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June 14 – 19, 2009

Summer Seminar 2009

SUBSTANTIALLY CATHOLIC summer seminars immerse college professors in the richness of the Catholic intellectual tradition.

The Summer 2009 schedule features two dedicated tracks: one in English Literature and another addressing central Catholic issues in Philosophy and Psychology.

Conducted by and for professors, five intellectually stimulating days are built around dialogue with distinguished Catholic scholars.

English Literature Track

Professor Paul Contino
Pepperdine University

Session I: Beauty and Heaven	Dostoevsky	Selections from Brothers Karamazov “An Onion” “Cana of Galilee”
Session II: Beauty and the Church	J.F. Powers Alice McDermott Flannery O’Connor	A Story Selection Selections from After This “Temple of the Holy Ghost”
Session III: Beauty and the Image	Tobias Wolff Shusaku Endo Flannery O’Connor	“Bullet in the Brain” and “White Bible” Selections from Silence “Parker’s Back”
Session IV: Beauty and Nature	Annie Dillard Thomas Merton Ron Hansen	Selections Selections Selection from Exiles
Session V: Beauty and Poverty	Andre Dubus	Dancing at Lughnasa

Professor Robert Kiely
Harvard University

Session I: Beauty and Heaven	Dante	English translations of Paradiso from Longfellow to Ciardi Selections from Canto I and XXXIII
Session II: Beauty and the Church	George Herbert John Donne	Selected Poems The Church Selected Sermons
Session III: Beauty and the Image	John Ruskin Henry James	Selections from Mornings in Florence Selections from Italian Hours
Session IV: Beauty and Nature	Gerard Manley Hopkins	Selected Poems
Session V: Beauty and Poverty	Francis of Assisi Flannery O’Connor	Selected Stories from The Little Flowers Selected Stories

Psychology/Philosophy Track

Professor Jeffrey B. Adams
Saint Michael’s College

Session I:	Who Ya Gonna Trust?	Religion and Science as Sources of Influence
Session II:	Don’t you Trust Me?	Personal Integrity vs. Situational Temptation
Session III:	Whatever Became of Sin?	Psychology’s Bid to Define the Good Life
Session IV:	Psychological Reactions to and Consequences of Sin	Guilt, Shame, and How We Avoid Both
Session V:	I’m Spiritual, Not Religious	Reflections on the Movement Toward Rejecting Religion

Professor Thomas Cavanaugh
University of San Francisco

Theology Track

Father Robert Imbelli (Presenter)
Boston College

Professor David Gentry Akin (Respondent)
Saint Mary's College

Session I:	Jesus Christ: The Heart of the Catholic Intellectual Tradition	Christology
Session II:	The Trinitarian Tradition	Trinity
Session III:	The Church	Ecclesiology
Session IV:	Eucharist and the Catholic Sacramental Vision	Sacraments