Sister Judith Ann Eby, RSM, Ph.D.      Assistant Professor of Theology  Theology Program Director     jeby@csm.edu   402-399-2617

  

Credentials: 

Ph.D. in Historical Theology, St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO  

M.A. in Religious Studies, University of Dayton, Dayton OH  

B.A. in Sociology and Theology, Xavier University, Cincinnati OH  

  

Biography: 

To teach theology in today's world offers the unique opportunity to help students tap into the deep undercurrent of interest in spirituality and the religious dimension of life. Students come alive when the study of theology connects to their professional lives and to the world in which they live. The search for God, the search for truth and meaning often reveal to students a new depth in their interior lives as well as a new appreciation of the relationship between faith communities and contemporary culture.  

  

I was born and raised in Dayton, Ohio where I attended Catholic grade school and Catholic high school.  After teaching high school for a number of years (there was nothing more exciting for me than teaching sophomores!) I embarked upon my doctorate in theology.    

  

My religious community, the Sisters of Mercy, has never ceased to enrich me, to teach me how to serve, to focus on those whose needs reveal the face of God, and to provide me with the gift of friendship. As a Sister of Mercy who teaches theology in a college first begun by and still connected to the Sisters of Mercy, I find my profession of teaching particularly meaningful.  

   

Academic Interest: 

Christianity in the United States, American Catholicism, Communities of Women Religious, 19th-Century Utopian Societies, the Sister Formation Conference, Religious Education, Landscape and Spirituality, English Reformation, the Prophets, Christian Spirituality  

   

Courses: 

Jesus: Past and Present, Foundations of Catholicism, Introduction to the New Testament, Women in the Christian Tradition, U.S. Catholic Experience, Christian Spirituality, Ways of Faith