Author Gary A. Anderson will present “I Give, Therefore I Am: The Primacy of Charity in the Christian Life” on Dec. 5 at 6 p.m. in the Cadigan Alumni Center, Brighton Campus. Anderson, the Hesburgh Professor of Catholic Theology at the University of Notre Dame, is the author of Charity: The Place of the Poor in the Biblical Tradition (Yale University Press, 2013). Anderson is the president of the Catholic Biblical Association and author of the award-winning book Sin: A History. The Advent lecture is co-sponsored by the Church in the 21st Century Center and the School of Theology and Ministry.