Saint Paul University

Teaching Personnel

Young, Ronald W.
Assistant Professor
Program: Mission Studies and Interreligious Dialogue
Office : GIG 360
Phone: 613-236-1393, ext.: 2316
Email: ryoung@ustpaul.ca

Research Activities:

Missiological History; Theories and Practices of Evangelization; Pneumatology; Theologies of Inculturation; Theology and Mission; Oblatology

Education:

Creighton University, Omaha, NE, B.A.th, 1982

Franciscan School of Theology, Berkeley,CA, M.Div., 1987

Graduate School of Theology, Berkeley, CA, M.A.th, 1987

Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, Lic. Miss., 1996

Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, Doctorate in Missiology, 2000

Courses taught:

History of Christianity from the Reformation

Christian Anthropology: The Transformation of Humanity

Theology of Church and Ministry

Elements of Mission

Violence, Religions and the Culture of Peace

Faith, Religion and Culture

Theology of Mission

History of Mission

Theory and Praxis of Interreligious Dialogue

Publications:

- Books authored

"Fishing for People in the Oceans of Culture” in Secularity and the Gospel: Being Missionaries to Our Children. Ron Rolheiser, ed. New York: Crossroads Publishing, 2006.

“Oblate Participation in the Restoration of Mission San Fernando (1923-1953),” Vie Oblate Life 65/2 (2006), 207-220.

“The Mission of the Church in Accord with the Mission of the Holy Spirit: Some Considerations” Theoforum,” 37:3 (2006), 287-323.

“Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate: Pioneers in Pacific Northwest History,” Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest History (Fall, 2003): 35-42.

“A Proclamation Louder Than Words,” Offerings: Journal of the Oblate School of Theology. (2002): 41-48.

- Thesis

Young, Ronald Wayne, "Chronic Illness: A Bending of Compassion." Graduate Theological Union. M. A. Thesis. 1987.

Young, Ronald Wayne. "Evaluating an Experience of Basic Ecclesial Communities in the Light of Redemptoris Missio." Pontifical Gregorian University. Lic.: Missiology, Magna cum laude. 1996.

Young, Ronald Wayne. "The Mission of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate to the Oregon Territory 1847-1860." S. T. D. diss., Missiology, Summa cum laude. Pontifical Gregorian University, 2000. Awarded the Saint Robert Bellarmine Prize from the Faculty of Missiology of the Pontifical Gregorian University.

- Chapters in books

Young, Ronald Wayne. "Fishing for People in the Oceans of Culture”, in Missionaries to a Secular Society. Ron Rolheiser,ed., (New York: Crossroad Publishing, 2006), 202-221.

- Papers in refereed journal

Young, Ronald Wayne. "A Recently Discovered Letter of Saint Eugene de Mazenod." Etudes Oblates , no. ?. (December 1998): pp. 529-537.

Young, Ronald Wayne. "What Will the Missionaries of 2025 Be Like?" United States Catholic News Service, November 2000.

Young, Ronald Wayne. "Oblates in Parishes." The Oblate World and Voice of Hope, February, 2002, 6.

Young, Ronald Wayne. “A Proclamation Louder Than Words.” Offerings: Journal of Oblate School of Theology. 2002.

Young, Ronald Wayne. “Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate.” Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest History,. Vol. 17, No. 3, (Fall 2003).

Young, Ronald Wayne. "Oblate Participation in the Restoration of Mission San Fernando (1923-1953)." Vie Oblate Life 65 (2006), 2, 207-220.

Young, Ronald Wayne. "The Mission of the Church in Accord with the Mission of the Holy Spirit: Some Considerations," Theoforum 37:3 / 2006, 287-323.

Young, Ronald Wayne. "The Mission of the Church in Accord with the Mission of the Holy Spirit: Some Considerations." Part One, Omnis Terra (Rome), no. 383 (January 2008): 26-39.

Young, Ronald Wayne. "The Mission of the Church in Accord with the Mission of the Holy Spirit: Some Considerations." Part Two, Omnis Terra (Rome), no. 384 (February 2008). TBP