Professor emerita
B.A., Marygrove College; M.A., University of Detroit
S.T.L., Institut Catholique de Paris
S.T.D., Pontifical Gregorian University
Email: sschneid@jstb.edu
Phone: (510) 549-5035
Office hours: by appointment
Sandra Schneiders selected as Luce Fellow for 2011-2012
Courses taught:
NTSP 4840: John: Theology and Spirituality
BSSP 4296: Interpreting the Bible as Scripture (with Barbara Green, O.P., Ph.D.)
As Professor of New Testament Studies and Christian Spirituality, Sr. Sandra Schneiders teaches such classes as New Testament, Gospel of John, hermeneutics, biblical spirituality, Christian spirituality, and Religious Life.
Her professional interests include New Testament literature, particularly Johannine literature and biblical hermeneutics, and Christian spirituality, particularly biblical spirituality, feminism, religious life and the theory of the field of spirituality.
She has authored several books, including Selling All: Commitment, Consecrated Celibacy, and Community in Catholic Religious Life (2001); Finding the Treasure: Locating Catholic Religious Life in a New Ecclesial and Cultural Context (2000); With Oil in Their Lamps: Faith, Feminism, and the Future (2000); Written That You May Believe: Encountering Jesus in the Fourth Gospel (2003); and The Revelatory Text: Interpreting the New Testament as Sacred Scripture (1999).
