Dr. H. Tristram Engelhardt To Speak Oct. 11-14th

The following email was sent out by Fr. Michael on Sept. 16th:
Brethren,

Wanted to make sure I got out the final schedule for Dr. H. Tristram Engelhardt's speaking engagement sponsored by Christ the Savior (below). Again, Dr. Engelhardt is a world-renown bio-ethicist and professor of philosophy. This is no small time guest...he is in great demand as a speaker both in the U.S. and abroad. He has authored several books and serves as editor for several high profile medical journals. His full biography is also below.

Despite his credentials, he is a very down-to-earth and humble servant of Christ, a convert to Orthodoxy (from Roman Catholicism), and a TEXAN (something he enjoys tell you!). He is an incredibly engaging speaker, and though an intellectual, is able to convey his topics to average folk like me. See below:

Thursday, Oct. 11, 7PM: Gonzaga University, Jepson School of Business, Wolff Auditorium

"Why Orthodox Christian Theology is so Different?"

Friday, Oct. 12, NOON: Sacred Heart Hospital, Sacred Heart Medical Center Children's Hospital, 4th Floor Classroom

"Ordinary versus Extraordinary Care: Re-thinking An Old Distinction"

Saturday, Oct. 13, 2PM: Christ the Savior Orthodox Church, 12407 E. 16th Ave. (16th & Pines)

"Christianity and the Culture Wars"

Sunday, Oct. 14, 2PM: Christ the Savior Orthodox Church, 12407 E. 16th Ave. (16th & Pines)

"Being Christian in a Post-Christian World"

Full Biography:

H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr., holds an M.D. with honors from Tulane University School of Medicine (1972) and a B.A. (1963) and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin (1969). In 2005 he received a doctor honoris causa from the University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Gr. T. Popa", Iasi, Romania. He was a Fulbright Graduate Fellow at Bonn University, Germany (1969-1970), a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in West Berlin, Germany (1988-1989), a Visiting Scholar at the Internationale Akademie für Philosophie im Fürstentum Liechtenstein (fall 1997), and a Visiting Scholar at Liberty Fund, Indianapolis, Indiana (spring 1998).

Currently, Dr. Engelhardt is Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Rice University, and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Medicine and in the Department of Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine. He has held appointments at Rice and Baylor since January, 1983, after leaving Georgetown University, where he was the Rosemary Kennedy Professor of Philosophy of Medicine. Dr. Engelhardt is editor of the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, senior editor of Christian Bioethics, the Philosophy and Medicine book series with nearly ninety volumes in print, and the book series Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture. He has authored over three hundred ten articles and chapters of books in addition to over one hundred ten book reviews and other publications. His work ranges from Continental philosophy and the history of medicine to the philosophy of medicine and bioethics. There have been more than one hundred fifty reprintings or translations of his publications. He has also co-edited thirty volumes and has lectured widely throughout the world. His books include Bioethics and Secular Humanism: The Search for a Common Morality (Philadelphia/London: Trinity Press International/SCM Press, 1991) and the second, thoroughly revised edition of The Foundations of Bioethics (New York: Oxford, 1996), which has been translated into Chinese, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish. A Chinese translation of Bioethics and Secular Humanism appeared in 1998. His most recent work is The Foundations of Christian Bioethics (Netherlands: Swets & Zeitlinger, 2000), which has appeared in Portuguese and Romanian. In 2006 a new edited volume is appearing, Global Bioethics: The Collapse of Consensus (M&M Scrivener Press).