Dr Axel M. Oaks Takacs Lecture, 14 March 2024
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.
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/.
Dr Oaks Takacs' latest book, a Festschrift for Professor Frank Clooney who supervised Dr Oaks Takacs.