The title of the 2019–2020 Roman Forum New York Church History Discussion Series was Les Jeux Sont faits: Gambling and Pulling up Stakes in the Den of Modernity, 1878–1914. Both audio and videotapes of all lectures will be posted on the Roman Forum Soundcloud.
Syllabus
September 8: A Changing of the Guard: Leo XIII & His Times
September 22: Continental Culture Wars: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, and the Lowlands
October 13: Catholic Troubles in the Republic of the Republicans
October 27: Evolution, Nihilism, and the Intellectual-Literary Swamp
November 3: Protestantism and the Biblical Question
November 24: Social Diseases
December 8: Leonine Social Encyclicals
December 22: The Modern Poker Game and the Leonine Gambles
2020
January 19: The Varied Forms of Militant Catholic Action
January 26: From Higher Criticism to Vitalism and the Abyss
February 9: Americanism and Italian Christian Democracy
February 23: St. Pius X and Catholic Life at the Turn of the Century
March 8: Separating what Napoleon Joined Together
March 22: The Modernist Crisis: Theology, Philosophy, and the Risks of Pulling up the Stakes
April 5: The Modernist Crisis: Le Sillon and l’Action Française
April 26: From Christ the King to Christ the Clerico-Moderate: A Thickening Plot in the Kingdom of Italy
