32nd International PMR Conference: Faith and the Ways of Knowing
If any of you are planning to attend the Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies Conference this Fri-Sun in Philadelphia, please drop by and say hello. I will be presenting my paper on Augustine...
View ArticleRadical Orthodoxy Colloquium
Baylor University is hosting a Radical Orthodoxy Colloquium on November 13-15. All lectures begin at 2:30 (Tues-Thurs) and include the following speakers: Conor Cunningham (Univ. of Nottingham),...
View ArticlePart I: Denys Turner: “Faith, Reason, and the Eucharist”
Presented at the Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance Conference, October 20, 2007 Below is more or less a transcription (with filler words here and there) of Denys Turner’s plenary speech at the...
View ArticlePart II: Denys Turner: “Faith, Reason, and the Eucharist”
Below is a continuation of the Turner transciption (for Part I click here). *** [According to Turner] what is more disconcerting than Kerr’s anxieties is the problematic claim that Thomas...
View ArticlePart III: Denys Turner: “Faith, Reason, and the Eucharist”
A More Extended Conception of Reason Below is a continuation of the Turner transciption (see Part I and Part II). *** What I [Turner] want to do now is to move on from talking about reason in this...
View ArticlePart V: Denys Turner: “Faith, Reason, and the Eucharist”
The final installment of my transcription of Turner’s lecture. *** Step five, viz., that music as I put it is prototypically Eucharistic. Maybe by now you’ve caught hold of the connective tissue of...
View ArticleConversations with Augustine, Past and Present: An Augustine Blog Conference...
Upated Information: All slots for presenting are now full. Many thanks to all who have responded. The tentative line-up looks great–see below. ******* In the spirit of the recent “blog...
View ArticlePatristic, Medieval and Renaissance Conference
I’ll be in Philly this weekend presenting a paper on Scotus at the PMR conference at the Villanova Conference Center. Though the program lists me as presenting on Friday, our session has been moved to...
View ArticlePatristic, Medieval, and Renaissance Conference 2010
In case you are unfamiliar with the Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance Conference held annually in Philadelphia, you may read about the event on their website. Today I found out that my abstract was...
View ArticleFrederick Douglass and Reverse Discourse as an Act of Resistance
I will soon cross the ocean to participate in the 2010 Biennial Conference of the International Society for Religion, Literature, and Culture. For those interested, I have posted my abstract in order...
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