EDUCATION

B.A., University of Texas, Austin
M.A., St. Mary’s University, San Antonio
M.A., Ph.D., University of Notre Dame

BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY

From 1991 to 2001 Gaillardetz was an associate professor of systematic theology at the University of St. Thomas Graduate School of Theology (at St. Mary’s Seminary), Houston. From 2001 to 2011 he was the Thomas and Margert Murray and James J. Bacik Professor of Catholic Studies at the University of Toledo.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

His research interests include topics in ecclesiology: Vatican II, ecumenism, authority and ministry.

TEACHING

Vatican II
Theology of Yves Congar
Marriage and Family
Theology of Ministry

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND AWARDS

In 2000 he received the Sophia Award from the faculty of the Washington Theological Union in recognition of “theological excellence in service to ministry,” and he has received numerous awards from the Catholic Press Association for his occasional pieces. Dr. Gaillardetz was a delegate on the U.S. Catholic—Methodist Ecumenical Dialogue from 2001 to 2005. He was recently elected vice-president of the Catholic Theological Society of America and in two years will succeed to the office of president.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

Ecclesiology for a Global Church (Orbis, 2008).
A Daring Promise: A Spirituality of Christian Marriage (Liguori, 2007).
The Church in the Making (Paulist, 2006).

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

"Dialogue and deliberation during Vatican II." America Magazine, Vol. 206 No.4 (Feb. 2012), Online Available: http://www.americamagazine.org/content/article.cfm?article_id=13245.

Keys to the Council: Unlocking the Teaching of Vatican II, with Catherine Clifford (Liturgical Press, 2012).

“The Theological Reception of ‘Co-Workers in the Vineyard of the Lord’.” Chapter in Lay Ecclesial Ministry: Pathways toward the Future. Edited by Zeni Fox. Pp. 17-30. Lanham: Rowan and Littlefield, 2010.

“Sexual Vulnerability and a Spirituality of Suffering: Explorations in the Writing of Etty Hillesum.” Pacifica 22 (February, 2009): 75-89.

“The Office of the Bishop within the Communio Ecclesiarum: Insights from the Ecclesiology of Jean-Marie Tillard.” Science et Esprit. 61 (Mai-Dec., 2009): 175-94.