St. John Henry Newman, Tradition, and Law

Speakers

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  Marc DeGirolami St. John Henry Newman Professor of Law
  

  Marc DeGirolami

  St. John Henry Newman Professor of Law
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  Jennifer Frey Dean of the Honors College and Professor of Philosophy, University of Tulsa
  

  Jennifer Frey

  Dean of the Honors College and Professor of Philosophy, University of Tulsa

  Jennifer Frey, PhD, is currently serving as Dean of the Honors College at the University of Tulsa, with a secondary appointment as professor of philosophy in the Department of Philosophy and Religion. Previously, she was an associate professor of philosophy at the University of South Carolina, where she was also a Peter and Bonnie McCausland faculty fellow in the College of Arts and Sciences. Her academic research is primarily in moral psychology and virtue, and her two latest book projects are on practical wisdom and practical truth. She hosts a philosophy, theology, and literature podcast called Sacred and Profane Love.

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  Fr. Juan Velez Priest of the Prelature of Opus Dei
  

  Fr. Juan Velez

  Priest of the Prelature of Opus Dei

  Fr. Juan R. Vélez is a priest of the Prelature of Opus Dei. He was a board-certified internist. He obtained a doctorate in dogmatic theology from the University of Navarra. He is author of nine journal articles on St. John Henry Newman and various books, including Holiness in a Secular Age, the Witness of Cardinal Newman (Scepter Publishers, 2017). He is also editor of A Guide to John Henry Newman, His Life and Thought (CUAP, 2022).

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  Matthew Levering James N. Jr. and Mary D. Perry Chair of Theology, Mundelein Seminary
  

  Matthew Levering

  James N. Jr. and Mary D. Perry Chair of Theology, Mundelein Seminary

  Matthew Levering holds the James N. Jr. and Mary D. Perry Chair of Theology at Mundelein Seminary. The author of over thirty books, he serves as co-editor of two quarterly journals, Nova et Vetera and International Journal of Systematic Theology. He is the Senior Editor of Word on Fire’s new academic quarterly, The New Ressourcement. His books include Newman on Doctrinal Corruption, Biblical Natural Law, and (co-authored with David Novak and Anver Emon) Natural Law: A Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Trialogue.

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  Austin Walker Associate Director and a Scholar-in-Residence, Lumen Christi Institute
  

  Austin Walker

  Associate Director and a Scholar-in-Residence, Lumen Christi Institute

  Austin Walker is Associate Director and a Scholar-in-Residence at the Lumen Christi Institute. He directs LCI’s University Program, where he oversees the presentation of the Church’s intellectual tradition on the University of Chicago campus. He also directs LCI’s Cultural Forum, where he supervises the articulation of the Church’s mind on questions of the day for a lay Catholic audience. He leads LCI’s Executive Great Books seminar series and serves as an instructor at the University of Chicago’s Graham School Basic Program of Liberal Education. In 2022, he received a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago’s prestigious Committee on Social Thought, where he wrote on John Henry Newman’s political philosophy. He holds M.A.’s from the University of Chicago and the University of Mississippi. He received a B.A. with highest honors in Classical Languages from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. From 2007 to 2011, he taught in the Mississippi Delta for the Mississippi Teacher Corps, where he received the Andrew P. Mullins Jr. Award in 2009. He and his wife have three young children.

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  Jennifer Newsome Martin John J. Cavanaugh Associate Professor of the Program of Liberal Studies, Associate Professor in the Department of Theology, Director of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture, University of Notre Dame
  

  Jennifer Newsome Martin

  John J. Cavanaugh Associate Professor of the Program of Liberal Studies, Associate Professor in the Department of Theology, Director of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture, University of Notre Dame

  Jennifer Newsome Martin is the John J. Cavanaugh Associate Professor of the Program of Liberal Studies, Associate Professor in the Department of Theology, and the Director of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame. She is a systematic theologian with areas of interest in 19th and 20th century Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox thought, trinitarian theology, theological aesthetics, religion and literature, ressourcement theology, and the nature of religious tradition. Her first book, Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Critical Appropriation of Russian Religious Thought (University of Notre Dame Press), was one of ten winners internationally of the 2017 Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise. Over twenty articles and book chapters have appeared in such venues as Modern Theology, Communio: International Catholic Review, The Newman Studies Journal, International Journal of Systematic Theology, and in a number of edited volumes and collections of essays. She serves on the editorial boards of Religion & Literature, Theological Studies, and the University of Notre Dame Press.

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  Michael Moreland University Professor of Law and Religion and Director of the Eleanor H. McCullen Center for Law, Religion and Public Policy, Villanova University
  

  Michael Moreland

  University Professor of Law and Religion and Director of the Eleanor H. McCullen Center for Law, Religion and Public Policy, Villanova University
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  Jeffrey Pojanowski Biolchini Family Professor of Law
  

  Jeffrey Pojanowski

  Biolchini Family Professor of Law
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  Matthew Walther Editor of The Lamp, and Contributor to the New York Times
  

  Matthew Walther

  Editor of The Lamp, and Contributor to the New York Times