Thursday, March 27, 2008
by: Marissa Kutoloski

On Wednesday, April 16, 2008, the Center for Catholic Studies will be sponsoring a lecture by Dr. Wayne Hankey, entitled “The Neoplatonic Form and Content of St. Augustine’s Confessions” that will trace Augustine’s relationship to Platonic philosophy and its contemporary relevance.

In the summer of 389, Saint Augustine read “some books of the Platonists.” This reading precipitated a major change in his understanding of himself and of God. This talk will trace Augustine’s relationship to Platonic philosophy and its contemporary relevance. 

Dr. Wayne Hankey studied Classics, philosophy, and theology at King’s College and Dalhousie University (B.A., 1965), Trinity College and the University of Toronto (M.A., 1969), and Oxford University (D.Phil., 1982). Having taught university classes for more than 40 years, he is now the Carnegie Professor and Chair of the Department of Classics at Dalhousie and King’s. He has held senior research positions and fellowships at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, and Boston College and spent years working in the great research libraries of Italy, France, and Germany. He has published four books and edited seven volumes, as well as almost one hundred academic articles, chapters in books, and reviews. Dr. Hankey has delivered more than 60 major invited scholarly lectures and addresses in Canada, the United States and Europe, and has produced several scores of journalistic, theological, and devotional publications and addresses. Since 1997 Dr. Hankey has been Secretary and Editor of Dionysius, an international journal published by the Department of Classics.

The lecture will take place at 4:00 p.m. in Jubilee Hall Auditorium. For details and more information, please visit the Center for Catholic Studies website.

For more information please contact:
Center for Catholic Studies
(973) 275-2175
catholicstudies@shu.edu