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Title
Rev. Dr. Walter Burghardt, S.J. Engages with the Question: How Do You Define Religion?
Document Type
Video
Interview Date
11-4-1998
Abstract
How do you define religion?
Rev. Walter Burghardt discusses his understanding of religion as “a virtue that relates me to ultimacy” and shows the way to destiny. Burghardt stresses the importance of redemption and salvation in religion, and the relationship with God that religion provides. The last definition he supplies is “the way of being and acting that keeps one in contact with God and love.”
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Burghardt, Walter S.J. and Benney, Alfred. Created by Alfred Benney. "Rev. Dr. Walter Burghardt, S.J. Engages with the Question: How Do You Define Religion?" November 1998. DigitalCommons@Fairfield. Web. https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/asrvideos/305
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Playing Time: 4:44 minutes
About the Interviewee:
The Rev. Dr. Walter Burghardt, S.J. received a Master’s degree and Licentiates in philosophy and sacred theology at Woodstock College near Baltimore and was ordained in 1941. He earned a doctorate in sacred theology from the Catholic University of America. Rev. Burghardt taught historical theology for 32 years at Woodstock College and was also a professor at Catholic University and a visiting lecturer at Union Theological in New York and Princeton Theological Seminary. From 1974 to 2003, he was a senior fellow at the Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown University and in 1978, he was named the first theologian in residence at Georgetown. Rev. Burghardt wrote more than 300 articles and 25 books and was well known as one of the country’s best preachers. He died in 2008.
About the Interviewer:
Dr. Alfred Benney is a Professor of Religious Studies at Fairfield University. He has a Ph.D in Theology from the Hartford Seminary Foundation and teaches courses in Non-Traditional American Religions and Christian Religious Thought. His research interests include “how people learn”; “the appropriate use of technology in teaching/learning” and “myth as explanatory narrative”. He has published work on teaching with technology.