The Rise of Modern Atheism: Distinguishing Fact from Fiction | Prof. Anna Moreland

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🗓️ 22 June 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

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This lecture was given at Harvard University Graduate school on March 5, 2020.

About the speaker: Anna Bonta Moreland is an Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities at Villanova University. She received her B.A. in Philosophy at the University of Maryland, College Park, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Systematic Theology from Boston College.

Anna Bonta Moreland’s areas of research include faith and reason, medieval theology with an emphasis on Thomas Aquinas, the theology of religious pluralism, and comparative theology, especially between Christianity and Islam. She has written Known by Nature: Thomas Aquinas on Natural Knowledge of God (Herder & Herder, 2010), and edited New Voices in Catholic Theology (Herder & Herder, 2012). Her forthcoming book, Muhammad Reconsidered: A Christian Perspective on Islamic Prophecy (Notre Dame Press, 2020) is in press. Dr. Moreland completed this work as the Myser Fellow at the University of Notre Dame’s Center for Ethics and Culture during AY 2016-2017. Her current book projects include a co-written manuscript with Dr. Thomas Smith, The College Guide to Adulting: How to Major in Life, and a manuscript on method in comparative theology.

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0:00.0	The lecture this evening is pretty ambitious, so I hope you've had some coffee. Not only am I going to
0:07.9	kind of challenge the standard narrative that is the relationship of religion and modernity,
0:14.5	I'm going to challenge it from several different angles. But what really interests me at the end of the day
0:19.9	is a relationship between Christianity
0:23.6	and Islam. That's what I'm currently working on.
0:26.6	Half-hazardly ended up in this area, but that's a long story and I only have an hour.
0:33.6	I do really think that if Christians, a particular Catholics, but if Christians are going to engage
0:42.3	Muslims on a real level, on a theological level, we both have to have a very critical
0:48.3	re-examination of the Enlightenment and modernity, and there's a lot of fruit that can come from an inter-religious encounter
0:56.0	if we're able to
1:01.0	critically engage our relationship to the Enlightenment together.
1:05.0	But I'll get to that at the end.
1:07.0	Okay.
1:09.0	So this is a lecture roadmap.
1:11.6	There are four parts to this lecture, as you'll see.
1:14.6	The first is I'm going to talk about the standard narrative of religion and modernity.
1:18.6	I'm going to use Mark Lilla. He's the big blotch.
1:22.6	Mark Lilla is a stillborn god. Some of you've probably read it.
1:26.6	I'm going to do a kind of quick sketch about Lilas about that book, of the argument of that book.
1:33.4	And then I'm going to challenge that narrative.
1:35.5	From within Christianity with Michael Buckley, a Jesuit.
1:40.4	Philip Jenkins, who is an historian of religion at Penn State, and I'm
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