University of Dallas
Thomistic Institute Chapter at the University of Dallas invite students in Texas to attend their symposium entitled Lost in Wonder: The Sacraments as the Wellspring of Catholic Art
Students will have the opportunity to come together socially, intellectually, and spiritually during this day-long event.
This Symposium is for students in Texas
Lecture Schedule:
Ardent, Yet Not Idolatrous: Pagan Beauty as Sacrament in Tolkien, Newman, Maritain, and Gilson by Prof. Raymond Hain (Providence College)
Aquinas the DJ: Tradition and Invention in the Corpus Christi Liturgy by Fr. Innocent Smith, O.P. (Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception)
The Beautiful and the Sublime: How to Make Art that Leads to God by Prof. Patrick Callahan (Newman Institute for Catholic Thought and Culture)
About the speakers:
Raymond Hain is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Associate Director of the Humanities Program at Providence College in Providence, RI. Educated at Christendom College, the University of Notre Dame, and the University of Oxford, he is the founder of the PC Humanities Forum and Humanities Reading Seminars and is responsible for the strategic development of the Humanities Program into a vibrant, world class center of teaching, research, and cultural life dedicated to the Catholic Intellectual Tradition. His scholarly interests include the history of ethics (especially St. Thomas Aquinas), applied ethics (especially medical ethics and the ethics of architecture), Alexis de Tocqueville, and philosophy and literature (especially Catholic aesthetics).
Fr. Innocent Smith, O.P. entered the Order of Preachers in 2008 and was ordained to the priesthood in 2015. From 2015 to 2018, Fr. Innocent served as parochial vicar at the Parish of St. Vincent Ferrer and St. Catherine of Siena in New York City. From 2018 to 2021, he lived in Munich while completing a doctorate in liturgical studies at the University of Regensburg. From 2021 to 2023, Fr. Innocent served as Assistant Professor of Homiletics at St. Mary’s Seminary & University in Baltimore. In 2023, he joined the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception.
Patrick Callahan is director of the Newman Institute for Catholic Thought & Culture as well as Assistant Professor of English and Humanities at St. Gregory the Great Seminary. There he directs and teaches in a Great Books Catholic program for students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and other regional colleges. He did his undergraduate work at the University of Dallas and his graduate work at Fordham University in Classics. He lives in Lincoln, NE with his wife and 5 children.
For further information, please contact the Thomistic Institute Chapter at the University of Dallas.