Stephen Schloesser, S.J. | THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING: Taking the Roots of our Traditions and Making for the Mountain
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Five years later, in the midst of the global pandemic, . Having lost everything in the defeat of Troy, Aeneas faces a decision whether to remain in despair or move into the future. He picks up his father and heads for the mountain. Francis concluded: 鈥淭his is what we all have to do now, today: to take with us the roots of our traditions, and make for the mountain.鈥�
We live in a period of fleeting change whose lightness is nearly unbearable. In his lecture, the Hank Center鈥檚 2021 Teilhard de Chardin, S.J. Fellow, Stephen Schloesser, S.J., explored the ways that we can re-source the Catholic intellectual heritage so that we might creatively engender its innovative radiance. What elements of our traditions might we draw from as we as we make for the mountain? What materials, attitudes, and dispositions will we need?
Schloesser integrated a sacramental approach and draw on the insights of figures including Paul Claudel, Annie Dillard, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Milan Kundera, and Denise Levertov, as well as Caroline Walker Bynum and Alfred North Whitehead. The cultivation of awe and wonder 鈥斺�攚ere encouraged as a response to the surprising, puzzling, bewildering, astonishing, and mysterious.
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The Fall 2021 Teilhard de Chardin, S.J. lecture鈥�"The Unbearable Lightness of Being鈥濃�攕urveyed themes related to those recently delivered at Fordham University鈥檚 Center on Religion and Culture: .鈥� For an overview, visit . For published versions, see Stephen Schloesser, S.J., 鈥淭hings Get Broken: Leonard Bernstein鈥檚 鈥楳ASS鈥� at Fifty,鈥� in ; and .