Dr. Rhodora Beaton

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

“Liturgy, Symbol, and Culture: Finding a Way in the Twenty-First Century.” Worship. Forthcoming.

“A Snake in the Garden, A Traveler on the Road: Myth and Metaphor in Liturgical Life.” In Conversations About Divine Mystery—Engagements with the Work of Gail Ramshaw. Ed. Stephen Burns and HyeRan Kim-Cragg. Minneapolis: Fortress Academic Press, 2023.

“Worship and Ecclesiology.” Theological Foundations for Worship: Biblical, Systematic, and Practical Perspectives. Ed. Khalia J. Williams and Mark A. Lamport. Baker Academic, 2021.

“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.