The alumn and professor João Manuel Duque, President of the Braga Regional Center, will receive the Árvore da Vida - Father Manuel Antunes Award, established by the National Secretariat of the Pastoral of Culture, on September 15, in a public session that will take place at Espaço Vita, in Braga, at 9:30 pm.
The session will include an analysis of his work and the "most relevant aspects of his thought" by Professor João Carlos Loureiro, professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Coimbra, according to the National Secretariat of the Pastoral of Culture. The winner will then speak about "the main problems and perspectives in the current situation of theology.
This distinction was announced in November 2021, and the award's jury declared it considers him "a border-crosser" between theology and philosophy, knowledge and art, especially music, and highlighted his "repeated reflection in the field", translated into several publications and teaching at the School of Arts at UCP, in Porto.
The professor of the Faculty of Theology in Braga stated, at the time of the announcement, that the prize is a "valorization" of theology and "the role of the work of theology in the relationship with the outside of the Church, with the world in general and with culture in particular.
The Prize Tree of Life - Priest Manuel Antunes, established to highlight a path or work that reflects humanism and Christian experience, is sponsored by the Ilídio Pinho Foundation and consists of the sculpture 'Tree of Life', by Alberto Carneiro, as well as 2,500 euros. In 2021, the jury was chaired by D. João Lavrador, president of the Episcopal Commission for Culture, Cultural Goods and Social Communications - who will deliver the award - and composed of Guilherme d'Oliveira Martins, José Carlos Seabra Pereira, Fr. Júlio Trigueiros, SJ, and Maria Teresa Dias Furtado.
