Join Collegium Institute and the Penn Newman Center for our annual Newman Lecture. This year’s lecture, entitled, “To Live is to Change: Newman on Growing Up Well,” will be given by Prof. Thomas Hibbs, professor of Philosophy at Baylor University and former president of UDallas.

John Henry Newman had a remarkably compelling account of human development in its intellectual, moral, and spiritual dimensions, an account that in some ways anticipates the empirically based insights of contemporary psychology. Newman saw human development as a matter of expansion and integration; premature unity can be as damaging as aimless disconnection. With particular attention to the development of young souls, he envisioned human life as a dramatic quest for the good, in its complexity and unity, and in relation to others, particularly friends. 

Prof. Hibbs will offer a lecture on the significance of Newman’s theory of human development on Friday, February 21. His remarks will be followed by a brief Q&A and a light reception, which will feature a birthday cake specially designed by the famous Bakery House in Bryn Mawr to mark St. John Henry Newman's 224th birthday that evening.

Date: Friday, February 21, 7:00 pm

Location: Penn Newman Center (111 S. 38th St)

Click the button below to register. Please direct any questions to Esther Lee (elee@collegiuminstitute.org).