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WHO WILL I BE TODAY?
THE EMPTY SELF
Thursday, September 24, 6 PM EDT
Location TBA
Angels Franks
Catholic University of America
Why do people feel so insubstantial today, despite having more identity choices than ever? This lecture explores how we came to this predicament, and whether Christianity may have something useful to say about it. Reception to follow.
This program is supported by the Lynch Foundation, and a grant from the Lumen Christi Institute with funding from the John Templeton Foundation (Grant #63614).
OPEN TO STUDENTS & YOUNG PROFESSIONALS - REGISTRATION REQUIRED
OLD ANSWERS TO NEW QUESTIONS
TIME-TESTED LESSONS ABOUT THE SELF
Friday, September 25, 2:00 - 4:15 PM
Followed by a reception
Harvard Catholic Center, 20 Arrow Street, Cambridge, MA
Angels Franks
Catholic University of America
Professor Franks dives into some foundational pre-modern accounts of the self. Seminar participants will discuss how these may address our contemporary predicament, both intellectual and existential, in the search for a stable and knowable self.
This program is supported by the Lynch Foundation, and a grant from the Lumen Christi Institute with funding from the John Templeton Foundation (Grant #63614).
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NEITHER MEAT MACHINES NOR VISIBLE ANGELS
THE HUMAN PERSON IN LIGHT OF NEUROSCIENCE AND THEOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Friday, July 17
DiGiovanni Hall, St. Paul's/Harvard Catholic Center & Livestreamed
Fr. Ezra Sullivan, OP
Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, Rome
Amazing recent - and ongoing- discoveries in neuroscience open up a broader understanding of who we are as human beings. But to reach any adequate view of the human person, neuroscience necessarily enters into dialogue with other disciplines, especially philosophy and theology. Fr. Sullivan invites us into that dialogue, drawing on the rich tradition of Thomistic thought.
Co-sponsored by the Society of Catholic Scientists; the Thomistic Institute at Harvard University; the Abigail Adams Institute; the Harvard Christian Alumni Society; the St. Benedict Institute at Hope College; the St. Kateri Institute at Williams College; the Institute of Theology, Imagination, and the Arts in the University of St Andrews (UK); the Lumen Christi Institute; the Catholic Community at Stanford; and the Guild of St. Luke (Boston)
Supported by the McDonald Agape Foundation and the Angelicum Thomistic Institute