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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.
Educating for Love
The information age has done something remarkable: it has accelerated the generation of ideasand concepts beyond anything our ancestors could have imagined. Whatever your taste, whateveryour question, there is a…
Evolution, Technology, and the Divine Ground: Teilhard de Chardin as a Resource for Responding to Magnifica Humanitas
Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical Magnifica Humanitas arrives at a moment of genuine civilizational urgency. Its concern for human dignity, its alarm at the displacement of labor, its refusal to treat…
AI, Wisdom, and the Awakening Noosphere
When I first started writing on technology and personhood fifteen years ago, very few scholars were reading the signs of the times. Today, discussions and books on AI dominate our…
Truly Human in a Partially Human World
What does it mean to be truly human? Without using philosophical abstractions or complex terminology, I am impelled to reflect on this question, as we celebrate the passion, death and…
