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Professor Robyn Horner
BA (Melb), DipEd (Melb), A.Mus.A (AMEB), BTheolHons (MCD), PhD (Monash), GCHE (Monash)
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Robyn Horner is a teaching and research academic within the School of Theology, and a member of the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry (IRCI) at Australian Catholic University. From 2010-2015, she held the position of Associate Dean (Learning and Teaching) of the Faculty of Theology and Philosophy. Formerly a teacher in Catholic primary and secondary schools and a liturgical musician and composer, she has two main areas of theological research expertise. First, she investigates theological questions in ways that speak in and to the contemporary context, using hermeneutic phenomenology and poststructuralism. Second, she has expertise in the theology of recontextualisation and the promotion of the Catholic dialogue school. This is fundamental to her teaching and to the research translation she undertakes in consultancies around Australia. |
Horner, Robyn. The Experience of God: The Event of Revelation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Horner, Robyn. Jean-Luc Marion: A Theo-Logical Introduction. Aldershot, Hants: Ashgate, 2005.
Horner, Robyn. Rethinking God as Gift: Marion, Derrida and the Limits of Phenomenology. New York: Fordham University Press, 2001.
Horner, Robyn and Claude Romano, "Atheism, Faith and Experience," in The Experience of Atheism: Phenomenology, Metaphysics and Religion. Ed. Robyn Horner and Claude Romano. London: Bloomsbury, 2021.
Horner, Robyn. "Revelation as a Problem for our Age." The Enigma of Divine Revelation Between Phenomenology and Comparative Theology. Ed. Jean-Luc Marion and Christiaan Jacobs-Vandegeer. Contributions to Hermeneutics. Ed. Claude Romano and Jeff Malpas. Zug: Springer, 2020. 67-105. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-28132-8
Horner, Robyn. "A Phenomenology of Revelation: Contemporary Encounters with Saint Ignatius Loyola." In The Challenge of God. Ed. Colby Dickinson, Hugh Miller and Kathleen McNutt. London: Bloomsbury, 2020. 69-85. Trans. "Een fenomenologie van de openbaring. Hedendaagse ontmoetingen met de heilige Ignatius van Loyola." Tijdschrift voor Theologie 58.4 (2018): 329-349.
Horner, Robyn. "Jesus and the Woman Caught in Adultery: Phenomenology as Lectio Divina." Phenomenologies of Scripture, edited by Adam Wells. New York: Fordham University Press, 2017. 114-24.
Horner, Robyn. "Is Anxiety Fundamental? Lacoste's Reading of Heidegger." New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy. Vol. XXI. Part 2: Heidegger and Contemporary French Philosophy. Ed. Richard J. Colledge and Claude Romano. London: Routledge, 2023 (forthcoming).
Horner, Robyn. "Enhancing Catholic Identity: A Response to Peter McGregor." Irish Theological Quarterly. 88.2 (2023): 112&ndash136.
Horner, Robyn. "Experience of God: Revelation as Affective Knowledge in the Works of Ignatius Loyola." Ephemerides Theologicae Lovaniense 98.1 (2022): 85-101. DOI:10.2143/ETL.98.1.3290283
Rowland, Bosco, Adrian Kelly, Bill Hallam, Jess Heerde, Michelle Benstead, Elizabeth Clancy, Mohammadreza Mohebbi, Jennifer Bailey, Robyn Horner, Paul Sharkey and John Toumbourou. "School Sector Influences on Adolescent Depression: A Six Year Longitudinal Study." Journal of Religion and Health 60 (2022). DOI: 10.1007/s10943-022-01515-7.
Horner, Robyn, Didier Pollefeyt, Jan Bouwens, Teresa Brown, Christiaan Jacobs-Vandegeer, Maeve Heaney, and Michael Buchanan. "Openness to Faith as a Disposition for Teachers in Catholic Schools." International Journal of Practical Theology 24.2 (2020): 231-51.
Horner, Robyn. "Towards a Hermeneutic Phenomenological Methodology for Theology." International Journal of Practical Theology 22.2 (2018): 153-173. https://doi.org/10.1515/ijpt-2017-0026.
Horner, Robyn. "Words that Reveal: Jean-Yves Lacoste and the Experience of God." Continental Philosophy Review. First Online:28 May 2017 DOI: 10.1007/s11007-017-9420-x. Print version 51 (2018): 169-192
Current Projects
Horner, Robyn and Teresa Brown. Recontextualisation in Theory and Practice.
Horner, Robyn. "Is Contemplation Metaphysical?" Metaphysics of Contemplation: The Religious Life as Form of Thought. Ed. Stephan van Erp, William Desmond, Darren Dias, Inigo Bocken, Henning Tegtmeyer and Jacob Benjamins.
Particular interest in the works of Jean-Luc Marion, Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Levinas, Lieven Boeve.
Learning and teaching Theology.
Academic Positions
2016- Teaching and Research Academic, School of Theology, Institute for Religion and Critical Enquiry, Australian Catholic University
2010-2015 Associate Dean (Learning and Teaching), Faculty of Theology and Philosophy, Australian Catholic University
2012-2015 Academic Lead, University Core Curriculum, Australian Catholic University
2008-2009 Assistant Head, School of Theology, Australian Catholic University
2002-2007 Teaching and Research Academic, School of Theology, Australian Catholic University
2001-April 2002 Associate Dean and Director of Postgraduate Studies, Melbourne College of Divinity
1999-2000 Teaching and Research Academic, Centre for Studies in Religion and Theology, Monash University
1986-1998 Teacher, Music & Religious Education in Catholic Primary and Secondary Schools in Victoria
Society for the Phenomenology of Religious Experience 2020-
Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy 2016-
ACU Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry 2016-
ACU Xavier Centre for Theological Formation 2018-
International Network for Philosophy of Religion 2015-
ACU La Salle Academy for Faith Formation and Religious Education 2015-
Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy 2015-2018
Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia 2010-2016
American Academy of Religion 2002-2019
Australian Catholic Theological Association 1996-
Melbourne Diocesan Liturgical Commission 1994-1998
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