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"Do Guns Make Us Free? A Christian Critique"

  • Wilson Hall 301 University of Virginia (map)

Firmin DeBrabander will deliver a guest lecture at the University of Virginia, Wilson Hall 301, on Tuesday, March 14, 2017 at 2:00 pm to discuss the “Christian” critique of the gun movement. The event is free, and the public is invited to attend and put on by the Project on Lived Theology.

Find more information on DeBrabander’s publication, Do Guns Make us Free?, here. Read his December op-ed in the Los Angeles Times here.

Firmin DeBrabander is professor of philosophy at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. He completed his graduate studies at the Katholieke Universities Leuven in Belgium, and at Emory University in Atlanta. His publications include Spinoza and the Stoics (Continuum Press, 2007) and Do Guns Make us Free? (Yale University Press, 2015). He has written articles on social and political commentary (notably on the gun debate) in a variety of national publications, including The Baltimore Sun, The New York Times, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, the New Republic and Salon.

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