Kevin Alban, O.Carm.

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​Fr Kevin Alban, a CMS committee member who died on the 4th May 2021, studied history at Oxford and theology in Rome and London. He held a doctorate in Church History. He was a member of the Carmelite Order and served as General Secretary and General Bursar. He was also Prior Provincial of the British Province. He taught Mariology in London and Church History in Oxford.

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Fr Kevin's publications:

“The Letters of Thomas Netter of Walden” in Carmel in Britain vol. 2, ed. P. Fitzgerald-Lombard (Rome: Institutum Carmelitanum, 1992).

​“George Rayner - An Elizabethan Carmelite” Carmelus 46 (1999) 128-137“John Bird, Giacomo Calco, Giambattista Pallavicini and the King’s Great Matter” Carmelus 47 (2000) 109-116.

 “The Character and Influence of Carmelite Devotion to Mary in Mediaeval England” Maria A Journal of Marian Studies 2 (2001) 73-104.

​“Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Popular Piety in Europe” in In Communion with Mary: Our Heritage and Prospects for the Future (Rome: Edizioni Carmelitane, 2003).

​“The Fabric of Worship: Liturgy and its Artefacts in the Medieval English Province of Carmelites” Carmelus 53 (2006) 111-129.

​“The Ignea sagitta and the Second Council of Lyons”, in The Carmelite Rule 1207-2007, P. McMahon (ed.), (Rome: Edizioni Carmelitane, 2008).

​“Thomas Netter on contemplation in the Doctrinale” in G. Grosso and W. Santin (eds), Memoriam fecit mirabilia Dei: Scritti in onore di Emanuele Boaga O. Carm. (Rome: Edizioni Carmelitane, 2009).

​“The Treatment of Mary in the Doctrinale of Thomas Netter as a Resource for Contemporary Theology.” in Thomas Netter of Walden: Carmelite, Diplomat and Theologian (c. 1372-1430) in Carmel in Britain studies on the early history of the Carmelite Order, Volume 4. Edited by Johan Bergström-Allen & Richard Copsey (Faversham: St. Albert’s Press, 2009).

​The Teaching and Impact of the “Doctrinale” of Thomas Netter of Walden, (Turnhout: Brepols, 2010).

​“Orthodox Reform in England and on the Continent in the Early Fifteenth Century” Carmelus 60 (2013) 29-45.

​“Carmelite Spirituality and The New Evangelisation” Carmel in the World 52 (2013) 203-219.

​“Carmelite Spirituality and The New Evangelisation: A Call to Transformation” Mount Carmel 62 (2014) 58-67.

​“La mariologia dei riformatori inglesi nei secoli XVI e XVII” Theotokos 22 (2014) 53-86.

​“La mariologia carmelitana nel XX secolo”, in ed. L. Borriello e L. Gaetani, Per una mariologia carmelitana, (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2014).

​“Thomas Netter: Pushing Back the Boundaries of Affiliation in the Carmelite Order” Carmelus 61 (2014) 9-29.

​“Carmelite Identity and Orthodoxy: Thomas Netter and the Doctrinale” in J. Röhrkasten and C. Zermatten (eds) Historiography and Identity. Responses to Medieval Carmelite Culture, (Münster: LIT Verlag, 2017), pp. 63-75.

​“Some aspects of Carmelite involvement in the early years of the Abbey of Syon” in Continuity and Change. Papers from the Birgitta Conference at Dartington 2015. Eds Elin Andersson, Claes Gejrot, Eddie Jones and Mia Åkestam. Kungl. Vitterhets historie och antikvitetsakademien. Konferenser 94 (Stockholm, 2017).

​“Fighting Lollardy with the Rule: Thomas Netter and the Doctrinale” in M. Sauer and K. Alban (eds), Celebrating St Albert and his Rule. Rules, Devotion, Orthodoxy and Dissent. (Rome: Edizioni Carmelitane, 2018).

​“Carmelite Marian Studies in the Twentieth Century” in Sentire cum ecclesia Festschrift for Christopher O’Donnell O. Carm. (Rome: Edizioni Carmelitane, 2018).

​“The Idea of Mary as ‘Sister’ in Carmelite Mariology” in The Oxford Handbook of Mary (forthcoming 2019).

​“Carmelite Liturgy and Resurrection Spirituality” in Festschrift for Prof. Michael Sargent.

 

​Editor - Translator

 

​Carmelite Constitutions 1995 (Melbourne: Carmelite Communications, 1996) – Editor

​Journeying with Carmel (Melbourne: Carmelite Communications, 1997) – Editor

​Tiziano Tosolini, To Speak of God in the Twilight (London: Gracewing, 1997) – Translator

​Fons et culmen vitae Carmelitanae, Proceedings of the Carmelite Liturgical Seminar, S. Felice del Benaco, 13-16 June, 2006, Textus et Studia Historica Carmelitana, 30 (Roma: Edizioni Carmelitane, 2007) – Editor

​We Sing a Hymn of Glory to the Lord, Proceedings of the Carmelite Liturgical Seminar, Rome, 6-8 July, 2009, Textus et Studia Historica Carmelitana, 32 (Roma: Edizioni Carmelitane, 2010) – Editor

Celebrating St Albert and his Rule. Rules, Devotion, Orthodoxy and Dissent. (Rome: Edizioni Carmelitane, 2018) – Editor with M. Sauer 

​Revisiting the Fountain of Elijah – Essays in Honour of Wilfrid McGreal (Rome: Edizioni Carmelitane, 2018) – Editor with Johan Bergström-Allen

​Entries in Dizionario Carmelitano (2007) and Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages (2010)

​Reviews in Carmelus, Marianum, The Month, The Way, Mount Carmel, Maria.