Event Title
New Frontiers: A pilgrim people amid tribes and empire: Catholic peace theology in a globalizing world
Start Date
1-10-2018 7:00 PM
End Date
1-10-2018 8:30 PM
Location
McNeely Hall Room 100
Description
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.
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.