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The Beauties of "Things Visible and Invisible" in The Tuscan Casentino: Reflections of a Pilgrim

Mon, Oct 18

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Clay Pit

In this talk, Professor Emeritus Norman Farmer will discuss beauty, faith, and the time they both require.

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The Beauties of "Things Visible and Invisible" in The Tuscan Casentino: Reflections of a Pilgrim
The Beauties of "Things Visible and Invisible" in The Tuscan Casentino: Reflections of a Pilgrim

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Oct 18, 2021, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Clay Pit, 1601 Guadalupe St, Austin, TX 78701, USA

About The Event

The art of the Faith — i fiori della Fede— in places of the Faith -- nei luoghi della Fede — are visible prayers. They are to be meditated upon in the manner of a ‘lectio divina’, rather a ‘visio divina’, and not as mere “pictures at an exhibition”.

In this talk, Professor Emeritus Norman Farmer will discuss beauty, faith, and the time they both require. Should anyone want to do some brief preparatory reading, Professor Farmer recommends Dietrich von Hildebrand's "Beauty in the Light of Redemption", as well as some familiarity with St. Francis' of Assisi's "The Canticle of Brother Sun."

About Our Scholar

Norman Farmer is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of English at UT Austin and received his Ph.D., from the University of Pennsylvania in 1966.  He served as the director of the Humanities Program in the College of Liberal Arts for over a decade, and…

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