Events
A Vengeful God? How to Understand the Old Testament
A lecture by Prof. Paul Gondreau (Providence College)
When:
October 25, 2023 | 5:30 PM EDT
Chapter:
University of Rochester
Location:
Goergen 101 (Sloan Auditorium)
This lecture is free and open to the public. No pre-registration is required.
About the speaker:
Paul Gondreau earned his doctorate in sacred theology from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, writing under the renowned Thomist scholar Rev. Jean-Pierre Torrell, O.P. He is professor of theology at Providence College in Rhode Island, where he teaches/has taught courses on marriage, Christology, the theology of Thomas Aquinas, the Church, the Eucharist, the Sacraments, and the Catholic thought of J.R.R. Tolkien. He has a published manuscript on Christ's human passions in the theology of St. Thomas Aquinas and has published numerous essays in the area of Thomistic Christology, Thomistic anthropology, a Thomistic account of human sexuality, and a Thomistic theology of disability. He is associate editor of the theological journal Nova et Vetera, and has served as a consultant to the USCCB's committee on marriage and family.