The Catholic and Dominican Institute sponsored a lecture titled
“The Messiah” on Thursday, April 7, 2011 at 7 pm in Hudson
Auditorium.
The lecture was given by Patrick Doering, PhD and David Berger,
PhD.
The Messiah Lecture gathers scholars to discuss
the meaning of ‘Messiah’ for Judaism and Christianity. It
is hoped that this dialogue will foster greater understanding
between these faith traditions as well as a deeper
understanding within each tradition.
Lector Patrick Doering, PhD, is an adjunct
professor of theology at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh,
PA, earning his doctorate in 2006 from the same institution. His
dissertation was on the Christology of St. Thomas Aquinas and
Jacques Maritain in light of the philosopher Michael
Polanyi. He currently teaches Christology, Faith and Reason,
Faith and Atheism, and other courses in Philosophical Theology. His
book on the consciousness of Christ, The Self-Awareness of God
in Christ, was published in 2007.
Lector David Berger, PhD., is Ruth and I. Lewis
Gordon Professor of Jewish History and Dean at the Bernard
Revel Graduate School of Yeshiva University. He was also
co-chair of the Academic Advisory Committee of the national
Foundation for Jewish Culture and has served as a member of
the Academic Committee of the Rothschild Foundation Europe and
of the Executive Committee of the American Academy for Jewish
Research, where he is a fellow. He serves on the Council of the
World Union of Jewish Studies and the editorial board of
Tradition. From 1998 to 2000, he was president of the
Association for Jewish Studies. Berger is the author of The
Jewish-Christian Debate in the High Middle Ages, The
Rebbe, the Messiah, and the Scandal of Orthodox Indifference,
and co-author of Judaism’s Encounter with Other Cultures:
Rejection of Integration?