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These events are not so much coordinated by theme as they are by their desire to address issues of immediate importance to learners in our community and to respond to challenges facing the world today.</div> </div> <div class="header-button"> <a href="/events/archive?tag=343" class="btn btn-sm btn-primary">View All Events</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col col-12 col-lg-7 offset-lg-1 mt-4 mt-lg-0"> <div class="views-element-container"><div class="view view-custom-content-feeds view-id-custom_content_feeds view-display-id-events_list js-view-dom-id-dcc4442b5c536d4c0ee9a9db5728a8405109a54671f8531d6de2c36236ce6e17"> <div class="view-content row"> <div class="list-row views-row"> <div class="field-content list-date"><div class="feeds-date-location">Thu, Feb 6, 2025 | 5 - 7pm | <i class="fa-regular fa-location-dot"></i> 0016 Westbrook, Duke Divinity</div></div><h3 class="field-content list-title"><a href="/events/cross-epiphany-god-lecture-fr" hreflang="en">The Cross as an Epiphany of God: A Lecture by Fr. Thomas Joseph White, OP</a></h3><div class="field-content list-blurb"><p>Fons Vitae at Duke Divinity School will host a lecture by Fr. 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In all its efforts, <strong>Fons Vitae seeks to engage with wide-ranging contemporary questions and concerns</strong> and to contribute to conversations happening in the Church, the academy, and the wider culture today.</p></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--feed-news paragraph--view-mode--card paragraph--id--2566 paragraph--bgcolor--lightgray paragraph--fgcolor--white paragraph--margin--no-margins paragraph--padding--padding-both"> <div class="background-overlay"> <div class="component-wrapper container"> <div class="header-text-content-wrapper"> <div class="row d-flex flex-wrap"> <div class="col-12 col-md-9 align-self-center"> <h2> <div class="field field--name-field-heading field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Latest News and Features</div> </h2> <div class="header-text"> <div class="field field--name-field-description field--type-string-long field--label-hidden field__item">Read the latest from Fons Vitae and other developments 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together at Duke Divinity School for a week of study and learning in the summer, scholars, graduate students, and young professionals from across the country and the globe meet to bring Catholic thought and spirituality to bear on a key question or theme that has wide-reaching and interdisciplinary implications. <a href="/news/seminar-integrates-faith-and-science-respond-environmental-challenges">The Summer Seminar of 2023 was devoted to the relationship between faith, science, bioethics, and ecology.</a></p></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--image-text-and-button paragraph--view-mode--image-right paragraph--id--1348 paragraph--bgcolor--whispergray paragraph--fgcolor--dukenavy"> <div class="background-overlay"> <div class="component-wrapper container row"> <div class="component--img-txt-btn--container-left order-2 order-md-1 col col-12 col-md-6 align-items-center"> <div class="component--content-wrapper"> <h2 class="component-heading">Word 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Over a meal and with a guiding theme and text, faculty members engage with questions and topics to which the Catholic intellectual tradition can both speak and be engaged with in a challenging and rigorous manner.</p> <p>The primary goal is to provide a forum that pushes back on the increasingly fragmented landscape of academia today, which often prizes specialization over dialogue and skepticism over trust, all of which comes at the expense of the wisdom that can be sourced in all disciplines and brought into conversation with Catholic thinking.</p></div> </div> </div> <div class="component--img-txt-btn--container-right order-1 order-md-2 col col-12 col-md-6 align-items-center"> <div class="field field--name-field-component-image field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"><div> <div class="field field--name-field-media-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img src="/sites/default/files/styles/component_cta_left_right/public/images/media-images/Word%20of%20Life%20Gatherings%20Photo.jpeg?itok=LJo86zf9" width="650" height="433" alt="faculty members talk at a table" loading="lazy" class="image-style-component-cta-left-right" /> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--image-text-and-button paragraph--view-mode--image-left paragraph--id--1350 paragraph--bgcolor--white paragraph--fgcolor--darknavy"> <div class="background-overlay"> <div class="component-wrapper container row"> <div class="component--img-txt-btn--container-left col col-12 col-md-6 align-items-center"> <div class="field field--name-field-component-image field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"><div> <div class="field field--name-field-media-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img src="/sites/default/files/styles/component_cta_left_right/public/images/media-images/07022_westbrook015.jpg?itok=9KKchMWe" width="650" height="434" alt="Stained Glass window in Westbrook building shows bright colors" loading="lazy" class="image-style-component-cta-left-right" /> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="component--img-txt-btn--container-right col col-12 col-md-6 align-items-center"> <div class="component--content-wrapper"> <h2 class="component-heading">Catholic Fellowship</h2> <div class="sub-heading">Weekly Gatherings</div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-copy field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Fons Vitae’s earliest activities consisted of coming together for Midday Prayer, a meal, and encouraging conversation. These weekly gatherings remain a mainstay of Fons Vitae. They create an important space for fellowship among Catholic students and other friends in the university community who are eager to pray, build community, and walk together in a life of Christian discipleship.</p></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--image-text-and-button paragraph--view-mode--bg-image-left paragraph--id--2565 paragraph--margin--no-margins paragraph--padding--padding-both"> <div class="wrapper row gx-0"> <div class="img-background-left col-md-7 paragraph--bgimage--347"> <span role="img" aria-label="Advent candles in front of the Goodson Chapel altar"></span> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-component-background-image field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"><div> <div class="field field--name-field-media-image field--type-image field--label-visually_hidden"> <div class="field__label visually-hidden">Image</div> <div class="field__item"></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="background-overlay"> 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<li> <a href="/admissions/student-life/womens-center" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/9553">The Women’s Center</a> </li> <li> <a href="/admissions/student-life/chaplain-office" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/9575">Office of the Chaplain</a> </li> <li> <a href="/admissions/student-life/office" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/9525">Office of Student Life</a> </li> </ul> </li> <li> <a href="/admissions/staff" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/9507">Admissions Staff & Contact Info</a> </li> <li> <span>Resources for Admitted Students</span> <ul> <li> <a href="/admissions/resources" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/9515">Overview of Resources for Admitted Students</a> </li> <li> <a href="/admissions/resources/orientation" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/9556">New Student Orientation & Checklist</a> </li> <li> <a href="/admissions/resources/deposit" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/9557">Paying Your Deposit</a> </li> <li> <a href="/admissions/resources/registration" 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href="/academics/masters" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/9548">Overview of Master's Degrees</a> </li> <li> <a href="/academics/masters/mdiv" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/9529">Master of Divinity (M.Div.)</a> </li> <li> <a href="/academics/masters/hmdiv" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/9538">Hybrid Master of Divinity (M.Div.)</a> </li> <li> <a href="/academics/masters/macp" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/9540">Master of Arts in Christian Practice (M.A.)</a> </li> <li> <a href="/academics/masters/mts" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/9539">Master of Theological Studies (M.T.S.)</a> </li> <li> <a href="/academics/masters/thm" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/9541">Master of Theology (Th.M.)</a> </li> </ul> </li> <li> <span>Doctoral Degrees</span> <ul> <li> <a href="/academics/doctoral" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/9549">Overview of Doctoral Degrees</a> </li> <li> <a href="/academics/doctoral/thd" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/9542">Doctor of Theology 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