with the
on the New Evangelization, Baltimore, MD, and
received Catholic Leadership Award; November
16, St. Martin of Tours Parish, Vicksburg, MI,
three talks on NE and Holiness; November
19-21, Evangelical Theological Society Annual
Meeting, delivered “The Reception of Vatican II
and Evangelization”; November 24, Permanent
Deacons of the Diocese of Lansing, Ann Arbor,
MI, “The Ministry of the Word in the NE”;
December 1-2, Annual Board Meeting, Renewal
Ministries, Toronto, Canada; December 9,
Evening of Renewal, St. Catherine of Siena
Parish, Fort Thomas, KY; December 10, Clergy
Study Day, Diocese of Covington, KY, talks on
NE, Holiness, New Pentecost; December 14-19,
Annual Retreat, Kenrick-Glennon Seminary, St.
Louis, MO; January 19-22, Augustine Institute,
intensive course on the New Evangelization,
Denver, CO; January 24, course begins on
the NE for the Sisters of Mary, Mother of
the Eucharist postulants and novices, Ann
Arbor, MI; January 24-25, Annual Retreat
for the Permanent Deacons of the Diocese
of Charleston, SC; January 31, Clergy Study
Evening, New York City area priests, Brooklyn,
NY; October-January, 24 radio interviews on NE
with focus on new book noted above.
Dr. Michael McCallion, Chair of Catholic
Social Analysis, published two blogs at the
University of Notre Dame site, blogs.nd.edu/
thecc, “7 Insights for the NE from a Social Ritual
Practices Perspective, November 24, and “How
Does This Sociologist Think About the New
Evangelization, November 20. He co-published
“Personal Relationship with Jesus: A Popular
Ideograph among Evangelical Catholics,” Journal
of Communication and Religion, Spring. His article
“The New Evangelization as an Intra-Ecclesial
Social Movement with Tensions between Vatican
II and New Evangelization Professionals” will be
published in Church Life: A Journal for the New
Evangelization, and his article is under review
at the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography,
“Implementing the New Evangelization in Two
Detroit Suburban Parishes: Emotionally Charged
and Rationally Oriented Approaches.” He gave a
presentation on Pope Francis’ Evangelii Gaudium,
Archdiocese of Detroit Central Services staff, and
is involved in research examining the relationship
between the NE and youth and young adult
coordinators in the AOD.
Dr. Ilaria Ramelli, Chair in Dogmatic Theology,
presented: “Divine Power in Origen of
Alexandria, His Sources, and His Aftermath,”
Divine Powers in Late Antiquity conference,
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Royal Academy of
Belgium, October 11-12;
“Constantine and the Legal
Recognition of Christianity:
What Changed?,”
International Patristic
Conference Between Religio
Licita and Religio Regalis,
Ramelli
Lublin University, October
21-23 (read in absentia);
“Origen’s Allegoresis of Plato’s and Scripture’s
Myths” and “Philo’s Doctrine of Apokatastasis:
Philosophical Sources, Exegetical Strategies,
and Aftermath,” SBL Annual Meeting,
Baltimore, MD, November 22-25; “Mystic
Apophaticism in Middle and Neoplatonism
across Judaism,” “Paganism” and “Christianity,
Constructions of Mysticism: Inventions and
Interactions Across the Borders,” Münster
University, December 5-8; “The Oikeiōsis
Doctrine in Christian Neoplatonism between
Ethics and Theology,” American Philological
Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL,
January 2-5 (read in absentia). She published:
L’arrivée de l’évangile en Inde et la tradition
sur saint Thomas, in L'apôtre Thomas et le
christianisme en Asie: Recherches historiques et
actualité, avec la participation d’Ilaria Ramelli,
Pierre Perrier, et Jean Charbonnier, ed. EdouardMarie Gallez, Paris: AED, 2013; "Decadence
Denounced in the Controversy over Origen:
Giving Up Direct Reading of Sources and
Counteractions," in Décadence, eds. Therese
Fuhrer – Marco Formisano, Heidelberg: Winter
Verlag, 2014; “The Emmaus Disciples and
the Kerygma of the Resurrection (Lk 24:34):
A Greek Variant and the Old Syriac, Coptic,
and Latin Traditions,” Zeitschrift für die
neutestamentliche Wissenschaft 105 (2014);
“The Pseudepigraphic Correspondence
between Seneca and Paul: A Reassessment,”
in Paul and Pseudepigraphy, eds. Stanley Porter
and Gregory Fewster, PAST series, Leiden, Brill,
2013; “The Stoic Doctrine of Oikeiosis and its
Transformation in Christian Platonism,” Apeiron
47 (2014); “The Possible Origin of the AbgarAddai Legend: Abgar the Black and Emperor
Tiberius,” Hugoye 16.2 (2013); review of HeinzGünther Nesselrath, Florian Wilk (edd.), Gut
und Böse in Mensch und Welt: philosophische
und religiöse Konzeptionen vom Alten Orient bis
zum frühen Islam, Orientalische Religionen in
der Antike, 10, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2013:
Bryn Mawr Classical Review, January 2014. She
received formal bestowal of two Habilitations
to Full Professor: in History of Philosophy,
January 2014, and in Ancient Greek Language
and Literature, December 2013, and received a
formal invitation to a senior research fellowship
in religion at Erfurt University.
Dr. Janet Smith, Chair of
Life Ethics, presented “The
Sexual Mess We Are In
and How We Got Here,”
Resurrection Parish, Canton,
MI, January 11, and Cardinal
Glennon Lectureship 2014
on John Paul II’s Thomistic
Smith
Personalism, KennrickGlennon Seminary, St.
Louis, MO, February 2. She p Չ