The Dais: Episcopalians love hard words

The Dais is very happy to have as it's guest Mr. Scott MacDougall, he's a Teaching Fellow and Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Theology at Fordham University and contributor to the Huffington Post Religion page, received his Master's in theology from the General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church in 2007. He is currently at work on a dissertation entitled More Than Communion: Toward an Eschatological Ecclesiology, which investigates the relationship between theological imagination and how we practice being a Christian community. His research, teaching, and writing are focused on the ways in which Christian systematic theology connect to contemporary debates and conflicts over the relationship of faith to science, politics, culture, and social action. Convinced that the world's religions have a role to play as we struggle to develop a vision of the common good, MacDougall is committed to demonstrating the value of theology as public discourse and to the vocation of the theologian as a public intellectual. In 2011, he was named by Fordham's Graduate Student Association as the Graduate Teaching Fellow of the Year in the School of Arts and Sciences.