reflecting on the problem of evil
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Reflecting on the Problem of Evil A S U M M E R C O N S O R T I U M
JULY
12-14
2019
An Event for the President’s Council , Legacy Society Members, and Friends
Amid the splendor of the Virginia countryside, a select group will
accompany Joseph Pearce and some of the College’s best professors
on an intellectual and spiritual journey representing the height of the
Christendom College experience.
Participants will enjoy excellent food and drink at beautiful locations
around the picturesque Front Royal campus, engage in a stimulating and
friendly examination and discussion of the deep questions that challenge
the Faith, and join in faithful prayer and rich reflection.
This year’s topic, Reflecting on the Problem of Evil, is particularly
appropriate because of the rise of inhuman secularization, militant Islam,
and unprecedented violence that increasingly violates human dignity.
Join us as we pursue wisdom in the context of a rich Catholic culture,
and together we will seek to restore all things in Christ!
S C H E D U L E
A L L E V E N T S H E L D A T C H R I S T E N D O M C O L L E G E
FRIDAY, JULY 12 ________________________________
5:00 p.m. Welcome Reception
6:30 p.m. Dinner
SATURDAY, JULY 13 ______________________________
9:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast
10:00 a.m. Dr. Timothy O’Donnell Lecture: The Book of Job
11:30 a.m. Mass
12:00 p.m. Lunch
1:15 p.m. Dr. Brendan McGuire Seminar: Militant Islam
2:30 p.m. Break
3:00 p.m. Divine Mercy Chaplet
3:30 p.m. Prof. Sharon Hickson Seminar: The Hint of an Explanation
5:00 p.m. Hors d’Ouevres
6:30 p.m. Dinner Keynote by Joseph Pearce The Problem of Pain in Great Literature
SUNDAY, JULY 14 _______________________________
10:00 a.m. Mass
11:15 a.m. Brunch and Closing Remarks
1:00 p.m. Tour of Campus (Optional)
P R E S E N T E R S
Joseph Pearce is the director of book
publishing at the Augustine Institute. A
native of England, he is editor of the
St. Austin Review, an international review of
Catholic culture, series editor of the Ignatius
Critical Editions, editor of the print and
online journal Faith & Culture, and senior
contributor at The Imaginative Conservative.
The internationally acclaimed author of many
books, he is a world-recognized biographer of
modern Christian literary figures.
Dr. Timothy O’Donnell received his early
education at Loyola Marymount in Los
Angeles, California, where he graduated
with B.A. degrees in philosophy and
history and an M.A. in church history.
He received a doctorate in ascetical and
mystical theology from the Pontifical
University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome
(Angelicum). Dr. O’Donnell is the president
of Christendom College.
Prof. Sharon Mahoney Hickson attended
Marymount College in Tarrytown, New
York, and completed her master’s degree
at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill. She has been involved with
Christendom College since its inception
and has been teaching in the Language and
Literature Department since 2004.
Dr. Brendan McGuire specializes in the
study of medieval Christianity; his scholarly
research has focused on a variety of issues
related to the Church in Late Antiquity and
the Middle Ages. Dr. McGuire received his
Ph.D. from St. Louis University and has
been a member of Christendom College’s
history faculty since 2007.
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“The Irresistible and the Indisputable are the two weapons which the very
nature of His scheme forbids Him to use. Merely to override a human will
... would be for Him useless. He cannot ravish. He can only woo.”
— C.S. Lewis
The Screwtape Letters
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