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March 30th @ 2:00 pm - March 31st @ 6:15 pm

The Theology of Nature and the Nature of Theology

Mar 30
The Theology of Nature and the Nature of Theology

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A conference held by the University of Chicago Divinity School, cosponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute.

Download of Conference Abstracts.

For more information see the Divinity School’s conference webpage.


Schedule:

Wednesday, March 30

2:00pm-3:15pm
Wesley Wildman (Boston University):  “Prospects for a Naturalist, Critically Humanist, and Mystical Transreligious Understanding of Ultimate Reality”

3:30pm-4:45pm
Karmen MacKendrick (LeMoyne College):Out of Bounds: Collection, Division, Creation”

5:00pm-6:15pm
Willemien Otten (University of Chicago Divinity School): “Double or Nothing: Creation and Gender in Eriugena, Hildegard, and Hadewijch” (the inaugural Dorothy Grant Maclear Lecture)

Reception to follow

Thursday, March 31

2:00pm-3:15pm
William Schweiker (University of Chicago Divinity School): “How Natural is Goodness?”

3:30pm-4:45pm
M. Burcht Pranger (University of Amsterdam): “Corpus Mysticum: Henri de Lubac on Nature and Supernature”

5:00pm-6:15pm
Jean-Luc Marion (University of Chicago Divinity School): “Karl Barth on the Being of the World Before God”

Swift Hall, 3rd Floor Lecture

1025 E 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637
Hyde Park, IL