Chester Gillis
Encyclopedia
Chester L. Gillis, Ph.D, is Dean of Georgetown College
, Professor in the Department of Theology, and the founding Director of the Program on the Church and Interreligious Dialogue in the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs
at Georgetown University
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He has chaired the Arts and Humanities Committee for the Heinz Awards and served on the selection committee for The Louisville Institute’s grants. He chaired the national Teaching Award Committee for the Association of Graduate Liberal Studies and served on the editorial board of Confluence: Journal of Graduate Liberal Studies. A member of the American Theological Society, he served on the Academic Relations Task Force of the American Academy of Religion.
Frequently consulted by the media about contemporary issues in religion, in particular, Roman Catholicism, Dean Gillis has appeared on Face the Nation, Meet the Press, The News Hour, ABC, NBC, and CBS Evening News, Good Morning America, Nightline, and National Public Radio and is a contributor to the Washington Post/Newsweek website On Faith.
He holds degrees in Philosophy and Religious Studies from the Catholic University at Leuven
in Belgium and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago
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Georgetown College (Georgetown University)
Georgetown College, infrequently Georgetown College of Arts and Sciences, is the oldest school within Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. The College is the largest undergraduate school at Georgetown, and until the founding of the Medical School in 1850, was the only higher education division...
, Professor in the Department of Theology, and the founding Director of the Program on the Church and Interreligious Dialogue in the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs
Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs
The Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs is an academic research center at Georgetown University in Washington, DC dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of religion, ethics, and politics...
at Georgetown University
Georgetown University
Georgetown University is a private, Jesuit, research university whose main campus is in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic university in the United States...
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Research and Publication
Chester Gillis' research interests include comparative religion and contemporary Roman Catholicism. He is the author of A Question of Final Belief: John Hick’s Pluralistic Theory of Salvation (1989), Pluralism: A New Paradigm for Theology (1993), Roman Catholicism in America, [Catholic Book Club Book of the Month Selection, July 1999], Catholic Faith in America (2003), and editor of The Political Papacy (2006), as well as numerous articles, book chapters, and encyclopedia entries. He is co-editor of the Columbia University series Religion and Politics.Academic Leadership
Gillis served as Chair of the Department of Theology from 2001 to 2006, the Core Faculty of the Liberal Studies Program from 1998 to 2008, and Director of the Doctor of Liberal Studies from 2006 to 2008. He received the Excellence in Teaching Award from the Liberal Studies Program at Georgetown (2005). He also served on the Executive Faculty at Georgetown and is a member of the Jesuit Honor Society Alpha Sigma NuAlpha Sigma Nu
Alpha Sigma Nu was founded at Marquette University in 1915 by John Danihy, S.J., Dean of Journalism. In his travels and reading, Father Danihy had encountered and admired honor societies...
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He has chaired the Arts and Humanities Committee for the Heinz Awards and served on the selection committee for The Louisville Institute’s grants. He chaired the national Teaching Award Committee for the Association of Graduate Liberal Studies and served on the editorial board of Confluence: Journal of Graduate Liberal Studies. A member of the American Theological Society, he served on the Academic Relations Task Force of the American Academy of Religion.
Frequently consulted by the media about contemporary issues in religion, in particular, Roman Catholicism, Dean Gillis has appeared on Face the Nation, Meet the Press, The News Hour, ABC, NBC, and CBS Evening News, Good Morning America, Nightline, and National Public Radio and is a contributor to the Washington Post/Newsweek website On Faith.
He holds degrees in Philosophy and Religious Studies from the Catholic University at Leuven
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
The Katholieke Universiteit Leuven is a Dutch-speaking university in Flanders, Belgium.It is located at the centre of the historic town of Leuven, and is a prominent part of the city, home to the university since 1425...
in Belgium and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago
University of Chicago
The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
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Writings
- Roman Catholicism in America (ISBN 0-231-10870-2, ISBN 0-231-10871-0)
- Pluralism: A New Paradigm for Theology (ISBN 0-802-80572-8)
- The Political Papacy: John Paul II, Benedictine XVI and Their Influence (ISBN 1-594-51181-0)
- A Question of Final Belief: John Hick's Pluralistic Theory of Salvation (ISBN 0-312-01863-0)
- Catholic Faith in America (ISBN 0-816-04984-X)