Hugo Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., M.D., Ph.D., a leading Orthodox Christian bioethicist, will be speaking throughout the diocese in September.  Click here to view the flier.

Wednesday, September 7, 7PM
University of Pennsylvania, Houston Hall, Benjamin Franklin Room (218)
Title: Western Culture after Christendom

Thursday, September 8, 7:30PM
University of Scranton
Pearn Auditorium, Brennan Hall (Room 228)
Title: Christian versus Secular Bioethics: Incompatible Visions of Morality and Reality

 
Friday, September 9, 4PM
Bucknell University, Trout Auditorim (Vaughan Literature Bldg)
Title: Bioethics after Christendom: An Introduction to Some of the Moral Disputes Fragmenting Contemporary Western Culture

Saturday, September 10, 7PM 
Holy Apostles Mission, 5006 E. Trindle Rd. Ste 101, Mechanicsburg, PA 17050
The Culture Wars:  Why we Disagree about What Matters Most
 
Sunday, September 11, 2PM 
St. Paul’s Church, 156 E. Main St. Emmaus, PA 18049    
Title: Surviving in the Ruins of Christendom


Short bio of Dr. Engelhardt:
Dr. Engelhardt holds doctorates in philosophy and medicine and currently is professor of philosophy at Rice University and professor emeritus of medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. He formerly held the Rosemary Kennedy chair of the philosophy of medicine at the Kennedy Institute Center for Bioethics at Georgetown University.

In addition, he is senior editor of the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, Christian Bioethics, the Philosophy and Medicine book series, and the Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture book series. Among the books he has written are The Foundations of Bioethics, The Foundations of Christian Bioethics, Global Bioethics, and Bioethics and Secular Humanism: The Search for a Common Morality. Last year Ana Smith Iltis and Mark J. Cherry edited At the Roots of Christian Bioethics, a collection of essays on the thought of Dr. Engelhardt.

Dr. Engelhardt also is  a tonsured Reader, member of the Medical/Ethics Commission of the Orthodox Church in America, and adjunct professor of bioethics and philosophy at St. Herman Seminary.
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