Engaging the Bible as Scripture: Reading Scripture for All It’s Worth
Instructor: Dr. Barbara Green, O.P. What are the challenges of reading the Bible not simply as a wonderful (if difficult) book but also as Scripture: formative and normative, challenging and sustaining for us, despite and because of its many complexities and struggles of our lives? In an age when we may feel bored with what…
Dei Verbum and the Roots of Synodality
Part of Re-energizing the Renewal: A Webinar Symposium Series to Celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the Second Vatican Council Speaker: Ormond Rush, STD Ormond Rush is a priest of the diocese of Townsville, Australia, with a doctorate in theology from the Gregorian University in Rome. Currently Associate Professor and Reader at Australian Catholic University, Brisbane…
Priests for the 21st Century: Revisioning Priesthood for a New Day
Moderator: Diane Vella, MA Diane Vella has served as a Lay Ecclesial Minister on Long Island for over 40 years on both the diocesan parish levels, with special interest and expertise in the fields of Adult Faith Formation and Lay Ministry Formation. For most of those years she has also served as an Adjunct Instructor…
Being the Church in the World: Joys and Griefs, Then and Now
Part of Re-energizing the Renewal: A Webinar Symposium Series to Celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the Second Vatican Council Speaker:Marcus Mescher, PhD Marcus Mescher, PhD, Associate Professor of Christian Ethics at Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio, specializes in Catholic Social Thought and moral formation. He gives presentations to parishes and schools on a variety of topics,…
The Passion Narratives: A Paradigm for Christian Discipleship
The Passion Narratives: A Paradigm for Christian Discipleship Few biblical accounts evoke more emotion than the Passion Narratives. These accounts of Jesus’ suffering and death play a powerful and climactic role in the four Gospels, to say nothing of their liturgical role in Holy Week. Each evangelist shaped the common inherited tradition somewhat differently, even…
Beyond ‘Women in the Church’: Gender and Ecclesiology Since Vatican II
Part of Re-energizing the Renewal: A Webinar Symposium Series to Celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the Second Vatican Council Speaker: Elyse Raby, PhD Elyse Raby is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Santa Clara University. A Catholic systematic theologian, she works at the intersections of ecclesiology, embodiment, and gender. She has…
Synodality as an Enduring Legacy of the Council
Conclusion of Re-energizing the Renewal: A Webinar Symposium Series to Celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the Second Vatican Council Speaker: Cardinal Robert W. McElroy Robert W. McElroy was born in San Francisco on February 5, 1954. He received his undergraduate education at Harvard, and received a master’s degree in American history from Stanford in 1976.…
The Bible and Ecology
Instructor: Dr. Paul Schutz In this five-week course, the focus will be on key biblical texts (Genesis 1-3, Psalms 8 and 104, Proverbs, NT, Revelation, etc.) that discuss creation, God's relationship to creation, and humanity's standing within the natural world. This course will examine the way the Bible has been used to justify social oppression and…