Klein, Terrance

Current Submissions
Two Books:

• A monograph proposal has been accepted by Ashgate Press. The work, which is complete, is a post-modern look at the nature of the soul, titled "The Book of Life: On the Nature of the Soul as Narrative."
• I am publishing with Loyola Press another popular work on spirituality.

 Publications 

• Wittgenstein and the Metaphysics of Grace. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
• How Things Are in the World: Metaphysics and Theology in Wittgenstein and Rahner. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Marquette University Press, 2003.
• Vanity Faith: Searching for Spirituality among the Stars. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2009.

Peer Reviewed Articles 

• “The Art of Knowing” The Heythrop Journal 51, no. 1 (2010): 60-72
• “Karl Rahner on the Human Soul.” St. Anselm Journal. 6:1 (Fall 2008).
• “A Liturgy of Return: Symbol as Life-Giving in Literature and Theology.” Philosophy and Theology. 19:1-2 (2007).
• “Adventures in Alterity: Wittgenstein, Aliens, Anselm, and Aquinas.” New Blackfriars 88, no. 1013 (2007): 73-86.
• “Act and Potency in Wittgenstein?” The Heythrop Journal 47, no. 4 (2006): 601-21.
• “The Supernatural as Language Game.” Zygon Journal of Religion and Science 41, no. 2 (2006): 365-79.
• “The Forge of Language.” Philosophy and Theology. 15:1 (2003): 143-163.
• “The Snap of Grace: Asking the Easter Question of Faith.” New Theology Review 16:2 (May 2003): 56-64.
• “Advent and the Evangelical Struggle for Cultural Symbols.” Worship 69 (November 1995): 538-556.
• “Institution Narratives at the Crossroads.” Worship 67 (September 1993): 407-418.

Current Peer Reviewed Article Submissions 

• “Cupio Deo et Animam Deo Scire.” Essay contributed to a festschrift for Archbishop Rino Fischella. Lateran University Press, 2010.
• “Excuse: Clerical Abuse and the Reception of Revelation” submitted to the Journal of Religion, June 2011.
• “The Soul in Cyberspace” submitted to the Harvard Theological Review, July 2011.

 Other Professional Publications 

• “Chicken Little Gets Her Gun,” America (July 8, 2011).
• “The Storyteller’s Art: Rediscovery Norman Rockwell,” America (May 24, 2010).
• “When I Grow Up: TNT’s Men of a Certain Age” America’s Blog: In All Things, Jan.3, 2010, http://www.americamagazine.org/content/culture.cfm?cultureid=87 
• “Neverland Awaits: Is Michael Jackson Our Future,” America’s Blog: In All Things, Oct. 5, 1999, http://www.americamagazine.org/content/culture.cfm?cultureID=61 
• “Manhattan Gothic: AMC’s Mad Men,” America (October 5, 2009).
• “A Space for Inquiry: Catholic Universities and the Search for Meaning,” America (September 15, 2008).
• "Backyard Grace,” Chicago Studies 41:3 (Fall/Winter 2002): 302-315.
• “The Silent Love: Trying to Understand Celibacy,” Chicago Studies 41:1 (Spring 2002): 70-79.
• “Conservative Games.” The Month (December 2000): 463-468.
• “Ten Ways to Improve Your Prayer Life,” U.S. Catholic 64, 3 (March 1999) 10-15.
• “A Consequence Yet Hanging in the Stars.” GIA Quarterly 9 (Fall 1997): 10-11, 38-39.
• “Vocations and the Crisis of Communal Life,” Review for Religious 55 (September-October 1996): 474-484.
• “How Families Can Solve the Vocation Crisis.” U.S. Catholic 61, 4 (April 1996): 35-37.
• “The RCIA...Finding Self in the Arms of Another.” GIA Quarterly 7 (Winter 1996): 8-10.
• “Vocation as Liberation and Revelation,” Review for Religious 54 (September-October 1995): 754-771.
• “Of Secrecy and Suspense in the Catechumenate.” GIA Quarterly 6 (Winter 1995): 8-10.
• “In the End Joy: Celebrating Advent.” GIA Quarterly 5 (Fall 1994)
• “U.S. Culture and College Seminaries.” America 170 (18 June 1994): 16-21.
• “Discerning Vocations.” America 168 (1 May 1993): 10-11.

Book Reviews 

• Wittgenstein and Theology by Tim Labron. The Heythrop Journal 52:1 (January 2011): 157-58.
• Evidence and Transcendence: Religious Epistemology and the God-World Relationship by Anne E. Inman. Theological Studies 70:2 (June 2009): 504-505.
• Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Cultural Point of View: Philosophy in the Darkness of this Time (Ashgate Wittgensteinian Studies), by William James DeAngelis.
• Wittgenstein and the End of Philosophy: Neither Theory nor Therapy (2nd ed.), by Daniel D. Hutto. The Heythrop Journal 59:2 (March, 2009): 357-358.
• Grammar and Grace: Reformulations of Aquinas and Wittgenstein, eds. Jeffrey Stout and Robert MacSwain. The Thomist 69:3 (July, 2005): 479-483.
• Worship: Searching for Language, by Gail Ramshaw. GIA Quarterly 1 (Fall 1990): 38-39.
• Spirituality: Rooted in Liturgy, by Shawn Madigan. GIA Quarterly 1 (Fall 1990): 39.

Book Reviews Accepted for Publication 

• Edward Schillebeeckx and Contemporary Theology, eds. Lieven Boeve, Frederiek Depoortere, and Stephen Van Erp. The Heythrop Journal.
• Wittgenstein’s (Misunderstood) Religious Thought, by Earl Stanley B. Fronda. The Heythrop Journal.
• Theology within the Bounds of Language: A Methodological Tour, by Garth L. Hallett. The Thomist.

Academic Program Appearances 

• 2011 (June 10-12: San Jose, CA) “Holiness in Hollywood?” presented in an invited session of the Catholic Theological Society of America.
• 2008 (June 11-12: Manchester, NH) “Karl Rahner on the Human Soul,” presented as the keynote paper for the Metaphysics Colloquium of St. Anselm’s College. http://www.anselm.edu/Institutes-Centers-and-the-Arts/Institute-for-Saint-Anselm-Studies/Saint-Anselm-Journal/Archives/Vol-6-No-1-fall-2008.htm 
• 2007 (June 7-10: Los Angeles) “Shepherds of the Search” presented in an invited session at the Catholic Theological Society of America.
• 2006 (October 27-29: Granville, OH) Moderator of Session on Aquinas, Mind, and World.
• 2006 (June 8-11: San Antonio, TX) Chaired meeting of the Karl Rahner Society
• 2006 (June 1-4: Denver, CO) Served as convener for the Philosophy of Religion sections of the College Theology Society.
• 2005 (June 9-12: St. Louis, MO) Respondent to Gregory Rocca’s presentation of his book, Speaking the Incomprehensible God, in the Theology and Philosophy section of the Catholic Theological Society of America.
• 2005 (June 2-5: Mobile, AL) Respondent to a panel book discussion of my book How Things Are in the World in the Philosophy of Religion Subsection of the College Theology Society.
• 2004 (June 3-6: Washington, D.C.) Served as convener for the Philosophy of Religion section of the College Theology Society.
• 2004 (June 11: Reston, VA) Addressed the Constructive Theology Group of the Catholic Theological Society of America on the topic, “Adventures in Alterity: Wittgenstein, Aliens, Anselm, and Aquinas.
• 2003 (June 8: Cincinnati) Addressed the Karl Rahner Society at the Catholic Theological Society of America on the topic of Rahner’s ontology of the Symbol
• 2003 (May 31: Milwaukee) Responded to Joseph Bracken’s book The One in the Many for the Philosophy of Religion section of the College Theology Society.
• 2003 (June 1: Milwaukee) Gave a “Spiritual Autobiography Presentation” at the College Theology Society.
• 2002 (June 8: New Orleans) Presented doctoral research, “The Forge of Language” at the invitation of the Karl Rahner Society to the CatholicTheological Society of America.

Other Professional Activities 

• 2011 “Forgotten Foundations of Catholic Spirituality” in Living Theology Workshops, Center for Catholic Studies, Fairfield University.
• 2010 Community Discernment Day Speaker, Ursulines of Tildonk, Point Blue, New York.
• 2009 Radio segment for WFUV “Fordham Conversations,” Nov. 14th, on "The Soul as Narrative. http://wfuv4.libsyn.com/rss
• 2008 (November 21: Columbus, OH) “The Allure and Painful Promise of Catholicism” presented to the Committee for Catholic Identity of Ohio Dominican University.
• 2008 (August 25: Hartford, CT) “A Marriage of Opposites: The Catholic Intellectual Tradition” presented to the faculty of St. Joseph’s College for an in-service day on Catholic identity.
• 2007-9 Lecturer in Center for Religious Inquiry, St. Bartholomew’s Church, New York
• 2005 Columnist for The Letter of the Catholic Teachers Association of the Diocese of Brooklyn/Queens.
• 2003 (January) Parish Mission on Grace, Sacraments, and Eucharist at Christ the King Church, Evergreen Colorado
• 2002 (May) Addressed the Catholic Teachers Association of the Diocese of Brooklyn/Queens: “Breaking Bread, with Jelly”
• 2000 Assisted in the preparation of a pastoral letter of James A. Griffin, Bishop of Columbus, on health benefits and their relationship to the values of marriage and family, A Blessing not Lost.
• 2000 (June) Diocese of Columbus Summer Institute Key Note Address: Latens Deitas: Understanding Rahner
• 2000 (August) St. Charles Preparatory School, Columbus, OH, In-service speaker for faculty on Catholicity
• 1999 Served as “ambassador” for World Council of Churches study-visit to the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome.
• 1995 (June) Two, three day seminars on sacramental theology to the priests of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.
• 1991 Presentation on sacramental theology to the priests of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe.
• 1986 Assisted in the preparation of a pastoral letter of Bishop Stanley G. Schlarman, Bishop of Dodge City, “Celebrating Sunday Eucharist.”

• Ordained to priesthood, July 14, 1984
• Incardinated into Diocese of Columbus, January 1996
• Received Mandatum from Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, Aug. 16, 2009