MTSM Hosts Dr. Jennifer Frey for LeBlond Lecture
03.17.26
Mount St. Mary’s Seminary & School of Theology (MTSM) welcomed Dr. Jennifer Frey, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tulsa for the 2026 LeBlond Lecture on March 18 in the Bartlett Center at MTSM.
Dr. Frey’s lecture was entitled ‘Flannery O’Connor: Hillbilly Nihilist or Hillbilly Thomist?’, which Frey discussed the life of O’Connor, her education and background in theology and St. Thomas Aquinas and used an example from one of O’Connor’s novels, ‘A Good Man is Hard to Find’ in how she applied Thomistic teachings into her writings.
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