Conferences for Study and Prayer

In this talk, Dr. Lawrence Feingold will discuss how the absolute centrality of the Resurrection of Christ to Christian faith is magnificently expressed by St. Paul in chapter 15 of the First Letter to the Corinthians, in which he speaks of the Resurrection of Christ and the future Resurrection of the faithful. His concern is to correct a heretical view present among some of the faithful in Corinth—influenced by a Platonic conception—according to which the promised Resurrection is a purely spiritual affair. To counter this doubt, St. Paul speaks with great force about the Resurrection of Christ, and its intrinsic connection with the resurrection of Christians at the Second Coming. He begins by giving the testimony of the eyewitnesses of the Resurrection (1 Cor 15:3-9).

In this talk, Dr. Lawrence Feingold will discuss how Apologetics uses philosophy to demonstrate what are called the “preambles of faith.” The “preambles of faith” refer to certain fundamental truths which can be known by reason alone (that is, by philosophy), which form the basis for belief in religion. These truths include the truths about God, about man, and about our duties towards God.

In this talk, Dr. Lawrence Feingold will discuss the reasons why it is useful to demonstrate the existence of God, even if we already believe in Him.

In this talk, Dr. Lawrence Feingold will discuss St. Thomas Aquinas’ Fourth Way to demonstrate the existence of God; God Is the First Cause of all that which shares in the perfections of being.

In this talk, Dr. Lawrence Feingold will discuss how God's existence is proven by the reasons of the heart and will also discuss the problem of evil.

In this talk, Dr. Lawrence Feingold will discuss how the Catholic vision of man defends three fundamental truths, which can be shown by reason: (a) the spirituality and immortality of the human soul, (b) the freedom of the will and our moral responsibility, and (c) the substantial unity of man’s body and soul.

In this talk, Dr. Lawrence Feingold will discuss how religion is the obligation of justice with regard to God Our Creator.

In this talk, Dr. Lawrence Feingold will discuss how Judaism served as the preparation for the Incarnation.

If God wished to enter the scene of human history, it is only fitting that He prepare for that event in human history, so that His entrance would not pass unnoticed or unappreciated. This prior preparation was nothing less than the whole history of Judaism for 2,000 years, which is in itself a great sign of credibility of the Christian faith. 

In this talk, Dr. Lawrence Feingold will discuss the phenomenon of Culture Lite.

The word “lite” (or “light”) in the expression culture lite is being used here in analogy with products labeled as “lite” such as Pepsi lite, etc. The word is being taken in the sense of superficiality, lightweight, levity, lack of seriousness, earnestness and purpose; lack of weight and constancy; lack of passion for the truth, for what is permanent, eternal, transcendent, divine.

My thesis is that the dominant Western culture (including various counter-cultures and criticisms of that dominant culture), is characterized by a lack of conviction, commitment, earnestness and self-sacrifice. The opposite of the lite mentality is the man of faith, the man of God.

Every society lives by a certain vision of man and his relation with God. It cannot help but project a certain ideal (or ideals) of man, which it collectively strives to realize and imitate.

In this talk, Dr. Lawrence Feingold will discuss “Postmodernism,” Religious Indifferentism, and the Loss of Meaning in Life.

The greatest tragedy of the modern world is the loss of faith, not only in God, but also in truth itself, and our ability to know it by any means, whether by reason or faith.

Allan Bloom, in The Closing of the American Mind, writes:

“…The most important and most astonishing phenomenon of our time, all the more astonishing in being almost unnoticed: there is now an entirely new language of good and evil, originating in an attempt to get ‘beyond good and evil’ and preventing us from talking with any conviction about good and evil anymore…. The new language is that of value relativism, and it constitutes a change in our view of things moral and political as great as the one that took place when Christianity replaced Greek and Roman paganism.”