Tickets: $15 general, $5 students and seniors University of Chicago students free with ID Cosponsored by the France Chicago Center
This lecture will investigate the interpretation of the Book of Revelation, or Apocalypse, in Origen and the Origenian tradition. Why does Origen accept this book, whereas many Origenian exegetes do not? What role does Millenarianism play in this choice, and what kind of exegesis does Origen apply in order to accept the Apocalypse? In answering these questions and others, the lecture looks to two influences on Origen’s thought: Plato and St. Paul, especially 1 Cor. 15.
Panelists include Charles Taylor and Paul Thibaud. All presentations given in French.
Professor Paul Griffiths (Duke University) led a seminar on Augustine’s seminal later works, De Trinitate and De Civitate Dei at the University of St. Mary of the Lake Conference Center in Mundelein, Illinois.
The work of Pierre Hadot and, in his later years, Michel Foucault on the ancient pagan and Christian practices of askesis, or “spiritual exercise,” has proven to be of interest not only to scholars of the late classical and early Christian era, but to a much broader range of humanists working across a variety of disciplines. One reason for this interest is the possibility that religious and non-religious contemporary academics might be able to incorporate the techniques and aims of spiritual exercise into their own scholarly work, thus imbuing their academic teaching and writing with an ethical, if not religious,...
Fr. Benedict Ashley’s life at the University of Chicago in the 1930’s included Trotskyite activism and participation in the first Great Books Seminar led by President Robert Maynard Hutchins. His lecture will consider liberal education in light of this history and the life of scholarship and inquiry it inspired.
Jean-Luc Marion delivers a lecture titled "Is There a Christian Philosophy?" on November 10, 2010 at the University of Chicago.
Paul E. Sigmund, Professor of Politics at Princeton University, delivers a lecture titled "Aquinas, Thomism, and 20th Century Liberalism” on November 17, 2010 at the University of Chicago.
Friday, January 7, 8:00pm Rockefeller Chapel, 5850 S. Woodlawn Ave. Saturday, January 8, 8:00pm St. Clement Church, 642 W. Deming Place Tickets available at door: $20 general, $10 students and seniors, Free for University of Chicago students
Registration Form Saturday, January 8, 2011 Hotel Monaco 501 Geary Street San Francisco, CA 94102 http://www.monaco-sf.com/
Intended for university students, faculty, and recent graduates. Others interested in attending, please contact info@lumenchristi.org Thursday, January 13 Genesis 1-2: “Creation: Grace upon Grace” If the Hebrew word for God were treated as an unknown (so that we learned its meaning from the text, instead of bringing our catechism with us to the reading), these verses would by themselves teach us most of the Divine Attributes. We are told of the creation of heaven and earth, the creation of man in the image of God, the naming of the beasts, the presentation of the woman and her namegiving, and the...
