This event is in-person only. Intended for university students, faculty, and staff. Others interested in attending please contact dstrobach@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.
Christian faith proclaims that we are saved by divine grace. What is “grace” and how do we experience it? What is special about the Catholic understanding of grace? What major controversies have clarified the understanding of grace? This class will draw on Scripture, short autobiographical accounts, and film to show the transformative power of grace in the lives of men and women such as Paul of Tarsus, Augustine of Hippo, Ignatius of Loyola, Edith Stein, Dorothy Day, and Bernard Nathanson who were enabled by grace to flourish beyond what they could “ask or imagine” [Ephesians 3:20].
Tuesdays, April 1-May 14
6:00pm: Dinner
6:30pm: Presentation
- April 1: “Immortal Longings”: The Exigence for Transcendence and the Gift of Grace.
- April 8: Paul of Tarsus’s Encounter with the Risen Christ.
- April 15: Do We Earn Grace? The Pelagian Controversy
- April 22: Reformation Grace Controversies: Martin Luther and Ignatius of Loyola
- April 29: The Sacramentality of Grace: Jesus Christ, the Church, and the Seven Sacraments
- May 6: Autobiographical Testimonies to the Experience of Grace
- May 13: “Don’t Call Me a Saint”: “The Long Loneliness” of Dorothy Day.
