archive
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))
Controversial Conversations
Prof. Miguel Diaz's John Courtney Murray Chair of Public Service will host a controversial conversation on the Synod of the Bishops of Amazon on Wednesday, October 23, at 5:00 p.m. in Cuneo 217. A variety of issues are being addressed in The “Amazon Synod” – ecological destruction in the Amazon as a form of violence against the earth and against indigenous people, the importance of the church maintaining a balance between “inculturation and evangelization” in its mission efforts, and the conviction that issues that concern the church in the Amazon also concern the universal church, whether it is the importance of the sacraments, the formation of ministers, the role of women or the protection of women against any form of violence.
On November 6 at 6:00 p.m. in the IES Multipurpose Room, the John Courtney Murray Chair and the Richard A. McCormick, S.J. Chair in Catholic Moral Theology will co-host a controversial conversation on the Congregation for Catholic Education's Document "Male and Female He Created Them." In addition to Profs. Diaz and Haker, Prof. Cristie Traina of Northwestern University and David Ozar, Prof. Emeritus from Loyola's Department of Philosophy, will participate in this discussion of the issues of sexuality and gender.