Saturday, February 20, 2021

Sundays at CTU

 



Join us ONLINE March 14, 2021 for the 
Dr. Barry Rankin Sundays at CTU Lecture Series on God’s Creation

3:00 pm


Prayer Service
followed by Lecture with


 Sr. Elizabeth A. Johnson, CSJ 
Distinguished Professor Emerita at Fordham University


Enfolded with Affection:
Imagining "Us" in Creation Theology 
We humans already find it difficult to expand the boundary of “us” to include people who differ by race, class, sexual orientation, political opinion, and myriad other markers. The problem intensifies when kinship with other species is called for as a remedy in this time of ecological devastation. Placing the whole earth in the framework of creation, this talk explores how God “enfolds with affection” even the least of creatures (Pope Francis, Laudato Si’ 77). On this basis prayer, preaching, and policy can green up. The psalmist’s prayer “may God bless us” widens to include all of us creatures from the Arctic to the Antarctic ends of the earth.    
 


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Sr. Elizabeth A. Johnson, CSJ 
Sr. Elizabeth is Distinguished Professor Emerita at Fordham University in New York City and an author of numerous works of theology, most recently Creation and the Cross: The Mercy of God for a Planet in Peril. A past president of the Catholic Theological Society of America, she loves to teach and is most fond of being awarded Fordham’s professor of the year award. 

About the Dr. Barry Rankin Sundays at CTU Lecture Series on God’s Creation

In 2019, the Dr. Barry Rankin Sundays at CTU Lecture Series on God’s Creation was established to explore themes of eco-theology, celebrating a “cosmos saturated with divinity.” The series memorializes the scholarship and contributions of the late Dr. Barry Rankin, a key organizer of Catholic Theological Union.


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