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HISTORIAN TO SPEAK ON PATRICK HENRY AT LUNCHEON |
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November 20, 2008
GROVE CITY, Pa. – Historian Father Tom Buckley will draw a portrait of Patrick Henry’s role in the development of religious freedom during the Dec. 11 American Founders Luncheon, sponsored by The Center for Vision & Values for Grove City College and held at the Rivers Club in downtown Pittsburgh.
Buckley, professor of American religious history at the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley in California, will present “Give Me Liberty: Patrick Henry and Religious Freedom in America.”
Sponsored by the Center and the Pittsburgh Federalist Society, the American Founders Luncheon Series brings to Pittsburgh respected scholars on America’s founding to present talks focused on the beliefs, actions and character of those leaders who pursued a “Great Experiment” in whether humans are capable of governing themselves.
Buckley’s research interests are in American religious history with an emphasis on church-state relations and the interaction of religion with social policy. He is the author of “Church and State in Revolutionary Virginia, 1776-1787” and “The Great Catastrophe: Divorce in the Old Dominion and editor of “‘If You Love That Lady Don’t Marry Her’: The Courtship Letters of Sally McDowell and John Miller, 1854-1856.” He is currently working on a study of the implementation of Jefferson’s Statute for Religious Freedom in Virginia between 1787 and 1940.
He holds an undergraduate degree and a Ph.L. from Gonzaga University; a master’s from Loyola University in Los Angeles, a master of divinity from Weston School of Theology and a Ph.D. from the University of California at Santa Barbara.
The Founders Luncheon costs $17.76. To register, log onto http://afls.grovecityconference.com/give-me-liberty/ or contact Brenda Vinton at (724) 450-1541. Registration begins at 11:45 a.m. The program runs from noon to 12:50 p.m. The Rivers Club is located at One Oxford Centre, 301 Grant St., Pittsburgh.
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