Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley
Professor of Systematic Theology
Core Doctoral Faculty Member

At GTU since 1993

S.T.L., Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley
M.Div., Th.M., Ph.D., Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago
M.S., Ohio State University
B.S., Miami University, Ohio

Phone: 510/549-5020
E-mail: agarcia@jstb.edu

Current Research and Teaching Interests

• Interfaith Aesthetics
• Theology and the Arts
• Theological Aesthetics
• Suffering and the Human Person
• The Intersection between Science and Theology
• Fundamental Theology
• Theology and Science
  

Selected Publications

• A Wounded Innocence: Sketches for a Theology of Art (Liturgical Press, 2003).
• The Community of the Beautiful: A Theological Aesthetics (Liturgical Press, 1999).
• St. Martin de Porres: The "Little Stories" and the "Semiotics of Culture" (Orbis, 1995). Nominated for the AAR Award for Excellence, Analytical Category, November 1996.
• "Light from Light: An Aesthetic Approach to the Science-and-Religion Dialogue," Currents in Theology and Mission 28:3-4 (June/August 2001).
• "Creator of the Visible and the Invisible: Liberation Theology, Postmodernism, and the Spiritual," Journal of Hispanic/Latino Theology 3:4 (August 1995).
• "Will God See Me When I Go to the Bathroom and Other Questions Children Ask About God," U.S. Catholic (May 1999). 2000 University Church Press Award for Excellence in Religious Writing.