This week we have one event which happens to be happening today!
"Lucifer and Jesus: Rival Sons of the Father"
A paper presentation by Patrick Madigan from Heythrop College
Monday, Oct. 11th
3:30-4:45pmMonroe 156The abstract of the paper is listed below. Hope to see you tonight!
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Abstract: Lucifer and Jesus may be used as historical 'archetypes' responding to a Father who makes excessive demands on his sons. The one rebels, the other obeys. I discuss the evolution of these archetypes through Plato's 'Forms', Plotinus' account of the mistaken and regrettable 'Fall' of soul into matter, Milton's Paradise Lost (he expands Lucifer's rebellion from not accepting Jesus as the highest creature to disavowing the Father and usurping his place), and finally Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamasov, where all the sons but Aliosha rebel against their overbearing father. Lucifer thus becomes an archetype to the modern imagination encapsulating one response to the inadequate father, or the father perceived as making excessive, and perhaps unacceptable, demands. Christ functions as a contrasting archetype, carrying forward an earlier, alternative response to a father filing an extraordinary request.
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Maria E. Rossi
President, Philosophy Club and Phi Sigma Tau
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