The Reverend Dr. Roger Haight SJ (1936- ) is an American Jesuit theologian, former president of the Catholic Theological Society of America, and former professor at Union Theological Seminary. A member of the Jesuits, Haight received his BA (1960) and an MA in Philosophy (1961) from Berchmans College in Cebu City, Philippines; his STB from Woodstock College, Maryland (1967); an MA in Theology (1969) and a PhD in Theology (1973) from the University of Chicago; and the STL from the Jesuit School of Theology at Chicago. Haight taught at institutions including the Jesuit graduate schools of theology in Manila, Chicago, Toronto, and Cambridge, Massachusetts; and universities in Lima, Nairobi, Paris, and Pune, before he began teaching as an adjunct professor at Union Theological Seminary in 2004. In that same year, the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) barred Haight from teaching at the Weston School of Theology in response to his book Jesus Symbol of God (Orbis, 1999); namely, Haight's attempts to separate Christology from Greek philosophical concepts, specifically in relation to the formulation of the mystery of the Trinity, the interpretation of Christ's divinity, and the role of Jesus in salvation. In 2005, Haight wrote The Future of Christology as a response to these questions and concerns. In January 2009, the CDF barred Haight from writing on theology and forbade him to teach anywhere, including non-Catholic institutions; however, he remained at Union Theological Seminary as a scholar in residence. In 2009, after the complete silencing of Haight, a response in the Jesuits' America magazine mentioned the usefulness of certain chapters of Jesus Symbol of God and that silencing interrupts the helpful process of scholarly criticism. As of 2015, Haight was somewhat reinstated, and taught at the Jesuit theologate in Toronto. His later publications include An Alternate Vision: An Interpretation of Liberation Theology (2014), Spiritual and Religious: Explorations for Seekers (2016), Theology of the Cross (2017), and Faith and Evolution: A Grace-Filled Naturalism (2019). Haight is the recipient of awards including the 1999 top prize in theology from the Catholic Press Association for Jesus Symbol of God, the Alumnus of the Year award from the Divinity School of the University of Chicago in 2006, and the John Courtney Murray Award from the Catholic Theological Society of America in 2023.

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