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IHC Road Scholars Speakers Bureau


Leonard J. Biallas

Leonard J. Biallas


5320 Oak Hill Dr
Quincy, IL 62305-6228

P: 217.224.4139

Leonard J. Biallas

Leonard J. Biallas holds a PhD from the Institut Catholique in Paris and is currently Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at Quincy University. He is the only person on the Quincy University faculty to have received all three of the University's faculty awards and is the author of numerous books & articles.

Angels and Demons

The very title of Dan Brown's Angels and Demons tantalizes us with ambiguities. His thriller careens back and forth from good to evil, from light to dark. Like the novel's ambigrams, we are forced to ask if our world is right-side-up or upside-down. Is the Copernican theory contrary to Holy Scripture? Did Bernini use Egyption motifs in his sculptures to convey secret messages? What is the secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati and did they carry out a deadly vendetta against the Catholic Church? Join Leonard Biallas as he ponders these and many other enticing questions in popular fiction.

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