Date of Lecture: April 6, 2017
About the Speaker: Cyril O'Regan is Endowed Professor and Huisking Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. He has published five books: "Anatomy of Misremembering (1): Balthasar's Response to Philosophical Modernity. Vol. 1: Hegel" (Crossroad, 2014); "Theology and the Spaces of the Apocalyptic" (Marquette University Press, 2009); "Gnostic Apocalypse: Jacob Boehme's Haunted Narrative" (SUNY Press, 2002); "Gnostic Return in Modernity" (SUNY Press, 2001); and "The Heterodox Hegel" (SUNY Press, 1994).
About the Talk: O'Regan categorizes responses to modernity as a gift as "cheerers," those who accept modernity as a gift; "weepers," those who reject modernity; and "shadow seers," those who see the gift of modernity with ambiguity and doubleness. He offers philosophical and theological justifications for each view.
His talk is one of the Deitchman Family Lectures for Religion and Modernity.