Loyola University Chicago
Department of Theology
- About
- Academics
- Admission
- Alumni
- Campus Life
- Resources
- LOCUS
- Bursar and Business Office
- Career Centers
- Community Information: Health, Safety, and Well Being
- Human Resources
- Information Technology Services
- Information Commons
- Student Academic Services
- Engaged Learning
- Registration and Records
- University Libraries
- Alumni Relations
- University Newsroom
- University Archives
- Student Outcomes
Programs
Intellectual Life Events
Intellectual Life Events
2021 - 22 Conferences and Lectures sponsored by the Theology Department and its Faculty
News
-
Film
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
The Theology Department and The Renewal of Public Moral Discourse Project will host a screening of a documentary by Martin Doblmeier and Journey Films on the life of Abraham Joshua Heschel titled “Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story” on Monday, March 27, at 5:30 pm in the Damen Student Center Cinema. The film profiles one of the most remarkable and inspiring religious figures of 20th century America. Heschel was a mentor to Martin Luther King, Jr. and the entire civil rights movement, a leading critic of the Vietnam War, a champion for Soviet Jews and a pioneer in the work of interfaith dialogue.
-
News
Integral Ecology as a Pathway of Lenten Transformation
On March 9, 2023, Prof. Michael Schuck gave a Lenten reflection with Alice Carwardine of Caritas Australia for the Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development and the Dicastery's 'Laudato Si Action Platform" project. The reflection addressed the relation between the care for creation and the Cry of the Poor. The program sought to provide the worldwide audience of some 500 persons with ways to bring care for creation into their Lenten activities.
-
Lecture
Bravo Company: An Afghanistan Deployment and its Aftermath
The Theology Department and the Peace, Justice, and Conflict Studies Department will host a special lecture by Ben Kesling titled “Bravo Company: An Afghanistan Deployment and Its Aftermath” on Thursday, February 2, from 5:30 – 6:30 pm in the Information Commons 4th Floor Lecture Hall. Ben is a reporter with the Wall Street Journal and served in the Marines in Iraq and Afghanistan and has now published a book that follows the deployment of Bravo Company, a parachute infantry regiment in the 82nd Airborne Division, in Afghanistan in 2009, and reports on the impact of the war on the lives of the solders after they returned stateside.
-
News
Uppsala University, Sweden, has awarded Professor Hille Haker the honorary title Doctor theologiae honoris causa
Uppsala University, Sweden, has awarded Professor Hille Haker the honorary title Doctor theologiae honoris causa "in appreciation of Professor Haker’s academic achievements as well as her most professional and generous contributions to international academic networks and projects.
-
Lecture
Entangled Responsibility - Clergy Sexual Abuse...And What It Has To Do With Loyola University Chicago
During the 2021 – 22 academic year, the Richard A. McCormick S.J. Chair in Moral Theology received a grant from Fordham University’s Taking Responsibility Project to document the sexual assault and abuse cases committed by Roman Catholic clergy associated with Loyola University Chicago and to create an online archive where the documentation would be hosted. In addition to the funding provided by Fordham, the McCormick Chair and the Hank Center for the Catholic Heritage provided funding that allowed the hiring of Dr. Sebastian Wuepper, a recent PhD graduate from our History Department, to undertake the process of documentation and the creation of the online archive. The Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities provided their crucial expertise in the design of the online archive. The online archive will be officially made public as a part of this event and the 2022 McCormick Lecture will be given by German theological ethicist Doris Reisenger.
-
News
Mike Schuck is the recipient of the 2022 Alpha Sigma Nu Magis Medal
Prof. Michael Schuck is the recipient of the 2022 Alpha Sigma Nu Magis Medal, which is awarded annually to Alpha Sigma Nu members who best exemplify scholarship, loyalty, and service in their work to better the world. The award of the Magis Medal serves to highlight the exemplary work AΣN members are doing as they live their AΣN pledge out in the world and to inspire new members to carry that flame with them as they graduate.
-
News
New MA Concentration in Bioethics & Health Care Policy
The Bioethics & Health Care Policy concentration is a new concentration offered jointly with the Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics at Loyola's Health Care campus in Maywood. This concentration is appropriate for students interested in pursuing a social ethical understanding of bioethics. Courses in this concentration address the history of bioethics including the issues of racism and eugenics; methods and approaches in medical ethics and bioethics (ethnography, narrative bioethics, feminist bioethics); and topics in bioethics such as reproductive medicine and reproductive justice, genetics, disability ethics, spiritual care ethics, end of life, and healthcare justice.
-
Event
Building Bridges: A Synodal Encounter between Pope Francis and University Students
This historic dialogue led by Pope Francis will gather university students from North, Central, and South America to address the salient challenges of our times. The dialogue will especially seek to include students who are themselves migrants or the children of migrants and to empower them to pursue projects that will lead the way to social justice and the common good. The Theology Department is both honored and humbled to be one of the sponsors of this historic dialogue.
-
News
Catholic Press Coverage of Building Bridges
Stories by America Magazine and the National Catholic Reporter have been published on the dialogue to be led by Pope Francis with university students from North, Central, and South America on February 24. This historic event will be hosted by Loyola University Chicago in collaboration with the Argentinian theologian, Emilce Cuda, the new head of the office of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America.
-
-
-
Faculty
Mark McIntosh, 1960 - 2021
Our colleague and friend Mark McIntosh suddenly passed away the afternoon of October 13, 2021, some four years after being diagnosed with ALS. According to his wife Anne, although he had been weakening in recent weeks, he was his normal self in the morning, even cheerful. He was into his afternoon routine of quiet reading, and it was only when someone came to check in on him that they discovered he had already slipped away. A memorial service will be held Saturday, November 20, 9:00 am at St. Luke's Episcopal Church, 939 Hinman Avenue, Evanston, IL 60202.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Award
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.
-
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.
-
Lecture
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.
-
-
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.
-
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.”
-
-
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.
-
-
-
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.
-
-
-
-
-
-
Award
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.
-
