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).
The Holy Spirit, the Church, and Pneumatological Renewal: Mystici Corporis, Lumen Gentium and Beyond (Brill, 2022).
Articles
“Synodality and Personal Renewal: Embracing and Transforming Lumen Gentium’s Universal Call to Holiness,” Theological Studies 86, no. 4 (2025): 559-581.
“Academic Theology and the Synod 2021-2024: Insights from the ‘Mapping Synodality Project’,” ET-Studies: Journal of the European Society for Catholic Theology 15, no. 2 (2024): 349-359.
“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.