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  Vincent A. Pizzuto
Associate Professor: Theology and Religious Studies | Honors Program in the Humanities

Prof. Vincent Pizzuto, Ph.D. is Associate Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of San Francisco.  He has a Masters of Education in Religious Education from Boston College (1995), as well as a Masters (STL, 1999) and Doctorate (STD, 2003) in New Testament exegesis from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Louvain) in Belgium.  Before taking his full-time position at the University of San Francisco, he taught part-time at Fordham University in New York, and at both Seton Hall and the College of St. Elizabeth in New Jersey, while completing his doctoral dissertation.  Currently in publication is his first book entitled, A Cosmic Leap of Faith: An Authorial, Structural, and Theological Investigation of the Cosmic Christology in Col 1:15-20, and his most recent journal publication entitled, God Has Made it Plain to Them: An Indictment of Rome’s Hermeneutic of Homophobia (BTB 38: Winter 2008).

In July 2006, Professor Pizzuto was ordained to the priesthood in the Celtic Christian Church, in which he has founded and ministers to a local contemplative community, New Skellig.  His theological interests lie in New Testament theology and historical-critical methodology, christology, trinitarian theology, the Christian mystical tradition, and Celtic Christianity.  In addition to his teaching, Prof. Pizzuto lectures in parishes of various Christian denominations on areas of spirituality, biblical hermeneutics, and theology.

Contact Information:
University of San Francisco
2130 Fulton St. San Francisco, CA 94117
Phone: (415) 422-5299
Fax: (415) 422-5356
Email: vapizzuto@usfca.edu
Office: KA 133
Office Hours: By appointment only

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