2008

Albert Cardinal Meyer Lecture Series

His Eminence,

Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J.

Lawrence J. McGinley Professor of  Religion and Society

Fordham University

 

 

2008

Albert Cardinal Meyer Lecturer

Univ. of St Mary of the Lake

Mundelein Seminary

The Theological Contribution of 

Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J.

The 2008 Meyer Lecture Series will examine the work of Avery Cardinal Dulles. 

Cardinal Dulles is one of the most important theologians alive today.  His long career as an author and professor has produced twenty three books and over seven hundred and fifty articles covering a broad range of topics.

Those topics will be organized under two broad heading and treated in two keynote lectures. 

Keynote Lectures:

Fr. Aiden Nichols, O.P. will examine Cardinal Dulles’ contribution to the understanding of the Church ad intra

Fr. Paul McPartlan will explore Dulles’ insights about the Church ad extra.

Seminars

Five other speakers will present seminars to explore the principal topics which Cardinal Dulles has written upon over the years.

Fr. Thomas A. Baima

Models of the Church and its contribution to Ecclesiology and Ecumenism

Fr. Robert E. Barron

A Tale of Two Cardinals:  Avery Dulles’s Creative Engagement of the Thought of John Henry Newman

Fr. Emery de Gaal

Scio cui credidi: The Contributions of Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J. to a Catholic Appropriation of Vatican II’s Understanding of Revelation

Fr. Edward T Oakes, S.J.

The Biblical Apologetics of Avery Dulles

Fr. Raymond J. Webb

Shaping Catholic Practical Theology with Avery Dulles

 

On Friday, April 4th, Cardinal Dulles informed us that his health will not allow him to travel.  He will be represented by his executive assistant, Sr. Ann Marie Kirmze, O.P., Ph.D