Name Lieven Boeve | ||
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Occupation Belgian catholic theologian, full professor of Systematic Theology and Dean Books God Interrupts History: T, Interrupting Tradition: An Essay, Lyotard and Theology | ||
Lieven Boeve [‘li:vən ‘bu:və] (born Veurne, April 10, 1966) is a Belgian Catholic theologian, and is full professor of Systematic Theology at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, where he currently also serves as Dean of the Faculty. Since 2012 he is also the chair of the Centre for Academic Teacher’s Training, KU Leuven. On 1 August 2014 he became the Director General of the Flemish Secretary for Catholic Education (VSKO).
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Research career
In 1995 Boeve obtained his doctoral degree in Theology with a dissertation on the reception of postmodernity in theology. In 1997 he became part-time instructor at the KU Leuven, in 1999 he became full-time instructor. Between 1998 and 2003 he also lectured at the Faculty of Theology of the Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve.
In 2000 he set up a research group Theology in a Postmodern Context, supporting about ten research and doctoral projects on a.o. the study of the ‘theological method’, Christian faith in the actual culture, and the relation between philosophy and theology. Meanwhile he is also the coordinator of the GOA project on The Normativity of History, conducting historical-systematic research, and the interdisciplinary research group Anthropos.
From 2005 until 2009 Boeve was the international chair of the European Society of Catholic Theology.
Publications
In 2003 Boeve published Interrupting Tradition. An Essay on Christian Faith in a Postmondern Context, followed by a second more methodological work on the relation between theology and the actual context: God Interrupts History. Theology in a Time of Upheaval. In 2013 he edited Tradition and the Normativity of History, together with Terrence Merrigan. In 2014 he will publish Lyotard and Theology, Beyond the Master Narrative of Love. In addition Boeve is working on a book on the place of theology in the university, the church and society. Boeve also published several articles in scientific journals and books.
Trivia
Lieven Boeve lives in Leuven together with his wife Maryleen Verhavert and their three children.