Saint Louis University

The Thomistic Institute at Saint Louis University presents a lecture by Fr. Stephen Fields, S.J. of Georgetown University titled “Is Today’s University Hollow? Newman’s Idea of Education.”

Friday, March 24

4:30 PM

Davis-Shaughnessy 274

This lecture is free and open to the public.

About the Speaker:

Stephen Fields, S.J. is Professor of the Philosophy of Religion and Systematic Theology in Georgetown University, Washington, DC.  With degrees from Yale and Oxford, he has been visiting professor at Fordham, Santa Clara, and St Joseph's Universities.  His books and articles deal with a wide range of topics, such as metaphysics, aesthetics, nature and grace, modern interpreters of Aquinas, Christian mysticism, Christianity and other religions, and recent papal thought.  The undergraduates elected him to the University's most distinguished teaching award, and has served as chaplain of the campus Knights of Columbus.  Recently he lectured on liberalism at the University of Chicago and at the Thomistic Institute's Harvard and Stanford chapters on the soon-to-be-canonized John Henry Newman, whom he has taught for over twenty years.