EDUCATION

MA, Ph.D., Marquette University
BA, Yale University

BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY

Married, three children

RESEARCH INTERESTS

U.S. Latino/a theologies
Theology and culture
Theological aesthetics
Christology

TEACHING

Liberation Theology
U.S. Latino/a Theology
Theology and Culture
Personal and Social Responsibility

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND AWARDS

Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa. Elms College.

Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa. University of San Francisco.

President, Catholic Theological Society of America, 2004-2005.

President, Academy of Catholic Hispanic Theologians of the United States, 1990-1991.

PUBLICATIONS SINCE 2002

Books

Christ our Companion: Toward a Theological Aesthetics of Liberation. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2009.

Hispanic Christian Thought at the Dawn of the 21st Century, co-edited with Alvin Padilla and Eldin Villafañe. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2005.

Articles and Book Chapters

“The Church: A Latino Catholic Perspective.” In Benjamin Valentín, In Our Own Voices: Latino/a Renditions of Theology.  Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2010.

“Corpus Verum: Toward a Borderland Ecclesiology.” In Orlando O. Espín, ed., Building Bridges, Doing Justice: Constructing a Latino/a Ecumenical Theology. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2009.

“Resisting the Frontier, Meeting at the Border.” In Michael G. Long, ed., Resist! Christian Dissent for the 21st Century. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2008.

“Rouault’s Christ: A Call to Aesthetic Conversion.” In Stephen Schloesser, ed., Mystic Masque: Semblance and Reality in Georges Rouault, 1871-1958. McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College/University of Chicago Press, 2008.

“An Integral Theology, an Integral Faith.” Pedro Hugues and Consuelo de Prado, eds., Libertad y Esperanza: A Gustavo Gutiérrez por sus 80 años. Lima, Peru: Instituto Bartolomé de las Casas, 2008.

“The Christology of Jon Sobrino.” In Stephen J. Pope, ed., Hope and Solidarity: Jon Sobrino’s Challenge to Christian Theology. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2008.

“Liberalism,” “Liberation Theology.” In William A. Dyrness and Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, Global Dictionary of Theology. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2008.

“Challenges of/to the U.S. Latino/a Liturgical Community.” Liturgical Ministry 16 (Summer 2007): 124-131.

"Reconciliation and the Refusal to Cease Suffering." The Msgr. Philip J. Murnion Lecture of the Catholic Common Ground Initiative. New York: National Pastoral Life Center, 2006.

"From Calvary to Galilee" [abridged version of CTSA presidential address]. America. April 17, 2006.

"The Crucified and Risen Christ: From Calvary to Galilee." Presidential Address, in Proceedings of the Catholic Theological Society of America 60 (2005): 57-71.

"Beyond the Frontier Myth [reprint]." In Hispanic Christian Thought at the Dawn of the 21stCentury, co-edited with Alvin Padilla and Eldin Villafañe. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2005.

"Because God is Near, God is Real." In Peter Horsfield, Mary Hess, and Adán Medrano, eds., Belief in Media: Cultural Perspectives on Media and Christianity. London: Ashgate, 2004.

"The Eye With Which God Looks at You." In Elizabeth T. Goizueta, ed. Matta: Making the Invisible Visible, pp. 41-47. Chestnut Hill, MA: The McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College/University of Chicago Press, 2004.

"The Symbolic Realism of U.S. Latino/a Popular Catholicism." Theological Studies 65, no. 2 (June 2004): 255-274.

"Gustavo Gutiérrez." In Peter Scott and William T. Cavanaugh, eds., The Blackwell Companion to Political Theology, pp. 288-301. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2004.

"Knowing the God of the Poor: The Preferential Option for the Poor." In Joerg Rieger, ed., Opting for the Margins: Postmodernity and Liberation in Christian Theology, pp. 143-156. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

"Catholicism in America." In Gary Laderman and Luis León, eds., Religion and American Cultures: An Encyclopedia of Traditions, Diversity, and Popular Expression, 3 Vols. Vol. 1, pp. 75-81. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2003.

"Our Lady of Guadalupe: The Heart of Mexican Identity." In Craig R. Prentiss, ed. Religion and the Creation of Race and Identity, pp. 140-151. New York and London: New York University Press, 2003.

"The Symbolic World of Mexican American Religion." In Timothy Matovina and Gary Riebe-Estrella, eds. Horizons of the Sacred: Mexican Traditions in U.S. Catholicism, pp. 119-138. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2002.

"U.S. Latino/a Theology: Retrospect and Prospect." Introductory essay for Raúl Fornet-Betancourt, ed. Glaube an der Grenze: Die US-amerikanische Latino-Theologie. Theologie der Dritten Welt, Band 29. Freiburg: Herder, 2002.

"Rediscovering Praxis" [German translation of my previously-published article]. In Raúl Fornet-Betancourt, ed. Glaube an der Grenze: Die US-amerikanische Latino-Theologie. Theologie der Dritten Welt, Band 29. Freiburg: Herder, 2002.