Join The Catholic Center at NYU, in partnership with the University of Dallas, for the launch of the
Studies in Catholic Faith and Culture Program | catholicfaithandculture.org | to provide graduate and fourth-year undergraduate students in New York the opportunity to discover and study the Catholic intellectual tradition at NYU.

Students are invited to register for the spring semester ten week course that begins mid-February
THE PERSON : TRADITION AND HISTORY

Classes include multiple video seminars led by excellent UDallas Catholic professors, and guided learning and discussion sessions. Advanced reading and preparation are not required. Light food will be provided.

Classes and Professors are as follows:

I. Tradition and History: Classical and Christian
Andrew Moran: The Aeneid and the classical tradition
Ron Rombs: History and Tradition

II. Time and Wisdom: Judaic and Christian Traditions
Josh Parens: Maimonides and Abraham: What Is the Beginning of Wisdom?
Father Stephen Gregg: Dana Gioia’s Poem “Prayer”
Fr. Thomas Esposito: Passover, Eucharist, and Time

III. The Fathers to the Middle Ages: Tradition and A Scriptural Grammar
Ron Rombs: The Fathers, Time, Squirrels, and Grace
Matt Walz: Anselm and the Grammar of Scripture
Father John Bayer: Praying the Psalms, Learning a New Grammar

IV. Macrocosm and Microcosm: The Human in Accord with the Universe
Ivan Eidt: Hildegard of Bingen and Tuning the Soul to God
Matt Walz: Thomas Aquinas, Human Dignity, the Order of Creation, and Woman

V. Traditions of Beauty in Poetry and Visual Art
Anthony Nussmeier: Dante’s Journey to God
Mike Terranova: Giotto’s Vision of Time and the Eternal

VI. Renaissance Synthesis and Early Modern Challenges
Ger Wegemer: Thomas More, Laughter, and Fatherhood
Fr. Stephen Gregg: Herbert’s poem “The Holdfast”
Jonathan Culp: The Problems of Positivism and Historicism

VII. Two Responses to Positivism and Historicism: Restoring History and Tradition
Bernadette Waterman-Ward: John Henry Newman, “To Be Historical Is to Be Catholic”
Susan Hanssen: “Henry Adams and the Marian Cure for Suicidal Thoughts”

VIII. Modern Thought and Two Catholic Historians Answering It
Jonathan Culp: The Modern and Postmodern Heritage of Positivism and Historicism
William Atto: Christopher Dawson, the Moral Order, and Religion’s Place in Culture
Andrew Moran: Lukacs and the Importance of History

IX. Postmodernism, Reason, Faith, and Love
Irene Alexander: The Postmodern Bind and John Paul II’s Response of Love
Father John Bayer: Faith and Reason, Bricks and Clouds: The Monastic Search for God

X. History, Tradition, and Hope
Jonathan Sanford: Hope and History
Future Class Preview: Greg Roper: Moira, Persona, and Ethos

From Tuesday, February 11 – Saturday, May 16, 2020.