The ROR Group (Ricerche di Ontologia Relazionale) organized, on Thursday, May 3 and Friday, May 4, 2018, the seminar Re-thinking Ontology with Luther, in collaboration with the Ecumenical Office of the Finnish Lutheran Church.
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On Friday, April 27, 2018, the School of Church Communications celebrated the Academic feast of the Patron Saint Catherine of Siena.
The program included the Prayer of the Middle Hour and a floral tribute in the Basilica of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, the guided tour of the Chapel of the Transitus of Santa Caterina, and a conference (at 10:45 am, Aula Álvaro del Portillo) by Msgr. Mariano Fazio, Vice Grand Chancellor of the University and first Dean of the School.
Dialogue, Respect and Freedom of Expression in the Public Arena is the theme of the 11th Professional Seminar for Church Communication Offices, promoted by the School of Church Communications on April, 17-19.
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On April 19, 2018, the Interdisciplinary Seminar The conjugal relationship: current crisis and horizons of solution was held by the Center for Family Juridical Studies of the School of Canon Law.
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Monday, March 26, 2018, on the initiative of the Group "Relational Ontology Research" (ROR), was held the Day of Study on "The charisms for the world, live fire in history".
Speechs by prof. Luigino Bruni (Lumsa), prof. Salvatore Martinez (National President of the Renewal of the Spirit) and prof. Giulio Maspero (Santa Croce).
Program
From March 12 to 15, 2018, Prof. Scott Hahn had an intensive course (in English) about the relationship between the Old and New Testaments.
This course explores the OT-NT relationship by studying select biblical texts and theological themes (covenant-promise, grace-law, kingdom-church). We consider some influential interpretive approaches (promise-fulfillment, continuity-discontinuity, economy-typology), before examining key familial features of “covenant” (life, law, liturgy), the development of which we trace through the successive divine covenants in salvation history.
Special attention is given to the liturgical aspects of these covenants (priesthood, sacrifice, temple), and how the original form of the “new testament” - as ratified by Christ (Lk 22; 1
57% of the university students completed the quality questionnaire (“Evaluation of Courses”) concerning the subjects of the first semester of the academic year 2017-18. In total, 165 courses were evaluated: 91 of Theology, 29 of Philosophy, 26 of Communication, 14 of Canon Law and 5 of the Department of Languages. Courses that did not reach a minimum percentage of responses were not taken into consideration. The number of the filled questionnaires reaches almost 2,400.
In communicating the information, Prof. Rafael Martínez, Academic Vice-Rector, thanked the students for this concrete collaboration, which represent “an important help to contribute to the improvement our teaching activity”.
The questionnaire which is compiled “online” in an
