Free for Lunch? Consider joining our Doctors of the Church Faculty-Student Lunch/Reading Group Series
Doctores Ecclesiae
The St. Anselm Institute for Catholic Thought initiated this popular faculty-student lunch seminar series in 2008 with the goal of providing a friendly intellectual setting for students and faculty from different parts of the University to meet and to discuss the life and works of one of the 33 Doctors of the Church--or, on occasion, a learned Saint of the Church. No prior academic experience is required, and advanced graduate and first-year students have participated in these special lunches along with an unusually diverse cross-section of the University's faculty. Space, however, is limited, so reservations by individuals are required for each session. Interested undergraduate, graduate, Law, Medical, and Darden students are invited to attend one (or more) of the scheduled sessions. A different set of UVA faculty will attend each session, and a short reading by the selected Doctor of Church will be posted to serve as a focal point for our lunch seminar.
The Institute plans to hold several lunch seminars in 2010-2011. If you are interested in participating, please don't be bashful: simply email the Institute at:
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and reserve a place at the table.
Fall 2010 Schedule (forthcoming)
Spring 2010
April 16, 2010 (Reservations now closed, please consider attending a Doctors lunch next year) Doctor of the Church: St. Jerome (c. 347-420) Faculty Participants: Robin Darling Young (Religious Studies), David Kovacs (Classics), Charles Kromkowski (Politics), Kathryn Sharpe (Darden); Fr. Stephen Alcott, O.P.; Anna Stelow (Classics); David Warner (Theology)
Assigned Readings: Letter CXXXIII, To Ctesiphon; Letter to Marcella (XL); Letter to Marcella (XLIII)
March 25, 2010
(Reservations now closed, please consider attending the next Doctors lunch)
Location: Hotel E, West Range Doctor of the Church: St. Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)
Faculty Participants: Robert Louis Wilken (Religious Studies), Ed Stelow (Medical School: Pathology), Judith Kovacs (Religious Studies)
February 12, 2010 (Reservations now closed, please consider attending the next Doctors lunch) Location: The Biltmore, 16 Elliewood Ave.
Time: 12:00-1:30pm Saint of the Church: St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross [Dr. Edith Stein] (1891-1942)
Faculty Participants: Lynn Sanders (Politics), Rebecca Stangl (Philosophy), Charles Kromkowski (Politics), Anna Stelow (Classics), Kathryn Starpe (Darden) & Vincent Phillip Munoz (University of Notre Dame); Fr. Stephen Alcott, O.P.
Assigned Readings: 1) "The Hidden Life and Epiphany" (1940); 2) The Significance of Woman's Intrinsic Value in National Life"; 3) Ethos of Women's Professions Extra Reading: Selections on Empathy, pp. 81-89
January 29, 2010 (Reservations now closed, please consider attending a future Doctors lunch) Location: Hotel E/West Range Doctor of the Church: St. Bonaventure (1221-1274) Faculty Participants: Thomas Russman (Philosophy), Charles Kromkowski (Politics); Fr. Stephen Alcott, O.P., Kathryn Sharpe (Darden) & Charles Dunkl (Mathematics)
Assigned Readings: 1) Commentary on Book II of the Sentences, X:347-356; 2) Commentary on The Gospel of Luke, ch5: v.30-32 (pp.443-46);
Extra Readings: Commentary on...Luke, ch 23: v.26 (pp.2136--37); and De Triplici Via [The Triple Way] pp. 71-72, 91-94.
Fall 2009 Schedule
October 16, 2009 (Reservations now closed, please consider attending a future Doctors of the Church lunch) Location: Hotel E, West Range
Doctor of the Church: St. Ephrem the Syrian (c.309-373) Faculty Participants: Robin Darling Young (Religious Studies), Alfredo Garcia (Systems & Information Engineering), Charles Kromkowski (Politics)
Assigned Reading: 1) Hymns on the Nativity, #11; 2) Hymns on Paradise, V; 3) Hymns on Paradise, X and XI
Suggested Extra Reading: Sidney Griffith, Faith adoring the mystery: reading the Bible with St. Ephraem the Syrian
October 1, 2009 (Reservations now closed, please consider attending the next Doctors lunch on Oct. 16) Location: Hotel E, West Range
Doctor of the Church:St. John of Damascus (c.676-749), plus St. Gregory Palamas (1296-1359) Faculty Participants: Fr. Brendan McAnerney OP, Robin Young (Religious Studies), Charles Kromkowski (Politics), John Dobbins (Classical Art & Archaeology) & TBA
Assigned Reading:
1. St. John of Damascus, The Orthodox Faith, Bk. 4, chs. 15-16, [7pp]
2. St. Gregory Palamas, The Triads, Section D 33/66-68; and Section E 14-16 [6pp]
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * May 8, 2009 Location: Garrett Hall Seminar Room (N.B. New location to accommodate more reservation requests) Doctor of the Church: St. Teresa of Avila (1515-1582) Faculty Participants: Diane Gigantino Baltz (Spanish), Alfredo Garcia (Engineering), Javier Herrero (Spanish), Charles Kromkowski (Politics), Assigned Reading: 1.The Interior Castle, ch. 4.3 [English] [Spanish] 2. The Book of Her Life, ch. 23 [English] [Spanish] 3. The Book of Her Life, ch. 25 [English] [Spanish]
March 19, 2009 (12:00-1:30pm) (Reservations now closed, please consider attending our final lunch) Location: Hotel E, West Range Doctor of the Church: St. Anselm (1033-1109) Faculty Participants: William Wilson (Religious Studies), Rebecca Stangl (Philosophy), Charles Kromkowski (Politics), Charles Dunkl (Mathematics)
Asssigned Reading: Prosologion, especially chapters 1-6 (pp.82-90)
February 13, 2009 (12:00-1:30pm)(We're at our limit, but please consider joining us at a future lunch).
Location: Garrett Hall Seminar Room, Lower Level Doctor of the Church: St. Catherine of Siena (1347-1380) Faculty Participants: Bernard McGinn (University of Chicago Divinity School), Kevin Hart (Religious Studies), Joseph Davis (IASC/Sociology), Fr. Gregory Maturi, O.P., Charles Kromkowski (Politics), and Lynn Sanders (Politics)
Assigned Reading: Letters to Fr. Raimondo, T273, T219, T272.
Extra Reading: The Dialogue, chs. 64, 76, and (On Tears) chs.88-91.
November 20, 2008 (Thursday), 12:00-1:30pm (Session full, please consider one of the future sessions) Location: Hotel E, West Range Doctor of the Church: St. Thomas Aquinas (1224-1274) Faculty Participants: Kevin Hart (Religious Studies), Rebecca Stangl (Philosophy), Charles Kromkowski (Politics), Tom Russman (Philosophy, formerly Univ. of St. Thomas, Houston)
Assigned Reading: Summa Theologiae on Love, Part 1, Question 20 (art. 1, 2, 3); and Part 2.2, Question 27 (art. 6)
October 29, 2008 (Wednesday), 12:00-1:30pm (Session full, please consider one of the future sessions)
Location: Hotel E, West Range Doctor of the Church: St. Augustine (354-430AD) Faculty Participants: Robert Wilken (Religious Studies), Brad Wilcox (Sociology), Ed Stelow, M.D. (Pathology), Charles Kromkowski (Politics),
Assigned Reading: St. Augustine, "The Excellence of Marriage," pp.1-16
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