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Volume IV: Ideology & Emancipation
Volume IV will begin with an introductory session February 7th, 2022 at 7:00 PM and will take place in person at AAI Tuesday evenings from 7:00 - 8:30 PM starting February 14th. Dinner Served.
What is the Great Conversation?
In The Great Conversation, we ask perhaps the most urgent question of all: “How should we live?” “We” ask, first-person plural: within a community of conversation, from the standpoint of our shared humanity, in dialogue with some of the greatest spirits to meditate on the question.
Western Civilization cannot be other than the pursuit of life lived civilly: urbanely, politically, in conversation that accommodates even deep disagreements within the bond of social friendship. This will always remain a work to be accomplished, for the history of civilization has been a history shot through with the violence of domination.
Convener of The Great Conversation: Dr. J. David Franks
J. David Franks received his Ph.D. in systematic theology from Boston College, and was professor of sacred theology for almost a decade at St. John’s Seminary, where he co-founded the Theological Institute for the New Evangelization.
He speaks monthly at the Thursday Men’s Breakfast, an ecumenical Union Club event, and teaches at Boston Trinity Academy, where he is the director of the Trinity Institute for Leadership and Social Justice. He has led the Great Conversation for four years.