Holiness

Donna Orsuto is Professor of Spiritual Theology at the Gregorian University in Rome. She is the founder, and a member of a lay religious community in Rome. She was born in the USA and is a US citizen.

• Laying the foundation: insights from the Bible - Many mansions: exploring Holiness through the centuries - Ordinary maintenance for an extraordinary dwelling: sacraments, sacramentals and other means of growth in Holiness - Looking at the floor plans: towards a contemporary Christian understanding of Holiness - The Expansion project: Holiness in the twenty-first century

"Eminently readable..."   "The merits of Orsuto's work are many. First, she is a clear writer. Second she pays due attention to both the history of spirituality and the canons of serious theology. She never falls prey to the temptation to turn spirituality into anthropology, sociology, or psychology, though she is well aware the contirubitons these disciplines may make. She is above all a theologian, and it is her particular gift to articulate a theological vision of Christian spirituality in a soldly accessible way. I can easily imagine it being used in college classes and in adult formation classes...the well-placed subheads in each chapter are especially useful for pedagogical purposes."