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Thomas More’s Utopia (Course Fee)

The Catholic Thing Courses Series just finished Augustine’s City of God. There, Bob Royal led a guided tour of two cities, one of which, the City of Man prospered or not depending on its denizen’s ability to live in concord with each other.  More’s Utopia, written a millennium later, extends the conversation (literally in dialogue) of what constitutes the ideal commonwealth. Written by More in mid-career, before service in the King’s court, it posits all the right questions and offers some paradoxical answers. C. S. Lewis once quipped that all agree that Utopia is a great book, but hardly any two agree as to why. We will explore this great work’s themes, riddles and meanings, hidden and otherwise.

Robert James Conrad Jr.

The live course includes:

  • 4  1-hour video lectures reading carefully selected excerpts of More’s Utopia
  • 7:00 PM EST
  • Course dates: 2/15, 2/22, 3/1, 3/8
  • Extra reading material related to the course (optional)
  • Live course experience, chance to engage with other students and submit questions
  • Unlimited access to the course, recorded videos lectures will be made available to all enrolled students within three days of each live lecture

Course book:

We encourage all students obtain a copy of More’s Utopia. A free copy can be read here or we recommend this version if you would to purchase a hard copy.

$50.00

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Robert James Conrad Jr.

INSTRUCTOR

Robert James Conrad Jr. is a  judge of the U. S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina. He is the author of John Fisher and Thomas More: Keeping Their Souls While Losing Their Heads (2021), which recounts the stories of the two great Catholic saints who were executed by King Henry VIII. “[More and Fisher] were. . .servants of the one true God who spoke through his Word and his Church.  Their shared conviction was that … God was truth, and that his Church was a truth-telling institution.”