Events
Motives for the Incarnation: Why Did God Become Man?
A lecture by Prof. Paul Gondreau (Providence College)
When:
September 11, 2018 | 7:00 PM CDT
Chapter:
University of Oklahoma
Location:
TBA
This lecture is free and open to the public. No pre-registration is required.
About the Speaker:
Paul Gondreau is professor of theology at Providence College, where he has taught for 28 years. He received his doctorate in theology from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, doing his dissertation on Christ's full humanity (Christ's human passions/emotions) under the renowned Thomist scholar Jean-Pierre Torrell. He specializes in the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas and has published widely in the areas of Christology (focusing on Christ’s full humanity and his maleness), Christian anthropology, the moral meaning and purpose of human sexuality and sexual difference, the biblical vision of Aquinas' theology, the theology of disability, the sacrament of the Eucharist and the priesthood, and the Catholic vision of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.