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
- Theology and Practice of Ignatian Spiritual Accompaniment
- Trajectories in Contemporary Theology
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).
The Art of Spiritual Direction: A Guide to Ignatian Practice (Dublin: Messenger Publications, 2020; New York: Paulist Press, 2021).
Articles
“The Eucharist’s Many Meanings: Real Presence, Thomas Aquinas, and the Second Vatican Council,” Horizons: The Journal of the College Theology Society (Summer 2027); co-authored with Stephen McNulty.
“Why Strategy is Good for Synodality: Learning from the Diocese of Parramatta,” Australasian Catholic Record 103, no. 2 (2026): 150–170; co-authored with Qwayne Ybe Guevara.
“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.