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Annual Aquinas Lecture 2023 | Dr. Matthew Levering

In this lecture, "Christ's Cross at the Center of the Mystical Body: Scripture, St. Thomas Aquinas, and Recent Theology", Prof. Levering argues that the theology of the Church should flow from the theology of the Cross, since to be a Christian is to share in the saving power of Christ’s Cross and to be configured to it. When Christians fail to apprehend the centrality of the Cross, their understanding of the nature of the communion of the Church is weakened. After examining the Mystical Body as treated in representative Catholic ecclesiologies from the 1960s, he will attend briefly to Pope Pius XII’s encyclical Mystici Corporis, which draws a strong connection between the Cross and the Mystical Body. Finally, he will show that this connection is an important dimension of St. Thomas Aquinas’s exemplary understanding of the Mystical Body. Dr. Matthew Levering holds the James N. Jr. and Mary D. Perry Chair of Theology at Mundelein Seminary, the seminary of the Roman Catholic archdiocese of Chicago.