April 13, 2024

Elms College reschedules annual Rev. Hugh Crean Lecture for May 1

REGIONAL
Staff report

CHICOPEE – Due to inclement weather on the originally scheduled date, College of Our Lady of the Elms and the St. Augustine Center for Ethics, Religion, and Culture has rescheduled the fifth annual Rev. Hugh Crean Distinguished Lecture in Catholic Thought for Wednesday, May 1 at 4:30 p.m. The lecture will take place in-person in the college’s Alumnae Library Theater.

The Distinguished Speaker for this lecture is Dominic Doyle, associate professor of systematic theology at the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry (STM). The theme for Doyle’s remarks will be “Christian Humanism and the Theology of Hope.”

Most recently, Doyle led the STM’s “Neuroscience Education for Theological Training” grant from the Science for Seminaries program sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science/Dialogue on Science, Religion and Ethics. 

Doyle is currently working on a book exploring the history of the theological virtues, tentatively titled, “Thematic Variations in Theological Virtue.”

The St. Augustine Center for Ethics, Religion, and Culture at Elms (CERC) was launched in October 2020 with support from an anonymous naming gift and several significant contributions. The center aims to increase engagement and discourse on the most pressing and complex questions related to ethics, religion, and culture in today’s society, and to lead the regional community in thoughtful, engaging dialogue.

The founding executive director of the CERC is noted bioethicist Peter A. DePergola II, Shaughness Family Chair for the Study of the Humanities and associate professor of Bioethics and Medical Humanities at Elms.  

The annual Rev. Hugh Crean Distinguished Lecture was established through an endowment made by B. John (Jack) and Colette Dill to honor the legacy of Father Hugh Crean, recognizing his academic work at Elms College and his pastoral ministry throughout the Diocese of Springfield and the entire region. 

To register for the in-person lecture, visit: https://www.elms.edu/events/st-augustine-rev-hugh-crean-distinguished-lecture/