Ilia Delio
Professor
About Speaker
Prof Ilia Delio, OSF, holds the Josephine C. Connelly Endowed Chair in Theology at Villanova University. Her area of research is Systematic-Constructive theology. She obtained a doctorate in Pharmacology from Rutgers University, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and a doctorate in Historical Theology from Fordham University. She is the author of twenty-four books including The Hours of the Universe: Reflections on God, Science and the Human Journey which won the 2022 Gold Nautilus Book Award, Making All Things New: Catholicity, Cosmology and Consciousness, a finalist for the 2019 Michael Ramsey Prize and The Unbearable Wholeness of Being: God, Evolution and the Power of Love, which won a 2014 Silver Nautilus Book Award and a 2014 Catholic Press Association Book Award. She is founder and Director of the Center for Christogenesis, an online spiritual and educational resource for the integration of science, religion and culture.