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.

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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.”  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Day  01:    

Monday,  08  June,  2015  

7:30  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”  

J.  A.  Wayne  Hellmann,  OFM  Conv.  (Professor  of  Theology,  Saint  Louis  University)  

9:30  a.m.  –  9:35  a.m.   Break  

9:35  a.m.  –  10:15  a.m.   Sessio  maior  with  Q.  &  A.:  “Fehlner  on  Divine  Maternity”  

Robert  Fastiggi,  Ph.D.  (Professor  of  Theology,  Sacred  Heart  Seminary)  

10:15  a.m.  –  10:30  a.m.   Coffee  Break  

10:30  a.m.  –  11:15  a.m.   Sessio  maior  with  Q.  &  A.:  “Fehlner  on  Newman  and  Scotus  

John  Ford,  Ph.D.  (Professor  of  Theology,  Catholic  University  of  America)  

11:15  a.m.  –  11:20  a.m.   Break  

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”  

 J.  Isaac  Goff,  Ph.D.  (Mount  Angel  Seminary)  

12:00  p.m.  –  1:00  p.m.   Lunch  

1:00  p.m.  –  1:40  p.m.   Sessio  maior  with  Q.  &  A.:  “Peter  Damian  Fehlner  and  the  Magisterium”  

Msgr.  Arthur  B.  Calkins,  S.T.D.  

1:40  p.m.  –  1:45  p.m.   Break  

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,  

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Department  of  Theological  Studies)  

2:30  p.m.  –  2:45  p.m.   Break  

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”  

Alex  Plato,  Ph.D.  (Franciscan  University  of  Steubenville)  

3:25  p.m.  –  3:30  p.m.   Break  

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”  

 John  Mark  Miravalle,  S.T.D.  (Assistant  Professor  of  Systematic  Theology,  Mount  St.  Mary’s  Seminary)  

4:10  p.m.  –  4:15  p.m.   Break  

4:15  p.m.  –  4:55  p.m   Sessio  maior  with  Q.  &  A.:  “Fehlner  on  Marian  Coredemption  and  Mediation”  

Gloria  Dodd,  S.T.D.  (Lecturer  &  Researcher  of  the  Marian  Library/International  Marian  Research  Institute)  

4:55  p.m.  –  5:10   Break  

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.  

R.  Trent  Pomplun,  Ph.D.  (Associate  Professor,  Loyola  University  Maryland,  Department  of  Theology)  

8:10  p.m.  –  8:15  p.m.   Break  

8:15  p.m.  –  9:00  p.m.   Sessio  maior  with  Q.  &  A.“Special  Creation,  Theistic  Evolution,  and  Marian  Mediation”    

Jonathan  Fleischmann,  Ph.D.  (Assistant  Scientist,  University  of  Wisconsin-­‐Madison)  

9:00  p.m.  –  10:00  p.m.   Social  with  P.D.  Fehlner  

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Day  02:  Tuesday,                  10  June,  2015  

7:30  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”  

Matthew  Briel,  Ph.D.  Cand.  (Fordham  University)  

9:30  a.m.  –  9:45  a.m.   Coffee  Break  

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”  

T.  Alexander  Gilltner,  Ph.D.,  Cand.  (Saint  Louis  University)  

10:45  a.m.  –11:00  a.m.   Coffee  Break  

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”  

Maximilian  M.  Smith,  FI  (Editor  of  Missio  Immaculatae  International)  

11:50  a.m.  –  12:00  p.m.   Coffee  Break  

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)