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Beginning on May 12, 2025!
SEARCH FOR THE HOLY GRAIL ICC Book Club
Mondays, May 12, June 9 & 30, 2025 @ 8:00 PM
Pre-Class Discussion: 7:30 PM, Lecture: 8:00 PM ET
Medieval legends of King Arthur and the Holy Grail have captivated scholars and enriched spiritual reflection throughout the Christian tradition. These lectures will explore two Arthurian romances, Chretien de Troyes' Knight of the Cart, and the Cistercian text we know as The Quest of the Holy Grail, through the lens of Catholic teaching on redemption, divine grace, and the pursuit of virtue. It will reveal what chivalry does and does not have to do with divine love, and how the truest knights must open themselves up to the sacred mysteries of faith, and of "the Love that moves the sun and the other stars."
Recommended Edition of the Text
Beginning on Feb. 23!
ST. AUGUSTINE'S CONFESSIONS
ICC Book Club
Tuesdays, Jan. 23, Feb. 20, & Mar. 19 @ 8:00 PM ET
Join acclaimed author and translator Dr. Anthony Esolen for a guided book study of St. Augustine's Confessions. Discover a true literary masterpiece—the greatest autobiography ever written—and enter into St. Augustine's spiritual journey as he seeks the Lord from the depths of his heart.
Two New Books This Fall:
Sign up for a free Book Club on Augustine’s Confessions (three meetings, January-March 2024) with The Institute for Catholic Culture to receive a substantial discount of Professor Esolen’s new translation. Registration is free and open to everyone.
The Lies of our Time
New Book (Regnery, 2023) "Anthony Esolen is in a category of one: a prolific author whose every single word is worth reading. Why? His prose surrounds the reader from the first with his manifest love of the West and of Jesus Christ and his Church by engaging the reader’s mind and heart. Only a scholar who is also a poet can write with so much insight and…
Confessions (St. Augustine)
New Translation of St. Augustine’s Confessions (Tan Books, 2023) “Like St. Augustine himself, Dr. Esolen is intimately familiar with Sacred Scripture and the classical tradition, and he helps the reader enter into St. Augustine’s world through his meticulous translation and helpful explanatory notes. This book is worth it for the footnotes alone—they mak…
December 5, 2020, 7:30 PM
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Poetry and the Prologue of John
Free Lecture at the Institute of Catholic Culture.
Join Dr. Anthony Esolen to explore the Semitic poetry underlying the Prologue of John's Gospel, alluding to and fulfilling earlier scriptural accounts of the creation of the world and the coming of the Messiah. This talk will focus closely on the way the poetry works, especially on the strands of significance that John binds together in such motifs as word, light, name, flesh, truth, and glory.
Dr. Esolen has joined the faculty of Thales College, Wake Forest, NC as Distinguished Professor of Humanities.
Coming on October 17th and October 24th
Dr. Esolen will be offering a two-part lecture series for The Institute for Catholic Culture which is free to attend online. The topic is “The Mythological Imagination — Or Not: The Sumerians, Hesiod, & Creation in the Old Testament.” For more details and links to readings and registration information, click on the image below.
Coming October 24th: Book Release
Available now for pre-order, Dr. Esolen’s new translation of St. Augustine’s Confessions will be released next week. It will be available from the publisher, Tan Books, from Amazon and from other booksellers.The Confessions is one continued and coherent prayer, a profound profession of faith, and a plea for more, ever more wisdom, ever more love. It is artistic in its whole conception, in its parts and their arrangement down to the merest sentence. It is closer to the Gothic cathedrals that would grace Europe eight hundred years later than to anything that you or I might write about ourselves and our lives. —- Anthony Esolen
Coming on November 9th
Dr. Esolen will be offering a webinar for Thales Press which is free to attend online. The topic is “To Read a Work of Art /To Enter Another World.” For more information about how to register for this event, click on the image below.
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