About

Thomas M. Kelly is professor of systematic theology at Creighton University and immersion coordinator for the Ignatian Colleagues Program, a national program of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities. Kelly has taught travel courses throughout Latin America on the past and present ministry of the Catholic Church, taking students to the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Bolivia, and Peru over the past thirteen years.

He has published nationally and internationally on philosophical hermeneutics, liberation theology, Catholic social thought, marriage and family, and the Church of Latin America. Two of his most recent books include When the Gospel Grows Feet: Rutilio Grande, SJ and the Church of El Salvador, An Ecclesiology in Context (Liturgical Press, 2013) and Rutilio Grande, SJ: Homilies and Articles (Liturgical Press, 2015). Kelly holds a BA from the University of Notre Dame and a PhD from Boston College.