Newman Studies: Collegium Institute Newman Lecture
UCD Newman Centre is delighted to be co-sponsoring this year's Collegium Institute Annual Newman Lecture.
The lecture will take place on Friday, February 19th at 5pm GMT and will be delivered by Professor Eamon Duffy (Cambridge), renowned author of The Stripping of the Altars and John Henry Newman: A Very Brief History.
In his Apologia (1864), John Henry Newman emphasized his life-long commitment to the centrality of dogma to authentic Christianity. A fierce opponent of heresy while an Anglican, in the 1860s and 1870s the Catholic Newman dedicated much of his energy and considerable public prestige to combatting what he perceived as the inflationary and excessive dogmatism which threatened the intellectual and spiritual integrity of the Church under Pope Pius IX. In this talk, Professor Duffy considers the fundamental consistencies underlying the apparent contradictions in Newman’s developing understanding of the relation between revealed truth and intellectual freedom.
The event is co-sponsored by: Penn Catholic Newman Community, Harvard Catholic Forum, Nova Forum for Catholic Thought, the University of Dallas Program for Studies in Catholic Faith & Culture, Portsmouth Institute, the St. Thomas Catholic Studies MA program, the Lumen Christi Institute, the University College Dublin Newman Centre for the Study of Religions, Center for Catholic Studies at Durham University, Maynooth University: Irish Centre for Faith and Culture, and the American Catholic Historical Association.
