Gregory Heille, O.P.

BA (Mathematics), St. John’s University, Collegeville, MN
M.Div., MA (Theology), Aquinas Institute of Theology
D.Min. (Preaching), Western Theological Seminary, Holland, MI (Reformed Church in America)
Professor of Homiletics, at Aquinas Institute since 1994

Academic Dean and Vice President since 2007
heille@ai.edu

Webpage: The Word on the Web: An Internet Hotlist on Resources for Preachers.

Current affiliations

In addition to serving as Academic Dean for Aquinas Institute of Theology, I serve nationally as chairperson of the Theology of Preaching workgroup of the Academy of Homiletics. As a Dominican friar of the Dominican Central Province of St. Albert the Great, I reside at St. Louis Bertrand Priory in St. Louis.

Publications and Presentations this Academic Year and Next

“With Paul in Solitary: Preaching in Prison.” The Preacher (The College of Preachers.) Part I by Thomas W. CUmmins, April 2009 (133): 5-6. Part II by Gregory Heille, July 2009 (134): 7-9.
“Evangelization of Culture: Social Gospel in the Balance.” Preaching and the News: 34th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Homiletics. Held at Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington, D.C., 4–6 December 2009. www.homiletics.org: 70–79.
“The Word on the Web.” Notre Dame Center for Liturgy Bulletin (January 2010): 4–6.
“Forward,” in Vincent Pastro, Enflamed by the Sacrament of the Word: Preaching and the Imagination of the Poor. Eugene OR: Wipf and Stock, forthcoming.
Workshop on “Faith Alive: In Consideration of Preaching” to the priests of the Archdiocese of Regina in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, in October 2009.
“The Catholic Church Meets YouTube: What Does One Generation Offer Another?” at the Aquinas Institute’s Theology on Tap in February 2010.
Lenten Day of Prayer at Potosi Correctional Center with Thomas Cummins, Andrew Dorr, and Augustine DeArmond, O.P., in February 2010.
“When Business Meets YouTube: the Millennial Generation as Entrepreneurs” at Aquinas Institute’s Business Forum in March 2010.
Annual Conference of the Higher Learning Commission in Chicago in April 2010.
Taking online course on Dante’s Divine Comedy during spring term 2010 (see my Dante Blog).
Biannual Conference of the Association of Theological Schools in Montreal in June 2010.
Workshop on “Preaching in the Life and Ministry of the Priest” to priests of Australia and New Zealand at the request of Australian Bishops’ Conference in September 2010 in Adelaide.
Teaching course on the Theology of Preaching to new DMin in Preaching Cohort with Honora Werner, O.P., in fall term 2010.
Book project with the Catholic Association of Teachers of Homiletics on The Preaching in the Sunday Assembly: A Pastoral Commentary on Fulfilled in Your Hearing, to be published by Liturgical Press in late 2010.

Interests

The road that brought me to ministry at Aquinas Institute of Theology involved almost twenty years of pastoral ministry at the Catholic Campus Parish of South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD; Associate Pastor at Blessed Sacrament Parish, Madison, WI ; Vocation Coordinator for the Dominican Central Province, Chicago, IL; priest for the St. Giles Family Mass Community, Oak Park, IL; and chaplain for Dominican Chapel/Marywood and founder and program director for Dominican Center at Marywood in Grand Rapids, MI.

My academic interests have to do with the theology of preaching, Christian healing, and the evangelization of culture, with particular interest in repairing the fractured relationship of men and women in our culture (Galatians 3:28).

I continue to take any opportunity I can to hike in the American West. Favorite places include Mt Rainier National Park in Washington, Zion National Park in Utah, and the Big Sur Coast in California. I will be hiking in the Smokey Mountains in summer 2010

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