Theology Events
Landregan Lectures- March 13, 2025
Speaker: Brant Pitre
Did the Historical Jesus Know that He was God?
SB Hall, Multipurpose Room 122 - 7 pm (reception to precede and follow)
Fr. Alkuin, O'Cist, Heiligenkreuz Abby
November
Fire Insurance for Purgatory: The Scapular-Confraternities in Prelatial Abbeys
Pater Edmund Waldstein
Septmber 23 & 25, 2024
The Theology Department hosted Pater Edmund Waldstein, OCist, monk of Stift Heiligenkreuz, for a presentation on human dignity. The presentation will investigate traditional Catholic teaching on the "two powers," spiritual and temporal, and demonstrate how an understanding of this teaching can inform a proper understanding of human dignity. Fr. Edmund’s website: https://thejosias.com/author/sancrucensis/
John Paul II Lecture - September 20, 2024
The Department of Theology invited Donald Prudlo, PhD, William K. Warren Professor of Catholic Studies at the University of Tulsa, to deliver this year's John Paul II Lecture. Prudlo's presentation was titled "Where Would Thomas Aquinas Live in Middle-Earth?"