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On 23 October, Dr. Ellen Boleij successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis, which explored the question of the relationship between spirituality and public administration in conversation with Hannah Arendt’s philosophy. The PhD thesis was co-supervised by Emeritus Prof. Toine van den Hoogen and Dr. Elisabeth Hense.

On 5 December, Dr. Devin Singh visits Radboud from Dartmouth College (USA), where he is Assistant Professor or Religion. During the CCS research seminar, Dr. Singh will present a paper entitled, “Moral Debts: On Justice, Forgiveness, and Economy”, which explores how economic and moral categories become conflated when notions of debt and guilt elide. Questioning why so often to be in debt is also to be guilty, he will consider how concepts of indebtedness contributed to the first legal codes, and how debt and guilt coincide in Christian doctrines of redemption. The aim is to interrogate how and why economic concepts become freighted with ethical and spiritual significance when attached to soteriological language of individual, communal, and cosmic redemption.

Between 7-14 June 2018, CCS co-director Prof. Daniela Müller led Radboud’s Theology MA students to the south of France on a study trip about the history of the Inquisition. The students visited Avignon, Carcassonne, Toulouse, Frontfroide, and Cluny.

During the next academic year, Dr. Elisabeth Hense will join a ZonMw-funded research consortium between Wageningen University, VU Amsterdam, Radboud University, the city councils of Arnhem and Nijmegen, and various organisations to investigate how the design of living environments stimulate marginalized citizens to improve their health and to reduce socio-economic health disparities.

On 19 June, Prof. Maaike de Haardt participated in a panel discussion about Religion and Fashion with several other international scholars at the 10th Fashionclash festival in Maastricht. Prof. de Haardt discussed the values behind the clothes we design, produce, wear and dispose of as an indication of the role that fashion plays in our lives and today’s economy.

Prof. Christoph Hübenthal was interviewed on German Radio WDRabout his contribution to the new Vatican document on sport.

Research by Prof. Christoph Hübenthal, co-director of the Center for Catholic Studies and Professor of Systematic Theology at Radboud University has contributed to a new Vatican document published by the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life entitled ‘To Give the Best of Oneself’, which explores the relationship between sport and the human person from a Christian perspective.

In the latest issue of Tijdschrift voor Theologie, Prof. Christoph Hübenthal has published an article entitled, ‘Naar een ontologie van de liefde: Publieke theologie als verlichting van het seculiere’.