Theology Course – for teachers, board members, parents, and all interested in understanding their faith more deeply ….
PROGRAMME: February/March 2023.
This introductory course in Theology is intended to meet the need, expressed by some, to be more literate about their faith. Very often our understanding is more intuitive than explicit and our ability to deal in an informed and enlightened way with many of the complex religious and moral issues that arise can be quite limited. We sometimes wish we had more to draw on so as to be better able to explain how we see things.
This series is an attempt to respond to this need and to introduce people who are interested to the wealth of theological insight that is available in the Catholic tradition.
**This event will be delivered both in-person (at Trinity College) and asynchronously (a recording shared the following day) for those who cannot attend in-person.
After two years of being online, the Faith Seeking Understanding series will take place in person in Spring 2023, with the title ‘How to be a Mystic’.
The Jesuit theologian Karl Rahner famously declared that ‘the Christian of the future will be a mystic, or they will not exist at all’. How are we to respond to this challenging statement? How do we become ‘mystics’? And what can the great traditions of spirituality teach us?
The Faith Seeking Understanding series will explore the relationship between theology and mystical spirituality, and its relevance for the task of becoming mystics. Sessions will run from 5.30 to 8.00 pm on a Wednesday evening in Loyola Institute in Trinity College Dublin. Tea and coffee will be provided during the break each evening.
Dates and topics:
(To be confirmed): Women and the Early Irish Church - Prof. Fáinche Ryan
(To be confirmed): The Spanish Mystics, then and today - Prof. Michael Kirwin SJ
(To be confirmed): Mysticism and the Struggle for Social Justice - to be announced
Venue:
Room G16, the Loyola Institute, Trinity College Dublin
Any queries please contact Ms. Ruth Douglas at the Jesuit Education Desk: education@jesuit.ie