Faculty
Minsal-Ruiz, Julio
Title/s: Adjunct Professor
Email: jminsalruiz@luc.edu
About
Father Minsal is a Jesuit priest whose seminar-style courses offer students a space in which they can critically explore questions of faith, reason, and our shared human condition. These seminars, meant to serve as laboratories of human thought, are designed to foster transformative encounters with others and with the ultimate Other.
After his undergraduate studies in philosophy and psychology, Father Minsal joined the Society of Jesus in 2009. His Jesuit formation led him to further studies in philosophy at Fordham University and theology at Regis College in Toronto. He was ordained a priest in 2020 in his hometown of Miami and is currently pursuing doctoral research in sacred theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.
His research centers on how God reveals the mystery of being, particularly within the Catholic reception of Karl Barth’s theology. His work examines the analogy of faith and engages the writings of Hans Urs von Balthasar, Henri Bouillard, and Hans Küng.
While in Rome, Father Minsal enjoys showing how the experience of Jesuit Baroque architecture brings God’s superabundance to life, creating spaces of beauty and an oasis of renewal for all who seek it.
Degrees
- STD (ABD), Pontifical Gregorian University
- STL, Pontifical Gregorian University
- MDiv, Regis College
- MA, Fordham University
- BA, Xavier University
Research Interests
- Revelation
- Philosophy and Theology
- Ecumenical Theology
- Analogy of Faith, Analogy of Being