Join us as we continue to celebrate the 800th anniversary of the Canticle! In collaboration with Franciscan Media, the Franciscan Federation welcomes Ilia Delio, O.S.F., Keith Douglass Warner, O.F.M., and Pamela Wood, authors of the expanded edition of Care for Creation: A Franciscan Spirituality of the Earth.
Many Franciscans read the original “Care for Creation: A Franciscan Spirituality of the Earth” after it was published in 2008. A deeply insightful book on the environment and ecology through the lens of Franciscan Theology, it discussed the global climate crisis at that time. Since then, many more voices have joined the conversation about the crisis, most notably Pope Francis, in his encyclical Laudato Si. To honor the 800th anniversary of the Canticle of the Creatures, Franciscan Scholars and original authors Keith Douglas Warner, OFM, Ilia Delio, OSF, and Pamela Wood have written an expanded edition of the book. In it, they synchronize evolving eco-theology, combining spirituality with the practical applications needed today.
This virtual roundtable will feature unique perspectives from all authors and include a Q&A session.
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- Non-Members: $35
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More about our panelists
Keith Douglass Warner OFM is Associate Professor of Ethics & Spirituality at the Franciscan School of Theology in San Diego. He is a practical social ethicist in the Franciscan tradition, researching the role of ethics and spirituality in the transformation of people and social structures. He teaches moral theology, Catholic social thought, and Franciscan philosophy. He has written, taught, and presented internationally on Franciscan eco-spirituality in the encyclical Laudato si’. With Ilia Delio OSF and Pamela Wood, is co-author of “Care for Creation: A Franciscan Spirituality of the Earth Expanded Edition” (Franciscan Media, 2024, translated into Spanish and Korean). During his two decades at Santa Clara University, he designed and led a global action research fellowship in social entrepreneurship, and designed leadership formation programs for ACWECA, a network of 30,000 East African Catholic Sisters, to transform subsistence farms into social enterprises. He is a long-time member of the Commission on the Franciscan Intellectual-Spiritual Tradition, and is currently researching the globalization of the Franciscan charism since Vatican II.
Pamela Wood facilitates workshops and retreats for concerned citizens, youth groups and faith communities to deepen participants’ connection with Creation, foster a journey of Active Hope, and support each person’s unique role in the Great Turning. Her workshops draw in large part from Joanna Macy’s “Work That Reconnects,” using experiential and interactive processes, reflection, ritual, art and song. She is a licensed professional counselor, an art therapist, and co-author of Care for Creation: A Franciscan Spirituality of Earth.
Ilia Delio, OSF holds the Josephine C. Connelly Chair in Christian Theology at Villanova Universe. Her area of research is constructive-systematic theology, with an emphasis on the theology of Teilhard de Chardin. She is the author of twenty-five books including The Not-Yet God: Carl Jung, Teilhard de Chardin and the Relational Whole, Making All Things New: Catholicity, Cosmology and Consciousness, a finalist for the 2019 Michael Ramsey Prize and The Unbearable Wholeness of Being: God, Evolution and the Power of Love, for which she won the 2014 Silver Nautilus Book Award and a 2014 Catholic Press Association Book Award in Faith and Science. She is founder of the Center for Christogenesis, an online educational resource which promotes the vision of Teilhard de Chardin, and a Fellow of the International Society for Science and Religion.
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