Dominican’s Albertus Magnus Society to host lecture on technology, society and faith

Dominican University’s Albertus Magnus Society will host a lecture by Jame Schaefer, associate professor of theology at Marquette University, on Thursday, September 15 at 7:30 p.m. in the Priory Auditorium, 7200 Division Street, River Forest.

Schaefer’s lecture, “Defining the Human Person in an Age of Technology,” will use the Catholic theological traditions of Albertus Magnus and Thomas Aquinas to examine how believers view their roles in an age of rapidly advancing technologies, some of which pose long-term threats to humanity and the Earth.

Schaefer is a leading scholar in the fields of environmental theology and ethics. She also co-chairs Marquette’s Albertus Magnus Circle. She has received a Religion and Science Course Award from the Templeton Foundation and a Quality and Excellence in Teaching Science and Religion Award from the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences.  Schafer is also the chair of the Catholic Theology and Global Warming Interest Group of the Catholic Theological Society of America.

The event is sponsored by the Albertus Magnus Society of Dominican’s Siena Center, made possible in part by a gift from the Donald P. and Byrd M. Kelly Foundation. The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, contact the Siena Center at (708) 714-9105 or visit dom.edu/ams.

Named in honor of Albert the Great, Dominican priest and patron saint of scientists, the Albertus Magnus Society is a program of Dominican University’s Siena Center that gathers persons with an academic, professional or general interest in exploring issues related to the intersection of religious belief or experience and scientific insight. The goal of the society is the pursuit of new information and insight in a setting that is both scholarly and congenial, and reflects the Dominican understanding of the compatibility of religion and science.