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SUMMARY:Are the Great Books Good for us? Liberal Education and the Christian Tradition
DESCRIPTION:What are the liberal arts? Is there more than one tradition of humanistic liberal learning\, and what’s the connection between them the UChicago core curriculum? Professor Jared Ortiz (an undergrad alum of UChicago) hosted a lunchtime conversation about the tradition of liberal education\, its reception in Catholic thought\, and the question of what an education is for. \nPart I of the Winter 2020 Great Books and the Christian Tradition seminar series. \n— \nGreat Books and the Christian Tradition  \nFrom the School of Alexandria and the reading of Scripture in the Monasteries\, through the re-formulation of the Liberal Arts in the medieval schools and universities\, in the renewal of the tradition that included Petrarch\, Erasmus\, John Henry Newman\, and Ressourcement\, the development of the Liberal Arts Tradition has been intertwined with Christian thought. This series highlights the connection between the Liberal Arts and the Christian Intellectual Tradition and aims to recover the humanistic and contemplative spirit of a truly liberal education. \nOther seminars in the series include: \nII. Achievement and the Christian Life: What is Education For? \nIII. What is Wrong with Curiosity? Augustine on Curiosity and the Use and the Abuse of the Intellect in the Confessions \nIV: Is it Rational to Believe in Miracles? A Discussion of David Hume’s Argument Against Believing in Miracles
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-01-are-great-books-good-for-us-liberal-education-christian-tradition/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200119T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200119T170000
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SUMMARY:How NOT To Get Away with Murder
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Lumen Christi Institute’s Newman Forum. Open to current high school students. \nThe book of Genesis is one of the most interesting and difficult books of the Bible. And there is so much more to it than meets the eye.  For example: \nWhen the snake approaches Eve for the first time\, he asks her: “Did God really say\, ‘You shall not eat from any of the trees in the garden’?”  But that isn’t what God said at all.  He told Adam\, “You are free to eat from any of the trees of the garden except the tree of knowledge of good and evil.”  Already\, the snake has changed God’s command in order to make God appear unjust. God says: all but one. The snake says: none at all\, right?  Eve is in trouble–she wasn’t there when God gave Adam the original command. She hadn’t been created yet.  If she heard the command at all\, she heard it second-hand from Adam.  As you can see\, the snake is very devious.\n\nThis 90-minute seminar will investigate this and other passages in the 3rd and 4th chapters of Genesis.  By reading the text closely and paying attention to what is (and isn’t) there\, we will discover a whole new complexity to the relationship between God\, the first four humans\, and the snake.  Not only is God revealed as imminently just and merciful\, but also as a very acute observer of human psychology!\n\nResources from the seminar are drawn from Joseph Ratzinger’s (Pope Bendict’s) In the Beginning…’: A Catholic Understanding of the Story of Creation and the Fall.\n\nThere is no charge for the seminar\, but a good-will donation of $10 is encouraged.\n\nOn February 15\, the Newman Forum will host a day-long conference for high school students on “Creation: Artistic & Divine.”\nIMAGE: The First Mourning by William-Adolphe Bouguereau\, 1888 courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-01-how-not-to-get-away-with-murder-austin-walker/
LOCATION:St. John Cantius Church\, 825 N Carpenter St\nChicago\, IL 60642\, Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:Newman Forum
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200121T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200121T153000
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SUMMARY:Achievement and the Christian Life: What is Education For?
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\nWhat is achievement? What is success?  Does the human desire for achievement or success have a natural end\, or is it restless and never-satisfied?  In other words\, what do we understand human fulfillment to be\, and how does our university education contribute to that fulfillment? \nIn this lunch time discussion\, Elizabeth Corey\, professor of political philosophy and director of the Honors Program at Baylor University\, will suggest two ways of being human in the world: the culture of achievement and the culture of love.  Guided by insights drawn from sources as wide as the Odyssey\, the Nichomachean Ethics\, Dorothy Sayers\, and Albert Camus\, Prof. Corey will discuss the purpose of a liberal education and the possible means of reconciling achievement with love. \nOpen to Students. Undergraduates are particularly encouraged to attend. A brief reading will be sent to registrants beforehand \nPart II of the Winter 2020 Great Books and the Christian Tradition seminar series. \n— \nGreat Books and the Christian Tradition  \nFrom the School of Alexandria and the reading of Scripture in the Monasteries\, through the re-formulation of the Liberal Arts in the medieval schools and universities\, in the renewal of the tradition that included Petrarch\, Erasmus\, John Henry Newman\, and Ressourcement\, the development of the Liberal Arts Tradition has been intertwined with Christian thought. This series highlights the connection between the Liberal Arts and the Christian Intellectual Tradition and aims to recover the humanistic and contemplative spirit of a truly liberal education. \nOther seminars in the series include: \nI. Are the Great Books Good for us? Liberal Education and the Christian Tradition \nIII. What is Wrong with Curiosity? Augustine on Curiosity and the Use and the Abuse of the Intellect in the Confessions \nIV: Is it Rational to Believe in Miracles? A Discussion of David Hume’s Argument Against Believing in Miracles
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-01-what-is-education-for/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200208T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200208T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
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SUMMARY:What is Wrong with Curiosity? Augustine on Curiosity and the Use and the Abuse of the Intellect in the Confessions
DESCRIPTION:What could be wrong with curiosity? “Long live curiosity\,” proclaims the Museum of Science and Industry\, and modernity unanimously praises it as the beginning of intellectual discovery. But\, surprisingly\, Augustine of Hippo criticizes “curiositas” in his Confessions. Is Augustine’s notion out-moded? Is the pursuit of knowledge adverse to Christian faith? Or could Augustine’s concern about the proper use and the abuse of intellectual pursuits inform ideas of liberal education? \nOver dinner on Saturday evening\, E. John Ellison (University of Chicago) will lead a discussion on the modern notion of curiosity and Augustine’s critique on curiositas especially in Confessions\, Book 10.35. \nOpen to undergraduate students. No prior reading required. Dinner will be served \nPart III of the Winter 2020 Great Books and the Christian Tradition seminar series. \n— \nGreat Books and the Christian Tradition  \nFrom the School of Alexandria and the reading of Scripture in the Monasteries\, through the re-formulation of the Liberal Arts in the medieval schools and universities\, in the renewal of the tradition that included Petrarch\, Erasmus\, John Henry Newman\, and Ressourcement\, the development of the Liberal Arts Tradition has been intertwined with Christian thought. This series highlights the connection between the Liberal Arts and the Christian Intellectual Tradition and aims to recover the humanistic and contemplative spirit of a truly liberal education. \nOther seminars in the series include: \nI. Are the Great Books Good for us? Liberal Education and the Christian Tradition \nII. Achievement and the Christian Life: What is Education For? \nIV: Is it Rational to Believe in Miracles? A Discussion of David Hume’s Argument Against Believing in Miracles
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-02-what-is-wrong-with-curiosity-augustine-on-curiosity-use-abuse-of-intellect-in-confessions/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200212T200000
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SUMMARY:What Good is Happiness? A Dialogue Between Economics & Philosophy
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Veritas Forum at the University of Chicago\, Cana\, Cru\, Graduate Christian Fellowship\, Holy Trinity Church\, InterVarsity\, Living Hope Church\, The Lumen Christi Institute\, MakeNew\, the Calvert House Catholic Center\, the Catholic Students Association\, and the Saint Thomas More Society. \nFrom pop psychology to legal annals\, the pursuit of happiness individually and collectively remains a persistent concern of our culture. Yet\, the very concept is fractured. What is happiness? Is it a good among many? A feeling? A commodity? Is it simply a matter of preference fulfillment or is caught up in the more arduous task of self-perfection and virtue? Is it tied to the good\, perhaps even THE good? How might interdisciplinary engagement be possible when distinct disciplines like Philosophy and Economics maintain such divergent views on happiness? In this evening discussion\, philosophy professor Jennifer Frey (University of South Carolina) and legal scholar Jonathan Masur (University of Chicago) enter into dialogue on the meaning and merits of happiness for the self and for society. \nProf. Frey also gave a downtown luncheon talk on “Flannery O’Connor and the Vision of Grace” on February 13\, 2020\, and led a lunch discussion for students and faculty on novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch\, on February 14\, 2020.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-02-what-is-happiness-jennifer-frey/
LOCATION:Ida Noyes\, Third Floor Theatre\, 1212 E 59th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200213T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200213T143000
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SUMMARY:Flannery O'Connor and the Vision of Grace
DESCRIPTION:Flannery O’Connor is one of the most celebrated American fiction writers.  Yet she has often been misunderstood by the very critics who praise her.  O’Connor was sometimes called a hillbilly nihilist\, but she responded that she was simply “a hillbilly Thomist.” In this talk\, Dr. Frey explores the action of divine grace in the short stories of O’Connor\, and how her vision of grace is inspired by the theology of St. Thomas Aquinas. \nProf. Frey also gave a talk on What Good is Happiness? at the University of Chicago on February 12\, 2020\, and led a lunch discussion for students and faculty on novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch\, on February 14\, 2020.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-02-flannery-oconnor-vision-of-grace-jennifer-frey/
LOCATION:University Club of Chicago\, 76 E Monroe St\nChicago\, IL 60603\, Downtown\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200214T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200214T143000
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SUMMARY:Iris Murdoch on Philosophy and Literature
DESCRIPTION:This luncheon seminar for students and faculty examined essays by Dame Iris Murdoch on literature\, philosophy\, morality\, virtue\, and the concept good. The focus of discussion centered on why Murdoch thinks truth\, understood as a clear vision of reality\, is the fundamental goal of literature\, philosophy\, and virtue. \nIris Murdoch studied at Oxford and Cambridge (where she studied with Wittgenstein) and was close friends with the philosophers Elizabeth Anscombe and Philippa Foot. Murdoch was for many years a fellow of St. Anne’s College\, Oxford\, where she taught philosophy.  In addition to two substantial books of philosophical essays\, she also wrote twenty-six novels.  Her novel\, The Sea\, The Sea\, won the Booker Prize in 1978. She died on February 8\, 1999. \nReadings \nFrom Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature\, edited by Peter Conradi (Penguin\, 1997): \n\n“Literature and Philosophy” (required)\n“The Sovereignty of Good Over Other Concepts” (secondary)\n“Vision and Choice in Morality” (secondary)\n\nQuestions for Discussion \n\nHow does literature differ from philosophy according to Murdoch?  How can they work together?\nWhy does she think that both literature and philosophy are truth seeking enterprises? What is the importance of reality and vision in both?\nWhat is the contrast between differences of choice and differences of vision in morality?\nWhat is Murdoch’s complaint against what she calls “the current view” of moral philosophy\, whose remote ancestors are Hume\, Kant\, and Mill?  Why does she want to resist the move to universalize in morality?\nHow should we think about the connection between art and morality?\nWhat does Murdoch mean when she writes that “the enjoyment of art is a training in the love of virtue”?\nMurdoch thinks that seeing the world as it is is a necessary task because the authority of morality is the authority of truth.  Why does she afford reality such a central role in the moral life?  And how does this relate to the concept ‘good’ as she understands it?\nWhat role does mystery and mysteriousness play in Murdoch’s conception of art and morals?\n\n\nDr. Frey also presented talks on “Flannery O’Connor and the Vision of Grace“\, at the University Club of Chicago on February 13\, 2020\, and “What Good is Happiness“\, with Dr. Jonathan Masur\, on February 12\, 2020\, at the University of Chicago.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-02-iris-murdoch-on-literature-philosophy-jennifer-frey/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200215T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200215T150000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
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SUMMARY:Creation: Artistic & Divine
DESCRIPTION:This event was open to high school students\, parents\, and teachers. \nCo-sponsored by Mundelein Seminary\, the Archdiocese of Chicago Vocation Office\, Relevant Radio\, and the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame. This program was made possible in part by a gift from the Paluch Family Foundation and a grant from the Our Sunday Visitor Institute. \nFollow us on Instagram for updates about the event. \n\nPhysics tells us how the universe is ordered\, but can it tell us why? How are the laws of physics like a baseball rulebook? And why should we expect the universe to operate according to regular laws anyway? \nIf God created all things at the beginning of time\, what are artists doing when they “create” a beautiful work of art? Can one thing be more beautiful than another? How are beauty and art related to God? \nJoin us on February 15\, 2020 at the University of Chicago as Professors Stephen Barr (Physics\, U of Delaware\, President of Society of Catholic Scientists) and Jennifer Newsome Martin (Theological Aesthetics\, Notre Dame’s Department of Liberal Studies) help high school students from throughout the region investigate the physics of creation and the theology of creativity. \nContact Austin Walker for more information or with questions. \n\nDay Schedule \n8:30   Breakfast and Registrations (Swift Hall Common Room) \n9:00   Introductions and Prayers (Swift Hall 3rd Floor Lecture Hall) \n9:15   Icebreaker \n9:30    Lecture: Steve Barr with Q&A (35 min lecture\, 15 min Q&A) \n10:20   Break \n10:30   Lecture: Jenny Martin with Q&A (35 min lecture\, 15 min Q&A) \n11:30   Lunch and Discussion Groups (2nd and 3rd Floor Swift Classrooms) \n1:00   Adoration \n1:30   Discussion/Q&A among Barr\, Martin\, and Students
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-02-creation-artistic-divine-stephen-m-barr-jennifer-newsome-martin/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
CATEGORIES:Newman Forum
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200222T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200222T210000
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SUMMARY:Does Prayer Bring Happiness?
DESCRIPTION:This event was open to university students and faculty\, and was co-sponsored by Calvert House. \nOn the evening of February 22nd\, students and faculty joined together for an edifying evening of prayer\, dinner\, and conversation with the Benedictine monks at the Monastery of the Holy Cross on the south side of Chicago. Their evening program consisted of praying the Divine Office (Vespers and Compline)\, having dinner\, and discussing practices of prayer and how these may grow into contemplation that crowns the happy life. Following monastic tradition of oral reading during meals\, selections of a patristic text were read during dinner\, before being opened with discussion. \nMore information about the monastery can be found here. \nSchedule \n4:15pm   Meet at Gavin House (1220 E. 58th St.)\n4:30pm   Depart from Hyde Park\n5:00pm   Arrive at the Monastery\, welcome by Prior Funk\n5:15pm   Office of Vespers\n6:00pm   Dinner & Discussion\n7:15pm   Office of Compline\n8:00pm   Arrive back in Hyde Park
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-02-does-prayer-bring-happiness-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:20200227T181500
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200227T181500
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SUMMARY:Pope\, Councils\, Bishops\, and Synods: Insights from St. Dominic and the Order of Preachers for Governance in the Church
DESCRIPTION:The malfeasance of bishops and priests has led to a call for reform of the institution of the Church. There is a peril in this: the Church is animated and governed by the Holy Spirit and an overemphasis upon the institutional structure of the Church runs the risk of stifling the Spirit. As a path for reform\, Pope Francis is building on Paul VI and John Paul II and has emphasized synodality—a mode of consultative governance which emphasizes the communion of all of the members of the Church. In their polities\, religious orders have institutionalized and structured themselves around particular gifts of the Holy Spirit. The model of governance in the Dominican Order—with a balance of authority\, faithfulness to a charism\, and the particular life of local communities—offers insights into how synodality might answer the call for reform. \nFr. Sweeney also led a master class on Saturday\, February 29th on Yves Congar’s True and False Reform in the Church.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-02-religious-governance-as-a-model-for-synodality-in-church-fr-michael-sweeney-op/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200229T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200229T140000
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SUMMARY:Master Class on Yves Congar's "True and False Reform in the Church"
DESCRIPTION:This program was open to students\, faculty\, and staff.  \nIs a reform of the church really possible? Yves Congar’s True and False Reform (1950)\, although initially restricted by the Holy See\, became an instrumental text in setting the stage for the Second Vatican Council\, and remained one of the most important theological works of the 20th century. Pope John XXIII initially described the goals of the council in terms that reflected Congar’s description of authentic reform: reform that penetrates to the heart of doctrine as a message of salvation for the whole of humanity\, that retrieves the meaning of prophecy in a living church\, and that is deeply rooted in history rather than superficially related to the apostolic tradition. \nYves Congar\, OP (1904-1995) was a French Dominican friar and theologian\, and one of the most important ecclesiologists of the 20th century. His work pioneered a new style of theological research that linked the tradition of Scripture and the Fathers to contemporary pastoral questions. His work helped to revive theological interest in the Holy Spirit for the life of individuals and for the Church. He was made a cardinal of the Catholic Church in 1994. \nSchedule: \n9:30am Coffee & Pastries\n10:00am Session I\n11:25am Break\n11:35am Session II\n1:00pm End\, lunch \n\nFr. Sweeney also gave an evening lecture on Thursday\, February 27\, entitled Pope\, Councils\, Bishops\, and Synods: Insights from St. Dominic and the Order of Preachers for Governance in the Church
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-02-master-class-on-yves-congars-true-false-reform-in-catholic-church-fr-michael-sweeney-op/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200229T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200229T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
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SUMMARY:Is it Rational to Believe in Miracles? A Discussion of David Hume's Argument Against Believing in Miracles
DESCRIPTION:Can one be rational and also believe in miracles? The philosophers of the Enlightenment held that it was impossible for the laws of nature to allow such ruptures: to believe in miracles was to be de-facto irrational.  Voltaire said that a miracle was a “contradiction in terms\,” and Thomas Jefferson famously cut all the miracles out of his Gospels with a razor. David Hume presented a famous argument against the rationality of believing in miracles in his Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (Chapter 10). \nOver dinner on Saturday evening\, Dr. Jason Cather (University of Chicago) will lead a discussion on Hume’s argument.  Does it conclusively prove that no rational person can believe in the existence of miracles? Or does Hume promise more than he delivers? Students are encouraged to review Hume’s Enquiry\, Chapter 10 in advance\, but no prior reading is required. Dinner is provided. \nOpen to undergraduate students. Students are encouraged to review Hume’s Enquiry\, Chapter 10 in advance\, but no prior reading required. Dinner will be served \nPart IV of the Winter 2020 Great Books and the Christian Tradition seminar series. \n— \nGreat Books and the Christian Tradition  \nFrom the School of Alexandria and the reading of Scripture in the Monasteries\, through the re-formulation of the Liberal Arts in the medieval schools and universities\, in the renewal of the tradition that included Petrarch\, Erasmus\, John Henry Newman\, and Ressourcement\, the development of the Liberal Arts Tradition has been intertwined with Christian thought. This series highlights the connection between the Liberal Arts and the Christian Intellectual Tradition and aims to recover the humanistic and contemplative spirit of a truly liberal education. \nOther seminars in the series include: \nI. Are the Great Books Good for us? Liberal Education and the Christian Tradition \nII. Achievement and the Christian Life: What is Education For? \nIII. What is Wrong with Curiosity? Augustine on Curiosity and the Use and the Abuse of the Intellect in the Confessions
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-02-hume-on-miracles/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200303T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200303T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
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SUMMARY:Winter Non-Credit Course\, "Saint Paul: The Life and Letters of the Apostle to the Nations"
DESCRIPTION:6:00 Dinner | 6:30 Lecture \nThis weekly non-credit course is open to current students and faculty. Registrants are free to attend as many sessions as they choose. Sessions do not presuppose previous attendance or prior knowledge of the subject. \n\nWho was Paul and what was his ‘good news’? What does he mean by faith or by “principalities and powers”? After Jesus himself\, perhaps no Christian personality has evoked such admiration\, so much controversy\, and so many questions. This course will examine the life and thought of the Apostle Paul through focused presentations on several of his letters. The first presentation will introduce the study of Paul\, and following presentations will examine his letters\, including 1-2 Thessalonians\, Galatians\, 1-2 Corinthians\, and Romans\, from a variety of perspectives. No prior reading or knowledge is expected and Bibles will be on hand to read and discuss passages of Paul’s letters. \nIntroduction to Paul and his Study\nJan. 14  |  Fr. Paul Mankowski\, SJ \nFirst and Second Letters to the Thessalonians\nJan. 21  |  Justin Howell\, University of Chicago \nLetter to the Galatians\nJan. 28  |  Fr Donald Senior\, CP\, Catholic Theological Union \nFirst Letter to the Corinthians\nFeb. 4  |  Cameron Ferguson\, University of Chicago \nSecond Letter to the Corinthians\nFeb. 11  |  Cameron Ferguson\, University of Chicago \nLetter to the Romans (Chapters 1-8)\nFeb. 18  |  Fr. Paul Mankowski\, SJ \nLetter to the Romans (Chapters 8-16)\nFeb. 25  |  Fr. Andew Liaugminas\, Calvert House \nPaul’s Legacy\nMarch 3  |  Fr. Paul Mankowski\, SJ \n—
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-01-saint-paul-life-letters-of-apostle-to-nations-cameron-ferguson-fr-andrew-liaugminas-paul-mankowski-sj-fr-don-senior-cp/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200304T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200304T193000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
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SUMMARY:Synodality in the Era of Pope Francis: Principles and Possibilities for Ministry in an Increasingly Hispanic Church
DESCRIPTION:Pope Francis’ pontificate continues to signal a particular way of being church for our day\, building upon the vision of the Second Vatican Council as well as the energy of Latin American Catholicism. Hispanic ministry in the United States for decades\, in close dialogue with the Council and the richness of Latin American theological reflection\, has embodied major elements of what today we would call a synodal outlook. This workshop explores key dynamics that identify Catholic Hispanic ministry while proposing models of ministerial action for the rest of the church in the U.S. rooted in the particularity of the Hispanic Catholic experience. \nOpen by Invitation Only. Dinner and readings will be provided. This event is made possible by a grant from the Our Sunday Visitor Institute. \n\nSinodalidad en la era del Papa Francisco: Principios y posibilidades para el ministerio en una iglesia cada vez más hispana \nEl pontificado del Papa Francisco sigue apuntando a una manera particular de ser iglesia en nuestro día\, la cual se fundamenta en la visión del Concilio Vaticano II y la energía del catolicismo latinoamericano. Por décadas\, el ministerio hispano en los Estados Unidos\, en diálogo cercano con el Concilio y la riqueza de la reflexión teológica latinoamericana\, ha encarnado elementos esenciales de lo que pudiésemos llamar actualmente una perspectiva sinodal. Este taller explora algunas dinámicas claves que identifican el ministerio hispano católico y propone modelos de acción ministerial para el resto de la Iglesia en los Estados Unidos partiendo de la particularidad de la experiencia católica hispana. [Nota: el taller será en inglés\, aunque se hará referencia a ciertas categorías y recursos en español]. \nSe requiere invitación. Cena y lecturas serán proporcionadas. \n\nQuestions concerning this event can be referred to Michael LeChevallier.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-03-synodality-in-era-of-pope-francis-principles-possibilities-for-ministry-in-an-increasingly-hispanic-church-hosffman-ospino/
LOCATION:IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200305T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200305T200000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165125Z
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SUMMARY:American Catholic Contours and Detours in a Fifty-Percent Hispanic/Latino Church
DESCRIPTION:Free and Open to the Public \nThe familiar expression “American Catholicism” often evokes mainly the presence and heritage of Euro-American Catholics and how this group defines religion\, culture and politics in our nation. Though narrow and de facto blind to the contributions of many other groups that have been central to defining the American Catholic experience\, this perception finds its ultimate challenge in the fact that nearly 50 percent of Catholics in the U.S. today are Hispanic/Latino. In this lecture Ospino explores key implications for church and society of being American Catholic in a largely Hispanic/Latino church. The lecture proposes a vision for ecclesial and intellectual engagement\, a roadmap for American Catholicism in the rest of the century. \nCosponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies\, the Religion in the Americas Workshop\, and the Theology and Ethics Workshop at the University of Chicago. This event is made possible by a grant from the Our Sunday Visitor Institute. \n\nDr. Ospino also gave a workshop on Wednesday\, March 4th\, open by invitation-only\, entitled Synodality in the Era of Pope Francis: Principles and Possibilities for Ministry in an Increasingly Hispanic Church.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-03-american-catholic-contours-detours-in-a-fifty-percent-hispanic-latino-church-hosffman-ospino/
LOCATION:Social Sciences\, Room 122\, 1126 E 59th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200311T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200311T133000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165124Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T144622Z
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SUMMARY:The Nature of Evil: Satan\, Hell\, and the Rite of Exorcism in the Catholic Church.
DESCRIPTION:Link to the event: https://zoom.us/j/393866028 \nThe conversation will start promptly at 12 pm today. \nThe Lumen Christi Institute is sponsoring a moderated dialogue\, organized by our partners at Catholics at Booth\, on “The Nature of Evil: Satan\, Hell\, and the Rite of Exorcism in the Catholic Church\,”  with Msgr.  Jeffrey S\, Grob\, J.C.D/Ph.D\, an expert in the Rite of Exorcism for the Archdiocese of Chicago. \nUniversity policies surrounding COVID-19 precautions have required the cancellation of the in-person event. However\, it will be live-streamed. You can access the live video through the link above (livestream is free; you may however be prompted to install zoom. It is advisable to click the link in advance of the event. If it doesn’t join automatically\, the group ID is 393866028.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-03-nature-of-evil-satan-hell-rite-of-exorcism-in-catholic-church/
LOCATION:IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200314T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200314T213000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165123Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T144619Z
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SUMMARY:Grad Movie Night @ Doc Films: A Hidden Life
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\, through CSA Grad\nThe Lumen Christi Institute and the Catholic Student Association for Graduate and Professional Students are hosting a trip to Doc Films to see Terrence Malick’s new film A Hidden Life. The film tells the story of Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter\, a conscientious objector who refused to fight for the Nazis in World War II. Jägerstätter was beatified and declared a martyr in 2007. \nOpen to graduate students and young professionals (generally defined as 21-39 years of age) \nA limited number of free tickets are available for early registrants\, and all registrants can take advantage of the $5 group rate (normally $7). We will follow up the film with a short discussion\, supplemented by cookies from nearby Insomnia Cookies. The film’s runtime is 2 hours\, 53 minutes.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-03-grad-movie-night-doc-films-a-hidden-life/
LOCATION:Ida Noyes Hall\, Max Palevsky Cinema\, 1212 E 59th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200325T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200325T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165122Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T144616Z
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR: Young Catholic Professionals Great Books Seminar on Shakespeare
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\nYCP membership is not required to register for the seminar. \nThe Lumen Christi Institute is proud to partner with the Chicago chapter of Young Catholic Professionals (YCP) for the second year in a row. The 2020 Lumen Christi Institute – Young Catholic Professionals Great Books Seminar is an adult educational initiative aimed at equipping Catholic professionals 40 and under with a deeper understanding of the Catholic intellectual and literary traditions. Participants will gather monthly downtown for guided discussions on excerpts from celebrated texts. \nThe cost of seminar registration covers course materials for the nine seminar meetings from February to October. Registration will close when 35 participants have signed up and is is available on a first-come\, first-served basis; 20 seats will be reserved for members of YCP Chicago. Registrants need not attend every session in order to register; they must still pay the full cost of registration. Registrants may choose to purchase books on their own rather than via Lumen Christi (see pricing below). \nIn this year’s seminar we will read nine plays of Shakespeare with a specifically Catholic focus\, concerning ourselves with problems of jealousy &  personal blindness\, social conventions vs personal freedom\, betrayal & martyrdom\, nobility & the ambiguities of holy war\, self-emptying vs self-exaltation\, the strength and limits of family loyalty\, and the necessity to love the unlovable — among much else. \n\nDATES \nFeb 25: Richard II\nMar 25: Macbeth\nApr 30: The Tempest\nMay 26: Measure for Measure\nJun 24: Hamlet\nJul 21: King Lear\nAug 25: Richard III\nSep 30: Othello\nOct 29: The Merchant of Venice \nPRICE \n$350 with books (we provide you with all of the books)\n$250 without books (you provide your own books) \nIf you have other questions\, please contact Austin Walker.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-02-young-catholic-professionals-great-books-seminar-on-shakespeare-paul-mankowski-sj-2/
LOCATION:IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200326T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200326T133000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165119Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T144613Z
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SUMMARY:CANCELED: The Economy of Pope Francis
DESCRIPTION:Due to restrictions put in place in response to the spread of COVID-19\, this event has been postponed. We look forward to scheduling similar programming in the future.\nDoes this “economy kill?” Pope Francis denounces “throw-away cultures” and “economies of exclusion and inequality.” Does Pope Francis’s thought on the economy reduce to a Jeremiad? How does his economic vision align with or diverge from the teachings of recent other popes on the economy? How might his critiques be compatible with or improve upon a free-market economy and work towards greater human flourishing? Join for a discussion between international economists and a moral theologian on Pope Francis’s economic vision and what a response to his critique of our “throwaway culture” looks like in practice on an individual\, communal\, and global scale?
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-03-economy-of-pope-francis-peter-schallenberg-nils-goldschmidt-joseph-kaboski/
LOCATION:IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200328T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200328T130000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165118Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T144610Z
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SUMMARY:CANCELED: A Master Class on the Social and Political Thought of Pope Benedict XVI
DESCRIPTION:Due to travel restrictions in light of the spread of COVID-19\, Msgr. Schallenberg will not be traveling to the US and thus will not be available to lead a master class. This event has been canceled\, and we look forward to rescheduling this event for a later date.\n— \nOpen to current students\, faculty\, and staff. Copies of the reading will be provided to registrants. \nSchedule: \n9:30am Coffee & Pastries\n10:00am Session I\n11:25am Break\n11:35am Session II\n1:00pm End\, lunch
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-03-a-master-class-on-social-political-thought-of-pope-benedict-xvi-peter-schallenberg/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200401T171500
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200401T184500
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165118Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T144607Z
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SUMMARY:CANCELED: A Report from the German Synod
DESCRIPTION:Due to restrictions put in place in response to the spread of COVID-19\, this event has been postponed. We look forward to scheduling similar programming in the future.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-04-a-report-from-german-synod-peter-schallenberg/
LOCATION:University of Chicago–TBA\, N/A\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200402T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200402T110000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165118Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T193533Z
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR: How NOT to Get Away with Murder
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Lumen Christi Institute’s Newman Forum. Open to current high school students. This event was made possible by a grant from the Our Sunday Visitor Institute. \nWe’ve run this event in-person\, but now we’re bringing it to you online! When you register\, you will be sent a Zoom link to follow at the appointed time. You have three sections to choose from:\n\n11:00am-12:00pm\n\n1:00pm-2:00pm\n\n3:00pm-4:00pm\nAre you already tired of being quarantined in your house? Feel a little bit like you might kill your siblings? \nThe book of Genesis is one of the most interesting and difficult books of the Bible. And there is so much more to it than meets the eye. For example: \nHow was a snake able to trick Eve? Why do Adam and Eve respond to God so suspiciously? And then there’s the Cain and Abel story…why on Earth does Cain jump to murdering his brother? What are we supposed to learn from this Scripture? \nThis hour-long seminar will investigate these passages in the 3rd and 4th chapters of Genesis.  By reading the text closely and paying attention to what is (and isn’t) there\, we will discover a whole new complexity to the relationship between God\, the first four humans\, and the snake.  Not only is God revealed as imminently just and merciful\, but also as a very acute observer of human psychology!\n\nCome to whichever session fits your new online schedule the best! All you’ll need is access to a Bible (either a real-life book or just online!) We’ll read the text together\, and discuss!\n\nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER!\nResources from this seminar are drawn from Joseph Ratzinger’s (Pope Bendict’s) In the Beginning…’: A Catholic Understanding of the Story of Creation and the Fall.\n\nThere is no charge for the seminar\, but a good-will donation of $10 is encouraged.\n\n(Teachers and Youth Ministers may sit in\, if interested. Please register as “Other\,” and log in to the provided Zoom link 15 minutes prior to your session’s start time to ensure you are properly muted.)
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-04-how-not-to-get-away-with-murder-online-austin-walker/
LOCATION:IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200407T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200407T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165117Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251029T191254Z
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR: Gregory the Great on Reading Scripture for Wisdom
DESCRIPTION:This event is free and open to the public. Online registration is required. Registrants will receive an email witha link to join the webinar on Zoom. \nHow can scripture guide our search for wisdom? Bernard McGinn\, professor emeritus in the Divinity School of the University of Chicago\, begins our webinar series on Reason and Wisdom in Medieval Christian Thought by presenting on Gregory the Great and reading scripture for wisdom. \nPope Saint Gregory the Great lived in an age of tumult–war\, waves of disease\, economic depression\, and civil deterioration. Alongside his administrative reforms and leadership\, Gregory described a spirituality that centered around meditative and contemplative reading of sacred scripture. Gregory’s practice of reading scripture\, particularly the Book of Job\, and his description of the practice had great influence upon medieval meditative and contemplative practices of reading the Word of God. \n\nThis lecture is part of our Spring Webinar Series on “Reason and Wisdom in Medieval Christian Thought” \nWhat can reason discover about God? Are there other possible ways to know God? Medieval Christians undertook great rational enterprises—including the sharp logic of Abelard and the grand system of Thomas Aquinas—as well as practiced experiential and contemplative modes of knowing\, as did Bernard of Clairvaux. This course will examine how different preeminent medieval Christian thinkers saw the relationship between reason and wisdom\, how to arrive at them\, and so how to seek the face of God. \nThis series is cosponsored by the Collegium Institute\, the Nova Forum\, the Saint Benedict Institute\, the Beatrice Institute\, the Harvard Catholic Center\, and Calvert House Catholic Center. \nUpcoming Seminars \nThursday\, April 16\, 7PM\n“Anselm of Canterbury on the Rationality of Faith” | Aaron Canty (Saint Xavier University) \nThursday\, April 23\, 7PM\n“Thomas Aquinas on Ways to Know God” | Brian Carl (University of St. Thomas\, Houston) \nThursday\, April 30\, 7PM\nHildegard of Bingen (Title TBD) | Barbara Newman (Northwestern University) \nThursday\, May 7\, 7PM\nAbelard and Bernard of Clairvaux (Title TBD) | Willemien Otten (University of Chicago) \nThursday\, May 14\, 7PM\nJulian of Norwich (Title TBD) | Katie Bugyis (University of Notre Dame) \nThursday\, May 21\, 7PM\nBonaventure (Title TBD) | Kevin Hughes (Villanova University) \nThursday\, May 28\, 7PM\nMeister Eckhart | Bernard McGinn (University of Chicago) \nThursday\, June 4\, 7PM\nNicholas of Cusa | David Albertson (University of Southern California)
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-04-webinar-gregory-great-on-reading-scripture-for-wisdom/
LOCATION:ONLINE\, World Wide Web\, INTERNET
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200416T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200416T130000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165113Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T193533Z
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR: Answering Your Atheist Philosophy Professor
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Lumen Christi Institute’s Newman Forum. Open to current high school students. This event was made possible by a grant from the Our Sunday Visitor Institute. \nYou have two sections to choose from:\n\n1:00pm-2:00pm\n(The previously listed 11:00-12:00 session has been combined with this later session.)\n\n3:30pm-4:30pm\n\nCould God make something that He couldn’t move? If God is perfect\, why are humanity and the world so imperfect? \nIn March of 2019\, a San Diego State University professor of philosophy submitted an Opinion piece to the New York Times in which he claimed that God is an incoherent concept. The above are just some of the questions you will undoubtedly hear when you go off to college and encounter passionate\, athiest philosophy professors like him for the first time. In fact\, you might hear these questions already from peers or family members! What do we do about these arguments that seem so insurmountable? \nThe way to counter these arguments is much easier than you think. During this hour-long webinar\, we will read together the NYT article and discover how\, just using our own common sense and the powers of close reading\, what seem to be complex\, undeniable proofs for the absurdity of God’s existence are actually easily toppled through the logic they themselves utilize. \nYou won’t need a Bible\, you won’t need a philosophy textbook\, you won’t need a college degree: You’ll just need the mind you already have. \nHow does that sound? Want to be able to outsmart a college philosophy professor with your own high school brain? \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER\nThere is no charge for the seminar\, but a good-will donation of $10 is encouraged.\n\nYou can read the NYT article ahead of time here: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/25/opinion/-philosophy-god-omniscience.html\n\n(Teachers and Youth Ministers may sit in\, if interested. Please register as “Other\,” and log in to the provided Zoom link 15 minutes prior to your session’s start time to ensure you are properly muted.)\nPhoto by Alex Block on Unsplash
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-04-webinar-answering-your-atheist-philosophy-professor-austin-walker-madison-chastain/
LOCATION:IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200416T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200416T200000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165113Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260309T154541Z
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR: Anselm of Canterbury on the Rationality of Faith
DESCRIPTION:This event is free and open to the public. Online registration is required. Registrants will receive a link to the webinar via email. \nYou can also watch the live stream of the lecture on our YouTube Channel. \nJoin us for the second installment of our Spring Webinar Series. Professor Aaron Canty\, who teaches theology and medieval thought at Saint Xavier University\, will present on the thought of Saint Anselm of Canterbury (d. 1106). \nAnselm was a startlingly original monastic writer and thinker who drank deeply of Augustinian and patristic theology but formulated his own theological and philosophical writings in spare and compelling chains of reasoning. His Why God Became Man\, Monologion\, and Proslogion each chart new ways to practice ‘believing in order to understand (credo ut intelligam).’ \n\nThis lecture is part of our Spring Webinar Series on “Reason and Wisdom in Medieval Christian Thought” \nWhat can reason discover about God? Are there other possible ways to know God? Medieval Christians undertook great rational enterprises—including the sharp logic of Abelard and the grand system of Thomas Aquinas—as well as practiced experiential and contemplative modes of knowing\, as did Bernard of Clairvaux. This course will examine how different preeminent medieval Christian thinkers saw the relationship between reason and wisdom\, how to arrive at them\, and so how to seek the face of God. \nThis series is cosponsored by the Collegium Institute\, the Nova Forum\, the Saint Benedict Institute\, the Beatrice Institute\, the Harvard Catholic Center\, and Calvert House Catholic Center. \nUpcoming Seminars \nThursday\, April 23\, 7PM\n“Thomas Aquinas on Ways to Know God” | Brian Carl (University of St. Thomas\, Houston) \nThursday\, April 30\, 7PM\nHildegard of Bingen (Title TBD) | Barbara Newman (Northwestern University) \nThursday\, May 7\, 7PM\nAbelard and Bernard of Clairvaux (Title TBD) | Willemien Otten (University of Chicago) \nThursday\, May 14\, 7PM\nJulian of Norwich (Title TBD) | Katie Bugyis (University of Notre Dame) \nThursday\, May 21\, 7PM\nBonaventure (Title TBD) | Kevin Hughes (Villanova University) \nThursday\, May 28\, 7PM\nMeister Eckhart | Bernard McGinn (University of Chicago) \nThursday\, June 4\, 7PM\nNicholas of Cusa | David Albertson (University of Southern California)
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-04-anselm-of-canterbury-on-rationality-of-faith-aaron-canty-saint-xavier-university/
LOCATION:ONLINE\, World Wide Web\, INTERNET
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200417T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200417T160000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165112Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260322T200948Z
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR: Cardinal Francis George\, the  American Contribution to Catholic Social Thought\, and Our Current Moment
DESCRIPTION:Cosponsored by America Media\, the Saint Benedict Institute\, the Nova Forum\, the Collegium Institute\, the Beatrice Institute\, the Calvert House Catholic Center\, and Mundelein Seminary \nYou can read Thomas Levergood’s essay on Cardinal George’s legacy at America Magazine. \nA Memorial on the 5th Anniversary of the Death of Cardinal Francis George\, O.M.I. \nOn April 17—the 5th anniversary of the death of Cardinal Francis George O.M.I.—the Lumen Christi Institute will host a major web event that takes stock of the American contribution to Catholic Social Thought and how it applies in our current situation. \nAfter his appointment as archbishop of Chicago\, Cardinal George emerged as an intellectual leader within the Church\, nationally and world-wide\, and served as president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. His thought on American culture and society—expressed in numerous lectures and in three major books—provides a challenging\, critical view of the American experiment from the perspective of post-Vatican II Catholic thought. Revisiting his book on social questions and public life—God in Action: How Faith in God Can Address the Challenges of the World—allows us to reflect on the American contribution to Catholic Social Thought and to apply it to consider our situation today as we confront a great global crisis. \nThe panel will include Russell Hittinger\, Senior Fellow of the Lumen Christi Institute and Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago Law School (Fall\, 2020); Stephen Schneck\, emeritus Professor at the Catholic University of America and Executive Director of the Franciscan Action Network; and Theresa Smart\, assistant professor in the School of Civic and Economic Thought at Arizona State University. Each will draw from their own expertise and entertain the question of what distinctly American contributions have been made to Catholic Social Thought and how Cardinal George’s work fits within this tradition.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-04-american-contributions-to-catholic-social-thought-a-memorial-event-tofrancis-cardinal-george-russell-hittinger/
LOCATION:IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200423T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200423T200000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165111Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260322T201149Z
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR: Thomas Aquinas on Ways to Know God
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the third installment of our Spring Webinar Series. Professor Brian Carl\, who teaches philosophy at the University of St Thomas in Houston\, will present on the thought of Saint Thomas of Aquinas\, O.P. (d. 1274) on the ways to know God. Thomas was a friar of the Order of Preachers whose capacious mind bequeathed many treasures for the Christian tradition\, including scriptural commentaries\, philosophical treatises and commentary\, his Summa theologiae\, and devotional and liturgical texts. Thomas’ approach to the knowledge of God is complex\, acknowledging dialectical\, rational\, as well as revelatory\, gracious\, and mystical modes. \n\nThis lecture is part of our Spring Webinar Series on “Reason and Wisdom in Medieval Christian Thought” \nWhat can reason discover about God? Are there other possible ways to know God? Medieval Christians undertook great rational enterprises—including the sharp logic of Abelard and the grand system of Thomas Aquinas—as well as practiced experiential and contemplative modes of knowing\, as did Bernard of Clairvaux. This course will examine how different preeminent medieval Christian thinkers saw the relationship between reason and wisdom\, how to arrive at them\, and so how to seek the face of God. \nThis series is cosponsored by the Calvert House Catholic Center\, the Collegium Institute\, the Harvard Catholic Center\, the Nova Forum\, the Saint Benedict Institute\, and the St. Paul’s University Catholic Center. \nUpcoming Seminars: \nThursday\, April 30\, 7PM\nHildegard of Bingen (Title TBD) | Barbara Newman (Northwestern University) \nThursday\, May 7\, 7PM\nAbelard and Bernard of Clairvaux (Title TBD) | Willemien Otten (University of Chicago) \nThursday\, May 14\, 7PM\nJulian of Norwich (Title TBD) | Katie Bugyis (University of Notre Dame) \nThursday\, May 21\, 7PM\nBonaventure (Title TBD) | Kevin Hughes (Villanova University) \nThursday\, May 28\, 7PM\nMeister Eckhart | Bernard McGinn (University of Chicago) \nThursday\, June 4\, 7PM\nNicholas of Cusa | David Albertson (University of Southern California)
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-04-thomas-aquinas-on-ways-to-know-god/
LOCATION:ONLINE\, World Wide Web\, INTERNET
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200424T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200424T193000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165110Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T144546Z
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SUMMARY:Schola Antiqua - Music in Secret
DESCRIPTION:The sounds flowing from pre-modern convents constitute one of the better kept secrets of music history. This spring\, the women of Schola Antiqua\, long-time Artists-in-Residence at the Lumen Christi Institute\, return to the convent repertoire with a revamped “Music in Secret” program in Chicago. Under the direction of British organist and harpsichordist Naomi Gregory\, this special concert of nuns’ music has brought the group around the country in the last two years with appearances from New York to St. Louis. The lone performance of “Music in Secret” in the Chicago area will take place on Friday\, April 24 at St. Clement Church. Plainchant of the convent mingles with sonorous sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century northern Italian music for nuns. \nTickets can be purchased here.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-04-schola-antiqua-music-in-secret-schola-antiqua-of-chicago/
LOCATION:St. Clement Parish\, 642 W Deming Pl.\nChicago\, IL 60614\, Downtown\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200428T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200428T170000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165108Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260322T201426Z
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR: Disease and the Problem of Evil
DESCRIPTION:Cosponsored by America Media\, the Society of Catholic Scientists\, the Saint Benedict Institute\, the Beatrice Institute\, the Collegium Institute\, the Nova Forum\, and the Program on Religion and Medicine at the University of Chicago. This program is made possible by a grant from the John Templeton Foundation. \nWhether caused by pathogens\, environmental exposure\, or genetics\, disease is typically understood to be an unwarranted and unwanted removal from one’s normal condition of good health. While a natural phenomenon\, disease raises classic questions of theodicy. If illness is a privation of the good of health\, should we also understand disease to be an evil? How can science\, theology\, philosophy\, and literature help us to account for the occurrence of deadly diseases and the suffering that results from them? \nIn this moderated conversation\, Stephen Meredith\, professor of pathology and molecular biology at the University of Chicago\, and Jeffrey Bishop\, healthcare ethicist and professor in philosophy and theology at Saint Louis University\, will engage these questions and others surrounding disease and the problem of evil.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-04-webinar-disease-problem-of-evil-jeffrey-bishop-stephen-meredith/
LOCATION:IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200430T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200430T130000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165108Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T193533Z
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR: Another Unexpected Journey with JRR Tolkien
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Lumen Christi Institute’s Newman Forum. Open to current high school students. This event was made possible by a grant from the Our Sunday Visitor Institute. \nYou have two sections to choose from:\n\n1:00pm-2:00pm\n\n3:30pm-4:30pm\n\nHobbits and elves\, humans and dwarves\, trees with personality and the most famous ring of all time…. through his stories\, JRR Tolkien has taken generation after generation on countless fantastical journeys to far-off places\, full of magic and mystery. What’s more\, Tolkien has imbued his stories with the beauty of the Christian faith\, through careful allegory and metaphor. \nIn this hour-long session together\, we’ll read and discuss one of Tolkien’s lesser-known stories\, “Leaf by Niggle.” You thought there was nothing more humble than Hobbiton\, but through this brief tale of a regular man’s begrudging kindness and yes\, another unexpected journey\, we’ll see how even the most humble of human endeavors can leave an enormous\, magical impact. \nLike all of his works\, Tolkien guides us into the mysteries of Christian faith through allegory and imagistic suggestion. These are the most enjoyable of stories\, the ones that surprise us and leave us asking “what could that symbol mean?” During our time together\, we’ll unpack the layers of symbols in this short little story and wade into the picture of Christian faith Tolkien paints for us: How are we to spend our lives? How are we to treat our neighbors? What does it mean to prepare for a journey? \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER\n\nYou will receive a copy of the story\, “Leaf by Niggle” when you register! Please read through the story prior to the start time of the session!\n\n\nThere is no charge for the seminar\, but a good-will donation of $10 is encouraged.\n\n(Teachers and Youth Ministers may sit in\, if interested. Please register as “Other\,” and log in to the provided Zoom link 15 minutes prior to your session’s start time to ensure you are properly muted.)\nPhoto titled “Leaf by Niggle\,” by Emily Austin Design\, LLC
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-04-webinar-another-unexpected-journey-with-jrr-tolkien-austin-walker-madison-chastain/
LOCATION:IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200430T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200430T200000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165107Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T144537Z
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR: Hildegard of Bingen
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our fourth Spring Webinar Series lecture with renowned medievalist Barbara Newman\, who will introduce us to the life of Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1169). A German Benedictine Abbess\, Hildegard produced works of visionary theology drawn from her mystical vision and one of the largest surviving collections of medieval musical compositions. \nAs a female religious in the 12th century\, she held a remarkable influence in the Church through preaching tours across Germany and correspondence with popes\, emperors\, and other monastic reformers. In 2012\, she was named a Doctor of the Church by Pope Benedict XVI. \n\nThis lecture is part of our Spring Webinar Series on “Reason and Wisdom in Medieval Christian Thought” \nWhat can reason discover about God? Are there other possible ways to know God? Medieval Christians undertook great rational enterprises—including the sharp logic of Abelard and the grand system of Thomas Aquinas—as well as practiced experiential and contemplative modes of knowing\, as did Bernard of Clairvaux. This course will examine how different preeminent medieval Christian thinkers saw the relationship between reason and wisdom\, how to arrive at them\, and so how to seek the face of God. \nThis series is cosponsored by the Calvert House Catholic Center\, the Collegium Institute\, the Harvard Catholic Center\, the Nova Forum\, the Beatrice Institute\, and the Saint Benedict Institute\,  \nUpcoming Seminars: \nThursday\, May 7\, 7PM\nAbelard and Bernard of Clairvaux | Willemien Otten (University of Chicago) \nThursday\, May 14\, 7PM\nJulian of Norwich | Katie Bugyis (University of Notre Dame) \nThursday\, May 21\, 7PM\nBonaventure | Kevin Hughes (Villanova University) \nThursday\, May 28\, 7PM\nMeister Eckhart | Bernard McGinn (University of Chicago) \nThursday\, June 4\, 7PM\nNicholas of Cusa | David Albertson (University of Southern California)
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-04-webinar-hildegard-of-bingen/
LOCATION:ONLINE\, World Wide Web\, INTERNET
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200505T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200505T170000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165105Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260322T201738Z
UID:10000343-1588698000-1588698000@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:WEBINAR: The Economic Costs of the Pandemic: Catholic Social Teaching and Economics in Dialogue
DESCRIPTION:Cosponsored by America Media\, CREDO\, the Beatrice Institute\, the Saint Benedict Institute\, the Collegium Institute\, the Nova Forum\, and the Saint Paul’s Catholic Center.\n\nCOVID-19 has put much of the world on standstill for the sake of reducing the risk to some of its citizens. What has been the cost of this in terms of economic recession\, unemployment\, human suffering\, and even mortality? When the pandemic subsides\, will government action be justified or will it have aggravated human suffering in an “economy that kills”? How do we measure or place values on the tradeoffs in terms of lives saved versus economic costs and human suffering? Join us for a dialogue between Economists Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde (Penn)\, Joseph Kaboski (Notre Dame) and Casey Mulligan (University of Chicago) on Economics\, Catholic Social Thought\, and the cost of the pandemic.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-05-economic-costs-of-pandemic-catholic-social-teaching-economics-in-dialogue-joseph-kaboski/
LOCATION:IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200507T171500
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200507T184500
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165103Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T144531Z
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SUMMARY:CANCELED: Panel on Joseph Singer’s "Persuasion"
DESCRIPTION:Due to restrictions put in place in response to the spread of COVID-19\, this event has been postponed. We look forward to scheduling similar programming in the future.\nLawyers have techniques to persuade decision-makers about what the law should be\, using arguments based on common values\, storytelling\, and framing to help us see our own values in a new light. These tools of reasoned argument enable us to engage in civil debate about divisive issues and to justify decisions in hard cases. Joseph Singer’s book\, Persuasion: Getting to the Other Side\, categorizes the arguments that lawyers use in debates about ambiguous or contested legal questions. It also explains how judges justify their decisions about what the law should be when the case involves competing values and there are plausible arguments on both sides. This panel will bring together judges\, lawyers and legal scholars to engage in discussion over Singer’s Persuasion\, and explore how the tools of persuasion can mitigate polarization in contemporary legal and political discourse.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-05-panel-on-joseph-singer-s-persuasion/
LOCATION:University of Chicago–TBA\, N/A\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200507T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200507T200000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165058Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260322T201838Z
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR: On Peter Abelard and Bernard of Clairvaux
DESCRIPTION:Peter Abelard (d. 1142) and Bernard of Clairvaux (d. 1153) were contemporaries who both emerged from the new twelfth-century schools. But their dispositions\, personalities\, and eventual conflict have come to represent a conflict between the rising scholastic and the traditional monastic cultures of learning. Professor Willemien Otten will introduce these iconic twelfth-century personalities\, the direction of their work\, and the theological controversy that put them on opposing sides. \n\nThis lecture is part of our Spring Webinar Series on “Reason and Wisdom in Medieval Christian Thought” \nWhat can reason discover about God? Are there other possible ways to know God? Medieval Christians undertook great rational enterprises—including the sharp logic of Abelard and the grand system of Thomas Aquinas—as well as practiced experiential and contemplative modes of knowing\, as did Bernard of Clairvaux. This course will examine how different preeminent medieval Christian thinkers saw the relationship between reason and wisdom\, how to arrive at them\, and so how to seek the face of God. \nThis series is cosponsored by the Collegium Institute\, the Nova Forum\, the Saint Benedict Institute\, the Beatrice Institute\, the Harvard Catholic Center\, and the Calvert House Catholic Center. \nUpcoming Seminars: \nThursday\, May 14\, 7PM\nJulian of Norwich | Katie Bugyis (University of Notre Dame) \nThursday\, May 21\, 7PM\nBonaventure | Kevin Hughes (Villanova University) \nThursday\, May 28\, 7PM\nMeister Eckhart | Bernard McGinn (University of Chicago) \nThursday\, June 4\, 7PM\nNicholas of Cusa | David Albertson (University of Southern California)
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-05-webinar-abelard-bernard-of-clairvaux-willemien-otten/
LOCATION:ONLINE\, World Wide Web\, INTERNET
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200508T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200508T000000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165058Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T144526Z
UID:10000340-1588896000-1588896000@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:CANCELED: Plato\, Aristotle\, Augustine\, & Aquinas on the Soul
DESCRIPTION:Due to restrictions put in place in response to the spread of COVID-19\, this event has been postponed. We look forward to scheduling similar programming in the future.\nFurther details TBA
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-05-a-symposium-on-soul-jean-luc-marion-timothy-b-noone-sean-kelsey-gabriel-richardson-lear/
LOCATION:University of Chicago–TBA\, N/A\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200508T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200508T170000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165058Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T144523Z
UID:10000339-1588953600-1588957200@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:Issues and Challenges in Economics\, Catholic Social Thought\, and Public Policy: A conversation with Joseph Kaboski
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE \nCan Economics and Catholic Social Thought be set in dialogue? Is there a place for Catholic Social Teaching in Public Policy? How does the scholar bridge one’s academic discipline and one’s religious faith? Harris School students and faculty are invited to join us in conversation with economist and consultant to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB)\, Joseph Kaboski\, on Economics\, Catholic Social Thought\, and Public Policy. \nThis event is closed to the public and open to Harris School students\, faculty\, and staff only
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-05-issues-challenges-in-economics-catholic-social-thought-policy-a-conversation-with-joe-kaboski-joseph-kaboski/
LOCATION:ONLINE\, World Wide Web\, INTERNET
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200512T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200512T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165055Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T144520Z
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SUMMARY:CANCELED: Brian Patrick McGuire on St. Bernard of Clairvaux
DESCRIPTION:Due to restrictions put in place in response to the spread of COVID-19\, this event has been postponed. We look forward to scheduling similar programming in the future.\nDetails for this event TBA
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-05-mcguire-on-bernard-of-clairveaux-brian-patrick-mcguire/
LOCATION:University of Chicago–TBA\, N/A\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200514T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200514T133000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165054Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T144517Z
UID:10000337-1589457600-1589463000@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:Faith and Science at Notre Dame: Fr. John Zahm\, Evolution\, and the Catholic Church
DESCRIPTION:The Reverend John Augustine Zahm\, CSC\, (1851–1921) was a Holy Cross priest\, an author\, a South American explorer\, and a science professor and vice president at the University of Notre Dame\, the latter at the age of twenty-five. Through his scientific writings\, Zahm argued that Roman Catholicism was fully compatible with an evolutionary view of biological systems\, an argument that would get him (but not his book) censured in 1897 by the Vatican. In his talk Faith and Science at Notre Dame: John Zahm\, Evolution\, and the Catholic Church\, John Slattery will chart the rise and fall of Zahm\, examining his ascension to international fame in bridging evolution and Catholicism and shedding new light on his ultimate downfall via censure by the Congregation of the Index of Prohibited Books. Slattery draws on previously unknown archival letters and reports that allow Zahm’s censure to be fully understood in the light of broader scientific\, theological\, and philosophical movements—including Neo-Scholasticism–within the Catholic Church and around the world.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2/
LOCATION:University Club of Chicago\, 76 E Monroe St\nChicago\, IL 60603\, Downtown\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200514T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200514T130000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165053Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T193533Z
UID:10000336-1589461200-1589461200@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:WEBINAR: Is Hell Real? Is it Crowded? Accounts of the Afterlife in the Christian Tradition
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Lumen Christi Institute’s Newman Forum. Open to current high school students. This event was made possible by a grant from the Our Sunday Visitor Institute. \nYou have two sections to choose from:\n\n1:00pm-2:00pm\n\n3:30pm-4:30pm\n\n\nIs Hitler in Hell? Is Judas? Is everyone saved? Why would a merciful God allow humans to suffer eternal damnation?\n\nIn this Thursday session\, we’re going to lean on the wisdom of one of our favorites: Bishop Robert Barron. Relying on his piece\, “Is Hell Crowded or Empty?” we’ll come together for an hour to discuss the three accounts of Hell that he traces through history\, as well as other common representations of Hell in literature. From Augustine and Aquinas\, to Barth and Balthasar\, the reality of Hell is rooted in Scripture and the words of Christ Himself\, and yet is still hotly debated (pun intended). By the end of our time together\, students will be able to respond to the most common dialogues around what Hell is like\, and have a working familiarity with the most salient representations of Hell in the media we consume.\n\n\nStudents should come to the session having watched Bishop Barron’s 9 minute video on Hell\, which you can find here: https://www.wordonfire.org/resources/video/is-hell-crowded-or-empty/183/\n\n\nThere is no charge for the seminar\, but a good-will donation of $10 is encouraged.\n\n(Teachers and Youth Ministers may sit in\, if interested. Please register as “Other\,” and log in to the provided Zoom link 15 minutes prior to your session’s start time to ensure you are properly muted.)
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-05-webinar-is-hell-real-is-it-crowded-accounts-of-afterlife-in-christian-tradition-austin-walker-madison-chastain/
LOCATION:IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200514T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200514T200000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165053Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260322T201916Z
UID:10000335-1589482800-1589486400@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:WEBINAR: The Wisdom of Enclosure in Julian of Norwich's Showings
DESCRIPTION:Julian of Norwich (d. ca. 1416) was a widely respected and sought-out English thinker and spiritual counsellor. She lived as an anchorite\, enclosed in a cell attached to a church in Norwich\, Julian’s Showings are a book of spiritual visions that emerged from her life of prayer and that wrestle with the profound theological mysteries of fitting evil and suffering with God’s mercy and love. Professor Katie Bugyis will examine Julian’s thought in the context of her vocation of enclosed prayer. \n\nThis lecture is part of our Spring Webinar Series on “Reason and Wisdom in Medieval Christian Thought” \nWhat can reason discover about God? Are there other possible ways to know God? Medieval Christians undertook great rational enterprises—including the sharp logic of Abelard and the grand system of Thomas Aquinas—as well as practiced experiential and contemplative modes of knowing\, as did Bernard of Clairvaux. This course will examine how different preeminent medieval Christian thinkers saw the relationship between reason and wisdom\, how to arrive at them\, and so how to seek the face of God. \nThis series is cosponsored by the Collegium Institute\, the Nova Forum\, the Saint Benedict Institute\, the Beatrice Institute\, the Harvard Catholic Center\, and the Calvert House Catholic Center. \nUpcoming Seminars: \nThursday\, May 21\, 7PM\nBonaventure (Title TBD) | Kevin Hughes (Villanova University) \nThursday\, May 28\, 7PM\nMeister Eckhart | Bernard McGinn (University of Chicago) \nThursday\, June 4\, 7PM\nNicholas of Cusa | David Albertson (University of Southern California)
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-05-webinar-katie-bugyis-on-julian-of-norwich/
LOCATION:ONLINE\, World Wide Web\, INTERNET
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200519T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200519T170000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165052Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260322T202151Z
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR: Apocalypticism in Times of Crisis
DESCRIPTION:Cosponsored by America Media\, the Saint Benedict Institute\, the Nova Forum\, the Collegium Institute\, the Beatrice Institute\, the Institute for Faith and Culture\, the Harvard Catholic Center\, Saint Paul’s University Catholic Center\, and the Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion at the University of Chicago Divinity School. \nPlague\, political turmoil\, famine—throughout Christian history\, local catastrophes spurred on a sense of cosmic crisis\, judgement\, and prophetic fulfillment. What role has this apocalyptic imagination played for Christian communities? How does it continue to shape Christian responses to today’s global pandemic? Join for a conversation with scholars of medieval Christianity Bernard McGinn and Willemien Otten on Apocalypticism in Times of Crisis.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-05-apocalypticism-in-times-of-crisis/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200521T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200521T200000
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR: St. Bonaventure
DESCRIPTION:Bonaventure (d. 1274) was a pivotal figure whose complex responded effectively to the challenges of his day and inspired both theological and philosophical thought up to the present day. As a contemporary of fellow mendicant St Thomas Aquinas\, Bonaventure also taught at the University of Paris and formulated an original approach to the new Aristotelian thought. Later known as the Seraphic Doctor\, Bonaventure fused profound theological thought with heart-felt spirituality and set out a vision of the life and charism of the recent St Francis of Assisi to provide peace-making leadership for the new Franciscan order. Professor Kevin Hughes will introduce the complex and multifaceted thought of Bonaventure.\nThis lecture is part of our Spring Webinar Series on “Reason and Wisdom in Medieval Christian Thought” \nWhat can reason discover about God? Are there other possible ways to know God? Medieval Christians undertook great rational enterprises—including the sharp logic of Abelard and the grand system of Thomas Aquinas—as well as practiced experiential and contemplative modes of knowing\, as did Bernard of Clairvaux. This course will examine how different preeminent medieval Christian thinkers saw the relationship between reason and wisdom\, how to arrive at them\, and so how to seek the face of God. \nThis series is cosponsored by the Calvert House Catholic Center\, the Collegium Institute\, the Harvard Catholic Center\, the Nova Forum\, the Saint Benedict Institute\, the Beatrice Institute\, and the Institute for Faith and Culture. \nUpcoming Seminars: \nThursday\, May 28\, 7PM\nMeister Eckhart | Bernard McGinn (University of Chicago) \nThursday\, June 4\, 7PM\nNicholas of Cusa | David Albertson (University of Southern California)
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-05-webinar-kevin-hughes-on-bonaventure/
LOCATION:ONLINE\, World Wide Web\, INTERNET
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200526T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200526T120000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR: Q&A Session on An Inside Look in Times of Crisis:  The 2008 Financial Collapse and the 2020 Pandemic
DESCRIPTION:You can view Scott’s presentation here. A link to the Zoom Q&A session will be sent via email to those who register.\nCosponsored by Catholics at Booth and Catholics at Kellogg. Open to students\, faculty\, and alumni of Booth School of Business and the Kellogg School of Management. Registration is required.  \nScott Freidheim spoke in November 2018 for Catholics at Booth and the Lumen Christi Institute on “The Collapse of Lehman Brothers: An Inside Story” sharing his insights on what it was like to experience the 2008 crisis as Executive Vice President of Lehman Brothers. As we face the coronavirus pandemic and a recession as great or greater than that of 2008\, he will draw on his earlier experience and reflect on facing this challenge at the corporate\, governmental\, personal\, and spiritual levels.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-05-a-sick-market-reflections-on-2008-our-current-moment/
LOCATION:IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200526T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200526T200000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
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SUMMARY:Reason and Wisdom in Medieval Christian Thought
DESCRIPTION:Due to restrictions put in place in response to the spread of COVID-19\, our major spring events have been postponed. We are likely unable to host this non-credit course at this time. Stay tuned for updates as we explore our options concrning web-enabled communications.\n\nREGISTER HERE\n\n6:00 Dinner | 6:30 Lecture\n\n\nTuesdays\, April 7 – May 26\, 2020 \nThis weekly non-credit course is open to current students and faculty. Registrants are free to attend as many sessions as they choose. Sessions do not presuppose previous attendance or prior knowledge of the subject. Dinner is provided. \nWhat can reason discover about God? Are there other possible ways to know God? Medieval Christians both undertook great rational enterprises—including the sharp logic of Abelard and the grand system of Thomas Aquinas—as well as practiced experiential and contemplative modes of knowing—as did Bernard of Clairvaux. This course will examine how different preeminent medieval Christian thinkers saw the relationship between reason and wisdom\, how to arrive at them\, and so how to seek the face of God. Included are presentations from Professor Bernard McGinn on Gregory the Great on Reading Scripture for Wisdom\, from Professor Aaron Canty on Anselm of Canterbury’s approach to knowing God\, and from Professor Brian Patrick McGuire on Bernard of Clairvaux and the affective search for wisdom.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-05-reason-wisdom/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200528T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200528T190000
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR: On Meister Eckhart
DESCRIPTION:Meister Eckhart (d. ca. 1328) was a famous and popular German mystical writer and preacher. After formal theological training in the University of Paris\, following the footsteps of Thomas Aquinas and Bonaventure\, Eckhart charted a distinctive mystical dialectical theological in his writings and sermons and drew theological controversy. His thought became an inspiration for a tradition of mystical thought after him and remains a wellspring of religious and theological thought today. Professor Bernard McGinn will introduce the life and some of the principal themes of Eckhart’s enigmatic thought.\n\nThis lecture is part of our Spring Webinar Series on “Reason and Wisdom in Medieval Christian Thought” \nWhat can reason discover about God? Are there other possible ways to know God? Medieval Christians undertook great rational enterprises—including the sharp logic of Abelard and the grand system of Thomas Aquinas—as well as practiced experiential and contemplative modes of knowing\, as did Bernard of Clairvaux. This course will examine how different preeminent medieval Christian thinkers saw the relationship between reason and wisdom\, how to arrive at them\, and so how to seek the face of God. \nThis series is cosponsored by the Calvert House Catholic Center\, the Collegium Institute\, the Harvard Catholic Center\, the Nova Forum\, the Saint Benedict Institute\, the Beatrice Institute\, and the Institute for Faith and Culture. \nUpcoming Seminars: \nThursday\, June 4\, 7PM\nNicholas of Cusa | David Albertson (University of Southern California)
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-05-meister-eckhart-bernard-mcginn/
LOCATION:ONLINE\, World Wide Web\, INTERNET
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200602T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200602T170000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR: Lessons after the Lockdown: Public Health\, Economics\, and the Common Good
DESCRIPTION:Cosponsored by America Media\, CREDO\, the Beatrice Institute\, the Collegium Institute‘s Program on the Philosophy of Finance\, the Nova Forum\, the Saint Benedict Institute\, the Institute for Faith and Culture\, and the Institute for Human Ecology at the Catholic University of America\nAfter two months of lockdown\, nations across Europe and parts of the US are relaxing restrictions and facing new challenges. Where do we stand economically and socially? How might we have better protected the medically and economically vulnerable? How should we view the lockdown with its costs and benefits ethically? Our earlier event on “The Economic Costs of the Pandemic: Catholic Social Teaching and Economics in Dialogue\,” provoked lively reactions. This event will consider what the principles of the common good\, human dignity\, justice\, and solidarity mean in our present circumstances and how they ought to inform our prudential judgement going forward. Join as a panel of economists\, theologians\, and ethicists discuss lessons learned in the pandemic.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-06-lessons-from-lockdown/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200604T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200604T190000
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR: Nicholas of Cusa
DESCRIPTION:For the final installment of our Spring 2020 lecture series on “Reason and Wisdom in Medieval Christian Thought\,” Professor David Albertson leads us in exploring the work of German philosopher\, theologian\, astronomer\, and mystic\, Nicholas of Cusa.\nNicholas of Cusa (d. 1464) was a great late medieval\, early modern thinker and polymath who digested the medieval theological and contemplative traditions and pressed these in new directions. Living in tumultuous times\, his career in the Church as a cardinal was occupied by his work as a reformer and his efforts to re-unify the Eastern and Western Churches. Professor David Albertson will offer an introduction to the lesser-known but rich life and thought of this great German personality. \n\nThis lecture is part of our Spring Webinar Series on “Reason and Wisdom in Medieval Christian Thought” \nWhat can reason discover about God? Are there other possible ways to know God? Medieval Christians undertook great rational enterprises—including the sharp logic of Abelard and the grand system of Thomas Aquinas—as well as practiced experiential and contemplative modes of knowing\, as did Bernard of Clairvaux. This course will examine how different preeminent medieval Christian thinkers saw the relationship between reason and wisdom\, how to arrive at them\, and so how to seek the face of God. \nThis series is cosponsored by the Calvert House Catholic Center\, the Collegium Institute\, the Harvard Catholic Center\, the Nova Forum\, the Saint Benedict Institute\, the Beatrice Institute\, and the Institute for Faith and Culture.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-06-nicholas-of-cusa-david-albertson/
LOCATION:ONLINE\, World Wide Web\, INTERNET
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200609T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200609T130000
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR: Christians in Times of Catastrophe: Augustine's "City of God"
DESCRIPTION:Cosponsored by America Media\, the Collegium Institute\, the Saint Benedict Institute\, the Beatrice Institute\, the Nova Forum\, the Harvard Catholic Center\, the Institute for Faith and Culture\, and the Sacred and Profane Love podcast. \nAugustine of Hippo’s City of God is one of the great theological books of the Christian tradition\, laying out a vision of the Church and the Earthly City in parallel and of Christ’s work of salvation in history in the context of the sack of Rome (410) and other calamities. Augustine’s reflections on how Christians can understand and respond to catastrophes has become a wellspring in the Christian intellectual tradition and for us responding to todays troubles for the Church and for the world. In this web event\, Professor Jennifer Frey (Philosophy\, University of South Carolina) will lead a moderated conversation between Professor emeritus Russell Hittinger (Senior Fellow LCI) and Fr Michael Sherwin\, O.P. (Theology\, University of Fribourg) on Augustine’s context and the continued relevance of his wisdom for Christians in the time of pandemic\, economic turmoil\, and political and social tumult.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-05-christians-in-time-of-catastrophe-augustines-city-of-god/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200611T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200611T160000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR: Becoming Human: Evolution\, Science\, and the Soul
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Lumen Christi Institute’s Newman Forum\, in cooperation with the University of St. Mary of the Lake\, Mundelein\, and the Archdiocese of Chicago Vocations Office. Open to current high school students. \nHigh school teachers and youth ministers are welcome to attend\, and are encouraged to bring groups. Group leaders are now able to register themselves and their students together! This is especially encouraged for groups coming from outside of Chicagoland\, to ensure groups remain together during the breakout sessions (see below).  \nWhat can the science of evolution know? How is it related to religion\, especially Catholic doctrine? Are they complementary or mutually exclusive? \nQuestions like these have guided much of the scientific and religious investigation of the 20th and 21st centuries. In recent decades\, discoveries of humanoid fossils have revealed new links between human ancestors and animals. Archaeologists and evolutionary biologists have called these discoveries “humans\,” but what does that mean for what it means to be human? How are you different or distinct from your pre-human ancestors?\n\nThe scientific evolutionary model is inherently limited in its understanding of the human person. It leaves us with as many questions as it answers: Where does the human soul come in? How are humans different from animals? What makes us human?\n\nAnswers to these questions can only be gained by recognizing the value –and the limits– of the evolutionary model. Philosophy and theology can provide us a guide when the science falls short.\n\nJoin us Thursday\, June 11th at 2:30pm CDT for an online lecture with Chris Baglow\, Director of the Science and Religion Initiative at Notre Dame’s McGrath Institute for Church Life. Dr. Baglow is also the author of the premier science and religion textbook used by numerous Catholic schools in its science and theology curricula\, Faith\, Science\, and Reason: Theology on the Cutting Edge.\n\nDuring our time together\, we’ll listen to a short lecture\, hold a brief Q&A\, and then break into discussion groups to further dialogue about the questions that arise at the intersection of Christianity and evolution. The event should run until approx. 4pm.\n\n\nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER\n\nThere is no charge for the seminar\, but a good-will donation of $10 is encouraged.\n\nWe are expecting a high volume of attendees for this event!  We encourage you to register by Tuesday\, June 9th to ensure your spot\, and to assist in our creation of discussion groups.\n\nThis event is made possible by a generous gift from the John Templeton Foundation\, as well as by a grant from The Our Sunday Visitor Institute\, as a part of their “Re-Captivating Millennials” initiative\, and by our many institutional and high school cosponsors: \n\nINSTITUTIONAL COSPONSORS:\nUniversity of St. Mary of the Lake\, Mundelein\, The Archdiocese of Chicago Vocations Office\, The McGrath Institute for Church Life\, The Society of Catholic Scientists\n\nHIGH SCHOOL COSPONSORS:\nBenet Academy\, Fenwick High School\, Northridge Preparatory School\, St. Ignatius College Prep\, Willows Academy\n\n\nIf you have questions regarding the Newman Forum\, registration\, or any of our programs\, feel free to reach out to the Newman Forum team:\n\nAustin Walker\nDirector of the Newman Forum\nawalker@lumenchristi.org\n\nMadison Chastain\nProgram Coordinator of the Newman Forum\nmchastain@lumenchristi.org
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-06-webinar-becoming-human-evolution-science-soul-chris-baglow/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200616T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200616T190000
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR: Dante as Poet and Philosopher
DESCRIPTION:A conversation with Professors Jason Aleksander (San Jose State University) and Arielle Saiber (Bowdoin College). Part of our Summer webinar series on “Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture\,” presented in collaboration with the American Cusanus Society \nDante Alighieri (1265-1321) was a Florentine writer and poet\, whose long poetic work\, The Divine Comedy\, has received recognition as one of the greatest artistic achievements in the West. Dante’s poetic artistry stands alongside his intellectual and philosophical thought throughout his writings and in his Comedy. In this webinar\, Professor Jason Aleksander (San José State U) and Professor Arielle Saiber (Bowdoin College) will discuss Dante’s interlocking poetic and philosophical production. \n\n2020 Summer Webinar Series on “Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture”\nWhat do reason and beauty have to do with each other? Since the modern Enlightenment and Romantic movements\, it has been tempting to see reason and beauty as separate or even opposed. In the Renaissance\, however\, rational and artistic pursuits bloomed together and even fed each other. Renaissance culture\, including fine art\, poetry\, architecture\, astronomy\, and humanistic thought\, both drew upon and extended ancient and medieval Christian intellectual traditions. This webinar course will examine different aspects of renaissance Christian thought and culture to explore how pursuits of reason interwove with the love of beauty. \nThis event is cosponsored by Calvert House\, the Collegium Institute\, the Genealogies of Modernity Project\, the Harvard Catholic Center\, the Nova Forum for Catholic Thought\, and St. Paul’s Catholic Center.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-06-webinar-dante-as-poet-philosopher/
LOCATION:ONLINE\, World Wide Web\, INTERNET
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200617T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200617T160000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR: How NOT to Get Away with Murder (Again!)
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Lumen Christi Institute’s Newman Forum. Open to current high school students. \nWe’ve run this event in-person\, but now we’re bringing it to you online! When you register\, you will be sent a Zoom link to follow. The event will run from 3:00pm-4:00pm\nAre you already tired of being quarantined in your house? Feel a little bit like you might kill your siblings? \nThe book of Genesis is one of the most interesting and difficult books of the Bible. And there is so much more to it than meets the eye. For example: \nHow was a snake able to trick Eve? Why do Adam and Eve respond to God so suspiciously? And then there’s the Cain and Abel story…why on Earth does Cain jump to murdering his brother? What are we supposed to learn from this Scripture? \nThis hour-long seminar will investigate these passages in the 3rd and 4th chapters of Genesis.  By reading the text closely and paying attention to what is (and isn’t) there\, we will discover a whole new complexity to the relationship between God\, the first four humans\, and the snake.  Not only is God revealed as imminently just and merciful\, but also as a very acute observer of human psychology!\n\nCome to whichever session fits your new online schedule the best! All you’ll need is access to a Bible (either a real-life book or just online!) We’ll read the text together\, and discuss!\n\nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER!\nResources from this seminar are drawn from Joseph Ratzinger’s (Pope Bendict’s) In the Beginning…’: A Catholic Understanding of the Story of Creation and the Fall.\n\nThere is no charge for the seminar\, but a good-will donation of $10 is encouraged.\n\n(Teachers and Youth Ministers may sit in\, if interested. Please register as “Other\,” and log in to the provided Zoom link 15 minutes prior to your session’s start time to ensure you are properly muted.)
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-06-how-not-to-get-away-with-murder-online-austin-walker/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200622T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200622T170000
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SUMMARY:Race\, Justice\, and Catholicism
DESCRIPTION:Cosponsored by America Media\, Boston College Law School\, the Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage\, and the Catholic Lawyers Guild of Chicago.\nThe cry in the streets of “no justice\, no peace” echoes the teaching of Popes John XXIII and Paul VI. The recent crises have again brought to the fore the reality that interracial justice has eluded America\, despite the promise of the civil rights movement. Slavery\, its original sin\, has dogged it from its founding. Segregation and mass incarceration continue this shameful legacy. Efforts to call Americans to take responsibility for this often find resistance in an individualistic ideology counter to the Catholic vision. Catholics find themselves on both sides of this history. \nThe Gospel and Catholic social teaching clearly reject racism. Yet up to this moment\, Catholic clergy and laity have often not lived up to this teaching\, helping to sustain racism\, rather than dismantle or reject it. If\, as Pope Francis reminds us\, we are all connected\, then injustice anywhere is not only a threat to justice everywhere—it is injustice everywhere. \nJoin us as a panel of distinguished legal scholars comes together to discuss our current moment and whether Catholicism can move from being part of the problem to becoming part of the solution.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-06-race-justice-catholicism/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200623T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200623T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
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SUMMARY:Alberti and Renaissance Architecture
DESCRIPTION:An evening webinar with Professor of Architecture Il Kim (Auburn University). Part of our summer webinar series on “Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture\,” presented in collaboration with the American Cusanus Society \nLeon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) was a humanist and polymath.  His On Painting (1435/36) and On Architecture (1440s-1472) theorized the arts of painting and architecture\, elevating them to the level of the Liberal Arts.  The legacy of these works cast a long shadow in the Renaissance.  In this webinar\, Professor Kim will discuss Alberti’s architectural theory and practice as an all-encompassing pursuit of artistry in Italian Renaissance. \n\n2020 Summer Webinar Series on “Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture”\nWhat do reason and beauty have to do with each other? Since the modern Enlightenment and Romantic movements\, it has been tempting to see reason and beauty as separate or even opposed. In the Renaissance\, however\, rational and artistic pursuits bloomed together and even fed each other. Renaissance culture\, including fine art\, poetry\, architecture\, astronomy\, and humanistic thought\, both drew upon and extended ancient and medieval Christian intellectual traditions. This webinar course will examine different aspects of renaissance Christian thought and culture to explore how pursuits of reason interwove with the love of beauty. \nThis event is cosponsored by Calvert House\, the Beatrice Institute\, the Genealogies of Modernity Project\, the Harvard Catholic Center\, the Nova Forum for Catholic Thought\, and St. Paul’s Catholic Center.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-06-alberti-renaissance-architecture/
LOCATION:ONLINE\, World Wide Web\, INTERNET
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200624T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200624T120000
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SUMMARY:What Evolution Does and Does Not Tell Us about Humans
DESCRIPTION:Cosponsored by the Society of Catholic Scientists. This event is made possible by a grant from the John Templeton Foundation. \nDoes evolution fully explain the human? Recent paleontological and archeological work trace the deep lineages underlying many of our physical traits\, and reveals our complicated history as one of many hominid species. It is abundantly clear that modern humans are subject to the same evolutionary pressures as the rest of the biological world and that evolution continues to shape our species. However\, the developing story of our evolutionary history is frequently framed as a challenge to the claim of human uniqueness\, fundamental to the Judeo-Christian understanding of the creation of man. Does evolution truly undercut the assumption of human uniqueness? Is our understanding of biological evolution sufficient to explain what makes us human? Join us for an online lecture with evolutionary paleobiologist\, Simon Conway Morris\, as he examines “What Evolution Does and Does not Tell Us about Humans.”
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-06-evolution-and-the-human/
LOCATION:ONLINE\, World Wide Web\, INTERNET
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200630T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200630T190000
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SUMMARY:Marsilio Ficino and the Philosophy of Plato
DESCRIPTION:A webinar with Professor Denis Robichaud (University of Notre Dame). Part of our summer webinar series on “Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture\,” presented in collaboration with the American Cusanus Society \nIn the humanist recovery and study of Platonic thought and texts\, Marsilio Ficino (1433-99) was a brilliant luminary. He produced the first translation into Latin of all of Plato’s texts and of Plotinus’s Enneads\, and he translated and commented on numerous other Platonic works. Ficino was also more than a scholar\, he was also a philosopher and theologian whose network of students\, friends\, and correspondents extended far beyond his Florentine home. His philosophical thought fed early modern philosophy for generations but also raised questions of Ficino’s orthodoxy. In this webinar\, Professor Denis Robichaud (Notre Dame) will discuss Marsilio Ficino’s humanist\, philosophical\, and theological thought. \n\n2020 Summer Webinar Series on “Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture”\nWhat do reason and beauty have to do with each other? Since the modern Enlightenment and Romantic movements\, it has been tempting to see reason and beauty as separate or even opposed. In the Renaissance\, however\, rational and artistic pursuits bloomed together and even fed each other. Renaissance culture\, including fine art\, poetry\, architecture\, astronomy\, and humanistic thought\, both drew upon and extended ancient and medieval Christian intellectual traditions. This webinar course will examine different aspects of renaissance Christian thought and culture to explore how pursuits of reason interwove with the love of beauty. \nThis series is cosponsored by the Beatrice Institute\, Calvert House\, the Genealogies of Modernity Project\, the Harvard Catholic Center\,  the Nova Forum for Catholic Thought\, and St. Paul’s Catholic Center.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-06-marsilio-ficino-philosophy-of-plato-denis-robichaud/
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SUMMARY:God and Morality: Francisco Suarez's Reading of Thomas Aquinas
DESCRIPTION:Registration is full. Please contact us if you would like to be put on the waitlist. \nThis master class is open to current graduate students. It will take place online on Zoom. Others interested in participating should contact us. \nAre wrong actions wrong only because the law of God forbids them\, or does it forbid (at least some of) them because they are wrong in themselves?  Francisco Suárez famously answers this Euthyphro-like question in a way that steers between rationalism and divine voluntarism. He takes it to be Saint Thomas Aquinas’s way\, and so do many after him. \nIn this master class\, Fr. Brock will challenge this reading of Aquinas and argue that\, on his view\, the very question is misleading.  A crucial and neglected factor in Thomas’s position is his conception of the common good of the universe. \nASSIGNED READINGS (TO BE PROVIDED) \n\nSuarez\, Francisco\, De Legibus bk. 2\, ch. 6.\nBrock\, Stephen L.\, The Light That Binds: A Study in Thomas Aquinas’s Metaphysics of Natural Law (2020\, Pickwick Publication)\, selections.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-07-god-morality-francisco-suarezs-reading-of-thomas-aquinas-stephen-l-brock/
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200707T190000
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SUMMARY:Women Humanists in the Renaissance: Paradise and Free Speech in Moderata Fonte
DESCRIPTION:An evening webinar lecture with Tamara Albertini (University of Hawai’i at Manoa). Part of our summer webinar series on “Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture\,” presented in collaboration with the American Cusanus Society\n\nAfter a brief review of women humanists like Laura Cerata\, Cassandra Fedele\, Lucrezia Marinella\, and Isotta Nogarola\, the presentation will focus on Moderata Fonte’s dialogue The Merit of Women Where One Clearly Discovers How Dignified and Perfect They Are (1600). In that dialogue\, Fonte creates a locus amoenus characterized by a centered garden visited by seven female interlocutors to discuss what options women have to take charge of their lives. The presentation will end by comparing and contrasting Fonte’s garden with Giovanni Pico della Mirandola’s paradise in his Oration on the Dignity of Man (1486)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2020 Summer Webinar Series on “Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture”\nWhat do reason and beauty have to do with each other? Since the modern Enlightenment and Romantic movements\, it has been tempting to see reason and beauty as separate or even opposed. In the Renaissance\, however\, rational and artistic pursuits bloomed together and even fed each other. Renaissance culture\, including fine art\, poetry\, architecture\, astronomy\, and humanistic thought\, both drew upon and extended ancient and medieval Christian intellectual traditions. This webinar course will examine different aspects of renaissance Christian thought and culture to explore how pursuits of reason interwove with the love of beauty. \nThis event is cosponsored by the Beatrice Institute\, Calvert House\, the Genealogies of Modernity Project\, the Harvard Catholic Center\, the Nova Forum for Catholic Thought\, and St. Paul’s Catholic Center.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-07-women-humanists-in-renaissance-paradise-free-speech-in-moderata-fonte/
LOCATION:ONLINE\, World Wide Web\, INTERNET
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200709T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200709T130000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
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SUMMARY:Master Class on "Newman's Critique of Liberalism: Faith\, Reason\, and Antecedent Probability"
DESCRIPTION:This master class is open to current graduate students. It will take place online on Zoom. Others interested in participating should contact us.\nIn his intellectual autobiography\, John Henry Newman makes a bold claim that may confound our contemporary sensibility.  In matters of religion\, the human mind has only two consistent options: either atheism or Catholicism.  Any position in-between is but a logical half-way house.  Our master class will explore the relation in Newman between faith and reason that endeavors to justify this claim.  In the process\, we will deal with the role of probability\, which would seem to be the antithesis of faith.  We will also probe into liberalism which\, although much admired in the west\, is for Newman inimical to an authentic revelation from the Divine. \nREADINGS \n\nApologia pro Vita Sua\, Chapter 1: “History of My Religious Opinions up to 1833”; Chapter 5: “Position of My Mind since 1845.”\nPlain and Parochial Sermons\, vol. 8\, number 13: “Truth Hidden When Not Sought After”
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-07-online-master-class-on-newmans-critique-of-liberalism-faith-reason-antecedent-probability-stephen-fields-sj/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200713T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200730T123000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
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SUMMARY:2020 Newman Forum Summer Institute
DESCRIPTION:The Newman Forum aims to run a week-long Summer Institute for high school students at Mundelein Seminary every year. Due to COVID-19 concerns\, this year’s Institute will run ONLINE\, Mondays and Thursdays\, from July 13th-30th. \nThis year’s Summer Institute will be centered on the three transcendentals: Truth\, Goodness\, and Beauty! \nFeelings of wonder point us to transcendental truths and drive some of the most important philosophical and theological pursuits: How do we describe the feeling of seeing a radiant sunset to someone who didn’t see it? How do we explain that feeling of resonance when we learn a lesson in school that really speaks to our lives? Why are we moved when we see someone perform an act of kindness for someone else in need? This is beauty\, truth\, and goodness. Sometimes they seem quite simple! But they are also deep mysteries\, and they relate to some of the biggest mysteries of our Catholic faith. Click here for more about the curriculum! \nMonday classes will consist of lectures and brief fundamentals Q&A. Thursdays will consist of discussions of the lectures and short weekly assigned texts. All class meetings will run from 11am-12:30pm. \nMondays (July 13th\, 20th\, and 27th) \n11:00-11:25 Philosophy lecture \n11:25-11:35 Philosophy Q&A \n11:35-11:45 Break \n11:45-12:10 Theology lecture \n12:10-12:30 Theology Q&A \nThursdays (July 16th\, 23rd\, and 30th) \n11:00-11:15 Introduction and overview \n11:15-11:45 Discussion Groups \n11:45-12:30 Large Group Discussion \nThe program cost is $50 for local\, Chicagoland participants (including our broader Illinois\, Wisconsin\, Indiana\, and Michigan neighbors!) $125 for non-local participants. \nApplications for the 2020 Summer Institute are rolling\, and have been extended until July 6th.  \nAll high school students–including incoming freshmen and outgoing seniors–are welcome to apply! \nApplicants will be notified within two weeks of submitting their applications whether or not they have been accepted. \nCLICK HERE TO APPLY!
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-newman-forum-summer-institute/
LOCATION:ONLINE\, World Wide Web\, INTERNET
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200714T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200714T130000
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SUMMARY:Measure and Mathematics in Renaissance Philosophy
DESCRIPTION:A webinar lecture with Richard Oosterhoff (University of Edinburgh). Part of our summer webinar series on “Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture\,” presented in collaboration with the American Cusanus Society \nPerspective drawing\, map-making\, musical harmonics\, astronomy\, and number theory—these were all mathematical disciplines in the Renaissance. We tend to link measuring sounds\, sights\, and sensations with outstanding philosophers\, from Nicholas of Cusa to Galileo and Descartes. But every university student met these topics\, in their first textbooks. This webinar will focus on the hugely popular Paris master and humanist Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples (c. 1455–1536)\, who wove a programme of university reform out of authorities from Church Fathers and mystics\, the Victorines\, Ramon Llull\, and Cusanus. Out of such sources\, Lefèvre bequeathed European universities a shared philosophical culture in which mathematics offered an archetype of reason and beauty. \n\n2020 Summer Webinar Series on “Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture”\nWhat do reason and beauty have to do with each other? Since the modern Enlightenment and Romantic movements\, it has been tempting to see reason and beauty as separate or even opposed. In the Renaissance\, however\, rational and artistic pursuits bloomed together and even fed each other. Renaissance culture\, including fine art\, poetry\, architecture\, astronomy\, and humanistic thought\, both drew upon and extended ancient and medieval Christian intellectual traditions. This webinar course will examine different aspects of renaissance Christian thought and culture to explore how pursuits of reason interwove with the love of beauty. \nThis event is cosponsored by the Beatrice Institute\, Calvert House\, the Genealogies of Modernity Project\, the Harvard Catholic Center\, the Nova Forum for Catholic Thought\, and St. Paul’s Catholic Center.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-07-measure-mathematics-in-renaissance-philosophy/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200721T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200721T200000
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SUMMARY:Titian's Icons: Logos and Kairos in Renaissance Devotion
DESCRIPTION:An evening webinar lecture with Christoper Nygren (University of Pittsburgh). Part of our summer webinar series on “Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture\,” presented in collaboration with the American Cusanus Society \nTitian is one of the most famous painters of the Italian Renaissance. He is mostly known for his amazing mythological paintings and depictions of the female nude\, which became a staple of the tradition of European painting. It is less well known that Titian was credited by his contemporaries with painting a miracle-working image. Looking at his paintings in light of this fact\, it becomes clear that Titian dedicated a great deal of energy to painting small-format pictures depicting biblical subjects\, which can rightly be called icons. This presentation will outline Titian’s engagement with icons and show how the artist frequently deviated from received subjects and iconographies to develop new kinds of icons that were directed at inciting conversion in the beholder. \n\n2020 Summer Webinar Series on “Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture”\nWhat do reason and beauty have to do with each other? Since the modern Enlightenment and Romantic movements\, it has been tempting to see reason and beauty as separate or even opposed. In the Renaissance\, however\, rational and artistic pursuits bloomed together and even fed each other. Renaissance culture\, including fine art\, poetry\, architecture\, astronomy\, and humanistic thought\, both drew upon and extended ancient and medieval Christian intellectual traditions. This webinar course will examine different aspects of renaissance Christian thought and culture to explore how pursuits of reason interwove with the love of beauty. \nThis event is cosponsored by the Beatrice Institute\, Calvert House\, the Genealogies of Modernity Project\, the Harvard Catholic Center\, the Nova Forum for Catholic Thought\, and St. Paul’s Catholic Center.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-07-titians-icons-logos-kairos-in-renaissance-devotion-christopher-nygren/
LOCATION:ONLINE\, World Wide Web\, INTERNET
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200723T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200723T130000
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SUMMARY:A Sort of Bazaar or Pantechnicon: Newman's Challenge to the Modern University
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE \nThis master class is open to current graduate students and advanced University of Chicago undergraduate students. It will take place online on Zoom. Others interested in participating should contact us. \nIn 1854\, John Henry Newman worried that the contemporary university was losing its ability to teach its students to see and recognize the truth. Instead of integrated learning\, the university had instead become “a kind of bazaar\, or pantechnicon\,” where various facts or theories were offered up without any attempt to make sense of the whole. This master class will investigate to what extent Newman’s concerns have been realized and whether his proposed solutions can still be obtained. \nThis masterclass will be composed of three parts. In the first\, Fr. Fields will sketch out the general argument of the Idea. In the second\, he will offer some suggestions about how Newman’s insights can diagnose the contemporary ills of the university. The third will be a wide-ranging discussion grounded in two short lectures Newman gave at his Catholic University of Ireland\, “A Form of Infidelity of the Day” and “Christianity and Scientific Investigation” \nAssigned Readings: (all from The Idea of a University) \n\nPreface;\nDiscourse 5 – Knowledge Its Own End;\n“A Form of Infidelity of the Day\,”\n“Christianity and Scientific Investigation”
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-07-a-sort-of-bazaar-or-pantechnicon-newmans-challenge-to-modern-university-stephen-fields-sj/
LOCATION:ONLINE\, World Wide Web\, INTERNET
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200723T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200723T133000
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SUMMARY:Chicago Catholics and the Quest for Interracial Justice
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. This event will be held online through Zoom. Registrants will be sent a link to the Zoom event or to a secondary livestream. Co-sponsored by the Catholic Lawyers Guild of Chicago the Department of Catholic Studies at DePaul University\, Calvert House Catholic Center\, the Sheil Catholic Center at Northwestern University and the Seminary Co-op Bookstore\, \nWith parish boundaries often mapping onto segregation lines\, it might appear that the possibilities of Catholic efforts towards racial justice were eliminated from the start. This picture\, however\, is incomplete. Karen Johnson’s book\, One in Christ: Chicago Catholics and the Quest for Interracial Justice (Oxford University Press\, 2018) uncovers the story of lay white and Black Catholics working on the ground towards interracial justice from the 1930’s to the late 1960’s\, driven by a radical vision of the mystical body of Christ. Join for a conversation between historian of race and religion\, Karen Johnson (Wheaton College)\, and Black Catholic historian Cecilia Moore (University of Dayton) on Chicago Catholics and the quest for interracial justice.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-07-chicago-catholics-quest-for-interracial-justice/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200728T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200728T120000
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SUMMARY:Giordano Bruno and the Poetry of the Cosmos
DESCRIPTION:A webinar lecture with Valentina Zaffino (Pontifical Lateran University; Rome Global Gateway\, University of Notre Dame). Part of our summer webinar series on “Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture\,” presented in collaboration with the American Cusanus Society\nGiordano Bruno (1548-1600) was an Italian Dominican friar\, philosopher\, mathematician\, and cosmologist. Bruno’s notoriety is due both to his adventurous life and to his original reinterpretation of ancient thought in light of the new philosophical scenario. Valentina Zaffino will analyze Bruno’s image of the cosmos\, focusing on his remodeled Neoplatonic background. In this context\, as will be shown\, the notions of harmony and beauty are closely related with Bruno’s fascinating claim of the infinity of the cosmos. \n\n2020 Summer Webinar Series on “Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture”\nWhat do reason and beauty have to do with each other? Since the modern Enlightenment and Romantic movements\, it has been tempting to see reason and beauty as separate or even opposed. In the Renaissance\, however\, rational and artistic pursuits bloomed together and even fed each other. Renaissance culture\, including fine art\, poetry\, architecture\, astronomy\, and humanistic thought\, both drew upon and extended ancient and medieval Christian intellectual traditions. This webinar course will examine different aspects of renaissance Christian thought and culture to explore how pursuits of reason interwove with the love of beauty. \nThis event is cosponsored by the Beatrice Institute\, Calvert House\, the Genealogies of Modernity Project\, the Harvard Catholic Center\, the Nova Forum for Catholic Thought\, and St. Paul’s Catholic Center.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-07-giordano-bruno-poetry-of-cosmos/
LOCATION:ONLINE\, World Wide Web\, INTERNET
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200729T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200730T153000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
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SUMMARY:On the Eternity of the World: Aristotle\, Bonaventure\, Aquinas\, Kant
DESCRIPTION:This master class is open to current graduate students and uper-level University of Chicago undergraduates. It will take place online via Zoom\, in four sessions\, over two days. \nToward the end of his Physics\, Aristotle argued that the motion in the physical world\, and with it the world itself\, never began and will never cease.  Medieval Christian thinkers agreed that this position conflicted with revelation\, but they assessed it in a wide variety of ways.  In modernity\, Kant used the problem of the world’s duration as evidence of the boundaries of mere reason. \nIn this master class\, we will go through Aristotle’s arguments\, Bonaventure’s rejection of them and insistence that the world’s having begun can be proved\, Aquinas’s denial of any possible proof on either side\, and Kant’s antinomous “proofs” for both sides.  The readings invite discussion of such topics as the relation between reason and faith\, how to understand creation ex nihilo\, the relation between physics and metaphysics\, and the limits of human knowledge. \nSCHEDULE \n\nWednesday\, July 29\, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM; 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM\nThursday\, July 30\, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM; 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM\n\nREADINGS \n\nAristotle\, Physics\, VIII.1-2\, 250b10-253a21\nBonaventure\, In II Sent.\, d. 1\, p. 1\, a. 1\, q. 2\nThomas Aquinas\, Summa theologiae I\, q. 45\, aa. 1-2; Summa theologiae I\, q. 46; Compendium theologiae ch. 98-99; Summa contra gentiles\, II\, caps. 31-37; On the Eternity of the World\nImmanuel Kant\, Critique of Pure Reason\, Transcendental Dialectic\, II.2.2\, First Antinomy
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-07-on-eternity-of-world-aristotle-bonaventure-aquinas-kant-stephen-l-brock/
LOCATION:ONLINE\, World Wide Web\, INTERNET
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200730T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200730T120000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165014Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T144305Z
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SUMMARY:COVID and the Color Line: Race\, Religion\, and Public Health
DESCRIPTION:A conversation with Yolonda Wilson (Howard University)\, Shawnee Daniels-Sykes (Mount Mary University)\, and Utibe Essein (University of Pittsburgh\, School of Medicine)\, moderated by Vincent Lloyd (Villanova University). Co-organized with the International Academy for Bioethical Inquiry. \nCosponsored by America Media and the Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics \nFree and open to the public. The event will be held online over Zoom and will be livestreamed on YouTube. \nCOVID-19 has been described as a great equalizer\, affecting all Americans alike. Yet\, data collected throughout the pandemic has revealed startling disparities\, particularly with communities of color being disproportionately impacted by the virus\, suffering from both higher infection rates and higher death rates. What are the roots of these asymmetries? How do economics\, politics\, and issues of healthcare—including how racial preconceptions have historically impacted medical treatment and public health policy—contribute? What resources do we have within our communities and within our religious traditions to respond? Join for an interdisciplinary panel of philosophers\, public health experts\, and theological ethicists as we seek to understand and respond to COVID and the color line.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-07-covid-color-line-race-religion-public-health-shawnee-daniels-sykes-yolanda-wilson-vincent-lloyd/
LOCATION:ONLINE\, World Wide Web\, INTERNET
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200803T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200811T170000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241006T235435Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260114T171227Z
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SUMMARY:ONLINE SEMINAR on Dominican Theological Anthropology: Albert the Great and Meister Eckhart
DESCRIPTION:APPLICATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED FOR THIS SEMINAR \nOn consecutive Mondays and Tuesdays in August (August 3\, 4\, 10\, 11) Bernard McGinn and Fr. Bernhard Blankenhorn will lead a set of young scholars through questions relating to the theological anthropologies of Albertus Magnus and Meister Eckhart. Topics of special interest will include contemplation\, Albert on the imago dei\, and Eckhart on the ground of the soul. \nApplicants should have some background in medieval philosophy and theology. More specifically\, they should have a basic familiarity with Aristotelian anthropology\, as well as general grasp of the Augustinian theology of the image of God and medieval theories of contemplation. \nIntermediate knowledge of Latin is preferred\, but not required.  Applications who can read German and/or French secondary literature should be given preference. \nRequired Reading Before Seminar \nSimon Tugwell\, “Introduction\,” Albert and Thomas: Select Writings (Paulist Press\, 1988)\, 3-129. \nEdmund Colledge and Bernard McGinn\, “Introduction\,” Meister Eckhart: The Essential Sermons\, etc. (Paulist Press\, 1981)\, 5-81. \nRequired Reading During Seminar \nTexts \nAlbert the Great\, Commentary on Dionysius’s Mystical Theology\, in Albert and Thomas\, 133-98 \nAlbert the Great\, De Intellectu et intelligibili\, Book II\, chaps. 8-9 (Borgnet ed.\, IX:514-17) \nAlbert the Great\, Selections from Summa theologica\, Pars I (Cologne Edition XXXIV.1)\, q. 13\, chapter 1 (pp. 38-41); q. 13\, chapter 4 (pp. 44-48); q. 15\, chapter 2\, a. 2 (pp. 65-75). \nMeister Eckhart: The Essential Sermons\, etc. \nMeister Eckhart: Teacher and Preacher (Paulist Press\, 1986) \nStudies \nHenryk Anzulewicc\, “Anthropology: The Concept of Man in Albert the Great\,” in A Companion to Albert the Great\, 325-46 \nBernard Blankenhorn\, “The Mystery of Union with God\, 52-90\, and 131-48 \nBernard McGinn\, “Chapter 4. Meister Eckhart: Mystical Teacher and Preacher\,” in McGinn\, The Harvest of Mysticism\, 94-194 \nRupert J. Mayer\, “The Term ‘Ground of the Soul’ and ‘Sparkle of Reason’ in Eckhart and Aquinas\,” Medieval Mystical Theology 22 (2013): 120-38. \nSchedule \nMornings will contain two hour-long lecture/discussions of key texts. \nAfternoons will have two sessions of 45-minute guided discussion. \nThe final day (Tuesday\, August 11) will be devoted to short student presentations.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-mcginn-blankenhorn/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
CATEGORIES:Summer Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200804T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200804T120000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165014Z
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SUMMARY:Reason and Beauty in Cambridge Platonism
DESCRIPTION:A webinar lecture with Douglas Hedley (University of Cambridge). Part of our summer webinar series on “Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture\,” presented in collaboration with the American Cusanus Society\nThe Cambridge Platonists are the first modern Platonists. They are a group of English philosophers around the University of Cambridge in the seventeenth-century\, in the context of reformed theology and the English Civil War. Yet while accepting the New Science of Copernicus and Galileo\, they offer a fierce protest against mechanism and naturalism. Their notion of aesthetics and beauty–as historian Ernst Cassirer correctly saw–was one of the sources of the later Romantic movement. Their aesthetics has a theological foundation. As one of the Cambridge Platonists\, Benjamin Whichcote (d. 1683) wrote: “There is that in God that is more beautiful than power\, than will and Sovereignty\, viz. His righteousness\, His good-will\, His justice\, wisdom and the like’. In this webinar\, Professor Douglas Hedley will discuss the Cambridge Platonists’ thought on beauty and its theological dimension that is tied to a distinctly Platonic theory of enthusiasm or inspiration and that came to be a shaping force in 18th century thought.\n\n2020 Summer Webinar Series on “Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture”\nWhat do reason and beauty have to do with each other? Since the modern Enlightenment and Romantic movements\, it has been tempting to see reason and beauty as separate or even opposed. In the Renaissance\, however\, rational and artistic pursuits bloomed together and even fed each other. Renaissance culture\, including fine art\, poetry\, architecture\, astronomy\, and humanistic thought\, both drew upon and extended ancient and medieval Christian intellectual traditions. This webinar course will examine different aspects of renaissance Christian thought and culture to explore how pursuits of reason interwove with the love of beauty. \nThis event is cosponsored by the Beatrice Institute\, Calvert House\, the Genealogies of Modernity Project\, the Harvard Catholic Center\, the Nova Forum for Catholic Thought\, and St. Paul’s Catholic Center.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-08-reason-beauty-in-cambridge-platonism-douglas-hedley/
LOCATION:ONLINE\, World Wide Web\, INTERNET
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200806T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200806T120000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
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SUMMARY:Pondering Hiroshima
DESCRIPTION:Cosponsored by America Media\, the Berkley Center for Religion\, Peace\, and World Affairs at Georgetown University\, and the Institute for Human Ecology at the Catholic University of America.\nFree and open to the public. The event will be held online over Zoom and will be livestreamed on YouTube. Registrants will also get a specially created booklet drawing on the archives of America Magazine’s coverage of Hiroshima from the past 75 years.  \nOn August 6th and 9th\, 1945\, the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bombs destroyed the cities in a flash\, and ultimately killed approximately 200\,000 people. The Second World War came to a close days later. 1945 was the first and last time a nuclear bomb was used in armed conflict. This technology has influenced international relations ever since and has raised questions about the appropriate use of force in a way that the firebombing of Dresden and Tokyo did not. The site of the bomb’s genesis was not a military base\, however\, but at the University of Chicago\, where the first self-sustaining nuclear reaction took place three years earlier\, opening the nuclear age and giving rise to a new source of energy\, life-saving technologies\, and unparalleled destruction. Join as we reflect upon the legacy and tension caught up in the event that was Hiroshima. \nThis event is dedicated to the memory of John P. Langan\, S.J.\, noted professor\, theologian and peace activist.  \nImage © AP Photo/Stanley Troutman
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-08-ponding-hiroshima-andrew-j-bacevich-archbishop-timothy-broglio-drew-christiansen-s-j-joseph-capizzi/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200811T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200811T200000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165011Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260325T172630Z
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SUMMARY:Richard Hooker’s Sapiential Theology: Reformed Platonism?
DESCRIPTION:An evening webinar lecture with Torrance Kirby (McGill University). Part of our summer webinar series on “Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture\,” presented in collaboration with the American Cusanus Society \nRichard Hooker (1554-1600) was a preeminent theologian and philosopher of the Elizabethan Church. His seminal book\, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity (1593)\, set out a path for Anglican theology that was distinct from both Puritan and Roman Catholic thought. In Book I\, Hooker identifies Law with Holy Wisdom and his treatment echoes the sapiential books of Scripture\, viz. Proverbs\, Job\, and the Wisdom of Solomon. Hooker also appeals to a hierarchical disposition of the species of law in the medieval scholastic conception of the ‘lex divinitatis’\, especially as formulated by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite and later by Thomas Aquinas. For Hooker\, the First Eternal Law concealed in the ‘Bosome of God’ is unutterable\, while its external emanation\, the Second Eternal Law\, is a ‘Voyce’ whose utterance constitutes the beautiful ‘Harmony of the Worlde’. This distinction between two species of Eternal Law owes much to the ancient Neoplatonic metaphysics of Proclus. Both Hooker’s sapiential theology and his invocation of the law of the ‘great chain’ stand in creative tension with his professed adherence to doctrine expressed by the Elizabethan Articles of Religion (1571). In this webinar\, Professor Torrance Kirby will examine the tension between Hooker’s sources and his theology and will ask whether Hooker is successful in reconciling his legal metaphysics with his Reformed soteriology. \n\n2020 Summer Webinar Series on “Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture”\nWhat do reason and beauty have to do with each other? Since the modern Enlightenment and Romantic movements\, it has been tempting to see reason and beauty as separate or even opposed. In the Renaissance\, however\, rational and artistic pursuits bloomed together and even fed each other. Renaissance culture\, including fine art\, poetry\, architecture\, astronomy\, and humanistic thought\, both drew upon and extended ancient and medieval Christian intellectual traditions. This webinar course will examine different aspects of renaissance Christian thought and culture to explore how pursuits of reason interwove with the love of beauty. \nThis event is cosponsored by the Beatrice Institute\, Calvert House\, the Genealogies of Modernity Project\, the Harvard Catholic Center\, the Nova Forum for Catholic Thought\, and St. Paul’s Catholic Center.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-08-richard-hooker-s-sapiential-theology-reformed-platonism/
LOCATION:ONLINE\, World Wide Web\, INTERNET
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200813T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200813T170000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165009Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T144250Z
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SUMMARY:The Global Economic Effects of COVID-19: Perspectives from Economics and Catholic Social Thought
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. The event will be held online over Zoom and will be livestreamed on YouTube.\nCosponsored by America Media and the Catholic Research Economists Discussion Organization. \nThe adverse impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on the lives and livelihoods of people is hard to fully appreciate in real time.  Moreover\, it is not equally distributed across socio-economic groups within countries or across countries. This panel sets economics and Catholic Social Thought in dialogue\, discussing the socio-economic consequences of the pandemic\, the policies to mitigate it\, and the values that ought inform our judgements.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-08-global-economic-effects-of-covid-19-perspectives-from-economics-catholic-social-thought/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200818T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200818T200000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165006Z
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SUMMARY:Passage to Modernity: Renaissance Christianity Today
DESCRIPTION:An evening webinar lecture with Peter Casarella (Duke University). Part of our summer webinar series on “Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture\,” presented in collaboration with the American Cusanus Society \nHistorian Jacob Burckhardt (d. 1897) famously argued that Italian humanism of the fourteenth and fifteenth century paved the way inevitably to modern individualism and secularism\, but more recently Burckhardt’s view has been largely discredited. Contemporary thinkers\, Louis Dupré and Karsten Harries\, each with very distinctive accents\, made decisive contributions to overcoming of Burkhardtian forerunner mentality. In this concluding webinar\, Professor Casarella will explore Dupré’s and Harries’ contributions to a post-Burckhardtian reading of the relationship of Italian humanism to modernity and also some of the limitations of the interpretations they proposed in the light of more recent ideas regarding post-structuralism and decolonial theory. \n\n2020 Summer Webinar Series on “Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture”\nWhat do reason and beauty have to do with each other? Since the modern Enlightenment and Romantic movements\, it has been tempting to see reason and beauty as separate or even opposed. In the Renaissance\, however\, rational and artistic pursuits bloomed together and even fed each other. Renaissance culture\, including fine art\, poetry\, architecture\, astronomy\, and humanistic thought\, both drew upon and extended ancient and medieval Christian intellectual traditions. This webinar course will examine different aspects of renaissance Christian thought and culture to explore how pursuits of reason interwove with the love of beauty. \nThis event is cosponsored by the Beatrice Institute\, Calvert House\, the Collegium Institute\, the Genealogies of Modernity Project\, the Harvard Catholic Center\, the Nova Forum for Catholic Thought\, and St. Paul’s Catholic Center.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-08-passage-to-modernity-renaissance-christianity-today-peter-j-casarella/
LOCATION:ONLINE\, World Wide Web\, INTERNET
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200826T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200826T170000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165005Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T144243Z
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SUMMARY:Healing the Wounds of Racism: A Discussion with Members of Chicago’s “Back of the Yards” Community
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. Online registration required. This event is organized by the Catholic Lawyer’s Guild of Chicago\, and co-sponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute \n“Compassion isn’t just about feeling the pain of others; it’s about bringing them in toward yourself. If we love what God loves\, then\, in compassion\, margins get erased.” \n– Father Gregory Boyle\, Tattoos on the Heart (2010) \n“I have never seen – even in Mississippi and Alabama – mobs as hostile and as hate-filled as I’ve seen here in Chicago.”\n– Dr. Martin Luther King\, Jr. (1966) \nOur country is in a moment of reckoning. For too long\, black people have been marginalized and denied equal justice under the law. We have created\, in the words of Pope Francis\, “an economy of exclusion and inequality.” Evangelium Gaudium\, ¶ 53. Chicago\, sadly\, is no exception. At this critical juncture\, many of us find ourselves asking: What can we do to combat racism and bring about healing in our communities? \nTo move forward\, we must first seek to listen to and understand those who have suffered from the evils of racism. We must stand with those whose dignity has been denied and learn to “find Jesus in [their] faces\, in their voices\, in their pleas.” Evangelium Gaudium\, ¶ 91. Only once our hearts are changed can we hope to bring about change in our community and justice system. \nOn August 26 at 5:00 pm\, the Precious Blood Ministry of Reconciliation will introduce us to several residents of the Back of the Yards community in a discussion moderated by Father Dave Kelly\, C.P.P.S. These men and women will share their experiences with racial prejudice and their views on how we as a city might find reconciliation. An opportunity for questions and discussion will follow.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-08-healing-wounds-of-racism-a-discussion-with-members-of-chicago-s-back-of-yards-community/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200903T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200903T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165005Z
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SUMMARY:Introduction to Liturgical Mystagogy
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. This event will be presented on Zoom (registration required)\, as well as through live-stream on YouTube. This event is presented in collaboration with the Godbearer Institute as part of a Fall webinar lecture series on “Eastern Catholic Theology in Action.” \nFrom the fourth to eighth centuries\, liturgical commentaries flourished to explain the meaning of the sacramental life of the Church. Notably after the fourth century\, the tradition of Jerusalem developed another genre for mystagogy\, namely hymnography. As part of the structure of the liturgical services\, they explain to the faithful what is happening during the services\, rather than before or after the celebration. In this way\, hymnography has an exegetical function\, commenting on scripture and the mystery of salvation in Christ. Dr. Galadza will explore this hymnographic tradition and its relation to the formation of liturgical theology. \n\nEastern Catholic Theology in Action\nDistinct in their liturgy\, theology\, spirituality\, and discipline of Church life\, 23 Eastern Churches are in communion with the Roman Catholic Church. The Second Vatican Council urged the Eastern Catholic Churches to cultivate and promote their unique share of the tradition. This series responds to that mandate and features leading scholars in the field to offer their theological perspectives drawn from the wisdom of Christian East. In view of broadening our understanding of the Catholic intellectual tradition\, this series draws attention to the vantage points of Christians who worship\, think\, and pray in continuity with the first 1\,000 years of the undivided Church. \nThis series is co-presented with the Godbearer Institute and co-sponsored by the Beatrice Institute\, the Calvert House Catholic Center\, the Catholic Theological Union\, the Institute for Faith and Culture\, God With Us Online\, the Harvard Catholic Forum\, the Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies\, the Nova Forum\, the Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham University\, the Saint Benedict Institute\, the St. Paul University Catholic Center\, St. Stephen Byzantine Catholic Church\, and the Tabor Life Institute. \nUpcoming Series Lectures: \nThursday\, September 10\, 7 p.m. CDT\nA Theology of Wonder: An Introduction to the Poetry of Ephrem the Syrian | Andrew Hayes (University of St. Thomas\, Houston) \nThursday\, September 17\, 7 p.m. CDT\nChrist the Lover of Mankind: Philanthropia\, Mystery\, and Martyria in Eastern Christianity | Robin Darling Young (Catholic University of America) \nThursday\, September 24\, 7 p.m. CDT\nEastern Churches\, Latin Territories: Ecclesial Catholicity and the Notion of Diaspora | Alexander Laschuk (Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies at University of St. Michael’s College) \nThursday\, October 1\, 7.p.m. CDT\nExpanding the Archive: Syriac Literature and the Study of Early Christianity Today | Erin Walsh (University of Chicago) \n— \nMonday\, November 12\, 7 p.m. CDT\nQuo Vadis: The Direction of Eastern Catholic Theology\, a Pastoral Perspective for the 21st Century | Archbishop Borys Gudziak (Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia and Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in the USA)
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-09-liturgical-mystagogy/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200910T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200910T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
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SUMMARY:A Theology of Wonder: An Introduction to the Poetry of Ephrem the Syrian
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. This event will be presented on Zoom (registration required)\, as well as through live-stream on YouTube. This event is presented in collaboration with the Godbearer Institute as part of a Fall webinar lecture series on “Eastern Catholic Theology in Action.” \nSt. Ephrem is the common teacher of the Syriac theological tradition whose preferred medium is poetry. Named a doctor of the Church by Benedict XV\, Ephrem emphasizes that the ascetical and mystical experience of wonder is the criterion for authentic theologizing. Dr. Hayes will discuss how Ephrem’s notion of wonder purifies our freedom and rendering the whole person a clear and luminous receptacle for the experience of God. \n\nEastern Catholic Theology in Action\nDistinct in their liturgy\, theology\, spirituality\, and discipline of Church life\, 23 Eastern Churches are in communion with the Roman Catholic Church. The Second Vatican Council urged the Eastern Catholic Churches to cultivate and promote their unique share of the tradition. This series responds to that mandate and features leading scholars in the field to offer their theological perspectives drawn from the wisdom of Christian East. In view of broadening our understanding of the Catholic intellectual tradition\, this series draws attention to the vantage points of Christians who worship\, think\, and pray in continuity with the first 1\,000 years of the undivided Church. \nThis series is co-presented with the Godbearer Institute and co-sponsored by the Beatrice Institute\, the Calvert House Catholic Center\, the Catholic Theological Union\, the Institute for Faith and Culture\, God With Us Online\, the Harvard Catholic Forum\, the Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies\, the Nova Forum\, the Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham University\, the Saint Benedict Institute\, the St. Paul University Catholic Center\, St. Stephen Byzantine Catholic Church\, and the Tabor Life Institute. \nUpcoming Series Lectures: \nThursday\, September 17\, 7 p.m. CDT\nChrist the Lover of Mankind: Philanthropia\, Mystery\, and Martyria in Eastern Christianity | Robin Darling Young (Catholic University of America) \nThursday\, September 24\, 7 p.m. CDT\nEastern Churches\, Latin Territories: Ecclesial Catholicity and the Notion of Diaspora | Alexander Laschuk (Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies at University of St. Michael’s College) \nThursday\, October 1\, 7.p.m. CDT\nExpanding the Archive: Syriac Literature and the Study of Early Christianity Today | Erin Walsh (University of Chicago) \n— \nMonday\, November 12\, 7 p.m. CDT\nQuo Vadis: The Direction of Eastern Catholic Theology\, a Pastoral Perspective for the 21st Century | Archbishop Borys Gudziak (Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia and Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in the USA)
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-9-ephrem-the-syrian/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200917T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200917T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
CREATED:20241003T165000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260325T172903Z
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SUMMARY:Christ the Lover of Mankind: Philanthropia\, Mystery\, and Martyria in Eastern Christianity
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. This event will be presented on Zoom (registration required)\, as well as through live-stream on YouTube. This event is presented in collaboration with the Godbearer Institute as part of a Fall webinar lecture series on “Eastern Catholic Theology in Action.” \nThree features are common to all Eastern Christian traditions—philanthropia\, mystery\, and martyria. They appear repeatedly in Eastern Christian writing\, ritual\, and personal practice from the preaching of Jesus to the present. Philanthropia\, God’s love for humanity\, prompts the mission of the Logos to provide for humanity’s return to the divine. Mystery\, which paradoxically reveals and conceals\, both in ceremony and in “ordinary” time\, the Logos’ saving events. Martyria is the sign and demonstration of God’s beckoning love and the replication of the “priesthood of all believers.” Dr. Young will explore these themes through examples\, not only from the Greek and Slavic traditions\, but also from those of the Christian traditions of the East\, the Caucasus and Ethiopian Christianity. \n\nEastern Catholic Theology in Action\nDistinct in their liturgy\, theology\, spirituality\, and discipline of Church life\, 23 Eastern Churches are in communion with the Roman Catholic Church. The Second Vatican Council urged the Eastern Catholic Churches to cultivate and promote their unique share of the tradition. This series responds to that mandate and features leading scholars in the field to offer their theological perspectives drawn from the wisdom of Christian East. In view of broadening our understanding of the Catholic intellectual tradition\, this series draws attention to the vantage points of Christians who worship\, think\, and pray in continuity with the first 1\,000 years of the undivided Church. \nThis series is co-presented with the Godbearer Institute and co-sponsored by the Beatrice Institute\, the Calvert House Catholic Center\, the Catholic Theological Union\, the Institute for Faith and Culture\, God With Us Online\, the Harvard Catholic Forum\, the Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies\, the Nova Forum\, the Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham University\, the Saint Benedict Institute\, the St. Paul University Catholic Center\, St. Stephen Byzantine Catholic Church\, and the Tabor Life Institute. \nUpcoming Series Lectures: \nThursday\, September 24\, 7 p.m. CDT\nEastern Churches\, Latin Territories: Ecclesial Catholicity and the Notion of Diaspora | Alexander Laschuk (Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies at University of St. Michael’s College) \nThursday\, October 1\, 7.p.m. CDT\nExpanding the Archive: Syriac Literature and the Study of Early Christianity Today | Erin Walsh (University of Chicago) \nMonday\, November 12\, 7 p.m. CDT\nQuo Vadis: The Direction of Eastern Catholic Theology\, a Pastoral Perspective for the 21st Century| Archbishop Borys Gudziak (Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia and Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in the USA)
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-9-christ-lover-of-mankind/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200924T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200924T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
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SUMMARY:Eastern Churches\, Latin Territories: Ecclesial Catholicity and the Notion of Diaspora
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. This event will be presented on Zoom (registration required)\, as well as through live-stream on YouTube. This event is presented in collaboration with the Godbearer Institute as part of a Fall webinar lecture series on “Eastern Catholic Theology in Action.” \nAccording to the teaching of the Second Vatican Council\, all Eastern Catholic Churches have same rights and obligations as the Latin Church and are equal in dignity. They also share the obligation to preach the Gospel to the whole world. At the same time\, the jurisdiction of the Eastern Churches is circumscribed to the notion of canonical territory. Inside this territory\, the hierarchy has certain rights\, while outside this territory there are numerous limitations. The talk will first discuss the notion of the Church sui iuris and the understanding of the Catholic Church as a communion of Churches. Second\, it will then examine the idea of canonical territory in the Catholic Church. Historical roots of the juridical concept will be examined before looking at the current theological and canonical expression. Finally\, the notion of canonical territory as currently existing will be critically examined\, with special attention to the conciliar teachings as well as ecumenical implications. \n\nEastern Catholic Theology in Action\nDistinct in their liturgy\, theology\, spirituality\, and discipline of Church life\, 23 Eastern Churches are in communion with the Roman Catholic Church. The Second Vatican Council urged the Eastern Catholic Churches to cultivate and promote their unique share of the tradition. This series responds to that mandate and features leading scholars in the field to offer their theological perspectives drawn from the wisdom of Christian East. In view of broadening our understanding of the Catholic intellectual tradition\, this series draws attention to the vantage points of Christians who worship\, think\, and pray in continuity with the first 1\,000 years of the undivided Church. \nThis series is co-presented with the Godbearer Institute and co-sponsored by the Beatrice Institute\, the Calvert House Catholic Center\, the Catholic Theological Union\, the Institute for Faith and Culture\, God With Us Online\, the Harvard Catholic Forum\, the Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies\, the Nova Forum\, the Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham University\, the Saint Benedict Institute\, the St. Paul University Catholic Center\, St. Stephen Byzantine Catholic Church\, and the Tabor Life Institute. \nUpcoming Series Lectures: \nThursday\, October 1\, 7.p.m. CDT\nExpanding the Archive: Syriac Literature and the Study of Early Christianity Today | Erin Walsh (University of Chicago) \nMonday\, November 12\, 7 p.m. CDT\nQuo Vadis: The Direction of Eastern Catholic Theology\, a Pastoral Perspective for the 21st Century | Archbishop Borys Gudziak (Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia and Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in the USA)
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-9-eastern-catholic-diaspora/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201001T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201001T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T030104
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SUMMARY:Expanding the Archive: Syriac Literature and the Study of Early Christianity Today
DESCRIPTION:Through the work of editing and translating Syriac manuscripts\, scholars continue to enrich our historiography of the formative centuries of Christianity. This research has been particularly fruitful in the areas of biblical interpretation\, asceticism\, the history of doctrine\, and the role of women within the church. Dr. Walsh will provide a brief overview of these developments before focusing on the importance of poetry for biblical storytelling and spiritual formation. Using examples from the poetry of Narsai and Jacob of Serugh\, Dr. Walsh will explore the ways poets inherited the legacy of Ephrem and applied their own artistic brilliance to articulate a Christian worldview\, exhorting believers to live with fervent faith both in their own time and today. \n\nProfessor Walsh has generously assembled a bibliography of additional resources and introductory readings for Syriac Studies: \nBooks/Articles  \n\nBrock\, Sebastian P. The Luminous Eye: The Spiritual World Vision of Saint Ephrem the Syrian. Kalamazoo\, MI: Cistercian Publications\, 1985.\nBrock\, Sebastian P. An Introduction to Syriac Studies. Piscataway\, NJ: Gorgias Press\, 2006.\nBrock\, Sebastian P. and Susan Ashbrook Harvey. Holy Women of the Syrian Orient. Berkeley: University of California Press\, 1987. o Also see the Gorgias Press website for the published translations of mēmrē by Jacob of Serugh and Narsai!\nHarvey\, Susan Ashbrook. “Spoken Words\, Voiced Silence: Biblical Women in Syriac Tradition.” Journal of Early Christian Studies 9\, no. 1 (2001): 105-131.\nHarvey\, Susan Ashbrook. “Revisiting the Daughters of the Covenant: Women’s Choirs and Sacred Song in Ancient Syriac Christianity.” Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 8\, no. 2 (2005): 125-149.\nVan Rompay\, Lucas. “Past and Present Perceptions of Syriac Literary Tradition.” Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 3\, no. 1 (2000): 71-103.\nVan Rompay\, Lucas. “Society and Community in the Christian East.” In The Cambridge Companion to Justinian\, edited by Michael Maas\, 239-266. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press\, 2005.\nWickes\, Jeffrey. Bible and Poetry in Late Antique Mesopotamia: Ephrem’s Hymns on Faith (University of California Press\, 2019). o UC Press is an important publisher for research on early Christianity and Syriac literature\n\nWebsites and Online Resources – many of these organizations are on social media! \n\nGorgias Press and Beth Mardutho o They also publish Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies \nGorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of Syriac Heritage – edited by Sebastian P. Brock\, Aaron M. Butts\, George A. Kiraz\, and Lucas Van Rompay\nHill Museum and Manuscript Library o Follow the Syriac Manuscript Cataloger\, Dr. James Walters on Twitter\nSyriaca.org – The Syriac Reference Portal\nSyri.ac – The Annotated Bibliography of Syriac Resources Online\nHebrew University’s Comprehensive Bibliography of Syriac Christianity\nTo learn more about the contemporary study of ancient Judaism and Christianity\, read and follow the web journal\, Ancient Jew Review\n\n\nEastern Catholic Theology in Action\nDistinct in their liturgy\, theology\, spirituality\, and discipline of Church life\, 23 Eastern Churches are in communion with the Roman Catholic Church. The Second Vatican Council urged the Eastern Catholic Churches to cultivate and promote their unique share of the tradition. This series responds to that mandate and features leading scholars in the field to offer their theological perspectives drawn from the wisdom of Christian East. In view of broadening our understanding of the Catholic intellectual tradition\, this series draws attention to the vantage points of Christians who worship\, think\, and pray in continuity with the first 1\,000 years of the undivided Church. \nThis series is co-presented with the Godbearer Institute and co-sponsored by the Beatrice Institute\, the Calvert House Catholic Center\, the Catholic Theological Union\, the Institute for Faith and Culture\, God With Us Online\, the Harvard Catholic Forum\, the Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies\, the Nova Forum\, the Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham University\, the Saint Benedict Institute\, the St. Paul University Catholic Center\, St. Stephen Byzantine Catholic Church\, and the Tabor Life Institute. \nUpcoming Series Lectures: \nThursday\, November 12\, 7 p.m. CDT\nQuo Vadis: the Direction of Eastern Catholic Theology\, a Pastoral Perspective for the 21st Century | Archbishop Borys Gudziak (Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia and Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in the USA)
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-10-expanding-archive-syriac-literature-study-of-early-christianity-today-erin-walsh/
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SUMMARY:Fearful Symmetry: Cosmic Order and a Divine Creator
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. This event is organized by the Harvard Catholic Forum and is co-presented with the Lumen Christi Institute. This event will be held on Zoom (registration required) and live-streamed to the Harvard Catholic Forum’s YouTube page. \n— \nFor thousands of years\, some philosophers and scientists have argued that order in the universe points to a creator God. How does this argument hold up against the scientific discoveries of recent decades? Join us as theoretical particle physicist Stephen Barr examines the cosmic order and its relationship to a Divine Creator.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-10-fearful-symmetry-cosmic-order-a-divine-creator-stephen-m-barr/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201016T120000
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SUMMARY:Integral Bioethics in the Anthropocene
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. This event is being co-presented with the International Academy for Bioethical Inquiry\, and co-sponsored by the Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics. This event will be held on Zoom (registration required) and live-streamed on YouTube. \nIn 2000\, scientists argued that human impact on the Earth reached levels meriting the creation of a new geological epoch\, naming it the Anthropocene. The challenge of the Anthropocene is more than just an acknowledgement of changes to our planet\, but also a challenge to humanity\, pressing us to reconsider human health\, action\, and ethics. Can theological insights\, ranging from early Christian thinkers to Pope Francis’s Laudato si’\, help orient us in the Anthropocene\, or do they fall short of the challenge? Join as this interdisciplinary panel brings scientific\, theological\, and ethical perspectives to bear on integral bioethics in the Anthropocene.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-10-integral-bioethics-anthropocene-willis-jenkins-benjamin-de-foy/
LOCATION:ONLINE\, World Wide Web\, INTERNET
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201020T120000
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SUMMARY:Christ\, the True Origin of Humanity
DESCRIPTION:This event is co-presented by the Society of Catholic Scientists and the Science and Religion Initiative at the McGrath Institute for Church Life\, and is co-sponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute. \n“Its beginnings are no measure of its capabilities\, nor of its scope.” These words of St. John Henry Newman describing the character of great ideas works equally well in describing the human species. For many\, what we were in prehistory is what defines us now. But the Christian faith has a much different\, and more exciting\, perspective. In this presentation\, Chris Baglow will connect the beginning and the end of humanity\, relying on Scripture\, Tradition and the insights of modern science as well as modern theologians.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-10-christ-true-origin-of-humanity-chris-baglow/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201022T140000
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SUMMARY:The United Nations at 75: Catholic Perspectives
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. This event is co-presented with America Media\, the Kellogg Institute for International Studies\, and the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations\, and is co-sponsored by the Beatrice Institute\, the Collegium Institute\, the Harvard Catholic Forum\, the Institute for Faith and Culture\, the Institute for Human Ecology\, the Nova Forum for Catholic Thought\, and the St. Paul Catholic Center. This event will be held on Zoom (registration required) and live-streamed to YouTube. \nHistorically\, the Bishop of Rome and the diplomats representing the Holy See have played important roles in international affairs involving Empires and Kingdoms\, sometimes in making war\, sometimes negotiating marriages and alliances\, ideally in making peace. With the loss of the Papal States in 1870 and the creation of\, first\, the League of Nations\, and later\, the United Nations\, the Holy See has continued to play an important—and sometimes contested—role. Of course\, lay Catholics played an important role in founding the UN—as they did for the EU and in writing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This panel discussion explores the history of the Holy See’s relations with the United Nations\, the role of lay Catholics and Church leaders in developing the human rights tradition\, and the growing role of Catholic NGOs as they work alongside the UN for justice\, peace\, religious freedom\, and integral human development around the world. Moderated by Paolo Carozza (Notre Dame)\, this panel features the participation of Archbishop Gabriele Caccia\, Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations; Joseph Donnelly\, Delegate of Caritas Internationalis to the UN; and Mary Ann Glendon\, former US ambassador to the Holy See and expert in human rights.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-10-on-founding-of-un-mary-ann-glendon-paolo-carozza-joseph-cornelius-donnelly/
LOCATION:ONLINE\, World Wide Web\, INTERNET
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201027T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201027T183000
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SUMMARY:Fratelli Tutti: Engaging Pope Francis's New Encyclical on Social Friendship
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Institute for Human Ecology at Catholic University of America and America Media. The event will take place online over Zoom and YouTube livestream.\nWho is my neighbor? Who is my brother and sister? Drawing on central gospel themes found in the Good Samaritan narrative\, Pope Francis applies them to the whole “human family\,” proposing that the logic of social friendship and neighborly love move beyond the personal to touch on every major social sphere. Join as this panel of experts in Catholic Social Thought discuss Pope Francis’s latest social encyclical\, Fratelli Tutti.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-10-fratelli-tutti-engaging-pope-franciss-social-encyclical-on-social-friendship-joseph-capizzi-russell-hittinger/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201028T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201028T190000
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SUMMARY:Great Texts in Legal History Seminar and Discussion
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\n$104 Registration Fee/ $50 for JD students.\nOpen to lawyers and law school students. CLE credit available. \nOthers interested in participating should contact us. Seminars will be held online over Zoom. \nThe Lumen Christi Institute has partnered with the Catholic Lawyers Guild to offer a monthly close-reading seminar on “Great Texts in Legal History.”  The seminar will be led by Austin Walker (Assistant Director of the Lumen Christi Institute) and moderated by Judge Tom Donnelly. This monthly online seminar will allow lawyers to read and analyze great short works that illuminate the relationship between law\, ethics\, free will\, authority\, and God. Selections are short enough to read immediately beforehand. We will also read them during the session. \n\nSCHEDULE \nSeptember 23 | The Ten Commandments \nOctober 28 | Lincoln’s Second Inaugural \nNovember 18 | 2 Samuel 11 and 12: David and Bathsheba & Nathan rebukes David \nDecember 16 | Frederick Douglass\, What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? (excerpts) \nJanuary 20 | Thomas Aquinas\, Treatise on Law (excerpts) \nFebruary 24 | Lawrence Joseph\, Curriculum Vitae (poem)
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2021-02-great-texts-in-legal-history-seminar-thomas-donnelly/
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CATEGORIES:ONLINE
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201028T190000
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SUMMARY:Education and the Catholic Intellectual Life
DESCRIPTION:Open to current University of Chicago students (undergrads and grad students welcome). This event will take place over Zoom. \nJoin Calvert House and the Lumen Christi Institute for an hour-long panel discussion and Q&A on the Catholic Intellectual Life. Why do we pursue education in the first place? Why study topics that may not be directly relevant to our work? Do Christians approach their studies differently? There is no better time to think broadly about the meaning of education than at the start of a new school year. \nThe panel will feature Fr. Andrew Liaguminus\, chaplain of Calvert House; Jennifer Martin\, professor in the Program of Liberal Studies at Notre Dame; and Andrew Horne\, postdoctoral fellow at the Lumen Christi Institute
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-10-education-catholic-intellectual-life-andrew-horne-fr-andrew-liaugminas-jennifer-newsome-martin/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201029T183000
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SUMMARY:What Do Genesis 1-3 Tell Us About Creation in a Scientific Age?
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. This event is organized by the Harvard Catholic Forum\, co-presented by the Lumen Christi Institute\, and co-sponsored by the Society of Catholic Scientists and the Science & Religion Initiative at the McGrath Institute for Church Life. This event will be held on Zoom (registration required) and live-streamed to the Harvard Catholic Forum’s YouTube page. \n— \nModern readers fall naturally into a series of typical mistakes when interpreting the creation accounts in Genesis. Urging us to consider these texts with fresh eyes\, Fr. Clifford asks: Why does Genesis 1 describe creation as a 6-day work week? Why is Genesis 2-3 set on a large farm? And if today we cannot accept some of the Biblical writers’ assumptions\, how can they still instruct us?
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-10-what-do-genesis-1-3-tell-us-about-creation-in-a-scientific-age-richard-clifford-s-j/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201101T160000
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SUMMARY:Venerating the Saints: An Ancient Tradition Actual Today
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. This event is co-presented with the Bollandist Society and America Media\, and is co-sponsored by the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University\, the Nova Forum\, the Harvard Catholic Forum\, the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies at USC\, the Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage\, the Georgetown Office of Mission and Ministry\, and the Collegium Institute. This event will be held on Zoom (registration required) and live-streamed to YouTube. \nFew Christian practices are as ancient and widely popular as veneration of the saints.  It is appropriate on this Feast of All Saints to review that history\, consider the challenges it has faced\, and reflect on its appeal even in our day. Beginning with the early veneration of the martyrs\, especially in Rome\, the presentation will show how it expanded to confessors who “confessed” or witnessed to the faith under trial and then came to include the veneration of images and relics\, which provoked severe controversy. The talk will conclude with consideration of Jesuit saints\, saints today\, and the work of the Bollandist Society\, a unique group of Jesuits based in Belgium who have\, for centuries\, provided crucial editing and scholarship that have defined the field of “hagiography\,” the serious\, critical historical study of the lives of the saints. \nYou can learn more about the Bollandist Society here.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-11-venerating-saints-an-ancient-tradition-actual-today-john-omalley-sj/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201110T180000
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SUMMARY:Thinking Inside and Outside the University: Zena Hitz on the Inner Life
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. This event will be held online through Zoom (registration required) and YouTube live-stream. This event is presented by the Lumen Christi Institute Forum on the Church in Higher Education as part of its Liberal Arts Colloquium. This event is cosponsored by The Point magazine\, the Saint Benedict Institute\, Calvert House Catholic Center\, Princeton University Press\, and the Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage. \nIn a world where efficiency and utility are the standards by which we measure success\, how do we appreciate what resists quantification? And at a moment of institutional change and instability for higher education\, what do we hold onto? \nIn her new book\, Lost in Thought\, Zena Hitz lays out the case for the inner life as a good in itself. Today\, when even the humanities are often defended only for their economic or political usefulness\, Hitz says our intellectual lives are valuable not despite but because of their practical uselessness. Within or without institutional structures\, the intellectual life offers a source of meaning and fulfillment. \nIn this webinar conversation with Jared Ortiz\, Hitz will elucidate the hidden pleasures of contemplation\, assess the possibilities for its re-emergence in the contemporary university\, and debate whether figures as dissimilar as the Virgin Mary\, Albert Einstein\, and Malcom X can be said to participate in a common intellectual activity.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-11-thinking-inside-outside-university-zena-hitz-on-inner-life-zena-hitz-jared-ortiz/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201112T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201112T200000
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SUMMARY:Quo Vadis: The Direction of Eastern Catholic Theology\, a Pastoral Perspective for the 21st Century
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. This event will be presented on Zoom (registration required)\, as well as through live-stream on YouTube. This event is co-presented with the Godbearer Institute and the Collegium Institute.\nMetropolitan Borys Gudziak has spent his life committed to Catholic education. He helped to found Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv\, the only Catholic University between Poland and Japan. The University’s mission was simple: to bring the Christian humanist vision of the Catholic University to Ukraine to heal the wounds inflicted by Soviet oppression. Gudziak was rector of Ukrainian Catholic University until 2012 and became president upon his episcopal ordination. After seven years as ordinary for Ukrainian Catholics in France\, Belgium\, the Netherlands\, Luxembourg\, and Switzerland he was named metropolitan archbishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia in 2019. From the depths of his experience living between continents\, eastern and western Europe\, the academy and pastoral life\, Gudziak will offer a pastoral perspective on the Eastern Catholic theological voice and its role in communicating the Gospel today. \n\nEastern Catholic Theology in Action\nDistinct in their liturgy\, theology\, spirituality\, and discipline of Church life\, 23 Eastern Churches are in communion with the Roman Catholic Church. The Second Vatican Council urged the Eastern Catholic Churches to cultivate and promote their unique share of the tradition. This series responds to that mandate and features leading scholars in the field to offer their theological perspectives drawn from the wisdom of Christian East. In view of broadening our understanding of the Catholic intellectual tradition\, this series draws attention to the vantage points of Christians who worship\, think\, and pray in continuity with the first 1\,000 years of the undivided Church. \nThis series is co-presented with the Godbearer Institute and co-sponsored by the Beatrice Institute\, the Calvert House Catholic Center\, the Catholic Theological Union\, the Institute for Faith and Culture\, God With Us Online\, the Harvard Catholic Forum\, the Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies\, the Nova Forum\, the Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham University\, the Saint Benedict Institute\, the St. Paul University Catholic Center\, St. Stephen Byzantine Catholic Church\, and the Tabor Life Institute. \nPrevious Lectures in the Series \nThursday\, September 3\, 7 p.m. CDT\nIntroduction to Liturgical Mystagogy | Daniel Galadza (University of Regensburg) \nThursday\, September 10\, 7 p.m. CDT\nA Theology of Wonder: An Introduction to the Poetry of Ephrem the Syrian | Andrew Hayes (University of St. Thomas\, Houston) \nThursday\, September 17\, 7 p.m. CDT\nChrist the Lover of Mankind: Philanthropia\, Mystery\, and Martyria in Eastern Christianity | Robin Darling Young (Catholic University of America) \nThursday\, September 24\, 7 p.m. CDT\nEastern Churches\, Latin Territories: Ecclesial Catholicity and the Notion of Diaspora | Alexander Laschuk (Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies at University of St. Michael’s College) \nThursday\, October 1\, 7.p.m. CDT\nExpanding the Archive: Syriac Literature and the Study of Early Christianity Today | Erin Walsh (University of Chicago)
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-11-quo-vadis-eastern-catholic-theology/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201113T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201113T160000
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SUMMARY:Master Class on Yves Simon on Natural Law
DESCRIPTION:A FOLLOW UP MASTER CLASS ON PART 2 OF THE BOOK WILL BE HELD ON JANUARY 15.\nOpen to current graduate students. It will take place online on Zoom. Copies of the readings will be provided. Others interested in participating should contact us. \nJoin us for a master class on Yves Simon’s The Tradition of Natural Law: A Philosopher’s Reflections (Fordham University Press\, 1999). \nYou can watch Professor Hittinger’s lecture on Part 1 of the book here. \n\nABOUT THE BOOK \nThe tradition of natural law is one of the foundations of Western civilization. At its heart is the conviction that there is an objective and universal justice which transcends humanity’s particular expressions of justice. It asserts that there are certain ways of behaving which are appropriate to humanity simply by virtue of the fact that we are all human beings. Recent political debates indicate that it is not a tradition that has gone unchallenged: in fact\, the opposition is as old as the tradition itself. \nBy distinguishing between philosophy and ideology\, by recalling the historical adventures of natural law\, and by reviewing the theoretical problems involved in the doctrine\, Simon clarifies much of the confusion surrounding this perennial debate. He tackles the questions raised by the application of natural law with skill and honesty as he faces the difficulties of the subject. \nSimon warns against undue optimism in a revival of interest in natural law and insists that the study of natural law beings with the analysis of “the law of the land.” He writes not as a polemicist but as a philosopher\, and he writes of natural law with the same force\, conciseness\, lucidity and simplicity which have distinguished all his other works.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-11-master-class-on-tradition-of-natural-law-a-philosophers-reflection/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201114T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201114T143000
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SUMMARY:Human Rights and Human Wrongs: The Catholic History of Human Rights
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Lumen Christi Institute’s Newman Forum. Open to current high school students. This event was made possible by a grant from the Our Sunday Visitor Institute\, and is cosponsored by the University of Saint Mary of the Lake\, Mundelein Seminary\, and the Archdiocese of Chicago Vocation Office. \nYou can email Austin Walker or Madison Chastain with any questions or concerns! \nOnline Schedule \n9:30 Opening Prayer & Welcome \n9:45 1st Lecture \n10:20 1st Q&A \n10:45 Break \n11:00 2nd Lecture \n11:35 2nd Q&A \n11:45pm Online Breakout Discussion Groups \n12:30pm Conclusion \n\nWhat makes something right?  What makes something wrong? What is a “right\,” and why ought it be respected? What happens if two people’s rights come into conflict? What is justice? Why (and how) ought it be pursued?The Newman Forum is excited to continue its yearly tradition of day-long academic conferences during the Autumn and Winter Quarters. \nOn Saturday\, November 14\, the Newman Forum will host a conference about the relationship between rights\, justice\, and–the theme we’ve chosen for our year–human dignity. Professor Paolo Carozza will introduce us to the development of the earliest human rights tradition by Spanish Dominicans in the 16th century\, and chart the course of its expansion into our contemporary language of human rights and social justice\, which fails to achieve its ends when it loses the Catholic understanding of human dignity. It can seem to us that the Catholic Church is new to topics of justice and rights\, but not only were Catholics some of the first to develop the language of rights and justice\, but the Catholic understanding of human dignity is pivotal to our contemporary pursuit of a just society! \n\nThis November\, our fall conference will be a hybrid event. IN-PERSON REGISTRATION IS CLOSED. \nHigh school teachers and youth ministers are encouraged to bring online groups. If they so desire\, they will be given their own virtual discussion room after the lectures to discuss the content with their students. Otherwise\, your students can be assigned to a group led by one of our trained graduate-student discussion leaders. A separate pre-event prep meeting is offered to teachers who would like it. \nIn-Person Schedule \n9:00 Grab-and-go breakfast (Coffee Room) \n9:30 Prayer and Welcome (Chapel) \n9:45 1st Lecture (Chapel) \n10:20 1st Q&A (Chapel) \n10:45 Break & Snack (Coffee Room) \n11:00 2nd Lecture (Chapel) \n11:35 2nd Q&A (Chapel) \n11:45 Transition to Eucharistic Adoration (Chapel) \n12:10pm Grab-and-Go Lunch (Coffee Room) & Discussion Groups (Breakout Rooms) \n1:00pm Final Q&A (Chapel) \n1:30pm Closing Prayer (Chapel) \nThere will be mandatory health screenings at the start of the in-person experience. Masks will be required at all times during the day\, except for when students are eating. Refusal to wear a mask or follow appropriate social distancing protocols will be grounds for removal from the event\, as it will violate the Newman Forum’s contract with Mundelein Seminary.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-11-human-rights-human-wrongs-catholic-history-of-human-rights-paolo-carozza-austin-walker/
LOCATION:University of Saint Mary of the Lake\, 1000 East Maple Avenue \nMundelein\, IL 60060\, Mundelein\, IL
CATEGORIES:Newman Forum
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SUMMARY:Extraterrestrial Life: The Science and the Theology
DESCRIPTION:A webinar discussion with Jonathan I. Lunine (Cornell University)\, and Christopher Baglow (University of Notre Dame). This presentation is the second part of the the Steno Lectures: Discussions at the Intersection of Faith and Science\, presented by the Society of Catholic Scientists and the Science and Religion Initiative at the McGrath Institute for Church Life. This event is co-sponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute. \nMight Extraterrestrial life exist? Where? How would we search for it? (Do we already have evidence of it?)  Could such life have human-level intelligence? If Extraterrestrial intelligent life (or “ETI” life) exists\, what would be its theological implications? These questions will be addressed by two distinguished Catholic scholars: Cornell astrophysicist\, Prof. Jonathan Lunine\, and Universiy of Notre Dame theologian\, Prof. Christopher Baglow.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-11-extraterrestrial-life-science-theology/
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SUMMARY:COVID-19 and the Worldwide Church
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. This event is organized by the Harvard Catholic Forum\, co-presented with the Lumen Christi Institute\, and co-sponsored by the Saint Benedict Institute\, the Collegium Institute\, the Institute for Faith and Culture\, the Nova Forum\, and St. Paul’s University Catholic Center. This event will be held on Zoom (registration required) and live-streamed to the Harvard Catholic Forum’s YouTube page. \nThe pandemic of 2020 has disrupted the sacraments and public worship\, scattered communities\, and put local churches into new\, sometimes strained\, relationships with civil authorities. The Church has also been a significant actor in the crisis\, offering relief services and spiritual care on a massive scale. What does all this mean for the worldwide Church\, now and in the years to come? \n\nImage credit: Vatican Media
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-11-covid-19-worldwide-church/
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SUMMARY:Friends in Heaven: Edmund Campion and the Martyrs of England & Wales
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. This event will be held online through Zoom (registration required) and live-streamed to YouTube. This event is co-presented with the Bollandist Society and America Media. \n“The expense is reckoned\, the enterprise is begun; it is of God; it cannot be withstood.” With these bold words Edmund Campion\, SJ\, communicated to Her Majesty’s Privy Council in 1581 the Catholic plan to restore the faith in England.  On December 1\, the Church celebrates Campion and his fellow martyrs of England and Wales.  They did not succeed in restoring the faith\, but they did carry out one of the most dangerous and fascinating clandestine missions in the history of the Church.  “Friends in Heaven” explores the origin\, activities\, and ultimate demise of these men\, as well as the lay Catholics who aided them\, in the Elizabethan age\, and concludes with a brief discussion of how they came to be canonized. \n\nPresented on the feast day of St. Edmund Campion\, this event continues our event series on the saints\, examining the lives of the martyrs of England and Wales. \nPrevious events in this series: \n\n“Venerating the Saints: An Ancient Tradition Actual Today” with Fr. John O’Malley\, S.J.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-12-friends-in-heaven-edmund-campion-martyrs-of-england-wales/
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SUMMARY:Food Insecurity in the U.S.: Insights from Catholic Social Thought and Economics
DESCRIPTION:7:00 PM CST / 8:00 PM EST\nFree and open to the public. The event will be held online over Zoom and will be livestreamed on YouTube. This event is co-presented with the Catholic Research Economists Discussion Organization (CREDO)\, and is co-sponsored by America Media\, Catholic Charities USA\, Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago\, the Center for Social Concerns at the University of Notre Dame\, the Department of Justice\, Peace and Human Development for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops\, and the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO). \nFood insecurity has become a leading indicator of well-being in the U.S. due to the tens of millions of food insecure Americans and the accordant negative physical and mental health outcomes and higher health care costs.  Its importance has become even more stark during COVID-19\, as rates are predicted to rise by almost 50% in 2020 in comparison to 2019.  Join us for a discussion of food insecurity in the context of Catholic Social Thought with a panel comprised of a theologian\, Margaret Pfeil (University of Notre Dame)\, and of economists Bruce Weber (Oregon State)\, and Craig Gundersen (University of Illinois)\, moderated by economist Chris Barrett (Cornell). \n\nAdditional reading on food insecurity and work of our cosponsor\, Catholic Charities: https://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org/story/as-food-insecurity-rises-pantries-work-overtime-to-meet-the-growing-need/
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-12-food-insecurity/
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SUMMARY:A Catholic Life in the Secular University: A Conversation with George Dennis O'Brien
DESCRIPTION:Cosponsored by Commonweal Magazine\, and the Sheil Catholic Center at Northwestern University. This event is presented by the Lumen Christi Institute Forum on the Church in Higher Education as part of its Liberal Arts Colloquium.\nJohn F. Kennedy once quipped that a Catholic would be president of the United States before a Catholic would be president of Harvard. As the Catholic president of two secular universities\, Dennis O’Brien was a trailblazer. In this interview\, O’Brien discusses his long career in higher education as a Catholic\, a philosopher\, and an administrator\, with reflections on the past\, present\, and future of American higher education. \nO’Brien was raised in a south-side Chicago parish in the 1930s and 1940s. Educated at Yale\, he came to the University of Chicago to write a PhD on Hegel. He was appointed president of Bucknell in 1976 and the University of Rochester in 1984. O’Brien’s varied career offers a fascinating window onto the history of American higher education in the twentieth century. Philosopher and fellow Hegelian Mark Alznauer will conduct this interview\, focusing on higher education both Catholic and secular\, as well as O’Brien’s experiences growing up in Chicago and attending the University of Chicago.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-11-a-catholic-life-in-secular-university-a-conversation-with-george-dennis-obrien-mark-alznauer-g-dennis-obrien/
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SUMMARY:Is there a Catholic Vote? An Evangelical Vote? Religion\, Polls and Presidential Elections
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\nFree and open to the public. This event will be held online through Zoom (registration required) and YouTube live-stream. This event is cosponsored by America Media and the Institute for Human Ecology. \nThe 2020 presidential race seemed to highlight the central role of religion in the electorate. Democrats spent heavily on campaign ads emphasizing Joe Biden’s Roman Catholicism. President Trump has spent the past four years courting Evangelicals and conservative Catholics. But is there really a religious vote? In this panel\, experts will examine the relationship between religion\, polls\, and presidential elections.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-12-is-there-a-catholic-vote-is-there-an-evangelical-vote-experts-examine-relationships-among-religion-polls-presidential-elections-william-mccready-peter-wehner-kenneth-woodward/
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SUMMARY:Partners in Charity: St. Louise de Marillac and St. Vincent de Paul
DESCRIPTION:Join us February 13 for the next event in this series on “Pledges of the Saints: the Cult of Relics in the Catholic Tradition.” \nThis event is co-presented with the Bollandist Society  \nIn this talk\, we will examine side by side the lives and legacies of two major saints of French Catholicism’s seventeenth-century golden age.  Louise de Marillac and Vincent de Paul co-founded the Daughters of Charity\, one of the most successful socially-oriented women’s congregations in the Church’s history\, when the Tridentine-era bishops were attempting to enforce strict claustration for women religious.  They also collaborated with a wide circle of lay and religious women and men of different social backgrounds in ways that transformed Christian life in and beyond France for centuries.  We will reflect on the two saints’ fruitful spiritual friendship of several decades.  We will also consider why De Marillac is far less well known than De Paul in modern times\, something that stems in part from the different trajectories their causes for sainthood took in the wake of each saint’s death\, only several months apart from the other’s\, in 1660.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2021-01-partners-in-charity-ss-louise-de-marillac-vincent-de-paul/
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SUMMARY:Laudato Si at 5-years: Towards an Ecology of Culture
DESCRIPTION:How do we develop a culture marked by an ethic of ecological awareness? In Laudato Si\, Pope Francis called for an ecological conversion to just such a culture. The ecological conversion he envisions entails more than just tinkering with technology or the economy; rather\, we must reshape our sense of culture and society. Pope Francis has asked that this year be dedicated to a reflection on the continuing importance of Laudato Si.\nHow does an ecologically aware ethic change the ways we live together\, create art\, and encounter nature? What kind of culture should we be developing to live out an ecological conversion?  How can art\, design\, and urban planning contribute to an ecology of conversion? How can we change our own lifestyles to develop an ethic of ecological awareness? How can a non-consumerist approach to the good life help save our planet? How can religion in conversation with the secular world help advance such a change in culture. \nPresented by the Collegium Institute and the Pontifical Council for Culture. Csponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute. \n\nSpeakers\n\n\nBishop Paul Tighe\n\n\nKate Soper\n\n\nMakoto Fujimura\n\n\nPhil Bess (ND)
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2021-01-laudato-si-at-5-years-towards-an-ecology-of-culture/
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SUMMARY:Master Class on Yves Simon on Natural Law\, Part 2
DESCRIPTION:Open to current graduate students. It will take place online on Zoom. Copies of the readings will be provided. Others interested in participating should contact us.\nJoin us for a master class on part II of Yves Simon’s The Tradition of Natural Law: A Philosopher’s Reflections (Fordham University Press\, 1999). \n\nABOUT THE BOOK \nThe tradition of natural law is one of the foundations of Western civilization. At its heart is the conviction that there is an objective and universal justice which transcends humanity’s particular expressions of justice. It asserts that there are certain ways of behaving which are appropriate to humanity simply by virtue of the fact that we are all human beings. Recent political debates indicate that it is not a tradition that has gone unchallenged: in fact\, the opposition is as old as the tradition itself. \nBy distinguishing between philosophy and ideology\, by recalling the historical adventures of natural law\, and by reviewing the theoretical problems involved in the doctrine\, Simon clarifies much of the confusion surrounding this perennial debate. He tackles the questions raised by the application of natural law with skill and honesty as he faces the difficulties of the subject. \nSimon warns against undue optimism in a revival of interest in natural law and insists that the study of natural law beings with the analysis of “the law of the land.” He writes not as a polemicist but as a philosopher\, and he writes of natural law with the same force\, conciseness\, lucidity and simplicity which have distinguished all his other works.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2021-01-master-class-on-tradition-of-natural-law-part-2/
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