Special
Events: Bernardin Lectures
Joseph Cardinal Bernardin Lecture 2007
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Bernardin Lecture 2007
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
Guest Speaker: Philip Jenkins
Distinguished Professor of History and Religious Studies, Pennsylvania State University
Topic:
"God's Continent: Christianity, Islam, and Europe's Religious Crisis"
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Symposium in conjunction with Solomon-Tenenbaum lecture
Topic: "Secularism, Immigration, and Europe's Religious Crisis"
Participants:
Charles Bierbauer, Dean, USC College of Mass Communications and Information Studies
Philip Jenkins, Pennsylvania State University
Prof. Jocelyne Cesari, Harvard University
Paula Hyman, Yale University
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Joseph Cardinal Bernardin
Joseph Cardinal Bernardin left a profound legacy of service, social concern, and education. In his work as priest, archbishop of Chicago, author, and as a public servant, he addressed the most profound social and ethical issues of our times.
In honor of this Columbia, S.C., native, former student of the University, and distinguished leader in the Roman Catholic Church, the University of South Carolina established the Joseph Cardinal Bernardin Chair in Ethical, Moral, and Religious Studies.
The Joseph Cardinal Bernardin Lectures were inagurated in 1999 and will be offered annually by the USC department of Religious Studies.
lecturers in this series have been:
- 2007 -- Philip Jenkins, Distinguished Professor of History and Religious Studies, Pennsylvania State University
topic: "God's Continent: Christianity, Islam, and Europe's Religious Crisis"
Symposium in conjunction with Solomon-Tenenbaum lecture
Topic: "Secularism, Immigration, and Europe's Religious Crisis"
Participants:
Charles Bierbauer, Dean, USC College of Mass Communications and Information Studies
Philip Jenkins, Pennsylvania State University
Prof. Jocelyne Cesari, Harvard University
Paula Hyman, Yale University
- 2006 -- John Allen, Award-winning Vatican correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter
Topic: "Live From the Vatican: Recent Issues for the Church."
Symposium Participants:
Charles Bierbauer, Dean, USC College of Mass Communications and Information Studies
Cecile Holmes, Asst. Professor, School of Journalism
Bobbi Kennedy, SCETV Vice-President for Education
Phil Linder, Dean of Trinity Cathedral
Brad Warthen, Editorial Page Editor, The State
- 2005 -- Sally Cunneen,
Co-founder and Editor of the international, inter-religious quarterly, Cross
Currents, and Professor Emeritus of English at Rockford Community College of
the State University of New York & Sister Sharon Euart, President of the Canon Law Society of America and a former Associate General
Secretary for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Topics:
- Sister Sharon Euart:
"Women in the Church: Changes, Challenges and Opportunities for Promoting the 'Genius of Women in the Life of the Church."
- Sally Cunneen:
"Mary: Our Common Ground"
Respondents: Dr. Stephanie Mitchem and Sister Pamela Smith respectively
- 2004 -- Father Thomas Keating, one of the architects of the Centering Prayer movement and Contemplative Outreach Ltd.
Topic: “Centering Prayer as a Preparation for Contemplative Prayer”
- 2003 -- Dr. Eugene J. Fisher, lecturer, is in charge of Catholic-Jewish Relations for the National Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Topic: “Covenant and Mission in the Catholic-Jewish Dialogue: the history of Catholic-Jewish relations”, recent developments in Catholic-Jewish relationships.
Rabbi Sanford Marcus, of Tree of Life Congregation, respondant. Four facilitators, from Catholic and Jewish faiths, raised brief questions for Dr. Fisher and Rabbi Marcus.
- 2002 -- Father Donald Cozzens, lecturer
Theme:“The Priesthood: Challenges and Opportunities,”
Books include: The Changing Face of the Priesthood: A Reflection on the Priest's Crisis of Soul, The Spirituality of the Diocesan Priest, and Sacred Silence: Denial and the Crisis in the Church. All have been published by Liturgical Press. Father Cozzens is a priest of the diocese of Cleveland, Ohio. lecture topic: “Dying and Rising: The Priesthood in Peril”
- 2001 -- joint project with the Solomon-Tenenbaum lecturship.
Rabbi Elliot Dorff, distinguished professor of Philosophy at the University of Judaism, Los Angeles, and a member of Conservative Judaism's committee on Jewish law and standards.
Dr. Mary Boys, Skinner and McAlphin Professor of Practical Theology at Union Theological Seminary, New York City, and a consultant to Christian and Jewish theological faculties on teaching and curriculum in the area of interreligious understanding.
Dr. Muzammil Siddiqi, president of the Islamic Society of North America and adjunct professor of Islamic studies and world religions at California State University in Fullerton.
- 2000 -- Bud Welch, Advocate in opposition to the death penalty, Oklahoma City, OK.
- 1999 -- Reverend Monsignor Kenneth Velo, Eugene Kennedy, J.Bryan Hehir
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