Name: Symposium on “The Light that Binds: A Study in Thomas Aquinas’s Metaphysics of Natural Law”
Start: 2022-04-13T17:00:00-05:00
End: 2022-04-13T17:00:00-05:00
Location: Swift Hall, 3rd Floor Lecture

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February 2022
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...
March 9th, 2022 @ 7:30 pm

Recovering Biblical Love from Emotionalism and Eroticism
March 10th, 2022 @ 7:15 pm - 9:30 pm

Magis Series on Faith and Reason

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

Free and open to the public. Presented by the Lumen Christi Institute and Saint Ignatius College Prep. What does it mean to believe? Does one believe because of evidence? In spite of evidence? Is belief the beginning of wisdom or the opposite of science? For over two thousand years, the Catholic Church has defended the rich interrelation between faith and reason. As Pope John Paul II said in his encyclical, Fides et Ratio, "Faith and reason are like the two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth." Faith without reason leads to superstition. Reason without...
March 20th, 2022 @ 3:00 pm

Music in Secret: Sounds from the Early Modern Convent

Rockefeller Memorial Chapel 5850 S Woodlawn Ave. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the University of Chicago Division of the Humanities, the Illinois Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts. The outstanding female contingent of Schola Antiqua presents a concert of medieval and early modern music by and for women in the convent. Their program "Music in Secret" includes works by Hildegard von Bingen and nuns from early modern Italy. The performance is complemented by keyboard works also heard in convents, played by organist and guest director Naomi Gregory. Cora Swenson Lee joins the ensemble on viola da gamba.
March 30th, 2022 @ 2:00 pm - March 31st, 2022 @ 6:15 pm

The Theology of Nature and the Nature of Theology

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

A conference held by the University of Chicago Divinity School, cosponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute. Download of Conference Abstracts. For more information see the Divinity School's conference webpage. Schedule: Wednesday, March 30 2:00pm-3:15pm Wesley Wildman (Boston University): "Prospects for a Naturalist, Critically Humanist, and Mystical Transreligious Understanding of Ultimate Reality" 3:30pm-4:45pm Karmen MacKendrick (LeMoyne College): "Out of Bounds: Collection, Division, Creation" 5:00pm-6:15pm Willemien Otten (University of Chicago Divinity School): "Double or Nothing: Creation and Gender in Eriugena, Hildegard, and Hadewijch" (the inaugural Dorothy Grant Maclear Lecture) Reception to follow Thursday, March 31 2:00pm-3:15pm William Schweiker (University of Chicago Divinity School): "How Natural is...
March 30th, 2022 @ 5:00 pm

Negotiating Tragedy and the Tragic: Discursive, Performative, and Interpretive Strategies in Late Ancient Christian Literature

Classics 110 1010 E 59th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Free and open to the public. Early Christian authors rarely composed tragedies, but they did discern elements of “the tragic” both in the background of sacred history and in the foreground of mundane experience. As a rhetorical, literary, and even theological artform, the mimesis of tragedy took shape concurrently in biblical interpretation and preaching, in autobiographical and hagiographical writing, in the framing of Christian moral response to human anguish and indignities, and in theological reflection on interrelated issues of providence, freedom, fate, and hope. This lecture will sample each of these dimensions, concentrating especially on works of the Cappadocian Fathers, John...
March 31st, 2022 @ 1:00 pm

Finding Tragedy in the Bible with Its Early Christian Interpreters

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

Open to current students and faculty. Box lunches will be served. Prof. Blowers will also give a lecture on "Negotiating Tragedy and the Tragic: Discursive, Performative, and Interpretive Strategies in Late Ancient Christian Literature" on March 30. For all events held at Gavin House, the Lumen Christi Institute follows Chicago Department of Public Health Guidance for in-person gatherings. Please see here for the city’s most up-to-date guidelines. These are guidelines subject to change. If you have any questions, please contact us.
April 2022
April 5th, 2022 @ 6:00 pm

Non-Credit Course – Faith, Science, and Reason

This weekly non-credit course is open to current Chicago area students and faculty. Others interested in attending should contact us. Registrants are free to attend as many sessions as they choose. Sessions do not presuppose previous attendance or prior knowledge of the subject. If the new Cosmic story, that started with the Big Bang about 13.8 billion years, were likened to a 30-volume encyclopedia, each volume consisting of 450pp., each page the equivalent of a million years, modern humans appear on the last page of the last volume. Are we humans a random consequence of evolving mindless matter or the crowning achievement of God’s...
April 8th, 2022 @ 12:00 pm

Lunch Discussion on “Theology and the Erotic: Has the Internet Killed Love?”

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

Due to circumstances outside our control, this event has been canceled. We hope to schedule events with Fr. Fields in future quarters. Open to current students. Others interested in participating should contact us. Lunch will be provided for registrants. What does theology have to say about erotic love? Better yet, what is love? How can one distinguish between good loves and bad? In this lunchtime discussion, Fr. Stephen Fields (Hackett Professor of Theology, Georgetown University) will offer some brief reflections on the nature of love from the perspective of philosophy and theology. Then we will open the floor for a wide-ranging...
April 13th, 2022 @ 5:00 pm

Symposium on “The Light that Binds: A Study in Thomas Aquinas’s Metaphysics of Natural Law”

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

A symposium on The Light that Binds: A Study in Thomas Aquinas's Metaphysics of Natural Law by Fr. Stephen L. Brock (Wipf and Stock, 2020). Free and open to the public. Registration is required. Cosponsored by Wipf and Stock Publishers, the Department of History at the University of Chicago, and the Seminary Co-op Bookstore. Contact us with any questions. ABOUT THE BOOK If there is any one author in the history of moral thought who has come to be associated with the idea of natural law, it is Saint Thomas Aquinas. Many things have been written about Aquinas's natural law teaching, and from...

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The Theology of Nature and the Nature of Theology

Negotiating Tragedy and the Tragic: Discursive, Performative, and Interpretive Strategies in Late Ancient Christian Literature

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