Julia Feder is the Assistant Director of the Center for the Study of Spirituality and Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Theology at Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Indiana. Her research focuses on theological anthropology, theologies of suffering, and human evolution. Her essays have been published in Theological Studies, Horizons, the Journal of Moral Theology, the Journal of Religion and Society, Anthropology News, and Philosophy, Theology, and the Sciences.
From start to finish, Julia Feder's Incarnating Grace is motivated by her love for persons suffering from sexual violence. Drawing on interdisciplinary trauma studies, first-person narratives, and the mystical-political wisdom of Teresa of Avila and Edward Schillebeeckx, this beautiful book illuminates a path of healing for victims and survivors that is urgently needed today. It reveals God as the Friend of the traumatized--an affirming companion who offers encouragement and hope and never wills their suffering. This is compassionate theology at its finest.---Andrew Prevot, Associate Professor of Theology at Boston College, author of The Mysticism of Ordinary Life: Theology, Philosophy, and Feminism