ABOUT THE EVENT
Theologians of the Vatican II Era will give appreciative and critical attention to seven theologians who got in trouble for their writings before they became the figures who shaped the theological climate of the 21st century.
Thomas F. O’Meara, O.P., is emeritus professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame. He studied with Yves Congar, O.P., Karl Rahner, S.J., and Hans Küng—theologians who made critical and defining contributions to the Second Vatican Council. The lecture series will begin with three lectures given by Prof. O’Meara, reflecting on his own recollections and on the legacies of those three mentors.
Mary Kate Holman, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Fairfield University and the author of Marie-Dominique Chenu: Catholic Theology for a Changing World.
Kathleen McManus, OP, Ph.D., Kathleen writes, teaches, and lectures in the areas of Christology, Theological Anthropology, and Feminist and Creation Theologies with special attention to suffering. She serves on the Editorial Team for the International T&T Clark series Studies in Edward Schillebeeckx.
Robin Ryan, C.P., is professor of systematic theology at Catholic Theological Union. Prof. Ryan studied under Elizabeth Johnson, C.S.J., and will reflect on her contributions to our understanding of God and God’s relationship to the Church and the human family, challenging and urging the Church to overcome “every type of discrimination, whether social or cultural, whether based on sex, race, color, social condition, language or religion.”
Antonio Sison, C.P.P.S., is professor of systematic theology and culture, as well as holder of the Vatican II Chair in Theology at Catholic Theological Union. Prof. Sison will address the work of Engelbert Mveng, S.J., whose contextually rooted African theology reflected on the influence of European cultural dominance on the religious experiences of colonized peoples. Mveng’s theology of life was his imaginative response to the long legacy of colonization and the deprivation of culture in the lives of African believers.
