“Modern Christian Writers” Non-Credit Course
Informal Dinner: 6:00PM
Lecture: 6:30PM
Intended for University students, faculty, and recent graduates. Others interested in attending, contact info@lumenchristi.org.
Addressing his fellow Christians, the author of the Letter to the Hebrews said, “Here we have no abiding city.” Christian writers characteristically view the societies in which they live both from the inside and as strangers or sojourners. This series will treat of a variety of modern authors whose faith made them aliens in their own homelands while giving them insight and sympathy into the dilemmas of their own time. No prior acquaintance with the writers on the part of attendees is required or presumed.
Past Sessions:
Tuesday, April 9:
Evelyn Waugh
Paul Mankowski, S.J., Lumen Christi Institute
Tuesday, April 16:
Hilaire Belloc
Paul Mankowski, S.J., Lumen Christi Institute
Tuesday, April 23
A Study in Greene: Charting the 20th Century Catholic Literary Revival
Mark Bosco, S.J., English and Theology, Loyola University
Tuesday, April 30
Charles Péguy – A Lonely Fighter
Thomas Pavel, Romance Languages & Literatures, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago
Tuesday, May 7:
Paul Claudel: a Poet at the Foot of the Cross
Lauren Bergier, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago
Tuesday, May 14:
Flannery O’Connor’s Fictional Habitus
Richard Rosengarten, Religion & Literature at the Divinity School, University of Chicago
Tuesday, May 21:
Dostoyevsky: Dreams and Demons
Robert Bird, Slavic Languages & Literatures, University of Chicago
Tuesday, May 28:
Ronald Knox
Paul Mankowski, S.J., Lumen Christi Institute
