Wednesday, February 25, 2009 7 PM
Four Evenings With Esther de Waal–Living Voices: St. Dunstan, St. Anselm, and Thomas Merton as exemplars of creativity (4 of 4)
Explore the religious imagination in a series of four evenings with Benedictine and Celtic scholar Esther de Waal.
In the last of four evenings, Esther de Waal will speak on “Living Voices: St. Dunstan, St. Anselm, and Thomas Merton as exemplars of creativity.” Although the four evenings are designed as a series, participants are welcome to attend individual evenings.
Esther de Waal likes to describe herself as a gardener and a grandmother but she is also a writer, lecturer, and retreat-giver. Her main interest has been in the monastic tradition—Benedictine, Celtic, Cistercian—and its relevance for today’s world.
Her book Seeking God, The Way of St. Benedict, was written 25 years ago this Lent, and her latest, Seeking Life, will be published during her time here this winter at the College.
She has always lived in the Welsh Borders and now plans to return to her earlier training as a historian of landscape and architecture, together with a recent fascination with the poetry of locality. Her talks this year will reflect this merging of interests.
Suggested minimum donation of $10 requested. RSVP to cathedralcollege@cathedral.org.