Past Lectures and Events (2013/2014) Ecological Footprints Climate Change from a Franciscan Perspective on April 23, 2014, 3:00 pm This lecture will explore the Franciscan Intellectual Tradition and raise key questions about Christian environmental ethics. Venue: Emmaus South Lounge, School of Theology and Seminary Categories: Lecture Sex and other Matters It's Not a Matter of Who's Right on April 14, 2014, 3:00 pm This lecture untangles the history of moral teaching in the church and asks whether differences in moral teaching should be church-dividing. Venue: Emmaus South Lounge, School of Theology and Seminary Categories: Lecture Artfully Engaged in God’s Redemptive Purposes for the World Christian Formation and Integration around Scripture on April 7, 2014, 3:00 pm In this lecture and discussion, we will explore how Scripture brings us together and opens us up to the world that God loves. Venue: Emmaus South Lounge, School of Theology and Seminary Categories: Lecture Lumen Gentium, Ecumenism & The Pope Francis Factor on March 27, 2014, 7:30 pm Bishop Madden will reflect on the significance of Lumen Gentium, Vatican II’s Constitution on the Church. Venue: Pellegrene Auditorium, SJU Science Center Categories: Lecture Trying to Be Perfect The Latest Adventures in the Syriac Book of Steps on March 26, 2014, 4:00 pm This lecture will unveil a perfectly intriguing, yet secluded episode of Late Antique Christianity as described in The Book of Steps. Venue: Lower Alcuin Library Categories: Lecture Glamour, a Sense of Place, and Young People The Meaning of Benedictine Stability in Today's World on March 20, 2014, 4:00 pm Co-sponsored by the Benedictine Institute of Saint John’s University. More details to follow. Venue: Quadrangle Building 264 Categories: Lecture Christian Peace Theology Internal Critique and Interfaith Dialogue on March 1, 2014, 12:00 pm This lecture, held at the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize Forum, will survey theological debates over war and violence within the Christian tradition in a way that assumes others are listening in. Venue: Minneapolis Convention Center Categories: Lecture Paul, the Apostle on February 17, 2014, 8:00 pm Fr. Michael Patella and Fr. František will offer two perspectives on Saint Paul in this presentation: Paul as mystic and Paul as practical theologian. Venue: Abbey Chapter House Categories: Lecture The Embodiment of Love The Eucharist as a Mystery to be Celebrated, Believed, and Lived on February 13, 2014, 1:15 pm This lecture will discuss the Eucharist as a mystery to be believed, a mystery to be celebrated, and a mystery to be lived. Venue: Emmaus South Lounge, School of Theology and Seminary Categories: Lecture Liturgy as the Heart of Pope John Paul’s Social Encyclicals on February 3, 2014, 3:00 pm Presented by Charlotte Joy Martin, Collegeville Institute Resident Scholar. Cosponsored by the School of Theology·Seminary. Venue: Emmaus South Lounge, School of Theology and Seminary Categories: Lecture Thomas Schönberg in concert on December 13, 2013, 8:00 pm This concert by Resident Scholar Thomas Schönberg will feature 3 cello suites by Bach—No. 2, 3 and 5. Venue: Emmaus Hall Chapel, School of Theology and Seminary Categories: Concert Sacrosanctum Concilium The Constitution of the Sacred Liturgy on December 4, 2013, 3:45 pm The Collegeville Institute and the Saint John’s School of Theology·Seminary explore the convocation, spirit, and events of Vatican Council II. Venue: Stephen B. Humphrey Auditorium, Saint John’s University Categories: Lecture The Deep South Beauty, Brutality and the Mystery of a Great Paradox on November 20, 2013, 4:30 pm Gallery opening for Barb Matz, Collegeville Institute Artist-in-Residence. Venue: Quadrangle Building 235 Categories: Gallery Opening Keeping the Catholic in Catholic Higher Education Strategies for Church and Academy on November 13, 2013, 3:30 pm Resident scholar Fr. William Graham led us in an exploration of Catholicism’s role in the academy. Venue: Quadrangle Building 264 Categories: Lecture The Arpeggione Duo on November 11, 2013, 7:30 pm The Arpeggione Duo presents a new and rare sound, combining two of the most ancient string instruments—the cello and the guitar. Venue: Stephen B. Humphrey Auditorium, Saint John’s University Categories: Concert The Way of Discernment A retreat opportunity on November 8, 2013, 8:30 am Join Elizabeth Liebert, SNJM for a day devoted to learning about discernment through actually discerning. In this retreat/workshop participants worked through a decision they face in their life, approaching it through memory, imagination and thinking. Venue: Emmaus South Lounge, School of Theology and Seminary Categories: Retreat Interactive Art Experience with Thomas Schönberg on November 5, 2013, 8:00 am Thomas Schönberg, Artist in Residence at the Collegeville Institute, played selections of the Bach Cello Suites from at St. John’s Preparatory School. Venue: Weber Center, St. John's Preparatory School Categories: Art, Drama & Music Real Life Management of Endangered Species on October 28, 2013, 5:00 pm Steve McKelvey, a resident scholar at the Collegeville Institute and Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at St. Olaf College in Northfield, speaks about red cockaded woodpeckers, old growth forests and the power of old fashioned arithmetic. Venue: Peter Engel 269 Categories: Lecture The Contemporary Ecumenical Movement in Relation to the Black Church on October 23, 2013, 1:00 pm Beverly Goines, a resident scholar at the Collegeville Institute, a Ph.D. candidate at The Catholic University of America, and an assistant pastor at National City Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Washington, D.C., presents her research on the ecumenical vision of the Black Church in the theologies of Thomas Hoyt, Jr., Fredrick Ware, and Kortright Davis. Venue: Camphor United Methodist Church in Saint Paul Categories: Lecture Married Saints? Come to know Georges and Pauline Vanier on October 3, 2013, 4:00 pm Mary Frances Coady introduces us to this remarkable couple— Georges and Pauline Vanier—who have had a profound impact on Canadian institutions, history, politics, and culture. Venue: Quadrangle Building 170, Founders Room Categories: Lecture Dark Night of the Soul Tragedy and Suffering in the Life of Faith on September 16, 2013 Presented by resident scholar, Jenell Paris, and Collegeville Institute Associate Director, Janel Kragt Bakker. Based on their research about parents’ lives of faith following stillbirth and neonatal death, Paris and Bakker consider the religious dimensions of this particular type of loss. Venue: Quadrangle Building 264 Categories: Lecture
