Lecture at the University of West Georgia

Dr. Patrick S. Madigan talks about “The Inadequate Father and his sons, Lucifer and Christ: Unspoken Sorrow and Motor of History.”

The talk is on Monday, October 24 at 7:30 p.m. in Kathy Cashen Recital Hall in UWG's Humanities Building.

Madigan is a former professor of philosophy at Arrupe College, Harare, Zimbabwe. He is the editor of the prestigious The Heythrop Journal, the philosophical-theological quarterly of the English Jesuits at Heythrop College, London.

Here’s a taste: Lucifer and Christ may stand as historical archetypes of responses to a Father who makes excessive demands. The one son rebels, the other obeys…. Madigan traces the evolution of these archetypes through Plato’s “Forms” and Plotinus’s account of the “Fall” of the soul into matter and on to Milton’s pivotal expansion of Lucifer’s rebellion in Paradise Lost.

This event is sponsored by UWG’s Department of Psychology.