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Vicente Chong, S.J.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology

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Vicente Chong, S.J.

Ph.D.

Contact

Telephone: 617-552-8448

Email: vicente.chong@bc.edu

Education

  • M.Div., Weston Jesuit School of Theology
  • S.T.L., Boston College
  • Ph.L., Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
  • Ph.D., Heythrop College, University of London

Research Interests

Theological Aesthetics; Liberation Theology; Trinitarian Theology; Ecotheology

Expertise

  • Systematic Theology
  • Feminist and Liberation Theologies
  • Latin American Theologies
  • Theology and the Arts

Profile

Vicente Chong is an alumnus of Boston College (S.T.L.) and also holds a Licentiate in Philosophy from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogota, Colombia; an M.Div. from Weston Jesuit School of Theology; and a Ph.D. from Heythrop College, University of London. After completing his Ph.D., Dr. Chong has worked as professor of Systematic Theology at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador. 

Selected Courses

  • Ecotheology
  • Fundamental Theology
  • The Mystery of the Trinity
  • Theological Aesthetics

Selected Publications

“The Art of Sammy Chong as a Revelatory and Symbolic Mediation of a Servant God.” In Theology and Media(tion): Rendering the Absent Present, edited by Stephen Okey and Katherine G. Schmidt, 210-223. Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 2024.

"Oscar Romero: A Theology of Symbol," Theologica Xaveriana, vol. 74 (2024), 1-28.

“Teología y liberación en el arte de Eduardo Kingman,” Theologica Xaveriana 70 (2020), 1-19.

A Theological Aesthetics of Liberation: God, Art, and the Social Outcasts. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2019.

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