Mark McIntosh, Ph.D.
	Title:	Professor
	Office:	Crown Center, Room 431
	Phone:	773.508.2367
	E-mail:	mmcint2@luc.edu

Personal Information

Ph.D. The University of Chicago

Specialty: Systematic Theology and Spirituality
Research Interests: The history and theology of Christian mystical thought and Christian spirituality generally; Christology and trinitarian thought; Theology and postmodernity; The history of religious thought in Britain

A priest of the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago, Fr. McIntosh did his undergraduate work at Yale University. After pursuing a second BA at the University of Oxford in Great Britain and completing his Master of Divinity degree at the General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church in Manhattan, he worked for three years as an assistant priest here in Chicago.

McIntosh earned his Ph.D. in Theology from the Divinity School of the University of Chicago. His work there on the christology of the Swiss theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar developed into a book which has since been published by the University of Notre Dame Press under the title, Christology from Within (new paper ed., 2000). Since then his major work has been an analysis of Christian mystical thought and its relationship to theology: Mystical Theology: The Integrity of Spirituality and Theology (Blackwell Publishers, 1998). Most recently he has published a brief introduction to Christian theology examining the major Christian doctrines from a trinitarian standpoint: Mysteries of Faith (Cowley Publications, 2000). He is currently co- editing a two-volume Anglican systematics forthcoming from SCM Press, and working on a new monograph provisionally titled Discerning Truth: The Spirituality and Theology of Knowledge which seeks to develop a theological epistemology drawing on various models of spiritual discernment. In the past year he was an invited plenary speaker at the Society of Anglican and Lutheran Theologians and at the Society for the Study of Theology in Great Britain.

Fr. McIntosh serves as a theological consultant to the Theology Committee of the House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church and is currently also a chaplain to the House of Bishops. He and his wife and their two children live in the suburbs of Chicago and all enjoy hiking and gardening and, when they can fend off the deer, they specialize in trying to grow roses.