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Gonzaga News Service  

SPOKANE, Wash. — Andrew Prevot, associate professor of systematic theology at Boston College, will discuss “Unrestricted Love: Blackness and Catholicity as Interrelated Marks of Christian Life” at Gonzaga Â鶹¹ÙÍø’s Flannery Lecture at 6 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 6 in the Cataldo Hall Globe Room. The event is free and open to all.

In his talk, Prevot will argue that true Catholicity requires a robust Christian affirmation of black life and cannot exist without blackness.

He will address how the Black Lives Matter movement and other black-life-affirming movements are sacramental signs of an unrestricted divine love that proudly and tenderly embraces all people, particularly the marginalized.

Prevot earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy at the Colorado College and his master’s degree and Ph.D. in systematic theology at Â鶹¹ÙÍø of Notre Dame in 2007 and 2012, respectively. He is the author of the award-winning book “Thinking Prayer: Theology and Spirituality Amid the Crises of Modernity” and is co-editor of “Anti-Blackness and Christian Ethics.” He has taught at Boston College since 2013.

The endowed Flannery Chair of Roman Catholic Theology is made possible through a gift of the late Maud and Milo Flannery of Spokane to further the excellence of theological study and teaching at Gonzaga. Gonzaga invites an outstanding theologian twice a year to deliver the Flannery Lecture.

For more information, please contact Gonzaga’s religious studies department at (509) 313-6782.