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Creating digital "persons" is going to challenge "what Catholics believe technology can do and can't do," said Brett Robinson of the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of
The penitent crafted the perfect sin to confess to a virtual priest: “Bless me father, for I have sinned. ... I have had anger in my heart about the deployment
The most radical Jewish thinker of our time has died He was outrageous — a theological rebel, stunning in his thinking, difficult — and prophetic. Richard Rubenstein speaks at the University of Bridgeport in November 2017. Photo via University of Bridgeport May 19, 2021 Time magazine hit the newsstands with the following headline: “Is God Dead?” “Reaction from the world’s great and from the man in the street was uniformly incredulous. From Independence, Mo.,” said a contemporary news report, “former President Harry S Truman, who received the news in his Kansas C...
The 1966 publication of the first edition of “After Auschwitz” assured Richard L. Rubenstein’s place in Jewish theology. Written 21 years after the liberation of the camps and 18 years after Israel’s creation, the issues raised in “After Auschwitz” were so remarkably simple, his points so basic, that they could not be ignored. Rubenstein, who died in Bridgeport, Connecticut on May 16 at age 97, argued that Jewish theology would have to respond to the twin revolutions of modern Jewish history: The Holocaust and the rise of the state of Israel. These two events had transformed t...
Posted February 1, 2021 The next Cardinal Foley lecture will be presented virtually on Monday, Feb. 1 at 7 p.m. from St. Charles Borromeo Seminary. Guest Brett Robinson will give a presentation titled “Church Communications Ecology: The Impacts of an Ever-Changing Environment.” Robinson is the director of Communications and Catholic Media Studies at Notre Dame University’s McGrath Institute for Church Life where he researches the intersection of religion, technology, and culture. He is the author of “Appletopia: Media Technology and the Religious Imagination of Steve Jobs.” He is a...