Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle
American academic (born 1943)
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Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle (born October 4, 1943) is an American academic based in Canada. A 1979 Guggenheim Fellow, she specializes in religious rhetoric and has written several religious studies books.
Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle | |
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| Born | October 4, 1943 Hackensack, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Occupation | Religious studies scholar |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (1979) |
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| Thesis | The grammar of method: a theological study of Erasmus' renaissance, especially as manifested in his Ratio seu methodus compendio perveniendi ad veram theologiam (1974) |
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| Discipline | Religious studies |
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Biography
Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle was born on October 4, 1943, in Hackensack, New Jersey, to oil painter Marjorie J. O'Rourke (née McSorley) and to Paul O'Rourke,[1][2] and raised in Middletown, Connecticut.[2] She got her BA (1965) at Georgian Court College and her MA (1967) at the University of St. Michael's College.[1] After working as a theology instructor at the University of Portland (1967-1969), she returned to St. Michael's to get her PhD in 1974;[1] her doctoral dissertation was titled The grammar of method: a theological study of Erasmus' renaissance, especially as manifested in his Ratio seu methodus compendio perveniendi ad veram theologiam.[3] She later worked as a research associate at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (1977-1978).[1] By 1997, she was working as an independent scholar.[4]
Boyle's academic specialty is religious rhetoric, particularly in the Middle Ages and Rennaissance.[4] Three of the books she has written are focused on the Renaissance humanist scholar Erasmus: Erasmus on Language and Method in Theology (1977), Christening Pagan Mysteries (1981), and Rhetoric and Reform (1983).[5] In 1979, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship[6] for a "study of the humanist nature of Erasmus's controversy with Luther".[1] She later published the following books: Petrarch's Genius (1991), which its publisher said was the first book to depict Petrarch as a theologian;[5] Divine Domesticity (1996), which focuses on the idea of the divine indwelling;[7] Loyola's Acts (1997), which suggests that The Autobiography of St. Ignatius is epideictic;[8] and Senses of Touch (1998), which explores the rhetorical nature of the human hand.[9]
Outside of academia, Boyle worked briefly as a news editor for Toronto newspaper Daily Commercial News (1975-1976).[1]
Boyle lives in Toronto.[10]
Bibliography
- Erasmus on Language and Method in Theology (1977)[11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20]
- Christening Pagan Mysteries (1981)[21][22][23][24][25][26]
- Rhetoric and Reform (1983)[27][28][29][30][31][32]
- Petrarch's Genius (1991)[33][34][35][36][37][38][39]
- Divine Domesticity (1996)[40][41][42][43][44]
- Loyola's Acts (1997)[45][46][47][48][49][50]
- Senses of Touch (1998)[51][52]