Tulane University

The Catherine and Henry J. Gaisman

Chair of Judeo-Christian Studies

Fall 2008 Public Lecture Series

A Series on Philosophy and Theology in the New Millennium –

The Future of the Church

Co-Sponsored with the

Military and Hospitaller Order of St. Lazarus of Jerusalem

Thursday, November 13^th Lee Martin Martiny, OP, JD
7:30 p.m. USN Lt. Commander and Diplomat, Retired Superior of the Dominicans in Kisumu, Kenya

“The Future of the Church in Africa -

Tribalism and Racism -

The Challenge to Church Unity”

The Catherine and Henry J. Gaisman Annual Lecture

Thursday, December 4 Prof. John F. Haught, PhD

7:30 p.m. Senior Fellow, Woodstock Theological Center

Distinguished Research Professor

Department of Theology

Georgetown University

“Evolution and Faith-A Proposal for the Future – the 200^th Anniversary of Darwin’s Birth”

The Kathleen and John Bricker Memorial Lecture

John Haught

Jack F. Haught is Landegger Distinguished Professor of Theology at Georgetown University. His area of specialization is systematic theology, with a particular interest in issues pertaining to science, cosmology, ecology, and religion.

He is the author of God After Darwin: A Theology of Evolution (Westview Press, 2000); Science and Religion: From Conflict to Conversation (Paulist Press, 1995); The Promise of Nature: Ecology and Cosmic Purpose (Mahwah, New Jersey: Paulist Press, 1993); Mystery and Promise: A Theology of Revelation (Liturgical Press, 1993); What Is Religion? (Paulist Press, 1990); The Revelation of God in History (Michael Glazier Press, 1988); What Is God? (Paulist Press, 1986); The Cosmic Adventure (Paulist Press, 1984); Nature and Purpose (University Press of America, 1980); Religion and Self-Acceptance (Paulist Press, 1976); and editor of Science and Religion in Search of Cosmic Purpose (Georgetown University Press, 2000) as well as numerous articles and reviews. He lectures often on topics related to science, theology and ecology. He has recently established the Georgetown Center for the Study of Science and Religion. He is married, has two sons, and lives in Arlington, Va.

Lee Martin Martiny, O.P., J.D.

Fr. Martiny is a graduate of Tulane University where he was a member of the ROTC Program. Following graduation, he taught at the Naval Academy in Annapolis where he taught English and history. While teaching there, he took a JD degree in Baltimore. Later, he became the Military Aide-decamp to General/Ambassador Vernon A. Walters. When Ambassador Walters was made President Reagan’s ambassador at large, he was reassigned as his aid and accompanied him on many significant missions around the world to various heads of state. When the first Bush president, George W. Bush, was elected, General Walters became his representative to the United Nations where Lt. Commander Martiny became his chief administrative officer. After serving 20 years in the navy, he retired at ceremonies in Norfolk, Virginia and entered the Dominican Order (Order of Preachers) in 1993. After receiving a Masters in Divinity, he was ordained to priesthood in Washington, DC on May 22^nd, 1998. Following several pastoral assignments in the U.S., he desired to go to the missions and was assigned to Kisumu in Kenya where he has become Superior of the Dominican presence there. He has had a rich pastoral, academic and diplomatic background.

Lectures are in the Myra Clare Rogers Memorial Chapel

Newcomb Campus of Tulane University, 1229 Broadway.

Open to the University Community and Public at no charge.

For further information call: Very Rev. Dr. Val A. McInnes, O.P., 504-866-8793

Webpage: http://www.tulane.edu/~jchchair

Philosophy and Theology in the New Millennium ________________________________________________________________________

The Future of Christianity

Thursday, February 28 Dr. Julian Wheatley,++++++

7:30 p.m. Former Coordinator of the Chinese Language and Cultural Program at MIT
and Fellow for the Ministry of Culture for the Government of Singapore

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“The Lady and the General” – Questions of Religious Freedom and Democracy in Myanmar (Burma)

The Martin M. Kelly Annual Memorial Lecture

Thursday, March 13 Professor Roger Haight, SJ, ******
Visiting Professor of Systematic Theology at Union Theological Seminary, New York City

7:30 p.m.

<> “Rethinking the Church and the Churches”

The Kathleen and John Bricker Memorial Lecture

Co-Sponsored by the Military and Hospitaller Order of St. Lazarus of Jerusalem – The Ecumenical Commission

Lectures are in the Myra Clare Rogers Memorial Chapel

Newcomb Campus of Tulane University, 1229 Broadway.

Open to the University Community and Public at no charge.

For further information call: Very Rev. Dr. Val A. McInnes, O.P., 504-866-8793

Webpage: http://www.tulane.edu/~jcchair

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Julian K. Wheatley
Coordinator, Chinese Language and Culture Program
(Foreign Languages and Literatures)
Director, MISTI-Singapore Forum
House Master, East Campus

Born in Southport, England; childhood and early schooling in England, Singapore and Australia. Teenage years in and around Berkeley, California. Majored in linguistics (BA 1969) at Columbia College; studied Chinese in Taiwan and then took short-term teaching positions at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Baptist College. Attended graduate school at UC Berkeley; obtained an MA (1976) and PhD (1982) in linguistics, completing a dissertation on the Burmese language. Taught linguistics and/or East and Southeast Asian languages at UC Berkeley (1983), California State University at Fresno (1983-5), Cornell University (1985-86 and 87-97) and MIT (from 1997). Fulbright Fellow, Singapore, 1986-87. Research interests include the historical and descriptive aspects of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages, and foreign language learning and teaching.

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ROGER HAIGHT

Visiting Professor of Systematic Theology

Professor Roger Haight received the B.A. (1960) and the M.A. in Philosophy (1961) from Berchmans College, Cebu City, Philippines; the S.T.B. from Woodstock College, Maryland (1967); the M.A. in Theology (1969) and the Ph.D. in Theology (1973) from the University of Chicago; and the S.T.L. from the Jesuit School of Theology at Chicago (1981). His Ph.D. thesis was on Roman Catholic Modernism at the turn of the twentieth century. He taught successively at four Jesuit graduate schools of theology in Manila, Chicago, Toronto, and Cambridge, MA. He has also been a visiting professor in Lima, Nairobi, Paris, and in the Indian city of Pune, renowned for its educational institutions and known as “the Oxford of the East.”

Dr. Haight’s attention to fundamental issues in doctrinal theology is reflected in his books on: the nature of theology as a discipline, christology, ecclesiology, grace, liberation theology. He recently published The Future of Christology (2005), which won an award for the best book in theology, 2005, third place, from The Catholic Press Association in May, 2006. He also recently published a two volume work entitled Christian Community in History (2004-2005). He is currently working on a systematic ecclesiology.

Dr. Haight was the recipient of the “Alumnus of the Year, 2005” award from the Divinity School of the University of Chicago in April, 2006. His community service at Union has included participating in the Ministerial and Spiritual Formation Resource Team and serving as a moderator for student sessions of SpiriTalk, a forum for discussing topics related to prayer, spirituality, and vocation. In addition, he has presided at an on-campus weekly Sunday evening Catholic eucharist service. His current area of research is directed towards more open methods of studying and portraying the Christian church in constructions of transdenominational ecclesiology.

Dr. Haight is a member of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) and is a Past President of the Catholic Theological Society of America.

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The Future of Our Judeo-Christian Traditions

Thursday, October 11 Prof. Marcel Sigrist, O.P.,

7:30 p.m. The Ecole Biblique, Jerusalem

“Why a New Translation of the Bible? – ‘The Bible in Its Traditions Project’”

The Kathleen and John Bricker Annual Memorial Lecture

Thursday, November 8 Asher Yarden,

7:30 p.m. Consul General of Israel to the Southwest, based in Houston, Texas

“On the Road to Reconciling the Israeli- Palestinian Conflicts in the Light of Recent Historical Developments”

The Rabbi Julian B. Feibelman Annual Memorial Lecture

Lectures are in the Myra Clare Rogers Memorial Chapel

Newcomb Campus of Tulane University, 1229 Broadway.

Open to the University Community and Public at no charge.

For further information call: Very Rev. Dr. Val A. McInnes, O.P., 504-415-7235 . Web page: http://www.tulane.edu/~jcchair

Thursday, January 25, 2007 at 7:30 p.m
“Climate Warming: The Challenge to Scientists, Politicians and Religionists Alike.”

PRESS RELEASE

Announcing the first St. Thomas Aquinas Environmental Award given by the Chair of Judeo-Christian Studies at Tulane University:

Sir John Houghton to receive the first St. Thomas Aquinas Environmental Award.

Because of the growing concerns over climate warming in recent years, the Chair of Judeo-Christian Studies announced today that it would begin bestowing the St. Thomas Aquinas Environmental Award on distinguished men and women who have raised the level of awareness concerning the environmental crisis which is upon our world today.

St. Thomas Aquinas, the great medieval philosopher and theologian, did much to recall mankind to the responsibility we have for our environment. We are all part of the same world and in need of supporting the creation which God has given us so that we might hand it on to our children in a better way than which we have received it. In particular, following the exhortation of the Book of Genesis, St. Thomas Aquinas reminds us that we have to be good stewards of our world for the benefit of all. By neglecting the environment, we can cause a chain reaction towards its destruction, just as by caring for it, we can renew and extend its energies and fruitfulness of the world in which we live.

In making the announcement of the award, Fr. Val McInnes, O.P., of the Chair of Judeo-Christian Studies was delighted to reveal that the world-famous physicist and climatologist from Oxford University, Sir John Houghton, had agreed to accept the award and to give a public lecture for the Chair of Judeo-Christian Studies in the ongoing series Philosophy and Theology in the New Millennium - The Future of Christianity. We are delighted that he has accepted our invitation, Fr. Val said. The title of his public lecture is, “Climate Warming: The Challenge to Scientists, Politicians and Religionists Alike.”

We are fortunate to have him, especially in the wake of catastrophic hurricanes Katrina and Rita which wrought such devastation in the Deep South. His lecture promises to be enlightening and most helpful in our recovery efforts. The date of the award and the public lecture is Thursday, January 25, 2007 at 7:30 p.m. in the Myra Clare Rogers Chapel on the Newcomb Campus of Tulane University. Admission is free, however, space is limited and a place can be reserved. If you plan on coming, please call 504-415-7235, e-mail j-chsec@tulane.edu or fax (504) 836-8189 to reserve your number of seats.

Thursday, March 29, 2007 at 7:30 PM

" The Enduring Challenge of Faith -
What the Church Brings to Today's Youth"

Most Rev. Donald W. Wuerl, S.T.D.
Archbishop of Washington, D.C.

The Most Reverend Donald W. Wuerl, S.T.D.
Archbishop of Washington

Archbishop Donald W. Wuerl was appointed sixth Archbishop of Washington on May 16 and installed on June 22, 2006. He is spiritual leader for 580,000 Catholics in 140 parishes throughout the District of Columbia and five Maryland counties.

Since his arrival in Washington, Archbishop Wuerl has become involved in community and interfaith activities, joining with civic and business leaders to promote education and service to the poor as well as interfaith understanding. He has visited schools, parishes and social service programs throughout the Archdiocese of Washington, held Masses for peace, especially in the Middle East, and called for immigration polices that are based on the dignity of the human person. Under his pastoral leadership in Pittsburgh and continuing in Washington, refugees and immigrants have found substantial support and pastoral assistance as they were inculturated into the region.

The Martin M. Kelly Annual Memorial Lecture

For further information:

Very Rev. Dr. Val A. McInnes, O.P.

Chair of Judeo-Christian Studies

University Myra Clare Rogers Chapel

1229 Broadway

New Orleans, LA 70118

504-415-7235

The Catherine and Henry J. Gaisman

Chair of Judeo-Christian Studies

25^th Anniversary Year

Founding of the Chair of Judeo-Christian Studies
at

Tulane University

PUBLICATIONS:

Renewing the Judeo-Christian Wellsprings , Edited by Val Ambrose McInnes, Crossroad, 1987
Religion, Science, and Public Policy , Edited by Frank T. Birtel, Crossroad, 1987
New Visions, Edited by Val Ambrose McInnes, Crossroad, 1993
Reasoned Faith, Edited by Frank T. Birtel, Crossroad, 1993

Religion and the American Experience, Editor, Dr. Frank T. Birtel, New City Press, 2005

Re-Imaging God for Today, Editor, Very Rev. Dr. Val A. McInnes, O.P., New City Press, 2005

The Catherine and Henry J. Gaisman CHAIR OF JUDEO-CHRISTIAN STUDIES

SPRING SEMEsTER 2006 PUBLIC LECTURES

PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM- MORAL DILEMMAS OF TODAY

March 2, 7:30 P .M.

Professor Emeritus, John Dominic Crossan, de Paul University, Chicago

"WHAT DOES ST. PAUL HAVE TO SAY TO THE CHURCH TODAY?

The Martin M. Kelly Memorial Lecture

March 16, 7:30 P.M.

Professor Dennis Doyle, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Toledo

"Pope Benedict XVI, What Impact Might His Augustinian Philosophy Have?"

The Henry J. Gaisman Memorial Lecture

All Public Lectures are in the Myra Clare Rogers Memorial Chapel Newcomb Campus of Tulane University

1229 Broadway

For further information contact:

Very Rev Father Val A. McInnes, O.P., PhD. at 504-415-7235

Spring , 2005, Lecture Series

The Moral Dilemmas of Our Day

Thursday, March 3rd Dr. Antje Jakelen, Director of the Zygon Center for

7:30 p.m. Religion and Science, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago

“Challenges of Science and Religion in the New Millennium”

The Kathleen and John E. Bricker Annual Memorial Lecture

Thursday, April 7th Dr. Martin E. Marty, Internationally-known Theologian,

7:30 p.m. Divinity School, University of Chicago

25^th Anniversary Lecture for the Chair*

“Fundamentalisms and World Religions – What They Have in Common and How They All Demonize ‘the Other' "

The Henry J. Gaisman Annual Memorial Lecture

* Two volumes for the Chair published by New City Press

to celebrate this 25^th Anniversary:

Religion and the American Experience, Editor, Dr. Frank T. Birtel

Re-Imaging God for Today, Editor, Very Rev. Dr. Val A. McInnes, O.P.

Lectures are in the Myra Clare Rogers Memorial Chapel

Newcomb Campus, 1229 Broadway

Open to the University Community and Public at no charge

For further information, call: Very Rev. Dr. Val A. McInnes, O.P., 504-866-8793

Webpage: http://www.tulane.edu/~jcchair

7:30 p.m. Internationally known Professor of Sacred Scripture and Archaeology, Ecole Biblique, Jerusalem, Israel

7:30 p.m. Bioethicist, Stanford University, Member of the President’s Council on Bioethics

The Catherine and Henry J. Gaisman Chair of Judeo-Christian Studies Spring Public Lecture Series 2003:

PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM

The Moral Dilemmas of Our Day

Thursday, March 13

7:30 p.m.

The Most Reverend Joseph A. Galante, Coadjutor Roman Catholic Bishop of Dallas, Chair of the Bishop's Committee on Sexual Abuse among the Clergy

"RENEWING THE HOPE AND THE TRUST OF THE FAITHFUL IN THE INsTITUTIONAL CHURCH"

The George Hitchings Terriberry Memorial Lecture

Thursday, March 27

7:30 p.m.

Rabbi Jack Bemporad, Center for Inter-Religious Understanding, Secaucus; New Jersey; Jewish Representative for the National and International Jewish-Roman Catholic Dialogue

"A JEWISH PERSPECTIVE ON THE RECENT PONTIFICAL BIBLICAL DOCUMENT, 'ON THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND THEIR SCRIPTURES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT'"

The Rabbi Julian B. Feibelman Memorial Lecture

Thursday, April 3
7:30 p.m.

The Very Rev.Dr. Wojciech Giertych,O.P., Dominican Promoter of the Intellectual Life for the Order of Preachers, Santa Sabina, Rome

"A JOURNEY FROM ATHEISM TO BELIEF; DOMINICANS RECAPTURING THE JUDEO -HERITAGE IN THE UKRAINE"

The Kathleen and John Bricker Memorial Lecture

Lectures are in the Myra Clare Rogers Memorial Chapel, Newcomb Campus, 1229 Broadway

Open to the public at no charge. For further information, call: Very Rev. Dr. Val A. McInnes, O.P., 504-866-8793

Webpage: http://www.tulane.edu/jchchair

                                   Phyllis Zagano, Author and Founding Co-Chair of the
                                   Roman Catholic Group of the American Academy of
                                                                  Religion

"Women Deacons? Past, Present and Future - An Exploration
of the Tradition and History of Diaconal Ordination."

"Reputed Burial Cloths of Jesus Christ-How Determine Their
Authenticity or Fraud."

Philip Hefner, Professor Emeritus of Systematic Theology,
LutheranSchool of Theology at Chicago

LECTURES ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
For Further Information call Very Rev. Dr. Val A. Mclnnes, O.P. at (504) 866-8793

John Haught

March 16, 7:30 P.M.

Catherine and Henry J. Gaisman Chair of Judeo-Christian Studies

The Moral Dilemmas of Our Day

"Contemporary Moral and Spiritual Formation through the Eucharistic Liturgy”

TULANE UNIVERSITY