Loyola University Chicago
Department of Theology
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Quotation
Augustine of Hippo
“And men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty waves of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, yet pass over the mystery of themselves without a thought.”
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Karl Rahner
“In the ultimate depths of his being man knows nothing more surely than that his knowledge, that is, what is called knowledge in everyday parlance, is only a small island in a vast sea that has not been travelled. It is a floating island, and it might be more familiar to us than the sea, but ultimately it is borne by the sea and only because it is can we be borne by it. Hence the existentiell question for the knower is this: Which does he love more, the small island of his so-called knowledge or the sea of infinite mystery?”
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Students
2021 - 22 Annual Undergraduate Paper Competition
The LUC Department of Theology is pleased to announce its undergraduate paper prize competition. Three prizes are awarded annually to encourage publication-level work in the fields of theology and religious studies. The Department wishes to reward talented undergraduates who have engaged in original work in a theology or religious studies class here at LUC. Papers can be entered into one of three contests based on whether the class in which the writing emerged was a THEO 100, 200, or 300-level course.
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2020 - 21 Winners of the Annual Undergraduate Paper Prize
The LUC Department of Theology is pleased to announce Max Dziablis, Gina Canavan, and Anisha Jai Kapoor as the winners of its 2020 - 21 undergraduate paper prize competition. The 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.
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Conference
Signs of the Times: Context, Contingency, Crisis
This day-long symposium sponsored by the Theology Department and the Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage offers reflections on major events and current affairs impacting Catholics, the Church, and the study of theology and ethics today. Featuring current LUC doctoral students and recent graduates. This event is free and open to the public. Registration required.
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Lecture
Who Are You? Artificial Intelligence and the Ethical Challenges in Health Care Settings
Artificial Intelligence technologies contain many different practices that create possibilities and challenges. Our speakers will offer an overview of the scientific advances and the developing technologies of AI and their intersection with health care (Dr. Corso). We will narrow our ethical questions to different facets of human-machine interactions with AI (Dr. Hildt and Dr. Haker), and focus on some questions specific questions emerging in clinical settings (Dr. McCarthy). The panel will conclude with a discussion and Q&A with attendees.
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Wearing the Niqab: A Radical Religious Practice in a Secular World
The niqab (full face veil) has been constructed as a symbol of Islam’s perceived backwardness, oppression of women, and political radicalization. Although Muslim women who wear the niqab speak with strong voices, they are neglected in public debates that often demonize this practice. Anna Piela author of Wearing the Niqab: Muslim Women in the UK and the US will offer an analysis of the niqab, female religious identity, and agency including the impact of pandemic mask mandates on perceptions of niqabi women.
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Film
IRON FIVE: THE STORY OF THE 1963 LOYOLA BASKETBALL TEAM
The Peace, Justice and Conflict Studies Program invites you to join us for a film screening of IRON FIVE: THE STORY OF THE 1963 LOYOLA BASKETBALL TEAM. A conversation with Director and Producer, Rino Liberatore, and with Team Captain of the 1963 Loyola Basketball Team and NCAA Most Valuable Player, Jerry Harkness, will be held following the screening.
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Conference
THE PROMISE OF PEACE IN THE SHADOW OF HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI: POLITICAL, MORAL AND THEOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS
Please join us on Thursday, October 8, from 5:00 – 7:45 p.m., for a virtual program commemorating the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki titled “The Promise of Peace in the Shadow of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Political, Moral, and Theological Reflections. Keynote lectures will be given by the Archbishop of Nagasaki, Joseph Mitsuaki Takami, and Daniel Ellsberg, who famously leaked the Pentagon Papers in the hope that they would end the Vietnam War and author of “The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner.”
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Faculty
Tom Tobin, SJ. 1945 - 2020
Our colleague and dear friend Tom Tobin, S.J. passed away on Sunday morning, August 30, at 9:25 am. Peter Bernardi, S.J. and two of his other Jesuit brothers were with him, praying at his bedside before he died. While Tom will be sorely missed by us, he and all he accomplished for the department over many years will not soon be forgotten. May Tom rest now in God's peace.
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Award
2020 - 21 Undergraduate Paper Prizes
The LUC Department of Theology is pleased to announce its undergraduate paper prize competition for the 2020 - 21 academic year. Three prizes are awarded annually to encourage publication-level work in the fields of theology and religious studies. The Department wishes to reward talented undergraduates who have engaged in original work in a Theology or Religious Studies class here at LUC. Papers will be classified and entered into one of three contests based on whether the class in which the writing emerged was a 100, 200, or 300-level course.
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Virtual Graduate Research Symposium - Outstanding Paper/Presentation in Humanities
The Theology Department would like to congratulate Megan Wines, Ph.D. student in NTEC, for winning the Outstanding Paper/Presentation in Humanities in the Virtual Graduate Research Symposium hosted by Loyola's Graduate Student Advisory Council.
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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." -
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 -
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Science, Society, and the Search for Life Elsewhere/The History of Volatiles and the Climate on Mars - Past, Present, and Future
Prof. Bruce Jakosky, Principal Investigator of the Mars Atmospheric Volatile and Evolution (MAVEN) mission will give two presentations at Loyola on October 31, 2019. The first lecture will provide an update of the MAVEN project; the second lecture will explore the social significance of space exploration.
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Controversial Conversations
Prof. Miguel Diaz's John Courtney Murray Chair will host two upcoming controversial conversations - the first conversation will be on the Synod of the Bishops of Amazon; the second conversation will be co-sponsored by Prof. Hille Haker's McCormick Chair will respond to the Congregation for Catholic Education's document "Male and Female He Created Them."
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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 -
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Science and Religion: Prerequisites for an Integral Ecology
Nancy Tuchman, Dean of the Institute for Environmental Sciences, and Michael Schuck, Professor of Theology, will speak at Dominican University's Siena Center on October 10, 2019 regarding their integral ecology textbook, Healing Earth. The lecture will explore the interdisciplinary relations between science, ethics, and spirituality in ecological science and will discuss the action necessary for the healing of our earth.
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Dr. Hille Haker to give commendation at ceremony awarding Alfons Auer Award to former Irish President Mary McAleese.
Prof. Hille Haker will deliver the commendation at the University of Tübingen's ceremony awarding the 2019 Alfons Auer Award to former Irish President Mary McAleese. The prestigious Award of the University of Tübingen is named after the late Rev Professor Alfons Auer, one of the most important moral theologians at and after the Vatican II Council (1962-1965). The celebration of the award will take place at the University of Tübingen on October 30, 2019.
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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))
