Notre Dame University, June 8-9, 2015

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1 Sursum Actio: Symposium in Honor of Peter Damian Mary Fehlner, FI, 2015 Recipient of the Cardinal John J. Wright Mariological Award For Outstanding Contributions to Mariology Notre Dame University, June 8-9, 2015 The absolute primacy of Christ reduced to its radical practical implications is no longer familiar to most taken for granted by the great Franciscan scholars of the past. Hence the difficulty at present of appreciating the Marian character of all genuine philosophy or love of wisdom, the subconscious inclination to think it odd to call Mary the philosophy of Christians, and the refusal by so many to accept that Christian metaphysics is not primarily about efficient and final causality, but literally is Christ, viz., to use the Bonaventurian term, is a metaphysics of exemplarism and divine illumination. Precisely because the Virgin Mary pertains to the order of the hypostatic union and so is uniquely associated with the theandric actions of Her Son and Savior, She is uniquely the teacher of the Apostles and believers.

2 Schedule of Events The Divine Light mediated by Christ and His Mother is the sursum actio by which we are recapitulated in Christ through Mary and so are returned by Christ to the Father. This raises men and women to the level of heavenly understanding or theology being that of infused contemplation. 2

3 Day 01: Monday, 08 June, :30 a.m. 8:30 a.m. Breakfast 8:30 a.m. 8:45 a.m. Opening Address: Louis Maximilian M. Smith, FI (Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate General Delegate of the USA and editor of Missio Immaculatae International) 8:45 a.m. 9:30 a.m. Keynote Address with Q. & A.: Charity in Bonaventure s Ecclesiology, Charity in the Eucharist 9:30 a.m. 9:35 a.m. Break J. A. Wayne Hellmann, OFM Conv. (Professor of Theology, Saint Louis University) 9:35 a.m. 10:15 a.m. Sessio maior with Q. & A.: Fehlner on Divine Maternity 10:15 a.m. 10:30 a.m. Coffee Break Robert Fastiggi, Ph.D. (Professor of Theology, Sacred Heart Seminary) 10:30 a.m. 11:15 a.m. Sessio maior with Q. & A.: Fehlner on Newman and Scotus 11:15 a.m. 11:20 a.m. Break John Ford, Ph.D. (Professor of Theology, Catholic University of America) 11:20 a.m. 12:00 p.m. Sessio minor with communiqué on Fehlner s opera omnia: Themes and Soundings in the Marian Metaphysics of Peter Damian Fehlner 12:00 p.m. 1:00 p.m. Lunch J. Isaac Goff, Ph.D. (Mount Angel Seminary) 1:00 p.m. 1:40 p.m. Sessio maior with Q. & A.: Peter Damian Fehlner and the Magisterium 1:40 p.m. 1:45 p.m. Break Msgr. Arthur B. Calkins, S.T.D. 1:45 p.m. 2:30 p.m Keynote Address: Love and Knowledge: On Intellect and Intentionality with Q. & A. David Bentley Hart, Ph.D. (Danforth Chair at St. Louis University, 3

4 2:30 p.m. 2:45 p.m. Break Department of Theological Studies) 2:45 p.m. 3:25 p.m Sessio minor with Q. & A.: Men with Chests, the Heart of the Natural Order: Contraception, Intrinsic Evil and the Natural Law, according to Father Peter Fehlner 3:25 p.m. 3:30 p.m. Break Alex Plato, Ph.D. (Franciscan University of Steubenville) 3:30 p.m. 4:10 p.m Sessio maior with Q. & A.: Mary and Divinization: Peter Damian Fehlner on Mary and the Holy Spirit 4:10 p.m. 4:15 p.m. Break John Mark Miravalle, S.T.D. (Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology, Mount St. Mary s Seminary) 4:15 p.m. 4:55 p.m Sessio maior with Q. & A.: Fehlner on Marian Coredemption and Mediation 4:55 p.m. 5:10 Break Gloria Dodd, S.T.D. (Lecturer & Researcher of the Marian Library/International Marian Research Institute) 5:10 p.m. 6:00 p.m. Holy Mass & Homilist: Fr. Peter Damian Mary Fehlner, FI (Professor emeritus of Theology, Seraphicum) 6:00 p.m. 6:10 p.m. Break 6:10 p.m. 7:15 p.m. Dinner 7: 15 p.m. 7:30 p.m. Break 7:30 p.m. 8:10 p.m. Sessio maior with Q. & A. 8:10 p.m. 8:15 p.m. Break R. Trent Pomplun, Ph.D. (Associate Professor, Loyola University Maryland, Department of Theology) 8:15 p.m. 9:00 p.m. Sessio maior with Q. & A. Special Creation, Theistic Evolution, and Marian Mediation 9:00 p.m. 10:00 p.m. Social with P.D. Fehlner Jonathan Fleischmann, Ph.D. (Assistant Scientist, University of Wisconsin- Madison) 4

5 Day 02: Tuesday, 10 June, :30 a.m. 8:30 a.m. Breakfast 8:30 a.m. 9:00 a.m. Sessio minor and Q. & A.: Nazianzen s Prepurified Virgin in Augustine, through Maximus and Theodore of Canterbury, into Visogothic and Anglo- Saxon Tradition Christiaan Kappes, S.L.D. (Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Ss. Cyril and Methodius) 9:00 a.m. 9:30 a.m. Sessio minor and Q. & A.: Fehlner on Divine Providence 9:30 a.m. 9:45 a.m. Coffee Break Matthew Briel, Ph.D. Cand. (Fordham University) 9:45 a.m. 10:15 a.m. Sessio minor and Q. & A.: Scotus s Proof of the First Being Jaremy Daggett, M.A. (Great Hearts Academy) 10:15 a.m. 10:45 a.m. Sessio minor and Q. & A.: Echoes of Eriugena in the Cosmic Exemplarism of Bonaventure: Sounding in Peter Damian Fehlner 10:45 a.m. 11:00 a.m. Coffee Break T. Alexander Gilltner, Ph.D., Cand. (Saint Louis University) 11:00 a.m. 11:30 a.m. Sessio minor with Q. & A.: In the Counsels of the Immaculate: Fr. Peter Damian Fehlner s Contribution to the Renewal of Franciscan Immaculatism Angelo Geiger, FI (Pontifical University of St. Thomas) 11:30 a.m. 11:50 p.m. Sessio minor: Theology, Metaphysics, and the Marian Principle 11:50 a.m. 12:00 p.m. Coffee Break Maximilian M. Smith, FI (Editor of Missio Immaculatae International) 12:00 p.m. 12:30 p.m. Sessio minor with closing remarks: Opera Christi non deficiunt, sed proficiunt: The Newness of the Newman- Scotus Reader Edward Ondrako, OFM Conv. (University of Notre Dame) Graphic Design by Joanna Lekakos