Rhodora E. Beaton, Ph.D
Professor of Systematic Theology
Director, MA (Theology) Program
Email: rbeaton@ost.edu
Phone: 210-341-1366, X 283
Education
Ph.D. Theology (Systematic Theology) University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame IN
M.Div. University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame IN
B.A. Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT
Interests
Dr. Rhodora Beaton specializes in Systematic Theology. She is especially interested in the theological intersection of theological anthropology and sacramental theology. Before arriving at OST in 2020, she taught for three years at the Aquinas Institute of Theology in St. Louis. MO and for eight years at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, MN.
Publications
Monographs
Embodied Words, Spoken Signs: Sacramentality and the Word in Rahner and Chauvet. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2014.
Illuminating Unity: Four Perspectives on Dei Verbum’s “One Table of the Word of God and the Body of Christ. Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 2014.
Selected Recent Articles and Essays
“Worship and Ecclesiology.” Theological Foundations for Entering Worship. Ed. Khalia J. Williams and Mark A. Lamport. Baker Academic, Forthcoming.
“Between the Center and the Margins: Young Catholics, ‘Sorta-Catholics,’ and Baptismal Identity.” In “Sacramental Theology: Theory and Practice from Multiple
Perspectives,” edited by Bruce Morrill. Special Issue, Religions 10, no. 9 (2019). https://doi.org/10.3390/rel10090512
“’Let Us Sing As We Go’” Language Origins and the Sung Response of Faith.” Horizons: The Journal of the College Theology Society 44, no. 1 (2017) 56-79.
“Seeing with the Eyes of Mercy: Ade Bethune as Precursor to Walter Kasper.” Worship 90, no. 6 (2016) 512-531.