Pilgrims of Hope – Dr. Shawn Colberg

Pilgrims Crossing the Threshold of Hope

Recognizing the Jubilee Year of 2025, Pope Francis has invited believers to become “Pilgrims of Hope” who demonstrate to the world a joy and a confidence in the good news of the gospel that sustains us in times of challenge and catalyzes us into action.  Our world often invites us to despair for the future and flee from communion among people of different outlooks.  As John Paul II reminds us, hope compels us to “cross thresholds” and imagine relationships transformed by confident hope.  In our time together, we will focus on the meaning of a jubilee year, the theological nature of hope, and the call to deeper and communal reconciliation for ourselves and our world.

Sunday, April 27 at 11:15am, Teresa of Calcutta Hall/Lower Level

Shawn Colberg Ph.D. was appointed Dean of the Saint John’s School of Theology and Seminary in Collegeville, Minn., beginning July 1, 2022. He succeeds Fr. Dale Launderville, OSB, who served as Dean since 2015. Colberg currently is concurrently an Associate Professor of Theology at Saint John’s University and the College of Saint Benedict. Prior to his appointment, Colberg served as Academic Dean of the School of Theology and Seminary (2019-22), and earlier, as Assistant Professor for Teaching and the Associate Chair for Graduate Studies in the Department of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. Colberg received his BA from St. Olaf College, an MDiv from Yale Divinity School and PhD from the University of Notre Dame with focus in medieval and Reformation theology. Published widely in academic journals including Archa Verbi, Modern Theology, New Blackfriars, and Nova et Vetera, Colberg is author of The Wayfarer’s End: Bonaventure and Aquinas on Divine Rewards in Scripture and Sacred Doctrine (Catholic University of America Press, 2020). He and his wife, Kristin Colberg, an associate professor of theology at Saint John’s and Saint Ben’s, are the parents of two daughters, Mary Clare and Catherine.

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