Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle (born October 4, 1943) is an American academic based in Canada.
[1] After working as a theology instructor at the University of Portland (1967-1969), she returned to St. Michael's to get her PhD in 1974;[1] her doctoral dissertation was named The grammar of method: a theological study of Erasmus' renaissance, especially as manifested in his Ratio seu methodus compendio perveniendi ad veram theologiam.
[4] Boyle's academic specialty is religious rhetoric, particularly in the Middle Ages and Rennaissance.
[5] In 1979, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship[6] for a "study of the humanist nature of Erasmus's controversy with Luther".
[1] She later published the following books: Petrarch's Genius (1991), which its publisher said was the first book to depict Petrarch as a theologian;[5] Divine Domesticity (1996), which focuses on the idea of the divine indwelling;[7] Loyola's Acts (1997), which suggests that The Autobiography of St. Ignatius is epideictic;[8] and Senses of Touch (1998), which explores the rhetorical nature of the human hand.