Lecture Series
The New York City Lecture Series in Church History offers an in-depth discussion of consecutive periods in the life of Christendom each year from September through May.
The Roman Forum Lectures in Church History 2015–2016
Splendors and Miseries of the Tridentine Life
The High Baroque and the Architects of Demolition, 1689-1748
| Lecturer: |
John C. Rao (D. Phil., Oxford) Associate Professor of History, St. John’s University |
| Date & Time: |
All sessions will meet on Sundays, at 2:30 p.m. (See schedule below for specific dates of lectures.) $15 payable at the door / Wine & cheese reception following |
| Location: |
Our Lady of Pompeii Church (Rectory Entrance on Carmine Street, west of Bleecker Street) 16 Carmine Street New York, N.Y. Subway: A, B, C, D, E, F, V to West 4th Street. Wheelchair accessible. |
| Schedule: |
September 13The Political and Religious Contours of a Divided Christendom (1689-1740)September 20Continued Tridentine Reform & High Baroque Culture: IOctober 4Continued Tridentine Reform & High Baroque Culture: IIOctober 18New World ChristianityNovember 8Catholic Minds and Catholic Mystics: Bossuet & FenelonNovember 22Quesnel, Richerism, and the New JansenismDecember 6UnigenitusDecember 13Appelants and the Parlement-Jansenist FrondeJanuary 10Nouvelles Ecclésiastiques and the Birth of the Cause CélèbreJanuary 24Jesuits, Jansenists, and The Chinese Rites IssueFebruary 7Peter the Great and the Subversion of Holy RussiaFebruary 21The Republic of Letters: Background and ToolsFebruary 28Spinoza and the Spread of the Radical EnlightenmentMarch 13The Moderate Enlightenment: Locke, Newton, Voltaire, Leibniz, Wolff, and the Prussian PietistsMarch 20Anglomania and its EnemiesApril 3“Catholic Enlightenment” and the Jesuit-Jansenist BattleApril 17Life in the Republic of Letters on the Eve of the EncyclopediaApril 24The War of the Austrian Succession and the End of the Beginning (1740-1748) |
