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Lectures 2011-12
The Athenaeum will offer two public lectures during the 2011-12 academic year - the Marzheuser Lecture in Jewish-Catholic Relations and the George C. Findley Memorial lecture.
Marzheuser Lecture
On Wednesday, October 19, 2011, Amy-Jill Levine PhD will give the Marzheuser Lecture in Jewish-Catholic Relations "Misunderstanding Judaism/Misunderstanding Jesus." Dr. Levine is University Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. She earned her doctorate in religion from Duke University in 1984, and has been a member of the faculty at Vanderbilt since 1994. She has lectured frequently and written a multitude of articles. She has also written and edited a number of books. She is editor of the Feminist Companion to the New Testament and Early Christian Literature series and has written The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus (HarperSanFrancisco, 2006; paperback 2007).
Jesus of Nazareth followed the Torah of Moses, found inspiration in the Prophets of Israel, and founded a community of fellow Jews. Yet often Jesus is misunderstood as rejecting Judaism, and first-century Judaism is misunderstood as legalistic, misogynistic, vengeful, and xenophobic. Correctly locating Jesus in his Jewish context not only brings new meaning to his parables, his politics, and his piety, it both prevents anti-Jewish teaching and opens a new path for Jewish-Christian relations.
Lectures are held in the Bartlett Pastoral Center at 7:30 p.m. They are free and open to the public.
Findley Memorial Lecture
On Wednesday, March 21, 2012, Rev. Msgr. C. Eugene Morris STL will give the George C. Findley Memorial Lecture "What We Have Seen and Heard: Reflections on the History and Future of African American Vocations." Msgr. Morris is Director of Sacred Liturgy and Assistant Professor of Sacred Theology at Pontifical College Josephinum. He is a priest of the Archdiocese of St. Louis. Ordained in 1996, for two years he served as the parochial vicar of Saint Gabriel the Archangel Parish in South St. Louis City before moving to St. George Parish and assuming a full time teaching position at St. Mary's High School. In 1999, Msgr. Morris was invited to pursue further studies at the Pontifical Athenaeum of Saint Anselm in Rome. He completed a license in sacramental theology in June of 2001 and returned to St. Louis where he began work at Kenrick-Glennon Seminary. He is presently completing work on a doctorate in Mariology at the International Marian Research Institute, writing on the Mariological contributions of Cardinal Carberry, former Archbishop of Saint Louis. He joined the Josephinum faculty in autumn of 2010.
In 1984, the African American Bishops wrote a pastoral letter reflecting on the work of evangelization among African American Catholics. Almost thirty years later, there is still a great deal of work to be done to bring African Americans into the Catholic Church and to sustain those who remain. Of particular concern is the need to foster priestly vocations among the African American community. What has this been? What is it now? What ought it to be?
The lecture will be held in the Bartlett Pastoral Center at 7:30 p.m. It is free and open to the public.
