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Education University of Notre Dame, University of Texas at Austin Books Keys to the Council: Unlockin, By what Authority?: A Primer, A Daring Promise, Ecclesiology for a global church, Transforming our days | ||
Richard gaillardetz vatican ii an unfinished building site burke lectureship
Richard Gaillardetz (born 1958) is an American theologian specializing in questions relating to Catholic ecclesiology and the structures of authority in the Roman Catholic Church. For his dissertation he researched ‘the Theology of the Ordinary Universal Magisterium of Bishops’. He is the author or editor of thirteen books, the most recent of which is An Unfinished Council: Vatican II, Pope Francis, and the Renewal of Catholicism (Liturgical Press, 2015)..
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- Richard gaillardetz vatican ii an unfinished building site burke lectureship
- Queer catholic faith webshow 11 26 2013 with guest dr richard gaillardetz
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Born in a Texas military family, he earned his BA in humanities in 1981 from the University of Texas and an M.A. in biblical theology at St. Mary's University in San Antonio, Texas in 1984. He also received an M.A. and a Ph.D. in systematic theology from the University of Notre Dame. From 1991 to 2001, he taught at the University of St. Thomas Graduate School of Theology in Houston, Texas. From 2001 to 2011, Gaillardetz held the Thomas and Margaret Murray and James J. Bacik Chair in Catholic Studies at the University of Toledo. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Catholic Theological Society of America and on the U.S. Roman Catholic-Methodist Ecumenical Dialogue. In 2011, Gaillardetz left the University of Toledo to accept the Joseph Chair of Catholic Systematic Theology at Boston College.