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(1985) |
Monika K. Hellwig is Executive Director of ACCU, the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities. After a childhood spent as a refugee from eastern Europe, and university studies in England, she was engaged in social service for some time before becoming a theologian. She taught for many years at Georgetown University. She is the single parent of three adopted children, and the author of a number of books including Understanding Catholicism, The Eucharist and the Hunger of the World, and Jesus the Compassion of God. | |
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Women and the Word (1986) |
Sandra M. Schneiders, I.H.M., S.T.D., is professor of New Testament Studies and Christian Spirituality at the Jesuit School of Theology and the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California. She has been a member of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Monroe, Michigan, since 1955. | ||
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Women at Prayer (1987) |
Mary Collins, O.S.B., Ph.D., has just been selected Prioress of Mount St. Scholastica, the Benedictine Abbey in Atchison, Kansas with which she has been affiliated since 1957. She has taught liturgical studies at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. She is an author, editor, and lecturer, and past president of both the North American Academy of Liturgy and the North American Liturgical Conference. | ||
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Women and Teaching (1988) |
Maria Harris is a writer and teacher who has held the Howard Chair in Religious Education at Andover Newton Theological School, and the Tuohy Lectureship at John Carroll University in Cleveland. Her 13 books, many of which draw on the arts, artistry, and imagination, include Teaching and Religious Imagination, Dance of the Spirit: The Seven Steps of Women's Spirituality, Proclaim Jubilee! and Jubilee Time: Celebrating Women, Spirit, and the Advent of Age. | ||
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Passionate Women (1989) |
Elizabeth A. Dreyer, Ph.D. is associate professor of Religious Studies at Fairfield University in Fairfield, CT. Her numerous articles examine aspects of the Christian tradition — medieval women, pneumatology, and the mystical tradition — and contemporary lay spirituality. In addition to the Madeleva lecture, she is the author of Manifestations of Grace, Earth Crammed with Heaven and A Retreat with Catherine of Siena. She edited The Cross in Christian Tradition, a collection of essays based on seminars on The Cross held at Saint Mary's College, published in 2001 by Paulist Press. | ||
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Job's Daughters (1990) |
Joan Chittister, OSB, has been a leading voice on spirituality for over 25 years. She is presently executive director of Benetvision: A Resource and Research Center for Contemporary Spirituality located in Erie, Pennsylvania. A member and past prioress of the Benedictine sisters of Erie, she is past president of the Conference of American Benedictine Prioresses and of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious. Her twenty books include In Search of Belief and (Spring 2000) The Illuminated Life and The Story of Ruth. | ||
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Women and Creativity (1991) |
Dolores R. Leckey is a Senior Fellow at the Woodstock Theological Center, where she coordinates the Church Leadership Program. She is former Executive Director of the Secretariat for Family, Laity, Women and Youth at the National Conference of Catholic Bishops where she served for twenty years. Mrs. Leckey is an author of books on contemporary issues in the church and spirituality and has lectured worldwide. She is married to Tom Leckey; they are the parents of four adult children. Among her honorary doctorates is one from Saint Mary's College. | ||
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Women and Sexuality (1992) |
Lisa Sowle Cahill, Ph.D, is Professor of Theology at Boston College and President of the Catholic Theological Society of America. She is author of ‘Love Your Enemies': Discipleship, Pacifism, and Just War Theory; of Sexual Ethics: A Feminist Biblical Perspective; and of Sex, Gender and Christian Ethics. Her current research interests are in New Testament and Christian ethics; Catholic social ethics; ethnic violence and reconciliation; assisted suicide; and genetics and ethics. | ||
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Women, Earth and Creator Spirit (1993) |
Elizabeth Johnson, CSJ, with a PhD from Catholic University of America, is Distinguished Professor of Theology at Fordham University in New York City. She is author of Consider Jesus: Waves of Renewal in Christology and She Who Is: The Mystery of God in Feminist Theological Discourse. Past President of the Catholic Theological Society, she serves on the editorial board of Theological Studies and Horizons: the Journal of the College Theology Society, and lectures widely at home and abroad. | ||
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Madeleva: One Woman's Life (1994) |
Gail Porter Mandell teaches in the Humanistic Studies Program at Saint Mary's College. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame. Publications include The Phoenix Paradox: A Study of Renewal through Change in the Collected Poems and Last Poems of D.H. Lawrence; Life into Art: Conversations with Seven Contemporary Biographers; and Madeleva: A Biography. She lives in South Bend with her husband Daniel. | ||
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Hagar's Daughters: Womanist Ways of Being in the World (1995) |
Diana L. Hayes earned a Ph.D. in religious studies at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium, and was the first African-American woman to earn an S.T.D. (Doctor of Sacred Theology). She is Associate Professor of theology at Georgetown University. She is the author of Were You There? Stations of the Cross (1999) as well as Taking Down Our Harps and other books. She is presently at work on books on Womanist Theology, African American Spirituality and inter (intra) religious dialogue in the Black American community. | ||
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Stories We Live: Cuentos que Vivimos (1996) |
Jeanette Rodriguez, PhD, is chair of the Theology and Religious Studies Department at Seattle University. She received her Ph.D. (1990) from the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley. Her areas of interest are theological anthropology, U.S. Hispanic theology, the theologies of liberation and Hispanic women's spirituality. She is former President and board member of ACHTUS, the Academy of Hispanic Theologians of the U.S. Her publications include Our Lady of Guadalupe. | ||
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Jewish-Christian Dialogue: One Woman's Experience (1997) |
Mary C. Boys, S.N.J.M., holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University and is the Skinner and McAlpin Professor of Practical Theology at Union Theological Seminary, NY. She is the author of Educating in Faith: Maps and Visions; and Has God Only One Blessing? Judaism as a Source of Christian Self-Understanding. She is a member of the Christian Scholars Group of the Institute for Christian & Jewish Studies, and a senior advisor to the Valparaiso Project on the Education and Formation of People in Faith. She is a member of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary. | ||
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Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry, Liturgy and Women's Work (1998) |
Kathleen Norris has written movingly of her experience of spirituality in a Benedictine monastery in The Cloister Walk. Her most recent book is Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith. She has published five books of poetry, including Little Girls in Church and How I Came to Drink My Grandmother's Piano. She is married to the poet David Dwyer; they live in Lemmon, South Dakota. | ||
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An Ideal Church: A Meditation (1999) |
Denise L. Carmody is the Jesuit Community Professor at Santa Clara University. Teaching and chairing this religious studies department are her two professional delights. Author of more than fifty books, she wrote many of them with the late John Carmody. They were the first couple to receive the John Courtney Murray Award for Excellence in Theology, given by the Catholic Theological Society of America in June, 1995. Her most recent book is Organizing a Christian Mind: A Theology of Higher Education. | ||
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With Oil In Their Lamps: Faith, Feminism and the Future (2000) |
Sandra M. Schneiders, I.H.M., S.T.D., is professor of New Testament Studies and Christian Spirituality at the Jesuit School of Theology and the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California. She has been a member of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Monroe, Michigan, since 1955. She is author of New Wineskins; The Revelatory Text; and Written That You May Believe. | ||
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Speaking with Authority: Catherine of Siena and the Voices of Women Today (2001) |
Mary Catherine Hilkert, OP, is associate professor of systematic theology at the University of Notre Dame, with special interests in theological anthropology, fundamental theology, and feminist theology. She is co-editor of The Praxis of Christian Experience: An Introduction to the Thought of Edward Schillebeeckx, and editor of William Hill's Search for the Absent God. Her most recent book is Naming Grace: Preaching and the Sacramental Imagination. | ||
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Compassionate (2002) |
Margaret Farley holds the Gilbert L. Stark Chair in Christian Ethics at Yale University Divinity School. She is the author or editor of five books, including Personal Commitments: Beginning, Keeping, Changing; Feminist Ethics and the Catholic Moral Tradition; and Liberating Eschatology, and more than 75 articles and chapters of books. Margaret Farley's lecture will be published by Paulist Press as part of their Madeleva Lecture series. Publication date is 11/24/02. Cost will be $5.95. To place your order, just contact Paulist Press.
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Sidney Callahan, Ph.D., is an author, professor and licensed psychologist. She earned her B.A. in English from Bryn Mawr College, her M.A. in Psychology from Sarah Lawrence College, and a Ph.D in Social and Personality Psychology from the City University of New York. Sidney Callahan has written many articles, books and columns devoted to religious, psychological and ethical questions. She holds the Paul J. McKeever Chair of Moral Theology, St. John's University, Queens, NY. |
