The Roman Forum: 2014/15 Church History Program

The Roman Forum
Church History Program
2014-2015 New York City

War in Heaven and the City of Man:
Laying the Groundwork for a Garden of Earthly Delights
1629-1689

Lecturer: John Rao, D. Phil., Oxford University
Associate Professor of History, St. John’s University

September 7—-Stairways to Heaven: The Baroque Cultural Environment
September 21– Popes, Bishops, Religious, & Tridentine Reform: I
September 28– Popes, Bishops, Religious, & Tridentine Reform: II
October 19—– Dévots, Bon Français & Ambiguous Christian Monarchy
November 2—-Westphalia and the Collapse of International Christendom
November 16—Baroque Regalism and the Fractured Empire
November 30—The Regalist Onslaught in the Ibero-Italian World
December 14— New World Christianity: Religion, Regalism, & the Creoles
January 18—— Jansenius, Saint-Cyran, the Great Arnauld, & Port Royal
February 1—— Regalism, Le Roi Soleil, and the Gallican Threat
February 15—–Piety, Mysticism, and Pastoral Discontents
March 1——— Intercontinental Crimes Committed in the Name of Grace
March 15——–The Turk You Will Always Have With You
March 29——–Raskol and Russian Tsardom
April 12———-Descartes, Deus, et Machina
April 26———-The Dutch Kaleidoscope and the Shadow of Spinoza
May 10———–Manifold Agonies of the Anglican World
May 17———–Glorious Revolution & the Foundations of Locke Land

All Sessions Meet on Sundays, at 2:30 P.M.
Wine & Cheese Reception. Entrance Fee at door of $15.00

University Parish Church of St. Joseph/371 Sixth Avenue
Church Hall Entrance on Washington Place, south of Waverly Place
A, B, C, D, E, F, V trains to West 4th Street Station
Wheelchair Accessible