2024 - 2025
Board of Directors
Susan Abraham
President
Luca Ferracci
Director
Margareta Gruber, OSF
Director
Leonel Guardado
Director
Stan Chu Ilo
Director
Board of Editors
Susan Abraham
Antony John Baptist
Steven Battin
Bernardeth Caero Bustillos
Silvia Martínez-Cano
Viorel Coman
Catherine Cornille
Geraldo Luiz De Mori, SJ
Massimo Faggioli
Luca Ferracci
Margareta Gruber, OSF
Leonel Guardado
Jonas Hagedorn
Stan Chu Ilo
Léonard Amossou Katchekpele
Cesar Kuzma
Ludovic Lado, SJ
Albertus Bagus Laksana
Gianluca Montaldi, FN
Carlos Schickendantz
Stephan van Erp, OP
Wai Ching Angela Wong
Richard L. Wood
Antonina Wozna
Susan Abraham
Berkeley (USA)
Susan Abraham is Vice President of Academic Affairs, Dean of Faculty and Professor of Theology and Postcolonial Cultures. Her publications and presentations weave practical theological insights from the experience of working as a youth minister for the Diocese of Mumbai, India, with theoretical perspectives from postcolonial theory, cultural studies, and feminist theory. Ongoing research projects include issues in feminist theological education and formation, interfaith and interreligious peace initiatives, theology and political theory, religion and media, global Catholicism, and Christianity between colonialism and postcolonialism.
Antony John Baptist
Bangalore (India)
Currently Director of NBCLC (National Biblical Catechetical Liturgical Centre), Bangalore, India, he is a catholic priest of the Diocese of Vellore, Tamilnadu, India. He has masters in History and Education. He has also earned a Licentiate at Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome. He holds a Doctorate in Biblical Theology from the Department of Christian Studies, Madras University, India. He has served as the professor of Sacred Scripture at Sacred Heart College, Chennai and as the Executive Secretary of CCBI (Conference of Catholic Bishops of India) Commission for Bible. He taught as a Guest Faculty at Department of Christian Studies, (Madras University), Arul Kadal (Jesuit Regional Theologate, Chennai) and Khrist Premalaya Regional Theologate-Ashta in Madhya Pradesh, India. Presently he teaches as a guest faculty at Vidya Deep College (Bengaluru), Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram (DVK, Bengaluru) and St. Peter’s Pontifical Institute, (Bengaluru). His areas of study include Old Testament Exegesis, Narrative Criticism, Feminist Biblical Interpretation, Dalit and Subaltern Reading of the Bible. Some of his recent publications include: Together as Sisters: Hagar and Dalit Women (Delhi: ISPCK, 2012); Unsung Melodies from Margins (Delhi: ISPCK, 2014); Thus Spoke the Bible: Basics of Biblical Narrative (New Delhi: ISPCK, 2016); Planted by the Spring: Biblical Themes for Today (Bengaluru: ATC, 2018) and a number of articles in the national and the international theological journals.
Steven Battin
Indiana (USA)
Battin is Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Notre Dame. His research interests focus on the intersection of theology with both social psychology and decolonial theory. Dr. Battin is the author of Intercommunal Ecclesiology: The Church, Salvation, and Intergroup Conflict (2022).
Bernardeth Caero Bustillos
Cochabamba (Bolivia)
She is born in 1973, Doctorate in Theology at the Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg in Austria. Lecturer at the Instituto Superior de Estudios Teológicos (2008–2011) and Professor at the Facultad de Teología “San Pablo” (2012–2014) of Old Testament in Bolivia. Since 2015 research at the Universität Osnabrück in Germany as a scholarship holder of the Stipendienwerk Lateinamerika– Deutschland e.V. Research interests: Biblical Theology, Biblical Hebrew, Interdisciplinary Theology, Teología India.
Silvia Martínez-Cano
Madrid (Spain)
Martínez-Cano has a PhD in Education from the Complutense University of Madrid, Bachelor in Fundamental Theology from the University of Deusto and Master in Visual Arts and Education from the University of Barcelona. She is a multidisciplinary artist from a feminist and religious perspective, www.silviamartinezcano.es . She teaches Theory of Education, Social Pedagogy and Aesthetic Education at the Complutense University of Madrid, and teaches different subjects of Fundamental and Pastoral Theology at the Instituto Superior de Pastoral and the Instituto San Pío X, both at the Pontifical University of Salamanca. Her areas of research are interdisciplinary, being Trinitarian Theology, Theological Aesthetics, Visual and Cultural Studies, Art and Gender, Art and Education, Ecclesiology and Theological Anthropology. She is currently pursuing her second PhD in Trinitarian Theology and Theological Aesthetics.
Viorel Coman
Bucharest (Romania)
Viorel Coman is an assistant Professor (substitute) at the Faculty of Orthodox Theology, University of Bucharest, and Coordinating Patriarchal Counsellor within the Department for Inter-Church and Inter-Religious Relations of the Romanian Orthodox Patriarchate. He is also a free research associate at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, KU Leuven (Belgium). Viorel Coman is the co-chair of the Ecumenical Dialogue Group of the International Orthodox Theological Association (IOTA). In the past, he served as a member of the steering committee of the same group. He is the former secretary (2018-2022) of the Societas Oecumenica-The European Society for Ecumenical Research, and a member of its current standing committee. As a secretary, he was involved in organizing the 21st Academic Consultation of the Societas Oecumenica, which took place in Malta, from 5-10 May 2022.
Catherine Cornille
Boston (USA)
Catherine Cornille is Professor of Comparative Theology at Boston College, where she holds the Newton College Alumnae Chair of Western Culture. She obtained her PhD from the Catholic University of Leuven, where she also taught from 1990 until 2000. Her areas of research focus on Theology of Religions, Comparative Theology, Interreligious Dialogue, and Religious Hybridity. She is the author of The Im-Possibility of Interreligious Dialogue (2008) and Meaning and Method in Comparative Theology (2020). Her edited volumes include Many Mansions? Multiple Religious Belonging and Christian Identity (2002), Interreligious Hermeneutics (2010), The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Interreligious Dialogue (2013), Women and Interreligious Dialogue (2013) and Atonement and Comparative Theology (2021). She is founding and managing editor of the book series “Christian Commentaries on non-Christian Sacred Texts” which has published 10 volumes.
Research area/s: Theology of Religions, Comparative Theology, Interreligious Dialogue, and Religious Hybridity
Geraldo Luiz de Mori
Belo Horizonte (Brasil)
He was born in 1960 in Cachoeiro in Itapemirim, in the state of Espírito Santo, Brazil, and he currently lives in Belo Horizonte. Geraldo is a Jesuit professor of Systematic Theology in the Faculty of Theology and Philosophy (FAJE). He earned his Masters and Doctorate degrees in Theology from the Jesuit Faculty in Paris. Currently he serves as the Dean of the Department of Theology of the FAJE. His areas of interest include Theological Anthropology, Christian Eschatology, Pastoral Theology, Latin American Theology, mysticism, as well as the philosophical fields of Phenomenology and Hermeneutics. Geraldo served as the vice president of the Theological and Religious Sciences Society (SOTER) from 2010-2013, and he has been a visiting professor at the Catholic University of Louvain and the Jesuit Faculty in Paris. He is currently the general editor of the Digital Encyclopedia of Latin American theology www.theologicalatinoamericana.com He exercises pastoral ministry in the parish St. Francis Xavier.
Massimo Faggioli
Villanova (USA)
Dr. Faggioli is professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Villanova University (Philadelphia). He was founding co-chair of the study group “Vatican II Studies” for the American Academy of Religion between 2012 and 2017. He is member of the steering committee for the project “Vatican II: Legacy and Mandate” for a multi-volume, intercontinental commentary of Vatican II. His most recent publications include the books Joe Biden and Catholicism in the United States (Bayard 2021) and The Liminal Papacy of Pope Francis. Moving Toward Global Catholicity (Orbis, 2020). Together with Catherine Clifford he is the co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Vatican II (Oxford UP, 2023). He is columnist for Commonweal, La Croix International, and Jesus (Italy), and staff member for the Italian Catholic magazine Il Regno. He lives in the Philadelphia area with his wife and their two children.
Luca Ferracci
Bologna (Italy)
Luca is research fellow at the Department of Education and Humanities of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and affiliated researcher at FSCIRE-Fondazione per le scienze religiose, Bologna. He is the editor of the multi-volume work A History of the Desire for Christian Unity. Ecumenism in the Churches (19th-21st Century), published in English by Brill and in Italian by Il Mulino. He is a member of the editorial board of the Bologna Studies in Religious History series, published in the Brill catalog. In 2020-2021 he taught Church History at the Theological Faculty of Emilia Romagna (FTER). His latest book is Battesimo Eucarestia Ministero. Genesi e destino di un documento ecumenico, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2021. The focus of his current research is on Ronald Reagan’s public diplomacy against Liberation Theology in Central America and at home.
Margareta Gruber OSF
Vallendar (Germany)
She was born 1961 in Germany. She did her studies in Tübingen, Jerusalem and Frankfurt/Sankt Georgen. Since 2008 she holds the Chair of New Testament Exegesis and Biblical Theology at the Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule Vallendar (Faculty of Catholic Theology at the University of Vallendar, Germany), where she is presently the Dean. From 2009-2013 she held the Laurentius-Klein-Chair of Biblical and Ecumenical Theology in the German Academic Program at the Dormition Abbey in Jerusalem. Her field of research covers the Gospel of John, the Book of Revelation, Biblical Hermeneutics, Intertextuality, Exegesis and Biblical Spirituality. Since her time in Jerusalem her field of interest is also Bible in interreligious contexts; she is engaged in academic interreligious exchange. She is a Franciscan sister.
Leo Guardado
New York City (USA)
Born in El Salvador, Leo is an assistant professor at Fordham University. His academic formation is in systematic theology and peace studies (University of Notre Dame), with a focus on forced displacement and migration from Central America. His first monograph is titled Church as Sanctuary: Reconstructing Refuge in an Age of Forced Displacement (Orbis, 2023). Other publications include “Sanctuary for Asylum Seekers” (Theological Studies, 2021), “Theologians in the Field: ‘Dices que eres un teólogo, ¿ cuál es tu practica?’” (Journal of Moral Theology, 2023), “Oscar Romero, Patron Saint of Church Asylum” (Louvain Studies, 2022), and “Teología de la Liberación: Nuevas Presencias, Nuevas Búsquedas,” (Paginas, 2021). He has worked at the US-Mexico border with dioceses, parishes, and NGO’s, collaborated with the US conference of Catholic bishops (USCCB) on migration initiatives, and is currently engaged in ethnographic research in New York City on indigenous healing practices among migrant communities. Other research interests include early church monasticism, Cistercian spirituality, Christian mysticism, the relationship between structural violence and health, and the impact of surveillance technologies on migrant communities.
Jonas Hagedorn
Bochum (Germany)
Born in 1981 he studied at the Universities of Münster, Innsbruck and San Salvador (El Salvador) and did his doctorate at the Technical University of Darmstadt (2016). Between 2016 and 2022 he worked as a research fellow at Nell-Breuning-Institute of the Sankt Georgen Graduate School of Philosophy and Theology (Frankfurt am Main). Since 2022 he has been holding the Chair of Social Ethics at the faculty of Catholic Theology of Ruhr University Bochum. His field of research covers the foundations of Christian social ethics, theories of solidarity and social justice, welfare state research and the organisation of social services, especially care work. Since his time in Latin America he has also been keenly interested in various topics regarding liberation theologies.
Stan Chu Ilo
Chicago (USA)
Stan Chu Ilo is research professor of global Christianity and African studies at the Center for Global Catholicism and Intercultural Theology at DePaul University, Chicago. He is an honorary professor of religion and theology at Durham University in England and a research scholar at the Institute of African Studies at the University of Nigeria. He is the 2017 recipient of the Afro-Global Excellence Award for Global Impact. He is the founder of Canadian Samaritans for Africa. He is the coordinating servant of the Pan-African Theology and Pastoral Network and the Regional Coordinator of the North American Working Group of a global project, Doing Theology from the Existential Peripheries, a special research project of the Dicastery for Integral Human Development. Some of his most recent books are: Church and Development in Africa (2014); A Poor and Merciful Church (2018); Wealth, Health, and Hope in African Christian Religion; (2019), and Someone Beautiful to God: Finding the light of Faith in a Wounded World (2020). He co-edited the three-volume Faith in Action in Africa (2020) ; and editor of Handbook of African Catholicism (Orbis Books, 2022), and African Ecological Ethics and Spirituality of Human and Cosmic Flourishing: An African Commentary on Laudato Si’ (Cascade, 2022).His forthcoming books are: Contested Identities: Critical Race Theory, LGBTQ+ Rights and the Battle of Inclusion in Catholic Schools(Cascade Books, 2023), and Health for the Poor: Catholic Global Public Health Leadership Beyond the Pandemic (Paulist Press, 2023).
Léonard Amossou Katchekpele
Frankenthal (Germany)
Diocesan Priest from Togo, I hold a Doctorate in Theology and an MA in Canon Law from the University of Strasbourg (France). Blogger (www.afleurdevangile.com); Permanent Visiting professor at the Catholic University of West Africa in Abidjan (UCAO); involved in parish ministry and judge at the diocesan tribunal in the diocese of Speyer (Germany); Editorial director and book editor at Éditions Le Masque Noir (Lomé/Metz). Among many publications: Les enjeux politiques de l’Église en Afrique. Contribution à une théologie du politique (Cerf, Paris, 2016); Dieu est assez grand pour se défendre tout seul. L’apologie du témoin (Lessius, Namur, 2018); Les ancêtres et les dieux. L’hospitalité comme paradigme épistémologique, with Benjamin Akotia (LMN, Metz, 2024). Research interests include Political Theology, Theological Ethics, Postscolonial and African Theology, Ethics and Violence.
Cesar Kuzma
Curitiba (Brazil)
He holds a Ph.D. in Theology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro – PUC-Rio. Currently, he is a Professor of Theology at the Pontifical Catholic University of Parana, in Curitiba/Brazil. He was president of SOTER (Society of Theology and Religious Sciences – 2016-2022) and is currently a member of the Board of the Knowledge Management Center of CELAM (Latin American and Caribbean Episcopal Council) and a member of the Permanent Council and the Methodological Committee of the WFTL/FMTL (World Forum on Theology and Liberation). Topics of interest: Hope/Performativity; Responsibility/Collectivity; Theological Ethics; Social Issues/Human Rights; Liberation Theology; Laity/Secularism; Pope Francis; Public Theology; Policy; Migration/Refugees; Sexual Abuse and Ethical-Pastoral Implications; Decoloniality. He is a speaker and lecturer at various institutions. He is married and father of two children.
Ludovic Lado, SJ
N’Djamena (Chad)
Lado is from Cameroon. He joined the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in 1992. He holds a Doctorate in Social and Cultural Anthropology from Oxford University, UK. He specializes in the anthropology of religion, focusing on current trends in African Catholicism. He is currently the Director of Centre d’Etude et de Formation pour le Développement (CEFOD) and of CEFOD Business School in N’Djamena, Chad. His publications include, Catholic Pentecostalism and The Paradoxes of Africanization (Brill, 2009) ; le pluralisme religieux en Afrique (Yaoundé : Presses Universitaires de l’UCAC, 2013) and several journal articles. His most recent book is The politics of Gender Reforms in Côte d’Ivoire (Notre Dame University Press, 2023).
Albertus Bagus Laksana, S.J.
Yogyakarta (Indonesia)
Laksana currently serves as president of Sanata Dharma University, Indonesia. He previously was president of the Wedabhakti Pontifical Faculty of Theology in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. He received his licentiate in sacred theology at Weston Jesuit School of Theology (Cambridge, MA) and PhD in comparative theology from Boston College (2011) with a focus on Muslim-Christian encounters. His academic interests and publications, both in English and Indonesian, include comparative theology, Asian theology, postcolonial theology, interreligious dialogue, and encounters between theology and social sciences and the humanities. He serves as editor for BASIS, an Indonesian journal of culture, and a number of internationals and book series.
Gianluca Montaldi
Roma (Italy)
Born in 1966 in Varese Ligure (Italy), obtained a PhD in Theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University with a research on the concept of faith in Vatican II. He worked in both the educational and the pastoral fields. He published: In fide ipsa essentia revelationis completur, EPUG, Rome 2005, and, together with F. Bosin, Ridire il credo oggi. Percorsi, sfide, proposte, EDB, Bologna 2015. He also edited the general index of Concilium 1965-2016.
Carlos Schickendantz
Santiago (Chile)
He was born in Córdoba, Argentina (1957). He is doctor in Theology from the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany. He was dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities of the Catholic University of Córdoba, Argentina (2002-2005) and academic vice-rector of the same University (2006-2011). He was professor of Systematic Theology of the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities of the Catholic University of Córdoba, Argentina (1998-2011). He has been a visiting research scholar at Boston College STM (Boston, USA) and visiting professor at different universities. Since 2011 he works as professor and researcher at the Manuel Larraín Theological Center of the Jesuit Alberto Hurtado University (Santiago, Chile). Research Interest: Systematic Theology; Vatican II; Ecclesiology; Reform of the Church; Theology of Karl Rahner & Johann Baptist Metz; Latin America Theology; Theology of the Signs of the Times; Theological methodology.
Stephan van Erp
Leuven (Belgium)
Stephan van Erp is professor fundamental theology and the coordinator of the Research Unit Systematic Theology and the Study of Religions. He is also the coordinator of the Research Group for Fundamental and Political Theology and of the Interfaculty Centre for Catholic Thought. He studied theology at the Theological Faculty of Tilburg and philosophy at the Catholic University of Nijmegen. His dissertation was on fundamental theology and aesthetics, and was entitled The Art of Theology: Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Theological Aesthetics and the Foundations of Faith (Studies in Philosophical Theology, Vol. 25, Leuven, Peeters 2004). He has been a visiting fellow at the University of Oxford and King’s College London. In Oxford, he was a tutor in Philosophy of Religion and Doctrine and Interpretation. He has taught Fundamental Theology, Dogmatic Theology and Ethics at the universities of Tilburg, Nijmegen, and Groningen. His research interests concern the fields of philosophical and fundamental theology, in particular the relationship between faith and reason, the concept of catholicity and the role of theology in the academy. He explores the connection between these methodological issues with political theology, in particular the challenges of global catholicism for faith and theology. His specific expertise concerns 20th and 21st-century systematic theology, especially the theologies of Edward Schillebeeckx, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Karl Rahner, and Rowan Williams. He also has an interest in Philosophy of Religion and Philosophical Theology, especially in the work of Giordano Bruno, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, and Ernst Cassirer. Currently he is working on research projects on the theology of Edward Schillebeeckx, on political theology, and on the concept of catholicity.Stephan van Erp is the Managing Editor of Tijdschrift voor Theologie, Editor-in-chief of Brill Research Perspectives in Theology, Series Editor of T&T Clark Studies in Edward Schillebeeckx (Bloomsbury Press) and of Studies in Philosophical Theology (Peeters Publishers), and on the eitorial boards of Philippiniana Sacra and of Crossing: The INPR Journal. He is also Chair of the jury of the Edward Schillebeeckx Essay Prize, and organiser of the annual Edward Schillebeeckx Lecture.
Wai Ching Angela Wong
Sha Tin (Hong Kong)
Dr. WONG Wai Ching Angela received her PhD in Religious Studies from the University of Chicago. She is currently an Adjunct Professor of the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies and a Chung Chi Senior College Tutor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She was recently the Vice President for Programs of Christian Higher Education in Asia and had been a long-time faculty member of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, serving the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies as the head of the Graduate Divisions of Cultural Studies and Gender Studies, the Gender Research Centre and many academic programs. Ecumenically committed, she was a member of the United Board of Trustees (2002-2012) and the Presidium of the Christian Conference of Asia (2000-2005), the Chairperson (1995-1999) and Regional Secretary (1993-1995) of the World Student Christian Federation and Co-moderator of Congress of Asian Theologians (2000-2004). As an academic, she has published widely in Chinese and English on topics of religion, gender, and culture in Asia. Over the past decade, she successfully completed three UGC projects “Hong Kong Christianity and Chinese Women—An Oral History,” “Women Negotiating Cultures: Family Values, Religion and Chinese Patriarchy,” and “Negotiating Culture: A Study of the Chinese Muslim Women in Hong Kong,” which have contributed to many book chapters and journal articles. Some of her latest publications include Chinese Women and Hong Kong Christianity: An Oral History (Oxford, 2010), “Between Two Patriarchies: Chinese Christian Women in Postcolonial Hong Kong,” in Gendering Chinese Religion (SUNY, 2014), Gender and Family in Asia (Routledge, 2014), Gender/Sexual Politics and the Local Movement (Commercial, 2015), the associate editor of The Blackwell Wiley Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality (Wiley, 2015), and Christian Women in Chinese Society: The Anglican Story (HKU Press, 2018). She is currently working on two books on the respective topics of Chinese Muslim women in Hong Kong and Gender and Chinese Religions in China.
Richard L. Wood
Los Angeles/ Albuquerque (USA)
Richard Wood is president of the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies at the University of Southern California and Professor of Sociology at the University of New Mexico. He is the author of several dozen scholarly articles and book chapters on the sociology of religion, social movements, and democratic theory, many of them focusing on faith-based community organizing. He is the author of Faith in Action: Religion, race, and democratic organizing in America (University of Chicago Press, named best book of 2002 by Religion Section of the American Sociological Association) and A Shared Future: Faith-Based Organizing for Racial Equity and Ethical Democracy (University of Chicago Press, named best book of 2015 by Association for Research on Non-Profits and Voluntary Action). He serves as co-editor of the book series Cambridge Studies in Social Theory, Religion & Politics at Cambridge University Press.
Antonina Wozna
Valencia (Spain)
Doctor in Theology from the Antonianum University in Rome. She holds a doctorate in Arts and Humanities from the University of Murcia with the topic: Nemesis as a concept of justice in the writings of Mary Daly. Dialogue with the justice of representation and the justice of care. Postdoctoral researcher in gender studies at the Faculty of Fundamental Theology in Graz, Austria. Member of the Association of Spanish Theologians (ATE), of the European Society of Women Theological Research (ESWTR), Theological Seminary of Cristianisme I Justicia, Barcelona. Master in Business Administration and Management from ENEB, Barcelona and Specialist in Sales Management from ESIC, Valencia. She was born in Poland and resides in Valencia (Spain). Her main lines of research are ethics and theological hermeneutics. Her interest focuses on investigating whether there is a minimum agreement between the different proposals of feminist ethics of philosophers of the second half of the 20th century. Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8220-9454 ResearcherID: O-6863-2018