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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?”
2024 - 25 New Testament / Early Christianity Colloquium
New Testament / Early Christianity Colloquium
2024 - 2025
Mondays, 3:30 - 5:00 pm
Location: TBD and online
For more information, email Prof. Brian Lee at blee18@luc.edu.
Zoom link: https://luc.zoon.us/my/brianyonglee
Fall 2024
September 9: Eric Zito, Loyola University Chicago
September 23: Megan Wines, Loyola University Chicago
October 14: Rosa Otranto, Professor of Classical Philology, University of Bari, Aldo Moro
Books and Libraries in the Ancient World: The Cases of Alexandria and Herculaneum
Robert Di Vito, Loyola University Chicago
The Qumran Library
Christopher Skinner, Loyola University Chicago
The Nag Hammadi Library
October 28: Brian Lee, Loyola University Chicago
November 11: Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent, Marquette University
November 13 (Wednesday at lunchtime in the department library): AAR/SBL Mock Session
December 2: Olivia Stewart Lester, Loyola University Chicago