Stephen B. Bevans, SVD - "Community of Missionary Disciples" - Catherine E. Clifford

Name: Stephen B. Bevans, SVD - "Community of Missionary Disciples" - Catherine E. Clifford
Start: 2024-09-16T16:30:00-05:00
End: 2024-09-16T17:30:00-05:00
Location: Catholic Theological Union at Chicago

Schedule

Mon Sep 16 2024 at 04:30 pm to 05:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Catholic Theological Union at Chicago | Chicago, IL

Stephen B. Bevans, SVD discusses Community of Missionary Disciples: The Continuing Creation of the Church. He will be joined in conversation by Catherine E. Clifford. A Q&A and signing will follow the discussion.
Presented in partnership with the Catholic Theological Union
At the Catholic Theological Union, 5416 S Cornell Ave, Chicago IL 60615
About the Book: In this comprehensive ecclesiology through a missionary lens Stephen Bevans unpacks the profound Catholic conviction that the church is missionary by its very nature as he considers what it means for the church to be on mission, in community, and together in discipleship.
About the Author: Stephen Bevans is a priest in the missionary congregation of the Society of the Divine Word (SVD) and Louis J. Luzbetak, SVD Professor of Mission and Culture, Emeritus at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. He is the author or editor of twenty-one books, among which are Models of Contextual Theology, An Introduction to Theology in Global Perspective, and, with Roger P. Schroeder, Constants in Context: A Theology of Mission for Today. From 2014 until 2022 he was a member of the World Council of Churches' Commission on World Mission and Evangelism.
About the Interlocutor: Catherine E. Clifford is Professor of Systematic and Historical Theology at Saint Paul University, Ottawa. She holds a PhD (Theology) from the University of St Michael’s College, Toronto, and a Licentiate (STL) from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. Her teaching, research, and publications are focused in the areas of ecclesiology, ecumenism, and the history of the Second Vatican Council. Catherine’s recent publications include the collection, Vatican II at 60: Re-Energizing the Renewal (Orbis, 2024), and The Oxford Handbook on Vatican II, co-edited with Massimo Faggioli (Oxford, 2023). Catherine is a delegate from the North American region to the General Assembly of the International Synod: For a Synodal Church in Mission.