Gerald J. Beyer, Ph.D. Villanova University Dept. of Theology and Religious Studies Saint Augustine Center 229 800 Lancaster Avenue Villanova, Pennsylvania 19085 United States Email:
[email protected] EDUCATION Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA September 2000 – May 2005 Doctorate in Theological Ethics, Margaret Flatley Doctoral Fellowship Dissertation: The Unfinished Revolution: Solidarity, Freedom and Participation in Poland after 1989 through the Lens of Catholic Social Thought Readers: Professor David Hollenbach, S.J. (director), Department of Theology, Boston College Professor Thomas Massaro, S.J., Boston College School of Theology and Ministry Professor Piotr Mazurkiewicz, Department of Political Science, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University, Warsaw Doctoral Comprehensives: The Bible as a Source of Christian Ethics: Methodological Studies and Biblical Understandings of Economic Justice The Theology of Augustine (with specialization in his political and social morality and the influence of his understanding of the Fall on it) The Theology of Karl Rahner (with specialization in his understanding of the unity of the love of God and neighbor and his theology of grace and freedom) Economic Rights in Roman Catholic Social Thought The Just War Tradition in Christian Historical Thought Kant & Contemporary Theologians on Discipleship and the Problem of Evil Bellah’s “Civil Religion” and the Secularization Thesis Academy of Economics, Krakow, Poland August 1999 - June 2000 Fulbright Scholar in the Department of Philosophy Yale University Divinity School, New Haven, CT September 1997 - May 1999 M.A.R. (Ethics Concentration), summa cum laude Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland October 1995 - June 1997 Two-year program of study in Polish language, history, and culture Pontifical Academy of Theology, Krakow, Poland October 1996 - June 1997 Student in the Department of Theology Georgetown University, Washington, DC September 1988 - 1992 B.A.