Professor E. Piscitelli was born in 1942 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He attended college at St. Charles
Seminary in Philadelphia from 1957 to 1962. While Bernard Lonergan taught theology at the Gregorian University,
he studied theology at the Gregorian University in Rome, Italy on a scholarship from 1962 to 1965 at which time
he received a Bachelor Degree in Sacred Theology (STB). While in Europe, he attended Oxford and Cambridge Universities
in the summer sessions to study the New Testament and Intellectual History. Then he studied at Harvard University
from 1966-1968 where he received a degree of Master of Theology (Th.M.). Finally after teaching theology
and philosophy at Trinity College and The Northern Virginia Community College, and studying philosophy from 1972-1976
at Georgetown University, he received his Doctorate in Philosophy graduating with distinction from Georgetown
University in 1976. In 1984-1985 Professor Emil Piscitelli taught two courses in philosophy in the graduate school
of Georgetown University as a Visting Professor.
1. "Paul Ricoeur's Philosophy of Religious Symbol: A Critique and Dialectical Transposition." in Ultimate
Reality and Meaning, Vol 3, #4, 1980 pp. 275-313. Read Text
of the Article
2. "The Fundamental Attitudes of the Liberally Educated Person: Foundational Dialectics." in The Lonergan
Workshop Volume V, 1985, pp. 289-342.Read the Text of Dialectics
B. Other Works:
3. Masters In Sacred Theology Dissertation: "Understanding And Faith In the Theology of Thomas Aquinas:
A Study of the Lumen Fidei in the Philosophy and Theology of Thomas Aquinas." 1972.
4. Doctoral Dissertation: Language and Method In the Philosophy of Religion: A Critical Study of the
Development of the Thought of Bernard Lonergan 1976.
5. Manuscript: A Hermeneutic Ontology: Speech as the Foundation of The Human Reality. A book written
with Professor Patrick Mohr of Scranton University.
6.Manuscript: A Conversation With Plato's Symposium (1985-1997) with a translation of The
Symposium from the Greek.
7. Lecture Series given At University of Virginia Woodrow Wilson School of Government on Plato's Political Philosophy.
(September 1990).
8. Lecture Series On Plato's Symposium: Three Lectures, Boston College, Spring 1993. Text
of the First LectureText
of Second Lecture Text
of Third Lecture
9. Lecture On Plato's Symposium, Northern Virginia Community College Distinguished Faculty Lecterer
Series, Fall, 1996.
10. Manuscript: A Religious Philosophy: A Development of the Philosophy of Bernard Lonergan 1998 in progress.
