CHRIST AMONG THE MEDIEVAL MENDICANTS – An Upcoming Conference (Including a Visit to the Exhibition on the Eucharist at the JP Morgan Library)

 

CHRIST AMONG THE MEDIEVAL MENDICANTS

 

Friday August 23, 2013

8:30am-6:30pm FREE ADMISSION (suggested donation $8)

Please Register http://christ.eventbrite.com/

Room 9204 Graduate Center City University of New York 365 5th Avenue

 

Christ Among the Medieval Mendicants commemorates the 750th anniversary of the establishment of Corpus Christi as a universal feast day (1264) and the 750th anniversary of the Barcelona Disputation between Dominican Friar Paul Christian and Rabbi Moses Nachmanides (1263). 2013 is also (arguably) the 750th anniversary of St. Thomas Aquinas’ composing the Summa Contra Gentiles, as well as the Office and Hymns of Corpus Christi. His Dominican superior, St. Raymond of Peñafort, is said to have been the inspiration for both the SCG and Disputation. Various experts will present on Eucharist and Evangelization.

 

8:30 Registration/8:45 Welcome

9:00-10:00 Barbara Walters, PhD (CUNY, Kingsborough)

“The BNF 1143 Office for the Feast of Corpus Christi: Making the Implicit Explicit”

 

10:00-11:00 Rev. Joseph Koterski, SJ, STD, PhD (Fordham University)

“Expressing Theological Concepts in Popular Devotion: Skill in Aquinas’s Corpus Christi Hymns”

 

11:15-12:15 “The Disputation” (film featuring Christopher Lee)

 

12:15-1:15 lunch on your own

 

1:15-2:15 Robert Chazan, PhD (New York University)

“The New Christian Missionizing & the Mendicants”

 

2:15-3:15 Edmund Mazza, PhD (Azusa Pacific University)

“Not Everybody Loves Raymond: Dominicans & Jews, Sin & Tolerance”

 

3:30-4:30 Lori Pieper, PhD, OSF (Tau Cross Books and Media)

“Conversion, Dialogue, or Dhimmitude? St. Francis, the Sultan, & Relations with Islam”

 

 

 

The Morgan Library & Museum* 225 Madison Avenue (at 36th Street)

5:15-6:30 Roger Wieck (Curator, Medieval Collection)

“The Sacred Bleeding Host of Dijon”

 

“Illuminating Faith: The Eucharist in Medieval Life and Art” http://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/exhibition.asp?id=73

*Free Admission for Registered Conference Participants. Open late. Refreshments available for purchase.

 

Note from the organizers: We conclude the day with sacred music sung by members of several scholae. Time and place TBD.