Researchers
Prof. Dr. Joris Geldhof
E-mail: Joris.Geldhof@theo.kuleuven.be
Curriculum Vitae
Joris Geldhof (Aalst, 1976) is Professor of Liturgical Studies and Sacramental Theology at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, KU Leuven, Belgium. He is a member of the Research Unit Pastoral Theology.
He studied philosophy, religious studies, and theology at the KU Leuven before he was appointed as a Junior Research Fellow of the Fund for Scientific Research (FWO-Flanders) in 2001. He defended his PhD on the provocative nature of the Christian revelation in March of 2005, which was later on published as a monograph entitled Revelation, Reason and Reality. Theological Encounters with Jaspers, Schelling and Baader (Leuven: Peeters, 2007).
In October of 2007 he was appointed as Assistant Professor. He gave guest lectures in Lithuania, Congo, and Germany. And as visiting scholar he did research at institutions in France and the U.S.A. He is the chair of the Liturgical Institute and the editor-in-chief of the bilingual journal Questions Liturgiques/Studies in Liturgy.
