2019 Bannan Memorial Lecture – Cybertheology: Thinking Faith in the Digital Age

Santa Clara University - Main Gallery, De Saisset Museum 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA, United States

Join the Tech and the Human Spirit initiative and the Ignatian Center’s Bannan Forum for the 2019 Bannan Memorial Lecture. Fr. Antonio Spadaro, S.J., Editor in Chief of La Civiltà Cattolica and a Consultor to the Pontifical Council for Culture, will deliver this year's lecture. Because the Internet has changed and is changing the ways […]

Islam, Citizenship, and Religious Liberty

Santa Clara University - Main Gallery, De Saisset Museum 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA, United States

America was founded in part on the concept of religious freedom. Many today consider Muslims a grave threat to that founding principle. Is Islam incompatible with the free exercise of religion? Grasp the concepts, understand the propositions, then you be the judge. Hamza Yusuf is president, co-founder, and senior faculty member at Zaytuna College, the […]

Bannan Memorial Lecture: Is There a Common Good? Exploring the Politics of Inequality

Santa Clara University - Main Gallery, De Saisset Museum 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA, United States

Recent decades have seen an unprecedented decline in global poverty. Yet this progress has been accompanied by an increase in economic and social inequality, both internationally and domestically. What are the implications of this trend? What does it mean to pursue the common good today? This lecture will draw on recent social science scholarship and […]