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The Storm Cloud of the 21st Century: Capitalism, the Technocratic Paradigm, and the Sacramental Imagination

The Storm Cloud of the 21st Century: Capitalism, the Technocratic Paradigm, and the Sacramental Imagination
 
鈥淎 certain way of understanding human life and activity has gone awry, to the serious detriment of the world around us.鈥 鈥 Pope Francis (2015)
 
鈥淥ne way to read modern history is as a story of capitalist enchantment and a theology of money.鈥 鈥 Eugene McCarraher (2020)
 
We were pleased to host a discussion about ways to cultivate a more humane, sacramental way of being in the world.
Co-sponsored by Commonweal.
 
October 15, 2020
7:00 - 8:30 PM CDT
 
Keynote Address:
Respondent: Daniel Rhodes
 
October 16, 2020
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM CDT
 
 is professor of humanities and history at Villanova University. He has also taught at the University of Delaware and Princeton. In addition to publishing scholarly articles, he has also written many essays and book reviews for the Baffler, the Chicago Tribune, Commonweal, Dissent, the Nation, In These Times, the Hedgehog Review, and Raritan. He has been a fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies. He is the author of Christian Critics: Religion and the Impasse in Modern American Social Thought (Cornell University Press, 2000) and The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019). His current research is on the human implications of technology, especially of automation, and he is also working on a history of small-c communism.
Daniel P. Rhodes is Clinical Associate Professor and Director of Contextual Education at the Institute of Pastoral Studies, 草莓社区. His work crosses the divides between the academy, the church, and society with an emphasis on community organizing, education, ecclesiology, political theology, and ethics. His latest coedited book (with Charles Marsh and Shea Tuttle) is Can I Get a Witness?: Thirteen Peacemakers, Community-Builders, and Agitators for Faith and Justice (Eerdmans, 2019).