The Reverend Zachary Hayes | |
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Born | |
Died | March 16, 2014 | (aged 81)
Academic work | |
Discipline | Theology |
Sub-discipline | |
Institutions | Catholic Theological Union |
Notable works | Bonaventure: Mystical Writings (1999) |
Zachary J. Hayes OFM (September 21, 1932 – March 16, 2014) was an American Franciscan priest, theologian and Bonaventure scholar.
Born in Chicago, Hayes completed a BA in philosophy in 1956 from Quincy University and a ThD in 1964 from the University of Bonn in Germany. While there, one of his professors was Joseph Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict XVI; Hayes was later the first to translate Ratzinger’s habilitation into English.[ citation needed]
In 1974, he was appointed Full Professor of systematic theology at the Catholic Theological Union where he taught for 37 years, beginning as one of the founding professors in 1968. [1] [2]
He published 16 books and 55 articles. [2] A festschrift was prepared in his honor, entitled That Others May Know and Love and published in 1997. [3]