Is It Possible to Live This Way?
Wednesday, October 1, 2008 at 8:00PM An Unusual Approach to Christian Existence
A discussion on the teachings of Msgr. Luigi GIUSSANI
The book Is It Possible to Live This Way? addresses important issues on the state of the Western world, offering a significant contribution to the discussion on the relationship between faith and reason, along with science and religion. There has been a strong trend in our culture to identify reason with the methods of the natural sciences, and to dismiss all other forms of knowledge as necessarily non-objective and irrational. This tendency to diminish the scope and depth of human reason has been one of the main concerns of Pope Benedict XVI, who has repeatedly called for a "broadening of reason," pointing out that even science builds on philosophical foundations that it does not give itself.
About this Event
Date: Wednesday, October 1, 2008Time: 8:00pm
Location: The Pope John Paul II Cultural Center
3900 Harewood Rd., NE, Washington, DC 20017 Metro: Red Line - Brookland/CUA Station
About the Speakers
Arch. Pietro Sambi
Apostolic Nuncio of the Holy See to the U.S.
Lorenzo Albacete
Theologian, Author, Columnist
Roger Scruton
Writer and philosopher, Research Professor at Institute for the Psychological Sciences
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