Boston College Front Row

David Adams, a co-director of Emerge, an organization in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that provides counseling and education related to domestic violence, discusses his research regarding domestic homicides. The program is sponsored by the Forensic Nursing Program of the William F. Connell School of Nursing.

David Adams, a co-director of Emerge, an organization in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that provides counseling and education related to domestic violence, discusses his research regarding domestic homicides. The program is sponsored by the Forensic Nursing Program of the William F. Connell School of Nursing.

What kind of spirituality can help Christians, particularly Catholics, to reach beyond sectarianism and yet be well identified as something more than just “one of the crowd”? As Catholics emerge from the ghetto—now called “life-style enclaves”—how can they avoid assimilation and maintain a distinctive religious identity? These and other questions are explored in the annual Evelyn Underhill Lecture in Christian Spirituality.

Timothy Radcliffe, OP, is a Dominican friar of the English Province, and was a Master of the Order of Preachers from 1992-2001, the only member of the English Province to have held that office since the order’s founding in 1216. He was the 2007 winner of The Michael Ramsey Prize for theological writing for his book lt;igt;What Is the Point of Being A Christian?lt;/igt;(Burns and Oates, 2006).

What kind of spirituality can help Christians, particularly Catholics, to reach beyond sectarianism and yet be well identified as something more than just “one of the crowd”? As Catholics emerge from the ghetto—now called “life-style enclaves”—how can they avoid assimilation and maintain a distinctive religious identity? These and other questions are explored in the annual Evelyn Underhill Lecture in Christian Spirituality.

Timothy Radcliffe, OP, is a Dominican friar of the English Province, and was a Master of the Order of Preachers from 1992-2001, the only member of the English Province to have held that office since the order’s founding in 1216. He was the 2007 winner of The Michael Ramsey Prize for theological writing for his book lt;igt;What Is the Point of Being A Christian?lt;/igt;(Burns and Oates, 2006).

Lectura Dantis, a public reading of Dantes lt;igt;Divine Comedylt;/igt;, presents “Paradiso IV” with Federica Anichini, assistant professor of Italian Language and Literature at Smith College. The discussion of the text is in English; the reading from the lt;igt;Divine Comedylt;/igt; is in Italian.

This program is part of an ongoing public reading of the lt;igt;Divine Comedylt;/igt; organized by the Boston College Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and the Center for Italian Culture in Newton, Massachusetts.

Lectura Dantis, a public reading of Dantes lt;igt;Divine Comedylt;/igt;, presents “Paradiso IV” with Federica Anichini, assistant professor of Italian Language and Literature at Smith College. The discussion of the text is in English; the reading from the lt;igt;Divine Comedylt;/igt; is in Italian.

This program is part of an ongoing public reading of the lt;igt;Divine Comedylt;/igt; organized by the Boston College Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and the Center for Italian Culture in Newton, Massachusetts.

Political science professor Alan Wolfe, director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life, discusses his most recent book, lt;igt;The Future of Liberalismlt;/igt; (Knopf, 2009), which lt;igt;Publishers Weeklylt;/igt; described as “a passionate defense of why liberalism—broadly defined—continues to be relevant and essential.” Mary Sarah Bilder, professor of law, and Daniel J. Mahoney, professor of political science at Worcesters Assumption College, offer critiques.

Political science professor Alan Wolfe, director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life, discusses his most recent book, lt;igt;The Future of Liberalismlt;/igt; (Knopf, 2009), which lt;igt;Publishers Weeklylt;/igt; described as “a passionate defense of why liberalism—broadly defined—continues to be relevant and essential.” Mary Sarah Bilder, professor of law, and Daniel J. Mahoney, professor of political science at Worcesters Assumption College, offer critiques.

Noam Chomsky, professor emeritus of linguistics at MIT, is the featured panelist in this event, moderated by Richard Kearney, professor of philosophy, with responses by Ali Banuazizi, professor of political science, and Stephen Pfohl, professor of sociology.

Noam Chomsky, professor emeritus of linguistics at MIT, is the featured panelist in this event, moderated by Richard Kearney, professor of philosophy, with responses by Ali Banuazizi, professor of political science, and Stephen Pfohl, professor of sociology.