Stephen Bevans, SVD

Stephen Bevans, SVD, is the Louis J. Luzbetak, SVD Professor of Mission and Culture, Emeritus, at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago and a member of the Society of the Divine Word (SVD). He is the author of Community of Missionary Disciples: The Continuing Creation of the Church (Orbis, 2024), which has received several awards. In 2025, he received the John Courtney Murray Award from the Catholic Theological Society of America, the society’s most prestigious honor, recognizing theological excellence. Alongside David Wang, David Baer, and Lester Ruiz, he is co-editing Remarkable Lives: Biography as a Portal toward Spiritual Formation in Global Contexts, a forthcoming volume associated with the Global Formation Project, anticipated to be published by Orbis in 2028.