Dr. Dwight Lindley Talk on A Christmas Carol at Cincinnati Classical Academy

Cincinnati Classical Academy invites you to the third of our 2024-25 Veritatis Splendor Speakers Series, featuring Dr. Dwight Lindley, Ph.D. Join us

At 6:00 PM in the Old Narthex for a reception with refreshments and Christmas carols sung by our Schola Cantorum. Dr. Lindley’s talk will begin at 7:00 PM in the Sojourner Truth Auditorium at the Siebenthaler Campus.

170 Siebenthaler Dr. 45215

A Christmas Carol to Re-Enchant the World

• The Christmas Carol is easily Dickens’ most popular work, and for many still plays an annual part in their celebration of Christmas. What explains its continuing appeal?

• This is a Christmas story, but not a retelling of the Christmas story. What is its relation to the Christian mystery of the Nativity? And more broadly, how does the Carol reflect Dickens’ views of religion and Christmas?

• What genre of literature is A Christmas Carol, and why does this matter for our enjoyment and understanding of it?

• What is the role of the ghosts in the story, and how are we to understand them?

• What is the single most important moment in the book, and why does it matter?

• What are some of the ways A Christmas Carol connects to the issues and questions of our own day?

Dr. Dwight Lindley is the Barbara Longway Briggs Chair in English Literature at Hillsdale College. He teaches courses in the Great Books, as well as nineteenth- and twentieth-century British literature, and has published essays and articles on Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, John Henry Newman, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Virginia Woolf, and others. He lives in Hillsdale, Michigan with his wife Emma, and their nine children

Through the Veritatis Splendor Speakers Series (Latin for “Splendor of Truth”), CLASSICAL invites nationally recognized speakers to address thought-provoking topics related to our mission of promoting moral character and civic virtue through a content-rich education in the classical liberal arts and sciences. The aim of the speaker series is not merely to deepen the knowledge and involvement of CLASSICAL’s immediate school community, but also to educate and engage the community at large.