and notes)
If Today You Hear HIs Voice: A Guide to Discernment (North Hills: Rogationist Publications, 1998)
Bevezetés az Egyház teológiájába (ecclesiology in Hungarian) (Budapest: Christianus/OMC, 1998)
A Supplement to Jesus Christ: Fundamentals of Christology. Including a Reader's Guide and UPdate and St. Barnard's Christology, (New York: Alba House, 1997).
Jesus Christ: The Fundamentals of Christology. Edited by J. Stephen Maddux. New York: Alba House, 1991.
Peter and Paul in the Church of Rome. The Ecumenical Potential of a Forgotten Perspective. Co-authored with Dr. William Farmer of Perkins School of Theology, with an epilogue by Albert C. Outler, 1990, Paulist Press.
Krisztus (A christology in Hungarian) TKK, Rome, 1977. Second edition published in Budapest by Szent István Társulat in 1983.
God Seekers for a New Age. Pflaum Press, 1970.
Articles
"Brothers in a Strange Land: A Response to the REsponses" Communio 29 (Spring 2002) 182-184.
"Toward a Christian Theology of Inter-religious Dialogue" Communio 29 (Fall 2002).
"Real Presence, Manifold Presence: Christ and the Church's Eucharist" Antiphon 6 (2001) 23-36.
"The Word of God: A Catholic Perspective. In Dialogue with a Jewish and Muslim Theologian" Communio 28 (2001) Fall.
"On the Eucharistic Presence: A Response to Germain Grisez" Irish Theological Quarterly 65 (2000) 347-352.
"God the Father" Communio 26 Summer (1999).
"A Response to Gil Bailie's 'Renée Girard's Contribution to the Church of the 21st Century'" Communio 26 (1999) 212-216.
"The Eucharist in the Letter to the Hebrews" Communio 26 (1999) 155-167.
"A Catholic Response to Pannenberg on the Petrine Ministry" Communio, 1998.
"The Eucharist in the New Testament" The International Bible Commentary, The Liturgical Press, 1998.
"St. Bernard's School of Spirituality" Cistercians in Texas, Abbey of Our Lady of Dallas, 1998.
"The Role of the 'Jesus of History' Research within the Theological Enterprise" Communio 24 (1997), 297-310. Published also in French, Portuguese and Hungarian.
"A Theological Meditation on the Liturgy of the Eucharist" Communio 23 (1996), 524-531.
"Towards a Contemporary Christology" Crisis in Christology. Essays in Quest of Resolution, ed. by W.R. Farmer (Livonia: Dove, 1995).
"The Jewish-Christian Dialogue in the Theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar" Unum Omnes in Christo, vol. I (Pannonhalma, 1995).
"Why a New Evangelization? A Study of Its Theological Rationale" Communio 21 (1994).
"Bride and "Mother" in the Super Cantica of St. Bernard" in Summer issue of Communio in 1993.
"Historical Research, Theological Inquiry, and the Reality of Jesus" Communio 18:4 (1992).
"The Significance of St. Bernard's Thought for Contempoary Theology" Communio 1991.
"Response" to A. Scola, "Nature and Grace in Hans Urs von Balthasar" Communio, 1991.
"Relationship Between Christology and Anthropology. St. Bernard, A Teacher for Our Age". Major paper at the International St. Bernard Congress, Rome, Augustinianum, Sept. 1990, Anal. Cist. 1990.
"Peter and Paul and the Founding of the Church of Rome: Forgotten Perspectives" Communio 1988.
"Theological Dissent in the North-American Church" Communio 1987.
"The 'Bible and Christology' Document of the Biblical Commission" Communio 1986.
"Psychological Subject and Consciousness in Christ" Communio 1984.
"The Unity of the Church in the Theology of Irenaeus" Second Century 1984.
"Theology and Spirituality: The Task of a Synthesis" Communio 1983.
In addition to the above, more than 30 articles published on various spiritual and theological topics in Hungarian journals: Mérleg (a theology digest published in Vienna-Munich-Budapest), Szolgálat, Vienna, Távlatok, Rome-Vienna, Vigilia, Budapest, Communio Budapest.
Memberships
The Catholic Theological Society of America
Southwest Seminar on Catholic Christianity
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