SIMI Talk with Stephen Bevans

Stephen Bevans is Louis J. Luzbetak, SVD Emeritus Professor of Mission and Culture at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago.

He has recently completed an article in the missionary nature of the ecclesial mark of “catholicity” as part of an extended systematic reflection on a missionary ecclesiology. His current work includes research into Pope Francis’s thinking on inculturation and on his signature phrase “the culture of encounter.”

Steve is a commissioner on the World Council of Churches’ Commission on World Mission and Evangelism, a member of the Society of the Divine Word’s Arnold Janssen Spirituality Team, and a member of his SVD Chicago Province’s Provincial Council. He serves also as the faculty advisor for CTU’s program of “Catholics on Call.” He is an editor of the Brill series “Theology of Mission in Global Christianity” and on the editorial board of the International Review of Mission.

Gioacchino Campese is Professor of Pastoral theology and Human Mobility at the at the Pontifical Urbaniana University, Rome. His interest in mission is not simply academic but is combined with a strong, practical commitment to service. After receiving his MA at CTU, Gioacchino completed the doctorate in missiology at the Pontifical Urbaniana University in Rome. Before that he worked for several years at the Casa del Migrante en Tijuana on the Mexico/US border. He is directs Casa Scalabrini 634, a center that practices the culture of welcoming and integration among refugees, migrants and native Italians in Rome (Italy).