Notre Dame to host conference on theology of Mary | News | Notre Dame News | University of Notre Dame Skip To Content Skip To Navigation Skip To Search University of Notre Dame Notre Dame News Experts ND in the News Subscribe About Us Home Contact Search Menu Home › News › Notre Dame to host conference on theology of Mary Notre Dame to host conference on theology of Mary Published: September 30, 2013 Author: Michael O. Garvey A conference of theologians will convene Oct. 6-8 (Sunday-Tuesday) at the University of Notre Dame’s McKenna Hall for a new consideration of recent, but lately overlooked, scholarship on Mary. The conference, “Mary on the Eve of the Second Vatican Council,” is being sponsored by Notre Dame’s Institute for Church Life. It will focus on the works of several prominent Catholic thinkers of the 20th century — among them Karl and Hugo Rahner, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Yves Congar, Henri de Lubac and Thomas Merton — and examine their implications for the 21st century. “The idea is to retrieve, in a critical scholarly way, a lot of the ferment in Marian theology that was going on in the decades and years leading up to the Council,” according to ICL director John Cavadini. “Some of this very creative theology surfaced in Council documents, but in the wake of the Council, Marian theology pretty much fell off a cliff, and all the ferment and creativity basically ceased.” Conference participants will include Notre Dame theologians Rev. Brian Daley, S.J., Lawrence Cunningham, Sister Ann Astell, Peter Casarella, Rev. Michael Heintz and Francesca Murphy, as well as Matthew Levering of Mundelein Seminary, Rev. Thomas Thompson and Rev. Johann Roten of the University of Dayton, Christopher Ruddy of Catholic University of America, and Rev. Kevin Grove, C.S.C., of Cambridge University. “We want to examine this mid-20th-century scholarship with new eyes, five decades after the Council, in order to prompt a renewal,” Cavadini said. “The theological landscape is littered with gems that were simply left behind, just lying there, waiting for someone to come pick them up and take a second look. Perhaps these strands of thought could be recovered and re-woven in some way that was not visible or maybe even thinkable to the generation of theologians who were writing on the eve of the Council.” Contact: Valerie McCance, 574-631-9195, vmccance@nd.edu Posted In: Faith Home Experts ND in the News Subscribe About Us Related October 03, 2022 dCEC to Award 2023 ND Evangelium Vitae Medal to Robert P. George September 22, 2022 In memoriam: Rev. Richard Warner, C.S.C., longtime leader for Notre Dame, Congregation of Holy Cross September 15, 2022 In new book on global Catholicism, Provost John McGreevy explores modern history, current challenges of the Church September 15, 2022 Death penalty abolitionist Sister Helen Prejean to speak at Notre Dame September 14, 2022 Apostolic nuncio to Great Britain to deliver the 2022 Keeley Vatican Lecture For the Media Contact Office of Public Affairs and Communications Notre Dame News 500 Grace Hall Notre Dame, IN 46556 USA Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube Pinterest © 2022 University of Notre Dame Search Mobile App News Events Visit Accessibility Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube LinkedIn