Join Collegium Institute and Dappled Things magazine for our online Global Catholic Literature Seminar, Dying Well to Live Well. In this seminar, we’ll pair acclaimed modern novellas—Leo Tolstoy’s “The Death of Ivan Ilych” and J.R.R. Tolkien’s purgatorial fantasy “Leaf by Niggle”—with the most famous medieval and renaissance devotional manuals by Thomas à Kempis and St. Robert Bellarmine on making ready for life’s ending. Through these diverse depictions and reflections, we’ll investigate questions of how we can live full lives in the awareness of suffering, mortality, and human limitation. How should we understand the rich tradition of “Ars Moriendi” in its Christian expression? How can we face the inevitable with a sense of peace, acceptance, and confidence? And how might life’s impermanence provide, not a reason for despair, but an orientation toward greater meaning and purpose? 

We will meet four Monday evenings in October, 7:00-8:30pm ET on Zoom. 

• October 9, led by Dr. Joshua Hren, Professor of Humanities at the University of St Thomas, Houston and Founder of Wiseblood Books

• October 16, led by Katy Carl, Editor-in-chief of Dappled Things

• October 23, led by Dr. Jessica Hooten Wilson, Fletcher Jones Endowed Chair of Great Books at Pepperdine University

• October 30, led by Dr. Jared Ortiz, Professor of Religion at Hope College and Executive Director of the Saint Benedict Institute

Registration:

• Early Bird Registration ends Monday, September 18 at 11:59pm: $65

• Regular Registration ends Monday, September 25: $75

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