Face to Face with...Leah Libresco!

A dialogue on how a well-educated millennial can still believe in the divinity of the man, Jesus of Nazareth (and why it is relevant)

with Leah Anthony LIBRESCO

Presented by Crossroads Cultural Center

A peculiar characteristic of modern culture is that many important questions, and especially religious questions, are seldom phrased in terms of true and false. We seem to think that it is much more important to determine whether something is new or old, progressive or conservative, relevant or irrelevant, in fashion or out of fashion, socially acceptable or unacceptable. For this reason, it is surprising and refreshing when somebody stands up and asks the simple question: Is this true or not? To do so requires a certain kind of courage, or more precisely, a certain kind of morality. Monsignor Giussani liked to talk about the "morality of knowledge" in the sense that "the problem of human knowledge does not lie in a particular intellectual capacity ... The center of the problem is really a proper position of the heart, a correct attitude, a feeling in its place, a morality." One must "love the truth of an object more than your attachment to the opinions you have already formed about it. More concisely, one could say, 'love the truth more than yourself'." Giussani was writing before the advent of the Internet, which is the most powerful instrument ever invented to encourage people to love their own opinions more than anything else, and certainly more than the truth. But still, from time to time, some people show up who have the simplicity of heart (what the Gospel calls 'poverty of spirit') to ask: Is it true or not? This is even more exceptional in reference to the most tremendous question that humans have to face, which is the one Christ asked: "Who do you say that I am?" which means "Am I true or not?" Over the last few years, many of us have come to recognize one such person in our friend Leah Libresco, and thus we have decided to invite her to have a conversation precisely on this topic. In the words of Dostoevsky, "Can a cultured man [or woman], a European [or an American] of our day, believe, really believe in the divinity of Christ, the Son of God?” Leah Libresco's book Arriving at Amen will be available for purchase.

The event is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

About this Event

Date: Wednesday, December 16, 2015
Time: 7pm
Location: Crossroads Auditorium
125 Maiden Lane, 15th Floor, NY, NY
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About the Speaker

Leah Anthony Libresco
Blogger and author

Invitation

Download the invitation here.

Video

Part I
Part II
Q&A Part I
Q&A Part II

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