The second lecture in The Big Ideas of the Second Vatican Council lecture series sponsored by the Center for Dominican Studies and the Martin de Porres Center. Fr. Steinkerchner is the associate director of the Center for Dominican Studies at Ohio Dominican University and is Promoter General of the Internet for the worldwide Dominican order.

Current research interest:

Interreligious metaphysics and foundational beliefs, particularly looking at how various Tibetan Buddhist and Western Christian foundational beliefs cohere and refuse to cohere.

Degrees:

B.S. in Electrical Engineering: University of Akron, Akron, Ohio, 1984

MDiv & MA in Theology: Aquinas Institute of Theology, St. Louis, Missouri, 1997

PhD in Theology: Boston College, Boston, Massachusetts, 2005

Selected Publications:

Beyond Agreement: Interreligious Dialogue amid Persistent Differences. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2011.

Watching Clouds: Pursuing Dialogue Across Disparate World-Pictures. Saarbrücken, Germany: VDM Verlag, 2009.