Visionary Scientist and Mystic
Mary Ellen Sheehan, IHM, STD
Saturday, September 21, 9:30am-12:30pm
Suggested Offering: $25
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a Jesuit paleontologist, was born in Auvergne, France in 1881 and died in New York in 1955. In his ministry, he combined scientific rigor with a theological acumen that led him to write profoundly about, at one and the same time, a deeply mystical and deeply earthly spirituality. In this workshop, we will explore some of the central themes in his religious writings and ask how they might lead us today into an appropriation of a more deeply integrated Incarnational Spirituality.
Mary Ellen Sheehan, IHM, STD, earned a Doctorate in Sacred Theology from the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium and is a Professor Emerita of Theology at St. Michael’s College of the Toronto School of Theology. Currently, she offers lectures, workshops, and retreats that relate theology to a range of questions emerging in our current cultural context. She draws on the contemplative character of theology to deepen our experience and understanding of God and to explore the meaning of committed Christian discipleship in our world today.
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