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God in Modernity: On The Theology that Shaped the Modern World

University of Alabama at Birmingham

A lecture by Prof. Erik Dempsey (University of Texas at Austin)

Wednesday, September 20th

5:30PM

University of Alabama at Birmingham | Sterne Library, Lecture Room 174

This lecture is free and open to the public.

About the Speaker:

Erik Dempsey is the Assistant Director of the University of Texas at Austin's Thomas Jefferson Center for the Study of Core Texts and Ideas. He is interested in understanding human virtue and the proper place of politics in a flourishing human life. He specializes in the ethical and political teaching of the Bible and Aristotle; theoretical foundations of modern politics; and the question of relativism.

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