The next edition of the Sedes Sapientiae Symposium is on Mary and the philosophy of economics. It takes place at the Irish college in Leuven, December 12th-13th. Registration is open until December 5th.
Mary and the philosophy of economics
CMS research seminar: Did God create the world for Mary?
The Centre for Marian Studies has just announced its 2025-2026 series of research seminars. I’ll be presenting on November 12th 2025 on the topic: Did God create the world for Mary? By the way, the October seminar (also ;-)) looks fascinating: Wisdom’s Apex: Mary’s Role in the American Evolution Controversy.
Call for papers for edited volume on Mary and political philosophy
After the Sedes Sapientiae Symposium on Mary and political philosophy, there is now a call for papers for an edited volume on that topic.
The social metaphysics of Mary’s queenship
Lecture at the 2024 Sedes Sapientiae Symposium, October 18th, 2024 in Leuven.
Registration open for the 2024 Sedes Sapientiae Symposium
Registration is now open for the 2024 Sedes Sapientiae Symposium on Mary and political philosophy. It will take place on October 18-19, at the Keizersberg abbey in Leuven, Belgium.
Registration deadline is October 10th.
Sur les fondements métaphysiques et les contours théologiques des sciences sociales : réalisme, nominalisme et création contingente
[On the metaphysical foundations and theological contours of the social sciences: realism, nominalism and contingent creation] Forthcoming in: Le réalisme en sciences sociales, ed. Olga Peniaz et Hélène Terrom, Les éditions du Cerf, Patrimoines.
Lees verder “Sur les fondements métaphysiques et les contours théologiques des sciences sociales : réalisme, nominalisme et création contingente”CFP: edited volume on Mary and/as philosophy
After the Sedes Sapientiae Symposium, there is now a CFP for an edited volume on Mary and/as philosophy, edited by Joseph Terry and myself. It is tentatively entitled The Sedes Sapientiae: roots, prospects and fruits of philosophising in Mary.
Lees verder “CFP: edited volume on Mary and/as philosophy”A Marian hermeneutic for Vatican II
Upcoming paper presentation for the 2024 Mariological Society of America Meeting, May 21-24, 2024, Washington.
Lees verder “A Marian hermeneutic for Vatican II”Synchronic progress in the understanding of doctrine: a marian perspective
Forthcoming chapter in: Progress in Theology, ed. G. van den Brink, R. Peels, B. Sollereder, Routledge.
Philosophising in Mary: the test case of Anselm’s argument
Forthcoming in Communio, fall 2023.
The Liar Paradox, truth, and Mary
Presentation at the Sedes Sapientiae Symposium, September 16th, 2023.
International Theological Conference: Co-redemptrix
Just spreading the word about this wonderful upcoming conference, 14-15 September 2023, Dundee, Scotland.
Lees verder “International Theological Conference: Co-redemptrix”Sedes Sapientiae Symposium
An upcoming Symposium that I’m organizing, occasioned by the 25th anniversary of Fides et Ratio, on September 16th 2023, in Leuven.
Upcoming colloquium of the SFEM
Just spreading the word on the upcoming colloquium of the SFEM (Société française d’Etudes Mariales), from August 28-31, 2023. The topic of this year’s colloquium is The virgin Mary and the spiritual combat.
Towards a spousal metaphysics of the eucharist: persons, powers and Mary
Forthcoming in a special issue of Münchener Theologische Zeitschrift, (number 3) 2023.
Lees verder “Towards a spousal metaphysics of the eucharist: persons, powers and Mary”Conference announcement: New Beginnings: A Celebration Of Marian Scholarship
Just spreading the word about this wonderful upcoming conference, March 25th, 2023, London.
They knew each other and she brought forth a son: Mary as the Immaculate Conception and Bride of the Holy Spirit
Talk at the International Conference ‘Passions and the Mystical: Between Affecting and Being Affected‘, jointly organized by the Mystical Theology Network (MTN) and the Titus Brandsma Institute associated Radboud University (TBI), in Nijmegen on 1-2 December, 2022.
Lees verder “They knew each other and she brought forth a son: Mary as the Immaculate Conception and Bride of the Holy Spirit”An institutional metaphysics for the Trinity: family, unity and Mary
Published in TheoLogica: An International Journal for Philosophy of Religion and Philosophical Theology, 6(2), 219–244. https://doi.org/10.14428/thl.v6i2.65613
Philosophizing in Mary: the test case of Anselm’s argument
(Image © Bradi Barth)
Upcoming presentation for the hybrid conference on Christian philosophy and its challenges, Jesuit University Ignatianum in Krakow (Poland), September 2022.
Lees verder “Philosophizing in Mary: the test case of Anselm’s argument”A spousal metaphysics of the eucharist: persons, powers and Mary
Upcoming presentation for the annual conference of the European Academy of Religion, Bologna, June 20-23, in the panel on a eucharistic metaphysics.
Lees verder “A spousal metaphysics of the eucharist: persons, powers and Mary”Truth, contingency and revelation: some Scotistic considerations on the possibility of progress in theology
Presentation for the upcoming Winter Seminar on Progress in Theology, January 27-28-9 2022, at the Abraham Kuyper Center of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Lees verder “Truth, contingency and revelation: some Scotistic considerations on the possibility of progress in theology”Freedom, Contingency and Self-Gift: from Duns Scotus to Humanae Vitae
Philosophical News, issue 16, 2018, special issue on Dietrich von Hildebrand and Christian personalism
Mary, Queen of Europe: Towards a Marian Political Theology
LEST conference at the KU Leuven faculty of Theology: https://theo.kuleuven.be/en/lest/lest-xii/short-paper-sessions
Lees verder “Mary, Queen of Europe: Towards a Marian Political Theology”
A Mariological metametaphysics
Bauwens, M. (2018). ‘A Mariological metametaphysics’. International Journal of Philosophy and Theology, Volume 80, 2019 – Issue 3, Pages 255-271.
Michaël Bauwens 