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Dr Axel M. Oaks Takacs Lecture, 14 March 2024
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Dr Axel M. Oaks Takacs
Dr Axel M. Oaks Takacs (Molloy University) will speak on:
“Excavating Islamic Fragments in Hans Urs von Balthasar: From Creatio Ex Nihilo to Comparative Theo-Poetics”
When: Thursday, March 14, 2024 at 3 PM
Where: Via Zoom (Meeting ID: 968 1863 4334
Passcode: 781727
This Lecture is part of Dublin City University’s Theology, Philosophy, and Religious Studies Research Seminars.
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Von Balthusar
Biography
Axel M. Oaks Takacs is an Assistant Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at Molloy University and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Interreligious Studies. A comparative theologian and scholar of Islamic intellectual traditions, his focus is on classical and post-classical Sufi-Philosophical traditions in Arabic and Persian. As a constructive theologian, his scholarship aims to read pre-modern sources as resources to contemporary questions. Subjects of interest include poetics, the imagination, the social imaginary, theological aesthetics, theo-poetics, and the thought of Catholic theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar. His scholarship appears in Modern Theology, Theological Studies, Horizons, Studies in Interreligious Dialogue, and Journal of Sufi Studies. He co-edited the Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Comparative Theology: A Festschrift in Honor of Francis X. Clooney. You can explore his work at https://works.bepress.com/axel-takacs/.
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Dr Oaks Takacs' latest book, a Festschrift for Professor Frank Clooney who supervised Dr Oaks Takacs.