Abigail Favale Gives the Annual Carroll Lecture at St. Mary's

Dr. Abigail Favale is a writer and professor at the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame. Her work lies at the intersection of Catholic theology, literature, and women’s studies. Her abiding interest as a writer and scholar is the meaning and dignity of woman, and her work explores sexual di? erence and embodiment in the Catholic imagination. Her latest book, The Genesis of Gender: A Christian Theory, was published in 2022 by Ignatius Press and has already been translated into multiple languages. Her numerous essays have appeared in Church Life Journal, The Atlantic, First Things, Public Discourse, Comment, and elsewhere.

In The Genesis of Gender: A Christian Theory, Dr. Abigail Favale—weaving personal experience with expert knowledge—provides an in-depth yet accessible account of the gender paradigm: a framework for understanding reality and identity that has recently risen to prominence. In Into the Deep: An Unlikely Catholic Conversion she traces her spiritual odyssey from birthright evangelicalism through postmodern feminism and, ultimately, into the Roman Catholic Church. Both books will be available for purchase, signed by the author.

The annual Carroll Lecture is given in honor of John Carroll, first bishop in the United States, who called upon the Society of Saint Sulpice to come to Baltimore and open the first Roman Catholic seminary in the new nation in 1791.

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