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The Wake Up Call of Post Modernism

Four Wednesday Evenings
March 17, 24, 31 and April 7
7 to 9pm
Led by Geoff Woods

What is Post-modernism? How does it affect our times and faith? This four session survey will analyze at least three post-modern pieces of literature; two novels by Jim Crace, i.e. "Quarantine" and "Being Dead" and another by James Cowan entitled "A Mapmaker's Dream". (Purchase and prior reading of the books would be useful but not required.) There will be further excursions in the writings of the Anglican theologian Don Cupitt, i.e. his radical, post-modern works "Emptiness and Brightness" and "Reforming Christianity".

Post-modernism is primarily critical of the modern world that commenced with Galileo and Descartes, the Age of Reason and Techno-scientific "progress". But it searches out to "emancipate" people from the Age of Faith as well. Where does that leave us? Well, one possible reaction to its incisive critique of the past can be a believer's reassessment of his or her own belief in God and Reason, which he or she has taken for granted and a revitalizing of the same. In other words, post-modernism confront us with choice where until now a believer's life may have been one of mere habit.

Post-modernism can be a wake up call and even a vantage point from which the believer can get over his or her feelings of inferiority brought on by the Age of Reason and Techno-science. The course will be centered on literature and a bit on art, old and new, as our means of understanding this late 20th century movement.

Dr. Wood has a Ph.D. in Sacred Theology from Catholic University, Washington, D.C. and a Licentiate in Sacred Scripture from Rome's Pontifical Bible University. He has taught at Catholic University, Swarthmore and Bucknell University.

Cost: $56 (Bring a friend free.) Please make reservations.

2004

Four Wednesday Evenings
March 17, 24, 31 and April 7
7 to 9pm