CONVERSATIO: A JOURNAL IN THE TRADITION OF CATHOLIC, BENEDICTINE & LIBERAL EDUCATION - VOLUME 2

Conversatio is a publication of the Saint Vincent Center for Catholic Thought and Culture. It’s purpose is to provide members of the Saint Vincent community—monastery, college, and seminary—a means of sharing with one another academic essays, poetry, and book reviews related to our mission as a Catholic, Benedictine, liberal arts institution. Essays focus on important books and works of art that have shaped the intellectual traditions that inform our mission. The book reviews look to recent research driven by those traditions, including books written by members of our own community. 

In Volume II of Conversatio, you will find:

Essays and Poetry

Augustine of Hippo on Conversion of the Restless Human Heart

Kimberly F. Baker

Hospitality, Psalms, and Silence in a Benedictine Classroom

Catherine Petrany Briola

Reading Gregory’s The Life of Saint Benedict

Jerome C. Foss

Benedictine Spiritual Direction in Michael Novak’s The Tiber Was Silver

Daniel J. Heisey

Learning for its Own Sake: Saint Bonaventure’s Reply

Carl A. Vater

Selected Poem

Benedict Janecko, O.S.B.

Student Symposium on Listening

Introduction

Listening, Liberation, and Eudaimonia

Michael Astfalk

Making Connections

Julianna Lott

Forms of Listening and Liberation at Saint Vincent College

Elizabeth Van Pilsum

Book Reviews

Jan-Heiner Tück A Gift of Presence: The Theology and Poetry of the Eucharist in Thomas Aquinas

Lucas Briola

Mary L. Hirschfeld, Aquinas and the Market: Toward a Humane Economy

Zachary G. Davis

Margarita A. Mooney, The Love of Learning: Seven Dialogues on the Liberal Arts

Jennifer L. Koehl

Zena Hitz, Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life Koehl

Michael Krom

Bonnie B. Thurston, Shaped by the End You Live For: Thomas Merton’s Monastic Spirituality

Patricia Sharbaugh

Faculty Books

Jason R. Jividen, Claiming Lincoln: Progressivism, Equality, and the Battle for Lincoln’s Legacy in Presidential Rhetoric

John Aupperle

Elizabeth Lev, The Silent Knight: A History of St. Joseph as Depicted in Art

Boniface Hicks, O.S.B.

Timothy Kelly, The Transformation of American Catholicism: The Pittsburgh Laity and the Second Vatican Council, 1950-1972

Christopher McMahon