C. COLT ANDERSON,  Ph.D.,

Associate Professor in the Department of Church History

M.A., University of Georgia; Ph.D., Marquette University, Specializes in Church History from the 8th to the 16th century. His interests include both Catholic and Protestant reform movements, Franciscan Theology, Exegesis and Ecclesiology. Recently, he has been exploring how contemporary communication methods and media can facilitate the Church's mission. Lay resource person for the 2005-2006 Apostolic Visitation of Seminaries and Houses of Formation. Member of the American Academy of Religion, the Medieval Society of America, the Catholic Theological Society of America, the American Catholic Historical Association, and the International Medieval Sermon Society. Author of A Call to Piety: St. Bonaventure’s Collations on the Six Days; Christian Eloquence: Contemporary Doctrinal Preaching; and The Great Catholic Reformers: Models of Reform from Gregory the Great to Dorothy Day (forthcoming with Paulist Press in 2007). Contributor to Theological Studies, Chicago Studies, Journal for Pentecostal Studies, Rebuild My House: Franciscans and the Church Today and America