Theological Studies

Cecilia González-Andrieu Assistant Professor of Theological Studies Department of Theological Studies Loyola Marymount University 1 LMU Drive, Suite 3700 Los Angeles, CA 90045-2659, USA Office: University Hall 3778 Email:Cecilia.Gonzalez-Andrieu@lmu.edu Phone: (310) 258-8622 Fax: (310) 338-1947

Academic Background
Ph. D. Graduate Theological Union, Art & Religion & Systematic Theology;
M.A. Loyola Marymount University (Theology);
B.A. Loyola Marymount University (Double major: Film & Television and Spanish);
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Current Areas of Research
Theological Aesthetics, U.S. Latino Theology, and Systematic Theology.
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Courses Currently Teaching
Meeting Christ in Faith & Art (THST 390/CATH 398);
U.S. Latino Theology (THST 698);
Introduction to Christian Theology (THST 131).
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Professional Bio
Professor Gonzalez-Andrieu returned to her alma mater LMU after completing her doctorate at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley.  At the GTU she was the first scholar to complete a doctorate combining systematic theology and art & religion.  Dr. Gonzalez-Andrieu is one of the leading scholars developing the field of theological aesthetics which she proposes as a way to bring communities together, respect and celebrate otherness and lift the theological insights of those who know and express themselves in ways beyond the textual. She has been recognized with awards for her writing from the Catholic Press Association, as a teaching scholar by the GTU, for her work on behalf of the Latino community by the Hispanic Theological Initiative and as one of the seven most promising theologians of the next generation by America Magazine.

At LMU Dr. Gonzalez-Andrieu teaches the very popular course Meeting Christ in Faith & Art and courses in U.S. Latino Theology.  She is the co-founder of Viernes por la tarde, a university-wide working group to address and coordinate efforts on behalf of the Latino/a students and workers at LMU.  Among a number of projects she is also co-leading the development of LMU's new Latino Theology and Ministry Initiative, which is coordinating a national symposium at LMU in 2014.
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Selected Publications
Forthcoming in 2012 – Bridge to Wonder: Art as a Gospel of Beauty (Baylor University Press). Pre-order it here: www.baylorpress.com/Book/295/Bridge_to_Wonder.html
"Awakening Life in a De Staebler Universe" in Arts, the Journal of the Society for the Arts in Religious and Theological Studies, 2010.
"Ecce Homo" in Encounters of Faith: Latin American Devotional Art, ed., García-Rivera, Alex and Mochizuki, Mia., Berkeley: Jesuit School of Theology Santa Clara University, 2010.
"Lorca’s Unfinished Play Christ, Religious Tragedy" in Catholic Theatre and Drama: Critical Essays, ed Wetmore, Kevin. Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, 2010.
"Theological Aesthetics and The Art of John August Swanson" in Arts, the Journal of the Society for the Arts in Religious and Theological Studies, 21:2, 14-17. Also editor of this selection, pp. 14-32. ARTICLE available at: http://www.societyarts.org/news/featured-articles/99-arts-magazine-feature
"Theological Aesthetics and the Recovery of Silenced Voices" in Visual Art Today, a Curated Online Space for International Contemporary Art (July, 2009). ARTICLE available at: http://www.visualarttoday.com/Exhibitions/AlfredQuiroz/index.html
"My Abuelita’s Theology" in Company, (Fall, 2007) 30-31. ARTICLE available at: http://www.companymagazine.org/v251/aisi.pdf
"Mañana is too late to learn how to love," in The Sky is Crying, ed. Kirk-Duggan, Cheryl, Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2006.
"Till there was you," in The Treasure of Guadalupe, ed. Elizondo, Deck, and Matovina . Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006.
"De Todo Un Poco", a column on faith and culture, in The Tidings, (2002-09). Winner, Catholic Press Association Best National Column Award (2003). ARTICLES available at:
http://www.the-tidings.com/2006/0106/detodo_text.htm
http://www.the-tidings.com/2004/0528/detodo.htm
http://www.the-tidings.com/2004/0611/detodo.htm
http://www.the-tidings.com/2005/0722/cecilia.htm
http://www.the-tidings.com/2004/0305/detodo.htm
"Ministerio y Cultura" in Camino a Emaús, Reflexiones Bíblicas Sobre el Ministerio, ed. Isasi-Diaz, A., Matovina, T. Minneapolis: Fortress Press. 2002.
Presente!: U.S. Latino Catholics from Colonial Origins to the Present ed. Matovina, T., Poyo, G. New York: Orbis Books. 2000.
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Latest News
Be on the lookout for Dr. González-Andrieu’s first book on Theological Aesthetics published by Baylor University Press, out in 2012! Pre-order  it here: www.baylorpress.com/Book/295/Bridge_to_Wonder.html
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Personal Message
Excerpt from Final Blessing
2008 LMU Graduate Commencement

We go now,
enlarge our hearts so we may always seek justice and construct peace,
We go now…
expand our minds so we may ask the hard questions and build beauty and wisdom.

Come with us Oh God, let the flame of your love
consume all we are, so we may become all you want us to be.
We praise and give you glory… with our lives.
Amen.
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Personal Website
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Related Websites
Promising Young Theologians: http://www.americamagazine.org/content/article.cfm?article_id=12673  
Catholic-Jewish Conference Addresses Immigration Themes: http://www.the-tidings.com/2010/111910/cathjewish.htm
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