Chile. Doctor of Theology from the Pontifical Jesuit Faculty of Theology and Philosophy in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Professor and Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Theology at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Professor at the Major Pontifical Seminary of Santiago. He works in the area of systematic theology, teaching courses on Creation and Eschatology. He has published *Modernidad, utopía e historia en América Latina* (1995), *Esperanza en la historia. Idea cristiana del tiempo*, and co-authored *Pensamiento social de la Iglesia y ciencias sociales. Horizontes teológicos para un diálogo* (2006), as well as various theological articles related to his specialty.