PROGRAMS
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Our programming offers opportunities to explore the intellectual and cultural resources of the Christian tradition through stand-alone events, multi-week reading groups, as well as more sustained communities of intellectual and moral formation for students and faculty.
All of our programs embody our commitment to hospitality, generous conversation, and the integration of faith and life.
Classes
Guest Lectures
Reading Groups
Triumph of the Therapeutic
Led by Juan Alcala
Saturdays 2/15; 3/8, 29; 4/19; 5/3 at 9:00 a.m.
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Reading Triumph of the Therapeutic by Philip Rieff.
“In a highly differentiated democratic culture, truly and for the first time, there arose the possibility of every man standing for himself, each at last leading a truly private life, trained to understand rather than love (or hate) his neighbor. Within such privacies, can a man feel well?” In The Triumph of the Therapeutic, Philip Rieff makes the case that the answer is, "No," and that the post-Freudian spirit of clinical care is a movement toward and within such "privacies." Join Juan Alcala—former CSC student, Pascal's Coffeehouse manager, and current doctoral student in clinical psychology—for a reading through this prescient book, which he considers to be a serious indictment of the profession he's training to enter and a piercing premonition of the "therapeutic" culture to which all of us have become habituated.
Special Events
Walker Percy Fellows Program
The inaugural Percy Fellows cohort will continue meeting this spring for the first year of the curriculum, focused on the cultivation of the Christian Mind.
During this year, students will receive a grounding in the biblical story and in a Christian understanding of the pursuit of knowledge and wisdom.
Year two will consider the Christian Life, and year three will explore the Christian Imagination.
