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Walter Miller’s Life

Walter Miller’s Life. 1) Participation in bombing of Monte Cassino 2) Life long battle with mental illness and alcoholism 3) Failed second novel – Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman 4) Complicated relation with the Catholic Church. Structure of Canticle. Fiat Homo Fiat Lux

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Walter Miller’s Life

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  1. Walter Miller’s Life 1) Participation in bombing of Monte Cassino 2) Life long battle with mental illness and alcoholism 3) Failed second novel – Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman 4) Complicated relation with the Catholic Church

  2. Structure of Canticle • Fiat Homo • Fiat Lux • Fiat Voluntas Tua

  3. Themes from Canticle • Emergence of modern attitudes to knowledge and power • A Culture of Fragments • Loss of salience — a culture of trivia • Incommensurability • The significance of practices, narrative unity and tradition

  4. The Regensburg Lecture • September 12, 2006 • The Violent Response • The themes: • Relation between religious conversion and violence • “Not to act in accord with reason is contrary to God’s will.” • “the profound harmony between what is Greek in the best sense of the word and the Biblical understanding of faith in God.” Benedict XVI, “Faith, Reason, and the University: Memories and Reflections.”

  5. The Significance for Europe “… this convergence [between the Greek spirit and the Christian spirit], with the subsequent addition of the Roman heritage, created Europe and remains the foundation of what can rightly be called Europe.” Benedict XVI, “Faith, Reason, and the University: Memories and Reflections.”

  6. The Dehellenization of Christianity • Three stages: • The Reformation’s reaction to philosophy • The “moralization of religion” by the liberal theology of the 19th and 20th centuries • Limits reason to natural science and mathematics. • Religious beliefs lie outside the range of reason • “the specifically human questions about our origin and destiny, the questions raised by religion and ethics, then have no place within the purview of collective reason as defined by “science”, so understood, and must thus be relegated to the realm of the subjective.” • The argument from inculturation Benedict XVI, “Faith, Reason, and the University: Memories and Reflections.”

  7. Reason, Philosophy and Undergraduate Education at Notre Dame • Why are you required to take two philosophy courses at Notre Dame? • It used to be worse • Aeterni Patris, 1879 • Pascendi, 1907 – “Modernism is a compendium of all heresies” • The revival of scholastic philosophy and the Catholic revival in culture Pius X, Pascendi Dominici Gregis

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