Stephen B. Bevans is a priest in the Roman Catholic missionary congregation of the Society of the Divine Word (SVD). From 1972–81, he served as a missionary in the Philippines, and from 1986–2015, he taught at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago as the Louis J. Luzbetak SVD Professor of Mission and Culture from 1999–2015. Bevans has edited and authored many books, including Models of Contextual Theology (2002), An Introduction to Theology in Global Perspective (2009), Constants in Context (2004, with Roger Schroeder), Does God Love the Coronavirus? (2022, with Clemens Sedmak), and Community of Missionary Disciples: The Continuing Creation of the Church (2024). From 2018–22, he was a member of the World Council of Church's Commission on World Mission and Evangelism. In 2025, he was honored with the Catholic Theological Society of America's John Courtney Murray Award. Bevans holds a Licentiate in Sacred Theology from the Gregorian University in Rome and a PhD from the University of Notre Dame.
