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Sister Mary Kaye Nealen

Sister of Providence
Associate Professor of Theology and Religion

Academic Program

Arts & Humanities

Degrees
  • B.A., Seattle University
  • M.A., Aquinas Institute of Theology
  • Ph.D., Catholic University of America

    • Contact

    Mail to: mnealen@ugf.edu
    Phone: 406-791-5378

    		  

    Biographical Information

    Sr. Mary Kaye Nealen, a Sister of Providence, continues as an Associate Professor of Theology and Religion while she serves as Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs at UGF. Her studies, which resulted in a Ph.D. in systematic theology from the Catholic University of America, included five months of research in South America. For five years in Montreal, Canada, she assisted the international Sisters of Providence as General Councilor. Her professional presentations and publications address the subjects of church, Providence, Latin America, and Catholic higher education. As a member of the Theology and Religion faculty, she collaborated in establishing the Certificate in Lay Ministry joint program of UGF and the Diocese of Great Falls-Billings.

     

    Areas of Specialization

    Ethics, both social and personal; theology of the church, especially of North and South America; Providence; and church-related higher education.

    Areas of Interest

    River's Edge Trail, Giant Springs, and Glacier Park!

    Publications

    Translation from the French, Adventurers in the Shadow : from obedience to discernment : the missions of the Sisters of Providence, by Denise Robillard (Montreal : Carte Blanche, 2002)

    Presentation to Colloquium, ‘Going the Distance : Religious Education and Distance Learning,’ University of Dayton, Oct. 31-Nov. 3, 2000.

    ‘The Contribution of Religious Higher Education to a Socially Committed Intellectual Life,’ American Academy of Religion/ Society of Biblical Literature – Pacific Northwest Region, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA, May 1999.

    "From Domination to Solidarity: Ecology, Providence and Reconciliation," American Academy of Religion, Eastern International Region, Montreal, April 1994; published in French trans., University of Quebec at Montreal Religiologiques (Spring 1995).

    "Models of the Church and the WCC Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry," Vatican Council II Anniversary Conference, Washington, D.C., September 1990; in The Church in the Nineties, ed. Pierre Hegy (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1993).

    The Poor in the Ecclesiology of Juan Luis Segundo. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 1992.

    "Providence and Latin American Women Theologians: Relief or Rebellion?" On Keeping Providence, ed. Joan Coultas and Barbara Doherty. Proceedings of the Women of Providence Colloquium II, Holyoke, MA, March 1991.

    "Providence in The Dialogue of Catherine of Siena." Providence: God's Face Towards the World, ed. Barbara Doherty. Proceedings of the Women of Providence Colloquium I, Pittsburgh, PA, May 1984.

     

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