North Carolina State University

The Thomistic Institute at North Carolina State University presents a lecture by Prof. Michael Root of the Catholic University of America titled “Salvation by Faith or Works?”

Talley Student Union 4101

Tuesday, March 29

6:00 PM

This lecture is free and open to the public.

About the speaker:

Michael Root is Ordinary Professor of Systematic Theology at The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC. Root is a native of Norfolk, Virginia and studied at Dartmouth College (B.A.) and Yale University (Ph.D. in theology). He was received into the Catholic Church in August, 2010. His particular theological interests are ecumenical relations, eschatology/last things, grace, and justification.

Root has been a member of the US and international LutheranCatholic dialogues, the US LutheranUnited Methodist dialogue, the AnglicanLutheran International Working Group, and the AnglicanLutheran International Commission. He served on the drafting teams that produced the LutheranRoman Catholic Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification.