Eduardo J. Echeverria, Ph.D., S.T.L.
Professor of Philosophy and Theology
Sacred Heart Major Seminary
Eduardo J. Echeverria is Professor of Philosophy and Systematic Theology in the Graduate School of Theology at Sacred Heart Major Seminary, the Archdiocesan seminary of Detroit, where he has taught since 2003. He is also a Research Fellow in the Theology Faculty of the University of the Free State, South Africa.
Professor Echeverria obtained his Licentiate in Sacred Theology from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) in Rome. He received a doctorate in philosophy from the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Professor Echeverria is the author of Divine Election: A Catholic Orientation in Dogmatic and Ecumenical Perspective (Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2016); Berkouwer and Catholicism, Disputed Questions (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2013), Vol. 24, Studies in Reformed Theology; “In the Beginning…” A Theology of the Body (Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2011); Dialogue of Love: Confessions of an Evangelical Catholic Ecumenist (Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2010); and Slitting the Sycamore, Christ and Culture in the New Evangelization, Monograph, 87 pp., No. 12, Christian Social Thought Series (Grand Rapids, MI: Acton Institute, 2008). Kindle edition, revised edition, Smashwords, 2012. A noted scholar, speaker, and teacher here and internationally, he is also the author of dozens of articles.
Eduardo is a member of the American ecumenical initiative, Evangelicals and Catholics Together.
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Reflections
Big Picture
I am an evangelical Catholic because, firstly, I confess the faith of the Church that the Gospel, God’s free gift of salvation, by which is meant salvation by faith in the saving death and bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ, calls for a response, for an all-embracive conversion by the Spirit’s power to Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, the fullness of truth. Secondly, and inseparably from the first, I am Catholic because I am committed to the teaching that the Church belongs to the gospel, that Christian faith and life is ecclesial, creedal (doctrinal and moral), sacramental, and liturgical.
Career
My response to the divine calling to engage in intellectual pursuits has two aspects that stand out: one, a commitment to intellectual exploration, scholarship, and teaching, working out the implications of the Christian faith for philosophy and theology; and two, a commitment, as a Catholic, to the ecumenical imperative to work for visible unity among Christians, with then my scholarly pursuits in philosophy and theology always ecumenically oriented. Ecumenical dialogue is not merely an exchange of ideas, but an exchange of gifts, a dialogue of love — as St. John Paul II wrote in Ut Unum Sint (1995).
Legacy
I cultivate both humility and hope that God will bless my work at Sacred Heart Major Seminary (almost fourteen years now), helping a new generation of priests, deacons, and laity, especially those committed to the educational ministry of the Church, to proclaim the New Evangelization and to call others to love God in Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit with heart, soul, and mind. “The truth is that only in the mystery of the incarnate Word does the mystery of man take on light” (Gaudium et spes, §22).