Old God, New God with Ilia Delio

Dr. Ilia Delio, a renowned scholar of religion and science, will present a two-session online webinar called “Old God, New God” from 7 to 9 p.m. on two Mondays, Feb. 10 and 17, 2025.

At the first session, Dr. Delio will discuss how new discoveries in science, such as quantum physics, open up new theological understandings. Ilia will invite participants to see the cosmos as a sacred whole, where the universe is in God and God is in the universe (while God is also more than the universe). At the second session, Dr. Delio will discuss how these new developments in theology support our engagement with a personalized and relational universe.

Anyone for whom ancient doctrines of God and mechanistic views of the universe are limiting will find “Old God, New God” intriguing. This program will foster valuable understanding for those who want to nurture their connection with the divine whether within or outside a religious context. Wherever you are on life’s journey, you are welcome to this event.

This event is supported by the Robertson Spirituality Series at Hartford International University and the Spiritual Life Center. 

Registration is $30 for both sessions; free for HIU students.

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About the Speaker

Ilia Delio, is a Franciscan Sister of Washington, D.C., and an American theologian specializing in the area of science and religion, with interests in evolution, physics, and neuroscience and the import of these for theology.

Ilia currently holds the Josephine C. Connelly Endowed Chair in Theology at Villanova University and is the author of over twenty books, including Care for Creation (coauthored with Keith Warner and Pamela Woods), which won two Catholic Press Book Awards in 2009: first place for social concerns and second place in spirituality. Her book The Emergent Christ won a third-place Catholic Press Book Award in 2011 for the area of Science and Religion. Other award-winning books include The Unbearable Wholeness of Being: God, Evolution, and the Power of Love (Orbis, 2013), which received the 2014 Silver Nautilus Book Award and a third-place Catholic Press Association Award for Faith and Science. Her most recent book is The-Not-Yet God: Carl Jung, Teilhard de Chardin, and the Relational Whole. Ilia holds two honorary doctorates, one from St. Francis University in 2015, and one from Sacred Heart University in 2020.

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