The 27th Annual Roman Forum Summer Symposium

The Roman Forum Announces the Twenty-Seventh Annual Summer Symposium

Gardone Riviera, Italy

 (July 8^nd – July 19^th, 2019; 11 nights)

For more information please contact Prof. John Rao: drjcrao@aol.com

Modern Foundation Myths & the Destruction of Church & Civilization.  

          The twenty-seventh annual Summer Symposium at Gardone Riviera derives its theme from our general frustration—spiritually, intellectually, artistically, politically, and socially—with the mindless, often self-delusional, and frequently overtly manipulative visions of the ideology of modernity. Despite the fact that we have regularly dealt with the problems posed by modernism in a variety of ways in the past, this will be the first time that we have tackled its actual pillars themselves: nominalism and contempt for philosophical and theological thought; the cult of the autonomous individual and his supposed cultural genius; the contradictory themes of the total depravity of man and nature on the one hand and the glory of natural, pragmatic, scientific progress on the other; social contract theories; the concepts of freedom, equality, and democracy; the biological evolution and magical transformation of beast and man; the American foundation myth, as well as those underlying modern materialist economic visions.