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Upcoming Events

  • Mark Your Calendar! October 9 and 10, 2009. A Tribute through Music: FST's 40th Anniversary Celebration featuring celebrated composers and musicians who are FST alums and colleagues. Sponsored by FST and OCP music publishers. Read More.

Announcing 2009-2010 Osborne Visiting Professor

  • Br. Jeffery Gros, FSC is the 2009-2010 Kenan B. Osborne, OFM Distinguished Visiting Professor of Systematic Theology
    Brother Jeffrey is currently a professor of Church History at Memphis Theological Seminary. He is well-known in the ecumenical movement for broadening the reach of ecumenism. He has written widely in theological journals and periodicals, has edited numerous books on ecumenism, and has spoken on the subject to various religious and educational groups throughout the world. He served for 10 years as Director of Faith and Order for the National Council of Churches, and 14 years at the USCCB. He received his B.A. and M.Ed. at St. Mary’s College; his M.A. at Marquette University; and his Ph.D. at Fordham University.  He will teach Christian Sacraments in Fall 2009 and Ecclesiology in Spring 2010.

Upcoming Pilgrimages

Following in the Footsteps of St. Paul

A 13-Day Pilgrimage to Turkey led by Fr. Mario DiCicco, OFM, President and Rector of the Franciscan School of Theology

Cradle of Earliest Christianity

During the Year of St. Paul

October 18 - 30 , 2009

For more information, email or call 510-848-5232, extension 24.

2009 Holy Land Pilgrimage Holy Land

Led by Fr. Mario DiCicco, OFM, President and Rector of the Franciscan School of Theology

September 19 – 30, 2009

For more information, email or call 510-848-5232, extension 24.

Announcements

 

  • On March 23, 2009 Lecturer in Scriptures, Garrett Galvin, OFM successfully defended his doctoral dissertation at the Catholic University of America. His dissertation, directed by Christopher Begg, STD, Ph.D, is entitled Egypt as a Place of Refuge in the Old Testament.
  • Assistant Professor of Intercultural Theologies and Ministry Joanne Doi, MM has been chosen to participate in the 2009-2010 Workshop on Teaching and Learning for Pre-Tenure Theological School Faculty sponsored by the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion. The workshop gathers 15 scholars in their first years of teaching in theological education for two week-long successive summer sessions and a winter weekend retreat. Participants will explore course design and student learning styles, diversity in the classroom, ethics and philosophy of education, teaching to prepare ministers, collegiality, institution mission and vocation, career, and tenure preparation all with an eye to becoming healthy, happy nurturing teachers. Participants will earn a $3000 stipend and will become eligible to apply for a $5,000 fellowship grant for the summer of 2010 to further their research and scholarship.
  • Associate Professor of Christian Spirituality Darleen Pryds has received a grant to participate as a non-Hispanic faculty member in the Faculty Seminar Through Hispanic Eyes at Perkins School of Theology, June 21-24, 2009.  The purpose of the seminar is to explore Hispanic pedagogy. 
  • Fr. Joseph Chinnici, OFM, professor of Church History has been awarded one of 24 Lilly Theological Research Grants for 2009-2010 to complete his book project: “Going Public, Becoming Global: American Catholicism and Social Change, 1945-1996.” 

Photo of Bill Shortcd graphicProfessor of Spirituality Br. Bill Short, OFM, has released a collection of 24 presentations entitled St. Francis of Assisi: A New Way of Being Christian, published as a set of eight audio CDs by Now You Know Media.

Let It Shine! The Emergence of African American Catholic Worship by FST professor Mary E. McGann, RSCJ, with contributions by Eva Marie Lumas, SSS and Ronald D. Harbor, has been published by Fordham University Press.

Professor Michael Guinan, winner of the Catholic Press Association 2008 Press Awards, has just released The Psalms: Model and Guide to Prayer, a collection of 12 presentations, published as a set of four audio CDs by Now You Know Media.

 

Adjunct Lecturer Rawn Harbor has published a CD and accompanying song book, Psalms from the Soul, with ValLimar and Frank Jansen, and Val Parker.