Christians in Times of Catastrophe: Augustine’s City of God
Tuesday, June 9, 2020
2:00PM EDT
Registration required
Join us at 2:00PM EDT (1:00PM CDT) on Tuesday, June 9th as we cosponsor, together with the Lumen Christi Institute, a moderated discussion on on “Christians in times of Catastrophe: Augustine’s City of God" on Zoom. Speakers include Russell Hittinger (Lumen Christi Institute) and Fr. Michael Sherwin, OP (University of Fribourg); Jennifer Frey (University of South Carolina) will moderate the dialogue. The Saint Benedict Institute is a cosponsor of this event.
This event is free and open to the public, but online registration is required. For more information and to register for this webinar, click here.
Jennifer Frey is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Carolina. She was previously a Collegiate Assistant Professor of Humanities at the University of Chicago, where she was a member of the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts and an affiliated faculty in the philosophy department. Frey holds a PhD from the University of Pittsburgh and a B.A. from Indiana University-Bloomington. She is the co-Principal Investigator on a major three year research project, titled “Virtue, Happiness, and Meaning of Life.” Her further research interests include the history of ethics, especially medieval and early modern.
Russell Hittinger is Senior Fellow at the Lumen Christi Institute, visiting fellow in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, and Professor Emeritus of Catholic Studies and Law at the University of Tulsa. He is also Ordinarius of the Pontifical Academy of the Social Sciences and the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas. Hittinger is the author of many books, including A Critique of the New Natural Law Theory, The First Grace: Rediscovering Natural Law in a Post-Christian Age, Thomas Aquinas and the Rule of Law, and most recently Paper Wars: Catholic Social Doctrine and the Modern State (forthcoming).
Fr. Michael Sherwin, OP is Professor of Fundamental Moral Theology at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He has also taught at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, where he received his initial formation as a Dominican and was ordained a priest in 1991. Father Sherwin is director of the Saint Thomas Aquinas Institute for Theology and Culture and of the Pinckaers Archives. Author of articles on the psychology of love, virtue ethics, and moral development, his monograph, By Knowledge and By Love: Charity and Knowledge in the Moral Theology of St. Thomas Aquinas (CUA Press, 2005) has newly been reissued in paperback.