On Sunday, 5 September, the AHI held a special reception for the fifty-five current undergraduate fellows who participate in the intellectual life of the AHI in a variety of ways. Each of the fellows received gifts. Professors Chris Hill, Ted Eismeier, Jim Bradfield, and Robert Paquette spoke about the history of the AHI and the [...]
The Christopher Dawson Society will hold its monthly meeting at the Alexander Hamilton Institute on Wednesday evening, 7 April, at 6 pm. Attendants are asked to prepare for the gathering by reading St. Augustine’s City of God, book 19, chapters 17-28. […]
The Christopher Dawson Society, a student organization advised by AHI co-founder Douglas Ambrose, has organized a one-day conference, “Relationship 101: Finding True Love in Today’s World” for Saturday, 10 April on the Hamilton College campus. […]
The Christopher Dawson Society seeks to foster searching conversation about the relation of faith and reason in the Western tradition. The next meeting, which will begin at 6 pm at the Alexander Hamilton Institute, will explore “What hath Jerusalem to do with Athens?” […]
On Wednesday, 9 December at 7 pm, the Christopher Dawson Society for the Study of Faith and Reason will discuss the historical debates surrounding sacraments is and whether marriage qualifies as one. […]
In his 1956 essay “The Challenge of Secularism,” the English historian Christopher Dawson notes how the “consciously anti-religious ideology” of Communist education—an education that effectively works to eradicate religious faith from the entire populace—“is only completing the work that the liberal state began.” […]
The Christopher Dawson Society will host an appearance at the AHI of William Murchison, author of Mortal Follies: Episcopalians and the Crisis of Mainline Christianity (Encounter, 2009). Mr. Murchison has worked as a professional journalist since 1964. […]
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, a prize-winning historian, prominent public intellectual, and prolific scholar, died in 2007 after a long battle with multiple sclerosis. Her writings spanned the disciplines of history, literary criticism, and women’s studies. […]
Malcolm Muggeridge (1903-1990) had a long and distinguished career in Britain as a writer and journalist. At the age of 65 he became a Christian. His conversion shocked many. He devoted most of his remaining years to writing and talking about faith, becoming, in the words of Archbishop Marcus Loane, “the most significant [...]
Father Richard John Neuhaus, who died in January of this year at the age of 72 after long battle with cancer, was arguably “the most consequential public theologian in America since the days of Reinhold Niebuhr and John Courtney Murray, S.J.” […]
