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Richard Gaillardetz

Boston College, Theology, Faculty Member

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Dr. Richard R. Gaillardetz is the Joseph Professor of Catholic Systematic Theology at Boston College and the chair of the BC Theology Department. Dr. Gaillardetz previously taught at the University of Toledo from 2001 to 2011 as the Thomas and Margaret Murray and James J. Bacik Professor of Catholic Studies at the University of Toledo and at the University of St. Thomas Graduate School of Theology in Houston from 1991 to 2001. He received a B.A. in Humanities from the University of Texas, an M.A. in Biblical Theology from St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, and both an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame in Systematic Theology. He has published numerous articles and has authored or edited thirteen books. Dr. Gaillardetz was president of the Catholic Theological Society of America (CTSA) in 2013-14. He has received numerous awards from both the Catholic Press Association and the Association of Catholic publishers and is a past recipient of the Sophia Award (2000), offered annually by the faculty of the Washington Theological Union in Washington D.C. in recognition of a theologian’s contributions to the life of the church.

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Books by Richard Gaillardetz

Humanae Vitae and Its Ecclesial Consequences

Theological Studies, 2018

This article explores the ecclesial consequences of Humanae Vitae in relation to four seminal con... more This article explores the ecclesial consequences of Humanae Vitae in relation to four seminal contributions of Vatican II: (1) a renewed appreciation for the sensus fidelium; (2) the theological recontextualization of doctrine; (3) episcopal collegiality and ecclesial subsidiarity; (4) the revitalization of the church's pastoral mission. The article argues first, that Humanae Vitae, directly or indirectly, impeded the full reception and implementation of these four contributions; and second, that the pontificate of Pope Francis has helped rehabilitate precisely those conciliar contributions that were most affected by the controversies associated with Humanae Vitae.

Witnesses to the Faith: Community, Infallibility and the Ordinary Magisterium of Bishops (Paulist Press, 1992)

Teaching with Authority: A Theology of the Magisterium in the Church (Liturgical Press, 1997)

Readings in Church Authority: Gifts and Challenges for Contemporary Catholicism (Ashgate, 2003)

Also co-edited by Jan Kerkhofs and Kenneth Wilson

By What Authority? A Primer on Scripture, the Magisterium and the Sense of the Faithful (Liturgical Press, 2003)

The Church in the Making: Lumen Gentium, Christus Dominus, Orientalium Ecclesiarum (Paulist Press, 2006)

Transforming Our Days: Finding God Amid the Noise of Modern Life (revised edition, Liguori Publications, 2007)

A Daring Promise: A Spirituality of Christian Marriage (Liguori Publications 2007).

Ecclesiology for a Global Church: A People Called and Sent (Orbis, 2008)

Keys to the Council: Unlocking the Teaching of Vatican II (Liturgical Press, 2012).

by Richard Gaillardetz and Catherine E Clifford

When the Magisterium Intervenes: The Magisterium and Theologians in Today's Church (Liturgical Press, 2012)

A Church with Open Doors: Catholic Ecclesiology for the Third Millennium (Liturgical Press, 2015)

by Richard Gaillardetz and Edward P. Hahnenberg

Go Into the Streets! The Welcoming Church of Pope Francis (Paulist Press, 2016)

by Richard Gaillardetz and thomas rausch

An Unfinished Council: Vatican II, Pope Francis, and the Renewal of Catholicism (Liturgical Press, 2016)

Articles by Richard Gaillardetz

Ecclesial Belonging in This Time of Scandal

Worship, 2020

This is a difficult time to be an ecclesiologist. It is profoundly discouraging to dedicate one's... more This is a difficult time to be an ecclesiologist. It is profoundly discouraging to dedicate one's career to a theological exploration of the church when so many today are questioning the very value of ecclesial belonging. Study after study has documented in the United States, and in much of the western world, an exodus from Christian churches, particularly among the young. 1

"A School for Love: Marriage as Christian Friendship"

Love, Sex and Families: Catholic Perspectives. , 2020

A Church in Crisis

Worship, 2019

Divine Revelation

Cambridge Companion to Vatican II, 2020

(50-75 words): This chapter considers the council's development of the theme of revelation in its... more (50-75 words): This chapter considers the council's development of the theme of revelation in its documents, with particular attention to The Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation, Dei Verbum. At the heart of the council's teaching is an account of a God who comes to us in Christ as vulnerable, redeeming love and through the Spirit makes possible friendship with God. It is this saving offer that God reveals through the mediation of Scripture and tradition. The church is not its own lord. It is the congregatio fidelium, the gathering of the Christian faithful, called into being by the Divine One who addresses us as friends and invites us into God's own company (DV 2). This invitation warrants a certain hermeneutical priority for the council's teaching on divine revelation,1 a priority explicitly acknowledged by the Doctrine Commission.2 The council's theology of revelation represents one of its most dramatic theological transpositions. It is in evidence throughout the entire conciliar corpus, as we will see, but the key text remains the Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation, Dei Verbum. The Long Journey to Dei Verbum On the eve of Vatican II, the dominant theology of revelation was still largely indebted to the teaching of Vatican I's dogmatic constitution, Dei Filius, as it found its way into the dogmatic manuals that were used for the training of clerics. Vatican I's teaching had focused on the proper relationship between faith and reason. Its presentation was quite balanced for the time, trying as it was to steer between the nineteenth-century Scylla of rationalism and Charybdis of fideism. Yet the document was less concerned with the actual content of God's saving offer than with the more formal aspects of revelation, namely the objective certitude it offered and its accessibility by faith. This tendency would continue in the dogmatic manuals of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The manualists' treatment of revelation was also crafted in reaction to the perceived threat of the modernists who, it was thought, gave excessive emphasis to the subjective and experiential character of revelation. For Vatican I and the manualists, revelation was comprehended according to the model of divine "speech" (locutio) and presented as a set of clearly articulated, propositional truth-claims that would then be defended with prooftexts from Scripture, church fathers, and prior magisterial pronouncements.

Revisiting the Threefold Office of Christ in the Church (Final)

The Newman Review, 2020

Papers by Richard Gaillardetz

How Does the Holy Spirit Assist the Church in Its Teaching?

It is the Spirit Who Gives Life

Humanae Vitae and Its Ecclesial Consequences

Theological Studies, 2018

This article explores the ecclesial consequences of Humanae Vitae in relation to four seminal con... more This article explores the ecclesial consequences of Humanae Vitae in relation to four seminal contributions of Vatican II: (1) a renewed appreciation for the sensus fidelium; (2) the theological recontextualization of doctrine; (3) episcopal collegiality and ecclesial subsidiarity; (4) the revitalization of the church's pastoral mission. The article argues first, that Humanae Vitae, directly or indirectly, impeded the full reception and implementation of these four contributions; and second, that the pontificate of Pope Francis has helped rehabilitate precisely those conciliar contributions that were most affected by the controversies associated with Humanae Vitae.

Witnesses to the Faith: Community, Infallibility and the Ordinary Magisterium of Bishops (Paulist Press, 1992)

Teaching with Authority: A Theology of the Magisterium in the Church (Liturgical Press, 1997)

Readings in Church Authority: Gifts and Challenges for Contemporary Catholicism (Ashgate, 2003)

Also co-edited by Jan Kerkhofs and Kenneth Wilson

By What Authority? A Primer on Scripture, the Magisterium and the Sense of the Faithful (Liturgical Press, 2003)

The Church in the Making: Lumen Gentium, Christus Dominus, Orientalium Ecclesiarum (Paulist Press, 2006)

Transforming Our Days: Finding God Amid the Noise of Modern Life (revised edition, Liguori Publications, 2007)

A Daring Promise: A Spirituality of Christian Marriage (Liguori Publications 2007).

Ecclesiology for a Global Church: A People Called and Sent (Orbis, 2008)

Keys to the Council: Unlocking the Teaching of Vatican II (Liturgical Press, 2012).

by Richard Gaillardetz and Catherine E Clifford

When the Magisterium Intervenes: The Magisterium and Theologians in Today's Church (Liturgical Press, 2012)

A Church with Open Doors: Catholic Ecclesiology for the Third Millennium (Liturgical Press, 2015)

by Richard Gaillardetz and Edward P. Hahnenberg

Go Into the Streets! The Welcoming Church of Pope Francis (Paulist Press, 2016)

by Richard Gaillardetz and thomas rausch

An Unfinished Council: Vatican II, Pope Francis, and the Renewal of Catholicism (Liturgical Press, 2016)

Ecclesial Belonging in This Time of Scandal

Worship, 2020

This is a difficult time to be an ecclesiologist. It is profoundly discouraging to dedicate one's... more This is a difficult time to be an ecclesiologist. It is profoundly discouraging to dedicate one's career to a theological exploration of the church when so many today are questioning the very value of ecclesial belonging. Study after study has documented in the United States, and in much of the western world, an exodus from Christian churches, particularly among the young. 1

"A School for Love: Marriage as Christian Friendship"

Love, Sex and Families: Catholic Perspectives. , 2020

A Church in Crisis

Worship, 2019

Divine Revelation

Cambridge Companion to Vatican II, 2020

(50-75 words): This chapter considers the council's development of the theme of revelation in its... more (50-75 words): This chapter considers the council's development of the theme of revelation in its documents, with particular attention to The Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation, Dei Verbum. At the heart of the council's teaching is an account of a God who comes to us in Christ as vulnerable, redeeming love and through the Spirit makes possible friendship with God. It is this saving offer that God reveals through the mediation of Scripture and tradition. The church is not its own lord. It is the congregatio fidelium, the gathering of the Christian faithful, called into being by the Divine One who addresses us as friends and invites us into God's own company (DV 2). This invitation warrants a certain hermeneutical priority for the council's teaching on divine revelation,1 a priority explicitly acknowledged by the Doctrine Commission.2 The council's theology of revelation represents one of its most dramatic theological transpositions. It is in evidence throughout the entire conciliar corpus, as we will see, but the key text remains the Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation, Dei Verbum. The Long Journey to Dei Verbum On the eve of Vatican II, the dominant theology of revelation was still largely indebted to the teaching of Vatican I's dogmatic constitution, Dei Filius, as it found its way into the dogmatic manuals that were used for the training of clerics. Vatican I's teaching had focused on the proper relationship between faith and reason. Its presentation was quite balanced for the time, trying as it was to steer between the nineteenth-century Scylla of rationalism and Charybdis of fideism. Yet the document was less concerned with the actual content of God's saving offer than with the more formal aspects of revelation, namely the objective certitude it offered and its accessibility by faith. This tendency would continue in the dogmatic manuals of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The manualists' treatment of revelation was also crafted in reaction to the perceived threat of the modernists who, it was thought, gave excessive emphasis to the subjective and experiential character of revelation. For Vatican I and the manualists, revelation was comprehended according to the model of divine "speech" (locutio) and presented as a set of clearly articulated, propositional truth-claims that would then be defended with prooftexts from Scripture, church fathers, and prior magisterial pronouncements.

Revisiting the Threefold Office of Christ in the Church (Final)

The Newman Review, 2020

How Does the Holy Spirit Assist the Church in Its Teaching?

It is the Spirit Who Gives Life

II. Beyond Dissent: Reflections on the Possibilities of a Pastoral Magisterium in Today's Church

Horizons, 2018

Our roundtable wishes to explore the need for the church today to move beyond what we might call ... more Our roundtable wishes to explore the need for the church today to move beyond what we might call the orthodoxy/dissent binary, that is, the assumption of one narrowly construed orthodox position, over against which all other construals of the Christian faith are presented as heretical or at least dissenting positions. This binary presents, for many scholars today, insuperable difficulties. To begin with, it emphasizes doctrinal unity over theological diversity. It privileges office over charism, magisterium over the sense of the faithful, authoritative pronouncement over communal discovery. The dominance of the orthodoxy/dissent binary depends in turn on an account of doctrinal teaching authority still indebted to Pope Pius XII and his claim that when the ordinary papal magisterium has pronounced on a matter, it is no longer subject to open debate. The solution, in the minds of some, lies in dispelling dangerous notions of orthodoxy, heresy, and dissent as intrinsically hegemonic te...

The Reception of Doctrine: New Perspectives

Authority in the Roman Catholic Church, 2017

As Christians we believe that the Word of God has been spoken into human history from the beginni... more As Christians we believe that the Word of God has been spoken into human history from the beginning of creation and that, "in the fullness of time," this Word became flesh as Jesus of Nazareth, the Word incarnate. The sacred scriptures are the church's inspired, written testimony to that Word. Roman Catholicism, along with the Orthodox and Anglican communions, also affirms that as these scriptures are proclaimed, prayed, studied and applied in the life of Christian communities a living tradition emerges. The apostolic character of this Reception-2 9

Go into the Streets! The Welcoming Church of Pope Francis

A Church with Open Doors

<i>When the Magisterium Intervenes: The Magisterium and Theologians in Today's Church</i> ed. by Richard R. Gaillardetz (review)

American Catholic Studies, 2013

A Church with Open Doors: Catholic Ecclesiology for the Third Millennium. Edited by Richard R. Gaillardetz and Edward P. Hahnenberg. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2015. xvi + 220 pages. $24.95 (paper)

Horizons, 2016

the enormous consequences of that event" (). Thus Faggioli helpfully draws our attention to th... more the enormous consequences of that event" (). Thus Faggioli helpfully draws our attention to the significance of the postconciliar period. To those who would dismiss this period as a departure or deviation from the council itself-and thus "out of bounds" for understanding Vatican II-Faggioli points to that other great reforming council of the modern period, Trent. So much of what today can be legitimately considered "Tridentine," Faggioli argues, cannot be found in the published decrees of the Council of Trent. The Tridentine church-with all its institutional and juridical structures, its centralized and universalist ecclesiology, its liturgy, rites, and catechismall of these elements owe more to the reception of the council than to the corpus of its documents. If our assessment of Trent is not limited to commenting on its texts, why should we feel so constrained when it comes to Vatican II? Drawing a line from the sixteenth century to the present, Faggioli concludes, "refuting the theological value of the reception of Vatican II" is to freeze Vatican II "in a sort of theological monolith-assigning it a fate that had not even been the one of the Council of Trent" (). If the "spirit" of a council is shorthand for the way in which it is received and implemented (), then an appeal to the "spirit of Vatican II" is not a flight into abstraction or subjectivity. Rather, to speak of the spirit of Vatican II is to locate the conciliar event squarely within the concrete realities of history. In fact, if we are worried about abstract and ideological interpretations, then it may very well be that citing an ahistorical "letter" of the council poses the greater risk. Without a doubt the reception of Vatican II is historically significant. But Faggioli makes a further claim, and so issues a further challenge: the history of reception has theological importance. This is a challenge for the theologian to imagine the event of the council itself within a broader understanding of revelation, magisterium, and the sensus fidelium. It is a challenge to attend not only to what Vatican II said, but also to what it did, and to what God may yet be doing through it.

Keys to the Council

Keys to the Council: Unlocking the Teaching of Vatican II

the Council, and a better understanding of the documents. I am currently using this as a course b... more the Council, and a better understanding of the documents. I am currently using this as a course book in a college program. I ordered book from and it arrived sooner that I expected. This man is one of the smartest people I've ever met and his explanations of Vatican II are superb, succinct, and to the point. I have recommended this book to all those conservative folks who claim Vatican II was a big mistake and some of them have had their eyes opened by this writing. Having experienced the council as a youth and remaining active in the church this book gave me new insights into the way in which the church evolved in the post councilor years.

Keys to the Council: Unlocking the Teaching of Vatican II

the Council, and a better understanding of the documents. I am currently using this as a course b... more the Council, and a better understanding of the documents. I am currently using this as a course book in a college program. I ordered book from and it arrived sooner that I expected. This man is one of the smartest people I've ever met and his explanations of Vatican II are superb, succinct, and to the point. I have recommended this book to all those conservative folks who claim Vatican II was a big mistake and some of them have had their eyes opened by this writing. Having experienced the council as a youth and remaining active in the church this book gave me new insights into the way in which the church evolved in the post councilor years.

Reimagining the Ecclesial/Prophetic Vocation of the Theologian

As we refl ect on the vocation of the theologian today there is much to celebrate. If we but cons... more As we refl ect on the vocation of the theologian today there is much to celebrate. If we but consider the membership of our own theological society, we have witnessed—in the span of our own lifetime—a shift from a membership that was once exclusively male and clerical, most often white and dedicated primarily to seminary education, to a membership which better refl ects the diversity of the people of God in North America. Today, more than half of the theologians belonging to the CTSA are lay men or women. Our members, both lay and ordained, come from a much broader range of social and cultural backgrounds. The same can be said of our students in both seminary and university contexts, where women are often in the majority. If we look beyond our continent, we observe a similar trend as lay men and women are taking their place together with the ordained in the leadership roles of other Societies of Catholic Theology around the globe. The vitality of contemporary theology can be seen no...

Keys to the Council

by Catherine E Clifford and Richard Gaillardetz

Toward a Noncompetitive Theology of the Church: Reflections on the Enduring Significance of Vatican II

Book Review: O’Malley, John: When Bishops Meet: An Essay Comparing Trent, Vatican I, and Vatican II

Theological Studies

Prophetic Obedience: Ecclesiology for a Dialogical Church. By Bradford E. Hinze. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2016. xxiv + 251 pages. $42.00

Horizons

Francis A. Sullivan, S.J. and Ecclesiological Hermeneutics: An Exercise in Faithful Creativity, written by Michael M. Canaris

Journal of Jesuit Studies

Does a Doctrinal Teaching Office Have an Ecumenical Future?

Where We Dwell in Common, 2016

The Long Shadow of Vatican II: Living Faith and Negotiating Authority since the Second Vatican Council ed. by Lucas Van Rompay et al

The Catholic Historical Review, 2016

El magisterio ordinario universal: problemas no resueltos

Selecciones De Teologia, 2004

Doing liturgy in a technological age

Worship, 1997

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