Name: WEBINAR: Apocalypticism in Times of Crisis
Start: 2020-05-19T17:00:00-05:00
End: 2020-05-19T17:00:00-05:00

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April 2020
April 30th, 2020 @ 1:00 pm

WEBINAR: Another Unexpected Journey with JRR Tolkien

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. You have two sections to choose from: 1:00pm-2:00pm 3:30pm-4:30pm Hobbits 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. In this hour-long session together, we'll read and discuss one of Tolkien's lesser-known stories,...
April 30th, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

WEBINAR: Hildegard of Bingen

ONLINE World Wide Web, INTERNET

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. As 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. This lecture is part of...
May 2020
May 5th, 2020 @ 5:00 pm

WEBINAR: The Economic Costs of the Pandemic: Catholic Social Teaching and Economics in Dialogue

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. COVID-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...
May 7th, 2020 @ 5:15 pm - 6:45 pm

CANCELED: Panel on Joseph Singer’s “Persuasion”

University of Chicago–TBA N/A, Hyde Park, IL

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. Lawyers 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...
May 7th, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

WEBINAR: On Peter Abelard and Bernard of Clairvaux

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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. This lecture is part of our Spring Webinar Series on "Reason and Wisdom in Medieval Christian Thought" What can reason discover about God? Are there other possible ways to know God? Medieval Christians undertook great...
May 8th, 2020 @ 12:00 am

CANCELED: Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, & Aquinas on the Soul

University of Chicago–TBA N/A, Hyde Park, IL

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. Further details TBA
May 8th, 2020 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Issues and Challenges in Economics, Catholic Social Thought, and Public Policy: A conversation with Joseph Kaboski

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REGISTER HERE Can 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. This event is closed to the public and open to Harris School students, faculty, and staff only
May 12th, 2020 @ 7:00 pm

CANCELED: Brian Patrick McGuire on St. Bernard of Clairvaux

University of Chicago–TBA N/A, Hyde Park, IL

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. Details for this event TBA
May 14th, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Faith and Science at Notre Dame: Fr. John Zahm, Evolution, and the Catholic Church

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

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...
May 14th, 2020 @ 1:00 pm

WEBINAR: Is Hell Real? Is it Crowded? Accounts of the Afterlife in the Christian Tradition

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. You have two sections to choose from: 1:00pm-2:00pm 3:30pm-4:30pm Is Hitler in Hell? Is Judas? Is everyone saved? Why would a merciful God allow humans to suffer eternal damnation? In 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...
May 14th, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

WEBINAR: The Wisdom of Enclosure in Julian of Norwich’s Showings

ONLINE World Wide Web, INTERNET

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. This lecture is part of our Spring Webinar Series on "Reason and Wisdom in Medieval Christian Thought" What can reason discover about...
May 19th, 2020 @ 5:00 pm

WEBINAR: Apocalypticism in Times of Crisis

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. Plague, 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...

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CANCELED: Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, & Aquinas on the Soul

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Faith and Science at Notre Dame: Fr. John Zahm, Evolution, and the Catholic Church

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