Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley: Gregory Chisholm, S.J.

Assistant Professor of Pastoral Theology
B.Sc., M.S., and Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
B.A., University of London
S.T.L., Weston Jesuit of Theology

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Download a syllabus for the following courses:
STFT 4231: Black & Latino Theological Sem (taught with Fernández)
RSFT 2577: Ministry at the Margins

Fr. Chisholm will be teaching the Fall 2006 semester.

Fr. Chisholm serves as pastor of St. Patrick Church in Oakland, CA, and teaches pastoral theology at the Jesuit School. His interests include theologies of liberation and the history of black Catholics.

After his ordination in 1993, Fr. Chisholm was an assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Detroit Mercy. He specialized in Engineering Vibration and Dynamics and did consulting work with General Motors Corporation. Besides participating in the religious and spiritual life of the students, faculty and staff of the University of Detroit Mercy, he assisted in supporting the faith-community at St. Gregory the Great parish in Detroit. Fr. Chisholm was a regular preacher at the Sunday Eucharist at St. Gregory. He also found time to preside and preach at other Detroit area parishes.

From April of 1998 until June of 2005, Fr. Chisholm was in full time parish ministry in Los Angeles, CA, at Holy Name of Jesus Church, a strong and diverse Roman Catholic community. Since 2002, he has also ministered to married couples in California as a priest of the Worldwide Marriage Encounter program.

Currently, Fr. Chisholm serves on the governing board of Holy Cross College in Worcester, MA, and the University of San Francisco in San Francisco, CA. He is also the Chaplain of the Western States District of the Knights of Peter Claver and their Ladies Auxiliary.

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favour freedom and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without ploughing up the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the awful roar of its mighty waters. Power concedes nothing without a demand!"
- Frederick Douglass