Vincentian Center for Church and Society

Rev. Jean-Pierre M. Ruiz

Associate Professor

Theology

St. John's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

St. John's University

Jean-Pierre M. Ruiz, a Roman Catholic priest of the Diocese of Brooklyn, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at St. John’s College and a Senior Vincentian Research Fellow. His research is focused in three areas: the Theology of Human Migration, Hispanic/Latino theology, and ecumenical/interfaith dialogue. Father Ruiz recently published readings include: From the Edges: The Bible and People on the Move (Orbis, 2011). Jean-Pierre Ruiz is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Hispanic/Latino Theology, Associate Editor of the Catholic Biblical Quarterly, and a Past-President of the Academy of Catholic Hispanic Theologians of the United States (ACHTUS). In addition to his numerous publications, Fr. Ruiz has hosted and co-hosted a number of radio and television programs. Father earned his S.T.D. in Biblical Studies at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, Italy.

Academic Background

S.T.D. Biblical Studies, Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, Italy

Research Interests

Theology of Human Migration
Hispanic/Latino theology and ecumenical/interfaith dialogue.

Affiliation with the Center

Senior Vincentian Research Fellow, Class of 2005

"Being a Vincentian Research Fellow has convinced me that our University's Mission Statement is more than just words on paper. Working with faculty colleagues whose teaching and scholarship in so many different disciplines is marked by our Vincentian commitment to embody the Church's teaching on social justice energizes my own current research on theological approaches to migration and stretches my imagination as a biblical scholar."

Food for Thought

A Catholic university is called to become an evermore effective instrument of cultural progress for individuals as well as for society. Included among its research activities, therefore, will be a study of serious contemporary problems in areas such as the dignity of human life, the promotion of justice for all, the quality of personal and family life, the protection of nature, the search for peace and political stability, a more just sharing in the world’s resources and a new economic and political order that will better serve the human community at a national and international level.

Pope John Paul II,
Ex Corde Ecclesiae (32)

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