Date: Friday, January 9th
 
Time: 7:30 p.m. followed by a reception
 
Speaker: Dr. Peter Kreeft, Author and Professor of Philosophy, Boston College
 
Topic: “The Lordship of Christ in The Lord of the Rings: Tolkien’s Catholic Worldview”
 
Cost: $15/person, $5/students with ID 
 
Dr. Peter Kreeft is Professor of Philosophy at Boston College and has taught at numerous other institutions including Villanova University and Haverford College. Dr. Kreeft is a well-known author and lecturer on topics related to philosophy, ethics, theology and culture. He has authored approximately 40 books including: C.S. Lewis for the Third Millennium, Back to Virtue: Traditional Moral Wisdom for Modern Moral Confusion and The Refutation of Moral Relativism. He is currently working on a book about the philosophy of J.R.R. Tolkien. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. from Fordham University and he pursued postgraduate studies at Yale University. He has been the recipient of a number of fellowships including the Yale-Sterling Fellowship, the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, the Danforth Asian Religions Fellowship and the Newman Alumni Scholarship.  
Visit his official website at www.peterkreeft.com. 
 
The Lord of the Rings, while a work of pure literature, also has a philosophic dimension. Dr. Kreeft will explore the distinctively Catholic metaphysics, anthropology, epistemology, ethics, and politics in what many polled readers consider the greatest book of the 20th Century.