Adult Spiritual Renewal & Empowerment


The Institute for Adult Spiritual Renewal

at Loyola University Chicago, Lakeshore Campus

2012

FACULTY PRESENTERS

Dianne Bergant, CSA

Jason Carbine

Rosemary Carbine currently teaches at Whittier College, a Quaker-inspired liberal arts college in southern California. She specializes in historical and contemporary Christian theologies, with a particular focus on comparative U.S. feminist, African American womanist, and Latina/mujerista theologies of the human person, public life and political participation in it and teaching and learning in the study of religion. Rosemary has published widely on these topics.

 

John Dominic Crossan is generally regarded as the leading historical Jesus scholar in the world. He is the author of several bestselling books, including the Historical Jesus, Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography, The Birth of Christianity, and Who Killed Jesus? He lives in Clermont, Florida. Born in Nenagh County in Tipperary, Ireland in 1934, he was educated in Ireland and the United States, received a Doctorate of Divinity from Maynooth College in Ireland in 1959, and did post-doctoral research at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome from 1959 to 1961 and at the Ecole Biblique in Jerusalem from 1965 to 1967. John Dominic was a member the Servites from 1950 to 1969 and was an ordained priest from 1957 to 1969. He joined DePaul University in Chicago in 1969 and remained there until 1995 where he was awarded an award as Outstanding Teacher. He is now Professor Emeritus in its Department ofReligious Studies.

Patricia Coughlin is a member of the Benedictine Sisters of Chicago and has a background in elementary, secondary and adult education. She is a spiritual director and pastoral psychotherapist. Pat served twenty years on the staff of the Institute for Spiritual Leadership where she taught the psychological aspects of spiritual direction, a Jungian approach to symbol and spirituality and dreamwork. She has given dream workshops on five continents.

Paula D'Arcy is a widely known writer, retreat leader and speaker. Among her bestselling books are Gift of the Red Bird and Waking Up to This Day. In 2007 and 2010 her non-profit, Red Bird Foundation, sponsored international gatherings of women called WOMENSPEAK, conferences.

Barbara Fiand, SNDdeNamur

Edwina Gateley

Paul Giblin directs Loyola's MA program in Pastoral Counseling. He teaches courses in marital counseling, family therapy, care and counseling of men, nonviolence, and clinical supervision. Paul's interests and research areas focus on prayer in marriage and family contexts, men and commitment, counseling men, and integrating spirituality and religion in psychotherapy.

 

Robert Ludwig is “still searching for spiritual wisdom” — after more than 35 years of teaching theology and doing ministry. As director of the Institute of Pastoral Studies at Loyola, he oversees one of the largest and most respected education for ministry programs in the country. With the insight of Ignatian spirituality and the New Testament, he seeks to rethink the Catholic tradition in the light of today’s wisdom and challenges.

Michael Morwood is the author of several books including Tomorrows’ Catholic, From Sand to Solid Ground and Is Jesus God? He travels far and wide giving workshops, presentations and has considerable retreat and adult faith formation experience.

Anthony Padovano holds doctorates and professorships in theology and literature. He is the author of twenty-eight books and award winning plays, translated into seven languages. He has been visiting professor at twenty-five American colleges and universities, and appears in the media on both sides of the Atlantic. He was a founding member of Ramapo College of New Jersey, a four-year New Jersey State College in the State’s university system.

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John Shea, OSA Adjunct Professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling and Dual Degree Liaison with the Graduate School of Social Work for the MA/MSW in Pastoral Ministry and Social Work and with the Lynch School of Education for the MA/MA in Pastoral Ministry and Counseling Psychology. John's book, Finding God Again: Spirituality for Adults was published in the summer of 2005 by Rowman & Littlefield. Recently he published Adulthood-A Missing Perspective; Psychotherapy, Spirituality, and Religion, an article suggesting how psychotherapy, spirituality, and religion are related in adulthood.

 

 

 


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