Rev. Dr Shane Mackinlay

Shane Mackinlay holds the degrees of Bachelor of Theology from the Melbourne College of Divinity, Bachelor of Arts from Monash University, and Master in Philosophy and Doctor in Philosophy from the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium). His doctoral research studied the implicit hermeneutics of Jean-Luc Marion’s saturated phenomena. He has also lectured at Australian Catholic University, in the areas of introductory theology and philosophy, and Christian theological ethics. He is the parish priest of St Michael’s, Bungaree, and chairs both the Clergy Assistance Fund and the Clergy Support Fund of the Ballarat Diocese.

His main academic interests are phenomenology, hermeneutics, Jean-Luc Marion’s “saturated phenomena”, the philosophy of religion, aesthetics (philosophy of art), and the philosophy of science. He has published “Eyes Wide Shut: A Response to Jean-Luc Marion’s Account of the Journey to Emmaus” in Modern Theology (2004), and “Phenomenality in the Middle: Marion, Romano and the Hermeneutics of the Event” in Givenness and God: Questions of Jean-Luc Marion (2005), and has translated Jean-Luc Marion’s “The Reason of the Gift” in Givenness and God: Questions of Jean-Luc Marion (2005).


	Rev. Dr Shane Mackinlay BTheol (MCD) BA (Monash) MPhil (Leuven) PhD (Leuven) Coordinator of Research and Postgraduate Studies Department of Philosophy Rev. Dr Shane Mackinlay is the Coordinator of Research and Postgraduate Studies, is a member of the Department of Philosophy, and represents the CTC Academic Board on the Senate of the College. He lectures in epistemology, ethics, social and political philosophy, and 20th century continental philosophy. He is a priest of the Catholic Diocese of Ballarat.
	Among the units he teaches are: AP128 Do Unto Others: Introduction to Ethics AP131 Truth: What is That? Epistemology and Logic [Epistemology] AP207/307 The Challenge of Modern Philosophy AP222/322 Ideas of the Age AP229/329 “No Man is an Island”: Social and Political Philosophy He also coordinates the units: AP397/398 Philosophy Seminar AP497/498 Philosophy Seminar
	Shane Mackinlay holds the degrees of Bachelor of Theology from the Melbourne College of Divinity, Bachelor of Arts from Monash University, and Master in Philosophy and Doctor in Philosophy from the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium). His doctoral research studied the implicit hermeneutics of Jean-Luc Marion’s saturated phenomena. He has also lectured at Australian Catholic University, in the areas of introductory theology and philosophy, and Christian theological ethics. He is the parish priest of St Michael’s, Bungaree, and chairs both the Clergy Assistance Fund and the Clergy Support Fund of the Ballarat Diocese. His main academic interests are phenomenology, hermeneutics, Jean-Luc Marion’s “saturated phenomena”, the philosophy of religion, aesthetics (philosophy of art), and the philosophy of science. He has published “Eyes Wide Shut: A Response to Jean-Luc Marion’s Account of the Journey to Emmaus” in Modern Theology (2004), and “Phenomenality in the Middle: Marion, Romano and the Hermeneutics of the Event” in Givenness and God: Questions of Jean-Luc Marion (2005), and has translated Jean-Luc Marion’s “The Reason of the Gift” in Givenness and God: Questions of Jean-Luc Marion (2005). Email: smackinlay@ctc.edu.au
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