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St Thomas More Trust Draws Enthusiastic Crowd for Evening of Classical Philosophy and Catholicism in Christchurch
CHRISTCHURCH — The St Thomas More Trust successfully hosted an inspiring evening of intellectual reflection and community dialogue last night, Thursday 24 September, at the St Bede’s College Performing Arts Centre in Papanui. The event brought together community members, scholars, and curious minds for two engaging sessions led by guest speakers Dr. Jeffrey Lehman of the Augustine Institute and former US Navy fighter pilot Ali Ghaffari of the St John Henry Newman Institute. S
Who was Boethius?
The Roman who wrote the most consoling book in the Western tradition while waiting to die In the year 524, in a cell outside Pavia, a man in his mid forties sat waiting for an executioner. He had been Rome's consul. He had watched both his sons hold the consulship in the same year, a distinction almost no father in Roman history could claim. He had served as chief of the civil service under Theodoric, the Ostrogothic king who ruled Italy after the empire in the West had gone.
Two Evenings with Dr Jeffrey Lehman
A man sits in a prison cell awaiting execution on a charge he did not earn. His fortune is gone, his name is ruined, and he has months to live. What he writes there becomes one of the most widely read books in Europe for the next thousand years. That is Boethius, and The Consolation of Philosophy is the book. The question underneath it is one worth putting to any parent or teacher right now: what is an education actually good for when the ground moves under you? In September,