Kenan B. Osborne, OFM, D.Theol.

Kenan B. Osborne, OFM, D.Theol. is Professor Emeritus of Systematic Theology at the Franciscan School of Theology and the Graduate Theological Union, where he has taught since 1968. He holds a Th.D. from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, and a Licentiate in Sacred Theology from The Catholic University of America. He is the author of Christian Sacraments in a Postmodern World: A Theology for the Third Millenniumand The Resurrection of Jesus. His current research and teaching interests include Christology, sacraments, contemporary philosophy, and Chinese philosophy. A scholar and teacher of international repute, Fr. Osborne is in a league of his own. With a remarkable sense of mission he is continually writing books, educating students and general readers about the spiritual life. Ceaselessly traveling and lecturing, he brings the words of the Gospel and Saint Francis to an international audience. In recent years he has traveled and taught in mainland China, learning the language in order to unite the Christian ways of thinking with Asian ways of thought. Having served in every capacity from local chaplain to international lecturer, Kenan Osborne has been the bridge between the old, pre-Vatican II world and the contemporary global village we now inhabit.