Name: The Only Way To Truth Is By Love
Start: 2017-04-27T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2017-04-27T19:00:00-05:00
Location: Swift Hall, 3rd Floor Lecture

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February 2017
February 21st, 2017 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

The Book of Judges

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

6:00 Dinner | 6:30 Lecture Open to current students and faculty. Others interested in attending please contact info@lumenchristi.org. Registrants are free to attend as many sessions as they choose. The Book of Judges is a collection of loosely connected accounts of the loosely connected Israelite tribes in the period between the death of the general Joshua and the establishment of the first kingdom. This time of religious and military crisis brought to the fore a series of heroes called šōṕēṭîm (judges) who, as emergency agents of God's deliverance and chastisement, reconnected the Israelites to the promises made in the covenants. In...
February 23rd, 2017 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Tracing our Shared Deep History: Evolutionary Anthropology and Theo-Drama

Social Sciences, Room 122 1126 E 59th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Cosponsored by the Theology and Religious Ethics Workshop While theology and biological science often seem to be at odds, there are productive ways of telling the Christian story of who we are as human beings which resonate with newer evolutionary theories. This lecture will argue that the most convincing theological approach is theo-drama, where insights from the dramatic stage inform our theological reflections in relation to the drama of evolution. Such exchanges can be highly creative for theology and anthropology; neither party in the dialogue is reduced to the other, and both are enriched in new and interesting ways.
March 2017
March 3rd, 2017 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

The Liberal Arts Then and Now

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

Open to current University of Chicago undergraduates. Lunch will be served. Literary critic, noted essayist, and alumnus of the College Joseph Epstein will participate in a conversation with students about his life inside and outside the academy. Students are encouraged to read the short essay "Who Killed the Liberal Arts? And Why We Should Care" in preparation for the discussion.
March 16th, 2017 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

The Soul of Early Irish Monasticism

Union League Club 65 W Jackson Blvd. Chicago, IL 60604, Downtown, IL

Not many people are aware that when it comes to Irish religious history, St. Patrick only scratches the surface. The island in fact has a rich and fascinating Christian heritage, of which monks and sprawling monastic communities play a central role.
March 26th, 2017 @ 3:00 pm

Echoes from the Galleries

Art Institute of Chicago 111 S Michigan Ave. Chicago, IL 60603, Downtown

a concert with Schola Antiqua of Chicago (Lumen Christi Artists-in-Residence) BUY TICKETS $10 non-members | $5 members & students* * - Ticket allows for entry to the museum and event beginning at 2:30pm. To enter the museum prior to 2:30pm, please purchase a separate museum admission ticket. Schola Antiqua presents a concert in connection with the opening of The Deering Family Galleries of Medieval and Renaissance Art, Arms, and Armor at the Art Institute of Chicago. The program includes music inspired by beautifully illustrated books of hours and early sixteenth-century German art, as well as pieces celebrating the theme of...
March 31st, 2017 @ 4:00 pm

The Greek East and the Spiritual Franciscan View of History

Swift Hall, First Floor Common Room 1025 E 58th St,Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

REGISTER HERE Cosponsored by the Theology & Religious Ethics Workshop The Spiritual Franciscan Angelo Clareno (d.1337) fervently promoted the view that St. Francis’ life and Rule renewed the true evangelic life. When ecclesiastical persecution led him to flee to Greece, Angelo came into contact with both Greek monasticism and Greek theology based on the Church fathers. While in Greece, he translated Greek texts and he found in Greek monastic traditions possibilities for living according to Francis’ rule outside the Franciscan order. Angelo’s time in Greece also led him to reflect on Church history and the relationship between Greek and Latin...
April 2017
April 6th, 2017 @ 4:30 pm

Religious Origins of Modern Science?

Kersten 120 5720 South Ellis Avenue, Hyde Park, IL

REGISTER HERE Cosponsored by the Department of History and the Committee for the Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science It is often thought that modern science developed largely independently of, or even in opposition to, religion. Some historians, however, have suggested that religious factors played a key role in the emergence of modern science in the seventeenth century, and were important in establishing a permanent and prominent place for scientific activity at the heart of modern Western culture. This lecture explores a number of ways in which religion may have had a positive impact on the emergence and consolidation of...
April 7th, 2017 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Lunch Discussion on “The Cosmos and the Religious Quest”

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

Students will read and discuss Chapter 2 from Professor Peter Harrison's book The Territories of Science and Religion (University of Chicago, 2015) entitled "The Cosmos and the Religious Quest." Prof. Harrison will also give a public lecture on "Religious Origins of Modern Science?" on Thursday, April 6. ABOUT THE BOOK The conflict between science and religion seems indelible, even eternal. Surely two such divergent views of the universe have always been in fierce opposition? Actually, that’s not the case, says Peter Harrison: our very concepts of science and religion are relatively recent, emerging only in the past three hundred years,...
April 8th, 2017 @ 2:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Master Class on The Wisdom of Bernard of Clairvaux

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

REGISTER HERE This master class is open to current students and faculty. PDFs of the readings will be made available for participants. This one-time Seminar will study selected writings of the great Cistercian theologian and mystic, Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1157). Bernard was one of the most remarkable figures of the twelfth century—monastic leader, ecclesiastical politician, and noted theologian. His most important legacy, however, was as a mystic and mystical writer. His mystical treatises, such as On Loving God (De diligendo Deo), and especially his eighty-six sermons on the biblical Song of Songs (Sermones super Cantica Canticorum), are among the most...
April 21st, 2017 @ 12:00 am - April 23rd, 2017 @ 12:00 am

“Origins:” The Inaugural Conference of the Society of Catholic Scientists

Millenium Knickerbocker Hotel 163 East Walton Place, Downtown, IL

WATCH VIDEOS HERE The first annual conference of the Society of Catholic Scientists cosponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute The conference brought together researchers on all aspects of origins, from cosmos to consciousness. Specific topics included current cosmological ideas on the beginning and fate of the universe, fine-tuning and multiverse ideas, habitable planets and astrobiology, the origin of life, the evolution of species, and the origin of intelligence and consciousness. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS "The Origin and Evolution of Universes" - Prof. John D. Barrow (Univ. of Cambridge) "The Origin and Evolution of Habitable Worlds" - Prof. Karin I. Öberg (Harvard Univ.)...
April 22nd, 2017 @ 10:00 am - 1:00 pm

Catholic and Protestant Reformations and the Genealogy of Modernity

REGISTER HERE Open to current graduate students and faculty At this master class seminar, participants will read and discuss Professor Carlos Eire's essay "Incombustible Weber: How the Protestant Reformation Really Disenchanted the World" from Faithful Narratives: Historians, Religion, and the Challenge of Objectivity, ed. Andrea Stark and Nina Caputo (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2014). A PDF copy of the reading will be provided. This chapter discusses how challenges to traditional beliefs about death and purgatory in the Protestant Reformation caused significant material consequences, triggering a so-called “economic revolution.” Focusing on the issue of secularization in a present-day understanding of Protestant...
April 27th, 2017 @ 7:00 pm

The Only Way To Truth Is By Love

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

A lecture on the occasion of the publication of Believing In Order To See (Fordham University Press, 2017). Copies of the book will be available for purchase. Cosponsored by the Theology and Religious Ethics Workshop and the Seminary Coop Bookstore. "Non intratur in veritatem nisi per caritatem" -St. Augustine Believing does not always mean to make up for a deficit of knowledge, but rather attaining the right stance to see that which appears. This rule applies not only to common perception, but most of all to what Pascal, following St. Augustine, calls "divine things." In faith, as in beholding a...

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Lunch Discussion on “The Cosmos and the Religious Quest”

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“Origins:” The Inaugural Conference of the Society of Catholic Scientists

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