Talk on The Contribution Of Catholic Anthropology To A Fuller Understanding Of The Human Person By Fr. Anthony Wieck, Wednesday, 27 September, 2023
Please join in for this talk by Father Anthony Wieck who will present on the "The Contribution Of Catholic Anthropology To A Fuller Understanding Of The Human Person".
Since the 16th century, with Bacon and Descartes and later Kant, the human person has been reduced to a willing subject seeking to acquire power over the world as well as self-mastery. This rather reductive view greatly influences the thinking of most moderns today. Catholicism, in contrast, offers a richer, broader, and ultimately more compelling understanding of the human person, one that promises true flourishing for the person. Wherein do these differences lie? Where might you and I be infected by simplistic definitions of what it is to be a human being, and thus undercut the very persons we are called to serve in our mission?
Speaker: Father Anthony Wieck
Topic: The Contribution Of Catholic Anthropology To A Fuller Understanding Of The Human Person
Date/Time: Wednesday, 27 September, 1-2 PM EST
Zoom link: https://zoom.us/join (Meeting ID: 9173535387 & Passcode: 9173535387)
Speaker Bio: Fr. Anthony Wieck is a Jesuit priest of the Central & Southern province. He is the sixth of nine children, and was raised on a farm in Oregon. Fr. Anthony began religious life in 1994, spending his first five years of formation in Rome, Italy, studying at the Casa Balthasar, and then the Gregorian University. After completing three missions to various Jesuit high schools in the province, Fr. Anthony was sent to St. Louis as retreat master at the White House Retreat Center, on the bluffs of the Mississippi. One year later, Fr. Anthony began complementing the retreat experience with work at Kenrick-Glennon Seminary, teaching the Trinity and Prayer courses. Now he offers spiritual direction for 23 men there and numerous others in the area. He also teaches a course on spiritual direction and another on Catholic anthropology.