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Anthony Egan SJ

South Africa
Institution Jesuit Institute South Africa & University of the Witwatersrand Faculty of Health Sciences
Position Faculty/Administrator
Email Address anthegan2@gmail.com
Prior Educational Background
  • BA Hons MA (History) (Cape Town)
  • BA Hons (Philosophy & Theology) (London)
  • MDiv, STL (Moral Theology) (Weston Jesuit School of Theology)
  • PhD (Politics) (Witwatersrand)
Recent Publications
  • 2012:The Church and War in the 21st Century (Pietermaritzburg: Cluster Publications)
  • 2013 “Arms deals and development. Can one reconcile meeting the MDGs and arms purchases?”, The Gothenberg Process. Report: Towards a Just Peace:Faith based ethics in challenging Arms Trade (Cape Town: Goedgedacht Forum/Denis Hurley Peace Centre/Gothenberg Process), pp. 43-51.
  • 2013 “The ministerial formation of a radical clergyman: Douglas Thompson at Richmond College, 1928-1930” in: Itumuleng D Mothoagae & Anselm Laurence Prior (eds.), Tradition: Fixed and Mobile. Essays in Honour of Rev. Prof. Rodney Moss (Pretoria: University of South Africa Research Institute for Theology and Religion), pp.175-200.
  • 2012 “Political Martyrdom, Secular Sainthood: A Rahnerian Reading of the Lives of Steve Biko and Rick Turner”, in: James R Cochrane, Elias Bongmba, Isabel Phiri & Des van der Water (eds.), Living on the Edge: Essays in Honour of Steve de Gruchy,Activist & Theologian (Pietermaritzburg: Cluster Publications), pp. 97-110.
  • 2013 “The Faith of the Faithless: Experiments in Political Theology, Simon Critchley (Review Article)”, Theoria 135 (Vol. 60, No. 2),June, 104-106.
  • 2013 “God in Pain: Inversions of Apocalypse. Slavoj Žižek and Boris Gunjević (Review Article)”, Theoria 134 (Vol. 60, No. 1), March, 99-102.
  • 2013 “Savage Messianism and Political Mysticism: What the Dune Novels Might say to Contemporary Faith”, Grace & Truth, Vol. 30, No.1, April, 38-45.
  • 2012 “Operating within a ‘site of struggle’: Church Structures, Theological Stance, and the Activist Clergyperson” Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae, Vol 38, No.1, 179-196.