Antonio Gerace

Antonio Gerace, PhD in Religious Studies (KU Leuven 2017), is postdoctoral fellow at University of Bologna, working on The Renaissance Papacy’s Political Theology and Its Projects of Religious Reform (PRIN 2022 MUR: 2022BXT33X). P.I. Andrea Annese. At KU Leuven, I worked on the development of Biblical studies in the Early Modern Low Countries. I (co-)authored many contributions, and I published my first book Biblical Scholarship in Leuven in the Golden Sixteenth Century in 2019. From 2018 to 2023 I was a postdoctoral fellow of FSciRe (Bologna), where I first focused on the education of clergy before the Council of Trent, which brought me to publish my second monograph Un manuale per il clero in 2024. Moreover, I worked on the translations of the formulas of faith (Apostles’ Creed and Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed) in the Early Modern Era. In 2020 he obtained the Italian Scientific Habilitation as Associate Professor in History of Christianity.