Our guest this week is Dr. Janice Chik Breidenbach, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Ave Maria University. Dr. Breidenbach joins us to share about her new course, Philosophy of Motherhood. She shares about the motivation to create this course and the important conversations it is sparking on campus in the culture.
Snippet of the Show
The sacrifice of motherly love, and how it nourishes the most utterly dependent and helpless being, is one of the most beautiful and powerful icons of God’s love in this world.
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Our guest this week is Dr. Janice Chik Breidenbach, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Ave Maria University. Dr. Breidenbach joins us to share about her new course, Philosophy of Motherhood. She shares about the motivation to create this course and the important conversations it is sparking on campus in the culture.
Janice T. Chik is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Ave Maria University. She holds research affiliations at Oxford as Member of the Aquinas Institute, Blackfriars Hall, Oxford, where she was also a Visiting Research Scholar (in 2017 and 2019). In 2019-20 she was the Barry Research Fellow and Lecturer in Philosophy at University of Pennsylvania. She earned an AB at Princeton University, with degrees in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and Musical Performance (violin, piano, voice). She holds an MA in Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, where she was a Darrell K. Royal Fellow in Ethics and American Society, and a PhD Fellow in the Law and Philosophy Program. She earned her doctorate in Philosophy at the University of St Andrews, UK, where she was the Scottish Overseas Research Award Scholar from 2010-2013.
Here is a list Dr. Breidenbach suggests for further reading on the subject of philosophy of motherhood:
Sigrid Undset, Kristin Lavransdatter
St Edith Stein, Essays on Woman
St Gregory of Nyssa, Biography of St Macrina
Gertrude von le Fort, The Eternal Woman
Caryll Houselander: The Passion of the Infant Christ; The Mother of Christ
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
St. John Paul II, “Familiaris Consortio” (1981)
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Dignitas Personae, 2008
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Megan Madden
Megan Madden is a homeschooling mother with a passion for writing and speaking on authentic femininity and virtuous womanhood. In 2017, she began graduate studies in marriage and family at the International Theological Institute in Austria. After moving to Kraków, Poland to work with university students, Megan more personally continued her research on the complementarity of man and woman, particularly on the question of what it means to be a woman. She delved into the study of renowned Catholic writers on women such as St. Edith Stein, Gertrude von le Fort, Alice von Hildebrand, St. John Paul II, and St. Teresa of Avila.
The results were the development of Megan’s online ministry A Mother’s Lace, as well as speaking opportunities and her book with Ascension: Mary, Teach Me to Be Your Daughter.
Megan lives outside of Oxford, England with her husband, who is a lecturer in theology, and their five children.
