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Gudorf Chair in Catholic Intellectual Traditions

Catholic Intellectual Traditions Lecture Series

The Catholic Intellectual Traditions Lecture Series features writers, thinkers and creators from a variety of disciplines and professions who engage in reflection upon matters—contemporary or historical, granular or grand—related to the developing, complex conversation that is CIT. If you have a suggestion for a featured speaker, please send it to gudorfcit@udayton.edu.

Past Events
Diversity in the New Testament in the Church

Date: Feb. 20, 2023

In this visit to the University of Dayton, Anthony J. Godzieba, Ph.D. (Professor Emeritus of Theology, Villanova University) addresses the question: From the perspective of faith, what can we learn about the productive dissonance of the four canonical gospel accounts: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John? The lecture was sponsored by the Gudorf Chair in Catholic Intellectual Traditions at the University of Dayton. As his title suggests, Godzieba develops a musical metaphor to approach the differences among the New Testament gospels. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, he argues, are distinct and diverse performances of the “musical score” of Christ’s life.

Mysticism & Ordinary Life

Date: Feb. 22, 2021

The terms “mystic” and, especially, “mysticism” have long been subject of scholarly discussion, but what about the term “ordinary life,” with which the mystical is often contrasted? In the middle of the twentieth century, Karl Rahner emphasized “the mysticism of ordinary life”—that a mystical connection with God is available to all people in the everyday. But whose experience of God counts as “ordinary”? What role does race, gender, ability, and/or class play in our assumptions about the “ordinary”? At this celebration of 2021 UD McGrath Award Winners, Dr. Andrew Prevot of Boston College offers a glimpse into his current research on these important questions.

Songs of Faith, Songs of Freedom: Sr. Thea Bowman and Black Sacred Song

Date: Nov. 10, 2020

In celebration of Black Catholic History Month, Dr. Kim Harris, Assistant Professor of African American Thought and Practice in the Department of Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University, presented “Songs of Faith, Songs of Freedom: Sr. Thea Bowman & Black Sacred Song.” Dr. Harris invites us to think more about Servant of God Sr. Thea in the context of Black Catholicism, as well as larger questions about the relationship of the Church to structures of racism.

Sponsored by the Fr. Ferree Chair in Social Justice, the Gudorf Chair in Catholic Intellectual Traditions, and the University Professor of Faith and Culture. 

Cultivating a New Center in a Time of Division

Date: Oct. 12, 2020

A conversation with Dr. Damian Costello, author of Black Elk: Colonialism and Lakota Catholicism. This event was held virtually. It was sponsored by the Gudorf Chair in Catholic Intellectual Traditions and the Spearin Chair in Catholic Theology. Download event flyer (pdf) >

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