 Fr. Richard Schenk, O.P.
Born in 1951 in Los Angeles County, Richard entered the Dominican novitiate at Oakland in 1971.
After basic studies in Berkeley, he completed his doctorate in systematic theology at the University of
Munich in 1986 with a comparison of the theological anthropology of Thomas Aquinas with the works of
Martin Heidegger and Karl Rahner. Schenk edited medieval manuscripts for five years at the Bavarian
Academy of Sciences in Munich, editing a work on the theology of non-Christian religions by Thomas
Aquinas' best known contemporary critic, Robert Kilwardby. Schenk was appointed professor of the faculties
of philosophy and theology at the DSPT in October, 1990. The following year he was appointed concurrent
director of the Hannover Institute of Philosophical Research and founder of its department for philosophy
and theology. He was also chosen at this time as a member of the European Academy of Science and Arts. In
May 1992 he became a member of the Core Doctoral Faculty of the GTU. From 1993-1998, Richard Schenk taught
during the spring semesters at the DSPT/GTU. Since the year 2000, Schenk has taught full-time at the GTU,
with the exception of 2003-2005, when he was Director of the Intercultural Forum for Studies in Faith and
Culture (ICF) in Washington, D.C. A Master of Sacred Theology since 2004, Richard is serving the Province
for the second time as its Regent of Studies. [updated 7-16-07]
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