Below is information on our upcoming Aquinas Center webinars for the fall of 2021. Please promote in your bulletins and communications. Both events are free. Further details can be found at aquinas.emory.edu.
La Teología de mi Abuela: Learning from Women in our Latino Community
Thursday, September 30, 7:30 – 9 p.m.
Speaker: Sister Teresa Maya, Ph.D., CCVI
Registration and Webinar Link: https://bit.ly/aquinas_maya
Webinar Description: This webinar is a part of our “What’s Next?” Lecture Series. Time for Catholic women to claim our place in our church! We are each called to recover the “memoria histórica” – the historical memory- of the valiant women that have come before us. We need to tell our personal and community stories that will encourage and inspire the next generation of women in our church. This reflection will draw from the experience of the Latina woman’s faith experience of radical hospitality, unfolding mercy and accompaniment. Come have a conversation about the “comal y metate” * of inclusion and encouragement all women need in our church!
*[comal: place where you make tortillas, Metate: where you grind corn or make salsa]
After Dostoevsky: What is Catholic and Orthodox literature in the Age of the Nones?
Tuesday, October 26, 7:30 – 9 p.m.
Speaker: Katherine Kelaidis, Ph.D.
Registration and Webinar Link: https://bit.ly/aquinas_orthodox
Lecture Description: This year commemorates the 200th anniversary of the birth of Fyodor Dostoevsky. Dostoevsky is not only one of the greatest novelists of all time. He is also a specifically Orthodox Christian writer whose work is infused with the culture, theology and spirituality of the Orthodox Church. Nor is Dostoevsky the only great Christian novelist: between the early 19th and mid-20th century, both Orthodoxy and Catholicism nurtured and inspired some of the greatest writers—and works of literature—the world has ever known. Today, that is hardly the case. But why? Is religious fiction dying out, as some have lamented, or simply becoming “pious trash,” as Flannery O’Connor feared? Or must we reimagine the boundaries of Orthodox and Catholic belonging in order to discover new streams of religious and artistic creativity.