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 2016–2017
Even Now the Devastation Is Begun…
…and Half the Business of Destruction Done
(1748–1799)
| 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 18The Last Pontificates & Princes of the Ancien RégimeOctober 2Learned Bishops, Continued Tridentine Vitality, and the Second Spring of the Internal MissionsOctober 16Battening the Hatches: Montesquieu & the EncyclopediaOctober 23Battening the Hatches: No Enemies On the “Left”?November 6The Lisbon Earthquake & the Voltaire-Rousseau-Atheist-Christian TsunamiNovember 20Jesuits, Jansenists, and the Billets de ConfessionDecember 4Reform Catholicism & the “Regulated Devotion”December 18Religions of the Heart — Both Sacred & ProfaneJanuary 15Prussia, Britain, and the Panic of the PotentatesJanuary 29The Via Crucis of the Russian Church (But Her Budding Mystical Revival)February 12Regalism in Portugal & Spain & the Anti-Jesuit AssaultFebruary 26The Missions Between Regalism & the EnlightenmentMarch 5Intermezzo: The Strange But Temporary Death of the Society of JesusMarch 19Febronianism, Josephism, and the Troubled Domestication of the Tridentine Germanic WorldApril 2Whither the Eldest Daughter of the ChurchApril 9A “Patriotic” French Church & Her Multiple DiscontentsApril 23The Center Cannot HoldMay 7Terror and Catholic GenocideMay 21Can the “Infamous Thing” Be Really Dead? |
