ABOUT THE EVENT
The enduring wounds from violence can be destructive to the entirety of the human person, especially when borne in isolation and in forced silence. This book offers a theology of communication for participating in God’s saving work of healing wounds, building community, and facilitating social transformation through an analogy of the wound. Rooted in Jesus’ praxis of healing, this theology can assist in recognizing, understanding, and interpreting the harmful residue that remains in the aftermath of violence to repair human dignity and work for the common good. The author weaves together insights from methods of contextual theologies, the wisdom of Black and Womanist Theologies, Korean diaspora theologies of ‘han’, psychologies of trauma and moral injury, and the Catholic tradition of analogy to arrive at a unique synthesis: moments of salvation can be found in carefully communicating woundedness in the midst of building beloved community. Although the dissimilarities in our woundedness may always be greater than our similarities, the similarities convey truth and meaning and hold the possibility of the church living as Christ’s wounded and resilient Body. We aid each other’s healing in right relationship.
Kevin Considine’s scholarship explores interpersonal and social reconciliation through naming, understanding, narrating, and participating in God’s work of healing the wounds of the “sinned-against” through intercultural perspectives. He interprets woundedness as a form of analogical connection for understanding the wounds of others and participating in God’s work of healing the wounds and their effects in individuals, groups, and societies.Considine earned a B.A. in English from Vanderbilt University in 2002 and his first employment post-graduation was in social work and youth development with The Atlantic Street Center in Seattle, WA. He earned a M.A. in Theology (’08) from CTU under the mentorship of Robert J. Schreiter and continued his studies in systematic theology at Loyola University Chicago, completing his doctorate of philosophy in 2013 with an investigation of Catholic understandings of salvation by connecting of the soteriology of Edward Schillebeeckx with Korean and Korean-American philosophies and theologies of “Han” using a method of intercultural hermeneutics. Before coming to CTU, he was Assistant Professor of Theology at Calumet College of St. Joseph, a theology teacher at Marian Catholic High School, and an adjunct professor at Catholic Theological Union.Considine is a member of the Catholic Theological Society of America. His first book, Salvation for the Sinned-Against, focused on reinterpreting Catholic doctrines of salvation. He has written chapters in several edited collections and his scholarly essays have appeared in Interreligious
Studies and Intercultural Theology, Horizons, Tijdschrift voor Theologie, New Theology Review, Open Theology, and Black Theology: An International Journal and he has contributed to several periodicals and journals that include the National Catholic Reporter, and U.S. Catholic.
Sister Karen Elliott was born and raised in Dayton, Ohio. She attended Julienne High School (now Chaminade-Julienne). She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Education with an emphasis on Learning Disabilities and Behavior Disorders from Wright State University in 1977, a Master’s degree in Theology from St. Michael’s College in Colchester, Vermont, in 1993, and a Doctor of Ministry degree with a concentration in Sacred Scripture from Barry University in Miami, Florida in 2004. In 1980, she became a member of the Sisters of the Precious Blood in Dayton, Ohio. Sister Karen has ministered as a teacher, Director of Religious Education, a youth minister, and an athletic director. She has led numerous retreats and has taught a variety of adult education classes on the Scriptures throughout the United States and Canada. Sister Karen has served as a faculty presenter on Sacred Scripture in the Lay Ministry Formation Program and a homiletics assessor for the Permanent Diaconate Program in the Diocese of Toledo. Sister Karen is the author of the book, Women in Ministry and the Writings of Paul, published in 2010 by Anselm Academic. Additionally, in 2012, Sister Karen had the opportunity to be a visiting professor for the Sisters of Charity of St. Anne in Mumbai, India. In July 2015, Sister Karen gave two presentations to the Australian Catholic University’s Campus Ministry Team, who gathered in Melbourne. She is a member of the Catholic Theological Society of America and the Catholic Biblical Association of America. In a non-theological aspect of her life, Sister Karen was inducted into the Dayton Amateur Softball Commission’s Hall of Fame in September 2006 in recognition of her softball career.
Stephen Bevans is a priest in the missionary congregation of the Society of the Divine Word (SVD) and Louis J. Luzbetak, SVD Professor of Mission and Culture, Emeritus at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. He is the author or editor of twenty-one books, among which are Models of Contextual Theology, An Introduction to Theology in Global Perspective, and, with Roger P. Schroeder, Constants in Context: A Theology of Mission for Today. From 2014 until 2022 he was a member of the World Council of Churches’ Commission on World Mission and Evangelism.
