James P. Mackey holds doctorates in both philosophy and theology. He began his career in the philosophy department at
Queen's College, Belfast, and went on to become professor of theology at the University of San
Francisco and then at the University of
Edinburgh, where he was the first Roman Catholic to hold the chair of theology since the founding of the university in the sixteenth century. He has been a visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley, at Graduate Theological Union at Berkeley, at Dartmouth College, and currently at Trinity College, Dublin. Among his ten books are The Problems of Religious Faith, Jesus the Man and the Myth, An Introduction to Celtic Christianity, The Critique of Theological Reason, and Power and Christian Ethics.
