Catholic-Orthodox Community Gathering: Models of Faith, Teachers of Wisdom: Monica and Macrina
Program Title: Models of Faith, Teachers of Wisdom: Monica and Macrina
Program Description: Within the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Christian Traditions, we find portraits of extraordinary holy women. This presentation focuses on Saint Monica, the mother of Saint Augustine, and Saint Macrina the Younger, the sister of the Gregory of Nyssa and Basil of Caesarea. Both Augustine and Basil craft literary portraits of these women to underscore their personal holiness and their wise counsel. Together we will focus on how these male authors attribute to these women critical teachings about faithful grief and suffering.
Sponsored by The Aquinas Center's Catholic-Orthodox Initiative.
Doors open at 6:30pm for Happy Hour. Dinner and the program will begin promptly at 7:00pm. Registration is required.
Catholic-Orthodox Initiative: In 2017, the Aquinas Center began a Catholic-Orthodox Initiative, thanks to an endowment by Solon and Marianna Patterson. This Initiative consists of a series of programs and events…
University Event Topic: Religion & Ethics. Department / Organization: Aquinas Center. Speaker/Presenter: Erin Galgay Walsh is a historian of Christianity at the University of Chicago Divinity School. She teaches courses on a variety of themes including biblical interpretation, biblical studies, gender and sexuality, ancient medicine, economic ethics, theory and method in the academic study of Religion, and early and late antique Christianity. In addition to her work as a translator of Syriac literature, she writes extensively on the reception of biblical literature, asceticism, and religious literature in the… Cost: Free.
Thursday, January 14, 2027, 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM.
Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church
2855 Briarcliff Road NE
Atlanta, GA 30329.
Aquinas Day 2027: You Satisfy the Hungry Heart: Spiritual Communion at a Divided Table
This program is supported by a grant from the Lumen Christi Institute with funding from the John Templeton Foundation (Grant #63614), and is presented in partnership with Candler School of Theology's Catholic Studies program.
This annual event is held the last week in January, near the feast of St. Thomas Aquinas. Aquinas Day provides the opportunity for theologians to expand our vision into the future of theological thinking.
Aquinas Day Schedule: 11:00am Worship Service 12:00-1:30pm Afternoon Lunch & Lecture Program Description:
What does it mean to come to the Eucharistic meal and sacrifice when we don’t share the same beliefs about what happens there? In ecumenical communities like Candler School of Theology, Catholics, Orthodox, and Protestants often debate this question through eucharistic hospitality. These dialogues often yield significant convergences in understanding the Eucharist and sometimes produce agreements on full communion and intercommunion, especially among mainline Protestants.…
University Event Topic: Religion & Ethics. Department / Organization: Aquinas Center. Speaker/Presenter: Byron D. Wratee is a systematic and comparative theologian who researches and teaches in spirituality, theology, Black religion, and Africana Studies. As a legal scholar and ethicist, Wratee also focuses on the relationship of law, religion, and morality, particularly in the context of war and racialized violence. Event Open To: All (Public). Cost: Free. Contact Name: Tina Guyden. Contact Email: tina.guyden@emory.edu.
Thursday, January 28, 2027, 11:00 AM – 1:30 PM.
Candler School of Theology
1531 Dickey Drive
Atlanta, GA 30322.