School of Arts and Sciences Review Winter 2014 | Page 22

Q&A

Research & Publications

with Jim Fodor
Fodor is a professor of theology at St. Bonaventure and co-editor of Modern
Theology, a leading international journal with an ecumenical editorial policy
dedicated to publishing exceptional scholarly articles addressing issues specific
to the discipline of theology and wider issues from a theological perspective.

Q:

What is entailed in being an editor
of Modern Theology, a leading journal
in the discipline of theology?

I started with the journal as a post-doctoral fellow at Duke
University in the mid-1990s. Then senior editor of Modern
Theology, Greg Jones, had just been installed as new dean of
the Divinity School and needed help. So I came on board as
managing editor. My charge consisted largely of exercising
administrative oversight of the journal. Gradually, I was invited to take an active part in reviewing submissions and contributed ideas about planning issues. So the transition from
managing editor to co-editor and then senior editor was a
rather seamless one. When I was invited to join the theology
faculty at St. Bonaventure in 2000, Greg asked me if I wanted
to assume his place as co- Y]܈[ۙ