Paul Ortiz is Professor of History at the University of Florida and the director of the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program at the University of Florida. He is the author of Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History of Black Organizing and White Violence in Florida from Reconstruction to the Bloody Election of 1920.
Esther Lightcap Meek (BA Cedarville College, MA Western Kentucky University, PhD Temple University) is Professor of Philosophy emeritus at Geneva College, in Western Pennsylvania. She is a Fellow Scholar with the Fujimura Institute, an Associate Fellow with the Kirby Laing Center for Public Theology, and a member of the Polanyi Society. She offers courses for […]
Esther Lightcap Meek (BA Cedarville College, MA Western Kentucky University, PhD Temple University) is Professor of Philosophy emeritus at Geneva College, in Western Pennsylvania. She is a Fellow Scholar with the Fujimura Institute, an Associate Fellow with the Kirby Laing Center for Public Theology, and a member of the Polanyi Society. She offers courses for […]
The Christian Study Center of Gainesville welcomes Robert Zaretsky of the University of Houston to deliver a lecture on Albert Camus and Simone Weil and how the lives and writings of both reflect the act of paying attention to others.
The Christian Study Center of Gainesville hosts this two-day symposium with Dr. Samuel Kimbriel and will focus on the relationship between friendship and virtue. The first part of the symposium will be held on the evening of Friday, March 24th and will resume the following morning. Dr. Samuel Kimbriel is a political philosopher, author, and […]
Join the Christian Study Center of Gainesville as theologian and ethicist Myles Werntz of Abilene Christian University helps us think about the problem of loneliness and isolation. The evening begins with a reception at 6:45 followed by Dr. Werntz talk at 7:00.
What do the designs of a famous 3rd-century Roman sarcophagus tell us about Christian attitudes toward death? The “Jonah sarcophagus” features biblical texts, early Christian writings, plus Roman essays on astronomy and on how humor works in language. Of the rhetorician Quintilian’s 35 ways to build verbal humor, 12 appear on the sarcophagus. The designs […]
Reaching back to the wisdom of thinkers like Thomas Aquinas and Andrea Dworkin, and drawing from sociological studies, interviews with college students, and poignant examples from her own life, Emba calls for a more humane philosophy, one that starts with consent but accounts for the very real emotional, mental, social, and political implications of sex—even, […]
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