Theology Department Faculty
Jos Moons, S.J.
Assistant Professor
Jos Moons, S.J.
Ph.D.
Contact
Stokes Hall 455N
Telephone: 617-552-8603
Email: jos.moons@bc.edu
Education
- Ph.D., Tilburg University
- M.A., Katholieke Universiteit Utrecht & Facultés Loyola (Paris)
- B.A., Katholieke Universiteit Utrecht
Courses
- Engaging Catholicism
- The Spirit Gives Life: Pneumatology Old and New
- Vatican II and Us: Documents and Interpretations
Research Interests
- Ecclesiology
- Pneumatology
- Synodality
- Second Vatican Council
Office Hours
- Mondays 10:00-12:00 noon and by appointment
Selected Publications
Books
The Future of Synodality: How We Move on From Here, with Kristin Colberg, (Liturgical Press, 2025). Winner of the 2026 “Excellence in Publishing” Award by the Association of Catholic Publishers, in the category “Theology”.
The Holy Spirit, the Church, and Pneumatological Renewal: Mystici Corporis, Lumen Gentium and Beyond (Brill, 2022).
Articles
“Ignatius of Loyola and the Holy Spirit: Four Strategies to Cope with the Pneumatological Ambiguity of Early Ignatian Sources,” Studies in the Spirituality of Jesuits 58, no. 1 (Spring 2026): 9-46.
“Synodality and Personal Renewal: Embracing and Transforming Lumen Gentium’s Universal Call to Holiness,” Theological Studies 86, no. 4 (2025): 559-581.
“Broadening the Baptismal Foundation of a Synodal Church: A Plea for A Baptismal Ethos,” Studia Canonica 58 (2024): 131-152.
“La lettre ou l’esprit ? La synodalité et les limites de la reforme du droit canon,” Nouvelle Revue Théologique 145 (2023): 403-419.
“The Holy Spirit as the Protagonist of the Synod: Pope Francis’s Creative Reception of the Second Vatican Council,” Theological Studies 84, no. 1 (2023): 61-78.