Name: Texts of Existence: The Interplay of Religion, Individualism, and the Cosmos in Borges and Nietzsche.
Start: 2024-05-01T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-05-01T19:30:00-05:00
Location: Gavin House

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March 2024
March 20th, 2024 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Catholic Women in the Arts and Sciences: An Underappreciated Tradition – Faith and Reason | West Suburban Catholic Culture Series

Ruth Lake Country Club 6200 South Madison Street, Hinsdale, IL

Bronwen McShea, Augustine Institute

The West Suburban Catholic Culture Series returns in 2024 to continue its series on "Faith and Reason as the Two Wings: The History and Enduring Importance of Catholic Philosophy" REGISTER HERE (Business casual attire encouraged. For questions, please email Marial Corona at mcorona@lumenchristi.org). Schedule: 6:30 p.m. Drinks | 7:00 p.m. Dinner, Lecture, & Q&A | 8:30 p.m. End March 20: Catholic Women in the Arts and Sciences: An Underappreciated Tradition Bronwen McShea (Professor of History, Augustine Institute) While many people are aware of the important intellectual and literary contributions of modern Catholic women such as St. Edith Stein and Flannery O'Connor, it is not...
March 22nd, 2024 @ 1:00 pm - 6:00 pm

The Quandaries of Biotechnology: Theory and Practice

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

Stephen C. Meredith, University of Chicago | Lesley Rice, Pontifical John Paul II Institute | Kyle E. Karches, Saint Louis University | Silvianne Aspray, University of Cambridge | Paul Scherz, University of Virginia

This event is free and open to the public. This event is cosponsored by The Program on Medicine and Religion at the University of Chicago, and The Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics at Saint Louis University. For more information, contact info@lumenchristi.org. How are new developments between biotechnology and big data including gene editing, brain-computer interfacing, and artificial intelligence changing our vision of what it means to be human? How does this bear in the ethical practices of medicine and research at the lab bench and at the bedside? How might an integrative vision of ethics contribute to this conversation? Are there alternative...
Master Classes

March 23rd, 2024 @ 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Grief, Suffering, and “The Art of Dying” in a Plague: Cyprian’s De Mortalitate

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

Paul Scherz, University of Virginia

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. This 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. The 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? ...
April 2024
April 4th, 2024 @ 5:00 pm - 7:15 pm

Magis Lecture | Do We Know More than the Apostles? Or, Do Doctrines Develop?

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

Lewis Ayres, Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas - Angelicum, Rome

5:00 Mass | 5:45 Drinks & Hors d’Oeuvres | 6:30 Lecture | 7:15 End Co-presented by Loyola Academy. Free and open to the public. Registration required. For questions, please contact Marial Corona at mcorona@lumenchristi.org. Everyone realizes that some aspects of the Church have changed in the half-century since the Second Vatican Council. But has Catholic teaching actually changed? Moreover, can Catholics say that our understanding of the faith grows and deepens over time, that it develops? If we say “yes”, a simple but vital question follows: Can we say that we know more than the Apostles? ABOUT THE MAGIS SERIES The...
April 4th, 2024 @ 8:00 pm - May 9th, 2024 @ 9:00 pm

Brideshead Revisited Graduate Reading Group

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

REGISTER HERE Open to current graduate students at the University of Chicago. Participants can come to whichever sessions they choose. Others interested in participating should contact Jack Drury at jackdrury@uchicago.edu. Books and drinks will be provided. What do choice and responsibility look like for the modern person? How much are individuals determined by their families, their societies, and their religions? What freedom can be found within or outside these relationships? James Joyce addresses these questions and many others in his collection of short stories, Dubliners. Though rich and nuanced like all of Joyce’s writing, these short stories present a straightforward introduction to Joyce’s writing style...
April 10th, 2024 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Dante the Theologian: Ken Woodward Interviews Denys Turner

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

Kenneth Woodward, Lumen Christi Institute | Denys Turner, Yale University, Emeritus

12:00 Welcome, Blessing, Lunch is Served | 12:30 Interview | 1:30 End REGISTRATION OPENS ON MARCH 1 The dress code for the University Club can be consulted here, and parking information here. For questions, please email Marial Corona at mcorona@lumenchristi.org. All agree: Dante Alighieri was a great poet. But Denys Turner insists that he was also a great theologian—and that what makes his theology great is his poetry. Moreover, Turner argues, Dante was able to write his masterpiece only after he had personally journeyed through Hell and Purgatory like Dante, the pilgrim character in The Divine Comedy. Is this the case? Ken...
April 10th, 2024 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Is Free Will an Illusion? St. Thomas Aquinas and Human Action – Faith and Reason | West Suburban Catholic Culture Series

Ruth Lake Country Club 6200 South Madison Street, Hinsdale, IL

Stephen Brock, University of Chicago

The West Suburban Catholic Culture Series returns in 2024 to continue its series on "Faith and Reason as the Two Wings: The History and Enduring Importance of Catholic Philosophy" REGISTER HERE (Business casual attire encouraged. For questions, please email Marial Corona at mcorona@lumenchristi.org). Schedule: 6:30 p.m. Drinks | 7:00 p.m. Dinner, Lecture, & Q&A | 8:30 p.m. End April 10: Is Free Will an Illusion? St. Thomas Aquinas and Human Action Fr. Stephen Brock (Professor of Medieval Philosophy, Pontifical University of the Holy Cross) Americans prize freedom, of all kinds. Yet many today are being persuaded that there is no such thing as free...
April 11th, 2024 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Dante and a Poet’s Journey in Hope

Social Sciences, Room 122 1126 E 59th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Denys Turner, Yale University, Emeritus

REGISTER HERE This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact dstrobach@lumenchristi.org. A wine and cheese reception will follow. This event is cosponsored by the University of Chicago Committee on Social Thought, the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, and the Medieval Studies Workshop. Often praised for its evocative treatment of heaven and hell, Dante’s Commedia is a significant work of theology. Denys Turner will explain how Dante accomplishes by means of poetry what the formal theological treatises of the Middle Ages demonstrate through prosaic inference and proof. Poetry, Turner argues, is the most natural language to articulate...
Master Classes

April 12th, 2024 @ 2:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Poetry Being the Body: Theology in Dante

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

Denys Turner, Yale University, Emeritus

REGISTER HERE 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 pdfs of the selected readings, which should be read in advance of the class. An optional wine and cheese reception will follow. The 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...
April 26th, 2024 @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

Can We Be Good On Our Own? Ancient Pagans and Modern Scientists on Thomistic Moral Virtue

Swift Hall, First Floor Common Room 1025 E 58th St,Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Emily Austin, University of Chicago | Angela Knobel, University of Dallas | Daniel Lapsley, University of Notre Dame | Candace Vogler, University of Chicago

Open to students and faculty. For more information, contact dstrobach@lumenchristi.org. This event is cosponsored by the University of Notre Dame Press and made possible through the support of ‘In Lumine: Supporting the Catholic Intellectual Tradition on Campuses Nationwide’ (Grant #62372) from the John Templeton Foundation. Thomas Aquinas, like a good Aristotelian, holds that the moral virtues can be cultivated in human beings by habitual moral action. And like a good Christian, he also holds that God can gift (or 'infuse') the moral virtues into a human being. Can humans become good on their own? Or do they require external assistance? ...
Master Classes

April 27th, 2024 @ 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Thomas Aquinas on Virtue and Grace in the Moral Life

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

Angela Knobel, University of Dallas

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. This 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. Thomas 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...
May 2024
May 1st, 2024 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Texts of Existence: The Interplay of Religion, Individualism, and the Cosmos in Borges and Nietzsche.

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

This 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. Arjun Mazumdar, who designed this program, is a 2023-2024 Nicklin Fellow. This program is for undergraduate students only. REGISTER HERE In "Texts of Existence," we will explore the depths of existentialism, religion, and the meaning of life through the lens of literary and philosophical classics. Our reading group will study the works of Jorge Luis Borges and Friedrich Nietzsche. Expect to read and analyze passages together, form a collaborative understanding of texts, and tackle...

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