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TITLE
Romance in the Catholic Tradition:
The Age of Chivalry Revisited
DATE:
Friday, February 14, 2003
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DESCRIPTION
Recorded on St. Valentine's Day, Dr. Von Hildebrand investigates the nature and beauty of love in the Catholic Tradition and the customs, mores, and dispositions which help preserve it. In the past, traditions of courtship and marriage were predominantly shaped by the Church's understand of the nature of man and women and their relationship to one another. Many contemporary social ills can rightly be blamed on the loss of this understanding. Relfect on the the fulfilling beauty of love and marriage - its tasks, its joys - and love's power to lighten its burdens and sorrows.
Dr. Alice von Hildebrand |
SPEAKER/PERFORMER INFORMATION
Dr. Alice von Hildebrand is an international lecturer, philosopher and author. She was a professor of philosophy at City University of New York for thirty-seven years with several visiting Professorships including Thomas More College in Rome, Franciscan University of Steubenville, and Ave Maria College. She received her M.A. and Ph.D in Philosophy at Fordham University. She have authored several books including By Love Refined, By Grief Refined, The Soul of a Lion (The Biography of Dietrich von Hildebrand), The Privilege of being a Woman, and A Philosophy of Religion. She has giving over 200 lectures in many countries with several television programs and published approximately seventy articles.
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SERIES THEME:
Studies in Fatih and Culture
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