In AD 380, not long before the sack of Rome in 410, the Emperor Theodocius had declared Christianity the official religion of the Empire. Perhaps, many argued, that was the problem. Many worshiped Jesus abandoning the old gods of Rome—Jupiter, Juno, Minerva, Apollo, Aphrodite, and the rest. No doubt those gods sent the barbarians to destroy the city as punishment for the lack of piety.
In Roman North Africa, there was a town called Hippo. And the bishop of Hippo, Augustine, got wind of those arguments, picked up his pen, and began writing what has become one of the world’s greatest apologetic and greatest political treatises: The City of God.
Wyoming Catholic College students study The City of God as sophomores and then again as seniors. At least once and sometimes twice, their professor is political philosopher, Dr. Virginia Arbery. Dr. Arbery is our guest this week on The After Dinner Scholar.
The Wife of Bath and the Meaning of Marriage with Prof. Adam Cooper
Points of Light: The Church in the 19th Century with Dr. Jim Tonkowich
”The Statesman as Thinker” with Dr. Daniel J. Mahoney
Eyes Wide Open: Field Science with Dr. Stanley Grove
Attuning Self to Community: Matriculation Address 2022 by Dr. Glenn Arbery
Introduction to ”Spe Salvi” by Dr. Michael Bolin
An Introduction to Leon Kass’ ”L’Chaim and Its Limits” by Dr. Daniel Shields
Introduction to St. Robert Bellermine’s Sermon on Death by Dr. Scott Olsson
Journeys Among the Dead by Dr. Glenn Arbery
Introduction to William Faulkner’s ”Go Down, Moses” by Dr. Virginia Arbery
Introduction to Sophocles’ ”Antigone” by Prof. Adam Cooper
Introduction to Ecclesiastes by Dr. Jim Tonkowich
Introduction to Leo Tolstoy’s ”The Death of Ivan Ilych” by Dr. Glenn Arbery
Numbering Our Days: Lecture by Dr. Jim Tonkowich
A Semester of Latin Hymns with Prof. Eugene Hamilton
Graduation 2022--The Liberal Arts in the World Today by Dr. R. R. Reno
Graduation 2022: Senior Address by Mr. Andrew Russell, Class of 2022
Graduation 2022--The President’s Address by Dr. Glenn Arbery
”Ode to Constantine XI” with Prof. Adam Cooper
Euclid and His Theory of Proportions with Dr. Henry Zepedd
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