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Chester Gillis
Department of Theology
Chester Gillis is Dean of Georgetown College and the founding director of the Program on the Church and Interreligious Dialogue within the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. A Professor of Theology, Gillis is the Amaturo Chair in Catholic Studies. He holds degrees in Philosophy and Religious Studies from the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Professor Gillis has served on the faculty of Georgetown since 1988, was Chair of the Department of Theology from 2001 to 2006, and Director of the Doctor of Liberal Studies program from 2006 to 2008. He received the Excellence in Teaching Award from the Liberal Studies Program in 2005. In 2008 he was the faculty mentor for the Berkley Center Undergraduate Fellows Program.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 (Macmillan, 1989), Pluralism: A New Paradigm for Theology (Peeters, 1993), Roman Catholicism in America (Columbia University Press, 2000), Catholic Faith in America (Facts on File, 2002) and editor of The Political Papacy (Paradigm, 2005) as well as numerous articles, book chapters, and encyclopedia entries. He is co-editor of the Columbia University series Religion and Politics. He is currently working on a new edition of his Roman Catholicism in America and a book on interreligious marriage tentatively titled Two Shall Become as One? Interreligious Marriage in America. Gillis has chaired the Arts and Humanities Committee for the Heinz Awards and served on the selection committee for The Louisville Institute’s grants. A member of the American Theological Society, he serves on the Academic Relations Task Force of the American Academy of Religion, and is a contributor to the Washington Post/Newsweek website On Faith.
Frequently consulted by the media about contemporary issues in religion, Roman Catholicism in particular, Professor 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.
