Author: Anne Carr

Anne Carr was a pioneering feminist theologian and advocate, and the first woman with a permanent faculty appointment to the University of Chicago's renowned Divinity School in Chicago, Illinois. She was a Roman Catholic nun and member of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (BVM) for almost a half-century and was a scholar of modern theology who specialized in Catholic thought and feminist theology for more than thirty years. She was the author of books such as The Theological Method of Karl Rahner; A Search for Wisdom and Spirit: Thomas Merton's Theology of Self; and Transforming Grace: Christian Tradition and Women's Experience.