Dr. Donald Graham
Associate Professor of Systematic & Pastoral Theology
EDUCATION
B.A. History, Trent University, 1983
B.Ed. History & English, Queen’s University, 1985
M.A. Theology & Christian Ministry, Franciscan University, 1986
M.A. Theology, University of St. Michael’s College, 1991
S.T.L. Regis College, Toronto, 1993
Ph.D. Catholic Studies, Maryvale Institute & the Open University, Birmingham UK, 2004
AREA OF SPECIALIZATION
Systematic theology, especially, its foundations, ecclesiology, Christology, Trinitarian theology and pneumatology. My research activity concentrates upon the intersection of these areas relative to the thought of St. John Henry Newman (1801-90) in conversation with modern concerns.
BIOGRAPHY
Holding undergraduate degrees in history and education, masters’ degrees in theology and ministry, and a doctoral degree in Catholic studies, Dr. Donald Graham has studied in Canada, the United States and the UK. While his association with St. Augustine’s as an adjunct professor began in 2006 and matured into a permanent full-time position as Assistant Professor of Systematic & Pastoral Theology in 2016, Dr. Graham has been teaching in Catholic Education since 1986 (elementary and secondary) and has enjoyed stints as an adjunct professor of theology with St. Paul University (Ottawa) and Catholic Studies with Sacred Heart College (Peterborough). Dr. Donald Graham is one of twenty international scholars contributing essays to a research monograph to be published in 2025 by the British publisher, GraceWing, entitled, Newman's Educational Philosophy, Writing and Legacy. His chapter has the working title of “Forming the Mind and Heart, the whole person”.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS / SELECTED AREAS OF SERVICE / PASTORAL WORK
Book
From Eastertide to Ecclesia. John Henry Newman, the Holy Spirit and the Church (Marquette, 2011)
Chapters
“Newman’s view of the Church as Home – Ecclesiology & Theological Anthropology in a Pastoral Context,” in Saint John Henry Newman. Preserving and Promulgating His Legacy (Cambridge Scholars 2019).
“Redeemed in Time: Reflecting on the Christological resources of the Catechism of the Catholic Church,” in Speaking the Truth in Love: The Catechism and the New Evangelization (Emmaus Academic 2019).
“Sympathy in the Spiritual Theology of John Henry Newman,” in Newman and Life in the Spirit. Theological Reflections on Spirituality for Today (Fortress, 2014).
Articles
“Trans-Disciplinary Dialogue: Pope Francis and St. John Henry on the Mystery of the Human Person,” Newman Review (June 2023) at https://www.newmanreview.org/trans-disciplinary-dialogue/.
“Ratzinger’s Reception of Newman on Conscience: Memory, History, Creation and Christ,” Communio 47 (Winter 2020).
“Blessed Newman’s Sacred Heart Theology and the ‘intercommunion of hearts’,” Downside Review 129 (October 2011).
“On Fairy-stories, Family and Love: living ‘psychologically within the rhythms of Christ’s relations with the Church’,” Communio 33/4 (Winter 2006).