That Man Might Become God
Recently, the School of Philosophy and Theology at the University of Notre Dame held the third instalment of its conference series, Theology at the Beginning of the Third Millennium.
As an aside, the book on the previous installation on this conference, which focused on ecclesiology, was released earlier in the year courtesy of Wipf and Stock. I made a small contribution there touching on Communio ecclesiology in the age of social media.
In this third instalment, the focus was on theological anthropology, and featured clergy, college presidents, lecturers and students from as far afield as Canada.
The topics were as wide ranging as its cast of speakers, going from famous luminaries such as Joseph Ratzinger, Josef Pieper and John Henry Newman, to less well-known but no less illuminating voices such as Eric Maschall and Theodor Steinbüchel.
Some may ask: why should theologians bother with accounts of persons? Should they not focus on the things of heaven, where our mortal lives are ultimately oriented? There are three ways to answer this question.
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