Roberto Goizueta

EDUCATION
B.A., Yale University
M.A., Ph.D., Marquette 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
Person 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, 1990-91.

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

"A Ressourcement from the Margins: U.S. Latino Popular Catholicism as Lived Religion." In Theology and Lived Christianity, pp. 3-37. Edited by David M. Hammond. Mystic, CT: Twenty-Third Publications, 2000.

"Locating the Absolutely Absolute Other: Toward a Transmodern Christianity." In Thinking from the Underside of History: Enrique Dussel's Philosophy of Liberation, pp. 181-193. Edited by Linda Martín Alcoff and Eduardo Mendieta. Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2000.

"There You Will See Him": Christianity Beyond the Frontier Myth." In The Church as Counterculture, pp. 171-193. Edited by Michael Budde and Robert Brimlow. Ithaca: SUNY Press, 2000.

"Resurrection at Tepeyac: The Guadalupan Encounter." Theology Today 56, no. 3 (October, 1999): 336-345.
"Fiesta: Life in the Subjunctive." In From the Heart of Our People: Latino/a Explorations in Catholic Systematic Theology, pp. 84-99. Edited by Orlando Espín and Miguel Díaz. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1999.

Caminemos con Jesús: Toward a Hispanic/Latino Theology of Accompaniment. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1995

PUBLICATIONS SINCE 2002
"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.

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

"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.