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Biography

Bede Ukwuije, a Spiritan, is a professor and vice chair of the Department of Theology. Ordained a Catholic priest on July 31, 1994, he became a missionary in France for 12 years, serving as Students鈥� Chaplain at the University of Rennes II, Chaplain of African Migrants鈥� Community in the dioceses of Rennes and Nanterre, and Formator at the Spiritan Formation Community in Clamart. He was also Associate priest at Ste Madeleine Parish, Ch芒tenay-Malabry (1999-2005).

He taught Systematic Theology at the Institut Catholique de Paris and the Spiritan International School of Theology, Attakwu Enugu (SIST), Nigeria. He was also Guest Professor at the McGrath Institute for Church Life, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, USA in the year 2022.

He served as the First Assistant to the Superior General of the Spiritans in Rome (2012-2021) and member of the Theological Commission of the Union of Superiors General (2016-2019).

Education

  • ThD, Institut Catholique de Paris (ICP)
  • PhD/STD, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL)
  • Th.M, Institut Catholique de Paris (ICP)
  • Major: Science and Theology of Religions
  • B.Th. Facult茅s J茅suites du Centre S猫vres, Paris
  • Phil: Facult茅s J茅suites du Centre S猫vres, Paris

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Research Interests

Father Bede is currently working with the University of Notre Dame Press for the publication of Trinity and Inculturation (author鈥檚 translation of Trinit茅 et Inculturation (Paris: Descl茅e, 2008) and with Karthala, Paris, for the publication of Trinit茅, le nom chr茅tien de Dieu (French translation of The Trinitarian God, Contemporary Relevance and Challenges ((Mumbai: Paulines, 2013) Translated by Jean-Michel Jolibois, CSSp.

School

  • Trinit茅 et Inculturation (Paris : Descl茅e, 2008);
  • God, Bible and African Traditional Religion (Enugu: SNAAP Press, 2009);
  • The Trinitarian God: Contemporary Challenges and Relevance (Mumbai: Paulines, 2013).
  • 鈥淏efriending the Earth. Towards a Doxological Approach to the Environment鈥�, Bulletin of Ecumenical Theology, vol. 34 (2022), 109-135.
  • 鈥溾�楧ying You Destroyed Our Death鈥�. The Significance of the Death of Jesus s Christ for the Death We Must All Die鈥� in African Journal of Contextual Theology, 3, June 2011, pp. 31-50.
  • 鈥淭heofilance and the Reconfiliation Dynamic: Healing Humanity鈥檚 Divisions through the Memory of the Cross鈥�, Keneth Ameke & Samuel Uzoukwu(Eds) Emerging Conversations on Theofiliation. Essays in Honour of Archbishop Anthony J. V. Obinna, Xlibris, USA, 2019, pp. 223-245.
  • 芦 La th茅ologie politique d鈥橢vangelii Gaudium 禄, Joel Molinario et Fran莽ois Moog (dir.) Henri J茅r么me Gagey, La th茅ology et le travail de la foi (Salvator, Paris, 2015) 65-79).

Primary Field of Study

Systematic Theology

The Mystery of God

 Christian Anthropology

 Secondary Field of Study

Political Theology

Science and Theology of Religions