Name: Lunch with Dr. Lucas Mix – What Part Does Science Play in Salvation?
Start: 2021-11-09T13:30:00-06:00
End: 2021-11-09T13:30:00-06:00
Location: Gavin House

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September 2021
September 26th, 2021 @ 7:30 pm

The Christological Structure of Spiritual Growth In the Thought of St. Bernard

Free and open to the public. This event will be held online through Zoom (registration required) and live-streamed to YouTube. This event is part of a summer webinar series on Monastic Wisdom. The development of spiritual life is caused and modeled by the stages in the history of Jesus: the converting soul first develops an emotional love for Jesus in the flesh: This love is moody and lacks judgment in discerning right and wrong (amor carnalis). Next, Jesus the teacher instructs the soul in the moral virtues (amor rationalis) but the soul lacks the joy of love and virtue. In the final stage of...
September 28th, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

The University and Your Soul: Integrating Faith, Prayer, and the Intellectual Life

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

Open to current University of Chicago undergraduates ONLY. Registration required. FREE DINNER! Cosponsored by Calvert House Catholic Center. Join the Lumen Christi Institute and Calvert House for a panel discussion of practical ways to engage and integrate your Catholic faith and intellectual life at the university. For all events held at Gavin House, the Lumen Christi Institute follows Chicago Department of Public Health Guidance for in-person gatherings. Please see here for the city’s most up-to-date guidelines. These are guidelines subject to change. If you have any questions about accessibility, please contact us.
September 30th, 2021 @ 7:00 pm

Cruel But Usual: Solitary Confinement’s Tortured History

Free and open to the public. This event will be held online through Zoom (registration required) and live-streamed to YouTube. Presented by the Catholic Criminal Justice Reform Network and cosponsored by the Catholic Mobilizing Network. Pope Francis has denounced the use of solitary confinement. He describes it as “torture” employed under the “pretext of offering greater security to society or special treatment for certain categories of prisoners, its main characteristic is none other than external isolation.” The result is the degradation of the human person through the imposed “lack of sensory stimuli, the total impossibility of communication and the lack of contact...
October 2021
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October 7th, 2021 @ 5:00 pm

Conscience and Human Rights in Thomas Aquinas and Some Predecessors

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

Free and open to the public. Registration is required. Contact us with any questions. Note the time for this event has been changed from 4:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. In discussions of the history of the philosophy of human rights, typically a distinction is made between theories that understand rights as objective and those that understand them as subjective (or, to use a more contemporary term, more “personalistic”). This talk relates this issue to the history of reflection, especially by Christian thinkers leading up to the thirteenth century, regarding conscience. It argues ultimately that Thomas Aquinas’s understanding of conscience, influenced as...
October 7th, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Justice and Peace: A Radical Reconsideration of Public Safety – A Roundtable Discussion

8:00 PM ET | 7:00 PM CT | 5:00 PM PT This zoom webinar event is free and open to the public. Presented by Seattle University and The Catholic Criminal Justice Reform Network. Nearly fifty years ago, Pope St. Paul VI said, “If you want Peace, work for Justice.” Echoing his words, “No Justice, No Peace” has become the chant of protesters from Seattle to Atlanta seeking freedom not only from excessive use of force by police but also from unjust inequities across social and political structures. This roundtable presentation invites policing scholars in the fields of law, criminology, and theological ethics...
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October 8th, 2021 @ 5:30 pm - 7:45 pm

A Life in Service of the Truth: The Legacy of Fr. Paul Mankowski, SJ

University Club of Chicago 76 E Monroe St Chicago, IL 60603, Downtown, IL

Fr. Paul Mankowski (1953 – 2020) was a brilliant essayist, a singular wit, and a devoted son of the Church. Born in South Bend, Indiana, he put himself through the University of Chicago while working summers in a steel mill. Called to a vocation with the Society of Jesus, Fr. Paul entered the novitiate in 1976 before studying Classics at Oxford and Semitic languages at Harvard. Though lacking all instincts for self-promotion, Fr. Paul quickly gained a reputation for his erudition and his razor-sharp intellect. He suffered greatly for his loyalty to the Church before finding a home at the...
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October 14th, 2021 @ 5:00 pm

Conversation on “The Rage of Innocence”

Loyola University Chicago Law School 25 East Pearson Street, Chicago, IL

Free and open to the public. Presented by the Loyola University Chicago School of Law and the Catholic Criminal Justice Reform Network. Cosponsored by the Catholic Lawyers Guild of Chicago. A discussion of The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth with author and Professor Kris Henning in conversation with Pulitzer Prize winning author of Locking Up Our Own, Professor James Forman, Jr. In January 2019, Pope Francis told the detainees at a Panamanian youth prison: “You are part of family; you have a lot to share with others.” A fruitful society, he said, “is able to generate processes of inclusion and...
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October 21st, 2021 @ 5:00 pm

The Salvific Power of the Inner Life of Christ: The Witness of the Ecumenical Councils

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

Free and open to the public. Registration for in-person attendance is not required, but requested. Contact us with any questions. Note the time for this event has been changed from 4:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. This event is cosponsored by the Harvard Catholic Forum. Standard accounts of salvation in both East and West typically do not include a consideration of how Christ's inner life-his thoughts, feelings, and intentions- are salvific. Such an omission is inconsistent with the witness of both the Scriptures and the ecumenical councils. In affirming the necessity for human salvation of Christ's human mind and will, the ecumenical councils...
October 22nd, 2021 @ 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

The Doctrine of Salvation in Nicholas Cabasilas’s “Life in Christ”

THIS IS AN IN-PERSON EVENT. Open to current graduate students and University of Chicago Undergraduates. Others who are interested in participating should contact us. Copies of Life in Christ will be provided for registrants. Life in Christ “originates in this life and arises from it. It is perfected, however, in the life to come, when we shall have reached the last day. It cannot attain perfection in men’s souls in this life, nor even in that which is to come without already having begun here.” So writes the 14th century Greek theologian Nicholas Cabasilas in The Life in Christ. This work is a classic, synthetic presentation...
October 28th, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

The Riddle of the Ring: Dark Magic & Spiritual Danger in Tolkien

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

Open to current students and faculty. Dinner at 6:00 p.m. | Lecture at 6:30 p.m. “One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.” Everyone knows that Sauron made the One Ring, but nobody—including Tolkien—seems to know how it worked, perhaps because nobody—including Tolkien—explained how Sauron made it. Where did Tolkien get the idea of magic rings? What would it mean to make a magic ring? And what might explain its effects? In this lecture, Professor Rachel Fulton...
November 2021
November 5th, 2021 @ 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Jacques Maritain’s Integral Humanism

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

THIS IS AN IN-PERSON EVENT. Open to current graduate students and University of Chicago Undergraduates. Others who are interested in participating should contact us. Copies of "Integral Humanism" from The Collected Works of Jacques Maritain XI (Notre Dame Press, 1996) will be provided for registrants. Integral Humanism (1936) is Maritain’s masterwork at mid-career. Having separated himself from the Catholic political integralism in France during the 1920s he needed to put forth his own position – his own integralism, in a manner of speaking. His thesis is that the options of political modernity are shaped by incomplete and reductive humanisms, which need the correction...
November 9th, 2021 @ 1:30 pm

Lunch with Dr. Lucas Mix – What Part Does Science Play in Salvation?

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

Open to current students. Presented by Brent House and the Lumen Christi Institute. One often hears of debates about science versus religion, or science’s compatibility with religion, but in the Christian tradition what might it mean to ask whether science plays a part in salvation? There are many possible answers: science can be interpreted as an alternative to grace (salvation by science alone), as a means of grace (God gives us science as part of redemption), as a product of grace (science as sanctification), or as fully irrelevant to salvation. Join us for lunch with the Rev. Dr. Lucas Mix, an Episcopal priest and astrobiologist,...

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Conscience and Human Rights in Thomas Aquinas and Some Predecessors

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A Life in Service of the Truth: The Legacy of Fr. Paul Mankowski, SJ

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