Faculty and Staff

Gwen Adams, Ph. D.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Theology

Gwen Adams, Ph. D.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Theology
Gwen.adams@augustine.edu

Dr. Adams is a teacher and writer, working in the intersection of faith and culture, with emphasis on parish life, education, and theater.

She has served in a number of apostolic and academic endeavors, including positions as diocesan marriage tribunal advocate, youth minister, farm intern, mentor of Catholic undergraduate households, and teacher on the middle-school, high-school, undergraduate, and graduate levels. She is the founder of Bardstreet.com, offering new plays and youth and young adult theater.

Recently, Dr. Adams has presented at the University of Notre Dame Summer Liturgy Series and the Archdiocese of Seattle as well as developed curriculum for the Diocese of Metuchen, New Jersey. She is a contributing author to Why Believe?, as well author of By an Unexpected Way: Stories of the New Evangelization (Augustine Institute, 2019) and several dramatic plays including The Other Wiseman, Puss in Boots, and two commedia dell’arte plays for the modern stage: The Flower of Beauty and A Fine Fiasco.

Gwen.adams@augustine.edu

Biography

Dr. Adams is a teacher and writer, working in the intersection of faith and culture, with emphasis on parish life, education, and theater.

She has served in a number of apostolic and academic endeavors, including positions as diocesan marriage tribunal advocate, youth minister, farm intern, mentor of Catholic undergraduate households, and teacher on the middle-school, high-school, undergraduate, and graduate levels. She is the founder of Bardstreet.com, offering new plays and youth and young adult theater.

Recently, Dr. Adams has presented at the University of Notre Dame Summer Liturgy Series and the Archdiocese of Seattle as well as developed curriculum for the Diocese of Metuchen, New Jersey. She is a contributing author to Why Believe?, as well author of By an Unexpected Way: Stories of the New Evangelization (Augustine Institute, 2019) and several dramatic plays including The Other Wiseman, Puss in Boots, and two commedia dell’arte plays for the modern stage: The Flower of Beauty and A Fine Fiasco.

Education

  • PhD Theology, Maryvale Institute/Liverpool Hope University (2016)
  • MA Catholic Studies, University of St. Thomas (2007)
  • BA History, Christendom College (2001)

Courses

  • The Creed
  • Discipleship and Christian Life
  • Leadership for the New Evangelization
  • Catholic Education
  • Conscience, Truth, and Charity: Social Teaching of Benedict XVI
  • The New Evangelization and Culture
  • Reform, Renewal, and the Lay Faithful

Biography

Dr. Adams is a teacher and writer, working in the intersection of faith and culture, with emphasis on parish life, education, and theater.

She has served in a number of apostolic and academic endeavors, including positions as diocesan marriage tribunal advocate, youth minister, farm intern, mentor of Catholic undergraduate households, and teacher on the middle-school, high-school, undergraduate, and graduate levels. She is the founder of Bardstreet.com, offering new plays and youth and young adult theater.

Recently, Dr. Adams has presented at the University of Notre Dame Summer Liturgy Series and the Archdiocese of Seattle as well as developed curriculum for the Diocese of Metuchen, New Jersey. She is a contributing author to Why Believe?, as well author of By an Unexpected Way: Stories of the New Evangelization (Augustine Institute, 2019) and several dramatic plays including The Other Wiseman, Puss in Boots, and two commedia dell’arte plays for the modern stage: The Flower of Beauty and A Fine Fiasco.

Education

  • PhD Theology, Maryvale Institute/Liverpool Hope University (2016)
  • MA Catholic Studies, University of St. Thomas (2007)
  • BA History, Christendom College (2001)

Courses

  • The Creed
  • Discipleship and Christian Life
  • Leadership for the New Evangelization
  • Catholic Education
  • Conscience, Truth, and Charity: Social Teaching of Benedict XVI
  • The New Evangelization and Culture
  • Reform, Renewal, and the Lay Faithful
Gwen.adams@augustine.edu
The Augustine Institute Graduate School is committed to the pursuit of wisdom in service of Catholic mission. All of our academic programs therefore seek, first, to allow students to make their own “all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge” (Col. 2:3), which are found in Christ and passed down in the Sacred Tradition of the Catholic Church. Second, our programs prepare students to hand these treasures on to others effectively through evangelization and catechesis.