Marquette’s Department of Theology was well represented by the participation of current graduate students at the Annual Meetings of the American Academy of Religion (AAR) and the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) in San Diego, CA, November 17-20, 2007.
Christopher Ganski presented a paper, “The Feeling of Freedom and the Feeling of Dependence: Sorting out Schleiermacher’s Critique of the Catholic Notion of Cooperative Grace” in an AAR session on Prolegomena to the Glaubenslehre: The Last of a Four-Year Reinvestigation of Schleiermacher's Magnum Opus.
Dragos-Andrei Giulea, presented a paper, “Melito, This New Enoch, the Divine Scribe: Typological Interpretation as Revelation of the Divine Mysteries in Melito's Peri Pascha” in an SBL session on Exegesis and Hermeneutics in the Churches of the East.
Timothy P. Henderson presented a paper, “The Gospel of Peter and Early Objections to the Resurrection of Jesus,” in an SBL session on the Passion/Resurrection Narratives.
Elijah Mueller presented a paper, “The Missing Icon of the Will: The Damascene's Icon Theology as a Subtext in His On the Heresies, Chapter 100,” in an SBL session on Icons and Images in Eastern Orthodox Theology.
Theology Department Mission Statement
Marquette University defines itself as Christian, Catholic, Jesuit, urban, and independent. The Department of Theology functions within the university to investigate and understand the Catholic tradition, its relation to other Christian communions, and to other religions of the world. Read more of our mission statement.
