News and Events
Is Science a Threat to Faith in God?
and other contentious questions about the relationship between science and religion
Held Thursday, April 17 ~ 7:30pm ~ Alumni Lounge, SJU
Co-sponsored by Collegeville Institute and CSB/SJU Departments of Theology, Psychology, Philosophy, and Biology
Panel Discussion featuring:
John Horner: Professor of Psychology, Colorado College; Collegeville Institute Resident
John Klassen, OSB: Abbot, Saint John's Abbey; PhD in Chemistry
Charles Rodell: Professor of Biology, CSB/SJU
Vincent Smiles: Professor of Theology, CSB/SJU
More info: View Event Poster
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Rethinking Infallibility
Held Saturday, April 19 ~ 7:00pm ~ St. Cloud Newman Center Chapel
Sponsored by The Reverend Wilfred A. Illies "Heart Speaks to Heart" Third Annual Memorial Lecture. Reception to follow.
Presented by Dr. Margaret O'Gara
Collegeville Institute Board Member
Former Resident Scholar
Professor of Theology, University of St. Michael's College, Toronto, Canada
President of the Catholic Theological Society of America
To Be Certain of the Dawn was presented on Saturday, April 26th in the Abbey Church at Saint John's University. A reception with composer Stephen Paulus and librettist Michael Dennis Browne was held in the Butler Center following the performance.
The work was commissioned in 2001 by Rev. Michael J. O'Connell of the Basilica of St. Mary in Minneapolis and celebrates two important anniversaries - the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the death camps at the end of WWII and the 40th anniversary of the Vatican II document Nostra Aetate (In Our Times), which condemned blaming Jews for the death of Christ. The oratorio is rooted in themes and subjects of mutual interest to the Jewish and Christian faith communities, and pays tribute to those who lost their lives and honors Holocaust survivors and their descendants. The 2005 world premiere was within one week of the annual commemoration of Kristallnacht, the beginning of open hostility to Jews in Germany.
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