Fr. Peter H. Davids

As a person I am a devoted Catholic Christian who embraces the richness and wisdom of the roughly 2000 years of the Christian spiritual tradition. In terms of vocation, I enjoyed 34 years as an Episcopal/Anglican priest, building upon previous years as a preacher and chaplain with the Plymouth Brethren, and was and am also happily involved in other Christian traditions as appropriate canonically. I did call myself relatively Anabaptist theologically, but realized that that part of Anabaptism with which I identified came from the Devotio Moderna and the Franciscan Teriaries. I have always been very invested and involved in my local church wherever I was, believing that one cannot be part of the formation of ministers and Christian students without being actively engaged in ministry oneself. I therefore expect that I will eventually be ordained in the Catholic Church.
I am or have been active in several spiritual and renewal movements, including past or present activity in Marriage Encounter, Engaged Encounter, and Cursillo, and also in the International Order of Saint Luke the Physician, in which I was a chaplain. I believe that the best scholarship is generally combined with deep piety and, as appropriate, with community involvement. I also have a deep commitment to my family, which, while grown, still has a high priority in my life.
My basic theological formation took place through encounter with the New Testament, especially the gospels and James, although later I would discover Anabaptist theology, the charismatic renewal and the classic spiritual tradition (all three in a one year period) which would contribute to my ongoing formation. Later I had intensive involve with Catholic theology, building on a foundation that had been laid over the previous 30 plus years, and culminating in my reception into the Catholic Church. In terms of ongoing emotional formation, both Caretakers I and II and the Post-Graduate Seminar in Family Emotional Systems have been very important.
As a teacher I am committed to integrated education and the education of the whole church. By integration I mean the integration of the various theological disciplines and the integration of the whole theological world with praxis, both in ministry and in the world at large. Without such integration learning tends to be compartmentalized and remains unapplied to life and ministry. Furthermore, I believe that the life of the teacher is an integral part of his or her teaching, and that teaching does not end with the end of a course, but that each teacher has certain students that he or she should remain in relationship with long after the course, in some cases for life.

Source: Fr. Peter H. Davids  -  General Interests section of his About page for the St. Paul Center website
https://stpaulcenter.com/fr-peter-h-davids-2/