Exercitia Spiritualia by Ignatius of Loyola, 1644

“It is not oceans of immense distances that challenge the heralds of the gospel but the boundaries resulting from an erroneous or superficial vision of God and man that stands between faith and human knowledge, faith and modern science, faith and the commitment to justice.”

Pope Benedict XVI’s Address to the Jesuits in 2008

Opera Omnia by Francisco de Borja, 1675

The scholarship undertaken and supported by the John Cardinal Cody Endowed Chair in Theology seeks to address the concerns articulated by Pope Benedict XVI in his address to the Jesuits in 2008. This scholarship falls under the following foci:

• the dialogue within the Roman Catholic Church regarding the meaning of its central symbols and doctrines and regarding the meaning of what constitutes a truly human life;
• the dialogue between the Roman Catholic Church and other confessions within Christianity;
• the dialogue between the Roman Catholic Church and the great world religions;
• the dialogue between the Church  and the secular world;
• the dialogue between theology and the sciences. 

Each of these dialogues is of great importance in our current cultural moment. For ours is a time of pluralism – a time not only of a pluralism of the various confessions within Christianity, but of pluralism within the Roman Catholic Church; a time not only of an increasing awareness of religious pluralism, but  a time in which the Christian understanding of what constitutes a truly human life is no longer self-evident and in which various secular understandings of human flourishing contend with that of the Christian faith; a time of pluralism in approaches to our understanding of the world and of the place of human beings within the world. The John Cardinal Cody Chair seeks to examine issues of import within each of these foci through the Cody Lecture and seminars and colloquia offered throughout the academic year.

John Cardinal Cody Endowed Chair of Theology

Edmondo Lupieri was named the 3^rd recipient of the John Cardinal Cody Endowed Chair in Theology in 2006 and established the annual Cody Lecture to address the relation of theology and the sciences.  Professor Lupieri may be contacted by phone at 773.508.2363 or by email at elupier@luc.edu

2011 Sixth Annual John Cardinal Cody Lecture

Gianni Vattimo

"Christianity Without the Truth?"

Gianni Vattimo is an internationally recognized Italian author, philosopher, and politician. He has been a Professor of Aesthetics and of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Turin, and also served as a visiting professor at a number of American universities.

2011 John Cardinal Cody Lecture - Video

2011 John Cardinal Cody Graduate Colloquium - Audio

Exercitia Spiritualia by Ignatius of Loyola, 1548

2011 - 2012 John Cardinal Cody Chair Events

2010 - 2011 John Cardinal Cody Chair Events

Past John Cardinal Cody Lectures  

Past John Cardinal Cody Chair Events

A Trilateral Agreement for Scientific Collaboration established between:

Loyola University Chicago, Department of Theology, Ph.D. Program in New Testament and Early Christianity;

The University of Bolgna, Department of "Discipline Storiche," Ph.D. Program in "Studi Religiosi: Scienze Sociali e Studi Storici delle Religioni";

The Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, en Sorbonne.

A trilateral agreement was established in April 2010 between these institutions to promote cooperation in matters of research and teaching in the area of religion. The forms of cooperation may include: the exchange of visiting scholars, doctoral students, young post-doctoral researchers and professors; the exchange of scientific publications; the organization of colloquia, seminars and common conferences; the development of research projects that will connect the three institutions.

Text of Trilateral Agreement

Trilateral Agreement Programs