Name: Justice or Vengeance? How To Watch John Wick
Start: 2022-03-03T14:00:00-06:00
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February 2022
February 7th, 2022 @ 6:00 pm

Is the Universe Made for Life? Anthropic Coincidences and Multiverse Ideas

Kersten 120 5720 South Ellis Avenue, Hyde Park, IL

Free and Open to the Public. The late Stephen Hawking wrote, “Our universe and its laws appear to have a design that is both tailor-made to support us and, if we are to exist, leaves little room for alteration.” What lies behind such a claim? And what might explain such a remarkable fact (if it is a fact)? Join us as Dr. Stephen Barr speaks on both the science and the speculations surrounding anthropic coincidences. This convening is open to all invitees who are compliant with UChicago vaccination requirements and, because of ongoing health risks, particularly to the unvaccinated, participants are...
February 10th, 2022 @ 6:00 pm

Winter 2022 Undergraduate Reading Group: “Progress is Dead: Nietzsche’s Indictment of Modern Life in The Genealogy of Morals”

David Lyons, University of Chicago

“We are unknown to ourselves, we knowers: and with good reason.” The modern world tells us—and we tell ourselves—that we are enlightened and free, but it isn’t true. Our claims to knowledge are just another moral prejudice; our ostensible freedom is disguised slavery. So contends Friedrich Nietzsche in his On the Genealogy of Morality, where he punctures the self-satisfaction of socialists, democrats, reformers, the bourgeoisie, philosophers, scientists, and anyone else who claims to have it all figured out. This three-week reading group will discuss the three treatises of the Genealogy and debate the following claims: February 10 Is Democracy Slavery? (First Treatise, “ ‘Good and Evil,’ ‘Good...
February 10th, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 8:15 pm

Redeeming Punishment: Catholic Approaches to Criminal Justice Reform

Fluno Center, Auditorium 601 University Ave, Madison, WI 53715, Madison, WI

The Lumen Christi Institute's Catholic Criminal Justice Reform Network and the Catholic Social and Political Thought Initiative of the UW-Madison Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy present Catholic Perspectives on Criminal Justice Reform: a Scholarly Colloquium. This three-day public lecture and workshop series gathers a diverse array of legal scholars and ethicists to explore how Catholic tradition and social thought can inform the many challenges confronting today’s American criminal justice system. As part of this colloquium, there will be a keynote panel on "Redeeming Punishment: Catholic Approaches to Criminal Justice Reform," featuring Dean Strang, Cecelia Klingele, Rev. Javier del Castillo, and Secretary Kevin...
February 11th, 2022 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Master Class on Newman’s Oxford University Sermons

REGISTER HERE This event will be held online over Zoom. Open to current graduate students and faculty. Others interested in participating should contact us. More info TBA. Fr. Fields will also lead a summer seminar for graduate students on the thought of John Henry Newman at Merton College, Oxford this summer. More information can be found here.
February 12th, 2022 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm

The Theologian’s Vocation in the Academy Today: A Master Class for Graduate Students in Theology

Open to current graduate students in theology. Others interested in participating should contact us. A two-part, online master class for graduate students in theology on the vocation of the theologian in the contemporary academy. Dates: January 15 & February 12 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. CST via Zoom Overview: What is the vocation of the Catholic theologian in the academy today? The increasing focus within higher education toward producing economically successful citizens within late modernity’s secularized culture is well-known. Within the theological world itself, graduate programs in theology are deeply compartmentalized into distinct sub-disciplines that often take their self-understanding and academic culture...
February 17th, 2022 @ 6:30 pm

Ecumenical Panel on “For the Life of the World: Toward a Social Ethos of the Orthodox Church”

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

Free and open to the public. This program will be held as a hybrid, in-person and online event. Presented by the Lumen Christi Institute and the Fordham Orthodox Christian Studies Center. Cosponsored by the Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion and the Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies. “As we make this journey towards full communion, we already have the duty to offer common witness to the love of God for all people by working together in the service of humanity” —Common Declaration of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and Pope Francis, May 2014. This panel will examine the recent social document For the Life...
February 18th, 2022 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Master Class on “For the Life of the World: Toward a Social Ethos of the Orthodox Church”

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

Open to current students and faculty. Others interested in participating should contact us. Copies of the book will be available for registrants. Students and faculty are invited to join us for a seminar on For the Life of the World: Toward a Social Ethos of the Orthodox Church with two of the document's drafters, Profs. Perry Hamalis and Gayle Woloschak. The fruit of critical reflection by Orthodox Christian lay Scholars and Church leaders, For the Life of the World offers guidance to navigate contemporary challenges faced by the Orthodox Christian on a wide range of social issues—including racism, bioethics, ecology, and human rights....
February 19th, 2022 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Master Class on “Catholic Social Teaching and the Church-State Problem”

Open to current graduate students and faculty. Copies of the assigned readigns will be provided. This virtual master class will take place on Zoom. Readings The Teachings of Modern Roman Catholicism: On Law, Politics and Human Nature, Eds. John Witte and Frank Alexander (Columbia University Press, 2007), pp. 1-75 The Syllabus of Errors, Pope Pius IX, 1864 This master class serves as a preview of our upcoming summer seminar on Catholic Social Teaching for PhD and JD students co-taught by Prof. Hittinger. Learn more about the summer seminar here.
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February 23rd, 2022 @ 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Walker Percy on the Pursuit of Happiness in Apocalyptic Times

This virtual event is free and open to the public. This virtual event will be livestreamed on Zoom. For more information about the in person event, please contact us. The in-person event will take place at Ruth Lake Country Club in Hinsdale, Illinois. In Walker Percy's novel, Love in the Ruins, the narrator, a wealthy and successful denizen of American suburbia, admits that " everyone is happy, but our hearts broke with happiness." In this lecture, Dr. Jennifer Frey will discuss what Percy's novel can teach us about the pursuit of happiness in contemporary American life, and why the novel's biting satire is relevant to our contemporary political and...
February 24th, 2022 @ 2:00 pm

Lunch Discussion on “Walker Percy: Philosopher, Novelist, Catholic”

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

Open to current students and faculty. Others interested in joining should contact us. Lunch will be served. Join us for a lunch discussion with Prof. Jennifer Frey on the the work of novelist Walker Percy. Suggested readings from Signposts in a Strange Land "Naming and Being" (pp 130-138) "Physician as Novelist" (pp 191-196) "Why are you a Catholic?" (pp 304-315) A PDF of the readings will be provided to registrants. Prof. Frey will also give a lecture on Walker Percy at a hybrid event on Wednesday, February 23. For all events held at Gavin House, the Lumen Christi Institute follows Chicago Department...
March 2022
March 2nd, 2022 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

Catholic Culture Series on “Catholic Literary Heritage”

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

The Lumen Christi Institute's West Suburban Catholic Culture Series returns in 2021-22 with a monthly series on the theme of Catholic literary heritage. We will survey the history of literature written by Catholics from the early middle ages to the late twentieth century. What is Catholic literature? What is our Catholic literary heritage? St. John Henry Newman has informed us that Catholic literature is more than “religious literature” or “the literature of religious men.” Rather, Catholic literature is literature of “all subjects whatever, treated as a Catholic would treat them, and as he only can treat them.” Not only doctrine,...
March 3rd, 2022 @ 2:00 pm

Justice or Vengeance? How To Watch John Wick

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

Open to current students and faculty. Others interested in joining should contact us. Lunch will be served. Is John Wick only a guilty pleasure? Or is there, at the heart of these movies, a desire for justice—however roughly delivered? This lecture proposes that at the heart of the movies is indeed the desire for retributive justice: the payment of punishment for those who do wrong or reward for those who do right. It will defend the understanding of retributive justice as a real good and indicate how an appreciation of this virtue can aid human beings in pursuing the good...

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Master Class on Newman’s Oxford University Sermons

The Theologian’s Vocation in the Academy Today: A Master Class for Graduate Students in Theology

Master Class on “For the Life of the World: Toward a Social Ethos of the Orthodox Church”

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Walker Percy on the Pursuit of Happiness in Apocalyptic Times

Lunch Discussion on “Walker Percy: Philosopher, Novelist, Catholic”

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