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Word Became Flesh: The Question of Performance as Method in Biblical Studies
The 2019 Performance Criticism Conference was held on Oct. 4, 2019. This conference, organized by New Testament and Early Christianity graduate students Zach Eberhart and Megan Wines, was centered around the question of how performance works as a methodology within Biblical Performance Criticism. DETAILS
2019-2020 Religion and Nature Speaker Series
Integral ecologists are environmental scientists, ethicists, experts in religion and nature and activists who understand that earth's environmental crisis cannot be solved by one group alone. Environmental experts from all fields must work together. This speaker series is part of the 'Francis Project,' a collaboration between Loyola University's Department of Theology and the Institute of Environmental Sustainability to encourage an integral understanding of the natural world from the perspectives of both science and religion DETAILS
A New Agenda for Catholic Theology and Ministry: Perspectives from Queer Theologians of Color
Dr. Miguel Diaz, John Courtney Murray Chair in Public Service, has been awarded a grant from the Louisville Institute along with project partners Craig Ford Jr (Saint Norbert College) and Bryan Massingale (Fordham University). Their project seeks to "challenge current Catholic theological scholarship in gender and sexuality and open new avenues to reflect on these human experiences from the perspective of race and ethnicity."
Hate is not welcome aquí
Prof. Miguel Diaz (John Courtney Murray University Chair in Public Service) co-authors article in the National Catholic Reporter on recent gun violence, with a specific focus on that in El Paso, and the impact of white nationalist rhetoric on the Latin@ community. (Photo is from the article in NCR, (CNS photo/Reuters/Callaghan O'Hare))
2020 Annual Undergraduate Paper Prize Competition Winners
The LUC Department of Theology is pleased to announce the winners of its undergraduate paper prize competition. Three prizes were awarded to encourage publication-level work in the fields of theology and religious studies and to reward talented undergraduates who have engaged in original work in a Theology or Religious Studies class here at LUC. The three prizes were awarded according to whether the paper was submitted from a 100, 200, or 300-level course.
A selection committee appointed by The Theology Department’s Undergraduate Learning Committee (ULC) chose the winners. Each winner receives a check for $50, along with public recognition on the Theology Department’s website, and recognition at our Annual Awards Ceremony.
2020 Annual Undergraduate Paper Prize Competition Winners
300-Level Prize Winner
“Two Models of Apophatic Theology for Understanding Cataphatic Revelation in Gregory of Nyssa’s Life of Moses and Pseudo-Dionysius’ The Mystical Theology”
Maxwell Dziabis
200-Level Prize Winner
“A Disability Studies Approach to Mark 5:21-43”
Rachel Groth
100-Level Prize Winner
“Pious Prose: A Proposal to Analyze the Connection Between Religion and Literature in the Late Medieval and Elizabethan Eras”
Angela Vainikos