Researchers
Prof. Dr. Lieven Boeve
E-mail: Lieven.Boeve@theo.kuleuven.be
Curriculum Vitae
Lieven Boeve is Professor of Fundamental Theology at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, KU Leuven, Belgium, where he currently also serves as Dean of the Faculty.
Since 2000, he is the co-ordinator of the Research Group Theology in a Postmodern Context, in which research is conducted regarding theological epistemology, theology and continental philosophy, neo-augustinism in contemporary theology, the hermeneutical turn in Edward Schillebeeckx, etc. Since 2008 this group is part of the research platform The Normativity of History, which Lieven Boeve has formed together with Mathijs Lamberigts and Terrence Merrigan. With Yves De Maeseneer he started in 2010 the interdisciplinary Research Group Anthropos, with the goal of developing a renewed theological anthropology.
Apart from more than 45 articles in reviews and 50 contributions to collected volumes, he is the author of Interrupting Tradition. An Essay on Christian Faith in a Postmodern Context (LPTM, 30), Leuven: Peeters / Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003, and God Interrupts History. Theology in a Time of Upheaval, New York: Continuum, 2007 and co-authored The Ratzinger Reader, London/New York: Continuum, 2010. He co-edited 18 volumes, of which the most recent are: Edward Schillebeeckx and Contemporary Theology, London/New York: Continuum, 2010; and: Between Philosophy and Theology. Contemporary Interpretations of Christianity, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2010.
From 2005 till 2009 he served as international President of the European Society for Catholic Theology.
