The contemporary ethos views bodily constraints as arbitrary and manipulable through technology. Are bodily limitations problems to be overcome, or meaningful in their own right? This course will explore classical themes concerning the body and matter, put them in conversation with modern and post-modern approaches, and conclude with two concrete applications. Readings will include Hippocrates, Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Galileo, Bacon, Descartes, Locke, Heidegger, Beauvoir, Deleuze, Butler, and more.

 - Seminar Faculty - 

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Angela Franks PhD

Angela Franks, Ph.D., is a theologian, speaker, writer, and mother of six. She serves as Professor of Theology at the Theological Institute for the New Evangelization at St. John's Seminary in Boston. Her areas of specialty include the theology of the body, the New Evangelization, the Trinity, Christology, and the thought of John Paul II and Hans Urs von Balthasar.

Rachel M. Coleman

Rachel is Assistant Professor of Theology at Assumption University in Worcester, MA. Her areas of specialization are metaphysics (ancient to modern), the philosophy of nature, and philosophical anthropology. Her work has been published in Communio, First Things, and Humanum, and she has presented papers on continental metaphysics across North America and Europe.