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SUMMARY:Amor Vincit Omnia: Keynote Lecture by Giuseppe Mazzotta
DESCRIPTION:Giuseppe Mazzotta (Yale University)\nKeynote Lecture for the Graduate Student Conference on “Amor Vincit Omnia: Love as a Destructive Force in Italian Arts and Literature” \n\nSponsored by: The Franke Institute for the Humanities\, the Norman Waite Harris Fund\, the Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Chicago\, the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures\, the Department of Art History\, the Center for Study of Gender and Sexuality\, the Western Mediterranean Workshop\, and the Lumen Christi Institute. \nFor more information\, please contact: Taylor Dimke at tdimke [at] uchicago.edu.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2015-04-amor-vincit-omnia-keynote-lecture-by-giuseppe-mazzotta-giuseppe-mazzotta/
LOCATION:Breasted Hall\, Oriental Institute\, 1155 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150423T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150423T160000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165740Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164856Z
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Dante's Theology of the Future: Inferno XIX and Paradiso XXXIII
DESCRIPTION:Due to the funeral of our friend\, supporter\, and Episcopal Moderator His Eminence Francis Cardinal George\, O.M.I. taking place on Thursday\, we will unfortunately have to cancel the event with Giuseppe Mazzotta on “Dante’s Theology of the Future.” \n\nIf you have already paid a registration fee\, you will be refunded in the coming days. We also plan to reschedule the event for sometime in the near future. \n\n\n…so did I strive with this new mystery:\n   I yearned to know how could our image fit\n   into that circle\, how could it conform;\nbut my own wings could not take me so high-\n   then a great flash of understanding struck\n   my mind\, and suddenly its wish was granted.\nAt this point power failed high fantasy\n   but\, like a wheel in perfect balance turning\,\n   I felt my will and my desire impelled\nby the Love that moves the sun and the other stars.\n– Dante\, The Divine Comedy: Paradise\, Canto XXXIII\, trans. Mark Musa
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2015-04-cancelled-dantes-theology-of-future-inferno-xix-paradiso-xxxiii-giuseppe-mazzotta/
LOCATION:Gallery Ballroom\, Hotel Palomar\, 505 N State St.\nChicago\, IL 60654\, Downtown\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150418T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150419T140000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165742Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164859Z
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SUMMARY:Schola Antiqua Concert: A Renaissance Call to Arms
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, April 18\, 3:00pm\nLe Jardin at the First Division Museum\, Cantigny Park\, Wheaton\, IL\n$5 Parking; Free concert admission. DETAILS HERE \nSunday\, April 19\, 2:00pm\nArt Institute of Chicago\nConcert included with museum admission. DETAILS HERE \nSchola Antiqua celebrates the fascination with arms and battle in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries\, particularly in the realm of sacred music\, in which the notions of the Christian soldier and Christ as warrior played significant roles.\n\n\nSchola Antiqua of Chicago is currently the Artists-in-Residence at the Lumen Christi Institute. More information can be found HERE.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2015-04-schola-antiqua-concert-a-renaissance-call-to-arms-schola-antiqua-of-chicago/
LOCATION:Le Jardin at the First Division Museum\, Cantigny Park\, 1S151 Winfield Rd.\nWheaton\, IL 60189\, Wheaton\, IL\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150417T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150417T180000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165742Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164903Z
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SUMMARY:Master Class on "Athanasius and the Struggle for Orthodoxy"
DESCRIPTION:Brian Daley\, S.J. (University of Notre Dame) \nREGISTER HERE \nThis master class seminar will cover the theological and doctrinal issues surrounding the First Council of Nicaea\, focusing on the Arian controversy over the nature of Christ in relation to the Father. Participants will read and discuss primary texts from the early Nicene controversy with one of the world’s leading scholars of the Patristic period. \nReadings: \nThe Controversy over Arius of Alexandria: Letters by Arius\, Alexander of Alexandria\, and Eusebius of Ceasaraea: \n\nRusch\, William G. (ed.)\, The Trinitarian Controversy (Fortress\, 1980) pp. 29-44.\nHardy\, Edward R. (ed.)\, Christology of the Later Fathers (Westminster\, 1954) pp. 329-340.\n\nFrom Athanasius of Alexandria: \n\nOration Against the Arians\, chs. I-X\, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers; Second Series (Hendrickson\, 1994) vol. 4\, pp. 303-326.\nOn the Decrees of Nicea\, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers; Second Series (Hendrickson\, 1994) vol. 4\, pp. 149-172.\n\nSecondary Reading: \n\nAnatolios\, Khaled\, Retrieving Nicaea (Baker\, 2011) pp. 15-31; 99-133.\n\nThis master class is open to all graduate and undergraduate students\, including non-University of Chicago students. Copies of the readings will be provided. Space is limited and offered on a first-come\, first-served basis. If you have any questions\, please contact Mark Franzen.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2015-04-master-class-on-athanasius-struggle-for-orthodoxy-reverend-brian-daley-sj/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150415T163000
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DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165742Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164907Z
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SUMMARY:The Emergence of the Church's Culture of Biblical Interpretation and Theology: Rhetoric\, Philology\, and Gnosticism in the 2nd Century
DESCRIPTION:Lewis Ayres (University of Durham) \nTo understand the exegetical culture that nurtured and formed classical Patristic exegesis\, we must attend to some understudied features of the generation of Irenaeus and Clement of Alexandria. This generation\, in response to the exegetical cultures of ‘Gnostic’ thinkers\, developed the exegetical practice that became fundamental for all later Christian doctrinal disputes and for Christian speculative thought. Bringing this historical moment into clearer focus helps us think about the character of Christian thought today.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2015-04-emergence-of-churchs-culture-of-biblical-interpretation-theology-rhetoric-philology-gnosticism-in-2nd-century-lewis-ayres/
LOCATION:University of Chicago\, 5801 S Ellis Ave\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150410T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150410T133000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165742Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164954Z
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SUMMARY:Is the Human Mind Reducible to Physics?
DESCRIPTION:a luncheon discussion with\nStephen M. Barr (University of Delaware) \nREGISTER HERE \nThis event is open to University of Chicago students. Lunch will be served. Others interested in attending\, please contactinfo@lumenchrisit.org. \nMaterialism or “physicalism” holds that all things\, including human beings\, are completely explicable in physical terms. While ancient and medieval thinkers expressed this view\, it gained a new power with the success of Newtonian physics\, whose laws were universal and deterministic\, giving rise to the belief that the entire physical universe is a closed system of cause and effect. Does this reduction of human beings to purely physical factors eliminate the possibility of free will? Is an understanding of the human mind as immaterial made impossible by the discoveries of the natural sciences? In this discussion\, Prof. Stephen Barr will argue that there is more to the human mind than physicalism can explain\, and that reason and science\, including recent discoveries in quantum mechanics\, imply that the human mind is immaterial. \nParticipants are encouraged to read THIS SHORT PAPER by Prof. Barr in preparation for the discussion.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2015-04-is-human-mind-reducible-to-physics-stephen-m-barr/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150409T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150409T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165743Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260315T160625Z
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SUMMARY:Science and Religion: The Myth of Conflict
DESCRIPTION:In many ways\, the supposed conflict between science and religion is really a conflict between “scientific materialism” and religion. The lecture will review the story of the relation between Christianity and science\, discuss several discoveries of the twentieth century (primarily in physics)\, and argue that these are more consonant with the traditional Judeo-Christian view of the cosmos and of human beings than with scientific materialism.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2015-04-science-religion-myth-of-conflict-stephen-m-barr/
LOCATION:University of Chicago\, 5801 S Ellis Ave\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150406T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150518T180000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165746Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165001Z
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SUMMARY:Pope Benedict's Jesus of Nazareth Non-Credit Course
DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays\, April 7-May 19\nGavin House\, 1220 East 58th Street\n6:00pm: Dinner\n6:30pm: Presentation \nPaul Mankowski\, S.J. (Lumen Christi Institute Scholar-in-Residence) \nREGISTER HERE \nOpen to current university students and recent graduates. Others interested in attending please contactinfo@lumenchristi.org. \n“This book is solely an expression of my personal search ‘for the face of the Lord’.”  Pope Benedict XVI’s Jesus of Nazareth is the product of a lifetime’s prayerful contemplation of scripture by an eminent theologian\, for whom the person of Jesus is the key to understanding both the sacred text and the human person:  “Jesus has brought God and with God the truth about our origin and destiny: faith\, hope\, and love.”  The course will provide background for recognizing the several tributaries of Christian theology and scholarship that Benedict brings together in this work\, and will examine in detail the chief moments in the life of Jesus on which he throws new light.  No prior familiarity with the work of Josef Ratzinger is presumed.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2015-04-pope-benedicts-jesus-of-nazareth-non-credit-course-paul-mankowski-sj/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150305T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150305T173000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165748Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260328T161531Z
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SUMMARY:John Paul II and the Crisis of Modern Times
DESCRIPTION:Russell Hittinger (University of Tulsa) \nThis lecture will compare the great pontificates that represented two “modern times”: Leo XIII at the end of the 19th century and John Paul II at the end of the 20th. Between Leo’s birth in 1810 to JPII’s death in 2005\, the lived experience of these two men encompass all modern times\, both secular and ecclesiastical – from Napoleon to the iPhone. What was at stake for the Church over the course of this rapidly changing century? How did the social teaching of these two popes differ in addressing the modern crises of their day?
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2015-03-john-paul-ii-crisis-of-modern-times-russell-hittinger/
LOCATION:Classics 110\, 1010 E 59th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150228T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150228T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165748Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165009Z
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SUMMARY:Lectio Divina at the Benedictine Monastery of the Holy Cross
DESCRIPTION:Intended for current university students. Others interested in attending please contact info@lumenchristi.org.\n\nJoin us for an evening of prayer with Benedictine Monks at the Monastery of the Holy Cross. Students will participate in the prayer of the Divine Office (Vespers and Compline)\, dine with the monks\, and learn about the Benedectine tradition of Sacred Reading or Lectio Divina with Fr. Peter Funk\, O.S.B.\, prior of the monastery and alum of the University of Chicago. Divine Reading is an ancient Christian practice of reading scripture that includes reading\, meditation\, prayer\, and contemplation (Lectio\, Meditatio\, Oratio\, and Contemplatio). This is an excellent opportunity to get into the prayerful spirit of Lent. \nSCHEDULE: \n4:00pm: Meet at Gavin House (1220 E. 58th St.)\n4:30pm: Depart from Hyde Park\n5:00pm: Arrive at the Monastery of the Holy Cross\, Welcome and Introduction\n5:15pm: Office of Vespers\n5:40pm: Dinner\n6:20pm: Introduction to Lectio Divina by Fr. Peter Funk\n7:15pm: Office of Compline\n8:00pm: Arrive back in Hyde Park \nTo find out more about liturgy at the monastery\, go HERE.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2015-02-lectio-divina-at-benedictine-monastery-of-holy-cross-fr-peter-funk/
LOCATION:The Monastery of the Holy Cross\, 3111 South Aberdeen St.\nChicago\, IL 60608\, Chicago\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150221T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150221T143000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165749Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260325T164719Z
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SUMMARY:Science\, Faith\, and the New Atheism
DESCRIPTION:John Haught (Georgetown University \nThe bestselling books by the “New Atheists” Richard Dawkins\, Sam Harris\, Daniel Dennett and Christopher Hitchens provide colorful portraits of the evils of religions\, especially those that profess belief in a personal God. In their passionate denunciation of faith in God\, the New Atheists appeal not only to morality but also to reason to convince readers of the absolute wrongness of belief in God. This lecture will summarize the main claims of the New Atheists and examine whether these claims are themselves reasonable.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2015-02-science-faith-new-atheism-john-f-haught/
LOCATION:University Club of Chicago\, 76 E Monroe St\nChicago\, IL 60603\, Downtown\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150221T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150221T143000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165749Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165013Z
UID:10000611-1424523600-1424529000@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:The New Atheism: A Conversation with John Haught
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE \nIn this luncheon conversation with students\, Prof. John Haught will discuss the New Atheist critiques of religion. Do such arguments live up to a strict adherence to reason? Do they do justice to the religions they rebuke or\, for that matter\, the atheism they champion? \nThis event is open to all University of Chicago students. Lunch will be served. Others interested in attending\, please contact info@lumenchrisit.org.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2015-02-new-atheism-a-conversation-with-john-haught-john-f-haught/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150220T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150221T200000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165750Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165019Z
UID:10000613-1424460600-1424548800@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:Schola Antiqua Concert: "The Lion's Ear: Music for Leo X"
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, February 20\, 2015\, 7:30pm\nBond Chapel\, University of Chicago\nSaturday\, February 21\, 8:00pm\nSt. Clement Church\, Chicago \nA concert by Schola Antiqua of Chicago\nTickets available online or at the door (cash\, check or credit)\n$25 adults / $10 student and senior \nSchola Antiqua teams up the talented young lutenist Ryaan Ahmed to present music in the milieu of Pope Leo X (r. 1513-21)\, one of the sixteenth century’s most important patrons of the arts. Part of the program will be devoted to sacred works that Leo “the Lion” would have encountered in the Sistine ]Chapel\, an institution known for producing the most luxurious music of the time. The second half of the program will feature secular music from the pontiff’s esteemed lute player\, Francesco da Milano. Ahmed will showcase some of the rousing and virtuosic sounds from the pope’s private quarters.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2015-02-schola-antiqua-concert-lions-ear-music-for-leo-x-schola-antiqua-of-chicago/
LOCATION:Bond Chapel & Swift Hall\, 1025 E. 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150219T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150219T173000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165751Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165023Z
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SUMMARY:Theology and Evolutionary Naturalism: How Much Can Biology Explain?
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, February 19\, 4:30pm\nBSLC 001\, 924 East 57th Street \nJohn Haught (Georgetown University) \nREGISTER HERE \nMany scientists and philosophers claim that a Darwinian understanding of life has rendered the idea of God unnecessary. Descent\, diversity\, design\, death\, suffering\, sex\, intelligence\, morality\, and religion—features of life that had previously been understood theologically—now seem open to a purely natural explanation. This lecture will consider whether the claims of evolutionary naturalists are coherent and whether a theological understanding of life can still be reconciled with biological accounts. \ncosponsored by the Program on Medicine and Religion and the Theology and Religious Ethics Workshop
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2015-02-theology-evolutionary-naturalism-how-much-can-biology-explain-john-f-haught/
LOCATION:BSLC 001\, 924 E 57th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150206T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150206T180000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165751Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165026Z
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SUMMARY:Master Class on "The Causality of Petitionary Prayer: C.S. Lewis\, Peter Geach\, & Thomas Aquinas"
DESCRIPTION:Stephen L. Brock (Pontifical University of the Holy Cross) \nREGISTER HERE \nIf\, as Christians believe\, God is all-wise and all-good\, what sense does it make to ask Him for things?  He is already perfectly aware of our true needs\, and He already wants to provide for them.  Many of our petitions\, it seems\, will be ignorant and misguided; and the others\, unnecessary and superfluous.  And if He already knows everything that will happen\, can our requests really make a difference anyway?  Yet petitionary prayer is part of the whole Christian tradition.  Jesus himself practiced it\, exhorted His followers to do so\, and taught them how.  In this seminar\, we will first look at how petitionary prayer is defended by two 20th-century Christian thinkers\, C. S. Lewis and Peter Geach.  Then we will examine Thomas Aquinas’s position on the question.  The discussion will take us into such thorny topics as time and eternity\, divine foreknowledge and human freedom\, and even predestination. \nThis master class is open to all graduate and undergraduate students\, including non-University of Chicago students. Copies of the readings will be provided.  Space is limited and offered on a first-come\, first-served basis. If you have any questions\, please contact Mark Franzen. \nFr. Brock will also be leading a summer seminar for graduate students in Rome this summer on “Metaphysics and the Soul in Thomas Aquinas.”
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2015-02-master-class-on-causality-of-petitionary-prayer-c-s-lewis-peter-geach-thomas-aquinas-stephen-l-brock/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150205T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150205T173000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165754Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260325T184738Z
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SUMMARY:Aquinas' Third Way of Proving a God: Logic or Love?
DESCRIPTION:Cosponsored by the Medieval Studies Workshop \nThomas Aquinas’ famous five ways of proving the existence of a God continue to intrigue and perplex his readers. The most troublesome is perhaps the third—the one based on the possible and the necessary—to which all sorts of objections can be heard: logical\, scientific\, theological\, phenomenological\, even Thomistic. Contrary to the usual assumption\, however\, the kind of possibility and necessity that the third way regards does not seem to be the logical kind.  In a sense\, it has more to do with love than with logic. This reading puts the problems that the third way faces\, and also the God that it affirms\, in a rather different light. \nFr. Brock will also be leading a summer seminar for graduate students in Rome this summer on “Metaphysics and the Soul in Thomas Aquinas.”
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2015-02-aquinas-third-way-of-proving-a-god-logic-or-love-stephen-l-brock/
LOCATION:Classics 110\, 1010 E 59th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150130T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150130T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165754Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165033Z
UID:10000617-1422630000-1422644400@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:Master Class on The Interior Castle of Teresa of Ávila
DESCRIPTION:Bernard McGinn (University of Chicago) \nREGISTER HERE \nIn this three-hour seminar\, Prof. McGinn will lead students through the major themes of Teresa of Ávila’s The Interior Castle\, a masterpiece of Christian mysticism by one of the most profound spiritual figures in the History of Christianity. \nParticipants will be provided with a complimentary copy of the book if needed and are required to read it in preparation for the seminar. The Paulist Press version of Teresa of Avila: The Interior Castle is preferred but not required if you already own another version. \nThis master class is open to all graduate and undergraduate students\, including non-University of Chicago students. Copies of the book can be mailed or picked up at Gavin House.  Space is limited and offered on a first-come\, first-served basis. If you have any questions\, please contact Mark Franzen.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2015-01-master-class-on-interior-castle-of-teresa-of-avila-bernard-mcginn/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150128T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150128T173000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165757Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165036Z
UID:10000618-1422466200-1422466200@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:The Interior Life: Literary\, Psychoanalytic\, and Spiritual Perspectives
DESCRIPTION:a symposium with\nJonathan Lear (University of Chicago)\nBernard McGinn (University of Chicago)\nLisa Ruddick (University of Chicago)\nRosanna Warren (University of Chicago)\nThomas Pavel\,  Moderator (University of Chicago) \ncosponsored by the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought \nREGISTER HERE \nMany of the cultural products of the world’s civilizations have arisen out of the inner life of religious figures\, poets\, and philosophers\, in which the roots of self-knowledge\, creative imagination\, or communion with God are found. Without neglecting the interior lives of ordinary people\, one can cite as examples Socrates’s mystic trances\, St. Teresa of Avila’s discovery of an “interior castle\,” Keat’s practice of “negative capability\,” or the self-knowledge Freud found in his dreams and self-analysis. What does it mean to have an interior life and to what extent is such a life made more difficult in the busyness of our technological culture?
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2015-01-interior-life-literary-psychoanalytic-spiritual-perspectives-jonathan-lear-bernard-mcginn-lisa-ruddick-rosanna-warren/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150121T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150121T173000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165757Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260325T185237Z
UID:10000619-1421861400-1421861400@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:Abraham and the Absoluteness of God
DESCRIPTION:Jon Levenson (Harvard University) \nCosponsored by the University of Chicago Divinity School and the Jewish Studies Workshop \nThe patriarch Abraham has a central role in the self-understanding of Jews\, Christians\, and Muslims. He is also widely considered a symbol of common ancestry\, moral conviction and future unity among the three “Abrahamic” religions. This lecture will consider the distinct interpretations Judaism\, Christianity\, and Islam have given to the biblical narratives concerning Abraham\, exploring the enduring theological divergences and agreements.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2015-01-abraham-absoluteness-of-god-jon-d-levenson/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150116T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150116T170000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165801Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165042Z
UID:10000620-1421427600-1421427600@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:Thomas Merton: the Writing Life and the Contemplative Life
DESCRIPTION:Lawrence Cunningham (University of Notre Dame) \ncosponsored by Calvert House and the Chicago Chapter of the International Thomas Merton Society \nAmong the most well-known spiritual figures of the 20th Century\, Thomas Merton (1915-1968) was an aspiring poet and writer before his conversion and eventual entrance into a Trappist Monastery in 1941. It took time for Merton to understand that his writing was not alien to his chosen contemplative vocation but integral to it. This realization helped him to write works such as Thoughts in Solitude and New Seeds of Contemplation and deepened his spiritual development in all of its complexity. Merton helps us to understand how writing might be considered a contemplative act suitable for every state of the writer’s life. \nJanuary 31\, 2015 marks the 100th anniversary of Thomas Merton’s birth.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2015-01-thomas-merton-writing-life-contemplative-life-lawrence-s-cunningham/
LOCATION:Social Sciences\, Room 122\, 1126 E 59th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150106T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150303T000000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165801Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165045Z
UID:10000621-1420502400-1425340800@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:"Figures of Renaissance\, Reform\, & Renewal" Non-Credit Course
DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays\, January 6-March 3\nGavin House\, 1220 East 58th Street\n6:00pm:  Informal Dinner\n6:30pm: Presentation \nREGISTER HERE \nIntended for university students and recent graduates. Others interested in attending please contact info@lumenchristi.org. \nSCHEDULE: \nTuesday\, January 6\nGeert Grote and Devotio Moderna\nAaron Canty\, Saint Xavier University \nTuesday\, January 13\nJulian of Norwich\nScott Moringiello\, DePaul University \nTuesday\, January 20\nA Recipe for Conversion and Reform: St. Catherine of Siena’s Letter 346 to Pope Urban VI\nKaren Scott\, DePaul University \nTuesday\, January 27\nThe Council of Constance\nScott Moringiello\, DePaul University \nTuesday\, February 3\nErudition\, Education\, and Reform:\nErasmus and Renaissance Christian Humanism\nBrad Gregory\, University of Notre Dame \nTuesday\, February 10\nSpiritualism in the Reformation\nSusan Schreiner\, University of Chicago \nTuesday\, February 17\nTeresa of Ávila\nPaul Mankowski\, S.J.\, LCI Scholar-in-Residence \nTuesday\, February 24\nDante Alighieri\nAda Palmer\, University of Chicago \nTuesday\, March 3\nThe Syncretic\, Radical and Hybrid Christianities of Renaissance Humanists\nAda Palmer\, University of Chicago
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2015-01-figures-of-renaissance-reform-renewal-non-credit-course/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150102T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150102T200000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165802Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165048Z
UID:10000622-1420218000-1420228800@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:The Vocation of a Christian Law Professor
DESCRIPTION:An event for legal scholars and law students cosponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute and the Law Professors’ Christian Fellowship. \nFRIDAY\, JANUARY 2\n4:00-7:00PM\nUniversity Club of Washington\, DC\n1135 16th Street NW\nWashington\, DC 20036 \nwith\nBarbara E. Armacost (University of Virginia Law School)\nRobert Vischer (University of St. Thomas School of Law) \nREGISTER HERE \nThis event is intended for legal scholars and law students. Others interested in attending\, please contact info@lumenchristi.org or 773-955-5887. \nEVENT SCHEDULE: \n4:00\n“The Vocation of a Christian Lawyer”\nwith Barbara E. Armacost & Robert Vischer \n5:15\nVespers\, Fr. Paul K. Rourke\, S.J. \n5:45\nReception
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2015-01-vocation-of-a-christian-law-professor-barbara-e-armacost-robert-vischer/
LOCATION:University Club of Chicago\, 76 E Monroe St\nChicago\, IL 60603\, Downtown\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20141114T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20141114T143000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165804Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165051Z
UID:10000623-1415970000-1415975400@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:Majoring in Fear: The Decline of the Humanities among College Students Facing an Uncertain Future
DESCRIPTION:a luncheon discussion with\nMark Shiffman (Villanova University) \nREGISTER HERE \nMore than a decade ago\, David Brooks coined “organization kids” to describe a generation of America’s elite university students driven from early childhood toward a nearly certain goal: success. Today\, these students are not as confident that success is inevitable. They are often beleaguered by the fear that all of their effort and achievement won’t be enough. This anxiety has led to a steady decline in humanities majors across the country. In this discussion\, Prof. Shiffman will make a case for the humanities as an antidote to this anxiety and will discuss the importance of asking life’s fundamental questions in a University education. \nStudents are encouraged to read Prof. Shiffman’s short piece from First Things as a preface to the discussion. Lunch will be provided. \nSCHEDULE:\n1:00pm   Lunch\n1:20pm   Remarks by Prof. Shiffman\n1:40pm   Discussion\n2:30pm   Adjourn \nThis event is open to all university students.\nOthers interested in attending\, please contact info@lumenchristi.org.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2014-11-majoring-in-fear-decline-of-humanities-among-college-students-facing-an-uncertain-future-mark-shiffman/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20141113T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20141113T173000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165805Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165054Z
UID:10000624-1415899800-1415899800@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:The Myth of Romantic Love: Denis de Rougemont's Love in the Western World
DESCRIPTION:Mark Shiffman (Villanova University) \ncosponsored by the Medieval Studies Workshop \n“…is there a notion of love abroad in the world which\, although we do not yet realize it\, renders the marriage bond intolerable in its very essence?” Denis de Rougemont\, Love in the Western World \nThe celebration of passionate romantic love in the modern West has its cultural roots in the courtly poetry of medieval Provence. In Love in the Western World\, Denis de Rougemont argues that this poetic tradition tacitly communicates the religious vision of the Cathars\, a Gnostic dualist sect that disdained marriage and the body. His thesis unfolds into a provocative exploration of the sometimes hidden relationships of religion and culture\, eros\, God\, nihilism and the question of a good life. \nThis lecture celebrates the 75th anniversary of the original publication of L’Amour et l’Occident.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2014-11-myth-of-romantic-love-denis-de-rougemonts-love-in-western-world-mark-shiffman/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20141107T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20141107T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165805Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165057Z
UID:10000625-1415376000-1415386800@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:Master Class on "On the God of the Christians" with Rémi Brague
DESCRIPTION:A master class discussion on\nOn the God of the Christians (and one or two others) by Rémi Brague\n\nwith Rémi Brague (Sorbonne/University of Munich) \nREGISTER HERE \nIn this one-off seminar\, participants will discuss the bookOn the God of the Christians with the author\, philosopher Rémi Brague. They will discuss Prof. Brague’s philosophical treatment of the unique character of the Christian conception of God among religions and philosophies. Topics will include the nature of Christian monotheism; revelation; the relation of Christianity\, Islam\, and Judaism; the Trinity; the Good; and human freedom. \nParticipants will be provided with a complimentary copy of the book and are required to read in in preparation for the seminar. \n“Rémi Brague is one of the few scholars alive who is equally an expert on medieval Arabic\, Jewish\, and Latin philosophy (as well as on ancient Greek philosophy). He is an extraordinary linguist in both ancient and modern languages\, which enables a truly subtle analysis of texts and ideas.”\n—Kent Emery\, Jr. (Professor of Liberal Studies\, University of Notre Dame) \nThis master class is open to all graduate and undergraduate students\, including non-University of Chicago students. Copies of the book can be mailed or picked up at Gavin House.  Space is limited and offered on a first-come\, first-served basis. If you have any questions\, please contact Mark Franzen.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2014-11-master-class-on-on-god-of-christians-with-remi-brague-remi-brague/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20141106T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20141106T173000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165806Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260325T164626Z
UID:10000626-1415295000-1415295000@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:Does Christianity Need Metaphysics?
DESCRIPTION:a symposium with\nRémi Brague (Sorbonne/University of Munich)\nJean-Luc Marion (University of Chicago) \ncosponsored by the France Chicago Center at the University of Chicago
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2014-11-does-christianity-need-metaphysics-remi-brague-jean-luc-marion/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20141105T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20141105T173000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165807Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165103Z
UID:10000627-1415208600-1415208600@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:The Necessity of Goodness
DESCRIPTION:Rémi Brague (Sorbonne/University of Munich) \ncosponsored by the France Chicago Center at the University of Chicago \nWe commonly conceive of the Good as being what we should do\, sharing Aristotle’s rejection of Plato’s Idea of the Good and his reduction of the good to what can be done by a free subject. Since this subject is a human being\, it must first come to be by being born\, a process in which we don’t “do” anything and are radically non-free. To what extent can we call this process “good”? If not\, we cannot  ensure the perpetuation of humankind. Should humankind go on existing\, and doing that for solid reasons\, we will have to rehabilitate something like the Idea of the Good. \n“Rémi Brague is one of the few scholars alive who is equally an expert on medieval Arabic\, Jewish\, and Latin philosophy (as well as on ancient Greek philosophy). He is an extraordinary linguist in both ancient and modern languages\, which enables a truly subtle analysis of texts and ideas.”\n—Kent Emery\, Jr. (Professor of Liberal Studies\, University of Notre Dame)
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2014-11-necessity-of-goodness-remi-brague/
LOCATION:Classics 110\, 1010 E 59th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20141101T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20141101T200000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165809Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165106Z
UID:10000628-1414859400-1414872000@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:Solemn Vespers\, Dinner\, and Discussion at the Monastery of the Holy Cross
DESCRIPTION:Join us on the Feast of All Saints for Solemn Vespers\, dinner\, and conversation with Prior Peter Funk at the Monastery of the Holy Cross. For Solemn Vespers\, the monks will sing traditional Gregorian chant and be accompanied by its choir-in residence Schola Laudis. This is a rare opportunity to experience prayer with beautiful sacred music in its proper liturgical setting. To read more about Solemn Vespers at the monastery\, visit HERE. \nSCHEDULE: \n4:30pm: Depart from Hyde Park\n5:00pm: Welcome and Introduction\n5:15pm: Office of Solemn Vespers\n6:00pm: Dinner and discussion with Fr. Peter Funk\n7:15pm: Office of Compline\n8:00pm: Arrive back in Hyde Park \nTo find out more about liturgy at the monastery\, go HERE. \nIntended for university students and recent graduates. Others interested in attending please contactinfo@lumenchristi.org.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2014-11-solemn-vespers-dinner-discussion-at-monastery-of-holy-cross-fr-peter-funk/
LOCATION:The Monastery of the Holy Cross\, 3111 South Aberdeen St.\nChicago\, IL 60608\, Chicago\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20141029T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20141029T153000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165810Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260325T164551Z
UID:10000629-1414596600-1414596600@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:The Modern Scientist as a Palimpsest of Three Fausts
DESCRIPTION:Stephen Meredith (University of Chicago) \ncosponsored by the Theology & Religious Ethics Workshop \nA palimpsest is a manuscript or painting produced over a previous work. This lecture will treat “the modern scientist” as a palimpsest of three versions of the Faust story: The Faust Chapbook by an unknown author (1586)\, Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1808/1832)\, and the late masterpiece by Thomas Mann\, Doctor Faustus (1947). While none of these Fausts is purely a scientist (someone who primarily knows or seeks knowledge)\, the same can be said for those we consider to be scientists today\, who deal in various mixtures of science and technology. It will focus on three issues raised by these works: 1) the changing relationship between science and technology 2) the changing relationship between the pursuit of knowledge and technique on one hand\, and religion on the other and 3) scientists’ changing view of causality – and in particular\, of the final cause (telos).
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2014-10-modern-scientist-as-a-palimpsest-of-three-fausts-stephen-meredith/
LOCATION:Kent Hall\, Room 120\, 1020 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20141025T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20141026T143000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165811Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165112Z
UID:10000630-1414267200-1414333800@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:Schola Antiqua Concert: "Uncloistered: Sounds from the Convent"
DESCRIPTION:“Uncloistered: Sounds from the Convent”\nSaturday\, October 25: 8:00pm\nSacred Heart Parish\, Winnetka\, IL\nSunday\, October 26: 3:30pm\nSt. Clement Church\, Chicago\, IL \nA concert by Schola Antiqua of Chicago Tickets available online or at the door (cash\, check or credit)$25 adults / $10 student and senior \nAn expanded roster of outstanding female voices presents a wide-ranging program of music heard in convents before the turn of the seventeenth century. The ensemble will lure listeners into the sound world of nuns across medieval and early modern Europe\, with soaring chants by Hildegard von Bingen\, scintillating early polyphony from the Codex Las Huelgas\, and poignant motets by Sulpitia Cesis.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2014-10-schola-antiqua-concert-uncloistered-sounds-from-convent-schola-antiqua-of-chicago/
LOCATION:Sacred Heart Parish\, 1077 Tower Rd.\nWinnetka\, IL 60093\, Winnetka\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20141023T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20141023T180000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165811Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165209Z
UID:10000631-1414087200-1414087200@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:Monastic Silence and a Visual Dialogue
DESCRIPTION:A book talk and screening of documentary film-in-progress with Abbie Reese\ncosponsored by the Department of Cinema and Media Studies and Calvert House \n\nAbbie Reese will share the process entailed in a long-term oral history and visual arts project that is the basis for her recent book\, Dedicated to God: An Oral History of Cloistered Nuns (Oxford University Press\, 2014) and her documentary film in-progress\, Chosen (Custody of the Eyes). \nSet within the insular realm of the Corpus Christi Monastery\, Chosen (Custody of the Eyes) is a collaborative ethnographic and documentary film in-progress that emerges from research starting in 2005 and an ongoing relationship with members of the Poor Clare Colettine nuns.Chosen will form a filmic portrait of a young woman in the liminal phase\, evolving from “Heather” (a blogger\, painter\, and graphic design student) to a new identity within a cloistered order. Now renamed\, “Sister Amata” is in the process of becoming; she is assimilating into the community and the enclosure\, a 25\,000-square foot monastery on fourteen-acre gated premises. \nOne of the strictest religious orders in existence\, Poor Clare Colettine nuns follow an 800-year-old religious rule. Family members of the nuns are allowed up to four visits each year; they are always separated by the metal grille. This strict separation from the outside world serves a purpose: As cloistered contemplatives\, the nuns intervene on behalf of humanity\, observing the Liturgy of the Hours seven times a day and awaking at midnight to pray while the world sleeps. The nuns strive to become saints and “mothers of souls.” The enclosure –– rather than restricting them –– offers freedom; the metal grille keeps the world out. \nAbbie will play audio clips from the oral history interviews\, shows still photographs she made within the enclosure\, and shares clips from the film-in-progress. For more information on the film-in-progress\, visit this website. \nYou can read a write up on her book in the New Yorker HERE.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2014-10-monastic-silence-a-visual-dialogue-abbie-reese/
LOCATION:Film Studies Center\, Cobb 307\, 5811 S Ellis Ave.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20141016T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20141016T133000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165812Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260328T141754Z
UID:10000632-1413460800-1413466200@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:A Guide to the Thought of Pope Francis
DESCRIPTION:Anna Bonta Moreland (Villanova University) \nIn this luncheon presentation\, Argentinian-born theologian Anna Bonta Moreland employs Pope Francis’s Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Gaudium (Joy of the Gospel) as a roadmap to the Pope’s vision for the Church and the Christian life as a call to evangelization.  She  shows how the Apostolic Exhortation is representative of how Pope Francis thinks through most issues.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2014-10-a-guide-to-thought-of-pope-francis-anna-bonta-moreland/
LOCATION:University Club of Chicago\, 76 E Monroe St\nChicago\, IL 60603\, Downtown\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20141006T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20141124T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165813Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165217Z
UID:10000633-1412618400-1416855600@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:"Isaiah: Prophet & Poet" Non-Credit Course
DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays\, Oct. 7-Nov. 25\nGavin House\, 1220 East 58th Street\n6:00PM Informal Dinner\n6:30PM Presentation \nFr. Paul Mankowski\, S.J. \nREGISTER HERE \nHe left a powerfully personal and enduring stamp on his and subsequent civilizations\, while almost nothing is known of the man himself.  Isaiah was not Israel’s first prophet\, yet can be said to have created once-for-all the terms of prophetic expression.  The vigor\, clarity and assurance with which he conveyed his oracles imposed a characteristic shape on prophecy that to this day remains unbroken.  As a poet\, further\, he brought into being a family of images so vital as to penetrate not only his own language but every language into which they have been translated.  In this course\, Fr. Mankowski will examine the prophet\, and his post-Exilic acolytes\, in the light of Israelite religion and the traditions of Hebrew poetry. \nTuesday\, October 7\nZion Agonistes — Chapter 1 \nTuesday\, October 14\nThe Song of the Lord’s Vineyard — Chapters 2-5 \nTuesday\, October 21\nThe Call of the Prophet — Chapters 6-12 \nTuesday\, October 28\nOracles and Apocalypse — Chapters 13-27 \nTuesday\, November 4\nDefeat and Restoration — Chapters 28-39 \nTuesday\, November 18\nThe Song of the Suffering Servant — Chapters 40-55 \nTuesday\, November 25\nThe Song of the Glorious Zion — Chapters 55-66 \nIntended for university students and recent graduates. Others interested in attending please contactinfo@lumenchristi.org.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2014-10-isaiah-prophet-poet-non-credit-course-paul-mankowski-sj/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20140916T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20140916T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165814Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165221Z
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SUMMARY:Spousal Vision: Seeing the Church with Lumen Gentium
DESCRIPTION:John Cavadini (University of Notre Dame) \nThe Lumen Christi Institute is pleased to cosponsor this lecture\, which is part of an annual lecture series on “The Documents of the Second Vatican Council” sponsored by St. Procopius Abbey & Benedictine University. Previous lecturers in this series include Fr. Robert Barron and Francis Cardinal George. \nThis event is free and open to the public. Please contact Fr. Becket Franks\, O.S.B. with any questions at bfranks@procopius.org or (630) 829-9253.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2014-09-spousal-vision-seeing-church-with-lumen-gentium-john-cavadini/
LOCATION:St. Procopius Abbey Church\, 5601 College Rd.\nLisle\, IL 60532\, Lisle\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20140727T230000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20140801T230000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241006T235415Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260115T182816Z
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SUMMARY:Truth and Authority in Augustine's City of God
DESCRIPTION:APPLICATION DEADLINE IS NOW FEBRUARY 15 \nAPPLY HERE \nThis seminar is an intensive five-day course in how to read\, analyze\, and discern the many themes in Augustine’s most ambitious and sprawling work. The City of God tells the history of two societies\, and their respective origins\, progress\, and appointed ends. The story is engaged first from the evidence of profane history (I-XI) and then from the evidence of revelation (XII-XXII). In this seminar\, participants will discuss how Augustine reckons with the crisis of the ancient and the human city\, and whether it is possible to reconcile truth and authority across the competing domains of polity\, religion\, and philosophical wisdom. These themes will be approached from an interdisciplinary perspective\, addressing questions pertinent to students in political science\, philosophy\, law\, theology\, religious studies\, and history. \nFormat: There will be two 2 ½ hour sessions each day.  Professor Hittinger will open each session with a lecture\, and then we will turn to general\, seminar-style discussion of the text and the issues at hand. Students will be expected to make seminar presentations of the material under discussion. \nLocation:  The seminar will take place at the University of California Berkeley. Students will be provided with a travel stipend\, accommodations\, and meals. \nApplication Information:   This seminar will be open to Ph.D. students in the humanities and social sciences (such as Philosophy\, Theology\, Political Science\, History\, and Medieval Studies). \nApplicants will be required to submit: \n\nA completed online application form.\nAn updated CV.\nAt least one and as many as two letter(s) of recommendation from a member of the program in which the student is currently enrolled.\nA statement of research interest no longer than 750 words\, which includes an explanation of how this seminar might bear on the student’s current or future research plans.\nOne example of written\, academic work (25-30 pages maximum). Incomplete applications will not be considered.\n\nAll application materials can be submitted via the online application except for letters of recommendation\, which can be emailed to mfranzen@lumenchristi.org or mailed to: Lumen Christi Institute\, Graduate Seminars\, 1220 East 58th Streeet\, Chicago\, IL 60637. Incomplete applications will not be considered. 15 students will be admitted to this seminar. \nThe Lumen Christi is an institute for the promotion of the Catholic Intellectual Tradition and is committed to the integration of the intellectual and spiritual life.  The Institute welcomes seminar participants of all or no religious affiliation\, and wants to assure all applicants that the opportunities to participate in devotional activities are optional. \nAny further questions can be directed to Mark Franzen at mfranzen@lumenchristi.org.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2014_truth_authority_augustine/
LOCATION:University of California\, Berkeley\, S Hall Rd.\nBerkeley\, CA 94720\, Berkeley\, CA
CATEGORIES:Summer Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20140706T230000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20140711T230000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241006T235417Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260115T180018Z
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SUMMARY:The Thought of John Henry Newman
DESCRIPTION:APPLY HERE \nNow in its third consecutive year\, this seminar is an intensive five-day course for graduate students on the thought of Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman. It will examine Newman’s achievement as theologian\, philosopher\, educator\, preacher\, and writer. Remarkably\, in each of these areas Newman produced works that have come to be recognized as classics: An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine\, The Grammar of Assent\, The Idea of a University\, The Parochial and Plain Sermons\, and the Apologia Pro Vita Sua. This seminar will approach Newman’s thought through a critical engagement with these texts. \nFormat: There will be two 2-hour sessions each day. The seminar will include presentations by Prof. Ker and by participants on the readings assigned\, followed by seminar style discussion. \nLocation: The seminar will be held at Merton College at the University of Oxford. Students will be provided with a travel stipend\, accommodations\, and meals. \nApplication Information:   This seminar will be open to Ph.D. students in the humanities and social sciences (such as philosophy\, theology\, english\, classics\, & history). Applicants will be required to submit: \n\n\n A completed online application form found HERE.\nAn updated CV.\nAt least one and as many as two letter(s) of recommendation from a member of the program in which the student is currently enrolled.\nA statement of research interest no longer than 750 words\, which includes an explanation of how this seminar might bear on the student’s current or future research plans.\nOne academic writing sample (30 pages maximum).\n\nAll application materials can be submitted via the online application except for letters of recommendation\, which can be emailed to mfranzen@lumenchristi.org or mailed to: Lumen Christi Institute\, Graduate Seminars\, 1220 East 58th Street\, Chicago\, IL 60637. Incomplete applications will not be considered. 15 students will be admitted to this seminar. \nApplication materials must be received by 11:59pm CST on FEBRUARY 15\, 2015. \nThe Lumen Christi is an institute for the promotion of the Catholic Intellectual Tradition and is committed to the integration of the intellectual and spiritual life. The Institute welcomes seminar participants of all or no religious affiliation\, and wants to assure all applicants that the opportunities to participate in devotional activities are optional. \nAny further questions can be directed to Mark Franzen at mfranzen@lumenchristi.org
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2014_oxford_thought_of_newman_ker/
LOCATION:Merton College\, Oxford\, Merton St\, Oxford OX1 4JD\, UK\, Oxford\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Summer Seminars
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20140626T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20140626T170000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165815Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260328T142746Z
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SUMMARY:A Crisis of Community: Catholic School Closures and Urban Neighborhoods
DESCRIPTION:A book event with the authors of Lost Classroom\, Lost Community: Catholic Schools’ Importance in Urban America Margaret Brinig and Nicole Stelle Garnett moderated by Fr. Tim Scully (Hackett Family Director\, Institute for Educational Initiatives\, University of Notre Dame) \nIn the past two decades in the United States\, more than 1\,600 Catholic elementary and secondary schools have closed\, and more than 4\,500 charter schools—public schools that are often privately operated and freed from certain regulations—have opened\, many in urban areas. With a particular emphasis on Catholic school closures\, Lost Classroom\, Lost Communityexamines the implications of these dramatic shifts in the urban educational landscape. \nMore than just educational institutions\, Catholic schools promote the development of social capital—the social networks and mutual trust that form the foundation of safe and cohesive communities. Drawing on data from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods and crime reports collected at the police beat or census tract level in Chicago\, Philadelphia\, and Los Angeles\, Margaret F. Brinig and Nicole Stelle Garnett demonstrate that the loss of Catholic schools triggers disorder\, crime\, and an overall decline in community cohesiveness\, and suggest that new charter schools fail to fill the gaps left behind. \nThis book shows that the closing of Catholic schools harms the very communities they were created to bring together and serve\, and it will have vital implications for both education and policing policy debates. \ncosponsored by the Alliance for Catholic Education\, Notre Dame Law School\, and the Archdiocese of Chicago’s Catholic Schools Office
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2014-06-a-crisis-of-community-catholic-school-closures-urban-neighborhoods-margaret-f-brinig-nicole-stelle-garnett/
LOCATION:University Club of Chicago\, 76 E Monroe St\nChicago\, IL 60603\, Downtown\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20140622T230000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20140626T230000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241006T235416Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260115T180600Z
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SUMMARY:St. Thomas Aquinas on Free Choice
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nAPPLY HERE \nThis seminar will be a five-day\, intensive discussion of St Thomas Aquinas’ philosophical account of liberum arbitrium and the psychological and metaphysical principles underlying it. The sessions will focus on passages from the Summa theologiae (including ST\, I\, 19\, 59-60\, 82-83; ST\, I-II\, 6\, 9\, 10\, 13) and will refer to other works of Aquinas (such as the De Malo and the Commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics) and to pertinent texts from other philosophers such as Plato\, Aristotle\, Kant\, and Anscombe. Controversies in the interpretation of St Thomas’s thought will be considered\, especially regarding his understanding of the relation between intellect and will\, and particular attention will be given to how he deals with the questions of causal determinism and of the choice between good and evil. \nThe seminar will address the following questions: How does Aquinas differ from Aristotle on the will?  Did Aquinas change his mind about the will?  To what extent does the freedom of the will depend upon the distinction between the will and the intellect?  Does St Thomas’ apparent intellectualism run the risk of a kind of determinism with regards to choice?  Does Aquinas offer an adequate account of the choice of evil?  In approaching these questions\, the seminar’s objectives will be\, first\, to understand the thought of St Thomas\, and\, second\, to relate his teaching to contemporary philosophical debates. \nFormat: There will be two 2 ½ hour sessions each day. Each session will include an opening lecture and seminar-style discussion of the text and the issues at hand. Students will be expected to prepare the readings carefully and participate in the discussions of the material. \nSeminar Leader: Fr. Stephen L. Brock is Professor of Medieval Philosophy at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross\, Rome.  He is a member of the Pontifical Academy of St Thomas Aquinas and is the author of Action & Conduct: Thomas Aquinas and the Theory of Action.  He has written numerous articles on various aspects of the thought of Thomas Aquinas\, and he has edited several collections including Thomas Aquinas and the Subject of Metaphysics. \nLocation:  The seminar will take place at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross\, Rome. Students will be provided with a travel stipend\, accommodations\, and meals. \nApplication Information:  This seminar will be open to Ph.D. students in the humanities and social sciences (such as philosophy\, theology\, & medieval studies). \nApplicants will be required to submit: \n\nA completed online application form.\nAn updated CV.\nAt least one and as many as two letter(s) of recommendation from a member of the program in which the student is currently enrolled.\nA statement of research interest no longer than 750 words\, which includes an explanation of how this seminar might bear on the student’s current or future research plans.\nOne example of written\, academic work (25-30 pages maximum).\n\nAll application materials can be submitted via the online application except for letters of recommendation\, which can be emailed to mfranzen@lumenchristi.org or mailed to: Lumen Christi Institute\, Graduate Seminars\, 1220 East 58th Streeet\, Chicago\, IL 60637. Incomplete applications will not be considered. 15 students will be admitted to this seminar. \nApplication materials must be received by FEBRUARY 1\, 2014. \nThe Lumen Christi is an institute for the promotion of the Catholic Intellectual Tradition and is committed to the integration of the intellectual and spiritual life.  The Institute welcomes seminar participants of all or no religious affiliation\, and wants to assure all applicants that the opportunities to participate in devotional activities are optional. \nAny further questions can be directed to Mark Franzen at mfranzen@lumenchristi.org
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2014_aquinas_free_choice_brock/
LOCATION:Pontifical University of the Holy Cross\, Rome\, Piazza Santa Apollinare\, 49\, 00186 Roma\, Italy\, Rome\, Italy
CATEGORIES:Summer Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20140614T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20140615T130000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165818Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165237Z
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SUMMARY:Music of the Hours
DESCRIPTION:June 14\, 2014\, 7:30pm\nSt. Anthony of Padua Church\nWest Harrison\, NY \nJune 15\, 2014\, 2:00pm\nThe Morgan Library & Museum\nGilder Lehrman Hall\nNew York City\, NY. \nOrder tickets. \nSchola Antiqua debuts on the East Coast\, presenting concerts inspired by prayer books of the late Middle Ages\, including the Book of Hours. Roger Wieck\, Curator of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts at The Morgan Library & Museum\, shares stunning devotional art of the early sixteenth century\, while the ensemble divulges a sound world prompted by these precious volumes. The Sunday performance at The Morgan Library is given in connection with the exhibit “Miracles in Miniature: The Art of the Master of Claude de France.” \nSponsored in part by The Morgan Library & Museum\, the Lumen Christi Institute\, and the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2014-06-music-of-hours-schola-antiqua-of-chicago/
LOCATION:St. Anthony of Padua Church\, 85 Harrison St.\nWest Harrison\, NY 10604\, West Harrison\, NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20140522T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20140522T163000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165819Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260325T182946Z
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SUMMARY:Baudelaire and Maistre: the Weight of Original Sin
DESCRIPTION:By 1851\, the poet Charles Baudelaire had become obsessed — in contrast to his previous anarchist position — with the views of the reactionary and fiercely Catholic Joseph de Maistre. Maistre argued that Original Sin “explains everything\,” a perspective that Baudelaire was to adopt\, and which markedly changed his poetry. This lecture will consider Baudelaire’s preoccupation with sin in light of Kierkegaard’s treatment of anxiety and sin in The Concept of Anxiety.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2014-05-baudelaire-maistre-weight-of-original-sin-francoise-meltzer/
LOCATION:Social Sciences\, Room 122\, 1126 E 59th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20140514T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20140514T163000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165820Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165243Z
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SUMMARY:Symposium on The Sacredness of the Person
DESCRIPTION:Michael Geyer (University of Chicago)\, Moderator\nHans Joas (University of Chicago)\nJohn D. Kelly (University of Chicago)\nBen Laurence (University of Chicago)\nWilliam Schweiker (University of Chicago) \ncosponsored by the Human Rights Program at the University of Chicago \nREGISTER HERE \nThis symposium will discuss The Sacredness of the Person\, a recent book by Professor Hans Joas. \nWhat are the origins of the idea of human rights and universal human dignity? How can we most fully understand—and realize—these rights going into the future? In The Sacredness of the Person\, internationally renowned sociologist and social theorist Hans Joas tells a story that differs from conventional narratives by tracing the concept of human rights back to the Judeo-Christian tradition or\, alternately\, to the secular French Enlightenment. While drawing on sociologists such as Émile Durkheim\, Max Weber\, and Ernst Troeltsch\, Joas sets out a new path\, proposing an affirmative genealogy in which human rights are the result of a process of “sacralization” of every human being.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2014-05-symposium-on-sacredness-of-person-michael-geyer-hans-joas-john-d-kelly-ben-laurence-william-schweiker/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20140509T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20140510T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165820Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165246Z
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SUMMARY:A Mother's Mother: Music for St. Anne
DESCRIPTION:“A Mother’s Mother: Music for St. Anne”\nFriday\, May 9: 7:30pm\nBond Chapel\, University of Chicago (northeast of Ellis Ave. and 59th St.)\nSaturday\, May 10: 8:00pm\nSt. Clement Church\, 642 West Deming Place \nA concert Featuring Schola Antiqua of Chicago \nTickets available online or at the door (cash or credit)\n$25 adults / $10 student or senior \nThe late Middle Ages was a high water mark of devotion to the Virgin Mary. The proliferation of liturgies\, literature\, iconography\, and music for Mary spilled over to works in honor of her apocryphal mother\, St. Anne. Schola Antiqua explores chant and polyphonic music for the legendary grandmother of Christ in this program of chant and rich polyphony\, including works by Pierre de la Rue and Jean Mouton. Schola Antiqua’s concert series coincides with the release of Artistic Director Michael Alan Anderson’s book St. Anne in Renaissance Music: Devotion and Politics\, published by Cambridge University Press in 2014.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2014-05-a-mothers-mother-music-for-st-anne-schola-antiqua-of-chicago/
LOCATION:Bond Chapel & Swift Hall\, 1025 E. 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20140508T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20140508T163000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165821Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165249Z
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SUMMARY:David Dancing Before the Ark: The Liturgical Theology Implicit in 2 Samuel 6
DESCRIPTION:Fr. Robert Barron\n(Rector of Mundelein Seminary/University of Saint Mary of the Lake;\nfounder of Word on Fire) \nDavid danced before the Ark as an image of humanity dancing with the Lord\, recovering the effortless harmony of Eden. In this lecture\, Robert Barron will explore the role of King David as a new Adam and cite the solemn protection God extends to the Ark of the Covenant as an example of the importance of proper worship. Throughout the Scriptures\, God attempts to “Eden-ize” man — that is\, to return him to harmony with Himself\, his fellow men and women\, and nature — by teaching him “right praise\,” culminating in the Lamb’s Supper as foretold in the Book of Revelation.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2014-05-david-dancing-before-ark-liturgical-theology-implicit-in-2-samuel-6-most-reverend-robert-barron/
LOCATION:University of Chicago\, 5801 S Ellis Ave\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20140508T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20140508T133000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165821Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260315T163555Z
UID:10000644-1399550400-1399555800@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:Pope Francis and the New Evangelization
DESCRIPTION:Fr. Robert Barron\n(Rector\, Mundelein Seminary/University of Saint Mary of the Lake; founder\, Word on Fire) \nCosponsored by Word on Fire \nIn this lecture\, Fr. Robert Barron discussed how to put faith into action in today’s increasingly secular world. With Pope Francis as a model of how to present “the joy of the Gospel\,” Barron argued that Catholics have a duty to awaken the faith of the baptized and bring back those who have drifted. While the message has remained unchanged since the first century\, Catholics are called to share the beauty\, goodness\, and truth of the faith with new ardor\, new expressions\, and new methods that will reach the disenchanted and bring people closer to Christ and to his Church.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2014-05-pope-francis-new-evangelization-most-reverend-robert-barron/
LOCATION:University Club of Chicago\, 76 E Monroe St\nChicago\, IL 60603\, Downtown\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20140502T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20140502T170000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165823Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165255Z
UID:10000645-1399039200-1399050000@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:Master Class on "Thinking on One's Knees: Von Balthasar and Nasr on Theology and Sanctity"
DESCRIPTION:Fr. Raymond Gawronski\, S.J. (Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology\, Berkeley) \nREGISTER HERE \nOpen to all graduate and undergraduate students (including non-University of Chicago students). Copies of the readings will be provided. Registration is required as space is limited. Please contact Mark Franzen with any questions. \nHans Urs von Balthasar’s distinction between “sitting” and “kneeling” theologies has become paradigmatic. He also thought the split between thinking  (dogmatic) and praying (mystical/spiritual) theologies has been the worst tragedy to befall Christianity in its long history. In his Gifford Lectures of 1980-81\, Persian born scholar and “perennialist” Seyyed Hossein Nasr surveyed the sweep of Western intellectual history\, tracing the separation of sacred/initiatory knowledge from abstract conceptualization. While both identify a historic break\, von Balthasar’s account differs profoundly in being radically Christocentric\, centering on the Logos that is Jesus Christ. \nIn this three-hour seminar session\, participants will discuss von Balthasar’s programmatic essay “Theology and Sanctity” (Explorations in Theology I\, pp. 181-209) and then attempt a dialogue with Nasr’s “Knowledge and Its Desacralization” (Knowledge and the Sacred\, ch. 1)\, with an eye toward healing what many see has been a catastrophic rupture.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2014-05-master-class-on-thinking-on-ones-knees-von-balthasar-nasr-on-theology-sanctity-raymond-gawronski/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20140501T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20140501T180000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165823Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165333Z
UID:10000646-1398967200-1398967200@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:Saint John Paul II and the Polish Catholic Experience
DESCRIPTION:Fr. Raymond Gawronski\, S.J. (Dominican School of Philosophy & Theology\, Berkeley) \ncosponsored by The Copernicus Foundation\, Calvert House\, and the Polish American Student Association \nOften referred to as “The Polish Pope\,” John Paul II is better described as a global pope. The Polish experience offers a unique perspective that bore fruit in the person of Pope John Paul II\, who held the world’s attention for decades and offered a way to be Catholic in the Church’s new situation of worldly powerlessness. Through the lens of the Polish experience in Europe and America  – the “Polish hermeneutic” – this talk will explore the contribution of the person and work of St. John Paul II to the Church and world. \n\n This lecture commemorates the April 27 canonization of Pope John Paul II.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2014-05-saint-john-paul-ii-polish-catholic-experience-raymond-gawronski/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20140425T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20140425T140000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165826Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165340Z
UID:10000647-1398434400-1398434400@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:After Huizinga: The Low Countries as Cradle of Spiritual Innovation in the Late Middle Ages
DESCRIPTION:Frits van Oostrom (Ultrecht University) \nThis public lecture is presented by the University of Chicago Divinity School. Cosponsored by the Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion\, the Medieval Studies Workshop\, and the Lumen Christi Institute. \nFree and open to the public. Reception to follow.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2014-04-after-huizinga-low-countries-as-cradle-of-spiritual-innovation-in-late-middle-ages-frits-van-oostrom/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20140423T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20140423T163000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165827Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165343Z
UID:10000648-1398270600-1398270600@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:The Holiness of John XXIII
DESCRIPTION:Lawrence Cunningham (University of Notre Dame) \nREGISTER HERE \ncosponsored by Calvert House \nJust days before his canonization in the Catholic Church\, this lecture will meditate on the spiritual life of Pope John XXIII (Angelo Roncalli) with special attention to the posthumous publication of his The Journal of a Soul. It will argue that his long pastoral ministry\, including those few years in the papal office\, derived its energy from a sustained life of prayer seeking the “face of Christ.” The seamless weaving of action and contemplation explains why in his own lifetime he was familiarly known as “Good Pope John.”
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2014-04-holiness-of-john-xxiii-lawrence-s-cunningham/
LOCATION:Kent Hall\, Room 120\, 1020 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20140407T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20140512T180000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165827Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165347Z
UID:10000649-1396893600-1399917600@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:Francis the Jesuit: The Sources of Thought of Pope Francis Non-Credit Course
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nThe course will examine selected discourses of Pope Francis against a background of classical and recent Jesuit spiritual writings\, beginning with the founder of the Jesuit order\, St. Ignatius Loyola\, and his contemporaries.  No prior familiarity with the subject matter will be presumed. \n6:00PM Informal Dinner\n6:30PM Presentation \nIntended for university students and recent graduates. Others interested in attending please contact info@lumenchristi.org.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2014-04-francis-jesuit-sources-of-thought-of-pope-francis-non-credit-course-paul-mankowski-sj/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20140403T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20140403T180000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165830Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165352Z
UID:10000650-1396540800-1396548000@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:The Human Person\, Economics & Catholic Social Thought
DESCRIPTION:“The current financial crisis can make us overlook the  fact that it originated in a profound human crisis:  the denial of the primacy of the human person!”\n– Pope Francis\, Evangelii Gaudium\n\nThe human person is a contested terrain. Within the fields of Economics and Catholic Social Thought\, each maintain distinct conceptions of and emphases on the human person that impact their respective diagnoses of contemporary crises and proposed solutions. Drawing together economists\, bishops and scholars\, this symposium will explore fundamental convergences and divergences in the conception of the human person in Economics and Catholic Social Thought. \nThis program is part of the Lumen Christi Institute’s Sixth Annual Conference in Economics and Catholic Social Thought\, a continuing exchange between research economists\, bishops\, and scholars. \nCo-sponsored by the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought\, The International House Global Voices Program\, The Seng Foundation Program for Market-Based Programs and Catholic Values\, & The Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts at the University of Notre Dame.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2014-04-human-person-economics-catholic-social-thought-francis-cardinal-george-omi-mary-hirschfeld-jesus-fernandez-villaverde-rachel-e-kranton-russell-hittinger/
LOCATION:International House at the University of Chicago\, 1414 E 59th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20140328T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20140328T180000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165830Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165355Z
UID:10000651-1396022400-1396029600@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:"Pacem in Terris after Fifty Years: Lessons for the Middle East?" at Harvard Law School
DESCRIPTION:Presenter:\nRussell Hittinger (University of Tulsa)\nRespondents:\nAndrew Bacevich (Boston University)\nHabib Malik (Lebanese American University)\nModerator:\nMary Ann Glendon (Harvard Law School) \nREGISTER HERE \nOn April 11\, 1963\, amid the tensions of the Cold War\, and shortly after the erection of the Berlin Wall\, Pope John XXIII addressed his encyclical Pacem in terris to all people of good will. He invites them to consider the conditions for establishing universal peace on earth in truth\, justice\, charity\, and liberty. This symposium will examine the affirmations of Pacem in terris as they bear today on human rights\, religious freedom\, and the international political and economic order with special consideration of the situation of Christians in the Middle East. \nThis event is the inaugural event of the New England Forum for Catholic Social Thought\, part of the Lumen Christi Institute’s Program in Catholic Social Thought.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2014-03-pacem-in-terris-after-fifty-years-lessons-for-middle-east-at-harvard-law-school-russell-hittinger-andrew-j-bacevich-habib-c-malik-mary-ann-glendon/
LOCATION:Austin Hall\, Room 100 North\, 1515 Massachusetts Ave.\nCambridge\, MA 02138\, Harvard University
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20140320T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20140320T170000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165831Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165444Z
UID:10000652-1395334800-1395334800@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:Jewish & Catholic Approaches to Property & Social Justice
DESCRIPTION:Eduardo Peñalver (University of Chicago Law School)\nJoseph William Singer (Harvard Law School) \nREGISTRATION IS CLOSED FOR THIS EVENT \n1.5 hours Ethics/Professionalism CLE credit CA\, IL and NY. \nSCHEDULE: \n5:00 PM: Registration and Refreshments\n5:15 PM: Welcoming Remarks by Craig Martin (Partner\, Jenner & Block)\n5:20 PM: Introduction by the Hon. Thomas More Donnelly (Associate Judge\, Circuit Court of Cook County)\n5:25 PM: Presentation by Eduardo Peñalver  (University of Chicago Law School)\n5:45 PM: Presentation by Joseph William Singer  (Harvard Law School)\n6:05: Panel Discussion\n6:25 PM: Q&A\n6:55 PM: Wine and Cheese Reception \nBoth Jewish and Catholic traditions teach that each human being is obliged to attend to the needs of the vulnerable and use property for the common good. The obligation to the vulnerable attaches to each person; it even is imposed on the poor oddly enough who are obligated to give something to others (even if what they do is exchange with each other) because the experience of giving to help others is part of what is crucial to human life and something the poor should not be deprived of. The traditional language also understands this to be a commandment from God\, which really means part of the structure of the world. \nAdditionally\, both rights and obligations flow from possessing property according to both Catholic and Jewish social justice teaching. The obligation to provide for the poor also forms a core social obligation attaching to the possession of property. From this obligation may arise certain entitlements–these entitlements are a subject of much controversy in our country today. However\, there can be no dispute that both religious traditions espouse the subordination of private property to the common good. This discussion will examine the legal\, religious\, and philosophical grounding for this common belief and consider the legal and political implications that follow. \nHosted by Jenner & Block.\nCosponsored by The Advocates Society\, The Catholic Lawyers Guild\, The Decalogue Society of Lawyers\, The Jewish Judges Association of Illinois\, and the National Center for the Laity
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2014-03-jewish-catholic-approaches-to-property-social-justice-eduardo-penalver-joseph-william-singer/
LOCATION:Jenner & Block\, 45th Floor\, 353 N Clark St.\nChicago\, IL 60654\, Downtown\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20140313T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20140313T133000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165831Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165448Z
UID:10000653-1394712000-1394717400@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:Who Was Saint Patrick?
DESCRIPTION:a luncheon address by\nPhilip Freeman (Luther College)\nwith an introduction by\nThe Hon. Edward M. Burke (Alderman\, 14th Ward; Chairman\, Finance Committee\, Chicago City Council) \nSponsored by the Boshell Family Foundation \nEveryone knows about St. Patrick\, the man who drove the snakes out of Ireland\, defeated fierce druids in contests of magic\, and used the shamrock to explain the Christian Trinity to the pagan Irish. It’s a great story\, but none of it is true. Not only were there never any snakes in Ireland\, but Patrick wasn’t even Irish. The real story of this saint—pirates\, murder\, slavery\, escape\, and the struggles of faith against all odds—is even better.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2014-03-who-was-saint-patrick-philip-freeman/
LOCATION:University Club of Chicago\, 76 E Monroe St\nChicago\, IL 60603\, Downtown\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20131114T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20131114T200000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165832Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260328T161656Z
UID:10000654-1384459200-1384459200@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:John of the Cross: A Mystic's Poetry
DESCRIPTION:John of the Cross (1542-1591)\, saint and doctor of the church\, is known for his mystical doctrine and his theme of the “dark night.” This lecture explores John’s stunningly beautiful poetry and makes a claim for the primacy of this poetry which was shaped by the erotic poetry of the Song of Songs and which John requested be sung for him as he lay dying. \nThis lecture is made possible in part by a grant from the Carmelite Friars at St. Thomas the Apostle Parish.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2013-11-john-of-cross-a-mystics-poetry-keith-egan/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130831T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130831T163000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165834Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260315T163036Z
UID:10000655-1377966600-1377966600@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:The Divine is Everywhere
DESCRIPTION:Read the Chicago Maroon article about Dana Gioia’s visit to the University of Chicago HERE. \nDana Gioia—award-winning poet (American Book Award\, 2002; Notre Dame’s Laetare Medal Recipient\, 2010) and former Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts—takes the faith seriously. During his career as a businessman and later when living in Washington D.C.\, he drew strength from rereading Augustine’s City of God\, helping him resist the lust for wealth\, power\, and status that tempts many who find themselves in corporate America and the nation’s capital. \nGioia eschews an understanding of the faith that is glib and glossy\, that doesn’t explore the dark and squalid aspects of human nature\, as well as the terrifyingly beautiful. In a recent interview for the literary journal Image\, Gioia says: “I am not drawn to the stage business of Catholicism—its pomp and circumstance.” Furthermore\, he says of his own writing: “I write from the daily particulars of real life. You shouldn’t have to visit the Vatican to sense the divine. It is everywhere if you know how to look.” \nIndeed\, Gioia has an uncanny ability to see the hand of the divine everywhere: in shopping malls\, in ghost stories\, even in the horoscope column of a newspaper. \nIn sorrow and suffering\, too\, Gioia finds the hand of God waking the soul to the spiritual. \nBlessed is the pain that humbles us.\nBlessed is the distance that bars our joy. \nBlessed is this shortest day that makes us long for light.\nBlessed is the love that in losing we discover. \nOf his poem “Prayer at Winter Solstice” published in his latest book Pity the Beautiful\, he says: “It is a set of beatitudes that praise the suffering and renunciation necessary to make us spiritually alert… .It is also a poem about facing the hard realities of our existence. Our feel-good society tries to deny suffering.” \nBeauty\, suffering—everything offers the opportunity for grace. \n“The notion of suddenly being ‘saved’ feels alien to a Catholic who sees life as a pilgrimage in which each step forward can easily be followed by a fall backward from grace. For that reason the great Catholic writers characteristically write about the experience of sinners rather than the saints\, often people of great spiritual capacity who have lost their way\,” he says\, arguing for a faith that embraces the realities of damnation and salvation. “The great theme of Catholic imaginative literature is the violent and painful struggle for redemption in a fallen world.” \n****************************** \n\nOn October 17\, 2013\, Dana Gioia gave a luncheon talk on “Why Beauty Matters: Not Just to Artists But to Everyone\, Even Politicians” at the University Club of Chicago.\nLater that evening\, he gave a poetry reading at Gavin House\, home of the Lumen Christi Institute in Hyde Park.\nOn October 18\, 2014\, Gioia taught a seminar on “What is Catholic Poetry?” to students at the University of Chicago.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2013-08-divine-is-everywhere-dana-gioia/
LOCATION:University of Chicago\, 5801 S Ellis Ave\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130805T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130809T230000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241006T235415Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260114T183833Z
UID:10000656-1375660800-1376089200@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:Catholic Social Thought: A Critical Investigation
DESCRIPTION:In this seminar\, students will read\, analyze\, and discern continuities and discontinuities in Catholic Social Thought from the late 19th century to the present. Lectures\, seminar reports\, and discussion will focus on original sources (encyclicals and other magisterial documents)\, beginning with Rerum novarum (1892) and concluding with Caritas in veritate (2009). This intensive course is multi-disciplinary\, since this tradition of social thought overlaps several disciplines in the contemporary university including political science\, political philosophy\, law\, economics\, theology\, and history. This will be the third time Prof. Hittinger has led this seminar. \nFormat: There will be two 2 ½ hour sessions each day. Professor Hittinger will open each session with a lecture\, and then we will turn to general\, seminar-style discussion of the text and the issues at hand. Students will be expected to make seminar presentations of the material under discussion. \nLocation: The seminar will take place at the University of California\, Berkeley. Students will be provided with a travel stipend\, accommodations\, and meals. . Students will be provided with a travel stipend\, accommodations\, and meals. \nApplication Information:  This seminar will be open to Ph.D. students in the humanities and social sciences (such as philosophy\, theology\, political science\, history & medieval studies). \nApplicants will be required to submit: \n\nA completed online application form found HERE.\nAn updated CV.\nAt least one and as many as two letter(s) of recommendation from a member of the program in which the student is currently enrolled.\nA statement of research interest no longer than 750 words\, which includes an explanation of how this seminar might bear on the student’s current or future research plans.\nOne academic writing sample (30 pages maximum).\n\nAll application materials can be submitted via the online application except for letters of recommendation\, which can be emailed to mfranzen@lumenchristi.org or mailed to: Lumen Christi Institute\, Graduate Seminars\, 1220 East 58th Streeet\, Chicago\, IL 60637. Incomplete applications will not be considered. 15 students will be admitted to this seminar. \nApplication materials must be received by 11:59pm CST on MARCH 1\, 2013. \nThe Lumen Christi is an institute for the promotion of the Catholic Intellectual Tradition and is committed to the integration of the intellectual and spiritual life. The Institute welcomes seminar participants of all or no religious affiliation\, and wants to assure all applicants that the opportunities to participate in devotional activities are optional. \nAny further questions can be directed to Mark Franzen at mfranzen@lumenchristi.org.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2013_cst_critical_investigation_hittinger/
LOCATION:University of California\, Berkeley\, S Hall Rd.\nBerkeley\, CA 94720\, Berkeley\, CA
CATEGORIES:Summer Seminars
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130722T230000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130726T230000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241006T235417Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260114T190737Z
UID:10000658-1374534000-1374879600@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:Christianity\, The Unity of Knowledge\, and the Secularized Academy
DESCRIPTION:The pursuit and transmission of knowledge in the contemporary academy is highly specialized\, secular\, and regarded as separable from the social circumstances and beliefs of scientists\, scholars\, and students. This seminar analyzed the historical and intellectual reasons for the secularization and specialized fragmentation of knowledge characteristic of the contemporary academy. Through reading and discussion of scholarship pertaining to the historical processes through which knowledge was secularized\, participants explored ways in which knowledge has been alternatively understood within a unifying philosophical and theological framework\, and how such a framework might remain intellectually viable today. \nIn addition to primary sources\, this seminar included discussion of the works of Pierre Hadot\, Jean LeClerq\, Alasdair MacIntyre\, John Paul II\, George Mardsen\, Mark Knoll\, and Christian Smith. \nSeminar Leader: Brad Gregory is professor of history and the Dorothy G. Griffin collegiate chair at the University of Notre Dame. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University (1996) and was a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows (1994-96). Before joining the faculty at Notre Dame in 2003\, Gregory taught at Stanford University\, where he received early tenure in 2001. Gregory has two degrees in philosophy as well\, both earned at the Catholic University of Louvain\, Belgium. Gregory’s research focuses on Christianity in the Reformation era\, the long-term effects of the Reformation\, secularization in early modern and modern Western history\, and methodology in the study of religion. He most recently published The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society. \nLocation: The seminar will be held at the University of Chicago\, home of the Lumen Christi Institute.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2013_christianity_knowledge_secular_academy_gregory/
LOCATION:University of Chicago\, 5801 S Ellis Ave\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
CATEGORIES:Summer Seminars
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130617T230000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130621T230000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241006T235417Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260114T191212Z
UID:10000659-1371510000-1371855600@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:The Thought of John Henry Newman
DESCRIPTION:APPLY HERE \nNow in its third consecutive year\, this seminar is an intensive five-day course for graduate students on the thought of Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman. It will examine Newman’s achievement as theologian\, philosopher\, educator\, preacher\, and writer. Remarkably\, in each of these areas Newman produced works that have come to be recognized as classics: An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine\, The Grammar of Assent\, The Idea of a University\, The Parochial and Plain Sermons\, and the Apologia Pro Vita Sua. This seminar will approach Newman’s thought through a critical engagement with these texts. \nFormat: There will be two 2-hour sessions each day. The seminar will include presentations by Prof. Ker and by participants on the readings assigned\, followed by seminar style discussion. \nLocation: The seminar will be held at Merton College at the University of Oxford. Students will be provided with a travel stipend\, accommodations\, and meals. \nApplication Information:   This seminar will be open to Ph.D. students in the humanities and social sciences (such as philosophy\, theology\, english\, classics\, & history). Applicants will be required to submit: \n\n\n A completed online application form found HERE.\nAn updated CV.\nAt least one and as many as two letter(s) of recommendation from a member of the program in which the student is currently enrolled.\nA statement of research interest no longer than 750 words\, which includes an explanation of how this seminar might bear on the student’s current or future research plans.\nOne academic writing sample (30 pages maximum).\n\nAll application materials can be submitted via the online application except for letters of recommendation\, which can be emailed to mfranzen@lumenchristi.org or mailed to: Lumen Christi Institute\, Graduate Seminars\, 1220 East 58th Street\, Chicago\, IL 60637. Incomplete applications will not be considered. 15 students will be admitted to this seminar. \nApplication materials must be received by 11:59pm CST on FEBRUARY 15\, 2015. \nThe Lumen Christi is an institute for the promotion of the Catholic Intellectual Tradition and is committed to the integration of the intellectual and spiritual life. The Institute welcomes seminar participants of all or no religious affiliation\, and wants to assure all applicants that the opportunities to participate in devotional activities are optional. \nAny further questions can be directed to Mark Franzen at mfranzen@lumenchristi.org
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2013_oxford_thought_of_newman_ker/
LOCATION:Merton College\, Oxford\, Merton St\, Oxford OX1 4JD\, UK\, Oxford\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Summer Seminars
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130605T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130605T163000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165835Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165519Z
UID:10000660-1370449800-1370449800@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:The Spiritual Nature of Man
DESCRIPTION:“The Spiritual Nature of Man”\nAnselm Muller\, University of Trier \nCosponsored by the Department of Philosophy \nAre human beings essentially spiritual creatures or can human life be explained entirely by material principles? The great twentieth century philosopher\, Elizabeth Anscombe\, suggests that we are essentially spiritual beings because we are naturally and consciously oriented beyond our material life toward transcendent norms of truth and goodness.  This is the ground of our dignity and value over other\, non-spiritual animals.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2013-06-spiritual-nature-of-man-anselm-muller/
LOCATION:Classics 110\, 1010 E 59th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130530T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130530T163000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165835Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165523Z
UID:10000661-1369931400-1369931400@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:Exile and the canzone in Dante's Earthly Paradise
DESCRIPTION:Cosponsored by the Department of Romance Languages & Literatures and the Medieval Studies Workshop \nOften considered the greatest work of Italian literature\, Dante’s Divine Comedy depicts the exiled soul’s journey to God. At the end of thePurgatorio\, Dante reaches the Garden of Eden. But\, despite the setting of earthly paradise and the reappearance of the poet’s youthful love Beatrice\, the protagonist finds remorse in Eden rather than triumph. The Earthly Paradise cantos can be understood as a reclaiming of Dante’s former identity of spiritually exiled lyric poet\, wherein both poet and poem exist in a relationship of exile to the world that receives them.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2013-05-exile-canzone-in-dantes-earthly-paradise-laurence-hooper/
LOCATION:Classics 110\, 1010 E 59th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130529T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130529T163000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165836Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165526Z
UID:10000662-1369845000-1369845000@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:Bernard of Clairvaux\, the Last of the Fathers and the End of the Middle Ages
DESCRIPTION:Cosponsored by The Medieval Studies Workshop\nand The Theology Workshop \nThe 12th century monastic reformer Bernard of Clairvaux recruited hundreds of young men to the cloister or claustrum (enclosure) of Cistercian monastic life. The rhythm of life in the monastic enclosure not only rules the structured existence of the monks but also alters their experience of time from linear to circular while maintaining the goal of the world to come. Bernard’s eloquent insistence on this way of life represents the end of an era and\, to an extent\, the end of the Middle Ages.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2013-05-bernard-of-clairvaux-last-of-fathers-end-of-middle-ages-burcht-pranger/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, First Floor Common Room\, 1025 E 58th St\,Chicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130523T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130523T170000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165837Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165530Z
UID:10000663-1369321200-1369328400@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:Toward A Moral Economy: Globalization and the Developing World
DESCRIPTION:Part of the Lumen Christi Institute Program in Economics and Catholic Social Thought\, a continuing exchange between research economists\, bishops\, and scholars\, this symposium will address poverty and economic development; social\, cultural\, and economic integration; and emigration and its impact on developing countries. \n\nKeynote address:\nPeter Cardinal Turkson\, President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace \nPresentations by:\nRobert Lucas\, University of Chicago Economics Department \nLuigi Zingales\, University of Chicago Booth School of Business \nJoseph Kaboski\, University of Notre Dame Economics Department \nSponsored by The Lumen Christi Institute at the University of Chicago\, the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago\, and the Seng Foundation Endowment for Market-Based Programs & Catholic Values\, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts\, College of Arts and Letters\, University of Notre Dame.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2013-05-toward-a-moral-economy-globalization-developing-world-peter-cardinal-turkson-robert-lucas-luigi-zingales-joseph-kaboski/
LOCATION:Ida Noyes Hall\, Max Palevsky Cinema\, 1212 E 59th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130516T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130516T163000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165838Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165533Z
UID:10000664-1368721800-1368721800@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:The Spirit's Bond: Gregory of Nyssa on the Inseparable Trinity
DESCRIPTION:The creed recited by Catholic\, Orthodox\, Anglican\, and many Protestant Christians every Sunday originated from the first two ecumenical councils of the Church\, Nicea (325) and Constantinople (381)\, which affirmed the divinity of Christ and the unity of the Trinity. Among the Cappadocian Fathers who developed and defended the affirmations of the creed\, Gregory of Nyssa (c. 335-395) is known for his contribution to the doctrine of the Trinity. Although he was cited by the Emperor Theodosius as an exemplar of Trinitarian orthodoxy\, the exact nature of his doctrine remains a matter of dispute. He has been accused of every heresy from modalism to tritheism. This lecture will attempt to sort out Gregory’s teaching by focusing on his discussion of the Spirit’s inseparable connection with the Father and the Son.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2013-05-spirits-bond-gregory-of-nyssa-on-inseparable-trinity-andrew-radde-gallwitz/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, First Floor Common Room\, 1025 E 58th St\,Chicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130501T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130501T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165838Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165644Z
UID:10000665-1367434800-1367434800@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:The Interior Castle of St. Teresa of Avila: A Map for our Spiritual Journey
DESCRIPTION:Long before developmental psychologists charted the seasons and passages of our human journey\, St. Teresa of Avila mapped the transformation of her personality under the impact of God’s love in 16th century Spain. At age 62\, this Carmelite nun wrote The Interior Castle\, a classic summary of her prayer experience. She images the soul’s journey through a crystal castle to its center\, culminating in intimate union with God. \nThis lecture is cosponsored by the History of Christianity Club and made possible by a grant from the Carmelite Friars at St. Thomas the Apostle.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2013-05-interior-castle-of-st-teresa-of-avila-a-map-for-our-spiritual-journey-john-welch-o-carm/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130428T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130428T160000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165839Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165648Z
UID:10000666-1367164800-1367164800@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:Machaut's Musical Monuments
DESCRIPTION:Schola Antiqua presents some of the most notable works by the fourteenth century’s most celebrated composer\, Guillaume de Machaut. Program highlights include a complete performance of Machaut’s Mass for Our Lady\, as well as a sampling of the composer’s enigmatic motets and playful song repertory.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2013-04-machauts-musical-monuments-schola-antiqua-of-chicago/
LOCATION:Rockefeller Memorial Chapel\, 5850 S Woodlawn Ave.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130426T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130426T180000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165841Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165651Z
UID:10000667-1366984800-1366999200@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:Master Class on The Cloud of Unknowing
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by the Medieval Studies Workshop \nThis master class is intended for graduate and advanced undergraduate students. If you have any questions\, please contact Mark Franzen at mfranzen@lumenchristi.org. \nThe Cloud of Unknowing is a work of spiritual counsel\, a guide to a kind of contemplation\, by a fourteenth-century English author\, now unnamed but with several other works to his credit. It is a recognized masterpiece: serious\, brilliant intellectually\, and in literary terms cunning and audacious. It is easy to understand but hard to explain: making sense of its doctrine is not difficult\, but making sense of what is means by that doctrine\, how it should be used\, and what it should be interpreted as part of\, is not. This seminar will discuss both sides of this coin\, exploring that doctrine (and\, if we have time\, the literary devices by which it is expounded)\, but also exploring the conundra the work poses for intellectual and cultural history. For the benefit of those whose Middle English is rusty\, we will use a modernized edition\, but I will bring along some Middle English passages for inspection. \nReading List\nThe Cloud of Unknowing\, Paulist Press\, ISBN 0809123320\n(Other versions are acceptable) \nSchedule\n2:00pm  Welcome\n2:15pm  Session I\n3:30pm  Coffee Break\n3:45pm  Session II\n5:00pm  Reception
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2013-04-master-class-on-cloud-of-unknowing-steven-justice/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130425T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130425T163000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165842Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165656Z
UID:10000668-1366907400-1366907400@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:"Shameless": The Sense of a Pejorative\, from St. Augustine until Now
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by the Medieval Studies Workshop \nReaders interested in the history of Christian writing are often surprised and nonplussed by the uninhibited polemic they find; scholarship often treats such polemics as obviously pathological. This talk takes one common form of medieval denunciation “the habit of calling” certain opinions and practices “shameless\,”as a sort of laboratory specimen\, showing what it meant\, how it worked\, and why serious thinkers took to it. It will suggest that the same judgment\, in different words\, is still part of scholarly discourse today.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2013-04-shameless-sense-of-a-pejorative-from-st-augustine-until-now-steven-justice/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, First Floor Common Room\, 1025 E 58th St\,Chicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130408T230000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130527T230000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165842Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165659Z
UID:10000669-1365462000-1369695600@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:“Modern Christian Writers” Non-Credit Course
DESCRIPTION:Informal Dinner: 6:00PM\nLecture: 6:30PM \nIntended for University students\, faculty\, and recent graduates. Others interested in attending\, contact info@lumenchristi.org. \nAddressing his fellow Christians\, the author of the Letter to the Hebrews said\, “Here we have no abiding city.” Christian writers characteristically view the societies in which they live both from the inside and as strangers or sojourners. This series will treat of a variety of modern authors whose faith made them aliens in their own homelands while giving them insight and sympathy into the dilemmas of their own time. No prior acquaintance with the writers on the part of attendees is required or presumed. \nPast Sessions: \nTuesday\, April 9:\nEvelyn Waugh\nPaul Mankowski\, S.J.\, Lumen Christi Institute \nTuesday\, April 16:\nHilaire Belloc\nPaul Mankowski\, S.J.\, Lumen Christi Institute \nTuesday\, April 23\nA Study in Greene: Charting the 20th Century Catholic Literary Revival\nMark Bosco\, S.J.\, English and Theology\, Loyola University \nTuesday\, April 30\nCharles Péguy – A Lonely Fighter\nThomas Pavel\, Romance Languages & Literatures\, Committee on Social Thought\, University of Chicago \nTuesday\, May 7:\nPaul Claudel: a Poet at the Foot of the Cross\nLauren Bergier\, Committee on Social Thought\, University of Chicago \nTuesday\, May 14:\nFlannery O’Connor’s Fictional Habitus\nRichard Rosengarten\, Religion & Literature at the Divinity School\, University of Chicago \nTuesday\, May 21:\nDostoyevsky: Dreams and Demons\nRobert Bird\, Slavic Languages & Literatures\, University of Chicago \nTuesday\, May 28:\nRonald Knox\nPaul Mankowski\, S.J.\, Lumen Christi Institute
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2013-04-modern-christian-writers-non-credit-course/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130404T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130404T180000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165843Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165703Z
UID:10000670-1365091200-1365098400@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:Pacem in terris After 50 Years
DESCRIPTION:A Public Symposium in Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Pope John XXIII’s Encyclical on Establishing Universal Peace on Earth \nKEYNOTE:\nRoland Minnerath\, Archbishop of Dijon \nRESPONDENTS:\nMary Ann Glendon\, Harvard Law School\nJoseph Weiler\, New York University Law School\nRussell Hittinger\, University of Tulsa \nOn April 11\, 1963\, amid the global tensions of the Cold War\, and shortly after the erection of the Berlin Wall\, Pope John XXIII addressed his famous encyclical Pacem in terris to all people of good will. He invites them to consider the conditions for establishing universal peace on earth in truth\, justice\, charity\, and liberty. On the 50th Anniversary of this event\, this symposium will examine the affirmations of Pacem in terris as they bear on human rights\, religious freedom\, and the international political and economic order today. \nCo-sponsored by the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago and the Center for Civil and Human Rights at the University of Notre Dame Law School
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2013-04-pacem-in-terris-after-50-years-roland-minnerath-mary-ann-glendon-joseph-weiler-russell-hittinger/
LOCATION:Ida Noyes Hall\, Max Palevsky Cinema\, 1212 E 59th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130227T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130227T200000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165843Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165706Z
UID:10000671-1361995200-1361995200@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:"The Virgin Mary as Model of the Church: From Vatican II to Thomas Aquinas"
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by the History of Christianity Club\n\nThe Second Vatican Council insisted that the Virgin Mary is to be understood in light of the Church\, and the Church is to be understood in light of the Virgin Mary. Why should the Church seek to recover today a greater emphasis on Marian devotion? How is the Virgin Mary a model of the faith and spiritual life of Christians? Thomas Aquinas provides the basis for a contemporary interpretation of the Council’s Marian teachings.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2013-02-virgin-mary-as-model-of-church-from-vatican-ii-to-thomas-aquinas-thomas-joseph-white-o-p/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130226T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130226T173000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165844Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165710Z
UID:10000672-1361899800-1361899800@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:“The Careful Rationality of Monotheism: Thomas Aquinas on Analogical Knowledge of God”
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by the Medieval Studies Workshop \nHow can philosophers speak about God in a reasonable fashion? Does speech about God exceed the capacities of human reason? In responding to these questions\, Thomas Aquinas develops a path between the extremes of apophaticism (rejecting the applicability of human language to God) and rationalistic optimism. This lecture will argue for the validity of Thomist doctrine of divine naming and its relevance to contemporary debates in analytic theism and to Heidegger’s critique of onto-theology (the theology of being).
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2013-02-careful-rationality-of-monotheism-thomas-aquinas-on-analogical-knowledge-of-god-thomas-joseph-white-o-p/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, First Floor Common Room\, 1025 E 58th St\,Chicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130221T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130221T200000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165846Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260328T162914Z
UID:10000673-1361476800-1361476800@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:Philosophy and Martyrdom: Tertullian and Justin Martyr
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by the Department of Philosophy and Philosophy of Religions Club \nDuring the first two centuries of Christianity believers were led to confess their faith before a pagan world and endure persecution and trial\, often leading to martyrdom. One might expect from them the posture and tactics of an irrational and “prophetic” theology. But in fact they chose to make arguments for the consistency and rationality of faith under the literary genre of the apology. They even claimed that this rational confession of faith deserves the title of philosophy. This paradox sheds light on our contemporary situation.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2013-02-philosophy-martyrdom-tertullian-justin-martyr-jean-luc-marion/
LOCATION:Kent Hall\, Room 120\, 1020 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130216T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130216T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165846Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165716Z
UID:10000674-1361034000-1361048400@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:Monastery Visit and Talk on "Spirituality and the Liturgy"
DESCRIPTION:Intended for University Students. Transportation from Hyde Park will be provided. Registration required as space is limited. \n\nSCHEDULE: \n4:00 Depart from Hyde Park.\n4:30 Talk on Spirituality and the Liturgy by Fr. Peter Funk\, OSB.\n5:15 Chanted Office of Vespers.\n5:40 Silent Prayer.\n6:00 Dinner.\n6:30 Discussion and Questions.\n7:15 Chanted Office of Compline.\n8:00 Arrival back in Hyde Park. \nA link to the monastery website can be found here. \nClick here to watch a short documentary about life in the Monastery.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2013-02-monastery-visit-talk-on-spirituality-liturgy-fr-peter-funk/
LOCATION:The Monastery of the Holy Cross\, 3111 South Aberdeen St.\nChicago\, IL 60608\, Chicago\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130207T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130207T173000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165846Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165719Z
UID:10000675-1360258200-1360258200@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:“The Theologico-Political Problem Today”
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by the History of Christianity Club \nFor three hundred years the modern nation-state appeared to determine the relationship between politics and religion. Indeed\, the modern state was devised to solve this troubled relation. This is no longer the case. The present weakness of nations in discerning matters religious and theological\, along with its cool disinterest in religion\, presents a particular crisis for the Church. This lecture will consider the history of the theologico-political problem and address the condition of three essential institutions: marriage\, polity and church.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2013-02-theologico-political-problem-today-russell-hittinger/
LOCATION:Rosenwald 405\, 1101 East 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130129T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130129T200000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165847Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260328T162703Z
UID:10000676-1359489600-1359489600@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:“The Capacious Mind of St. Thomas”
DESCRIPTION:Co-Sponsored by the Medieval Studies Workshop \nThe thought of Thomas Aquinas\, especially as it bears upon human action\, leads one to make difficult choices. Aquinas insists that a lie even to save the life of another is always a sin. He also insists that one ought not ever by means of a direct act to take the life an innocent human being. Understanding Thomas’s capacious mind” and the nature of the acts in question held us to understand why we should follow him in these matters.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2013-01-capacious-mind-of-st-thomas-kevin-flannery-s-j/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130125T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130125T180000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165848Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165726Z
UID:10000677-1359126000-1359136800@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:Master Class on St. Francis of Assisi: “How to Write a Biography of a Medieval Saint”
DESCRIPTION:Cosponsored by the Medieval Studies Workshop \nIn his new book\, Francis of Assisi: A New Biography\, Augustine Thompson\, O.P.\, sifts through the surviving evidence for the life of Francis using modern historical methods. The Francis who emerges here is both more complex and more conflicted than that of older biographies. This one-day master class will consider whether the historical Francis can be recovered from countless modern and medieval appropriations and compare Fr. Thompson’s biography on Francis’s early life with a variety of biographical sources. \nAmong the most beloved saints in the Catholic tradition\, Francis of Assisi (c. 1181-1226) is popularly remembered for his dedication to poverty\, his love of animals and nature\, and his desire to follow perfectly the teachings and example of Christ. During his lifetime and after his death\, followers collected\, for their own purposes\, numerous stories\, anecdotes\, and reports about Francis. As a result\, the man himself and his own concerns became lost in legend. \nParticipants are also encouraged to attend the symposium on Francis of Assisi: A New Biography (Wednesday\, January 23 at 4:30PM) and lecture on Francis of Assisi: Lost between Myth and History (Thursday\, January 24 at 7:ooPM ) by Fr. Thompson\, both of which will take place in Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall\, 1025 East 58th Street. \nReading List: \n\n“The Franciscan Question” (pp. 153-70)\n“Chapter 1: When I was in my sins\, 1181-1205” (pp. 3-18)\n“Sources and Debate on Chapter 1” (pp. 189-206)
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2013-01-master-class-on-st-francis-of-assisi-how-to-write-a-biography-of-a-medieval-saint-augustine-thompson-o-p/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130124T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130124T200000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165851Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260328T164710Z
UID:10000678-1359057600-1359057600@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:"Francis of Assisi: Lost Between Myth and History"
DESCRIPTION:Cosponsored by the Department of History and the Medieval Studies Workshop \nAmong the most beloved of saints\, Francis of Assisi is celebrated for his dedication to poverty\, his love of nature\, and his desire to follow perfectly the teachings and example of Christ. His followers compiled numerous\, often legendary\, accounts. The man and his own concerns seem lost to view. Fr. Augustine Thompson\, O.P. will speak on the “Quest for the Historical Francis” and attempt to portray beyond the legends the man who was Francis of Assisi.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2013-01-francis-of-assisi-lost-between-myth-history-augustine-thompson-o-p/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130123T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130123T173000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165852Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165733Z
UID:10000679-1358962200-1358962200@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:Book Symposium on "Francis of Assisi: A New Biography
DESCRIPTION:Cosponsored by the Department of History and the Medieval Studies Workshop\nwith\nAugustine Thompson\, O.P.\, Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology\, Berkeley\nKaren Scott\, DePaul University\nLawrence Cunningham\, University of Notre Dame \nIn this authoritative and engaging new biography\, Augustine Thompson\, O.P.\, sifts through the surviving evidence for the life of Francis using modern historical methods. The result is a complex yet sympathetic portrait of the man and the saint. Francis emerges from this account as very much a typical thirteenth-century Italian layman\, but one who\, when faced with unexpected crises in his personal life\, made decisions so radical that they challenge his own society and ours. Unlike the saint of legend\, this Francis never had a unique divine inspiration to provide him with rules for following the teachings of Jesus. Rather\, he spent his life reacting to unexpected challenges\, before which he often found himself unprepared and uncertain. The Francis who emerges here is both more complex and more conflicted than that of older biographies.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2013-01-book-symposium-on-francis-of-assisi-a-new-biography-augustine-thompson-o-p-karen-scott-lawrence-s-cunningham/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130119T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130119T183000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165854Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165737Z
UID:10000680-1358620200-1358620200@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:“Benedict XVI on the Liturgy”
DESCRIPTION:Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) has long cherished Catholic liturgy\, and his writings on the subject illuminate the man as well as the meaning of Christian ritual. This talk is intended as an introduction to the concept of liturgy as understood by Catholics and of the contributions Ratzinger-both as theologian and as worshiper-has made to its authentic development and reception within the Church. \n\nThis event is intended for University students. An informal dinner will be served. Please contact mfranzen@lumenchristi.org with any questions.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2013-01-benedict-xvi-on-liturgy-paul-mankowski-sj/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130114T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130225T000000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165854Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165740Z
UID:10000681-1358121600-1361750400@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:Sacred Study Circle\, Introduction to the Devout Life by St. Francis de Sales
DESCRIPTION:Sacred study is the prayerful and attentive reading of a work with the initial goal of understanding it\, the intermediate goal of reflectively appropriating it\, and the final goal of making its teaching concrete in a life devoted to God. Sacred study is study because it puts ques­tions to the text\, as an apprentice questions the master\, so as to come to grips with the deeper meanings. With these aims we will study St. Francis de Sales’s Introduction to the Devout Life this winter quarter. In this classic work of spirituality the reader is presented with counsels and practices to aid him in deepening his hunger for God while overcoming the obstacles that impede his progress in moral integrity and spiritual wisdom. \nThe Sacred Study Circle will meet weekly\, covering a minimal amount of text each week. Fr. Paul Mankowski\, S.J.\, scholar-in-residence at the Lumen Christi Institute\, will guide participants in a reflective discussion of the text. Each session will meet at Gavin House\, 1220 East 58th Street on Mondays from 4-5PM. While participants are encouraged to attend every session\, this is not required. Copies of the book will be provided. We will be using the 400th Anniversary Edition\, Eremitical Press\, 2009. \nREGISTER HERE\nSchedule \nJanuary 14: Counsels concerning the soul’s first aspiration to the devout life.\n(Pt.1\, Ch.6-22\, pp.26-51) \nJanuary 21: Counsels concerning the soul’s firm resolution to pursue the devout life.\n(Pt.2\, Ch.1-9\, pp.55-66) \nJanuary 28: Counsels concerning the practice of virtue.\n(Pt.3.\, Ch.1-5\, pp.91-106\,119-126) \nFebruary 4: Counsels concerning poverty of spirit amid riches.\n(Pt.3\, Ch.14-16\, 37-38\, pp.127-133\, 175-178) \nFebruary 11: Counsels concerning true and false friendship. (Pt.3\, Ch.17-22\, pp.133-146) \nFebruary 18: Counsels concerning commonly experienced temptations.\n(Pt.4\, Ch.1-10\, 13-14\, pp.191-204\, 209-219) \nFebruary 25: Counsels concerning renewal of the soul in devotion.\n(Pt.5\, Ch.1-6\, 18\, pp.223-230\, 240-241) \nSacred study is intended for university students and faculty. Please contact Mark Franzen at mfranzen@lumenchristi.org with any questions.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2013-01-sacred-study-circle-introduction-to-devout-life-by-st-francis-de-sales-paul-mankowski-sj/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130108T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130311T230000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165854Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165743Z
UID:10000682-1357603200-1363042800@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:“Reason and Wisdom in Medieval Christian Thought\,” Non-Credit Course
DESCRIPTION:Informal Dinner: 6:00PM\nLecture: 6:30PM \nIntended for University students\, faculty\, and recent graduates. Others interested in attending\, contact info@lumenchristi.org. \nWith the recovery of the works of Aristotle in the Latin West\, the development of the scholastic method of reasoning\, and the creation of the universities\, a style of academic philosophy and theology developed in the late medieval period in which the practice of reasoning about Christian revelation was developed independent of spirituality and\, often\, the search for wisdom. Previously\, in the works of the Church Fathers and the great monastic writers\, theology was rooted in a spiritual life uniting prayer and the search for understanding. \nThis course will consider the practice of dialectic reason within philosophy and theology and the potential consequences of scholastic method when loosed from spirituality\, the interior life\, and a life of wisdom. \nPAST SESSIONS: \nTuesday\, January 8:\nShameful Curiosity? Dialectics and Wisdom in the\nThought of Abelard and Bernard of Clairvaux\nJames DeFrancis\, University of Notre Dame \nTuesday\, January 15:\nReason in the Service of Faith: Anselm of Canterbury\nWillemien Otten\, University of Chicago \nTuesday\, January 24\, 7:00PM\nFrancis of Assisi: Lost Between Myth and History\nSwift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall\, 1025 East 58th Street\nAugustine Thompson\, O.P.\,Â Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology\, Berkeley \nTuesday\, January 29\, 7:00PM\nThe Capacious Mind of St. Thomas Aquinas\nSwift Hall\, Common Room\, 1025 East 58th Street\nKevin Flannery\, S.J.\, Gregorian University \nTuesday\, February 5:\nWisdom in 12th Century Paris: Richard and Hugh of St. Victor\nWillemien Otten\, University of Chicago \nTuesday\, February 12\nThe Meaning of Wisdom in St. Thomas Aquinas\nBernard McGinn\, University of Chicago \nTuesday\, February 19:\nSt. Bonaventure on Reason and Wisdom\nPeter Casarella\, DePaul University \nTuesday\, February 26\, 4:30PM\nThe Careful Rationality of Monotheism: Thomas Aquinas on Analogical Knowledge of God\nSwift Hall\, Common Room\, 1025 East 58th Street\nThomas Joseph White\, O.P.\, Dominican House of Studies \nTuesday\, March 5:\nThe Many Sides of Jean Gerson\nRalph Keen\, University of Illinois Chicago \nTuesday\, March 12:\nThomas à Kempis‘s The Imitation of Christ in the Christian Spiritual Tradition\nRalph Keen\, University of Illinois Chicago
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2013-01-reason-wisdom-in-medieval-christian-thought-non-credit-course/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130105T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130105T181500
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165856Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165746Z
UID:10000683-1357390800-1357409700@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:Conference on Christian Legal Thought\, New Orleans
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, January 5\, 2013\, 1 PM to 6:15 PM\nWyndham Riverfront New Orleans\n701 Convention Center Boulevard\nNew Orleans\, LA 70130 \n\nConference Topic: The Statement on the Nature of Law from Evangelicals and Catholics \nConference Schedule\n1:00 PM: Registration (coffee available) \n1:15 PM – 2:45 PM: Session One: Christian Perspectives on the Nature of Law\nChair: Michael Moreland (Villanova University School of Law) \nWilliam Brewbaker III (University of Alabama School of Law) \nNora O’Callaghan (Loyola University Chicago School of Law) \nDavid Skeel (University of Pennsylvania Law School) \n2:45 PM – 3:00 PM: Coffee Break \n3:00 PM – 4:30 PM: Session Two: Non-Christian Perspectives on the Nature of Law \nChair: Zachary R. Calo (Valparaiso University Law School) \nBruce Ledewitz (Duquesne University School of Law) \nDan Markel (Florida State University College of Law) \nSeval Yildirim (Whittier Law School) \n4:45 PM – 5:15 PM: Vespers \n5:15 PM: Reception \nThis conference is intended for legal scholars and law students. Others interested in attending\, please contact info@lumenchristi.org or 773-955-5887.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2013-01-conference-on-christian-legal-thought-new-orleans/
LOCATION:Wyndham Riverfront\, New Orleans\, 701 Convention Center Blvd.\nNew Orleans\, LA 70130\, New Orleans\, LA
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20121207T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20121209T150000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165856Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165750Z
UID:10000684-1354910400-1355065200@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:“Tidings True: Advent Music from Long Ago”
DESCRIPTION:December 7\, 8pm\nSacred Heart Parish\n1077 Tower Road\nWinnetka\, IL 60093 \nDecember 9\, 3pm\nSt. James Chapel at Quigley Center of the Archdiocese of Chicago\n835 North Rush Street\nChicago\, IL 60611 \nBBC Music Magazine has placed Schola Antiqua’s “Tiding True” concert seriesamong the top 20 recommended concertsin the United States during the month of December. \nThe centerpiece of this Schola Antiqua program will be Pierre de la Rue’s Missa Conceptio tua. This extensive work for extremely low voices was very much in demand in the early sixteenth century\, but has not seen the light of day in modern performances or recordings. La Rue’s mass will be complemented by other diverse songs for the Advent season\, including the traditional “O antiphons” and several medieval English carols\, including Nova\, Nova andThere is no rose of sywch vertue. This program is sponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute\, with supplemental grants from the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation\, the Illinois Arts Council\, and the Sage Foundation. \nSchola Antiqua of Chicago\, Artist in Residence at the Lumen Christi Institute since 2008\, is a professional vocal ensemble dedicated to western liturgical chant and polyphonic music before the year 1600. The ensemble is the 2012 winner of the Noah Greenberg Award\, given by the American Musicological Society for outstanding contributions to historical performing practice. \nGeneral admission will be $25 at the door; $10 students/seniors (cash or check only).\nThere will be a 20% discount available for those that order online.\nGroups of 10 or more\, please call 773-955-5887 to get an additional 20% discount on tickets.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2012-12-tidings-true-advent-music-from-long-ago-schola-antiqua-of-chicago/
LOCATION:Sacred Heart Parish\, 1077 Tower Rd.\nWinnetka\, IL 60093\, Winnetka\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20121120T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20121120T173000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165856Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165753Z
UID:10000685-1353432600-1353432600@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:"Augustine and the Doctrine of Universal Restoration"
DESCRIPTION:Cosponsored by the History of Christianity Club \nThe great theologian Augustine of Hippo (354-430) is known to have condemned the doctrine of universal restoration and salvation (apokatastasis) devised by Origen of Alexandria (255ca.) as heretical. But in his earlier defense of Christian Orthodoxy against Manicheism\, Augustine adhered to this doctrine. This lecture will show how Augustine’s later polemic against the Pelagians and his ignorance of Greek played a significant role in his eventual rejection of Origen’s doctrine.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2012-11-augustine-doctrine-of-universal-restoration-ilaria-ramelli/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, Room 106\, 1025 E 58th St\,\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20121110T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20121110T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165857Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165756Z
UID:10000686-1352568600-1352574000@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:A Conversation on Faith and Science\, with Mark Wyman and Minyoung Wyman
DESCRIPTION:This event is intended for college students.\nDinner will be served. \nContemporary culture is built in part on a mythology of the natural sciences. This mythology characterizes Christianity\, particularly Catholicism\, as a reactionary force clinging to a pre-modern worldview that brave men and women have replaced with a modern\, scientific one. Two postdoctoral researchers at the University of Chicago’s theoretical cosmologist and an evolutionary biologist will explain why this myth is false. Each will give a brief account of their own experience as scientists and reflect on the compatibility of faith and modern science. Ample time for questions and discussion will follow.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2012-11-a-conversation-on-faith-science-with-mark-wyman-minyoung-wyman-mark-wyman-minyoung-wyman/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20121107T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20121107T200000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165857Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165800Z
UID:10000687-1352318400-1352318400@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:"Shakespeare\, Identity\, and Religion"
DESCRIPTION:Cosponsored by The Nicholson Center for British Studies \nWhether Shakespeare was Catholic has long been a point of speculation. Recent research into the life of Oxford philosopher and double agent William Sterrell has revealed a neglected group of Catholics connected to Shakespeare at and around the courts of Queen Elizabeth and King James. The potential influence of these crypto-Catholics practicing their faith in animo while outwardly complying with the legally enforced state religion offers a new understanding of Shakespeare’s works and audience.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2012-11-shakespeare-identity-religion-john-finnis/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20121101T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20121101T163000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165859Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165803Z
UID:10000688-1351787400-1351787400@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:"Vatican II's Declaration on Religious Liberty\, 50 Years Later"
DESCRIPTION:Cosponsored by The Department of History and The St. Thomas More Society \nAt the third plenary session of Vatican II\, Fr. John Courtney Murray said that the issue of religious liberty [is] the American issue at the Council. Yet it took the longest to write\, and\, after undergoing thousands of comments and corrections over four years\, it was signed by Pope Paul VI less than twenty-four hours before the Council was adjourned. This lecture will consider\, (1) the reasons for this Declaration on Religious Liberty and the difficulties and debates at the Council\, and (2) how the doctrine of religious liberty has fared a generation later.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2012-11-vatican-iis-declaration-on-religious-liberty-50-years-later-russell-hittinger/
LOCATION:Goodspeed Hall\, Fulton Recital Hall\, 1010 East 59th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20121024T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20121024T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165859Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165806Z
UID:10000689-1351105200-1351105200@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:"The Dialogue of Economics and Catholic Social Thought"
DESCRIPTION:Cosponsored by the University of Chicago Ethics Club \nThe presence of two Catholic candidates for vice-president have raised questions about Catholic social thought and American free market economics. In this symposium\, an economist and a theologian consider how the Church’s teaching bears on contemporary economic questions. The questions to be explored will include: What does the Catholic social thought developed by popes from Leo XIII and Pius XI to John Paul II and Benedict XVI say about economic issues? How can economists engage the principles of Catholic Social Thought and reflect on questions such as the just wage\, social solidarity and the market economy? How can economists assist the Church to develop and implement its social teaching?
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2012-10-dialogue-of-economics-catholic-social-thought-joseph-kaboski-msgr-martin-schlag/
LOCATION:Social Sciences\, Room 122\, 1126 E 59th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20121019T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20121019T160000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165900Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260328T163533Z
UID:10000690-1350662400-1350662400@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:"Gregorian Chant as Splendor Formae of the Liturgy"
DESCRIPTION:Cosponsored by the Department of Music and the Medieval Studies Workshop \nA principal Medieval definition of beauty is splendor formae\, the manifesting of the very nature or form of a thing. While the liturgy can be described as a great divine action\, it is also comprised of a variety of discrete chants. Being entirely sung\, its Gregorian chants differentiate the character and function of each action and thus express a purposeful variety. This lecture will illustrate the beauty of the liturgy by comparing these chants particularly the gradual and alleluia in relation to the responsories of the Divine Office.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2012-10-gregorian-chant-as-splendor-formae-of-liturgy-william-mahrt/
LOCATION:Classics 110\, 1010 E 59th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20121018T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20121018T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165901Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165812Z
UID:10000691-1350586800-1350586800@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:"What Makes Music Sacred?"
DESCRIPTION:Cosponsored by the Department of Music and the Medieval Studies Workshop \nWhile it is easy to recognize traditional forms of sacred music: Gregorian chant\, classical polyphony\, organ music\, choral music\, and vernacular hymns it is difficult to pinpoint what it is that makes music sacred? This lecture will reflect upon the relation of the sacred and the beautiful in the liturgy. It will consider what is meant by sacred\, as distinguished from holy and place those things considered sacred in the context of their reception and intrinsic suitability.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2012-10-what-makes-music-sacred-william-mahrt/
LOCATION:Social Sciences\, Room 122\, 1126 E 59th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20121015T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20121119T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165901Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165815Z
UID:10000692-1350324000-1353351600@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:"The Book of Psalms" Non-Credit Course
DESCRIPTION:Lecture: 7:00PM\nInformal Dinner: 6:30PM \nOctober 16: The Prayer Book of Jesus\nWhat are the psalms and how did they become a psalter? The introductory class will address the nature of Jewish prayer and Hebrew poetry\, lay out the various genres of psalms\, and discuss the compilation of psalms into a book of the Old Testament and a keystone of the Churchâ€™s liturgy. Particular attention will be given Psalms 6\, 19\, and 27. \nOctober 23: Songs of Wrath\nGodâ€™s anger and manâ€™s find full-throated expression in the Psalms\, often in ways that shock or bewilder us. In coming to grips with the cursings in the Psalms we come to a deeper understanding of the blessings that are their contraries\, and the nature of the injuries that prompt them. Particular attention will be given Psalms 2\, 49\, 53\, 58\, 109\, and 137. \nOctober 30: Songs of Joy\nThe Psalmistâ€™s capacity for delight exceeded even his capacity for rage. Discussion of various examples of exultation will show how enraptured contemplation of the created order was to be extended into the Churchâ€™s sacramental theology.Â  Particular attention will be given Psalms 16\, 23\, 66\, 92\, 96\, 119\, and 139. \nNovember 6: Songs of Entreaty & Assent \nThe desires of the Psalmist were always present to him\, and entreaty is a constant force in his prayer. Â At the same time the psalms take delight in affirming the hand of God in the history of His people. Â Particular attention will be given Psalms 22\, 42\, 57\, 106\, and 110. \nNovember 13: Songs of Pain \nLament\, sorrow and remorse are part of every human life\, and consequently part of the prayer offered by every believer. Â A discussion of some of the penitential psalms and psalms of lament will examine the moral self-understanding of ancient Israel and way in which it is and is not continued by Christian belief and prayer. Particular attention will be given Psalms 51\, 55\, 69\, 73\, 79\, and 88. \nNovember 20: Songs of Praise\nIt is a striking fact about Israel that it was willing\, even delighted\, to give praise and thanks to God simply for who He is in Himself\, and not only in response for those benefits He had conferred upon His people.Â  The psalm of praise is the psalm par excellence.Â  Particular attention will be given Psalms 8\, 65\, 104\, 68\, 84\, 117\, 148\, and 150.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2012-10-book-of-psalms-non-credit-course-paul-mankowski-sj/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20121011T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20121011T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165902Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165819Z
UID:10000693-1349982000-1349982000@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:"The Second Vatican Council and the Church's Engagement with the Modern World"
DESCRIPTION:Cosponsored by the University of Chicago Ethics Club \nAfter decades of ideological upheaval that often placed the Catholic Church in conflict with modernity\, Pope John XXIII convened the Second Vatican Council in part to open a dialogue with modern culture. This lecture will reflect on the theological developments that led to Vatican II’s Pastoral Constitution on the Modern World\, Gaudium et Spes\, the document’s text itself\, and the history of its reception\, and offer a perspective on the current health of the Church and its prospects for bringing the light of Christ to the world.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2012-10-second-vatican-council-churchs-engagement-with-modern-world-edward-t-oakes-s-j/
LOCATION:Rosenwald 405\, 1101 East 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20120926T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20120926T173000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165903Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260328T144030Z
UID:10000694-1348680600-1348680600@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:“Religious Freedom in America Today”
DESCRIPTION:As President Clinton observed\, “religious freedom is . . . our first freedom.” It was central to the Founders’ vision for the American political community. They did not always agree about what religious freedom means or requires\, but they knew that it matters\, and that it should be respected in policy and protected by law. James Madison\, the Father of our Constitution\, hoped that America’s religious-liberty experiment promised a lustre to our country. This lecture will take stock of this experiment and consider the rights of religious believers and institutions and their roles and voices in American public life today. \n\nCo-sponsored by the Catholic Lawyers Guild
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2012-09-religious-freedom-in-america-today-richard-garnett/
LOCATION:Skadden\, Arps\, Slate\, Meagher & Flom LLP\, 28th Floor\, 155 North Wacker Drive\,\nChicago\, IL 60606\, Downtown\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20120806T230000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20120812T230000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241006T235416Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260114T190410Z
UID:10000695-1344294000-1344812400@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:St. Thomas Aquinas on Law
DESCRIPTION:No description available
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2012_aquinas_on_law/
LOCATION:University of California\, Berkeley\, S Hall Rd.\nBerkeley\, CA 94720\, Berkeley\, CA
CATEGORIES:Summer Seminars
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20120531T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20120531T160000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165904Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165829Z
UID:10000696-1338480000-1338480000@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:Toward a Moral Economy: Policies and Values for the 21st Century
DESCRIPTION:Keynote Address: Reinhard Cardinal Marx\, Archbishop of Munich\n\nPresentations: Roger Myerson\, University of Chicago\,\nKevin M. Murphy\, University of Chicago\,\nand Russell Hittinger\, University of Tulsa \nThis event opens the Fourth Lumen Christi Institute Conference on Economics and Catholic Social Thought and inaugurates the Institute Collaboration with the German-American Colloquium of the Katholische Sozialwissenschaftliche Zentralstelle. \nCo-sponsored by the Katholische Sozialwissenschaftliche Zentralstelle and The John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought \nAs the United States and the global economy continue to reel from the effects of the 2008 financial crisis\, we face several questions: \n\nWhat went wrong?\nHow to prevent another such crisis?\nCan there be moral responsibility in a globalized economy?\nWhat would a moral economy look like?
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2012-05-toward-a-moral-economy-policies-values-for-21st-century-reinhard-cardinal-marx-roger-myerson-kevin-m-murphy-russell-hittinger/
LOCATION:Ida Noyes Hall\, Max Palevsky Cinema\, 1212 E 59th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20120524T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20120524T180000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165904Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165832Z
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SUMMARY:"John Climacus" Non-Credit Course
DESCRIPTION:Lecture\, 7:00pm\nInformal Dinner\, 6:30pm \nIntended for University students\, faculty\, and recent graduates. Others interested in attending\, contact info@lumenchristi.org. \nMay 24\n“John Climacus: Cleansing\, Death\, and Resurrection in his “The Ladder of Divine Ascent”\nPerry Hamalis (North Central College) \nCo-sponsored by the Orthodox Christian Fellowship \nJohn Climacus (ca. 579-ca. 659) uses a number of analogies to describe the dynamics of spiritual development in his famous ascetical work\, The Ladder of Divine Ascent. In addition to the image of a “ladder\,” embedded in the work’s title\, St. John uses a range of medical imagery\, appeals to figures and events from the Hebrew Bible\, and even compares a monastery to a “laundry” where the dirt\, grossness\, and deformity of the soul are scrubbed away. Through reflection on several passages from this classic work in Christian ascetical theology\, this lecture contends that St. John’s images reveal a deeper\, existential focus within his ethical vision–one that links cleansing and the acquisition of the virtues with a passing over from death to a resurrected way of living.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2012-05-john-climacus-non-credit-course-perry-hamalis/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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SUMMARY:"The Making of Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae"
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by the Medieval Studies Workshop \nThe Summa Theologiae of Thomas Aquinas stands among the finest expressions of the Catholic “understanding of faith” (intellectus fidei). Over a thousand commentaries have been written on it. A leading historian of Medieval Christian thought\, Bernard McGinn explores Thomas’s reason for writing the Summa and its principles\, structure\, and originality.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2012-05-making-of-thomas-aquinas-summa-theologiae-bernard-mcginn/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20120516T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20120516T163000
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SUMMARY:The Catholic Roots of Religious Freedom
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by the St. Thomas More Society \nThe roots of modern ideas of religious freedom are as much religious as they are political and philosophical. The American political leaders who first championed these ideas were well aware of the religious sources supporting their views. This lecture explores how early Christian thinkers developed a theological understanding of religious freedom.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2012-05-catholic-roots-of-religious-freedom-robert-louis-wilken/
LOCATION:Social Sciences\, Room 122\, 1126 E 59th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20120512T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20120512T201500
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LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165943Z
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SUMMARY:Monastery Visit and Lecture on "St. John Cassian\, Monasticism\, and the Kingdom of God"
DESCRIPTION:Registration Required. RSVP to info@lumenchristi.org. \nAbout the Lecture:\nJohn Cassian\, a monk with broad experience of Greek\, Latin and Coptic monasticism\, wrote his most important works\, The Institutes and The Conferences to assist the Pope in establishing the monastic tradition of the Desert Fathers in fifth-century Europe. Since Cassian maintains that the monastic life is simply the life of the apostolic church\, his insights are relevant for all Christians. This talk unfolds Cassian’s spirituality and the practices required of anyone who seeks the purity of heart that leads towards the realization of the Kingdom of God both in the interior life and in the social realm. \nAbout the Monastery:\nThe Monastery of the Holy Cross is a contemplative Benedictine monastery in the South Side neighborhood of Bridgeport. \nTentative Schedule:\n4:30pm Departure from Hyde Park.\n5:00pm Welcome and Orientation to Divine Office.\n5:15pm Chanted Office of Vespers.\n5:45pm Dinner.\n6:15pm Lecture on “St. John Cassian\, Monasticism\, and the Kingdom of God” by Fr. Funk.\n7:30pm Chanted Office of Compline.\n7:45pm Departure from the Monastery.\n8:10pm Arrival back in Hyde Park.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2012-05-monastery-visit-lecture-on-st-john-cassian-monasticism-kingdom-of-god-fr-peter-funk/
LOCATION:The Monastery of the Holy Cross\, 3111 South Aberdeen St.\nChicago\, IL 60608\, Chicago\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20120508T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20120508T163000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
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SUMMARY:The Unintended Reformation"
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by the Department of History and The Early Modern Workshop \nIn his latest book\, The Unintended Reformation\, Brad Gregory identifies the unintended consequences of the Protestant Reformation and traces how it has shaped the modern condition. He argues that hyperpluralism\, an absence of a shared sense of the common good\, and the triumph of consumerism are each the long-term effects of a distinctive religious movement that marked the end of a period of history in which Christianity provided a framework for a shared intellectual\, social\, and moral life in the West.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2012-05-unintended-reformation-brad-gregory-mark-a-noll-rachel-fulton-brown/
LOCATION:Classics 110\, 1010 E 59th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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