Religion
Belief in the Modern World
This session features Wilfred McClay (University of Oklahoma) on “Guilt in the Immanent Frame,” and John Waters on “The Importance of Not Being God: A Higher Power Is...
watch videoDown From the Mountaintop: Authorities and Structures of Power
This session features Jacqueline Rivers (Harvard University) on “As American as the Declaration of Independence? Social Structure and Higher Powers,” Rev. Eugene Rivers...
watch videoRev. Javier Prades on Post Secularity, Post Modernity, and Pluralism
This session features Rev. Javier Prades, the Rector of the University of San Damaso, Madrid. Presented at the Center for Ethics and Culture’s 2018 Fall Conference, “Higher...
watch videoReligion, Science, and Technology in Dialogue
This session features Diana Schaub (Loyola University) on “Lincoln Reads the Bible: Science and Morality in the ‘Lecture on Discoveries and Inventions'”, and Bill Hurlbut...
watch videoHigher Powers Catholicism and the American Project
This colloquy features Patrick Deneen (University of Notre Dame), V. Phillip Muñoz (University of Notre Dame), Gladden Pappin (University of Dallas, American Affairs), and Adrian...
watch videoShield or Spear? The Power of Speech
Marc DeGirolami (St. John’s University) on “Higher Purposes of Free Speech”, and Michael Moreland (Villanova University) on “The State and Freedom of Speech.” Session...
watch videoFr. John Wauck: Mightier than the Sword: St Thomas More and Alexander Solzhenitsyn
This lecture features Fr. John Wauck, a professor at the Pontifical University of Santa Croce in Rome. Keynote address at the Center for Ethics and Culture’s 2018 Fall...
watch videoLiberalism and the Invisible Hand
Presented by Adrian Vermeule (Harvard Law School) at the Center for Ethics and Culture’s 2018 Fall Conference, “Higher Powers.” The Conference explored the perennial problem...
watch videoOld Forgotten Words and Ancient Melodies
This talk features Carole Baker (Duke Divinity School) on “The Icon as Exemplary Image: Reflections on Iconology and the Visual Arts”, Jay Martin (University of Notre Dame) on...
watch videoA House Divided – Polarization in Our Common Life
“Overcoming Polarization through Catholic Social Teaching” by John Carr (Georgetown University) and “Church and State in a Time of Polarization” by Mark Movsesian (St....
watch videoMind, Body, Spirit, and State
This session features Lauris Kaldjian, M.D. (University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine) on “Conscientious Practice, Religious Freedom, and the Sovereignty of God” and...
watch videoMatteo Ricci: A Saint for Inculturation
Fr. Nathan O’Halloran, S.J. presents on Fr. Matteo Ricci, S.J.. This lecture is the fifth of seven lectures in the 2018 Saturdays with the Saints series.
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