This evening webinar lecture by Dr. Peter J. Casarella (Duke Divinity School) will be hosted by the Lumen Christi Institute and is co-sponsored by Collegium Institute. It is part of the Lumen Christi Institute's summer webinar series on Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture.
Historian Jacob Burckhardt (d. 1897) famously argued that the Italian humanism of the fourteenth and fifteenth century inexorably paved the way to modern individualism and secularism, but Burckhardt's influential interpretation has now been largely discredited. Louis Dupré and Karsten Harries, contemporary thinkers with differing approaches, made decisive contributions to overcoming Burkhardt's forerunner mentality. In this concluding webinar, Professor Casarella will explore the contributions of Dupré and Harries to a post-Burckhardtian reading of the relationship of Italian humanism to modernity as well as some of the limitations of the interpretations that they proposed in light of more recent ideas regarding post-structuralism and postcolonial theory.
Peter J. Casarella is Professor of Theology at Duke Divinity School. He received his PhD in Religious Studies at Yale University. Casarella previously served as professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Notre Dame and as director of the Latin American North American Church Concerns (LANACC) project in the Kellogg Institute for International Studies. Casarella has served as president of The American Cusanus Society, The Academy of Catholic Hispanic Theologians in the U.S. (ACHTUS), and the Academy of Catholic Theologians (ACT). He is currently serving a second five-year term on the International Roman Catholic-Baptist World Alliance Ecumenical Dialogue and served also on the Roman Catholic-World Communion of Reformed Churches Dialogue. He has authored or edited several books, including: Cuerpo de Cristo: The Hispanic Presence in the U.S. Catholic Church (1998), A World for All? Global Civil Society in Political Theory and Trinitarian Theology (2011), and most recently, Word as Bread: Language and Theology in Nicholas of Cusa (2017).
Date & Time: August 18, 2020 at 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM (via Zoom)