Sharing the Wisdom
Lecture Series
“A Last Thing: St. Augustine and the Afterlife”Dr. Peter Burnell
September 16th, 2011
A member of the Department of History at the University of Saskatchewan’s College of Arts and Science, Dr. Burnell is a specialist in Latin poetry (especially Virgil) and patristics (especially Augustine). In 2005, he published The Augustinian Person, a study of “Augustine’s often implicit notions of person and human nature.”
“Man and Woman as an Image of the Trinity in John Paul II and Thomas Aquinas”Dr. Michael Waldstein
November 1st, 2011
Dr. Waldstein was the founding president of Austria’s International Theological Institute, has served as a member of the Pontifical Council for the Family (2003-3009) and is a member of the the Board of Trustees of the University of Eichstaett, Germany. His published works include a critical edition of the four Coptic manuscripts (with English translation) of the Secret Book of John, a Gnostic text discovered in the Nag Hammadi codices, and a new translation of John Paul II’s Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body.
"Shakespeare and the Ethics of Figuration: Macbeth as Rhetorical Poet"
Dr. Scott Crider
February 10th, 2012
An associate professor of English in the University of Dallas’ Department of English, Dr. Crider is currently Director of the University’s Graduate Program in English, and has directed its writing program for a number of years. He specializes in Shakespeare, Early Modern English Literature, and Rhetoric & Composition.
"Saint Bonaventure and Medieval Philosophy"
Father Christopher Cullen
March 27, 2012
Father Cullen is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Associate Director of the Center for Medieval Studies at Fordham University in New York – one of the university’s most active and well-known centers of advanced study. Father Cullen recently completed work on the Great Medieval Thinkers Series’ Bonaventure, described as "a learned and judicious introduction to the philosophical and theological thought of Bonaventure."
All presentations are open to the public.