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On Thursday, January 31st, Dr. William T. Cavanaugh, Senior Research Professor, Center for World Catholicism and Intercultural Theology, DePaul University, Chicago, spoke on "God, Money, and Death: A Theological Reading of the Economy." Most people assume that the economy is a mundane reality, dealing with the material world of things. Dr. Cavanaugh will argue that the current economy is instead typified by the aspiration to transcend the material world and to cheat death. He will examine the origins of the current economic crisis from a theological point of view and argue that money must be understood theologically, because money has largely replaced God in Western societies.