"Only the Lover Sings": Augustine & the Radical Necessity of Poetry | Prof. Patrick Callahan

This lecture was delivered to the University of Kansas chapter on April 29, 2021. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Patrick Callahan is director of the Humanitas Institute and lecturer in philosophy at Wichita State University. He did his undergraduate work at the University of Dallas and his graduate work at Fordham University in Classical Philology. While his doctoral work focused on ancient Greek commentaries to the lyric poet Pindar, his recent work focuses on early Jesuit Latin texts.