Dr. Peter Phan, noted theologian and author who serves as an advisor to Monastic Interreligious Dialogue, is the recipient of the 2010 Catholic Theology Society of America’s John Courtney Murray Award, The award, the highest honor bestowed by the society on a theologian, was made at a CTSA banquet in Cleveland June 12.

Dr. Phan, who holds the Ellacuria Chair of Catholic Social Thought in the Theology Department of Georgetown University, is a priest of the Diocese of Dallas. He received the Doctor of Sacred Theology from the Universitas Pontificia Salesiana, Rome, and the Doctor Philosophy and the Doctor of Divinity from the University of London. He was also awarded the honorary Doctor of Theology from Chicago Theological Union. He is the first non-Anglo to be elected President of Catholic Theological Society of America.

His publications range far and wide in theology. They deal with the theology of icon in Orthodox theology (Culture and Eschatology: The Iconographical Vision of Paul Evdokimov); patristic theology (Social Thought; Grace and the Human Condition); eschatology (Eternity in Time: A Study of Rahner’s Eschatology; Death and Eternal Life); the history of mission in Asia (Mission and Catechesis: Alexandre de Rhodes and Inculturation in Seventeenth-Century Vietnam) and liberation, inculturation, and interreligious dialogue (Christianity with an Asian Face; In Our Own Tongues; Being Religious Interreligiously). In addition, he has edited some 20 volumes (e.g., Christianity and the Wider Ecumenism; Church and Theology; Journeys at the Margins; The Asian Synod; The Gift of the Church; Directory on Popular Piety and Liturgy). He is general editor of a multi-volume series entitled Theology in Global Perspective for Orbis Books and a multi-volume series entitled Ethnic American Pastoral Spirituality for Paulist Press.