The man responsible for this feat is Father Robert Barron, a priest of the archdiocese of Chicago and a faculty member at Mundelein Seminary. The result is the most important media initiative in the history of the Catholic Church in the United States. Over the next four decades, I wondered whether someone, somewhere, at some point, would do a ∼ivilization-like series on Catholicism itself: a Grand Tour of the Catholic world that explored the Church as a culture through its teaching, its art, its music, its architecture”and above all, through the lives it shaped. ∼ivilization was the perfect way to finish a serious undergraduate liberal arts education it brought together ideas, art, architecture and history in a visually compelling synthesis of the history of western culture that respected Catholicisms role in shaping the West. In the fall of 1972, a group of us, philosophy majors all, approached our dean of studies, Father Bob Evers, with a request: Under the supervision of a faculty member, could we build a two-credit senior seminar in our last college semester around Kenneth Clarks BBC series, ∼ivilization, which had been shown on American public television.
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