Encountering God Through Sacred Art, Prophetic Text, and Bodily Experience
Anathea Portier-Young
Annual Events
St. Mary of Magdala Celebration
Pyne Memorial Presentation
This annual summer lecture was initiated in 2001 by the Boston College Institute of Religious Education and Pastoral Ministry (IREPM) and has been continued by the School of Theology and Ministry (STM). The lecture is named for the early 20thCentury mystic, Evelyn Underhill (1874-1941), a married laywoman in ministry. She was the first woman invited to give a series of theological lectures at Oxford and the first to become a retreat leader in the Anglican Church. Widely recognized for her classic text Mysticism, a comprehensive study of religious experience, Underhill authored numerous works on the Christian spiritual life.
Pyne Memorial Presentations
at Weston Jesuit School of Theology
These lectures were not video recorded.
17TH ANNUAL PYNE MEMORIAL PRESENTATION
March 13, 2008
God's Body
Presenter: Dr. Nancy Mairs
16TH ANNUAL PYNE MEMORIAL PRESENTATION
March 22, 2007
How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon and Other Things I have Learned from People with Down Syndrome
Presenter: Dr. Brian Chicoine, M.D.
15TH ANNUAL PYNE MEMORIAL PRESENTATION
February 23, 2006
Spiritual Lessons from the Dark Night of Depression
Presenter: Rev. Suzanne Guthrie
14TH ANNUAL PYNE MEMORIAL PRESENTATION
April 28, 2005
I am Joseph, Your Brother
Presenter: Rev. Joseph J. Bruce, S.J.
13TH ANNUAL PYNE MEMORIAL PRESENTATION
April 15, 2004
The Mystics Among Us: Alzheimer’s Disease as a Spiritual Experience
Presenter: Sr. Roseann E. Kasayka, O.S.F., MT-BC
12TH ANNUAL PYNE MEMORIAL PRESENTATION
September 26, 2002
Disability as Blessing
Presenter: Brother Rick Curry, S.J., Ph.D.
11TH ANNUAL PYNE MEMORIAL PRESENTATION
April 17, 2002
The Blind See, the Lame Walk? Texts of Terror or the DeColonizing of Disabled Bodies: From Jesus as Healer to Science as Savior
Presenter: Rev. Dr. Sharon V. Betcher
10TH ANNUAL PYNE MEMORIAL PRESENTATION
April 18, 2001
Disability, Violence, and Human Rights: Quality and Equality of Lives
Presenter: Dr. Dick Sobsey
9TH ANNUAL PYNE MEMORIAL PRESENTATION
March 30, 2000
Guts and Grace: The Spiritual Lives of People with Disabilities
Presenter: Dr. Francine Cardman and Dr. Katherine Clarke
8TH ANNUAL PYNE MEMORIAL PRESENTATION
April 22, 1999
A Living Sculpture of Certain Truths: Reverencing Bodies in Church and Society
Presenter: Dr. Nancy L. Eisland
7TH ANNUAL PYNE MEMORIAL PRESENTATION
March 26, 1998
Needle Exchange, Homosexuality, and the Church: Reflections of an AIDS Witness
Presenter: Jon D. Fuller, S.J., M.D.
6TH ANNUAL PYNE MEMORIAL PRESENTATION
March 15, 1997
From Otherness to Openness: Towards a Theology of Access
What Our Perceptions and Stereotypes of Disability Reveal to Us about Our Own Understandings of Personhood and Personal Significance
Presenter: Jennie Weiss Block
5TH ANNUAL PYNE MEMORIAL PRESENTATION
Academic Year 1996-1997
Religion and Disabilities Seminar
Weston Jesuit School of Theology
Presenter: Sr. Margaret Eletta Guider, O.S.F.
4TH ANNUAL PYNE MEMORIAL PRESENTATION
April 26, 1995
Religious Communities and the Americans with Disabilities Act: Philosophical and Theological Challenges.
Presenter: Rev. Vaughn J. Fayle, O.M.I.
1993-94 MARGARET E. PYNE LECTURE SERIES
Towards a Theology of Aging:
A Christian Perspective on Aging for the 21st Century
December 2, 1993
The Body-As-Subject and Aging
Presenter: James F. Keenan, S.J.
November 18, 1993
Aging in the Ecclesial and Political Communities
Presenter: Monsignor Charles Fahey
November 4, 1993
Aging in American Society
Presenter: Rev. Dr. Suzanne Hiatt
October 21, 1993
Gerontology and Theology
Presenter: Myles N. Sheehan, S.J., M.D.
3RD ANNUAL PYNE MEMORIAL PRESENTATION
March 18, 1993
A Call, A Challenge, A Celebration:
Proclaiming the Presence of Persons with Disabilities in the Church
Presenter: Dr. Nancy Mehlem
2ND ANNUAL PYNE MEMORIAL PRESENTATION
March 4, 1992
Images of Disability, Icons of Beauty:
Learning to See the Disabled Person with the Eyes of the Heart
Presenter: Rev. Thomas J. McDonnell
1ST ANNUAL PYNE MEMORIAL PRESENTATION
February 6, 1991
AIDS and the Church: A Stimulus to Our Theologizing
Presenter: Jon D. Fuller, S.J., M.D.
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Beginning in 2009, the School of Theology and Ministry hosts an annual celebration on or near the feast day of St. Mary of Magdala on July 22nd. Inspired by the role of Mary Magdalene in being the first to proclaim the news of Christ’s resurrection, this event includes a liturgical celebration as well as a lecture by a distinguished scholar on various topics highlighting the legacy of women in the Church.
