By Florida Catholic staff - Florida Catholic
MIAMI SHORES | Barry University has named Boston College Professor Richard R. Gaillardetz as the recipient of its 2018 Yves Congar Award. Gaillardetz will receive the award and present a lecture titled “Beyond Dogmatism: The Case for Normative Tradition in an Age of Scandal” on Thursday, Jan. 11, at 7 p.m. in Andreas Hall, Room 112, on Barry’s Miami Shores campus.
Gaillardetz is the Joseph Professor in Catholic Systematic Theology at Boston College and is currently the chair of the theology department. A past president of the Catholic Theological Society of America, Gaillardetz has authored or edited 13 books and numerous articles in fundamental theology, ecclesiology and spirituality.
The Yves Congard Award, presented by Barry University’s Department of Theology and Philosophy, is named after one of the great theologians of tradition in the history of Catholicism. But the value of belonging to a coherent religious tradition is not as apparent today as it was 50 years ago. As numerous studies have confirmed, young adults (and many others) are fleeing the Catholic Church and other mainstream Christian churches in disturbing numbers. Some have been repelled by church scandal, others by an overbearing dogmatism, still others by a cultural allergy to institutional belonging. Gaillardetz’s lecture will consider whether a case can still be made for belonging to a normative religious tradition.
The lecture is open to the public. For more information, email [email protected].
