Theology Department Faculty
Matthew Petillo
Associate Professor of the Practice
Matthew Petillo
Contact
Stokes Hall 461N
Telephone: 617-552-3883
Email: petillom@bc.edu
Research Interests
- Theology of grace
- Contemplative theology
- Christian-Buddhist dialogue
- Karl Rahner, SJ
- Bernard Lonergan, SJ
Publications
鈥淒ivine Love as Conversational: New Directions in the Theology of Grace,鈥� in聽Bernard Lonergan鈥檚 Method in Theology (Marquette University Press, 2023).
鈥淕race, Glory, and the Gaze of Love,鈥� in Grace and Friendship: Festschrift for Frederick Lawrence (Marquette University Press, 2016).
鈥淭he Theological Problem of Grace and Experience: A Lonerganian Perspective,鈥� Theological Studies 71 (2010) 586-608.
鈥淭he Universalist Philosophy of Religious Experience and the Challenges of Post-Modernism,鈥� Heythrop Journal 51 (2010) 946-961.