Name: On Bones and Genomes: What Can Science Tell Us About Being Human?
Start: 2019-04-25T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2019-04-25T19:00:00-05:00
Location: Kent Hall, Room 107

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February 2019
February 23rd, 2019 @ 10:00 am - 7:30 pm

Science, Creation, & the Catholic Imagination

Swift Hall 1025 E 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Listen to the lectures as podcast episodes. You can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page, iTunes channel, Stitcher, TuneIn, ListenNotes, Podbean, Pocket Casts, and Google Play Music. To view photos of the conference, visit Lumen Christi's Facebook page. Have you ever wondered if science and religion can co-exist? Or whether it is rational (or irrational) to believe in God? How can the story of Adam and Eve in the Book of Genesis be reconciled with the Big Bang? Or with evolution? What does The Lord of the Rings have to do with Jesus? And what exactly is hillbilly thomism? The intellectual tradition of the Catholic Church has been asking (and answering!) questions...
February 28th, 2019 @ 5:00 pm

Being, Nature, Grace: Clashing Visions in Milbank and Aquinas

Swift Hall, 3rd Floor Lecture 1025 E 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

To view photos of the lecture, visit Lumen Christi's Facebook page. Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion at the University of Chicago Divinity School and the Theology Club of the University of Chicago Divinity School. Persons with disabilities who may need assistance should contact us at 773-955-5887 or by email. Drawing from a chapter taken from a book in draft, in this talk DeHart will critically evaluate John Milbank's understanding of the relationship between creation and divine grace and offer an alternative, sourced in Aquinas, that he considers more adequate.
March 2019
March 2nd, 2019 @ 11:00 am - 2:00 pm

Master Class on “Bernard Lonergan’s Christian Realism and the Word of God as True”

Gavin House 1220 E 58th St., Chicago, IL

Open to current university students and faculty. Others interested in participating should contact us. Copies of the readings will be provided to those who register. Bernard Lonergan, SJ (1904-1984), is widely praised as a giant of twentieth century theology and perhaps the most brilliant philosophical thinker of his generation. Still, he is an outlier in a firmament that includes such figures as Hans Urs von Balthasar, Karl Rahner, Henri de Lubac, and others. His best known works are not in theology itself but in philosophy (Insight: A Study of Human Understanding, 1957) and method (Method in Theology, 1972). Though a...
March 5th, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Weekly Non-Credit Course: “Who Do You Say That I Am? Visions of Christ in the Christian Tradition”

Gavin House 1220 E 58th St., Chicago, IL

REGISTER HERE 6:00 Dinner | 6:30 Lecture This weekly non-credit course is open to current students and faculty. Registrants are free to attend as many sessions as they choose. Sessions do not presuppose previous attendance or prior knowledge of the subject. "But what about you? Who you say that I am?" (Lk 9.20) The Christian tradition arose in response to the question of the person of Jesus Christ, and in every generation Christians have struggled, debated, and developed answers to that question. This course will feature a selection of biblical, ancient, and medieval Christian thinkers who gave distinctive and highly...
March 13th, 2019 @ 5:00 pm

Symposium on “Science and Wonder”

BSLC 115 924 E 57th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Listen to the symposium as a podcast episode. You can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page, iTunes channel, Stitcher, TuneIn, ListenNotes, Podbean, Pocket Casts, and Google Play Music. To view photos of the symposium, visit Lumen Christi's Facebook page. Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Zygon Center for Religion and Science, the Seminary Coop Bookstore, and the Society of Catholic Scientists. Persons with disabilities who may need assistance should contact us at 773-955-5887 or by email. This program is made possible by a grant from the John Templeton Foundation and a Lemaître grant from the Magi Project. Copies of Prof. Sideris's...
March 20th, 2019 @ 5:15 pm

Financial Markets and Moral Inquiry

Ida Noyes Hall, Max Palevsky Cinema 1212 E 59th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Listen to these events as podcast episodes. You can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page, iTunes channel, Stitcher, TuneIn, ListenNotes, Podbean, Pocket Casts, and Google Play Music. To view photos of the symposium, visit Lumen Christi's Facebook page. To read the National Catholic Reporter's coverage of the public symposium, click here. Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development and Committee on International Justice and Peace, Catholics at Booth, and the Catholic Students Association. This event is made possible in part by a grant from the Our Sunday Visitor Institute....
April 2019
April 5th, 2019 @ 4:00 pm

Symposium on “Catholicism and Democracy”

Breasted Hall, Oriental Institute 1155 E 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Listen to the symposium as a podcast episode. You can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page, iTunes channel, Stitcher, TuneIn, ListenNotes, Podbean, Pocket Casts, and Google Play Music. To view photos of the symposium, visit Lumen Christi's Facebook page. Free and open to the public. Persons with disabilities who may need assistance should contact us at 773-955-5887 or by email. Copies of the book will be available for sale by the Seminary Coop Bookstore at the event. ABOUT THE BOOK Looking at leading philosophers and political theologians—among them Joseph de Maistre, Alexis de Tocqueville, and Charles Péguy—Perreau-Saussine shows how the Church redefined its relationship to...
April 6th, 2019 @ 10:00 am - 1:00 pm

Master Class on Romano Guardini’s “The End of the Modern World”

Gavin House 1220 E 58th St., Chicago, IL

To view photos of the master class, visit Lumen Christi's Facebook page. Open to current students and faculty. Copies of the book will be provided for registrants. Romano Guardini (1885-1968)—Italian-born German priest—was one of the greatest Catholic minds of the 20th century. He helped shape Catholic theology between the two world wars and after, as well as the thinking of many non-Catholics of the period. He contributed to the Liturgical Movement and influenced the reforms of the Second Vatican Council. His legacy continues to be felt through Pope Benedict, who studied with him, and Pope Francis, who researched Guardini's work...
April 10th, 2019 @ 6:00 pm

The Preferential Option for the Poor Today

One of the most important ideas in Catholic Social Teaching of the last half century is the “preferential option for the poor.” It is a phrase that describes the Church’s ethical positions in the world, but it also conveys important theological notions about God. Though utilized across a range of magisterial texts of recent memory, the idea finds its most substantial development from theologians on Latin American soil. It is no wonder then that the preferential option is a crucial idea that runs through the encyclicals of Pope Francis. This seminar will elaborate an understanding of the phrase, “preferential option...
April 11th, 2019 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

The Life and Legacy of Saint Oscar Romero

University Club of Chicago 76 E Monroe St Chicago, IL 60603, Downtown, IL

Listen to the address as a podcast episode. You can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page, iTunes channel, Stitcher, TuneIn, ListenNotes, Podbean, Pocket Casts, and Google Play Music. To view photos of the talk, visit Lumen Christi's Facebook page. This program was made possible in part by a grant from the Our Sunday Visitor Institute. Join us for a luncheon talk on the recently canonized Óscar Romero. Since his death in 1980, the world is still absorbing the witness of Óscar Romero, the Archbishop of San Salvador, martyred for his commitment to the poor and social justice. Prof. Lee will consider how Romero’s witness...
April 11th, 2019 @ 5:00 pm

Symposium on “Revolutionary Saint: The Theological Legacy of Oscar Romero”

Swift Hall, 3rd Floor Lecture 1025 E 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Cosponsored by the Theology Club at the University of Chicago Divinity School and Orbis Books. This program was made possible in part by a grant from the Our Sunday Visitor Institute. Join us for a symposium of the recent book Revolutionary Saint: The Theological Legacy of Óscar Romero (Orbis Books, 2018) by Michael Lee. Copies of the book will be available for sale by the Seminary Coop Bookstore at the event. About the book Many years after his death in 1980, the world is still absorbing the witness of Óscar Romero, the archbishop of San Salvador, martyred for his commitment to...
April 25th, 2019 @ 7:00 pm

On Bones and Genomes: What Can Science Tell Us About Being Human?

Kent Hall, Room 107 1020 E 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

To view photos of the conversation, visit Lumen Christi's Facebook page. Free and open to the public. Part of the Lumen Christi Institute's "Science and Religion: A Dialogue of Cultures" project generously supported by the John Templeton Foundation. Presented by the Veritas Forum at the University of Chicago, the Martin Marty Center, Cana, Cru, the Graduate Christian Fellowship, Holy Trinity Church, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Living Hope Church, the Lumen Christi Institute, the Program on Medicine and Religion, and the Zygon Center for Religion and Science. Recent advances in science and technology have made great strides in addressing some of our...

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Symposium on “Science and Wonder”

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Master Class on Romano Guardini’s “The End of the Modern World”

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The Life and Legacy of Saint Oscar Romero

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