Career
Since 2012 he is also the chair of the Centre for Academic Teacher’s Training, KU Leuven. On 1 August 2014 he became the Director General of the Flemish Secretary for Catholic Education (VSKO). In 1995 Boeve obtained his doctoral degree in Theology with a dissertation on the reception of postmodernity in theology.
In 1997 he became part-time instructor at the KU Leuven, in 1999 he became full-time instructor.
Between 1998 and 2003 he also lectured at the Faculty of Theology of the Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve. In 2000 he set up a research group Theology in a Postmodern Context, supporting about ten research and doctoral projects on a.o. the study of the ‘theological method’, Christian faith in the actual culture, and the relation between philosophy and theology.
Meanwhile he is also the coordinator of the GOA project on The Normativity of History, conducting historical-systematic research, and the interdisciplinary research group Anthropos. From 2005 until 2009 Boeve was the international chair of the European Society of Catholic Theology.