Rev. Vincent Pizzuto, Ph.D. is Associate Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of San Francisco. He has a Masters of Education in Religious Education from Boston College (1995), as well as a Masters (STL) and Doctorate (STD) in New Testament exegesis from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Louvain) in Belgium. Currently in publication is his first book entitled, A Cosmic Leap of Faith: An Authorial, Structural and Theological Investigation of the Cosmic Christology in Colossians I:15-20 (Peeters, 2006), and his more recent articles, “The Elegance of Matthew 1-2: A Chiastic Proposal,” (CBQ Forthcoming, 2012); “An Ecological Hermeneutic of Col 1:15-20: A Panentheistic Proposal,” in Confronting the Climate Crisis: Catholic Theological Perspectives, (Marquette: University Press, 2011); “God has Made it Plain to Them: An Indictment of Rome’s Hermeneutic of Homophobia,” (BTB 38: Winter 2008); “Religious Terror and the Prophetic Voice of Reason: Unmasking Our Myths of Righteousness,” (BTB 37: June 2007). His primary theological interests lie in New Testament theology and historical-critical methodology; christology; trinitarian theology; the Christian mystical tradition; eco-theology and Celtic Christian spirituality.