9:30 Class

Religions, in both their spiritual and secular varieties, offer various techniques designed to help us live more meaningful, fulfilling and satisfying lives. There are priests and prophets all over the ... Read more

In the forth seminar from the six part Pyrotheology course, we delve into the meaning of Lack as a positive force. Here we touch on the idea of a community held together by a shared loss and how the sacred returns to us in a virtual form after its loss as a fantasmic, fictional object. ... Read more

In this penultimate seminar in Peter Rollin's six part series on Pyrotheology, we look at the idea of a community that helps people affirm their individuality. A community that enables ... Read more

Please join us for the last class in Pyrotheology. This latin phrase, absurd confide, is a reworking of the famous Credo quia absurdum (I believe because it is absurd). While the original phrase is an incorrect reworking of a sentence from Tertullian’s De Carne Christi, and almost universally read in a critical way, the misreading ... Read more