Michael Paul Gallagher, S.J.

Michael Paul Gallagher, S.J., obtained his doctorate in theology from Queen’s University, Belfast. Through his contact with students at the University College, Dublin, where he taught English and American literature for twenty years, he became interested in the main issues of faith and unbelief, culture and spirituality. He published his first book, Help my Unbelief (Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1988). Moving to Rome, he became a professor of fundamental

theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University, where he served as dean of the theology faculty from 2005 to 2008. His courses were on the topics of unbelief and culture, the relationship between theology and imagination, the history of thinking on the act of faith, Newman, and Bernard Lonergan. He also worked on the Pontifical Council for Dialogue with Non-Believers and the Pontifical Council

for Culture. Among his published works are: What Are They Saying about Unbelief? (1995); The Human Poetry of Faith (2003); Clashing Symbols: An Introduction to Faith and Culture (2004); and Faith Maps: Ten Religious Explorers from Newman to Joseph Ratzinger (2010).