2024-2025
Spiritual Criminals: How the Camden 28 Put the Vietnam War on Trial
The Theology Department, the History Department, and Peace, Justice, and Conflict Studies invite you to a celebration of Loyola historian Michelle M. Nickerson's new book "Spiritual Criminals: How the Camden 28 Put the Vietnam War on Trial." The event will be held on Wednesday, October 16, from 4:00 - 5:30 pm in Coffey Hall - McCormick Lounge. All are welcome.
"God & Country": a film on Christian Nationalism
Please join us for a viewing of the film ‘God & Country” on Wednesday, October 2, in the Damen Student Center Theater, from 4:00 – 5:30 pm.
2024 - 25 New Testament / Early Christianity Colloquium
The New Testament / Early Christianity section will sponsor a series of colloquia at which students and faculty report on their current research.
John Cardinal Cody Chair Fall 2024 Events
The John Cardinal Cody Chair of Theology is sponsoring a series of lectures this fall semester with the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago and ItalCultura. The lecture to be held on Monday, October 14, will be held at Loyola University Chicago as part of the Theology Department's NTEC Colloquia. All of the other lectures will be held at the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago. All are welcome to attend.
The Role of the Catholic Church in the Democratization Process in Poland from 1989 - 2024
Stanley Obirek of the University of Warsaw will give this year’s 2024 McCormick Chair Lecture on “The Role of the Catholic Church in the Democratization Process in Poland from 1989 – 2024. The lecture will be held on Thursday, September 19, in Coffey Hall – McCormick Lounge from 4:00 – 5:30 pm. All are welcome.
Intellectual Life Events
Conferences and Lectures sponsored by the Theology Department and its Faculty
Why Major or Minor in Theology or Religious Studies?
Theological thinking seeks not only an understanding of the nature of religion. It also seeks an understanding of the relationship of religion to a contemporary world where social, political, and economic structures are often unjust; where secular faiths arise; and where scientific and technological advances pose new problems for human self-understanding.
Karl Rahner
“In the ultimate depths of his being man knows nothing more surely than that his knowledge, that is, what is called knowledge in everyday parlance, is only a small island in a vast sea that has not been travelled. It is a floating island, and it might be more familiar to us than the sea, but ultimately it is borne by the sea and only because it is can we be borne by it. Hence the existentiell question for the knower is this: Which does he love more, the small island of his so-called knowledge or the sea of infinite mystery?”