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WHO ARE WE?
Founding Director
Aldegonde
Brenninkmeijer-Werhahn
Aldegonde and her late husband Hubert founded INTAMS in 1987 and has been its Director since then.
She is also Founding Board Member of the Centre for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem (since 2000), and Founding Board Member of the Cardinal Bea Centre for Judaic Studies, Gregorian University, Rome (since 2001).
Contact for management, international networking and consulting services.
INTAMS chair & editor-in-chief
Thomas Knieps-Port le Roi
Worked as Senior Researcher at INTAMS from 1995 to 2005.
Was appointed holder of the INTAMS Chair for the Study of Marriage & Spirituality, Research Unit of Pastoral Theology, Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, KU Leuven in 2005.
Editor-in-Chief of the journal Marriage, Families & Spirituality.
Contact for the INTAMS Chair and INTAMS journal
Office Manager
Dominique van Haelst
Joined INTAMS at the end of 2000, after 15 years professional experience as Founder and Production & Quality Director of an international translation company in Brussels. Holds a university degree in Romance Philology (University of Antwerpen, Belgium) and a Postgraduate degree in Hispanic Philology & Culture (Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain).
Contact for journal subscriptions, book reviews, events, logistics and website.
associate editor
David Dawson Vasquez
Has been collaborating with INTAMS since 2001. Holds a Ph.D. in Systematic Theology from The Catholic University of America. Teaches systematic theology in Rome at the Pontifical Beda College, the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum), and various study abroad programs. His interests are theological anthropology, with questions of marriage and gender, as well as the apophatic tradition of the early Church.
Contact for INTAMS journal
librarian
Hans Storme
Since 1996 responsible for preserving, developing and promoting the INTAMS Library for the Interdisciplinary Study of Marriage, located within the library of the Theology Faculty, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium).
Doctoral dissertation (1990) on the early modern Catholic discourse on marriage preparation in the Flemish dioceses.
Contact for the INTAMS library
Founding Patrons
† Godfried Cardinal Danneels, Mechelen - † Prof. Klaus Demmer, Rome - † Carlo Maria Cardinal Martini, Milano - Dr. & Mrs † Jack & † Edith Dominian, London - Prof. Ladislas Örsy, Washington