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)
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