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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?”
John Cardinal Cody Chair Fall 2024 Events
Oct 12: Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago
“Stai zitta”: Women in Italy between Past and Present (and maybe Future). Conference
Main Speakers: Stefania Santelia (Professor of Latin Literature, Aldo Moro University, Bari) and Laura Carnevale (Associate Professor of Early Christian History, Aldo Moro University, Bari).
Co-sponsoring and co-organizing (Cody Chair with ItalCultura and ICI).
Oct 14: Loyola University Chicago. NTEC Colloquium / Cody Lecture.
Books and Libraries in the Ancient World: The Cases of Alexandria and Herculaneum.
Main Speaker: Rosa Otranto (Professor of Classical Philology, Aldo Moro University, Bari)
with Robert Di Vito: The Qumran Library
and Chris Skinner: The Nag Hammadi Library
Co-sponsoring and co-organizing (Cody Chair with ItalCultura and ICI).
Oct. 21, Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago
Transhumance from Past to Future: Shepherds' Devotional Traditions and Places of Worship in Southern Italy from Roman Age to the 21st Century.
Laura Carnevale (Associate Professor of Early Christian History, Aldo Moro University, Bari)
Co-sponsoring and co-organizing (Cody Chair with ItalCultura and ICI).
Nov. 7: Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago
Archaeology of War and Peace in 20th Century Apulia.
Giuliano De Felice (Associate Professor of Contemporary Archeology, Aldo Moro University, Bari)
Co-sponsoring and co-organizing (Cody Chair with ItalCultura and ICI).