Richard Gaillardetz
Richard Gaillardetz (-) 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 of seven books, the most recent of which is Ecclesiology for a Global Church (Orbis Books).
Born in a Texas military family, he obtained 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. Since 2001 Gaillardetz has 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. [1]
Books
- The Church in the Making
- Ecclesiology for a Global Church
- A Daring Promise
- By What Authority?
- Readings in Church Authority
- Teaching with Authority
- Transforming Our Days
- Witnesses to the Faith