Faculty Profile

Br. Robert Berger, F.S.C. Vice President, Student Life Associate Professor of Religious Studies

Education:

• B.S., Manhattan College
• M.S.Ed., Monmouth College
• M.Div., Princeton Theological Seminary, 1988
• D.Min., Drew University, 1990

Research and Scholarly Interests:

Roman Catholic beliefs, religious practices, moral teachings, and attitudes to other religious traditions, both in the historical development of Catholicism and as subjects of contemporary discussion and debate. The understanding of the Hebrew Scriptures and its implications for contemporary models of spirituality. The spirituality of teaching based on the three hundred-year-old tradition of Lasallian Education.

Publications:

Brother Robert has edited a volume entitled, Ministry and Spirituality in the Time of John Baptist de La Salle and published a number of articles in the area of spirituality in Review For Religious, Listening/Journal of Religion and Culture, and Christian Brothers Spirituality Seminar Series.

Community Activities:

For the past fifteen years Brother Robert has assisted men and women in the ministry of spiritual direction and Eight Day Directed Retreats. As a faculty member of the Lasallian Leadership Institute, he has given presentation on "Lasallian Spirituality." Brother Robert is also the Director of one of Manhattan College's residence halls.

Courses Taught/Teaching:

• RELS 110 The Nature and Experience of Religion
• LLRN 111 First-Year Seminar
• RELS 306 Central Themes in the Hebrew Scriptures
• RELS 325 Contemporary Catholicism
• RELS 326 Contemporary Catholic Theologians
• RELS 416 Saints: Yesterday and Today
• RELS 470: Seminar: Prophetic Imagination
• RELS 470: Seminar: Legends of Genesis

Contact Information:

• Telephone: (718) 862-7352
• Office: Memorial 201
• Fax: (718) 862-8014
• e-mail: robert.berger@manhattan.edu

Page last updated by N. Cave on January 6, 2003