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DU Presents Lecture on Teilhard’s Vision of Science and Religion

Dominican University’s Siena Center will present Kathleen Duffy, SSJ, as the speaker for its annual Albertus Magnus Lecture on Thursday, November 15 at 7:30 p.m. in the Bluhm Lecture Hall in Parmer Hall, 7900 W. Division St., River Forest. A professor of physics at Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia, Duffy will address the topic “Science, Religion and Teilhard’s Textured Cosmos.”

Fr. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955) was a Jesuit priest and scientist who sought to integrate his scientific understanding of the world with his religious beliefs. A practicing geologist and paleontologist in Europe, Asia and Africa, he wrote a series of essays and a posthumously published book, The Phenomenon of Man. Teilhard developed a unified view of the cosmos by integrating evolutionary theory with Christian spirituality and theology. Duffy will explore Teilhard’s image of “the cosmic tapestry” from a religious and scientific viewpoint.

A member of the Sisters of Saint Joseph, Duffy received her doctoral degree in physics from Drexel University. The author of book chapters and essays on the religious writings of Teilhard, she also has published research on chaos theory, and atomic and molecular physics. She is president of the board of directors of the Metanexus Institute for Religion and Science.

Admission to this lecture is $10. Members of Dominican University’s Albertus Magnus Society for the Intersection of Religion and Science will be admitted free. For more information, please call Dominican University’s Siena Center at (708) 714-9105 or visit the website at www.siena.dom.edu.

Dominican University established the Siena Center to engage the critical issues of church and society in light of faith and scholarship. The center was named for St. Catherine of Siena, a 14th-century laywoman who worked for the reform of the church and justice in the world. Her passionate devotion to the central issues of church and society inspires the work of the center in its schedule of lectures, symposia, workshops, retreats, research and seminars.