Deacon Peter W. Gittens

Sessional Lecturer

EDUCATION

S.T.B. Pontifical Urban University Urbanianum, Rome 1966
S.T.L. Pontifical Urban University Urbanianum, Rome 1968
M.S. Ed. (Education Administration), Niagara University, New York, 1972
M.A. (Thomistic Philosophy), Niagara University, New York, 1979
S.Th.D. Pontifical Faculty of Theology Marianum, Rome, (Dissertation on Rupert of Deutz’ Mariology, 1996
Ph.D. (Theological Studies) Graduate Theological Foundation, Indiana/Oxford, (Dissertation on Cardinal Newman’s Mariology defended in Oxford), 2007

AREA OF SPECIALIZATION

  • Mariology

BIOGRAPHY

My Name is Peter Gittens, a permanent deacon since 1984.

I started teaching as a sessional lecturer in theology at St. Augustine’s Seminary in the Graduate Extension Division in the late 1980s, teaching Mariology, and Sexual Morality. After full-time teaching (philosophy and theology) in New Orleans at Our Lady of Holy Cross College, (now the University of Holy Cross), from 2001 to 2009, and retiring with the academic rank of “full” professor of theology, I returned to Canada and resumed teaching as a sessional lecturer at St. Augustine’s Seminary, in the Institute of Theology, teaching Moral Theology, Sacramental Theology, The Christian God, and Theological Anthropology.

Prior to that, I taught theology full-time for five years at Niagara University, USA, followed by work in Religious Education for the Hamilton Catholic School Board (ten years) and the Wellington Catholic School Board in Guelph (sixteen years).

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS / SELECTED AREAS OF SERVICE / PASTORAL WORK

Selected Publications

  • Magistra Apostolorum: Mary in the Mariology of Rupert of Deutz. Saarbrücken, Germany: Scholar’s Press, 2013.

  •  Mary More or less: Anglican and Catholic Mariology of John Henry Newman, Saarbrücken, Germany: Scholar’s Press, 2013.

 Selected Areas of Service or Pastoral Work

  • Former Associate Director of Diaconate Formation, Diocese of Hamilton, Ontario.