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 2022–2023

Hermeneutic of Continuity
or Opiate of the Church?

1978–2013

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.)

Wine & cheese reception: $15

Location: Most Holy Redeemer Church
East 3rd Street, between Avenues A & B

Both audio and videotapes of all lectures will be posted on the Internet.

Schedule:
September 11

A Deeply Troubled Church in a Collapsing Postwar Order

September 25

Here Today — Gone Tomorrow

October 9

A Call for Help From “the Christ Among Nations”

October 16

Affirming the Faith — While Dismantling the Temple

November 13

Sailing to Byzantium on “the Opiate of the Popes”

November 20

The End of Soviet Communism and the New Liberation Theologies:
Marxist, Neo-Liberal, and Neo-Conservative

December 11

The New World Order on Steroids

December 18

Our Future Lies in Our Past: Traditionalism, 1978-1990s

January 8 2023

The Year 2000: Ecumenism and Millenarianism

January 22

The Hermeneutici and the Conservative Dilemma

February 5

The New World Order’s Culture of Death

February 12

How Goes the Internal Mission?

February 26

How Goes the External Mission?

March 5

Habemus Papam!

March 26

Did You Ever See a Dream Walking?

April 2

The Horror!! The Horror!!

April 16

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

May 7

My End is My Beginning

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