Preaching and New Worlds

Timothy J. Johnson is the Craig and Audrey Thorn Distinguished Professor of Religion at Flagler College. A Senior Fulbright Scholar and Chair of the Research Advisor Board of the Franciscan Institute, his more recent publications include the coedited Ordo et Sanctitas: The Franciscan Spiritual Journey in Theology and Hagiography, Brill, 2017, and Franciscans and American Indians in Pan-Borderlands Perspective: Adaptation, Negotiation, and Resistance, Academy of American Franciscan History, 2018.Katherine Wrisley Shelby graduated from Flagler College with a BA in English and Philosophy/Religion and holds an MTS from Harvard University. She received a PhD in Historical Theology from Boston College with her dissertation on The Vir Hierarchicus: St. Bonaventure's Theology of Grace. She is the coeditor of Bonaventure Revisited: Companion to the Breviloquium, Franciscan Institute Publications, 2017, and has published several articles in the area of Franciscan theology.John D. Young is the Kenan Distinguished Associate Professor of Liberal Education and History at Flagler College. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Würzburg and a research fellow at the Research Centre for the Comparative History of Religious Orders University of Dresden. His previous publications include the coedited volume Standing Apart: Mormon Historical Consciousness and the Concept of Apostasy, Oxford University Press, 2014.