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What is Grace?

A Student Summa Theologiae Reading Group titled “What is Grace?” and led by Prof. Thomas Pfau of Duke University.

Thursdays

March 4-25

6:30 pm EST

Reading groups gather once or twice a week via Zoom for relaxed, 1-2 hour discussions, working their way through a few articles of the Summa Theologiae or another classic work.

Open to current university students and young professionals.

About the Speaker:

Thomas Pfau (PhD 1989, SUNY Buffalo) is the Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of English, with secondary appointments in Germanic Language & Literatures and the Divinity School at Duke University. He has published forty-five essays on literary and philosophical subjects ranging from the 18th through the early 20th century, translations of Hölderlin and Schelling (SUNY Press, 1987 and 1994). Having edited seven essay collections and special journal issues, he is also the author of three monographs: Wordsworth’s Profession (Stanford UP 1997), Romantic Moods: Paranoia, Trauma, Melancholy, 1790-1840 (Johns Hopkins UP 2005), and Minding the Modern: Intellectual Traditions, Human Agency, and Responsible Knowledge (Notre Dame UP, 2013). His current book project focuses on phenomenology of image-consciousness in literature, theology, and philosophy.

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