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November 2024
Cultural Forum

November 14th, 2024 @ 5:00 pm - 7:15 pm

Magis Lecture | Technology, Liturgy, and the Work of Human Hands

Loyola Academy McGrath Family Performing Arts Center 3455 Illinois Rd, Wilmette, IL

Jeffrey P. Bishop, Saint Louis University

Technology always pushes the limits of our thinking and challenges us morally. In this presentation, we will see that our difficulty with evaluating the morality of technology is because technology sits very close to human identity. Human culture just is technology. Technology/culture is produced by us, but it in turn comes to produce human identity. If this is true, what do we make of the work of human hands as Christians?
February 2025
Cultural Forum

February 11th @ 5:00 pm - 7:15 pm

Magis Lecture | Faith, Belief, and Knowledge

Saint Ignatius College Prep 1076 W Roosevelt Rd, Chicago, IL

Fr. Adam Hincks, SJ, University of Toronto

"Believers are also thinkers: in believing, they think and in thinking, they believe." So said St. Augustine of Hippo, in contrast to our typical assumption that belief and knowledge are opposites, with belief associated with religious faith and knowledge with scientific thinking. In actual practice, though, there are many of instances of belief in science and many claims of knowledge in religion. In this talk Fr. Adam Hincks, S.J. (University of Toronto) will present knowledge and belief as interlocking rational activities and explore how they relate to religious faith.