Dr. John Rao (shown in the video above reading the Lake Garda Statement) will be delivering the customary Roman Forum Lecture Series in New York this year on the glories of Baroque Catholicism and their demolition in the Enlightenment. The Program will be as follows:
The Roman Forum
New
York City Church History Program
2015-2016
Splendors and Miseries
of the Tridentine Life:
The High Baroque and the
Architects of Demolition: 1689-1748
Lecturer: John Rao, D. Phil., Oxford University
Associate Professor of History, St. John's
University
September 13--The Political and Religious
Contours of a Divided
Christendom
(1689-1740)
September 20--Continued Tridentine Reform and
High Baroque Culture: I
October 4------ Continued Tridentine Reform and High Baroque
Culture: II
October 18-----New World Christianity
November 8--- Catholic Minds and Catholic Mystics: Bossuet &
Fenelon
November 22--Quesnel, Richerism, and the New Jansenism
December 6----Unigenitus
December 13-- Appelants
and the Parlement-Jansenist Fronde
January 10----- Nouvelles
Ecclésiastiques and the Birth of the Cause
Célèbre
January 24----- Jesuits, Jansenists, and The Chinese Rites Issue
February 7 ----Peter the
Great and the Subversion of Holy Russia
February 21--- The Republic of Letters and the
Subtle Spread of Spinoza
March 6-------- Royal Society, Locke, Newton, The Spectator, and
Freemasonry
March 20------ Voltaire and Continental Anglomania
April 3--------- Prussian Pietism and the
Moderate Enlightenment
April
17--------The
Cult of the Sacred Heart, Catholic “Enlightenment”, and
the Flight from the Supernatural
May
1----------Jansenism, Pietism, Enlightenment, and the Regalist Advance
May
8-----------
The War of the Austrian Succession and the End of the
Beginning (1740-1748)
All Sessions Meet on Sundays, at 2:30 P.M.
Wine & Cheese Reception. Entrance Fee
at door of $15.00
Our Lady of Pompeii Church
16 Carmine Street
Rectory Entrance on
Carmine Street, west of Bleecker Street
A, B, C, D, E, F, V
trains to West 4th Street Station
