Boston College professors, student win awards from Catholic Media Association
Boston College professors, student win awards from Catholic Media Association
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.
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.
Associate Professor, Systematic and Spiritual Theology
Historical Theology and Church History; Global Catholicism; Ignatian Spirituality and History; Spirituality Studies; Systematic Theology;
Professor of the Practice of Theology
Spirituality Studies; Systematic Theology; Feminist and Liberation Theologies; Practical Theology; Theology and the Arts;
Professor of New Testament
Biblical Studies; Spirituality Studies; Theology and the Arts;
Associate Professor of Systematic Theology
Feminist and Liberation Theologies; Latin American Theologies; Systematic Theology;
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.
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.
Angela Kim Harkins
The project on ritual mourning in the Second Temple period produced a number of studies of ancient Jewish and Christian Prayers.
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.
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.
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.
“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. ”
Paulist Press, 2022
New City Press, 2022
Paulist Press, 2022
Liturgical Press, 2022
Georgetown University Press, 2021
Paulist Press, 2018
Orbis, 2021
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016
Paulist Press, 2013
Paulist Press, 2017
Cascade Books, an imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2023
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.