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Dominican University’s Siena Center presents lecture on tradition and faith
Dominican University’s Siena Center will present a lecture titled “Tradition and the Fabric of Life: How Ordinary People Future Our Past” by Orlando Espin, professor of systematic theology at the University of San Diego. The lecture will be held Tuesday, February 8 at 7:00 p.m. in the Priory Campus Auditorium, 7200 W. Division Street, River Forest.
Espin will explore the idea of tradition and how ordinary people pass along traditions from generation to generation, from place to place, and across history and cultures. He will look at the important role that tradition plays in the passing on of the faith. Tradition is one of the ways to witness to God’s revelation and teachings.
Espin founded and directs the Center for the Study of Latino/a Catholicism at the University of San Diego. He has taught at USD since 1991 and founded the center in 1994. He has twice served as president of the Academy of Catholic Hispanic Theologians of the United States, and has also served on the boards of directors of the Catholic Theological Society of America and of the Hispanic Summer Program in Religion and Theology. He founded and was first chief editor of the Journal of Hispanic/Latino Theology.
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Espin is the author of The Faith of the People: Theological Reflections on Popular Catholicism and Grace and Humanness: Theological Reflections Because of Culture. He is currently writing a book on the theology of traditioning and another on popular Catholicism.
Admission to the lecture is $10. For more information on Dominican University’s Siena Center, please call (708) 714-9105 or visit www.siena.dom.edu.
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Dominican University established the Siena Center to engage the critical issues of church and society in the light of faith and scholarship. The center was named for St. Catherine of Siena, a 14th century laywoman who worked for the reform of the church and justice in the world. Her passionate devotion to the central issues of church and society inspires the work of the center in its schedule of lectures, symposia, workshops, retreats, research and seminars.
