Didier Pollefeyt


Didier Pollefeyt is a Belgian catholic theologian, full professor at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies and vice rector for education policy at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

Research career

After gaining the degree of license in the Religious Studies and Theology Pollefeyt obtained his doctoral degree in Theology with a dissertation on ethics after Auschwitz. Thereafter he became instructor, associate instructor, associate professor and full professor at the Faculty of Theology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Since 1986 his research focuses on the holocaust as a challenge for ethics, interreligious dialogue and education.
The research activities of Didier Pollefeyt are situated around 5 areas.
  1. The ethical and theological analysis of the Holocaust and the development of the foundations of ethics and theology after Auschwitz.
  2. An analysis of the questions of evil, guilt, remembrance, forgiveness and reconciliation.
  3. The Jewish-Christian encounter.
  4. The pedagogy of hermeneutical-communicative and interreligious education.
  5. The religious identity of institutions, especially of catholic schools.
Besides, Pollefeyt coordinates the Center for Teacher Education of the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
Since 2001 he is at the head of Thomas, a website for religious education.
Pollefeyt is vice rector for education policy at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and chairman of the Center for Peace Ethics.

Works

  • ', in J. ROTH & L. GROB, Encountering the Stranger. A Jewish, Christian, Muslim Trialogue, Washington, University of Washington Press, 2011, in print.
  • ', in P.A. CUNNINGHAM, J. SIEVERS, M.C. BOYS, H.H. HENRIX & J. SVARTVIK, met voorwoord van W. Cardinal KASPER, Christ Jesus and the Jewish People Today. New Explorations of Theological Interrelationships, Grand Rapids, Eerdmans, 2011, p. 183-201.
  • , in J. DE TAVERNIER et al., Responsibility, God and Society. Festschrift Roger Burggraeve, Leuven, Peeters, 2008, p. 305-330.
  • ', in N. LAMDAN & A. MELLONI, Nostra Aetate: Origins, Promulgation, Impact on Jewish-Christian Relations, Berlin, LIT verlag, 2007, p. 131-144.
  • ', in H. VAN CROMBRUGGE & W. MEIJER, Pedagogiek en traditie. Opvoeding en religie, Tielt, LannooCampus, 2004, p. 133-149.
  • ', in M. GOLDENBERG & R.L. MILLEN, Testimony, Tensions, and Tikkun. Teaching the Holocaust in Colleges and Universities, Washington & London, University of Washington Press, 2007, p. 172-188.
  • ', in M. BERENBAUM, Murder Most Mericiful. Essays on the Ethical Conundrum Occasioned by Sigi Ziering’s ‘The Judgement of Herbert Bierhoff ’, Lanham Boulder, University Press of America, 2005, p. 153-163.
  • ', in J. ROTH, Fire in the Ashes: God, Evil and the Holocaust, Washington, Washington University Press, 2005, chapter 9, p. 219-230.
  • ', in D. POLLEFEYT, Incredible Forgiveness. Christian Ethics between Fanaticism and Reconciliation, Leuven, Peeters, 2004, p. 121-159.
  • ', in M. LABAHN & K. SCHOLTISSEK & A. STROTMANN, Israel und seine Heilstraditionen im vierten Evangelium. Festschrift für Johannes Beutler SJ zum 70. Geburtstag, Paderborn, Ferdinand Schöningh, 2004, p. 11-32.
  • ', in International Studies in Catholic Education, 2010.
  • ', in D. PATTERSON & J. ROTH After-Words. Post-Holocaust Struggles with Forgiveness, Reconciliation, Justice, Seattle, University of Washington Press, 2004, p. 55-72.
  • ', in J. BEMPORAD & J.T. PAWLIKOWSKI & J. SIEVERS, Good and Evil after Auschwitz. Ethical Implications for Today, New York, KTAV Publishing House, 2001, p. 119-138.
  • ', Assen, Royal Van Gorcum, 2001, 612 blz.
  • ', in M. MEYER & C. HUGHES, Jesus Then and Now. Images of Jesus in History and Christology, Harrisburg, PA, Trinity Press International, 2001, p. 229-247.
  • ', in J. VALENTIN & S. WENDEL, Jüdische Traditionen in der Philosophie des 20. Jahrhunderts, Darmstadt, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2000, p. 196-213.
  • ', in JET. Journal of Empirical Theology 1228-36.
  • ', in Ethische perspectieven 5181-188.
  • ', in J.K. ROTH, Ethics after the Holocaust. Perspectives, Critiques and Responses, St. Paul, Paragon House, 1999, p. 210-242.
  • ', in H.J. CARGAS, Problems Unique to the Holocaust, Lexington, The University Press of Kentucky, 1999, p. 67-82.
  • ', in F.H. LITTELL, Hyping the Holocaust. Scholars Answer Goldhagen, New York, Cummings & Hathaway, 1997, p. 1-18.