"Saints are not literary men," worried the literary St. John Henry Newman. Newman recognized something unruly and restless in his own creative mind. No one has explored this anxiety in Newman's thought more deeply and creatively than J.R.R. Tolkien. Tolkien's beautiful and perilous female figures in The Lord of the Rings are an unsettling transfiguration of Newman's own comforting vision of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Join Collegium Institute and the Penn Newman Center for our annual Newman Lecture. This year’s lecture, entitled, “Newman, Tolkien, and the Perils of Beauty,” will be given by Prof. David O’Connor, professor of Philosophy and Classical Studies at University of Notre Dame.

Date: Wednesday, February 21

Time: 7pm

Location: Penn Newman Center (111 S. 38th St)

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