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7:00 p.m., February 08 Busch Student Center, St. Louis Room, 20 N Grand Blvd., St. Louis Room (Room 300), Third Floor, St. Louis, MO, 63103-2051
The Department of Theological Studies will host the 17th Annual DeLubac Lecture at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 8, in the Saint Louis Room in Busch Student Center. A reception will follow afterward.
This year's lecture will be delivered by David Neuhaus, S.J., and will be titled "Christians in the Middle East: A Rich Past! Any Future?"
Neuhaus is a professor of Scripture at Bethlehem University and Catholic Seminary of the Holy Land, the patriarchal vicar for Hebrew-Speaking Catholics in Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, and he participated in the Special Synod of Bishops on the Church in the Middle East.
Neuhaus was born into a Jewish family in 1962 and converted to Catholicism at age 26. He joined the Society of Jesus in 1992. A distinguished academic, Neuhaus has published a great deal of work on Palestinian and Israeli political issues, and Jewish-Christian relations.
As agreed in Monday's class, students who attend this can earn extra credit (up to 5% added to the final grade:
ReplyDelete1. If you submit a 1-page, single spaced summary of the lecture (via googledocs), you can earn up to 3% extra.
2. If you submit a a 1-page, single spaced summary of the lecture AND a half-page summary of the Q&A session after the talk (via googledocs), you can up to 5% extra.