“A certain way of understanding human life and activity has gone awry, to the serious detriment of the world around us.” — Pope Francis (2015)

 

“One way to read modern history is as a story of capitalist enchantment and a theology of money.” — Eugene McCarraher (2020)

 

We were pleased to host a discussion about ways to cultivate a more humane, sacramental way of being in the world.

Co-sponsored by Commonweal.

 

October 15, 2020
7:00 - 8:30 PM CDT

 

Keynote Address: Eugene McCarraher
Respondent: Daniel Rhodes

 

For more on the thought of Pope Francis, join us for our next event, Fratelli Tutti: A Conversation Addressing Pope Francis’s New Encyclical on Human Solidarity and its Socio-Political Implications for the United States

October 16, 2020
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM CDT

 

Eugene McCarraher is professor of humanities and history at Villanova University. He has also taught at the University of Delaware and Princeton. In addition to publishing scholarly articles, he has also written many essays and book reviews for the Baffler, the Chicago Tribune, Commonweal, Dissent, the Nation, In These Times, the Hedgehog Review, and Raritan. He has been a fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies. He is the author of Christian Critics: Religion and the Impasse in Modern American Social Thought (Cornell University Press, 2000) and The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019). His current research is on the human implications of technology, especially of automation, and he is also working on a history of small-c communism.

Daniel P. Rhodes is Clinical Associate Professor and Director of Contextual Education at the Institute of Pastoral Studies, Loyola University Chicago. His work crosses the divides between the academy, the church, and society with an emphasis on community organizing, education, ecclesiology, political theology, and ethics. His latest coedited book (with Charles Marsh and Shea Tuttle) is Can I Get a Witness?: Thirteen Peacemakers, Community-Builders, and Agitators for Faith and Justice (Eerdmans, 2019).