Doxamoot 2022: Tolkien's World-Saving Beauty & Its Cultured Despisers

156 E Main St,Emmaus PA 18049

07 October, 2022

Description

A Tolkienesque antidote to the modern hatred of beauty, with a vision for a better world than our diseased present reality. From the Modern Language Association to Medieval Studies, from the cultural "elites" to the halls of "academia", across the whole of the modern world Tolkien, his Faith, and his vision of beauty are held in derision. In their place Modernity has summoned demons more dread than balrogs in league with Mephistopholes that invert reality, label the ugly beautiful, and contemn any who gainsay them as mad, biggoted, or delusioned. Why? And how are Tolkien and his legacy themselves the remedies to this inchoate and shambolic nightmare inflicted on us by Modernity? Join us for the Third Annual Doxamoot this October as we delve into the deepest depths of cultural Mordor as we seek to address these questions in lectures, questions, conversations, and even trivia and conviviality. Speakers: Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick, Dr. Cyril Gary Jenkins, and some TBA