Religion & Law

The annual Fall Conference of Notre Dame's Center for Ethics & Culture is, for me, always one of the highlights of the year.  The theme for the next conference has been announced, and the call for papers is here:

This past November, the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture hosted its tenth annual Fall Conference, entitled The Summons of Freedom: Virtue, Sacrifice, and the Common Good. Our most successful to date, the 2009 conference reflected in myriad fashion on what it means to be truly free. This year, we will continue this inquiry by a discussion centered around the proposal that humility, wonder, and joy are great among those virtues which undergird human flourishing in this world and?in the Christian tradition?lead in grace to eternal happiness in the next. Now, if true freedom is inextricable from that Truth which ?shall set you free? (John 8:32), how ought one to become the sort of person that receives the truth and is conformed to it?that is, the person who shall be free?  . . .