This year’s Winter Living Theology lecture series will take place in June and July 2025. It will consist of a three-day lecture series, as well as short morning and evening lectures, 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.

Morning lectures, 9h30-11h30.

 Evening lectures, 19h00- 20h30.

 

 

Investment

 

3-Day series

*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.

 

Morning Lectures  and Evening Lectures

*R100 per person suggested donation

 

*All our costs are kept to a minimum while simultaneously attempting to make the Jesuit Institute self-sustainable.* Our prices have not increased in the last three years. However, we do not exclude anyone from attending. Should you require financial assistance to attend the lecture series or need to arrange a payment plan, please contact u.vannierop@jesuitinstitute.org.za.

Durban

17-19 June 2025 at  Holy Trinity Catholic Parish, 210 Musgrave Road, Musgrave, 9h30- 15h30

 17 June at Holy Trinity Catholic Parish, 210 Musgrave Road, Musgrave, 19h00- 20h30

 

Johannesburg

  24-26 June 2025 at JESUIT INSTITUTE, AUCKLAND PARK, 9h30- 15h30

 

Pretoria

28 June 2025 at Church of the Beatitudes, Zwavelpoort, 10h00 – 11h30

 

Cape Town

1-3 July 2025 at St Michael’s Parish, Rondebosch, 9h30-15h30

5 July at St Michael’s Parish, Rondebosch, 09h30-11h30

 

Gqeberha

8-10 July 2025 at St Luke’s Retreat Centre, Central Gqeberha, 9h30-15h30

9 July 2025 at Mater Dei Catholic Church, 19h00- 20h30

 

Eswatini

12 July 2025, Manzini