May 30, 2006 == MEDIA ADVISORY
A Calvin College philosophy professor has earned the chance to spend five
weeks in England studying the seven deadly sins.
Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung received a grant from the National Endowment for the
Humanities which will pay for her participation in a seminar at Darwin College
at the University of Cambridge called "The Seven Deadly Sins as Cultural
Constructions in the Middle Ages."
For DeYoung the seminar, which will take place July 12 to August 13, will be a
chance for her to dig even deeper into a topic that she has made a passion
since her Ph.D. days at the University of Notre Dame.
She is working on a book about the seven deadly sins - which she prefers to
call the capital vices - and will be teaching a senior seminar on the topic at
Calvin this fall.
Those two projects follow a series of writings she has done in recent years on
the vices, including a curriculum she and a former Calvin student wrote for
high school and college youth groups.
Contact DeYoung at rdeyoung@calvin.edu or 616-526-6418
For the full story see http://www.calvin.edu/news
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