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Keith Warner, OFM

Associate Professor of Ethics & Spirituality

 

Biography

Name: Keith Douglass Warner, OFM
Specialization: Ethics & Spirituality
Email:  keithwarner@fst.edu
Phone: 619.574.5800

 

Keith Douglass Warner OFM is a practical social ethicist in the Franciscan tradition, researching the role of ethics and spirituality in the transformation of people and social structures. He teaches moral theology, Catholic social thought, and Franciscan philosophy. He has written, taught, and presented internationally on Franciscan eco-spirituality in the encyclical Laudato si’. With Ilia Delio OSF and Pamela Wood, is co-author of “Care for Creation: A Franciscan Spirituality of the Earth Expanded Edition” (Franciscan Media, 2024, translated into Spanish and Korean).

During his two decades at Santa Clara University, he designed and led a global action research fellowship in social entrepreneurship, and designed leadership formation programs for ACWECA, a network of 30,000 East African Catholic Sisters, to transform subsistence farms into social enterprises. He designed and led the Franciscan Journey Institute, a program of Franciscan philosophy as a way of life, structured by Bonaventure’s Itinerarium Mentis in Deum. He is a long-time member of the Commission on the Franciscan Intellectual-Spiritual Tradition, and is currently researching the globalization of the Franciscan charism since Vatican II. He is an affiliated scholar with Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies at USC.

Degrees

  • PhD in Environmental Studies from the University of California/Santa Cruz
  • MA in Spirituality from the Franciscan School of Theology
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