FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FEBRUARY 2, 2016
CONTACT: Cristina Diaz
Media and Community Relations Manager
215.753.3684
Following the year’s chosen theme of “human flourishing,” Chestnut Hill College’s Institute for Religion and Science will host Mark I. Wallace, Ph.D., who will deliver the presentation, “Where the Great Heron Feeds: Christianity, Animism, and Re-Enchantment of the World,” on February 16, at 7 p.m., at the College’s SugarLoaf Campus.
Using biblical and historical sources, Wallace will illustrate how Christianity sees all of nature as filled with God’s presence and suggest how the vision of a shared verdant Earth saturated with Divine Presence can morally and spiritually empower responses to the crises of global warming and unsustainable living that are truly transformative.
Mark I. Wallace, Ph.D., graduate of the University of Chicago, is professor of religion and a member of the Interpretation Theory Committee and the Environmental Studies Committee at Swarthmore College. His teaching and research interests focus on the intersections between Christian theology, critical theory and environmental studies. He’s the author of many publications including: Green Christianity: Five Ways to a Sustainable Future, Finding God in the Singing River: Christianity, Spirit, Nature, and Fragments of the Spirit: Nature, Violence, and the renewal of Creation.
His research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Wallace is a member of the Constructive Theology Workgroup and co-founder of the Chester Swarthmore Learning Institute, a gathering of urban and religious leaders committed to empowering local communities.
This lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Kathleen Duffy, SSJ, Ph.D., at 215.248.7197 or kduffy@chc.edu.
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About Chestnut Hill College
Celebrating more than 90 years of tradition and risk, Chestnut Hill College is a four-year coed Catholic college in the Ignatian tradition that offers a traditional liberal arts undergraduate program as well as accelerated undergraduate degrees, master’s and doctoral programs. The College has been rated by US News & World Report as among the best master’s universities in the North, as among the best Northeastern colleges by The Princeton Review, and has been classified as selective by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Since 1924, the College has offered a rigorous curriculum that provides students with a broad background in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. The goal of Chestnut Hill College has been to prepare students for life’s challenges by helping them to grow intellectually, spiritually, emotionally, and socially.
