Franciscan Studies: The Differerence Women Are Making

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v Spirit and Life, 8 BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION Maria Calisi, PhD, did her doctoral studies in historical theology at Fordham University. Her dissertation was a study of “Bonaventure’s Metaphysics of Self-diffusive Goodness and of Exemplarity as a Resource for Feminist Trinitarian Theology.” She is now an adjunct professor at St. Peter’s College in Jersey City, New Jersey, and at Fordham University. She lives with her husband in the Bronx, New York. Margaret Carney, OSF, a sister of St. Francis of the Providence of God, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, received her doctorate at the Pontificium Athenaeum Antonianum in Rome. Having served as a faculty member at The Franciscan Institute, St. Bonaventure, New York, from 1998-1999, she was appointed Director of the Institute and Dean of the Franciscan Studies program. She is a member of the Franciscan Pilgrimage staff and author of The First Franciscan Woman, Clare of Assisi & Her Form of Life (Franciscan Press, 1993). From 1994-96 she chaired the LCWR task force on Leadership Roles for Women in the Church. Ilia Delio, OSF, a member of the Franciscan Servants of the Holy Child Jesus, North Plainfield, New Jersey, did her doctoral studies in theology at Fordham University. She is presently at Washington Theological Union, Washington, DC, serving as an assistant professor of ecclesial history and Franciscan studies and as Director of the Franciscan Center. She is author of Crucified Love: Bonaventure ’s Mysticism of the Crucified Christ (Quincy: Franciscan Press, 1998). vi / Biographies Paul Lachance, OFM, a friar of the Province of St. Joseph, Montreal, Quebec, is editor and translator of The Complete Works: Angela of Foligno, The Classics of Western Spirituality (Paulist Press, 1993). He is an adjunct professor at Chicago Theological Union, teaching courses on Mendicant Spirituality and the Theology of Prayer. He has also taught courses on Franciscan Mystics at the Franciscan Institute, St. Bonaventure University, New York. He has co-translated a dozen books, as well as authored many articles on Franciscan and Christian spirituality, and given numerous retreats, conferences, and workshops in this country, Canada, and abroad. Presently he is working on Early Franciscan Writings: The Spirituals for the Classics of Western Spirituality. Roberta A. McKelvie, OSF, a member of the Bernardine Franciscan Sisters, Reading, Pennsylvania, did her doctoral studies at Fordham University. Her research led her to undertake the task of bringing some Italian sources on Angelina of Montegiove into English so the story of this remarkable woman might be accessible to American Franciscans. She is author of Retrieving a Living Tradition: Angelina of Montegiove: Franciscan, Tertiary, Beguine (Franciscan Institute, 1997). She is presently doing historical research for her religious congregation and is an adjunct faculty member at Alvernia College in Reading. Dominic Monti, OFM, is a friar of Holy Name Province, New York. He received his doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1979, after which he joined the faculty at Washington Theological Union, where he holds the chair in Ecclesiastical History. He specializes in medieval Church history. Among his publications is a translation of St. Bonaventure’s Writings Concerning the Franciscan Order (Franciscan Institute, 1994). Biographies / vii Elise Saggau, OSF, is a Franciscan Sister of Little Falls, Minnesota. She has a Master of Divinity degree from Loyola University, Chicago, and a Master’s degree in Franciscan Studies from the Franciscan Institute. She wrote A Short History of The Franciscan Federation (1995). She now serves as assistant director of publications at the Franciscan Institute and is editor of The Cord. Adele Thibaudeau, OSF, a member of the Sisters of St. Francis of Assisi, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, holds a Master’s degree in religious studies from Mundelein College, Chicago. She is director of Campus Ministry at Cardinal Stritch University, Milwaukee. Her emphasis in campus ministry is on global awareness, urban immersions, and service learning. She represents her congregation in Franciscan Mission Awareness at Cardinal Stritch University. Gabriele Ühlein, OSF, is a Franciscan Sister of Wheaton, Illinois, and a member of the national Franciscan Federation Spirit and Life Committee. A Jungian and process theologian, her interdisciplinary doctorate from The Chicago Theological Seminary explored ecofeminist possibilities for both a theological and psychological understanding of the human in a trans-gender species context. She is presently developing the FranCIScan Center for Incarnation Studies in LaPorte, Indiana. ...