ANNUAL LONERGAN COLLOQUIUM, 2025

Integral Ecology Colloquium on the 10th Anniversary of Laudato Si'

March 7-8, 2025
Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

“Integral Ecology Colloquium on the 10th Anniversary of Laudato Si’” Hosted by the International Institute for Method in Theology March 7-8, 2025, Marquette University

FEATURED SPEAKERS Patrick H. Byrne, Boston College Monica Marcelli-Chu, Jesuit School of Theology Richard W. Miller, Creighton University Taylor Nutter, Mount St. Mary’s University Jim Robinson, Iona University

DESCRIPTION 2025 marks the ten-year anniversary of Pope Francis’s groundbreaking encyclical, Laudato si’. The first encyclical devoted entirely to ecological and environmental concerns, it offers a powerful, unitive, and (in many regards) novel vision for Catholic social teaching, environmental ethics, and systematic theology in the 21st Century. Nevertheless, many elements of that vision remain compact and inchoate in the document itself, and its reception both within and beyond the Catholic Church has often tended to be incomplete and ambivalent. This colloquium invites renewed reflection on Laudato si’, its reception, and the work still needed to meet the present moment. Sponsored by the Integral Ecology working group of the International Institute for Method in Theology, this conversation will be grounded in Bernard Lonergan’s dream of a collaborative and interdisciplinary research method to unite theology, philosophy, the natural and human sciences, and all other fields of human inquiry. As such, we are especially interested in projects that consider how Lonergan’s thought might either (1) contribute broadly to the vision of Laudato si’ or (2) be extended or challenged by the new insights emerging in this and parallel conversations.

For any additional questions or information, please contact Ben Hohman at benjamin.hohman@salve.edu

Sponsored by the International Institute for Method in Theology.