University of Florida

The Thomistic Institute at the University of Florida presents a lecture by Prof. Jared Staudt of the Augustine Institute titled “The Saving Power of Beauty in Art and Liturgy.”

St. Augustine Catholic Church and Student Center | 1738 W University Ave, Gainesville, FL 32603

Thursday, Nov. 5

6:30 PM

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About the speaker:

R. Jared Staudt, PhD serves as Visiting Associate Professor at the Augustine Institute and works in the Office of Evangelization and Family Life Ministries at the Archdiocese of Denver. He earned his PhD in systematic theology from Ave Maria University and his BA and MA in Catholic Studies from the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN. He served previously as the Director of Religious Education in two parishes, as Director of Catholic Studies at the University of Mary, and acted as the managing and coeditor of the theological journal, Nova et Vetera. Staudt’s primary interest is the relationship of religion and culture. He has explored this theme through research on the works of the historian Christopher Dawson, writing his dissertation of the virtue of religion in St. Thomas Aquinas, and teaching regularly on St. John Paul II’s vision for the evangelization of culture. He is married with six children and is a Benedictine oblate.