John S. Dunne
The Road of the Heart's Desire focuses on the emergence of the human race and the individual from an undifferentiated oneness and the return of the individual to the human community and to reflective and differentiated oneness with God. Dunne expresses this reunion through music and language. "Thinking of the human essence, we can discern in story and song a double emergence and separation, that of the human race and that of the individual," he writes.Dunne traces four cycles of story and song: the unity of all things, an emergence and separation of the human race, the emergence of the individual, and finally a reunion of humanity with "all in all." The "road of the heart's desire" is the path each person takes toward this reunion.JOHN S. DUNNE is the John A. O'Brien Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of more than fifteen books including Reading the Gospel and The Mystic Road of Love, both published by the University of Notre Dame Press. Dunne has won numerous awards and has been a visiting professor at Yale University and Oxford University.
The overall purpose of his bequest was to contribute directly to the Catholic intellectual life and to the Catholic character of the University. O'Brien, a priest-author who spent 40 years teaching and writing at Notre Dame before his death in 1980. O'Brien Professor of Catholic Theology in 1988, has been a member of the Notre Dame faculty since 1957. Father Dunne still lectures at many universities, including Yale University and Oxford University. He then joined the faculty at The University of Notre Dame in 1957 as a priest and a Professor of Theology. edu/~prinfo/endow/artsletters/endow_dunne. shtml - 11k - 28 Sep 2002 -John S. Father Dunne is still an active author, focusing on trying to explain one's personal search for meaning and self-understanding.
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