QUARTER IV2019 - 2020 CURRICULUM

Know the Faith. Love the Faith. Live the Faith.

QUARTER IVThe fourth quarter of the ICC curriculum year offers an examination of the issues facing Christians in the modern world, including biblical apologetics, modern philosophical errors, and modern moral problems, equipping attendees with valuable tools necessary to offer a reasoned and convincing defense for the Faith they profess.

HISTORY 102: THE CHURCH FROM CHRIST TO TODAYWith John Pepino, Ph.D. on Thursdays, July 23 - December 17 from 8:00 - 9:15 PM EST

Live Webinar: Register June 11 - July 9, 2020 at www.InstituteofCatholicCulture.org/events

This course will cover the history of the West from Late Antiquity through Early Modernity. Students will learn about the Roman foundations of Christian civilization, the rise of ecclesiastical institutions in the medieval West, the relationship between Eastern and Western Christianity through this period, the medieval conflict between Christianity and Islam, and the rise of modernity.

LIBERALISM & IRRELIGION: A WARNING FROM ST. JOHN HENRY NEWMANWith Rev. Thomas Weinandy, O.F.M. Cap., Ph.D. on Tuesday, July 7Pre-class Discussion @ 7:30 PM EST, Lecture from 8:00 - 9:00 PM EST

Live Webinar: Register at www.InstituteofCatholicCulture.org/events

Upon becoming a Cardinal, St. John Henry Newman gave what has become known as the “Biglietto Speech” in which he articulated liberlism in religion as the “...one great mischief I have from the first opposed myself.” Striving to model our lives after his holy example, we will learn the critical lessons about the nature of truth St. John Henry Newman expressed in this famous speech.

AMERICA ON TRIAL: A DEFENSE OF THE FOUNDINGWith Robert Reilly on Sunday, July 19Dinner @ 6:00 PM EST, Webinar Pre-class Discussion @ 6:30 PM EST, Lecture @ 7:00 PM EST

Live Webinar: Register at www.InstituteofCatholicCulture.org/eventsLocal: St. Ambrose Church Hall, 3901 Woodburn Road, Annandale, VA. If circumstances allow.

Critics say the Founding of the American Republic was a poison pill with a time-release formula. Its principles are responsible for the country’s moral and social disintegration because they were based on the Enlightenment falsehood of radical individual autonomy. Join Robert Reilly as he reveals the underlying drama, declaring the Founding principles to be “not guilty”.

MODERN APOLOGETICS: EXPLAINING CHRIST TO A SECULAR WORLDWith Rev. Robert Spitzer, S.J., Ph.D. on Tuesdays, August 11 & 18Pre-class Discussion @ 7:30 PM EST, Lecture from 8:00 - 9:00 PM EST

Live Webinar Series: Register at www.InstituteofCatholicCulture.org/events

How does one explain God and Jesus to an increasingly secular culture? Does science provide evidence for or against the existence of God? Is there any evidence for the historical reality of Jesus’ resurrection? In this two-part series, Father Spitzer will provide responses to these questions and other contemporary challenges to Christian belief.

CORRUPTED CONCEPTS: MODERN ART & THE PHILOSOPHY OF NATUREWith James Reid on Tuesday, September 1Pre-class Discussion @ 7:30 PM EST, Lecture from 8:00 - 9:00 PM EST

Live Webinar: Register at www.InstituteofCatholicCulture.org/events

The quality of a culture’s visual art depends upon the prevalent philosophy of nature. In this webinar, we will see why this is so and discover surprising lessons about art’s recent history and current state.

THE ICC’S MAGDALA APOSTOLATEEDUCATING RELIGIOUS SISTERSThe Magdala Apostolate is an outreach project of the Institute of Catholic Culture and is dedicated to providing sound doctrinal formation — both initial and ongoing — for women religious and novices, in accord with the Church’s call for a new evangelization and the mission of the Institute of Catholic Culture.

Sisters, To View Course Times and Apply: Please visit www.magdalaapostolate.org

Registration opens July 1st!

MUSIC & THE CORRUPTION OF CATHOLICISMWith Anthony Esolen, Ph.D. on Tuesday, September 15Pre-class Discussion @ 7:30 PM EST, Lecture from 8:00 - 9:00 PM EST

Live Webinar: Register at www.InstituteofCatholicCulture.org/events

Plato says that when a society is about to go bad, we should look to the music fi rst. That is because music fi res the imagination and the passions, and these — not bare reason, not ideas — give man the energy to act. So too we should look to music in Catholic churches to see what has wandered far afi eld.

TH 202: ECCLESIOLOGYSteven Smith, Ph.D.In this foundational course of Catholic theology, Dr. Steven Smith takes you on a tour de force journey into the meaning of the Church – through a study

of Scripture and Tradition – and how you can share the truth and beauty of the Catholic Church with others.

SC 303: THE PSALMS IIRev. David Anderson, Prerequisite: Psalms IWe will complete our study of the place of the psalms in the services of the liturgical day, week, and year, as well as the use of particular groups

of psalms, especially the songs of ascent, the royal psalms, imprecatory psalms, and psalms used for the services of death and burial.

SP 201: THE PAULINE CORPUSRev. Sebastian Carnazzo, Ph.D.Prerequisite: Intro to the Old TestamentA study of the Epistles of Saint Paul with an emphasis on the historical and cultural context of fi rst century

Christianity, the spread of the Gospel into the Gentile world, and the sacramental nature of the good news.

SC 201: THE OLD TESTAMENTRev. Sebastian Carnazzo, Ph.D.This course is a survey of the historical, wisdom, and prophetical books of the Old Testament as a preparation for the New Testament era. The course

includes the revelatory stages of salvation history, the importance of Biblical typology, and the function of fulfi lled prophecy.

SP 202: MARIOLOGYRev. David AndersonThis course will immerse students in the centrality of the most holy Mother of God in the faith and life of the Church, as expressed in Holy Scripture, the

Fathers of the Church, and most especially in the liturgi-cal texts of the Marian feasts in the Eastern and Western traditions.

TH 501: THEOLOGICAL VIRTUESMark Wunsch, Ph.D.This course will provide a thorough account of Saint Thomas Aquinas’ understanding of the theologi-cal virtues, as conveyed in his Summa Theologiae

and in the book Faith, Hope, Love by the great, twentieth century Thomistic scholar, Josef Pieper.

SP 101: INTRODUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE RELIGIOUS LIFEMother Maria Regina van den Berg, Ph.D.This two-semester course studies the development of the consecrated life, in its various forms, with an emphasis upon the living of the vows, the life of prayer, the enclosure, and the role of the apostolate.

FALL 2020 SEMESTER COURSES

CATHOLIC YOGA? CENTERING PRAYER & OTHER EASTERN PRACTICESWith Tim Staples on Sunday, September 20Dinner @ 6:00 PM EST, Webinar Pre-class Discussion @ 6:30 PM EST, Lecture @ 7:00 PM EST

Live Webinar: Register at www.InstituteofCatholicCulture.org/eventsLocal: St. Agnes Church Hall, 1910 N Randolph Street, Arlington, VA. If circumstances allow.

Learn the three keys to exposing the errors of Yoga and Eastern mysticism, and understand how these errors, which are outside of an authentic Catholic spirituality rotted in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, have crept into popular Catholic culture.

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