University of South Carolina

The Thomistic Institute at the University of South Carolina presents a lecture by Fr. Stephen Fields, S.J. of Georgetown University titled “Truth, Relativism, and the Natural Law.”

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There will be a live, in-person viewing of the lecture in Petigru 111. If you would like to attend, please contact Grace Regnier at gregnier@email.sc.edu.

Thursday, April 22

7:00 pm

About the Speaker:

Stephen Fields, SJ 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.