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Substantially Catholic ~ 2008: Presentation Topics
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Substantially Catholic ~ 2007: Presentation Topics
Robert Kiely (Harvard University, English Literature)
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Topic I:
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Beauty and Heaven/Dante
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English translations of Paradiso from Longfellow to Ciardi
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Selections from Canto I and XXXIII
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Topic II:
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Beauty and the Church/ George Herbert/ John Donne
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Selected poems from Herbert's The Church
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Selected sermons of Donne
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Beauty and the Image/ John Ruskin and Henry James
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Selections from Ruskin's Mornings in Florence
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Selections from James's Italian Hours
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Topic IV:
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Beauty and Nature/ Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Topic V:
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Beauty and Poverty/ Francis of Assisi and Flannery O'Connor
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Selected stories from The Little Flowers
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Selected stories by O'Connor
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Greg Wolfe (Seattle Pacific University, editor of Image)
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Transfiguration: A Brief Introduction to Theological Aesthetics
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The Tragic Sense of Life: The Mid-Twentieth Century Catholic Novel
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Topic III:
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Catholic and Southern: Flannery O'Connor and Walker Percy
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Topic IV:
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The New Theodicy: The Nonfiction of Annie Dillard and Richard Rodriguez
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Topic V:
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Shouts and Whispers: Contemporary Catholic Fiction
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Jeanne Heffernan-Schindler (Villanova University, Political Science)
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Topic I:
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The Political Relevance of Beauty
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Beauty Instantiated in Justice
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The Sublime as a Foundation for Political Order
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Topic IV:
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Politics and The Arts
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Topic V:
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Architecture and the Civic Good
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Natural and Social Ecology: Beauty, Creation, and the Polis
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Rev. J Bryan Hehir
(Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government,
President, Catholic Charities, Archdiocese of Boston)
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Topic I:
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War as a Violation of Beauty: Pre-emption Policy and Just War Theory
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Can Organizations Ever Be Beautiful: The Role of the U.N., the World
Bank and Other International Organizations?
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Topic III:
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Can There Be Beauty Among Competing Claims: Religious Freedom and
Civil Rights?
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Justice as Beauty: Crafting Public Policy that Promotes Both
National and International Justice
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Pat McCormick (Gonzaga University, Theology)
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Beauty and Justice: The Beauty of the Righteous Community
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A Right to Beauty: Milk and Honey for the Souls of the Poor
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The Beautiful Stranger/Enemy: Fashioned in the Image and Likeness of God
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Tending Eden's Beauty: Our Vocation as Stewards
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Rev. Robert Imbelli (Boston College, Theology)
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"We Have Seen his Glory:" Jesus the Christ as Living Heart
of the Catholic Intellectual Tradition.
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"The Love that Moves the Sun and the Other Stars:" The
Tradition's Trinitarian "Cantus Firmus."
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Topic III:
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"We, though Many, Are One Body in Christ:" Church as
Impossible Possibility
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Topic IV:
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"The World Is Charged with the Grandeur of God:" The
Catholic Sacramental Vision
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