Workshops
Classes and Seminars
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A
Spiritual Reading of Passage to India and Anna Karenin
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Four
Wednesdays
March 2, 9, 16, and 23, 2005
7:30-9pm
Cost: $60
Led by Geoff Wood
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Both novels,
the one by E. M. Forster and the other by Leo Tolstoy, deal among
other things with the cultural clash between East and West, Euro-America
and Asia, something that has come much to the fore in the present
day. Or the clash could be described as between incarnation and
mystical or Gnostic escape; secularism and religious institutions;
freedom and solidarity and the like. Two classes will be devoted
to each story with a presentation analyzing the works in terms
of these clashes or contrasts with time for discussion. Reference
to other works related to the themes may be made as well.
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.
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