Augustine's Argument with Natural Rights-and With the Christians Who Love Them

Douglas Kries (Gonzaga University)

You are invited to the Ernest Fortin Memorial Lecture by Prof. Douglas Kries, the Bernard J. Coughlin, S.J., Professor of Christian Philosophy, Gonzaga University.

Prof. Kries's lecture on "Augustine's Argument with Natural Rights-and With the Christians Who Love Them," will be held on March 21, 2014, at 4 p.m. at La Maison Francaise, Assumption College, Worcester, MA.

The discussant is Associate Prof. Marc Guerra of the Theology Department at Assumption College.

A dinner and discussion will follow the lecture.  Please RSVP for dinner by March 14, 2014, to [email protected].

Directions to Assumption College: www.assumption.edu/admissions/visit/directions

This lecture is sponsored by the Ernest Fortin Memorial Foundation and Assumption College.

Douglas Kries is the Bernard J. Coughlin, S.J., Professor of Christian Philosophy at Gonzaga University.  His principal research interests are in ancient political philosophy, medieval political philosophy, and classical French liberalism.  His most recent book is The Problem of Natural Law; his most recent article is "Tocqueville's Unfinished Manuscript on Ireland," which appeared in The Review of Politics.  Kries is presently working on a book on faith and reason aimed at a general audience; he is also writing on Augustine and on Robert Bellarmine.  He completed his doctorate at Boston College, where he studied Hebrew Bible and political philosophy.

Marc Guerra is an Associate Professor and the Chairperson of the Theology Department at Assumption College.  He received his Ph.D. at Ave Maria University. He is the author of Christians as Political Animals: Taking the Measure of Modernity and Modern Democracy, and editor of Reason, Revelation and Human Affairs; Jerusalem, Athens, and Rome; and Pope Benedict XVI and the Politics of Modernity. Guerra is also the co-editor of The Science of Modern Virtue: Essays on Descartes, Locke, and Darwin. With Peter Augustine Lawler, he co-directs "The Stuck with Virtue" conference series.