Time: Apr 17 5:15 PM
Location: The Villa Library

Lecture in Applied Theology in Honor of Sr. Peggy Murphy

Theology of the Home

Wednesday, April 17, 2024 | Villa Library |  5:15 p.m.

Speaker: Sarah Maple, Ph.D. 

Dr. Sarah Maple is a painter and theologian who holds advanced degrees in Ethics and Comparative Religious Studies from Drew University, and Masters of Theological Studies from the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Marriage & Family Studies at the Catholic University of America. She wrote her Ph.D. in the Institute for Theology, Imagination & the Arts at the University of St Andrews with joint supervision from the University of Oxford, Blackfriars Hall.

Since Fall 2019 she has taught undergraduates as Assistant Professor of Theology & Religious Studies at Mount Saint Mary College in Newburgh, New York. As a Visiting Professor, she teaches on Theology, Beauty & Culture to graduate students at University of Notre Dame, and the same in formation aid at New York’s Major Seminary.


These lectures are in honor of Sr. Peggy Murphy, whose talent and love for others allowed her to take the principles of Catholic Theology and make them understandable and apply them to real life situations.

Co-sponsored by the Division of Humanities and the Catholic and Dominican Institute