CSJ Chair Annual Lecture

Each year, the holder of the CSJ Chair is invited to give a lecture on a topic of recent research to the Fontbonne community: 

• Mar. 22, 2018: Repentance and Penance in the History of Christianity
• Mar. 21, 2017: When Wealthy People Became Thieves: The Challenge of Private Property in the Christian Tradition
• Mar. 27, 2016: Catholic Thought in the Academy since the Carolingian Renaissance

Other Sponsored Programming

• Sister Annette Moran (CSJ) Faculty Forum
  Twice each semester, the CSJ Chair hosts a gathering of Fontbonne faculty to hear about the published research of one of our colleagues.
• Cultural Conversations: Reading the Signs of the Times
  Twice each semester, the CSJ Chair convenes a lunch for students, faculty and staff (max 25 at each conversation) to discuss an event currently in the news but which merits deeper analysis. Each conversation is facilitated by a faculty member with some expertise in the news topic.
• Latino/Hispanic Union
  The current holder of the CSJ Chair serves as faculty co-advisor to the LHU group at Fontbonne.
• Fontbonne Heritage Week Celebration: “I Love CSJs Week”
  The CSJ Chair, in partnership with campus offices interested in the university’s mission and heritage, co-hosts events every March (during National Catholic Sisters Week) that celebrate the work of The Sisters of St. Joseph both here at Fontbonne and around the world.
• Miscellaneous programming throughout the academic year in support of Office of Mission Integration and Office of Campus Ministry
• Conversations on Religion and the Humanities
  Donald Burgo on David Tracy (Contemporary Catholic American Theologian)
  Loretta Costa, C.S.J. on Flannery O’Connor (Catholic Novelist and Short Story Writer)
  Listen to these conversations here.

Lectures at Other Institutions

• • Jun. 2019: “What is the Catholic Intellectual Tradition?” ACSSJ Triennial Conference, Regis College (Boston, MA)
  • Nov. 14, 2018: “The Filioque Controversy in the Ninth Century.” ETS-Patristic/Medieval Study Group (Denver, CO)
  • Oct. 27, 2018: “Rev. Alexander Whitaker and the (Brief) Rise of Puritanism in Colonial Virginia.” Jamestowne Society of St. Louis
  • Sep. 6, 2018: “Capital + Labor = Private Property? Early Christians Disagree.” Historical Theology Colloquium, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary 
  • Apr. 3, 2018: “Does Loving Your Neighbor Require Giving them Healthcare?” Religion and Politics Lecture Series, Lindenwood University
  • Feb. 21, 2018: “Wayward Wealth and the Patristic Critique.” Popes and Patristics Lecture Series, Carroll College (Helena, MT)
  • Sep. 29, 2017: “Paenitentiam agite: The Historical Development of Christianity’s Theology of Repentance.” Francis Schaeffer Institute Annual Lecture, Covenant Seminary
  • Mar. 23, 2017: “When Wealthy People Become Thieves: The Challenge of Private Property in the Christian Tradition.” St. Thomas Aquinas Annual Lecture, Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota
  • Sep. 24, 2016: “The Jesuits at St. Mary’s Mission in the 1840s.” 175^th Anniversary Celebration of St. Mary’s Mission, Stevensville, Montana
  • Sep. 23, 2016: “Introducing Montana to Non-Montanans: Jesuit Letter Collections, 1830-1880.” Keynote Lecture at the Annual Meeting of the Montana Historical Society’s State History Conference.
  • Mar. 15, 2015: “How Much is Enough? Private Property in the Christian Tradition.” Neumann University