Name: The Hillbilly Thomist: Flannery O’Connor’s Catholic Imagination
Start: 2018-05-22T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2018-05-22T18:00:00-05:00
Location: Gavin House

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April 2018
April 6th, 2018 @ 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Master Class on “Bishop Bartolomé de las Casas, OP: Christian Faith and Amerindian Rights”

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

Open to current university students and faculty. A link to the readings will be provided for registrants. This class offers an in-depth overview of the life and writings of the irrepressible friar Bishop Bartolomé de las Casas, O.P. (1484-1566), identified by friend and foe as the “Protector of the Indians.” Since youth, Las Casas was intimately bound to the old and new worlds of Europe and the Indies, traversing the Atlantic at least a half dozen times during his life. He was a Renaissance churchman par excellence, inhabiting the various duties and roles of missionary preacher, theologian, bishop, historian, political...
April 12th, 2018 @ 5:00 pm

Perseverance in the Parish? Religious Attitudes from a Black Catholic Perspective

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

Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by Catholic Theological Union and the Ethics Club at the Divinity School. Do African-American Catholics perceive or experience aspects of racial intolerance and marginalization in their parishes? Does racial marginalization in the Church compel African-American Catholics to disengage and leave their parish? Darren Davis’ provocative new book, Perseverance in the Parish? Religious Attitudes from a Black Catholic Perspective, examines data from the first national survey of African American Catholics. He finds that African-American respondents, though small in number, are among the strongest religious identifiers in the Church. In contrast to narratives that stress...
April 15th, 2018 @ 4:00 pm

“Behold How Good and How Pleasant”: A Memorial Concert for Theodore C. Karp

Millar Chapel Northwestern University 1870 Sheridan Rd, Evanston

$25 General / $10 Students Schola Antiqua celebrates the life and contributions of musicologist and Northwestern University professor emeritus Theodore "Ted" C. Karp (1926-2015) with a program of music that reflects the wide-ranging areas of early music study that he touched in his fruitful career. One of the titans of plainchant scholarship, Karp can be found in debates about the genre in its early and late stages. The ensemble explores not only plainsong but also other areas of Karp's investigations from music of the troubadours to some of the earliest surviving polyphony in western music history. The program concludes with...
April 19th, 2018 @ 5:00 pm

The Future of Liberalism: Relativism Confronts St. Augustine

Harper Memorial Library 130 1116 East 59th Street, Hyde Park, IL

Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Theology Club at the Divinity School. The future of political liberalism is a topic much discussed in recent scholarly books and popular journals. This lecture will integrate the recent argument of Patrick Deneen in Why Liberalism Failed, beginning where the book leaves off by addressing the following question: If it is true, as many have argued, that liberalism has become morally corroded, then can reasonable people still make a case for our continued cooperation with it? Discussing thinkers like Richard Rorty and John Rawls, this lecture will critically examine efforts to...
April 21st, 2018 @ 10:00 am - 1:00 pm

Master Class on “Karl Rahner’s Distinctive Theology of the Symbol”

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

Open to current university students and faculty. A link to the readings will be provided for registrants. In an era of outstanding theologians who made the teachings of the second Vatican Council possible, Karl Rahner (1904-84) stands out as a titan. A German Jesuit, he studied under Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) in Freiburg (among others). He taught on the faculties of Innsbruck, Munich, and Münster; served as a peritus at the Council and as a member of the International Theological Commission. His chief works include Spirit in the World (1957), a study of Thomas Aquinas’s theory of knowledge; Hearer of the...
May 2018
May 3rd, 2018 @ 5:00 pm

Athens, Jerusalem—and Alexandria: Christian Wisdom between the Bible and Greek Philosophy

Breasted Hall, Oriental Institute 1155 E 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

A lecture by Rémi Brague with a response by Jean-Luc Marion. Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Ethics Club at the Divinity School. This lecture will be audio and video recorded and accessible via this webpage shortly after the event. Persons with disabilities who need an accommodation in order to participate in this event should contact us by email or call 773-955-5887. Christian wisdom could work its way through the Hebrew Bible and Greek philosophy and produce some sort of "Alexandrian" synthesis by focusing on the Logos, a concept explicitly central to Greek philosophy and implicitly fundamental to...
May 4th, 2018 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Master Class on Paul Claudel’s “The Muse Called Grace”

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

Open to current students and faculty. A copy of the poem with English translation will be circulated to those who RSVP. Paul Claudel can be described as the greatest French Catholic poet of the 20th century. His ode The Muse Called Grace celebrates the deep links between human and divine love, between poetry and faith. Join Professors Rémi Brague and Thomas Pavel for a master class on the poem. Previous familiarity with Paul Claudel is not required. SCHEDULE: 2:30pm Coffee & Tea 3:00pm Seminar 5:00pm Wine & Cheese The Franke Institute for the Humanities will host a conference on Paul...
May 5th, 2018 @ 4:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Prayer, Dinner, and Discussion at the Benedictine Monastery of the Holy Cross

The Monastery of the Holy Cross 3111 South Aberdeen St. Chicago, IL 60608, Chicago, IL

REGISTER HERE Transportation will be provided from Hyde Park. Open to current university students and faculty. Cosponsored by the Hildegard of Bingen Society. Join us for an evening of prayer with Benedictine Monks at the Monastery of the Holy Cross. Students will participate in the prayer of the Divine Office (including Solemn Vespers and Compline), and have dinner and discussion with Fr. Peter Funk, OSB, prior of the monastery and alumnus of the University of Chicago. This evening will feature a special Solemn Vespers, in which the monks will be accompanied by Schola Laudis. More information about the monastery can...
May 10th, 2018 @ 7:00 pm

Elizabeth Anscombe on Living the Truth

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

Elizabeth Anscombe was one of the most important and influential analytic philosophers of the twentieth century. One of the last lectures she delivered was titled "Doing the Truth." In it, she set out to identify and clarify a specifically practical mode of truth as the proper goal of a specifically practical mode of reasoning and knowledge. This talk will explore how Anscombe understands practical truth by relating it to her influential theory of the intentionality of action; its ultimate suggestion is that "doing the truth" just is living a good human life--i.e., knowingly performing actions in accordance with true judgments of right...
May 18th, 2018 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

The Book of Job and the Transmission of Biblical Wisdom

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

Open to current students and faculty. Lunch will be served. All too often, reading Scripture is merely an exercise in self-flattery and reinforcing our own preconceptions. But reading Scripture cross-culturally draws us more deeply into the text and undoes some of those preconceptions. Reading Job, one of Scripture’s most enigmatic books, in Lomwe with Lomwe-speakers can surprise a North American reader, illuminating what is present and what is absent. This presentation will center on a close-reading of passages from the text of Job. Image: Job and His Friends, Ilya Repin via Wikimedia Commons.
May 19th, 2018 @ 3:00 pm

Staged Reading of “Shakeshafte” by Rowan Williams

International House at the University of Chicago 1414 E 59th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

To view photos of the performance, visit Lumen Christi's Facebook page. You are invited to join the Shakespeare Project of Chicago for a special staged reading of a new play by Rowan Willams, a "fantasia" on the possible relationship between William Shakespeare and Edmund Campion. Free and open to the public. Online registration is recommended but not required. Refreshments will be served. Sponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute and the International House Global Voices Program. Persons with disabilities who may need assistance should contact the Office of Programs & External Relations in advance at 773-753-2274 or email HERE. You can...
May 22nd, 2018 @ 6:00 pm

The Hillbilly Thomist: Flannery O’Connor’s Catholic Imagination

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

REGISTER HERE 6:00 Dinner | 6:30 Lecture This 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. The fiction writer and essayist Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) once complained that she was pegged as "a hillbilly nihilist," whereas she viewed herself as "a hillbilly Thomist." Her profound Catholic faith served in many respects to detach her from the rural Georgia in which she lived and worked, and at the same time gave her a sympathy for and insight...

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Athens, Jerusalem—and Alexandria: Christian Wisdom between the Bible and Greek Philosophy

Master Class on Paul Claudel’s “The Muse Called Grace”

Prayer, Dinner, and Discussion at the Benedictine Monastery of the Holy Cross

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The Book of Job and the Transmission of Biblical Wisdom

Staged Reading of “Shakeshafte” by Rowan Williams

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