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SUMMARY:The Search for God: Testimonies to Grace
DESCRIPTION:This weekly non-credit course is open to current Chicago area students and faculty. Others interested in attending should contact us. Registrants are free to attend as many sessions as they choose. Sessions do not presuppose previous attendance or prior knowledge of the subject. \nOne hundred and fifty years ago\, Matthew Arnold described the receding of “the Sea of Faith” in the poem “Dover Beach.” Today the culture of unbelief is even more pervasive\, especially in secular academia. The stories of those who have struggled with intellectual doubts and personal conflicts in their quest for God and religious faith have much to teach and to inspire us. While each one’s spiritual search is highly personal\, our own faith journeys can benefit from the conversion stories of men and women who embraced Christian faith\, freed by grace to flourish beyond what they could “ask or imagine” [Ephesians 3:20]. Using autobiographical accounts\, this class will highlight the spiritual itineraries of philosophers\, scientists\, literary figures\, artists and a variety of others who came to believe in God\, and in God’s Son Jesus Christ\, and in Christ’s Mystical Body\, the Church. \n6:00 PM Dinner | 6:30 PM Lecture \nJanuary 11 | The Contemporary Crisis of Belief [Hybrid event: online and in-person] \nWhat reasons are given for rejecting belief in God and Catholic faith?  What reasons give credibility to believing in God and making a commitment to the Catholic faith?  Some Conversion Stories: St. Paul of Tarsus\, William Wilberforce\, Dr. Bernard Nathanson\, Dr. Francis Collins\, Dawn Eden [Goldstein]\, Jennifer Fulweiler\, W.H. Auden AND Miracles that changed lives. \nJanuary 18 | St. Augustine of Hippo [Hybrid event: online and in-person] \n“…our hearts find no peace until they rest in you.” \nJanuary 25 | St. John Henry Newman [Return to in-person only] \nApologia pro Vita Sua: “From the time that I became a Catholic…[I] have had no anxiety of heart whatever.  I have been in perfect peace and contentment; I never had one doubt… it was like coming into port after a rough sea; and my happiness on that score remains to this day without interruption.” \nFebruary 1 | St. Thérèse of Lisieux \nThe Story of a Soul: “But I feel especially that my mission is about to begin\, my mission of making God loved as I love Him\, of giving my little way to souls… Yes\, I want to spend my heaven in doing good on earth” [uttered a few weeks before her death at age 24 from tuberculosis]. Her dying words: “My God\, I love you” \nOptional film viewing: Alain Cavalier’s acclaimed film “Thérèse” \nFebruary 8 | Dorothy Day \n“We have all know the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.” \nOptional film viewing: documentary film\, “Dorothy Day: Don’t Call Me a Saint” \nFebruary 15 | Conversion Stories \nEdith Stein: “I could not put the book down [St. Teresa of Jesus’s Autobiography] and read through to the end. When I closed it\, I said to myself: This is the truth.”; Rabbi Israel Zolli: Why I Became a Catholic. \nOptional film viewing: “Edith Stein: The Seventh Chamber” \nFebruary 22 | Conversion Stories:  Scientists\, Philosophers and Literary Figures \nJacques Maritain;  Avery Dulles: “One miracle that stood up to every test was the Resurrection”; Flannery O’Connor; C.S. Lewis; Dr. Susan Greenfield (leading neuro-scientist at Oxford Univ.) who rejects “this unshakeable belief\, which is as strong as any religious belief\, that science is the only approach to understanding the world around you”; Muriel Spark\, Scottish novelist and Catholic convert\, responding to the question why she had become a Catholic: “Because it is the one thing that has stopped me from  going mad.” \nOptional film viewing: “Shadowlands” (the BBC version) \nMarch 1 | Contemporary Conversion Stories \nSpecial guests will share their spiritual journeys. \n\nTestimonies to Grace: A Film Series \nOperating parallel to this non-credit course will be a series of film viewings hghlighting several of the conversion stories covered in the non-credit course. This series is co-presented by the Lumen Christi Institute and Calvert House\, and will be held January 31 – Feb 21 at Calvert House (5735 S University Ave) and Gavin House (1220 E 58th St.. Registration is encouraged\, but not required. Those who are not registered (or are not already registered for the non-credit course) will need to present a University ID or CNET ID upon request. \nJanuary 31\, 5:45 PM \n“Thérèse” (1 hr 34 min)\nDirected by Alan Cavalier \nFebruary 8\, 5:30 PM\, at Gavin House \n“Dorothy Day: Don’t Call me a Saint” (1 hr 30 min)\nDirected by Claudia Larson \nFebruary 14\, 5:45 PM \n“Edith Stein: The Seventh Chamber” (1 hr 50 min)\nDirected by Marta Meszaros \nFebruary 22\, 5:15 PM\, at Gavin House \n“Shadowlands” (BBC version) (1 hr 13 min)\nDirected by Norman Stone
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2022-01-testimonials-to-grace/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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