The Augustinian Institute at Villanova University

09/02/2012

Lectures in the Augustinian Traditions
November 6, Time: TBA
Professor David Steinmetz

09/02/2012

CONFLICT/DIALOGUE? Augustine's Engagement with Cultures in De ciuitate dei
September 25-29, 2012
Istituto Patristico Augustinianum –Via Paolo VI, 25 – I-00193 Roma
Sponsored by: Villanova University, Istituto Patristico Augustinianum and Zentrum für Augustinus-Forschung
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09/02/2012

Reconsiderations IV: Augustine: ancient inspiration, modern muse.
September 13-15, 2012

Reconsiderations IV Registration

05/11/2012

In Dialogue with Augustine Seminar
Augustine's Anthropology
July 16-20, 2012
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02/28/2012

Ecology through Augustine's eyes: Give us sustainability, Lord, but not yet.
Joseph T. Kelly, Merrimack College
March 27, 2012 4:30 PM HSB Room 200
Main Campus, Villanova University

11/03/2011

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
___________St. Augustine

11/03/2011

LECTURE TODAY
The Thomas F. Martin Saint Augustine Fellow, Dr. Maureen Tilley will be giving a public Lecture on November 3rd 2011, 4:00 – 5:30 PM -St. Thomas of Villanova Church

Augustine, Friends and Family: Best Friends Forever

11/01/2011

St. Augustine was born in Thagaste, Roman North Africa on 13 November 354. After his conversion and baptism he subsequently became bishop of Hippo where he labored indefatigably as monk, pastor, theologian, and spiritual guide until his death on 28 August 430.

11/01/2011

The Thomas F. Martin Saint Augustine Fellow, Dr. Maureen Tilley will be giving a public Lecture on November 3rd 2011, 4:00 – 5:30 PM -St. Thomas of Villanova Church

Augustine, Friends and Family: Best Friends Forever
In his Confessions Saint Augustine claimed that as a young man he was in love with love and with loving. While most commentators focus on his passion for s*x, his passions extended to friendship too. Like many of us he cultivated all sorts of relationships: friends, acquaintances, lovers and family.
When Augustine became a Christian he re-evaluated his friends and family members and friendship generally. His re-evaluation and the form it takes in the Confessions have implications for modern friends who pledge "Best Friends Forever."
Sponsored by
The Augustinian Institute

11/01/2011

The Vivian J Lamb Lecture Series on Augustinian Thought and the Science, November 9th, 2011, 4:30 PM – Driscoll Auditorium

Brother Guy Consolmagno SJ
Vatican Observatory, Vatican City State

Creation Stories
Both science and religion are invoked to answer the big questions of cosmology -- who we are and where we come from. What sorts of questions does each ask, and what sort of answers satisfy? And how has this changed over history? In practice, most people learn what a religion has to teach through the stories it tells, and science itself is often best communicated with the structure of "story" -- setting, crisis, insight, resolution. In this context it is interesting to examine science fiction as an example of how our understanding of various cosmologies gets communicated, through story, into the popular culture

10/31/2011

RECONSIDERATIONS IV
September 13, 14, 15.

Augustine: ancient inspiration, modern muse.
Reconsiderations IV will look at Augustine in his time and beyond his time: what is there about his life and thought that has so often been accepted as a guide through cultural change? How does he end up having an impact on the self-image of ages other than his own? Those who have claimed him as mentor include renaissance figures, philosophers, theologians, educators and political theorists. His resurgence today – whether recognized as acceptable or not – depends on insight into his life and thought and an appreciation of the intervening history.

St. Augustine Lecture
James Wetzel, Villanova University

Augustine’s World
Robert Wilken, University of Virginia
Jason BeDuhn, Northern Arizona University
Maureen Tilley, Fordham University

Interpreting Augustine
Michael McCarthy, Santa Clara University
John Peter Kenney, Saint Michael's College
Ellen Charry, Princeton Theological Seminary

Augustine and Theology
Lewis Ayres, Durham University
John Cavadini, University of Notre Dame
William Harmless, Creighton University

Augustine’s Legacy
Irena Backus, University of Geneva
Willemien Otten, University of Chicago
Paul van Geest, Tilburg University

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The Augustinian Institute will serve the university as an agent and resource to support its efforts to give Augustines thought a vibrant and integral place within Villanovas academic and community life, and allows that voice of Augustine to continue to speak effectively to todays world.