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Margaret Eletta Guider, O.S.F.
Associate Professor of Missiology
Chair, Ecclesiastical Faculty
Professora Ordinaria
Margaret Eletta Guider, O.S.F.
Th.D.
Contact
Simboli Hall 306
Telephone: 617-552-6518
Email: margaret.guider@bc.edu
Education
- B.A., University of Illinois
- Centro de Formação Intercultural
- M.Ed., University of Illinois
- Franciscan Institute - St. Bonaventure University
- M.A., Catholic Theological Union
- S.T.L., Weston Jesuit School of Theology
- Th.D., Harvard University
Research Interests
World Mission Studies, Global Catholicism, The Church in Brazil, Mariology, Consecrated Life, Franciscan Studies, and Theological Education
Expertise
- Ecclesiology
- Missiology
- Global Catholicism
- Systematics
- Mariology
- Ministerial Formation
- Second Vatican Council
- Spirituality Studies
- Latin American Theology
Profile
In 1990, Sr. Guider joined the faculty of Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge, Massachusetts and in 2008, she became a member of the ecclesiastical faculty of the School of Theology and Ministry at Boston College. Working in the area of Systematic Theology, her teaching and research interests focus primarily on ecclesiology and missiology. Currently, she is working on a book length manuscript entitled With Hearts Broken Open: U.S. Franciscan Missionaries in Latin America, the Caribbean and Africa (1879-2019). Among her most recent publications is a co-edited volume entitled The Grace of Medellín: History, Theology and Legacy: Reflections on the Significance of Medellín for the Church in the United States. Miami: Convivium Press, 2018). Sr. Guider is the Past-President of the Association of Professors of Mission and former president of the American Society of Missiology. She has served as an advisor and consultant for numerous religious institutes and missionary societies as well as a trustee and board member for a variety of Catholic institutions and organizations. Sr. Guider is a member of the Sisters of St. Francis of Mary Immaculate (Joliet, IL)