While in Australia as a visiting research fellow at Australian Catholic University, Sister Sandra Schneiders IHM will give workshops in several Australian States in the coming months.
Now Professor Emerita of New Testament Studies and Christian Spirituality at Jesuit School of Theology, Santa Clara University, USA, Sr Sandra teaches classes on the New Testament, Gospel of John, hermeneutics, biblical spirituality, Christian spirituality and Religious Life.
Her professional interests include New Testament literature, particularly Johannine literature and biblical hermeneutics, and Christian spirituality, particularly biblical spirituality, feminism, religious life and the theory of the field of spirituality.
She has authored several books, including Selling All: Commitment, Consecrated Celibacy, and Community in Catholic Religious Life (2001); Finding the Treasure: Locating Catholic Religious Life in a New Ecclesial and Cultural Context (2000); With Oil in Their Lamps: Faith, Feminism, and the Future (2000); Written That You May Believe: Encountering Jesus in the Fourth Gospel (2003) and The Revelatory Text: Interpreting the New Testament as Sacred Scripture (1999).
Sister Sandra is described as a world renown feminist thinker who has helped shape academia's sense of rightness with the lived-experience God. As well as being a great thinker and theologian, she is a runner, has tried bungee jumping and has seen hippopotami in the wild.
Her Australian program includes:
MELBOURNE
Saturday, April 17, Presentation College, Windsor; 10am-3pm (cost $50).
Thursday, May 6, A morning with Sandra Schneiders: Spirituality today - a retrospective of her own work in spirituality with an emphasis on bringing spirituality into the academic world as a recognised discipline, followed by an open forum; Dayspring Centre for Christian Spirituality, Dianella; 9.30am-1pm followed by a light lunch (cost $60, includes lunch).
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