Vulnerability and Flourishing

by Cristina Lledo Gomez, John N Sheveland

Overview

When is vulnerability good, and when is it subject to harm? How might flourishing be understood within Pope Francis’ push for integral human development, integral ecological conversion, and synodality? How might we enable an ethic of flourishing in church and society?


Essay contributors include:



Elise Abshire
James T. Bretzke, SJ
Cynthia L. Cameron
Caitlin Cipolla-McCulloch
Anthony Coloma
Cristofer Fernández, OFM Conv
Alaina Keller
Barbara Anne Kozee
Richard Lennan
Susan McElcheran
Brett McLaughlin, SJ
Stephen Okey
Alfred Kah Meng Pang
Jason Steidl Jack
Callie Tabor
Katherine Tarrant
Christopher Welch
C. Vanessa White
Tobias Winright

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781626986107
Publisher:	Orbis Books
Publication date:	05/28/2025
Series:	College Theology Society Annual Volume , #70
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.38(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

JOHN SHEVELAND is professor of religious studies, Gonzaga University. He has served on the National Review Board, an advisory body for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. He received a master of arts in religion from Yale Divinity School and a PhD in systemic and comparative theology from Boston College. He is editor of Theology in a Post-Traumatic Church (Orbis, 2023). CRISTINA


LLEDO GOMEZ is the Presentation Sisters Lecturer, BBI-The Australian Institute of Theological Education, and a Religion and Society Research Fellow, Charles Sturt University’s Public and Contextual Theology Research Centre.. She earned her master of theology at the Sydney College of Divinity and her PhD at Charles Sturt University, Australia. She is a contributor to Theology in a Post-Traumatic Church (Orbis, 2023).

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