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Christopher Pramuk is Regis
University Chair of Ignatian Thought and Imagination, and an
Associate Professor of Theology, where he teaches courses in
theology and spirituality. He is the author of six books,
including two award-winning studies of the famed Catholic monk
and spiritual writer Thomas Merton, as well as
Hope Sings, So Beautiful: Graced Encounters Across the Color
Line, a meditation on race relations in society and
church. Chris’s latest book,
The Artist Alive: Explorations in Music, Art, and Theology,
draws from his many years of using music, poetry, and the
arts in the classroom. Chris lectures widely around the country and
has led retreats on topics such as racial justice, Ignatian
spirituality, and the witness of Thomas Merton.
Through oral history, poetry, and sacred song,
Dr. Pramuk explores the dynamics of faith in the witness of
Black Catholics in the United States. Their gift is an enduring
gift of wisdom, as Thomas Merton describes it, an “attunement of
opposite tensions” born in the crucible of African American
experience and the Psalmist’s faith that God can “make a way out
of no way.”
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Christopher Pramuk and the Thomas Merton Center at
Bellarmine University
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