Welcome to
the personal home page of Fr. Kevin Gillespie, S.J.
As a professor at Loyola University of Maryland I serve as chair of the Pastoral Counseling department. Please enjoy my site.
Fr. Kevin Gillespie, S.J.
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Welcome to
the personal home page of Fr. Kevin Gillespie, S.J.
As a professor at Loyola University of Maryland I serve as chair of the Pastoral Counseling department. Please enjoy my site.
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Completed in 2001, Psychology and American Catholicism: From
Confession to Therapy? (New York:Crossroad), focuses on the history of
relations between professional psychology and American Catholicism. I have also
been engaged in researching/writing on topics such as the spirituality of Henri
Nouwen and Adrian van Kaam as well as William James's The Varieties of
Religious Experience. Most recently, I have researched terrorism,
trauma, technology and transcendence and have written the following articles:
"Catholicism and Psychology” in E. T. Dowd (ed.) The Psychologies in
Religion: Working with the Religious Client (2006), “Terror, trauma and
transcendence: Pastoral ministry after 9/11” in The New Theological Review
(2/2004) and “Caring for the soul and the self: Perspectives on pastoral
helping” in D. Herl, D. and M.L. Berman's Building bridges over troubled
waters: Enhancing pastoral care and
guidance (2004).
Loyola University
Pastoral and Spiritual Care
The M.A. degree consists of 13 courses including a thesis. The coursework focuses on the emerging spiritual and pastoral care ministry and allows students to integrate their experiences and settings into their learning. As such, students are also able to apply the learning from their coursework into their ministry. A degree with a global reach and focus, our M.A. students come from many parts of the world and a variety of Christian denominations. Graduates with the M.A. degree have gone on to pursue employment in hospital chaplaincy, nursing homes, parish ministry and spiritual direction.
Through our department's LOGOS (Loyola's Overseas Gifts of Solidarity) I have coordinated our Department's international programs. In recent years, we have presented workshops on pastoral counseling concerns in China, Hong Kong, The Philippines, Taiwan and Thailand. In the near future we intend to offer programs in India, New Zealand and Samoa.
I have a private practice and
maintain professional memberships in The American Association of Pastoral
Counselors (Fellow), American Psychological Association (Division 36), and
Spiritual Directors International. I am presently serving Loyola College in
Maryland as a member of the the Board of Rank and Tenure (Fall, 2005-Present)
and as a member of Loyola's Year of the City initiative. In Fall 2004, I became
a member of the American Association of Pastoral Counselors' Executive Committee
for Formation.
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Last updated October 2009.