Khalil Chalfoun
Université Saint Joseph de Beyrouth Université Saint Joseph de BeyrouthLebanon
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Khalil Chalfoun

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Born in 1955 in Lebanon, Fr Khalil Chalfoun is a priest of the Maronite Diocese of Beirut and has taught dogmatic theology since 1991 at several Catholic universities in Lebanon, including Saint Joseph University of Beirut (USJ), where he also supervises doctoral theses. He holds a doctorate in theology from the Institut Catholique de Paris (1986) and a doctorate in anthropology and religious studies from Paris-Sorbonne University (1987). He was Rector of La Sagesse University from 2015 to 2020, having previously served there as Dean of the Faculty of Ecclesiastical Sciences and then as Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs and Research.

The author of more than 120 publications in Arabic and French, he has written a reading of the Document on Human Fraternity (Al-Maqasid, 2020). His work centres on dogmatic theology and the life of the Churches in Lebanon: he has published, in Arabic, an analytical index of the Second Vatican Council (2025) and an essay on the theology of Christian hope (2021), as well as a study of the place of the laity in the Synod of Bishops for Lebanon (1995) and the Maronite Patriarchal Synod (2003-2006), which appeared in Proche-Orient chrétien (2024).

A member since 2020 of the ecumenical association of Middle Eastern theologians “Nous choisissons la vie” (“We Choose Life”), he was an observer at the Synod of Bishops for Lebanon in 1995 and an expert at the Maronite Patriarchal Synod (2003-2005). He co-founded the Lebanese Association of Catholic Theologians and represented the Catholic universities of Lebanon in the Federation of European Catholic Universities (FUCE) from 2016 to 2019.

He is a member of the Pluriel research group “The Making of Martyrdom (Beirut)”.

Disciplines

Theology

Topics

Eastern Christianism Interfaith relations Muslim-Christian Dialogue

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Pluriel

The Making of Martyrdom (Beirut)

This research project aims to deepen the concept of martyrdom as mobilised in the discourses of the various politico-religious actors on the Lebanese scene. It analyses how this concept is invested, appropriated and reinterpreted by the different communities in order to sacralise their cause, legitimise their action, strengthen their internal cohesion and assert a distinct identity. Carried by an interdisciplinary team of researchers in theology, Islamic studies, anthropology, philosophy, history and sociology, fr…

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