Boston College professors, student win awards from Catholic Media Association
Boston College professors, student win awards from Catholic Media Association
Dedicated mentors + World-class scholars
Faculty & Research
Our faculty are scholars, mentors, and ministers, helping students transform into leaders of communities around the world. Through sincere interactions and enduring relationships, faculty members help students flourish academically, in ministerial work, and in exploring their own spiritual expression.
The nation’s largest theological faculty
Together with the Boston College Theology Department, our 71 faculty members comprise the largest theology faculty in the country.
Meet Our Faculty
Utilizing participative pedagogical processes and analogical imagination, our faculty prepares students to be leaders of intellectual strength and integrity, who are able to respond in theologically substantive ways to the pressing issues of our time.
André Brouillette, S.J.
Associate Professor, Systematic and Spiritual Theology
Historical Theology and Church History; Global Catholicism; Ignatian Spirituality and History; Spirituality Studies; Systematic Theology;
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Colleen M. Griffith
Professor of the Practice of Theology
Spirituality Studies; Systematic Theology; Feminist and Liberation Theologies; Practical Theology; Theology and the Arts;
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Angela Kim Harkins
Professor of New Testament
Biblical Studies; Spirituality Studies; Theology and the Arts;
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O. Ernesto Valiente
Associate Professor of Systematic Theology
Feminist and Liberation Theologies; Latin American Theologies; Systematic Theology;
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Research Projects
Measuring Meaning-Making: BC-LAMP-C
BC-LAMP-C is a quantitative instrument that measures the capacity for meaning-making among college students. It draws on constructive-developmental theory, which recognizes the expanding cognitive, interpersonal and intrapersonal capacities, by which individuals interpret and make meaning of the world and their place in it (Kegan 1982; Kegan, 1994; Baxter-Magolda, 2007; Parks, 2011). Growth in meaning-making capacity is marked by individuals’ increasing ability to see themselves as distinct, but connected in myriad ways to the world around them.
Sense of the Possible: An Introduction to Theology and Imagination
Callid Keefe-Perry
Sense of the Possible is for those interested in learning about the intersection of Christian theology and imagination. Written from the assumption that imagination is deeply connected to the Christian work for liberation and human flourishing, this book is an energizing introduction to the ways in which theologians have thought about the powerful human capacity to envision a future that has not yet come.
Ritual Mourning in the Second Temple Period
Angela Kim Harkins
The project on ritual mourning in the Second Temple period produced a number of studies of ancient Jewish and Christian Prayers.
A Theology of Pilgrimage
André Brouillette
The phenomenon of pilgrimage is important in the lived experience of Christianity throughout history, and historians, anthropologists, and sociologists have studied it, but it has rarely explored theologically. This project to reconnect aspects of pilgrimage that have a theological import—historical narratives, devotional practices, Biblical sources—to explore the meaning of a pilgrim paradigm in the Church and understand its continued relevance.
Disability Ethic/Preferential Justice: A Catholic Perspective
Mary Jo Iozzio
This book introduces disability basics, realities, and etiquette; reviews landmark contributions of the United Nations and World Health Organization; and utilizes theological traditions on the Trinitarian basis of the imago Dei, natural law, Catholic social teaching on the option for the poor and marginalized, and the imperatives of disability inclusion for the Church and the world.
Social History of U.S. Franciscan Missionaries in Latin America, the Caribbean and Africa (1879–2019)
Margaret Eletta Guider, O.S.F.
The project provides an overview of the missionary activities, locations, and legacies of U.S. Franciscans from 1879–2019. Sr. Guider's research draws on resources including archival records, missionary narratives, interviews, and statistical data, as well as additional materials relevant to particular orders, provinces, and congregations.
Faculty in the News
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“We try to teach academic courses in ways that are eminently pastoral and applicable. Our practical courses are very academic. We try to teach them both in ways that nurture people's own spiritual growth. The academic, the pastoral, and the spiritual – letting all three suffuse each other and inform and color each other. We don't see these as a triangle. We see them as integrated. ”
Faculty Publications
Synodality: A New Way of Proceeding in the Church
Paulist Press, 2022
What Does the Bible Say About Animals?
New City Press, 2022
The Pilgrim Paradigm: Faith and Motion
Paulist Press, 2022
Tilling the Church: Theology for an Unfinished Project
Liturgical Press, 2022
The Structures of Virtue and Vice (Moral Traditions)
Georgetown University Press, 2021
Navigating toward Adulthood- A Theology of Ministry with Adolescents
Paulist Press, 2018
What Makes Education Catholic
Orbis, 2021
Clare of Assisi and the Thirteenth-Century Church: Religious Women, Rules, and Resistance
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016
Hope: Promise, Possibility, Fulfillment
Paulist Press, 2013
The Holy Spirit: Setting the World on Fire
Paulist Press, 2017
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Sense of the Possible: An Introduction to Theology and Imagination
Cascade Books, an imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2023
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Faculty Collaboration
Two book projects, Hope: Promise, Possibility, and Fulfillment and The Holy Spirit: Setting the World on Fire are notable examples of how CSTM faculty members collaborate and support one another academically. For these projects, the faculty selected a central theme, and then each contributor explored the issue from her or his theological area of expertise.
Unparalleled Access to Expertise
Students also form relationships with stellar faculty in the Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences Theology Department, whose primary research areas include biblical studies, historical theology/history of Christianity, comparative theology, systematic theology, and theological ethics.