Dr. Josep Gil i Ribas

Dr. JOSEP GIL I RIBAS

UNIVERSITY DEGREES

• PhD in Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University of Rome (1982), specialising in Eschatology.

TEACHING AND ACADEMIC ACTIVITY

• Emeritus Professor at the Faculty of Theology of Catalonia, where he served as Vice Dean (1991–1996).
• Professor at the Higher Institute of Religious Sciences of Tarragona, Barcelona and Vic.
• Has taught at institutions in Toulouse, Lyon and Tübingen.
• Professor of Theology at the University of Deusto (Bilbao, 1974–1977).
• Visiting Professor at the University of San Buenaventura (Cali, Colombia, 1985–1986) and at Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani Teaching University (Tbilisi, Georgia, 2014).

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

• Founder and Director of the Institute of Theology of Tarragona (1977).
• Priest of the Archdiocese of Tarragona since 1951.
• Chaplain of Catholic Action and promoter of Justice and Peace in Tarragona.
• Has carried out pastoral work in various parishes of the diocese; currently attached to the parish of Saint John the Baptist in El Catllar.

PUBLICATIONS

• Signes de pertinença a l’Església (Tarragona, 1973)
• La benaurança del cel i l’ordre establert (Barcelona, 1984)
• Els nostres morts no envelleixen (Barcelona, 1984)
• Dios, hombre, mundo (Cali, 1987)
• Fe y Revelación (Cali, 1987)
• De la “nosa” a la “nostàlgia” de Déu (Barcelona, 1992)
• Evangeli i home d’avui (Barcelona, 1994)
• Cartes a Laura. Quan la mort toca de prop (Barcelona, 1995)
• Jesús, Fill de Déu i germà dels homes (Barcelona, 1998)
• Historia de la Santísima Virgen María, vol. IV (Pamplona, 1998)
• L’esperança que no mor (Barcelona, 2001)
• Al principi hi hagué la dona (Barcelona, 2002)
• Història del pensament cristià (10 vols., Valls, 2009–2013)

AWARDS AND HONOURS

• “Joan Maragall” Prize (1999) for the work L’Esperança que no mor.