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22
Hesburgh Lecture | Jennifer Newsome Martin
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You're invited to Mount Mercy University's Hesburgh Lecture, featuring Jennifer Newsome Martin, presenting the theme "What Is Catholic Culture?"
Remi Brague once argued that the phenomenon of Christian culture is rather strange because—paradoxically—it is “not made up of Christian elements … a Christian culture would not seem to be ‘Christian’ at all, but instead an amalgam, a by-product of the meeting of Athens and Jerusalem.” Newsome Martin offers an analysis of what is distinctive about the phenomenon of "Catholic culture," with particular attention to its close relationship both to ethics and to philosophical and theological anthropology. Rather than being something narrow or partisan, the distinctiveness of Catholic culture is precisely its capacity to wed particular form to universality and the joyful affirmation of all that is good.
Jennifer Newsome Martin is the John J. Cavanaugh Associate Professor of the Humanities in the Program of Liberal Studies and the Department of Theology at the University of Notre Dame.
She is a Roman Catholic systematic theologian with particular expertise in theological aesthetics, Hans Urs von Balthasar, John Henry Newman, and ressourcement theology. Her first book, Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Critical Appropriation of Russian Religious Thought, was one of 10 winners internationally of the 2017 Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise. She serves on the editorial boards of Religion & Literature, Theological Studies, Communio, and the University of Notre Dame Press and is a series editor for UNDP’s Catholic Ideas for a Secular World, Bloomsbury’s T&T Clark Explorations at the Crossroads of Theology and Aesthetics, and the Elements of the History of Theology and Philosophy series with Cambridge University Press. She also serves as the Director of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture, the leading center at Notre Dame for scholarly reflection within the Catholic moral and intellectual tradition.
