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Nov 2019
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Spiritual But Not Religious | Prof. Pai...

THE THOMISTIC INSTITUTE
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This lecture was given at Harvard University by Prof. Paige Hochschild (Mount St. Mary's University) on 11 October 2019.


Dr. Paige Hochschild is a professor of historical and systematic theology at Mount St. Mary's University (MD), specializing in Augustine, Thomas Aquinas and the early Church. She also teaches philosophy courses at the Seminary at Mount St. Mary's. She has written a book on the place of memory in Augustine's theological anthropology and publishes on the Church, education, tradition, 20th c. theological debates within the Church (Scripture, history; marriage).


For more information on this and other events go to thomisticinstitute.org/events-1

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