Zachary Hayes

For the ice hockey player, see Zack Hayes.

Zachary J. Hayes OFM (September 21, 1932 – March 16, 2014) was an American Franciscan priest, theologian and Bonaventure scholar.

The Reverend Zachary Hayes OFM
Born	(1932-09-21)September 21, 1932 Chicago, Illinois
Died	March 16, 2014(2014-03-16) (aged 81) Manitowoc, Wisconsin
Academic work
Discipline	Theology
Sub-discipline	Systematic theology
Institutions	Catholic Theological Union
Notable works	Bonaventure: Mystical Writings (1999)

Biography

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]