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SUMMARY:Glimpses of Wonder: Faith\, Reason\, and Technology in the University Today
DESCRIPTION:One great challenge in the modern research university is the siloing of information and of knowledge. While specialized knowledge is valuable\, pressing questions confronting the contemporary world require that diverse forms of knowing be integrated\, both in the heart of the knower and in society. A Catholic Institute is uniquely poised to speak to this challenge since the Catholic intellectual tradition has sought to embrace and integrate five intellectual virtues as presented in Aristotle (NE\, VI:3) and St. Thomas Aquinas (ST\, 1a-IIae\, q. 57): wisdom\, science\, art\, prudence\, and mind or understanding. The Franciscan tradition has also emphasized the importance of wonder at the beauty of creation in this synthesis. In this class\, we will engage the unity of these virtues under the guidance of wonder and discuss specific applications to new technologies in artificial intelligence and ecological engineering. True human flourishing is not necessarily about slowing down or accelerating the advance of progress as finding a new measure that allows one to see epiphanies of beauty and learn from them about oneself\, the world\, and the creator of the beauty of the world. \nThis masterclass will provide an engagement with topics related to the 2026 Summer Seminar “Glimpses of Wonder: Epiphanies of Beauty in the Midst of Technological Change” and will help students explore in advance related themes.  \nThe Zoom link will be distributed in advance of the seminar.  \nThis program is restricted to graduate students from any university or discipline. \nThe syllabus and readings can be found here.  \nThis program is part of the project “In Lumine Tuo: Expanding and Sustaining the Catholic Intellectual Tradition Nationwide” (Grant #63614) supported by the John Templeton Foundation. \nAll times are Central Standard Time.  \nFor more information email Geoffrey Zokal at gzokal@lumenchristi.org
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/virtual-masterclass-epiphanies-of-beauty-in-the-midst-of-technological-change/
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CATEGORIES:ONLINE,Master Classes
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SUMMARY:Virtual Masterclass: The Thought of John Henry Newman
DESCRIPTION:Recently canonized as the first English saint since the Reformation and declared the 38th Doctor of the Universal Church and Co-patron of Catholic Education (along with St. Thomas Aquinas)\, John Henry Newman (1801-1890) stands as the most important Catholic thinker between the Council of Trent of the sixteenth century and the second Vatican Council (1962-65).  \nNewman’s intellectual autobiography (Apologia pro Vita Sua)\, treatise on higher education (Idea of a University)\, theory of knowledge (Grammar of Assent)\, and major work of theology (Development of Doctrine) stand as classics in their genres.  In addition\, his prolific sermons cover both his Anglican career at Oxford and Catholic career in Birmingham. \nWe will discuss two sermons from his Anglican years\, delivered as “University Sermons” on the relation between faith and reason. In them\, Newman offers creative insights that deepen the classic Catholic position put forth by Aquinas. \nThis masterclass will provide a glimpse of the 2026 intensive summer seminar on Newman’s thought. A full syllabus of the masterclass can be found here. \nThe Zoom link will be distributed in advance of the seminar.  \nThis program is restricted to graduate students from any university or discipline.  \nThis program is part of the project “In Lumine Tuo: Expanding and Sustaining the Catholic Intellectual Tradition Nationwide” (Grant #63614) supported by the John Templeton Foundation. \nTimes are central standard time. \nFor more information contact Geoffrey Zokal at gzokal@lumenchristi.org
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/virtual-masterclass-the-thought-of-john-henry-newman/
LOCATION:IL
CATEGORIES:ONLINE,Master Classes
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SUMMARY:The Part The Muses Give Us
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER BELOW \n(Note: The schedule below has been pushed back) \nLunch 12:00 | Master Class 1:00-4:30 | Wine & Cheese 4:30-5:30 \nThis master class is intended for graduate and advanced undergraduate students. Others interested in attending should contact William Hurley at whurley@lumenchristi.org for more details. \nThe nature\, form\, and purpose of poetry was called radically into question in the last century\, and yet even now this art form remains a paradigm for what it means to make for the sake of beauty.  \nIn this master class\, we will consider an account of poetry grounded in the four essential M’s (making\, memory\, metaphor\, and meter) to see what it discloses about the function of the art in general. We shall then study and savor a handful of poems that bring particular clarity to each of these essential qualities. Preparation includes reading the final chapter of The Fortunes of Poetry in an Age of Unmaking; a small anthology of poems will be distributed for consideration during the class itself. \nParticipants will receive a copy of The Fortunes of Poetry in an Age of Unmaking.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/the-part-the-muses-give-us/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
CATEGORIES:Master Classes
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250228T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250228T170000
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SUMMARY:Master Class on Augustine's City of God
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE \nOpen to current graduate students and faculty. Advanced undergraduates and others interested in participating should contact dstrobach@lumenchristi.org. This event is in-person only. All registrants will receive copies of the selected readings\, which should be read in advance of the class. An optional wine and cheese reception will follow.  \nFor the positivist political scientist\, focused on polls\, percentages\, and prognostications\, Augustine’s sprawling masterpiece—City of God (De civitate Dei)—is apt to seem a morass of mythology and otherworldly speculation. I propose\, for the conduct of the master class\, that we temporarily (and respectfully) shelve our inner positivist\, link up with our collective political imagination\, and entertain as best we can one of the great political theologies of all time. By great I do not mean unproblematic—there will be plenty of problems and perplexities—I mean greatly influential. For the first 90 minute session\, we will focus on two stories of the fall\, the dual invention of sin\, and Augustine’s struggle not to have to concede to the impossibility of perfection\, here or above. For the second session\, we will turn more directly to political matters and especially to the “twilight” perspective that Augustine takes us all inescapably to have on true peace. \nJim Wetzel (Professor of Philosophy and Augustinian Endowed Chair in the Thought of St. Augustine at Villanova University) will lead this three hour master class. \nReadings:\nSee the list of readings syllabus HERE. \nBoth the required and recommended readings will be distributed to participants via Dropbox and PDFs. If you prefer\, you can pick up a printout of the readings at Gavin House (1220 E. 58th Street) Mon-Fri\, 10am-4pm once they are ready. Please email David Strobach at dstrobach@lumenchristi.org to let us know you are coming. \nSchedule:\nLocation: Swift Hall Common Room \n1:30-2:00 | pre-event pastries and coffee \n2:00-3:20 | Session 1 \n3:20-3:40 | Coffee break \n3:40-5:00 | Session 2 \n5:00-5:30 | Reception
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/master-class-on-augustines-city-of-god/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, First Floor Common Room\, 1025 E 58th St\,Chicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
CATEGORIES:Master Classes
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250131T170000
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SUMMARY:Technology\, Culture\, and Virtue
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\nOpen to current students and faculty. This event is in-person only. All registrants will receive copies of the selected readings via Dropbox and PDFs which should be read in advance of the class. An optional wine and cheese reception will follow. \nTechnology is part of our everyday lives. Despite its everydayness\, there remains something mysterious about it. In this master class\, we will demystify technology\, engaging it as a product of culture that both challenges and enhances culture. \nReadings:\nMartin Heidegger – “The Question Concerning Technology” \nLevis\, Duganzic\, and Scheirer – “Organoids are Multi-Cellular Engineered Living Systems: What is the Path Forward for Their Use in the Laboratory and Beyond?” \nBishop – What is Man that AI is Mindful of Him? and Toward a Liturgical Cosmotechnics \nConwill\, Levis\, and Scheirer – Chapter 1 and Chapter 6 in Virtues in Virtual Spaces \nSchedule:\n1:30 PM | pre-event pastries and coffee \n2:00 PM | Part 1: Technology as a way of thinking \n2:40 PM | Part 2: Technology as a way of doing: Engineering Living Systems \n3:20 PM | BREAK \n3:40 PM | Part 3: Cosmotechnics: Technology\, Culture\, and Human Identity \n4:20 PM | Part 4: Goods\, Virtues\, and Virtual Spaces \nClass concludes at 5 PM with a reception following. \nFor more information\, contact gzokal@lumenchristi.org \nThis event is made possible through the support of ‘In Lumine: Supporting the Catholic Intellectual Tradition on Campuses Nationwide’ (Grant #62372) from the John Templeton Foundation.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/technology-and-culture-master-class/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
CATEGORIES:Master Classes
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250117T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250117T170000
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SUMMARY:Eros\, Order\, and the Human Person: Dostoevsky and Plato on the Soul
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE \nOpen to current graduate students and faculty. Advanced undergraduates and others interested in participating should contact dstrobach@lumenchristi.org. This event is in-person only. All registrants will receive copies of the selected readings\, which should be read in advance of the class. An optional wine and cheese reception will follow.  \nPerhaps the most fundamental themes in Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov are the struggle to disclose the truth of human nature and the way in which social life must be rooted in the truth of what it is to be a person. In this master class\, we will show that the members of the Karamazov family can be understood as incarnations of the various “parts” of the human soul. Thus\, their family drama represents the struggle to unify the desires of the soul in pursuit of truth and the social consequences of succeeding or failing to achieve this unity. By structuring the novel around the mystery of the human person as fundamental for political life\, Dostoevsky gives a Christian recapitulation of the deepest themes in Plato’s Gorgias\, where Socrates and his triad of interlocutors similarly present the dimensions of human nature and show the individual and social drama inherent in the education of the soul’s eros. Further\, by presenting the truth of the human person as the foundation of a healthy society\, Dostoevsky anticipates one of the most important themes in the work of Pope St. John Paul II.   \nReadings:\nThe readings will consist of selections of the Brothers Karamazov and the Gorgias. \nBrothers Karamazov (Picador Edition): 3-26\, 71-81\, 258-261\, 337-339\, 349\, 361\, 383-385\, 536-538\, 585-591\, 623-630\, 660-665\, 670-673\, 675-678\, 681-683\, 688-690\, 719-720\, 737-740\, 766-767\, 821-823\n\nGorgias: 447d-449a\, 452d-453a\, 454b-455a\, 456b-457c\, 459a-459c\, 461b-462b\, 464b-466e\, 469b-d\, 470d-e\, 472c-473e\, 481b-484d\, 491a-493a\, 503d-504e\, 505e\, 507a-508b\, 510d-511a\, 521d-522a\nBoth the required and recommended readings will be distributed to participants via Dropbox and PDFs. If you prefer\, you can pick up a printout of the readings at Gavin House (1220 E. 58th Street) Mon-Fri\, 10am-4pm once they are ready. Please email David Strobach at dstrobach@lumenchristi.org to let us know you are coming. \nSchedule:\n1:30-2:00 | pre-event pastries and coffee \n2:00-3:20 | Session 1 \n3:20-3:40 | Coffee break \n3:40-5:00 | Session 2 \n5:00-5:30 | Reception
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/plato-and-the-brothers-karamazov-master-class/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
CATEGORIES:Master Classes
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241108T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241108T170000
DTSTAMP:20260404T044300
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SUMMARY:What Is a Society? On the Coherence of Catholic Social Thought from Pope Leo XIII to Pope Francis
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE \nOpen to current graduate students and faculty. Advanced undergraduates and others interested in participating should contact dstrobach@lumenchristi.org. This event is in-person only. All registrants will receive copies of the selected readings\, which should be read in advance of the class. An optional wine and cheese reception will follow.  \nIn this masterclass\, we will discuss one of the most fundamental questions in Catholic social teaching: What is a society? We will track the various ways this question has been raised and answered in papal teaching from Leo XIII through the current pontificate of Pope Francis. We will see that tracing the magisterium’s treatment of the nature of society allows us to assess the coherence of modern Catholic social doctrine\, and it also enables us to explore other pressing issues. Are there societies necessary for human flourishing? If so\, which ones? Can we truthfully speak of an international or global society? If so\, what are our obligations to such a society? \nReadings:\nThe readings will consist of an essay by Russell Hittinger and selections from papal documents from Leo XIII to Francis. \nBoth the required and recommended readings will be distributed to participants via Dropbox and PDFs. If you prefer\, you can pick up a printout of the readings at Gavin House (1220 E. 58th Street) Mon-Fri\, 10am-4pm once they are ready. Please email David Strobach at dstrobach@lumenchristi.org to let us know you are coming. \nSchedule:\n1:30-2:00 | Pre-event pastries and coffee \n2:00-3:20 | Session 1 \n3:20-3:40 | Coffee break \n3:40-5:00 | Session 2 \n5:00-5:30 | Reception
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2024-11-what-is-society-master-class/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
CATEGORIES:Master Classes
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241018T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241018T180000
DTSTAMP:20260404T044300
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SUMMARY:Poverty\, Injustice\, Liberation: Class Conflict in Latin America and The Theology of Gustavo Gutierrez
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE \nThis event is sponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute’s Nicklin Fellows Program\, which supports and encourages University of Chicago undergraduate students to develop their intellectual maturity. Fabricio Wei\, who designed this program\, is a Nicklin Fellow. This program is for undergraduate students only. \nWhat is the task of Christian theology in our time? How can we talk about God in the midst of poverty and injustice\, without being naive or paternalistic? How can theology help us understand the call for liberation coming from people experiencing marginalization\, violence and destitution? \nIn this class\, we will address these and other key questions drawing from the work of one of the most influential theologians of the 20th and 21st centuries\, Gustavo Gutierrez. We will focus on Gutierrez’s diagnosis of Modernity and how modern values such as autonomy and freedom\, together with growing industrialization and capitalism shaped most theological discourse during the 20th century. With Gutierrez\, we will examine whether modern\, European and North American theology has been mainly focused on the needs of the most privileged in society\, being often complicit with systems that cause poverty and inequality. In turn\, we will study the emergence and main tenets of liberation theology as a response to both the inadequacies of modern theology and the needs of the poor and most vulnerable. Can theology be both a source for political liberation and spiritual growth\, especially for those who experience the destructive effects of poverty\, racism\, and other affronts to our human dignity? Liberation theology’s answer is in the affirmative. Our task–through close textual analysis and critical discussion–will be to examine how Gutierrez and the liberation theology movement reached such a conclusion\, while drawing lessons for the present. \nReadings:\nWe will read Gustavo Gutierrez’s The Power of the Poor in History (Maryknoll\, NY: Orbis Books\, 1992 [1979])\, Chapter 7\, “Theology from the Underside of History.” Optional reading includes the 1st Chapter of A Revolutionary Faith (Stanford UP\, 2023) by Dr. Raul Zegarra. \nBoth the required and recommended readings will be distributed to participants via Dropbox and PDFs. If you prefer\, you can pick up a printout of the readings at Gavin House (1220 E. 58th Street) Mon-Fri\, 10am-4pm once they are ready. Please email David Strobach at dstrobach@lumenchristi.org to let us know you are coming. \nSchedule:\n2:30-3:00 | pre-event pastries and coffee \n3:00-4:20 | Session 1 \n4:20-4:40 | Coffee break \n4:40-6:00 | Session 2
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2024-10-liberation-theology-master-class/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
CATEGORIES:Master Classes,Nicklin Fellowship
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241012T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241012T150000
DTSTAMP:20260404T044300
CREATED:20241003T161443Z
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SUMMARY:Is Christianity a Slave Morality? Max Scheler on Ressentiment
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE \nOpen to current graduate students and faculty. Advanced undergraduates and others interested in participating should contact dstrobach@lumenchristi.org. This event is in-person only. All registrants will receive copies of the selected readings\, which should be read in advance of the class. An optional wine and cheese reception will follow.  \nThis event is made possible through the support of ‘In Lumine: Supporting the Catholic Intellectual Tradition on Campuses Nationwide’ (Grant #62372) from the John Templeton Foundation. \nIn his book Ressentiment\, the German philosopher Max Scheler deepens Nietzsche’s account of ressentiment\, the life-denying disposition of spite\, envy and revenge. Nietzsche finds this spiritual sickness to be the inner secret of so-called Christian love\, which is really an expression of weakness. Scheler turns this account upside down\, and finds Christianity a life-affirming doctrine that elevates its adepts into generosity and strength. Scheler also sharply distinguishes Christian love from egalitarian humanitarianism. Sometimes called “the Nietzschean Catholic\,” Scheler is thus a helpful guide for thinking through the quarrels that are emerging today between the neo-pagan\, online Right\, which takes its bearings from Nietzsche\, and the nascent revival of orthodox Christianity. Scheler equips us to see some overlap in the intuitions of these camps\, and to retrieve a more aristocratic and virile strand in the Christian tradition. It is a strand that can speak to our present discontents\, and to the pervasive sense of civilizational collapse. \nReadings:\nWe will read Max Scheler’s Ressentiment\, which may be found here  \nThe master class will focus on: \n\nCh. 1\nCh. 3\nCh. 4\n\nIf you prefer\, you can pick up a printout of the readings at Gavin House (1220 E. 58th Street) Mon-Fri\, 10am-4pm. Please email David Strobach at dstrobach@lumenchristi.org to let us know you are coming. \nDiscussion Questions Forthcoming\nSchedule:\n11:30-12:00 | Optional pre-event lunch \n12:00-1:20 | Session 1 \n1:20-1:40 | Coffee break \n1:40-3:00 | Session 2 \n3:00-3:30 | Reception
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2024-10-max-scheler-master-class/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
CATEGORIES:Master Classes
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240503T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240503T170000
DTSTAMP:20260404T044300
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SUMMARY:The Ontology of Beauty
DESCRIPTION:Open to current graduate students and faculty. Advanced undergraduates and others interested in participating should contact dstrobach@lumenchristi.org. This event is in-person only. All registrants will receive copies of the selected readings\, which should be read in advance of the class. An optional wine and cheese reception will follow.  \nThe theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar once claimed that if modern man denies the reality of beauty\, he will lose the capacity for love and prayer\, and indeed truth\, goodness\, and being itself will be lost to him. This seminar will explore von Balthasar’s less than obvious claims by returning to Plato and exploring the way in which beauty was “lost” in western thought before it was recovered by the provocative manifesto of French philosopher\, Jacques Maritain. Beauty\, Maritain proposed\, could save the world from unintelligibility and prepare it for salvation. \nReadings:\nThe readings consist of selections from Plato\, Jacques Maritain\, and Hans Urs von Balthasar. \nBoth the required and recommended readings will be distributed to participants via Dropbox and PDFs. If you prefer\, you can pick up a printout of the readings at Gavin House (1220 E. 58th Street) Mon-Fri\, 10am-4pm once they are ready. Please email David Strobach at dstrobach@lumenchristi.org to let us know you are coming. \nSchedule:\n1:30-2:00 | pre-event pastries and coffee \n2:00-3:20 | Session 1 \n3:20-3:40 | Coffee break \n3:40-5:00 | Session 2 \n5:00-5:30 | Reception
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2024-05-wilson-master-class-2/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
CATEGORIES:Master Classes
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240503T170000
DTSTAMP:20260404T044300
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SUMMARY:The Ontology of Beauty
DESCRIPTION:Open to current graduate students and faculty. Advanced undergraduates and others interested in participating should contact dstrobach@lumenchristi.org. This event is in-person only. All registrants will receive copies of the selected readings\, which should be read in advance of the class. An optional wine and cheese reception will follow.  \nThe theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar once claimed that if modern man denies the reality of beauty\, he will lose the capacity for love and prayer\, and indeed truth\, goodness\, and being itself will be lost to him. This seminar will explore von Balthasar’s less than obvious claims by returning to Plato and exploring the way in which beauty was “lost” in western thought before it was recovered by the provocative manifesto of French philosopher\, Jacques Maritain. Beauty\, Maritain proposed\, could save the world from unintelligibility and prepare it for salvation. \nReadings:\nThe readings consist of selections from Plato\, Jacques Maritain\, and Hans Urs von Balthasar. \nBoth the required and recommended readings will be distributed to participants via Dropbox and PDFs. If you prefer\, you can pick up a printout of the readings at Gavin House (1220 E. 58th Street) Mon-Fri\, 10am-4pm once they are ready. Please email David Strobach at dstrobach@lumenchristi.org to let us know you are coming. \nSchedule:\n1:30-2:00 | pre-event pastries and coffee \n2:00-3:20 | Session 1 \n3:20-3:40 | Coffee break \n3:40-5:00 | Session 2 \n5:00-5:30 | Reception
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2024-05-wilson-master-class/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
CATEGORIES:Master Classes
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240427T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240427T150000
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SUMMARY:Thomas Aquinas on Virtue and Grace in the Moral Life
DESCRIPTION:Open to current graduate students and faculty. Advanced undergraduates and others interested in participating should contact dstrobach@lumenchristi.org. This event is in-person only. All registrants will receive copies of the selected readings\, which should be read in advance of the class. An optional wine and cheese reception will follow.  \nThis event is made possible through the support of ‘In Lumine: Supporting the Catholic Intellectual Tradition on Campuses Nationwide’ (Grant #62372) from the John Templeton Foundation. \nThomas Aquinas distinguishes between two kinds of moral virtue: acquired moral virtues\, which are cultivated though one’s power and via one’s own repeated good acts\, and infused moral virtues\, which are bestowed on man directly by God in the moment of baptism.  The distinction between these two types of virtue is the focus of this master class.  The goal will be to understand how Aquinas understands the difference between the two types of virtue: the sources from which each spring\, the ways in which the acts of each differ\, and whether and to what extent he believes the two different types of virtue interact. \nThe first 15 registrants will receive a copy of Knobel’s book\, Aquinas and the Infused Moral Virtues. \nReadings:\nDisputed Questions on the Virtues (Preferably the Atkins translation): \n◊ Disputed Question on the Virtues in General a.8-11; (48 pages) \nSumma Theologiae (Preferably Alfred Freddoso’s translation\, available online at https://www3.nd.edu/~afreddos/summa-translation/TOC.htm) \n◊ Prima Secundae q.61 a.5\, 62\, 63\, 68 (22 pages total) \nAquinas and the Infused Moral Virtues \n◊ Chapter 6 (30 pages) \nBoth the required and recommended readings will be distributed to participants via Dropbox. If you prefer\, you can pick up a printout of the readings at Gavin House (1220 E. 58th Street) Mon-Fri\, 10am-4pm once they are ready. Please email David Strobach at dstrobach@lumenchristi.org to let us know you are coming. \nDiscussion Questions:\n◊ Conceptually\, what seem to be the most important differences between the  infused and acquired virtues? Aquinas repeatedly speaks of virtues as  “proceeding from principles\,” and of the different “seeds” of infused and  acquired virtue\, respectively. What is meant by the language of “principle” and  “seed\,” and how are those notions important in Aquinas’s understanding of  infused and/or acquired virtue? What is meant by the claim that the two types  of virtue differ in “species”? What role does the difference in the “end” that  each virtue is ordered to play\, and how important is it? \n◊ a.10 ad.4 of the Disputed Question on the Virtues in General and q.61 a.5 of the Prima Secundae are two of the very few texts where Aquinas says anything at all  about the relationship between the infused and acquired virtues. What do  these texts imply\, and is what each text implies the same or different? \n◊ Given Aquinas’s insistence that only the infused virtues order us to supernatural beatitude\, can it ever make sense on his account to pursue only  acquired virtue? \nSchedule:\n11:30-12:00 | Optional pre-event lunch \n12:00-1:20 | Session 1 \n1:20-1:40 | Coffee break \n1:40-3:00 | Session 2 \n3:00-3:30 | Reception
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2024-04-knobel-master-class/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
CATEGORIES:Master Classes
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240412T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240412T173000
DTSTAMP:20260404T044300
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SUMMARY:Poetry Being the Body: Theology in Dante
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\nOpen to current graduate students and faculty. Advanced undergraduates and others interested in participating should contact dstrobach@lumenchristi.org. This event is in-person only. All registrants will receive pdfs of the selected readings\, which should be read in advance of the class. An optional wine and cheese reception will follow.  \nThe poet plays a crucial role in the development of a language of the “mystical”  that paradoxically gives voice to the insufficiency of human speech in the face of the reality of the divine. The revelation of this insufficiency speaks effectively to theology’s positive\, affirming\, role. Poetry is a pre-theological anticipation of theology. \nProf. Turner will build this argument with the three parts of Dante’s Commedia. Alongside this great text\, Prof. Turner will reference a chapter from God\, Mystery\, and Mystification\, which sets out formally a theological epistemology to which Dante gives a poetic voice. \nReadings:\nSelections will be from Dante’s Commedia and Turner’s book\, Dante the Theologian. \nBoth the required and recommended readings will be distributed to participants via Dropbox. If you prefer\, you can pick up a printout of the readings at Gavin House (1220 E. 58th Street) Mon-Fri\, 10am-4pm once they are ready. Please email David Strobach at dstrobach@lumenchristi.org to let us know you are coming. \nSchedule:\n1:30-2:00 | Pre-event coffee and cookies \n2:00-3:20 | Session 1 \n3:20-3:40 | Break \n3:40-5:00 | Session 2 \n5:00-5:30 | Reception
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2024-04-poetry-being-the-body/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
CATEGORIES:Master Classes
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240323T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240323T150000
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CREATED:20241003T162533Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T194229Z
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SUMMARY:Grief\, Suffering\, and "The Art of Dying" in a Plague: Cyprian’s De Mortalitate
DESCRIPTION:Open to current graduate students and faculty. Advanced undergraduates and others interested in participating should contact dstrobach@lumenchristi.org. This event is in-person only. All registrants will receive copies of the selected readings\, which should be read in advance of the class. Reception will follow.  \nThis event is made possible through the support of ‘In Lumine: Supporting the Catholic Intellectual Tradition on Campuses Nationwide’ (Grant #62372) from the John Templeton Foundation. \nThe ancient Stoics rejected grief as a passion.  Was it inhuman to grieve? Or was it inhuman to suppress this natural human affect?  What about longing for lost loved ones or the fear of death?  To what extent did early Christian teaching modify or reject the Stoics? And how does one approach the possibility of loss and death today\, in a contemporary medical context that has prioritized statistical analysis and abstraction in lieu of concern for the concrete ‘other’? \nCyprian of Carthage’s sermon Mortality\, delivered in the middle of a devastating plague in the third century\, provides an early Christian vision of how to face death\, which both takes up and transforms ancient Stoic approaches to death. This seminar-style discussion will explore these themes as well as its call to care for others despite risk. It will explore these insights in relation to today’s dramatically changed medical context in which care for the human person risks being occluded by statistical abstraction. \nReadings:\nCyprian’s “Mortality” from Treatises in CUA’s Fathers of the Church Series (pp. 193-221). \nSecondary: \nScherz “Grief\, Death\, and Longing in Stoic and Christian Ethics” Journal of Religious Ethics 45: 1 (2017)\, 7–28. \nScherz\, “Chapter 10: Caring for the Statistical Other” in The Ethics of Precision Medicine: The Problems of Prevention in Healthcare (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press\, Forthcoming). \nBoth the required and recommended readings will be distributed to participants via Dropbox. If you prefer\, you can pick up a printout of the readings at Gavin House (1220 E. 58th Street) Mon-Fri\, 10am-4pm once they are ready. Please email David Strobach at dstrobach@lumenchristi.org to let us know you are coming. \nDiscussion Questions:\nAccording to Cyprian\, how should Christians approach death? How is this similar and/or different from contemporary stances toward death? \nFor Cyprian\, how does a proper attitude toward death affect our actions and feelings toward others? How does it affect our emotions for loved ones who have died? \nSchedule:\n11:30-12:00 | Optional pre-event lunch \n12:00-1:20 | Session 1 \n1:20-1:40 | Coffee break \n1:40-3:00 | Session 2 \n3:00-3:30 | Reception
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2024-03-scherz-master-class/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
CATEGORIES:Master Classes
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240203T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240203T160000
DTSTAMP:20260404T044300
CREATED:20241003T162551Z
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SUMMARY:Hannah Arendt and The Human Condition
DESCRIPTION:Open to current graduate students and faculty. Advanced undergraduates and others interested in participating should contact dstrobach@lumenchristi.org. This event is in-person only. All registrants will receive copies of the selected readings\, which should be read in advance of the class. An optional wine and cheese reception will follow.  \nHannah Arendt came to Chicago in the 1950’s and produced two remarkable works: The Human Condition (which began as her Walgreens lectures) and Between Past and Future (which she finished while she was at the University of Chicago’s Committee on Social Thought). This seminar-style master class will examine excerpts from these works in order to delineate Arendt’s treatment of the human condition\, the relation between the history of political thought and the present day\, and her work in light of Leo Strauss’ Natural Right and History. \nReadings:\nHannah Arendt: \n\nFrom Between Past and Future: “The Concept of History: Ancient and Modern”\nFrom The Human Condition: § 31 and 32 (“The Traditional Substitution of Making for Acting” and “The Process Character of Action”).\n\nLeo Strauss: \n\nFrom Natural Right and History: “Introduction” and “I. Natural Right and the Historical Approach.”\n\nBoth the required and recommended readings will be distributed to participants via Dropbox. If you prefer\, you can pick up a printout of the readings at Gavin House (1220 E. 58th Street) Mon-Fri\, 10am-4pm once they are ready. Please email David Strobach at dstrobach@lumenchristi.org to let us know you are coming. \nSchedule:\n11:30-12:00 | Optional pre-event lunch \n12:00-1:20 | Session 1 \n1:20-1:40 | Coffee break \n1:40-3:00 | Session 2 \n3:00-3:30 | Reception
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2024-2-arendt-the-human-condition/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
CATEGORIES:Master Classes
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231028T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231028T110000
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SUMMARY:Pondering the Psalms with Early Christians: Origen and Augustine
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE \nThis online-only event is for students\, faculty and university staff only. Registration is required. For more information\, please contact info@lumenchristi.org. \nThis online event will take place from 9:00am – 11:00am C.T. / 10:00am – 12:00pm E.T. on Saturday\, October 28th. \nExegesis is the core of early Christian theology and this comes alive in the interpretation of the psalms. In this master class we will look at two interpreters of the psalms—Origen and Augustine—led by Lewis Ayres (Durham University/Australian Catholic University/Angelicum) and Paul Blowers (Milligan University)\, two leaders of our upcoming summer seminar. \nThis online master class is a preview of our regular summer seminar offering in Patristics. \nReadings:\n\nOrigen of Alexandria\, Homily 1 on Psalm 77\nAugustine of Hippo\, Exposition 2 of Psalm 30\n\nReadings for the masterclass can be found here.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2023-10-pondering-the-psalms-with-origen-and-augustine/
LOCATION:ONLINE\, World Wide Web\, INTERNET
CATEGORIES:ONLINE,Master Classes
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231020T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231020T173000
DTSTAMP:20260404T044300
CREATED:20241003T162620Z
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SUMMARY:Letters from Lake Como and Other Approaches: Guardini and Heidegger on Technology
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE \nOpen to current graduate students and faculty. Advanced undergraduates and others interested in participating should contact dstrobach@lumenchristi.org. All registrants will receive a copy of the required reading\, which should be read in advance of the class. An optional wine and cheese reception will follow.  \nThis master class is made possible through the support of ‘In Lumine: Supporting the Catholic Intellectual Tradition on Campuses Nationwide’ (Grant #62372) from the John Templeton Foundation.  \nThis masterclass will cover Romano Guardini’s Letters from Lake Como\, written between 1923-1925\, and will focus on the relationship between technology\, human nature\, and culture. It will take a special interest in his discussion of how some modern technology disrupts man’s historical and traditional relationship to nature. Some modern technology\, Guardini argues\, makes man into a dominator of nature instead of one who works in harmony with it. This significant difference alters man’s understanding of his relationship to humanity\, to God\, and to the cosmos. \nGuardini’s critique of technology both influences and departs from Martin Heidegger’s famous treatment in his “The Question Concerning Technology.” The master class will conclude with a comparison of Guardini and Heidiegger. \nReadings:\nRequired: Guardini\, Romano. Letters from Lake Como: Explorations in Technology and the Human Race. Ressourcement : Retrieval & Renewal in Catholic Thought\, 1994. \nRecommended: Heidegger\, Martin. “The Question Concerning Technology.” In The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays\, translated by William Lovitt\, 3-36. New York and London: Garland Punlishing Inc.\, 1977. \nThe readings will be available at Gavin House (1220 E. 58th Street) Mon-Fri\, 10am-4pm. Please email David Strobach at dstrobach@lumenchristi.org to let us know you are coming. \nSchedule:\n1:30-2:00 | Pre-event coffee and cookies \n2:00-3:20 | Session 1 \n3:20-3:40 | Break \n3:40-5:00 | Session 2 \n5:00-5:30 | Reception
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2023-10-guardini-master-class/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
CATEGORIES:Master Classes
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