Event Title

New Frontiers: A pilgrim people amid tribes and empire: Catholic peace theology in a globalizing world

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Gerald Schlabach

Start Date

1-10-2018 7:00 PM

End Date

1-10-2018 8:30 PM

Location

McNeely Hall Room 100

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Even as the Second Vatican Council called the Catholic Church to rethink war in the modern world, the shape of the modern world was shifting. Now, in the tug-of-war between globalization and resurgent cultural identities, borders are increasingly in flux. It is an opportunity for Christians to rediscover their calling as a transnational people of peace. For if we all are living in diaspora anyway, Catholics might even become catholic again for the first time.

Gerald W. Schlabach is a professor of moral theology at the University of St. Thomas, former chair of Justice and Peace Studies, and a leader in the Catholic Nonviolence Initiative. He is currently completing a book on Catholic peace theology entitled A Pilgrim People: Becoming a Catholic Peace Church. His New Frontiers lecture will summarize that work, while drawing on his decades of ecumenical dialogue for peace.

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Oct 1st, 7:00 PM Oct 1st, 8:30 PM

New Frontiers: A pilgrim people amid tribes and empire: Catholic peace theology in a globalizing world

McNeely Hall Room 100

Even as the Second Vatican Council called the Catholic Church to rethink war in the modern world, the shape of the modern world was shifting. Now, in the tug-of-war between globalization and resurgent cultural identities, borders are increasingly in flux. It is an opportunity for Christians to rediscover their calling as a transnational people of peace. For if we all are living in diaspora anyway, Catholics might even become catholic again for the first time.

Gerald W. Schlabach is a professor of moral theology at the University of St. Thomas, former chair of Justice and Peace Studies, and a leader in the Catholic Nonviolence Initiative. He is currently completing a book on Catholic peace theology entitled A Pilgrim People: Becoming a Catholic Peace Church. His New Frontiers lecture will summarize that work, while drawing on his decades of ecumenical dialogue for peace.