Tuesdays, March 28-May 16
6:00pm: Dinner
6:30pm: Presentation
This event is in-person only. Intended for university students and recent graduates. Others interested in attending please contact info@lumenchristi.org.
Registrants are free to attend as many sessions as they choose. Sessions do not presuppose previous attendance or prior knowledge of the subject.
The human experiences of suffering, shame, and evil are assaults on our deepest desire for happiness. The atrocities that darken human history, especially the Holocaust, and disasters like the recent earthquakes in Turkey & Syria call into question the Christian belief in God’s Providence. Correspondingly, Christ’s public passion and tortured death have always been a scandal to human reason (St. Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians 1:18-25). Nevertheless, Christian faith proclaims that the Cross of Christ has saved us (Ibid., 15:3-5).
This Lumen Christi Institute spring quarter class will consider the redemptive ‘causality’ of the cross, its relationship to our own experiences of suffering, and the credibility of the claim of Christ’s bodily resurrection.
SCHEDULE
March 28: The Evil of Auschwitz, the Scandal of the Cross, and the Death of God
April 4: Things aren’t the way they are supposed to be: the Fall and the Need for Salvation.
April 11: The Cross of Christ: “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
April 18: The Saving Efficacy of the Cross of Christ: the Eastern Christian Tradition
April 25: The Saving Efficacy of the Cross of Christ: the Western Christian Tradition
May 2: The Resurrection of Jesus Christ: Linchpin of Hope for the Victory of Good over Evil.
May 9: The Shroud of Turin: Photographic negative of a tortured, crucified man: Artifact of the Bodily Resurrection of Jesus Christ?
May 16: Living the Paschal Mystery: “This is a trustworthy saying: If we die with him, we will also live with him. If we endure hardship, we will reign with him.” [2 Timothy 2:11]
