Born in Mendoza (Argentina), Mexican citizen, married to Johanna Peters (German).
Children: Enrique (1965) and Susanne (1966). Phone and fax: Mexico City (52-55) 56 58
05 01. E-mail: .
TITLES
1957 Bachelor and Master in Philosophy (Universidad Nacional del Cuyo,
Mendoza, Argentina). Ten semesters
1959 Doctor in Philosophy (Universidad Central de Madrid, Spain).
1965 Bachelor in Theology (Institut Catholique of Paris and Muenster
University). Eight semesters
1967 Doctor in History (La Sorbonne, Paris).
1981 Doctor Honoris Causa (Freiburg, Switss).
1995 Doctor Honoris Causa (Universidad Mayor de San Andres, La Paz,
Bolivia).
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1966-68 Professor of Ethics at Department of Philosophy of the Philosophy
Department of the Universidad Nacional de Resistencia (Chaco, Argentina).
1967-73 Professor in the Pastoral Institute of CELAM (Quito, Ecuador).
1968-75 Professor of Ethics in the Philosophy Faculty in the Universidad Nacional
del Cuyo (Mendoza, Argentina).
1975- Professor of Ethics in the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa
(UAM-Iz.), and in the Faculty of Philosophy in the Universidad Nacional
Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM, Mexico City).
1976- Professor of Church History and Methodology in Religious Studies, (ITES,
Mexico City).
VISITING PROFESSOR
1972 Catholic University of Louvain (Belgica)
1973-76 Mexican American Cultural Center (San Antonio,Tex.,USA)
1981 Loyola University (Saint Louis, Miss., USA)
1981 University of Freiburg (Suiza)
1982 Theological Faculty of Geneva (Geneva)
1983 Christian Theological Seminary of the Disciples of Christ
(Indianapolis, IN)
1986 A winter semester as Visiting John A. O'Brien Professor at University of
Notre Dame (Indiana, USA)
1987 A spring quarter as Distinguished visiting professor at State University of
California (Los Angeles, CA)
1989 A winter semester as Visiting Professor, Union Theological Seminary (NY)
1991 A winter semester as Visiting Wilson Professor, Vanderbilt University
(Tennessee)
1992 A winter semester as Visiting Professor in the Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Universität Frankfurt (Germany)
1994 A winter semester as Visiting Professor in the Loyola University (Chicago,
USA)
1997 Visiting Professor Universität Wien (Viena, Austria)
1998 A spring semester as Visiting Professor in the Duke University (Durham,
NC)
2000 Robert Kennedy Visiting Professor of the David Rockefeller Center for
Latin
American Studies, Harvard University (Cambr., Mass. USA),
2003 Visiting professor PIC (Philosophy, Interpretation and Culture), State
University of New Yor, Binghamton
LECTURERS IN UNIVERSITIES
1976 University of Texas (Austin)
1979 Harvard Divinity School (Boston)
1980 American Philosophical Catholic Association (Philadelphia)
1980 Villanova University (Pennsylvania)
1982 Tulane University (New Orleans)
1982-83 Loyola University (Los Angeles)
1985 Vanderbilt University (Tennessee)
1985 University of Florida (Gainesville)
1986 University of Richmond (Virginia)
1987 Lutheran School of Theology (Chicago)
1988 Loyola University (Los Angeles)
1988 Mount St.Mary College (Los Angeles)
1988 University of California (Los Angeles and River Side)
1988 Southern University of California (Los Angeles)
1988 University of Albuquerque (Nuevo Mexico)
1989 University of Fordham (New York)
1989 University of Social Research (New York)
1989 City University of New York, Baruch College (New York)
1989 Princeton University (New Jersey)
1989 Yale University (Mass.)
1989 University of Masssachusset, Amherst (Mass.)
1989 Duke University (Durham, North Carolina)
1989 Dyton University (Ohio)
1990 Lutheran School of Theol. (Chicago)
1990 Lynchburg College (Virginia)
1991 Emory University (Atlanta)
1991 Maryknoll School in Missionoloy (New York)
1991 Vanderbilt University (Tennessee)
1992 University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
1992 Divinity School (Tennessee)
1992 University of California Los Angeles UCLA (Los Angeles)
1992 Andover Newton Theological School (Boston)
1993 American Philosophical Association (Atlanta)
1994 Loyola University (Chicago)
1995 American Philosophical Association (Chicago)
1996 University of San Francisco (San Fco.)
1996 Saint Louis University (Saint Louis)
1996 University of San Francisco (San Fco.)
1996 Duke University Divinity School (Durham)
1998 McMaster University (Ontario, Canada)
1998 State University of New York (New York)
1998 Ohio State University (Ohio)
1998 Binghamton University (Binghamton)
2000 University at Buffalo (Buffalo)
2000 Le Moyne College. Departament of Philosophy (Syracuse)
2000 Rauschenbusch Lectures Colgate Rochester. Divinity School
(Rochester)
2000 University of Minnesota (Minneapolis)
2000 SUNY. Hampshire College, International Education. (Amherst)
2000 Boston College (Boston)
2000 Harvard Divinity School (Cambridge)
2000 Brown University (Providence)
2002 University of Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania)
2002 Michigan University (Ann Arbor, Detroit)
2002 University of California (Berkeley)
2003 Binghamton University (Binghamton)
SEMINARS OR LECTURERS
In Latin-American:
Brasil: Rio, Sao Paulo, Porto Alegre, Campinas, Sao Leopoldo, Recife,
Florianópolis, etc.
Chile: Santiago, Valparaiso
Argentina: Buenos Aires, Cordoba, Mendoza, Rosario, etc.
Uruguay: Montevideo
Bolivia: La Paz, Cochabamba
Peru: Lima, Cuzco
Ecuador: Quito, Guayaquil, Cuenca, Riobamba
Colombia: Bogota, Cali, Medellín, Manizales
Venezuela: Caracas, Mérida, Maracaibo
Centro-
américa: Panamá, San José, Heredia, Tegucigalpa, Guatemala, Managua, Esteli,
Granada, San Salvador
Caribe: La Habana, Matanzas, Santo Domingo, Port-au-Prince (Haiti), Trinidad-
Tobago, Kingston (Jamaica), Point-au-Pitre (Guadaloupe)
Puerto Rico: Río Piedras, Cayey, Humacao
Mexico: Iberoamerican and other universities of Federal Distrit, Puebla,
Toluca, Guadalajara, Chihuahua, Monterrey, Xalapa, Chiapas,
Morelia, Cuernavaca, Ciudad Juárez, etc.
In Europa:
France: Paris, Strasbourg
Spain: Madrid, Santiago de Compostela, Pontevedra, Murcia, Málaga,
Salamanca, Barcelona, Vigo
Germany: Würzburg, Tübingen, Münster, Aachen, München, Freiburg, Rostock,
Frankfurt, Neurod, Mainz, Bonn, Krefeld, Düren, Regensburg, Siegen,
Darmstadt, Naurod, Diesburg, Rottenburg, Bremen, Saarbrücken, etc.
Belgique: Lovaina, Bruselas
Austria: Wien, Linz
U. K.: Brighton, London, Edimburgh
Italy: Rome, Milano, Bologna, Messina, Napoles, Bergamo, Torino, Genova,
Firenze, Lecce, Marina di Carrara, Verona, Bolzano, Trento, etc.
Hungary: Budapest, Zegeb
Ireland: Dublin
Norway: Oslo
Sweden: Stockholm, Uppsala
Russia: Moscow
Switzerland: Luzern, Biel-Stadt, Sornetan, Lausanne, Neuchatel, Freiburg. Zürich, Bern,
etc.
In Asie and Africa:
India: New Delhi, Bombay, Poone, Kerala, Madras, Madurai, Bangalore, etc.
Sri Lanka: Colombo
Philippine: Manila, Negros, Mindanao
N.Zeland: Auckland
Kenya: Nairobi
Tanzania: Dar-es-Salaam
Zimbabwe: Harare
Ghana: Accra
Senegal: Dakar
Egypt: El Cairo
SOME POSITIONS
1962-63 Research member (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) of the
Institut for Church History (Mainz, Germany)
1970- Member of the committees of Third World, Church History and
Theological Ethics of the review Concilium
1973-92 President of the Commission for the History of the Church in Latin America
(CEHILA)
1983-91 Coordinator of the Working Commission on Church History in the
Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians (EATWOT)
1985-89 Member of the Executive Committee of IAMS (International Association of
Mission Studies)
1985- Coordinator of the Association on Philosophy and Liberation (AFYL)
1981- Member of the Committee of the Collection "Theology and
Liberation"
1971- Member of the committees of the review Christus (Mexico), Servir
(Mexico), Revista de Teología (San Salvador), Puebla (Petropolis)
1989- Member of the Research National System (Mexico)
1993 Member of the committees the Centro de Documentación en
Filosofía Latinoamericana e Ibérica (Mexico)
1994 Member of the Journal of Hispanic/Latino Theology (S.Diego)
1996- Director Honorario of the review Utopía y Praxis Latinoamericana
(Maracaibo, Venezuela)
1997 Member of the Committee of the review Principios (Natal/RN, Brasil)
1997- Member of the Committee of the review African Philosophy
(Lewisburg, PA, USA)
1999- Member of the Committee of the review Devenires (Univ.
Michoacana, Morelia, México
2000 Se le otorgo el Premio a la Investigación 2000 en el Área de Ciencias
Sociales y Humanidades de la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana.
2002 Member of the Committee of the review La lámpara de Diógenes (Puebla)
2002- Asesor de la Licenciatura en Filosofía de la Universidad de la Ciudad de
México (Distrito Federal)
2002 Jurado Asesor del Concurso de Oposición, Convocatoria CO.I.CSH.c.04.02,
Área de Filosofía de las Ciencias Sociales, UAM.
