Winter Living Theology 2025
Hope and Healing:
Suffering, Remembering and Reconciliation of Our Broken Humanity
8 - 10 July 2025, daily from 9:30 to 15:30 (Tue, Wed, Th)
OR evening lecture on 9 July from 19:00-20:30
This year’s Winter Living Theology lecture series will take place in Gqeberha from 8-10 July 2025. It will consist of a three-day lecture series, as well as a separate short evening lecture, delivered by Fr Carlos Mendoza-Álvarez OP.
Fr Mendoza-Álvarez will present the three-day series in Durban, Johannesburg, Cape Town and Gqeberha. He will also visit Manzini, Eswatini.
Fr Carlos Mendoza-Álvarez OP is a Dominican friar from Mexico. He has devoted his preaching ministry to theology for over thirty years as a professor in Mexico, Switzerland, and Brazil. He has also spent the last five years teaching at Boston College in the United States.
He has published twenty-five collective works, over fifty journal articles, and eight books, the latest of which is The Resurrection as a Messianic Anticipation: Grieving, Memory, and Hope from the Survivors’ Perspective. (2024)
Fr Mendoza-Álvarez is also a member of the board of directors of Concilium: International Journal of Theology. He holds graduate degrees from Studium OP, Mexico (Bach, Phil & Theol) and the University of Fribourg, Switzerland (MA, PhD and Habilitation). His research interests include: Fundamental Theology, Phenomenology and Postmodern Philosophy, Mimetic Theory and Decolonial Thinking. Fr Mendoza-Álvarez’s expertise lies in Faith and Reason, and Revelation and Tradition.
Another significant aspect of Fr. Mendoza-Álvarez’s preaching ministry has been the support of communities seeking hope amid challenging circumstances. The Indigenous peoples of southern Mexico, women, queer communities, and the relatives of the disappeared have served as his teachers in life and thought.
Hope and Healing
Suffering, Remembering and Reconciling Our Broken Humanity
3-Day series with three lectures per day, 9h30- 15h30.
or
Evening lecture on Tuesday evening, 19h00- 20h30.
Investment
3-Day series at St Luke’s Retreat Centre
*R1950, including lunch. Early bird rate R1750 if paid in full ten days or more before each event.
Pensioners / Students R1550. Early bird rate R1350 if paid in full ten days or more before each event.
*Daily rate (rates per day for those who can’t make all 3 days)
R700, including lunch. Early bird rate R600 if paid in full ten days or more before each event.
Pensioners / Students R600. Early bird rate R500 if paid in full ten days or more before each event.
Evening Lecture at Mater Dei Parish
*R100 per person suggested donation
*All our costs are kept to a minimum while simultaneously attempting to make the Jesuit Institute ands St Luke’s Retreat Centre self-sustainable.*
Should you require financial assistance to attend the lecture series or need to arrange a payment plan, please contact u.vannierop@jesuitinstitute.org.za.
For any other questions, e.g. accommodation at St Luke’s Retreat Centre, please contact us via retreat@cdpe.co.za or call us on 041-373-0039.
Accommdation rates and Meal rates (Breakfast, Dinner) are stated on the registration form.
