As this year’s Catholic Heritage Lecture series celebrated the 50th anniversary of Vatican II by revisiting the event of the council, Peter Phan, PhD, delivers the final installment as a reflection on his experiences emigrating as a refugee from Vietnam in 1975 and as the first non-Anglo to be elected President of the Catholic Theological Society of America. This lecture considers that while Christianity in Asia remains a minority religion "by any measure (it) has been vibrant, especially after Vatican II, and exerts a great influence on the countries in which it is rooted." After a brief historical survey the lecture explores aspects in which Asian Christianity can offer ways to revitalize Christianity in the next fifty years.
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In the second installment of the 2012-13 Catholic Heritage Lecture Series, Maryann Hinsdale, PhD, will respond explore the implications of myriad questions in the wake of the Second Vatican Council. What does it mean to say that an ecumenical council's teaching has been "received"? As an ongoing process by which "the faithful" acknowledge that a church teaching or practice is a genuine expression of the Gospel and builds up the community's life of faith, "reception" is an essential element in the Catholic understanding of Tradition. Neither blind obedience, nor a matter of "the majority rules," this lecture will explore how a dynamic understanding of conciliar reception must involve dialogue, participation and even "re-invention.” To view, please contact the ICTC at ictc@seattleu.edu.
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The first lecturer in the 2012-13 Catholic Heritage Lecture Series is Fr. Joseph Komonchak, one of the leading scholars on Vatican II and its reception over the past 50 years. In this lecture he discusses how the Second Vatican Council was followed by greater changes in the Catholic Church than had been seen for centuries. What about the Council’s deliberations and final documents accounts for these, often dramatic, developments? What is the relationship between the experience of the Council and its character as an historic event?
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Widely-respected journalist and current co-director of the Fordham Center on Religion and Culture, Peter Steinfels, PhD, offers an examination of issues at the heart of the vigorous public debate that has been the subject of this year’s Catholic Heritage Lectures: Religion in ‘Secular’ America. Specifically, Steinfels comments on the profile of Catholicism and religion more generally within the public sphere of journalism and political discourse.
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In keeping with the overarching theme for the 2011-12 Catholic Heritage Lecture Series, Religion in ‘Secular’ America, Patricia O’Connel Killen, PhD, examines a fact that we all know but do not understand very well, that the Northwest is the most un-churched part of the United States. She expands upon this theme within the context of a specific understanding Save and approve that mutual suspicions between religion and science is a manifestation of a deeper phenomenon: the progressive separation of the sacred and the secular in modern culture. She asks, “Is the Northwest a backwater or bellweather?” Is the Northwest untypical of the American scene or a microcosm of it?
Sponsored by: Division of Mission and Ministry, Institute for Catholic Thought and Culture
Ilia Delio, Ph.D., OSF
. Senior Research Fellow, Woodstock Theological Center
Georgetown University
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