 | Terry Eagleton |
Acclaimed and controversial literary critic Terry Eagleton will deliver a series of lectures in April on fundamentalism
and religious faith as part of the Dwight H. Terry Lectureship.
T H I S
‘Faith and Fundamentalism’ is focus
of three-part Dwight H. Terry Lectures
The lectures — titled “Faith and Fundamentalism: Is Belief in Richard
Dawkins Necessary for Salvation?” — are free and open to the public.
They will take place on April 1, 3, 8 and 10 at 4:15 p.m. in Rm. 102 of Linsly-Chittenden
Hall, 63 High St.
The titles of individual lectures are as follows: April 1, “Christianity
Fair and Foul”; April 3, “The Limits of Liberalism”; April
8, “Faith and Reason”; and April 10, “Culture and Barbarism.”
For more information, visit www.yale.edu/terrylecture or call Lauralee Field, (203) 432-2317.
One of the most often cited and widely published literary critics, Eagleton
is currently the John Edward Taylor Professor of English Literature at the
University of Manchester. He has been a fellow of four Oxford and Cambridge
colleges and held the Thomas Warton Chair of English Literature at the University
of Oxford. A fellow of the British Academy, Eagleton has authored scores of
studies of literary, cultural and political criticism, and has written plays
for stage and television in Britain and Ireland.
In reviewing Dawkins’s popular “The God Delusion,” which
argues that a supernatural creator does not exist, Eagleton — a self-proclaimed
Marxist — publicly chided its author for his “ill-informed” caricatures
of religious faith.
The Terry Lectureship was established in 1905 from a gift by Dwight H. Terry
to invite “preeminent scholars in religion, the sciences and philosophy
to address issues concerning the ways in which science and philosophy inform
religion and religion’s application to human welfare.” 
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