Dr. Robert Kiely
English
2008-2009
Biographical Overview
Dr. Robert Kiely is Loker Professor of English and American Literature at Harvard University. He is a graduate of Amherst College and took his doctorate at Harvard. He served for three years in the U.S. Naval Reserve, two years in Pearl Harbor, and one aboard the USS Coral Sea. Professor Kiely teaches courses in the Victorian, modern, and postmodern novel, the English Bible, Classics of Christian Literature, and the Rhetoric of Belief. Professor Kiely is a Benedictine Oblate and a member of the Community of Sant'Egidio, founded in Rome in 1968.
Currently working on a book on the relationship between writings by and about saints and their depictions in Italian Renaissance art, Dr. Kiely's published works include Still Learning: Spiritual Sketches from a Professor’s Life (1999); Reverse Tradition: Postmodern Fictions and the Nineteenth Century Novel (1993); Beyond Egotism: The Fiction of James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and D.H. Lawrence (1980); The Romantic Novel in England (1972); and Robert Louis Stevenson and the Fiction of Adventure (1964).
Courses Taught at Providence College:
Lectures at Providence College:
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"Mary Magdalene and the Dignity of Woman," October 7, 2008 at 4:00 p.m.
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"Further Considerations of the Holy Stigmata of Saint Francis: Where was Brother Leo?" Nov 18, 2008 at 3:30 p.m.
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"Free at Last: The African-American Experience," as part of the conference, "After Exodus: Exile, Flight, and the Promised Land in the American Literary Tradition," on February 29, 2009 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (Aquinas Lounge)
Dr. F. Russell Hittinger
Philosophy
2007-2008
Biographical Overview
The Warren Chair of Catholic Studies and a research professor in the School of Law at the University of Tulsa, Dr. Hittinger specializes in areas where philosophy, religion, and law intersect. He has taught at Fordham University and at the Catholic University of America; since 1993, he has been on the summer faculty of the Tertio Millenno program at the Dominican Priory in Krakow, Poland. A member of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas at the Vatican, he was elected to its governing board in 2006.
Dr. Hittinger is widely published with more than 100 articles and reviews to his credit, as well as scores of papers and lectures and several books. His latest work, a collection of essays, entitled The First Grace: Rediscovering Natural Law in a Post-Christian Age, was published by I.S.I. Books in 2003. His essays on papal social doctrine appeared last year in a two-volume work, Law and Human Nature: Teachings of Modern Christianity (Columbia University Press, 2005).
Courses Taught at Providence College:
Lectures Given at Providence College:
- "Social Justice: Devolution or Subsidiarity?"
October 23, 2008
- "The Legal Renaisance of the 12th and 13th Centuries: Some Thomistic Notes"
March 4, 2008
- Symposium: "Providence, Practical Reason and the Common Good"
April 26, 2008
Press Release Announcing Dr. Hittinger's Appointment
Dr. David B. Hart
Theology
2006-2007
Biographical Overview
An internationally renowned Eastern Orthodox theologian, Dr. Hart has served at Loyola College in Baltimore, the Center of Theological Inquiry at Princeton University, the Duke Divinity School, the University of St. Thomas, and the University of Virginia.
He is the author of The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth (Eerdmans Press, 2003) and The Doors of the Sea: Where Was God in the Tsunami? (Eerdmans Press, 2005). In addition, Dr. Hart has written dozens of articles, essays, and chapters for theological and related periodicals, including the theological journals Pro Ecclesia, Modern Theology, and First Things, and for The Wall Street Journal. He has served as the associate editor of Pro Ecclesia and is proficient in 10 languages, including English, Spanish, Greek, Latin, and Hebrew.
Courses Taught at Providence College:
Lectures Given at Providence College:
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“Theology and Naturalism: A Response to Daniel Dennett’s Evolutionary Critique Of Religious Belief”
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“Orientale Lumen: Sin, Nature and Grace in Eastern Orthodox Tradition”
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Symposium: “Divine Impassibility and the Mystery of Human Suffering”
Press Release Announcing Dr. Hart's Appointment
Very Rev. Aidan Nichols, O.P.
Theology
Spring 2005
Biographical Overview
Father Nichols, who has served as the prior of the Dominican Priory of St. Michael in Cambridge, England, is an affiliated lecturer at the University of Cambridge. A distinguished scholar, Father Nichols has published on numerous topics in theology including systematic, sacramental, and ecumenical theology.
The author of 30 books and more than 70 articles, he is considered "the most prolific writer of theology in the English language in the world today," according to the John Paul II Institute for Marriage & Family in Melbourne, Australia, where he has taught.
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Press Release Announcing Fr. Nichols's Appointment
Rev. Fergus Kerr
Theology
Fall 2002
Biographical Overview
The regent of the Blackfriars College, Oxford University, Oxford, England, Fr. Kerr holds degrees in philosophy and theology, including the master of sacred theology. He is the author of Theology after Wittgenstein and Immortal Longings and is the editor of New Blackfriars. Father Kerr also serves as an honorary senior lecturer at Edinburgh University in Scotland. His interests include Aquinas and contemporary Thomism, Wittgenstein, and Heidegger.
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Press Release Announcing Fr. Kerr's Appointment