Mepkin to host online lecture on Teilhard de Chardin

 

On Oct. 21 Ilia Delio, OSF, PhD, will offer an online lecture titled “The Influence of Teilhard de Chardin on Contemporary Spirituality”

The lecture will begin at 10 a.m. $25 suggested donation

Click here to register online or email mepkinguestmaster@gmail.com

Ilia Delio is a Franciscan Sister of Washington, DC and American

theologian specializing in the area of science and religion, with interests in evolution,

physics and neuroscience and the import of these for theology.

Ilia currently holds the Josephine C. Connelly Endowed Chair in Theology at Villanova University and is the author of twenty books including Care for Creation (coauthored with Keith Warner and Pamela Woods) which won two Catholic Press Book Awards in 2009, first place for social concerns and second place in spirituality. Her book The Emergent Christ won a third place Catholic Press Book Award in 2011 for the area of Science and Religion.

Her recent books include The Unbearable Wholeness of Being: God, Evolution, and

the Power of Love (Orbis, 2013), which received the 2014 Silver Nautilus Book Award

and a third place Catholic Press Association Award for Faith and Science. Ilia holds

two honorary doctorates, one from St. Francis University in 2015, and one from Sacred

Heart University in 2020.