GENESEO, N.Y. – William T. Cavanaugh, director of the Center for World Catholicism and Intercultural Theology and professor Catholic Studies at DePaul University in Chicago, will deliver SUNY Geneseo’s 2015 MacVittie Lecture Nov. 10 at 7 p.m. in the Doty Hall Recital Hall. His address, “Does Religion Cause Violence?,” is free and open to the public.
Cavanaugh specializes in political theology, economic ethics, and ecclesiology and has authored several books on these topics, including Being Consumed: Economics and Christian Desire (Eerdmans, 2008), Migrations of the Holy: Theologies of State and Church (Eerdmans, 2011), and The Myth of Religious Violence: Secular Ideology and the Roots of Modern Conflict (Oxford University Press, 2009).
The MacVittie Lecture Series – named in memory of SUNY Geneseo President Emeritus Robert W. MacVittie and his wife, the late Margaret (Peggy) MacVittie – brings prominent theologians to campus to examine issues as they relate to questions of ultimate existence.
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