Ryan, Gerard

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College: Regis College
Degrees: DPhil (Oxford)
Email: gerard.ryan@utoronto.ca
Phone: 416-922-5472 ext 260
Teaching Category:
Regular Tenure Stream
Appointment Status:
Basic Degree
GCTS Associate
Research Interests:
Systematic / Philosophical / Contextual Theology

Bio

Gerard Ryan joined Regis College in 2020, having completed his doctoral studies in the Department of Theology and Religion, University of Oxford. His studies were supervised by Professors Werner G. Jeanrond and Graham Ward. Prior to arriving at Regis, Gerard was a Visiting Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin. His current research explores recognition theories and vulnerability studies as resources for a theological understanding of mutual accompaniment.

Grants:

- Recipient of American Association for the Advancement of Science Grant, “Climate Change and Theological Education (2024-2025),” $15,000 (USD). 
- Recipient of The College of The Holy Cross International Visiting Jesuit Fellows Scholarship (Winter Term, 2024), $22,000 (USD). 
- Recipient, along with Prof. John Berkman, of Science for Seminaries Seed Grant Initiative of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2021-2022).

  • Specializations

    • Recognition theories and theology
    • Theologies of accompaniment
    • Narrative and vulnerability studies
    • Secularism and religion
    • Participation and pastoral theologies
    • Theology as a relational discipline
    • Transcendence and transformation

  • Publications

    Monographs:

    • In progress and expected in 2025: Ecological Accompaniment in an Age of Loneliness: New Landscapes in Practical Theology (London: Routledge).
    • Gerard J. Ryan, Mutual Accompaniment as Faith-Filled Living: Recognition of the Vulnerable Other, Palgrave MacMillan, 2022.

    Articles:

    • Ryan, Gerard, ‘Charles Taylor and the Political Recognition of Difference as a Resource for Theological Reflection on Religious Recognition’, Open Theology 2, no.1 (2016): 907-23

    Chapters in Books:

    • “Ecological Accompaniment: From Connectivity to Closeness in an Age of Loneliness,” in Issues in Science and Theology, ed. Michael Fuller (Cham, Switzerland, Springer Nature, 2023).