Essays by Ilia Delio

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Ilia Delio, OSF, PhD, is a Franciscan Sister of Washington, DC, and an 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.

Learn more about Sr. Ilia and her publications.

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November Interview: Harnessing Love In Changing And Challenging Times

An interview with ILIA DELIO In this month’s interview Brie Stoner asks Ilia Delio for her thoughts on the transformative potential of love as we navigate through challenging times and the…

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The Depth Of Love In A Shallow Culture

In an illuminative book written over twenty years ago called Following Christ in a Consumer Culture the late Jesuit philosopher John Kavanaugh examined the flattening out of the human person…

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October Interview: Love In The Midst Of Suffering

An interview with ILIA DELIO For this bonus fifth Monday in October we’re offering something a little different in the form of an audio recording. In this interview Brie Stoner dialogues…

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What Is God?

I find myself these days frantically holding together the multiple pieces of life, from teaching to traveling and outside lecturing, from the Omega Center to community and the many emails…

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Teilhard De Chardin and The Future of God

In his book God After Darwin theologian John Haught claims that evolution opened a new window to God, giving us a new vision of God at home in a universe…

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Love As The Bridge Between Science And Religion

For the ancients, the study of nature was essential to knowing the real.  We know not simply to navigate but to narrate our lives, to give reason for the hope…