Candler’s Aquinas Center of Theology and Women, Theology, and Ministry program will welcome Nancy Pineda-Madrid, T. Marie Chilton Chair of Catholic Theology at Loyola Marymount University, to present the lecture “Guadalupe: An American Pentecost” on Thursday, October 9, from 4:30–6:00 p.m. in Room 252 of Candler’s Rita Anne Rollins Building.
The lecture is free and open to the public, with advance registration required. Register to attend.
Pineda-Madrid will also present her lecture in Spanish on Friday, October 10 at 6:30 p.m. at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Norcross, Georgia. Register to attend the October 10 event.
Drawing from her lifelong engagement with the story of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Pineda-Madrid will explore how devotion to Guadalupe mediates for many an experience of the Holy Spirit akin to Pentecost as recorded in the Acts of the Apostles. She identifies four themes that distinguish Pentecost—divine encounter, empowerment, communal witness, and mission—that are also present in worldwide Guadalupe veneration.
“Recognizing Guadalupe as an American Pentecost matters because it serves to further encourage believing Christians and Catholics to live into our faith more authentically,” Pineda-Madrid writes.
A leading Latina Catholic theologian, Pineda-Madrid is among the first U.S. Latinas to earn a PhD in systematic theology (Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley). She is the author of Suffering and Salvation in Ciudad Juárez (Fortress Press, 2011). She has also co-edited Hope: Promise, Possibility and Fulfillment (Paulist Press, 2013) and The Holy Spirit: Setting the World on Fire (Paulist, 2017). Her current project is a book on the Virgin of Guadalupe.
Pineda-Madrid’s scholarship has been widely recognized: America Magazine named her one of the most promising theologians of the next generation, and she is past president of the Academy of Catholic Hispanic Theologians of the United States (ACHTUS). She serves as vice president of the International Network of Societies of Catholic Theology (INSeCT) and has lectured across the U.S., Latin America, and Europe.