2011: Radical Emancipation
The twelfth annual Fall Conference, “Radical Emancipation: Confronting the Challenge of Secularism,” took place November 10–12, 2011. It sought to explore Pope Benedict XVI’s claim that “the real opposition that characterizes today’s world is not that between various religious cultures, but that between the radical emancipation of man from God, from the roots of life, on one hand, and from the great religious cultures on the other. If there were to be a clash of cultures, it would not be because of a clash of the great religions—which have always struggled against one another, but which, in the end, have also always known how to live with one another—but it will be because of the clash between this radical emancipation of man and the great historical cultures.” Watch video recordings of the presentations using the links below.
Featured Presentations
- “Evangelizing the Secular Culture,” Rev. Robert Barron, Word on Fire
- “On Being a Theistic Philosopher in a Secularized Culture,” Alasdair MacIntyre, University of Notre Dame
- Panel of Christian College Presidents: “Universities and Secularism: The Points of Engagement,” Stephen Minnis, Benedictine College; Rev. Robert Sloan, Houston Baptist University; Br. John Paige, C.S.C., Holy Cross College
- “After Metaphysics: Taking Hegel Seriously,” H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr., Baylor University
- “Forgetting Jerusalem: Has the West Lost Its Way?” Jean Bethke Elshtain, University of Chicago
- “March of the Jacobins: The Global Rise and Decline of Political Secularism,” Timothy Shah, Georgetown University
- “Beyond Secular Reason and Back Again: A Memoir in Theory and Practice,” Michael Baxter, DePaul University
- “Radical Emancipation and the Teaching of English Literature,” Lucy Beckett
- “Sociologial Perspectives on Secularism,” Christian Smith, University of Notre Dame
- “Translating Scripture in a Secular Age,” David Lyle Jeffrey, Baylor University
- “Christians and Aliens: Making Movies in a Culture of Death,” Daniel McInerny, Trojan Tub Entertainment
Past Conferences
- 2013: Fearfully and Wonderfully Made
- 2012: Exploring the Many Facets of Justice
- 2011: Radical Emancipation
- 2010: Younger Than Sin
- 2009: The Summons of Freedom
- 2008: The Family
- 2007: Dialogue of Cultures
- 2006: Modernity
- 2005: Joy in the Truth
- 2004: Epiphanies of Beauty
- 2003: Formation and Renewal
- 2002: From Death to Life
- 2001: A Culture of Life
- 2000: A Culture of Death