The Rev. Daniel J. O’Hanlon; Jesuit Scholar

The Rev. Daniel J. O’Hanlon, 73, a Jesuit priest who had established a national reputation as a theologian and ecumenist. A graduate of and later teacher at Loyola-Marymount University in Los Angeles, O’Hanlon had taught for the last 30 years at the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley, retiring in 1989. He was esteemed in theological circles partly because of his contacts with other religions, among them Hinduism, which he studied in Asia. Many in his classes at the Jesuit school included graduate theology students from other institutions of higher learning. He entered the Jesuit order in 1939 and earned a doctorate degree from the Gregorian University in Rome in 1958. In Oakland on June 17 as the result of injuries suffered when he was struck by a car while crossing a Berkeley street.