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SUMMARY:A Spiritual Manual for the Technological Age: A Discussion of Paul Kingsnorth's Against the Machine
DESCRIPTION:This event is full.  You can register for the livestream below.  To inquire about the waiting list for the in-person event\, please email Margaux (Killackey) Taffet: mtaffet@lumenchristi.org. \n  \n“A Spiritual Manual for the Technological Age” is the Lumen Christi Institute’s 2025 Kolber Lecture. \n  \nREGISTER HERE (Online Only) \n5:00 Cocktail and Hors d’Oeuvres  |   6:00 Dialogue and Q&A   |   7:30 End  \n“Our culture is not in danger of dying; it is already dead\, and we are in denial.  This\, now\, is the reality we have to wrestle with—and transcend.” \nWe all experience how the rapid advance of technology\, especially AI\, has affected the way we live\, think\, and experience the world. But has it also changed who we are? In his new book\, Against the Machine: on the Unmaking of Humanity\, Paul Kingsnorth explores the consequences of hyper-technologized society. With the deftness of an essayist who is also a poet\, Kingsnorth takes us through the historical and theological roots of post-Industrial Revolution advancement. He ultimately suggests that the dangers we face have a spiritual cause\, and spiritual consequences.  “If you knock out the pillars of a sacred order\,” he writes\, “the universe itself will change shape.”  This technological reshaping will lead man to become the machine—unless we can learn to transcend it. \nPaul Kingsnorth is a poet\, novelist\, and essayist.  He wrote his first book after traveling around the world to study the effects of globalization on culture; since then\, he has written five other works of nonfiction\, three novels\, two collections of poetry\, and has contributed essays to numerous journals\, including First Things\, The Guardian\, London Review of Books\, and The Ecologist.  He also writes a popular Substack\, “The Abbey of Misrule\,” with a following of over 70\,000 subscribers.  Kingsnorth resides in Ireland with his family. \nWe at the Lumen Christi Institute are excited to host Paul Kingsnorth at the University Club as he takes his book tour for Against the Machine.  The evening will begin at 5:00pm with cocktails and appetizers.  At 6:00pm\, Kingsnorth will bring us into the major themes of his book in dialogue with another great contemporary poet and cultural critic\, James Matthew Wilson\, followed by an audience Q&A\, and a book signing.  You may pre-order a signed copy of the book when you register. \nRegistration for the livestream will go live on September 1st.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/a-spiritual-manual-for-the-technological-age-a-discussion-of-paul-kingsnorths-against-the-machine/
LOCATION:University Club of Chicago\, 76 E Monroe St\nChicago\, IL 60603\, Downtown\, IL
CATEGORIES:Downtown Lectures
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SUMMARY:What Can We Say About God? An Interview with David Novak on God-Talk
DESCRIPTION:11:15am Doors Open | 11:45am Welcome\, Blessing\, Lunch is Served   |   12:00pm Interview   |   1:00pm End  \nREGISTER HERE\nThe dress code and parking information for the University Club is here.\nFor questions\, please email Marial Corona at mcorona@lumenchristi.org. \nThis event is copresented by the Regenstein Foundation.  It is cosponsored by Public Discourse\, the Tikvah Fund\, and Spertus Institute. \n\n\nDavid Novak\, one of the most distinguished Jewish theologians in the world\, offers a new interpretation of how the Jewish people and the Jewish tradition talk about God. What does the Torah say about God? How does the God of the Torah talk about Himself? And how does the God of the Torah talk about human beings? The book traces the history and theology of God-talk in Judaism\, and how it remains relevant\, now more than ever\, and speaks directly to contemporary issues such as human rights. \n\nJoin us over lunch as Melanie Barrett\, professor of moral theology at the University of Saint Mary of the Lake\, interviews David Novak on his new book on God-talk in Judaism.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/what-can-we-say-about-god-an-interview-with-david-novak-on-god-talk/
LOCATION:University Club of Chicago\, 76 E Monroe St\nChicago\, IL 60603\, Downtown\, IL
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SUMMARY:An Inquiry into the Value of Work: A Discussion of Matt Crawford’s Shop Class as Soulcraft
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE \n5:30 Cocktail and Hors d’Oeuvres  |   6:30 Opening Remarks   |   6:45 Dialogue and Q&A   |   7:30 End   \nThrough the generosity of LCI’s donors\, undergraduate and graduate students are able to attend this event for free. Interested students should email Marial Corona at mcorona@lumenchristi.org to register. \nThis event is cosponsored at The Point Magazine. \nPublished in 2009\, Matthew Crawford’s Shop Class as Soulcraft became an unexpected best-seller.  Written by a University of Chicago PhD and motorcycle mechanic\, the book explored the value of craftsmanship and manual work in a world increasingly dominated by technology and abstract thinking. \nDrawing on his own experiences as a philosopher and motorcycle mechanic\, Crawford argued that hands-on labor offers a sense of purpose\, fulfillment\, and autonomy often lacking in the world around us. The book delves into the intellectual and philosophical richness of craftsmanship\, challenging the conventional wisdom that separates thinking from doing\, and seeks to reintegrate man with the created world. \nIn this downtown conversation\, Crawford will rehearse the major themes of his bestseller. He will then enter into conversation with experts in Catholic social thought\, to discuss the ways in which his insights about purposeful work and craft resonate with the Church’s insights about the dignity of labor and the value of the created world. \nCrawford will be joined by Kirk Doran\, a University of Notre Dame economist and expert in labor economics and Catholic Social Thought\, and Elisa Rubbo\, a University of Chicago economist\, whose research focuses on how macroeconomic variables affect different industries and labor markets.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2024-10-shopclass-as-soulcraft/
LOCATION:University Club of Chicago\, 76 E Monroe St\nChicago\, IL 60603\, Downtown\, IL
CATEGORIES:Downtown Lectures
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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion on "Natural Law in Court"
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\n$25 Registration / Free for Current Students and Faculty / 1 CLE CREDIT for an additional fee of $10 \nThis program has been approved by the Illinois MCLE Board for 1 hour of General CLE credit. Cosponsored by the Catholic Lawyers Guild of Chicago and the Loyola University Chicago School of Law. \nJoin us for a reception and panel discussion of the recent book by R. H. Helmholz\, Natural Law in Court: A History of Legal Theory in Practice (Harvard University Press\, 2015). Copies of the book will be available for purchase. \nUntil very recently\, lawyers in the Western tradition studied natural law as a part of their training\, and the task of the judicial system was to put its tenets into concrete form\, building an edifice of positive law on natural law’s foundations. Although much has been written about natural law in theory\, surprisingly little has been said about how it has shaped legal practice. Natural Law in Court asks how lawyers and judges made and interpreted natural law arguments in England\, Europe\, and the United States\, from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the American Civil War. \nSCHEDULE:  \n5:15PM   Registration and Reception \n6:15PM   Program \n7:30PM   Close
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-05-panel-discussion-on-natural-law-in-court-r-h-helmholz-michael-moreland-jeffrey-pojanowski-adrian-vermeule/
LOCATION:Loyola University Chicago School of Law\, Power Rogers & Smith Ceremonial Courtroom (10th Floor)\, 25 E Pearson St.\nChicago\, IL 60611\, River North\, IL
CATEGORIES:Downtown Lectures
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SUMMARY:Religious Faith and Modern War
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\n$25 Registration includes breakfast \nYou can read Phil Klay’s recent piece “The Citizen-Soldier: Moral Risk and the Modern Military” HERE. \nPhoto courtesy of Hannah Dunphy
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2016-10-religious-faith-modern-war-phil-klay/
LOCATION:University Club of Chicago\, 76 E Monroe St\nChicago\, IL 60603\, Downtown\, IL
CATEGORIES:Downtown Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160927T173000
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SUMMARY:Getting Religion: Faith\, Culture\, and Politics from the Age of Eisenhower to the Era of Obama
DESCRIPTION:ABOUT THE BOOK \nImpeccably researched\, thought-challenging and leavened by wit\, Getting Religion\, the highly-anticipated new book from Kenneth L. Woodward\, is ideal perfect for readers looking to understand how religion came to be a contentious element in 21st century public life. \nHere the award-winning author blends memoir (especially of the postwar era) with copious reporting and shrewd historical analysis to tell the story of how American religion\, culture and politics influenced each other in the second half of the 20th century. There are few people writing today who could tell this important story with such authority and insight. A scholar as well as one of the nation’s most respected journalists\, Woodward served as Newsweek’s religion editor for nearly forty years\, reporting from five continents and contributing over 700 articles\, including nearly 100 cover stories\, on a wide range of social issues\, ideas and movements. \nBeginning with a bold reassessment of the Fifties\, Woodward’s narrative weaves through Civil Rights era and the movements that followed in its wake: the anti-Vietnam movement; Liberation theology in Latin America; the rise of Evangelicalism and decline of mainline Protestantism; women’s liberation and Bible; the turn to Asian spirituality; the transformation of the family and emergence of religious cults; and the embrace of righteous politics by both the Republican and Democratic Parties. \nAlong the way\, Woodward provides riveting portraits of many of the era’s major figures: preachers like Billy Graham and Jerry Falwell; politicians Mario Cuomo and Hillary Clinton; movement leaders Daniel Berrigan\, Abraham Joshua Heschel\, and Richard John Neuhaus; influential thinkers ranging from Erik Erikson to Elizabeth Kubler-Ross; feminist theologians Rosemary Reuther and Elizabeth Schussler-Fiorenza; and est impresario Werner Erhardt; plus the author’s long time friend\, the Dalai Lama. \nFor readers interested in how religion\, economics\, family life and politics influence each other\, Woodward introduces fresh a fresh vocabulary of terms such as “embedded religion\,” “movement religion” and “entrepreneurial religion” to illuminate the interweaving of the secular and sacred in American public life. \nThis is one of those rare books that changes the way Americans think about belief\, behavior and belonging.\nPRAISE FOR THE BOOK \n“In this thoughtful book\, Ken Woodward offers us a memorable portrait of the past seven decades of American life and culture. From Reinhold Niebuhr to Billy Graham\, from Abraham Heschel to the Dali Lama\, from George W. Bush to Hillary Clinton\, Woodward captures the personalities and charts the philosophical trends that have shaped the way we live now.” – Jon Meacham\, Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author of Destiny and Power \n“For decades\, Kenneth Woodward covered religion like no one else in the field: with a keen intellect\, an open mind\, a big heart\, and most of all\, the inability to write a dull sentence. In his new memoir\, which mixes his own religious upbringing with a typically clearheaded analysis of the times in which he lived (and on which he reported)\, he takes us on a fascinating journey of what he rightly calls the most volatile religious period in American history.  You may open the book for the historical tour\, but you’ll stay with it because of your brilliant guide.” – James Martin\, SJ\, New York Times bestselling author of Jesus: A Pilgrimage. \nWoodward’s book is brilliant—lively\, historically informed\, and spiced throughout with his trademark wit. Having personally witnessed many of most important events in American religion over the past half century\, Woodward provides close-up\, moment-to-moment reality to stories others often missed. His judgments are consistently edgy but also appreciative of the achievements of the era’s key players he came to know so well. – Grant Wacker\, Gilbert T. Rowe Professor Emeritus of Christian History\, Duke Divinity School \n“No American journalist has patrolled the borders of that often-troubled relationship between faith and culture longer or better than Kenneth Woodward. He’s a reporter of the old school\, taking the time both to get the story right and to be artful about how he crafts his prose. As Woodward says himself\, “being there matters\,” and in this book\, you’ll find the wisdom of someone who’s just flat-out been there. This is a superb book.” – John L. Allen Jr\, editor of Crux and author of A People of Hope \n“This survey and interpretation of the American socio-religious scene over the past half century is deeply resourced\, comprehensive in coverage\, fair-minded in its judgments\, and eminently readable. It covers much more than politics\, but Woodward has original things to tell us on that highly charged topic. His account of the religious right is a model of clarity\, and he balances that by calling attention to often overlooked religious dimensions to Democratic party politics — especially the importance of Methodism in the political formation of George McGovern and Hillary Clinton. All in all\, a terrific book.” – Philip Gleason\, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. \n“If ever there were a journalist who could write of his journey through the multi-dimensional worlds of religion in America — and in the world\, it is Kenneth Woodward. Religion Reported is a fascinating account of his almost 40 years as the religion editor of Newsweek. He takes us behind the scenes with illuminating portrayals of some of the major religious and political leaders of the latter twentieth century and does so with thorough research\, balanced reporting\, candid assessments\, and more than a little humor. As Woodward notes\, ‘being there’ mattered. It becomes clear that the author has been everywhere on the religion scene and his observations are incisive and insightful.  Readers of this engaging book will feel\, as I did\, that they were there also.” – Michael Cromartie\, Vice President\, Ethics and Public Policy Center \nNot since de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America\, has there been such a personal and insightful survey of religion in American life. Ken Woodward’s Getting Religion is in some ways even better because de Tocqueville was a just visitor to America while Woodward is a sympathetic insider who loves church and state as well as the separation between them that mutually enriches both.  This is a masterful record of the dance of religion on American shores since the second world war.  Ken Woodward may be the only one who could have written it. –Rabbi Marc Gellman\, Ph.D.\, former religion columnist for Newsweek.com \n \n\n 
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2016-09-getting-religion-faith-culture-politics-from-age-of-eisenhower-to-era-of-obama-kenneth-woodward-martin-marty/
LOCATION:University Club of Chicago\, 76 E Monroe St\nChicago\, IL 60603\, Downtown\, IL
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