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President's Lecture | Mark W. Roche
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President Todd A. Olson cordially invites you to Mount Mercy University's President's Lecture, featuring Mark W. Roche, presenting "The Arc of Faith: The Journey of the Mind Away from God (and the possibility of Return)."
In this lecture, Roche analyzes faith, doubt, and reason as a triad of concepts central to religious experience, particularly within the Catholic tradition. He does so by exploring the following questions and puzzles: Why are so many people losing their faith today and leaving the Church? What arguments speak against religious affiliation, and how should we weigh these arguments? If you have lost your faith, what paths exist for a return? And how are we to evaluate these diverse paths?
Mark W. Roche is Joyce Professor of German, Concurrent Professor of Philosophy, and former Dean of Arts and Letters at the University of Notre Dame. His publications have been on literature, philosophy, film, and higher education.
Roche is the author of 11 books, including Why Choose the Liberal Arts? (Notre Dame, 2010), which received the 2012 Frederic W. Ness Book Award from the Association of American Colleges and Universities, and Why Literature Matters in the 21st Century (Yale, 2004), which was chosen as an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice Magazine. In 2013, Roche received the Joyce Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, and in 2006, the Kaneb Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.
