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Jakob Karl Rinderknecht

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Systematic Theologian sojourning in Texas. Pics of dogs and foster dogs.

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Jakob Karl Rinderknecht @jkrinder.bsky.social · 1d

And- if you’re coming to Boston, consider coming a couple days early for the Annual Conference of the North American Academy of Ecumenists (Nov 20-21)

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2025 NAAE Annual Conference — North American Academy of Ecumenists

NAAE  2025 Conference will be held  November 20-21, 2025 , at the Huffington Ecumenical Institute (Hellenic College Holy Cross)

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Jakob Karl Rinderknecht @jkrinder.bsky.social · 1d

And- if you’re coming to Boston, consider coming a couple days early for the Annual Conference of the North American Academy of Ecumenists (Nov 20-21)

bit.ly/NAAE2025

2025 NAAE Annual Conference — North American Academy of Ecumenists

NAAE  2025 Conference will be held  November 20-21, 2025 , at the Huffington Ecumenical Institute (Hellenic College Holy Cross)

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Jakob Karl Rinderknecht @jkrinder.bsky.social · 1d

If you are planning on attending AAR /SBL this fall here are the sessions of the Vatican II Studies Unit- should be a good lineup!

Vatican 2 Studies Unit, cosponsored with Interreligious and Interfaith Studies Unit and Religions in Europe Unit. Nostra Aetate at 60. With Alaina Keller, Peter Thielen, Claire Maligot, Younus Mirza, and Jaisy Joseph.
Sunday, November 23, Hynes Convention Center, 209.

Vatican 2 Studies Unit: The Role of the Theologian at the Council and in a Synodal Church. With Timothy Perron, Edward Dunar, and Therese Lautua. Sunday, Nov 23, 5-6:30pm. Hynes Convention Center, 308.

Vatican 2 Studies Unit: The Conciliar Legacy of Freedom. With Michael McGravey, Mary Kate Holman, and Stephanie Wong. Saturday Nov 22 3-4:30pm, Sheraton Back Bay B.

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🎃👻 Jonathan Creeps 💀🎃 @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 8d

Organizers sent me a new digital flyer for @setonhall.bsky.social Law School’s “Faith, Values, & the Rule of Law Interdisciplinary Conference”

Abstracts being accepted until Nov 1 & it’s basically across the street from the Newark train station.

SETON HALL LAW
February 4-5, 2026 | In-Person
One Newark Center, Newark, NJ 07102
Faith, Values, and the Rule of Law: An Interdisciplinary Conference Come to Seton Hall Law School for a robust program examining how the world's great religious, theological and philosophical traditions have all contributed to the understanding of justice and human dignity that underscore modern rule of law principles.
Bringing together scholars in law, theology, religious studies, philosophy, political science, international affairs, history, literature, ethics, and related disciplines.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Interested in presenting?
Submit an abstract of your work by Nov. 1, 2025. Or want to only attend? Scan the QR code.
Rabbi Shai Held
President c Dean Hadar Institute
Imam Dr. Mohamad
Jebara
Islamic Scholar
Scriptural Philologist
Quinta Jurecic
Staff Writer
The Atlantic
Dr. Cristina Traina
Professor of Theology
Fordham University
https://law.shu.edu/events/faith-values-rule-of-law-interdisciplinary-conference.html

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Jakob Karl Rinderknecht @jkrinder.bsky.social · 10d

Pupdate: she got adopted today! ☺️

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Jakob Karl Rinderknecht @jkrinder.bsky.social · 11d

This morning I was home alone with the dogs. Came into the living room to discover that someone (not me) had turned on the TV and started an episode of Archer.

In other news, the puppy has decided that the TV remote looks like a chew toy.

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Jakob Karl Rinderknecht @jkrinder.bsky.social · 13d

This is still going on 10 mins later

Jakob Karl Rinderknecht @jkrinder.bsky.social · 13d

Puppy concupiscence

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Jakob Karl Rinderknecht @jkrinder.bsky.social · 14d

Doing my annual required HR training today. Always annoying but I get why we do most of it.

But I cannot figure out why everyone on campus needs to do a 40min training on how Cleary Act statistics are compiled

Like that’s a huge amount of time to dedicate to something that’s like 10 peoples’ job

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Bridget 🧟‍♀️ Oooo Brains @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 19d

Catholic Bluesky world:

If you’re active in any sort of ministry in & interested in deepening your experience of synodality, the Northampton, England-based School for Synodality runs free Zoom-based 3–part workshops & their next series starts Oct 8: www.schoolforsynodality.org.uk/events/synod...

[OCTOBER] Synodality 101: Conversations in the Spirit Workshops — School for Synodality

Wednesdays 8th, 15th & 22nd October 2025 A series of 3 online workshops about how to facilitate spiritual conversations.

www.schoolforsynodality.org.uk

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🎃👻 Jonathan Creeps 💀🎃 @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 19d

As the Fall gets rolling along, here's a reminder about this CFP

🎃👻 Jonathan Creeps 💀🎃 @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · Jul 30

CFP: "Belief: Still Today's Issue"
International Institute for Method in Theology
Spring Colloquium (Philosophy Area)
March 6-7, 2026 @ Marquette University

Call for Papers (abbreviated for Alt Text)
“Belief: Still Today’s Issue”
Hosted by the International Institute for Method in Theology
March 6–7, 2026, Marquette University
DESCRIPTION
This colloquium invites renewed reflection on belief and believing, not only in religion, but in every area touched by a community’s common fund of judgment and evaluation—technology, economy, politics, science, and scholarship included. Sponsored by the Philosophy working group of the International Institute for Method in Theology, this conversation will be grounded in Bernard Lonergan’s dream of a collaborative and interdisciplinary research method to unite theology,
philosophy, the natural and human sciences, and all other fields of human inquiry.
In the collaborative and dialogical spirit of both Lonergan’s work, we invite submissions reflecting on a broad range of topics connected with belief and believing.
Proposals (approximately 300 words) should be sent to jonathan.heaps@shu.edu by December 1, 2025.
Notification of acceptance will be sent by December 15, 2025.
NB: While would prefer in-person presentations, please indicate if you would prefer or require the
capacity to present remotely instead. All proposals will be considered regardless of preference.
PUBLICATION OPPORTUNITY
In conjunction with Marquette University Press, we plan to publish selected papers from this conference in an edited volume to be released in 2028. If selected, authors would have ample time to revise, expand, and edit their manuscripts after the conference.
For any additional questions or information, please contact Jonathan Heaps at jonathan.heaps@shu.edu

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Jakob Karl Rinderknecht @jkrinder.bsky.social · 19d

We already have a model for this with religious. Catholics are supposedly good at institutions- I think we could build it.

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Jakob Karl Rinderknecht @jkrinder.bsky.social · 24d

Today‘s #Ears Update

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Jakob Karl Rinderknecht @jkrinder.bsky.social · 26d

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Crumbs - Snipsa

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Jakob Karl Rinderknecht @jkrinder.bsky.social · 26d

Just for decoration tho

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Crumbs - Snipsa

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Jakob Karl Rinderknecht @jkrinder.bsky.social · 26d

New foster!

Meet Crumbs. She’s sweet and very smart. And deaf and a little stubborn, so training is gonna be important.

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Jakob Karl Rinderknecht @jkrinder.bsky.social · 27d

Though honestly the Jesuit leadership is more ecclesiologically likely. One could write the superior general and the provincial, I suppose.

Jakob Karl Rinderknecht @jkrinder.bsky.social · 27d

I just love it when Catholic schools use their religious status as legal reason to deny Catholic teaching.

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Jakob Karl Rinderknecht @jkrinder.bsky.social · 27d

It’s an excellent segment

Jakob Karl Rinderknecht @jkrinder.bsky.social · 28d

Finding my spirituality continually returning recently to OL of the Magnificat.

Praying with the eschatological hopes of a young woman under empire.

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Jakob Karl Rinderknecht @jkrinder.bsky.social · Sep 13

Now I’m seeing this everywhere.

When Möhler says “this it is true that the Christian must not wish to perfect XPy, but to perfect themself through XPy”

Notice how different reads is if Christianity is primarily held “already-out-there-now-real” vs a divine gift “semper purificanda”

Jakob Karl Rinderknecht @jkrinder.bsky.social · Sep 13

Also- super traditional- the church triumphant is the churchiest church, always in theory, even if the emphasis on the social aspects of the church militant tended to overshadow in practices bc laws and lawyers are less squishy😊

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Jakob Karl Rinderknecht @jkrinder.bsky.social · Sep 13

You’re the one who pointed out that weird LG moment to me first

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Jakob Karl Rinderknecht @jkrinder.bsky.social · Sep 13

Which- Leaves hard practice questions. Clearly if the Eucharistic bread is poisoned it doesn’t poison Christ. But please don’t eat it.

We have more trouble thinking about that w the church somehow

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Jakob Karl Rinderknecht @jkrinder.bsky.social · Sep 13

But it is so so hard to hold onto true sacramental thinking. How quick we are to slide into “just a symbol” or “physical presence” vis-a-vis the Eucharist. Like- everyone is always tottering one way or the other.
So you should love the Eucharist & Church. But either can be poison in any specific

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