An Audio Retreat with Fr. Dennis Hamm, S.J.

Abstract

This retreat was given by Fr. Dennis Hamm, S.J. at the Manresa on the Mississippi Jesuit Retreat House, Convent, Louisiana, December, 2009.|Father Dennis Hamm, a priest of the Society of Jesus since 1970, is professor of theology at Creighton University, where he taught Scripture for 33 years and, since 2004, holds the Graff Faculty Chair of Catholic Theology. He earned several advanced degrees from major universities, was a Fellow at Yale School of Divinity (1973-75), a researcher at the Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome (1985-86), a worker on the Bethsaida dig in Israel (summer of 1988), a scholar-in-residence at the Ecumenical Institute for Culture Research, Collegeville (1994-95), and most recently at the Tantur Ecumenical Institute, Jerusalem, Israel (2001-2002). Father Hamm has published widely in scholarly journals. He is a member of the Catholic Biblical Association, the Society of Biblical Literature, the College Theology Society, and Pax Christi.|Fr. Hamm's articles have appeared in Biblica, The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, The Journal for the Study of the New Testament, The Way, The Bible Today, Church, Fellowship, America, and in reference works such as The Anchor Bible Dictionary, The New Catholic Encyclopedia, and The Collegeville Pastoral Dictionary of the Bible.|He is an expert on the Gospel of Luke and has written four books and more than a hundred articles on topics relating to the New Testament and its implications for Jewish-Christian relations. He is also a coeditor, along with Leonard Greenspoon and Bryan J. LeBeau, of The Historical Jesus through Catholic and Jewish Eyes. |Talk #1 "Taking Stock of our Situation” |Talk #2 “The Prodigal Son”|Talk #3 “Life – A Gift to Be Shared” |Talk #4 “The Last Supper in John”|Talk #5 “The Passion of Christ in Luke”|Talk #6 “The Resurrection in Luke – Implications for Us”|Talk #7 “The Examen” ||