From the Collegium Institute: IMPORTANT UPDATE AS OF FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Dear Friends of the Collegium Institute Community,

Due to an emergency, today’s event with Professor Eamon Duffy, unfortunately, will be postponed. It is our hope and plan that it can be rescheduled soon, and we will notify all registrants and cosponsors promptly thereafter.

As the expected attendance for this event was extraordinary, we regret any frustration and inconvenience we may have caused. Thank you for your patience. We welcome your return in due course.

Sincerely,

Daniel Cheely, Ph.D.

Director, Collegium Institute

Join the Collegium Institute for its annual Newman Lecture, “Newman and the Limits of Dogma: A Conversation with Eamon Duffy,” on Friday, February 19, 2021 at 12pm EST via Zoom.

This year’s Annual Newman Lecture, taking place just before Newman’s birthday, will feature Professor Eamon Duffy of Cambridge University, renowned author of The Stripping of the Altars and other monographs as well as, most recently, John Henry Newman: A Very Brief History.

In his Apologia (1864), John Henry Newman emphasized his life-long commitment to the centrality of dogma to authentic Christianity. A fierce opponent of heresy while an Anglican, in the 1860s and 1870s the Catholic Newman dedicated much of his energy and considerable public prestige to combatting what he perceived as the inflationary and excessive dogmatism which threatened the intellectual and spiritual integrity of the Church under Pope Pius IX. In this talk, Professor Duffy considers the fundamental consistencies underlying the apparent contradictions in Newman’s developing understanding of the relation between revealed truth and intellectual freedom. 

Eamon Duffy FSA FBA KSG is an Irish historian. He is a professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow and former president of Magdalene College. Professor Duffy's research and teaching interests centre on the history of late medieval and early-modern popular religious belief and practice, on Christian art and material culture, on the history of the English Roman Catholic community, and on the history of the papacy.

This event is cosponsored by the Penn Newman Catholic Community.

Date: Friday, February 19, 2021

Time: 12:00 PM EST

Registration: This event is free and open to the public. Please click the button above to register and receive the Zoom information.