Why We Need Erich Przywara

Posted on February 2, 2018 by exec_admin

Our next monthly meeting will be held on Friday, March 9th from 3:00pm to 4:30pm. We will be discussing “Eucharist and Labor” by Erich Przywara and “Why We Need Erich Przywara” by Philip Gonzales from the Spring 2017 (Volume 44.1) issue of Communio entitled Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread. Continue reading →

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Between a Criticism of Evolution and Atheism

Posted on January 28, 2018 by exec_admin

Our next monthly meeting will be held on Friday, February 9th from 3:00pm to 4:30pm. We will be discussing “Between a Criticism of Evolution and Atheism: A View on the Philosophy of Thomas Nagel” by Engelbert Recktenwald from the Spring 2017 (Volume 44.1) issue of Communio entitled Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread. Continue reading →

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A Glimpse of Messiaen: Rhythm, Time and Eternity

Posted on January 13, 2018 by exec_admin

To honour the Feast of Saint Thomas Aquinas, the date of which falls on a Sunday this year, the Communio Circle of the Diocese of Hamilton and the Newman Centre Guelph present A Glimpse of Messiaen: Rhythm, Time and Eternity, an evening of music and insights into the Aquinas-influenced compositional style of Olivier Messiaen facilitated by Barbara Dyck, piano MMus., Continue reading →

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Pre-verberation of Eternity: Olivier Messiaen’s Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps

Posted on December 27, 2017 by exec_admin

Our next monthly meeting will be held on Friday, January 12th from 3:00pm to 4:30pm. We will be discussing “Pre-verberation of Eternity: Olivier Messiaen’s Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps” by Dorothee Brunner from the Fall 2016 (Volume 43.3) issue of Communio entitled Time. Continue reading →

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The Consummation of the World as a Re-capitulation

Posted on November 21, 2017 by exec_admin

Our next monthly meeting will be held on Friday, December 8th from 3:00pm to 4:30pm. We will be discussing “The Consummation of the World as a Re-capitulation” by Martin Bieler from the Fall 2016 (Volume 43.3) issue of Communio entitled Time. (We’re taking a step back into Time, so to speak.) Continue reading →

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The Myth of Religious Violence

Posted on October 25, 2017 by exec_admin

“The Myth of Religious Violence: Rethinking the Links between Christianity, Violence and Religion” is a study day that will give participants an opportunity to engage with the work of William T. Cavanaugh. The myth of religious violence is the pervasive secularist idea that there is something called “religion,” endemic to all human cultures and eras, that has a tendency to promote violence because it is essentially prone to absolutism, divisiveness, and irrationality. On this view, “religion” must therefore be separated from “secular” phenomena like politics for the sake of peace. Continue reading →

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Religion and the Life of Civilisation

Posted on October 23, 2017 by exec_admin

Our next monthly meeting will be held on Friday, November 10th from 3:00pm to 4:30pm. We will be discussing “Religion and the Life of Civilisation” by Christopher Dawson from the Winter 2016 (Volume 43.4) issue of Communio entitled The City. Continue reading →

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Liberal Evasiveness

Posted on September 23, 2017 by exec_admin

The Ideas program featuring Jonathan Haidt (on which I commented in a previous post, and to which Haidt has responded) has attracted some attention at work. An administrator has distanced himself from Haidt with an article with the headline, “When your next college free speech controversy erupts, don’t blame liberals.” The piece, which appears in the Washington Post, positions liberalism between conservatism and the “radical left.” Like Haidt’s, this position (or rhetorical strategy) also needs to be understood. It too is problematic: it would deflect attention away from liberalism’s own shortcomings. Continue reading →

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Monochromatic Heterodoxy

Posted on September 19, 2017 by exec_admin

On CBC’s Ideas program recently (Friday 8 September), Paul Kennedy interviewed Jonathan Haidt to discuss Haidt’s views on the contemporary university. The program, “The Politics of the Professoriat: Political Diversity on Campus,” can be found here. In the words of the summary on the Ideas webpage, “Haidt describes the monochromatic ideology that permeates many social science departments on North American university campuses.” There is a great deal to admire about Haidt’s presentation. His clear description of the present state of affairs is at once courageous and chilling. It needs to be heard. Continue reading →

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Flannery O’Connor and the City

Posted on September 9, 2017 by exec_admin

Our next monthly meeting will be held on Friday, October 13th from 3:00pm to 4:30pm. We will be discussing “Flannery O’Connor and the City” by Rodney Howsare from the Winter 2016 (Volume 43.4) issue of Communio entitled The City. Continue reading →

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