Leo Lefebure

Matteo Ricci, S.J., Professor of Theology

Georgetown University

Leo Lefebure is the author of True and Holy: Christian Scripture and Other Religions, which received the 2015 Catholic Press Association first place award for best academic book on scripture.  He is the co-author with Peter Feldmeier of The Path of Wisdom: A Christian Commentary on the Dhammapada, which received the 2011 Frederick J. Streng Book Award from the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies.  He is also the author of The Buddha and the Christ and of Revelation, the Religions, and Violence.  He is a Research Fellow of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and a Trustee Emeritus of the Council for a Parliament of the World’s Religions.