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Event Series On the Nature of Angels: Thomas Aquinas Reading Group

On the Nature of Angels: Thomas Aquinas Reading Course

Gavin House 1220 E 58th St., Chicago

One of St. Thomas Aquinas's very last projects was a treatise on angels. With a more historical approach than that of either Summa on the subject, it addresses such topics the immateriality of angels, their origin, their knowledge, and the distinctions among them, including the distinction between the good ones and the bad ones. Along the way, it offers some of Thomas’s most sophisticated discussions of the metaphysics of creation, hylomorphism, and participation.

Event Series Confederacy of Dunces Graduate Reading Group

Confederacy of Dunces Graduate Reading Group

Gavin House 1220 E 58th St., Chicago

Take a journey with us through the vibrant streets of New Orleans' French Quarter as we read A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole's masterpiece of humor and a character study of one of the giants of literature, Ignatius J. Reilly. In this group, we will explore the book's cadre of distinctive characters and Toole's synthesis of New Orleans' contradictory gumbo of vice, race, and French Catholicism. We hope we'll be able to balance the belly laughs with the thoughtful insights the book offers into the absurdity of the modern world, the struggle to live an authentic life, and whether a Medieval tome works better as a guide to living a good life or a doorstop.