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Event Category: Downtown Lectures

Downtown Lectures

Getting Religion: Faith, Culture, and Politics from the Age of Eisenhower to the Era of Obama

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

ABOUT THE BOOK Impeccably 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. Here 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...

Downtown Lectures

Religious Faith and Modern War

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

REGISTER HERE $25 Registration includes breakfast You can read Phil Klay’s recent piece “The Citizen-Soldier: Moral Risk and the Modern Military” HERE. Photo courtesy of Hannah Dunphy

Downtown Lectures

Panel Discussion on “Natural Law in Court”

Loyola University Chicago School of Law, Power Rogers & Smith Ceremonial Courtroom (10th Floor) 25 E Pearson St. Chicago, IL 60611, River North, IL

REGISTER HERE $25 Registration / Free for Current Students and Faculty / 1 CLE CREDIT for an additional fee of $10 This 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. Join 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. Until very recently, lawyers in the...

Downtown Lectures

An Inquiry into the Value of Work: A Discussion of Matt Crawford’s Shop Class as Soulcraft

University Club of Chicago 76 E Monroe St Chicago, IL 60603, Downtown, IL
Elisa Rubbo, University of Chicago | Matthew Crawford, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies and Culture | Kirk Doran, University of Notre Dame

REGISTER HERE 5:30 Cocktail and Hors d’Oeuvres  |   6:30 Opening Remarks   |   6:45 Dialogue and Q&A   |   7:30 End   Through 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. This event is cosponsored at The Point Magazine. Published 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. Drawing on his own experiences as...

Cultural Forum

What Can We Say About God? An Interview with David Novak on God-Talk

University Club of Chicago 76 E Monroe St Chicago, IL 60603, Downtown, IL
David Novak, University of Toronto | Melanie Barrett, University of St. Mary of the Lake

The Judeo-Christian tradition has long grappled with how man speaks of God and how God speaks of of himself.  In his new book, God-Talk, the distinguished Jewish philosopher David Novak offers a new perspective on how the Jewish people and tradition talk about God. What does the Torah say about God? How does the God of the Torah talk about himself? And how does God talk about human beings?