Below you will find our upcoming Aquinas Center events. Please promote in your bulletins. These events are free, and will be online webinars due to the pandemic. Event registration and further details can be found at aquinas.emory.edu.
Empowered by the Spirit with Dan Horan, OFM – Tues., Sept.1, 7:30 – 9 p.m.
Webinar Description: This lecture will invite us to consider the role of the Holy Spirit, which is the source of our universal call to holiness, joins us to one another in baptism, and is the animating presence of the divine within and among us. We will explore the significance of a renewed pneumatology for the church in an age marked by the traumas of clergy abuse and the coronavirus pandemic, outlining the ways such a theology and spirituality can empower all the faithful to claim their gifts to the church.
The Sistine Chapel: History and Meaning with Charles Rosenberg – Wed., Oct., 7, 7:30 – 9 p.m.
Webinar Description: The Sistine Chapel is one of the most famous masterpieces of the Renaissance. This lecture considers a number of issues relating to the frescoes, which cover the walls and vaults of this sacred space, including their meaning and their relationship to the chapel’s functions in both the past and the present.
Waiting in Hope: Advent music with Tony Alonso – Mon., Nov., 30, 7:3—8:30 p.m.
Webinar Description: Tony Alonso is a theologian and composer whose work is animated by the diverse needs of the contemporary church. Tony is Assistant Professor of Theology and Culture at Candler School of Theology at Emory University where he also serves as Director of Catholic Studies.