Name: Symposium on “Science and Wonder”
Start: 2019-03-13T17:00:00-05:00
End: 2019-03-13T17:00:00-05:00
Location: BSLC 115

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January 2019
January 24th, 2019 @ 6:15 pm

CANCELLED Monks, Silence, God: The History of the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance

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

DUE TO WEATHER, DOM MARK SCOTT HAS HAD TO POSTPONE HIS VISIT TO CHICAGO. THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Theology Club and the Calvert House Catholic Center. Persons with disabilities who may need assistance should contact us at 773-955-5887 or by email. At this talk Dom Mark Scott, OCSO, abbot of New Melleray Abbey, will give an overview of the history and spirituality of the contemplative monastic order known as the Trappists. Dom Mark will also lead a master class for students on the Song of Songs on January 25. More...
January 25th, 2019 @ 11:00 am - 1:15 pm

CANCELLED Master Class on the Song of Songs

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

DUE TO WEATHER, DOM MARK SCOTT HAS HAD TO POSTPONE HIS VISIT TO CHICAGO. THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. Registration required. Open to current students and faculty. Dom Mark Scott, OCSO, will lead students through a Cistercian reading of the Song of Songs with reference to sermons of Bernard of Clairvaux. SCHEDULE 9:30am Coffee, tea, and pastries 10:00am Session I 11:00am Break 11:15am Session II 12:15pm Close OPTIONAL PREPARATORY READINGS Song of Songs Bernard of Clairvaux, Collected Works (Paulist Press, 1987). Sermons 1, 2, 3, 8, 50, 74, 80, 83, 84. (PDF link provided when you register.) Dom Mark will...
January 31st, 2019 @ 8:30 pm

Pluralism In A Polarized Age: Navigating Our Deepest Differences Together

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

Listen to the conversation as a podcast episode. You can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page, iTunes channel, Stitcher, TuneIn, ListenNotes, Podbean, Pocket Casts, and Google Play Music. To view photos of the discussion, visit Lumen Christi's Facebook page. Free and open to the public. Persons with disabilities who need assistance should contact the Office of Programs and External Relations in advance at 773-753-2274 or i-house-programs@uchicago.edu. Presented by the Veritas Forum at the University of Chicago: Cana, Cru, the Christian Legal Society, Hyde Park Church (UBF), Intervarsity, Living Hope Church, the Lumen Christi Institute, Navigators Chicago, and the Vineyard Church. Cosponsored by the Institute...
February 2019
February 2nd, 2019 @ 10:00 am - 1:30 pm

Mass for Candlemas with Schola Antiqua and Symposium on Sacred Music in Context and Practice

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

Listen to the symposium as a podcast episode. You can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page, iTunes channel, Stitcher, TuneIn, ListenNotes, Podbean, Pocket Casts, and Google Play Music. To view photos of the Mass and symposium, visit Lumen Christi's Facebook page. Registration required. $15 for general audience/FREE for current students and faculty/FREE for those only attending the Mass. In honor of Fr. Willard Jabusch (1930-2018), former Chaplain of Calvert House, Priest of the Archdiocese of Chicago, writer, and composer. Cosponsored by Calvert House Catholic Center. Persons with disabilities who need an accommodation in order to participate in this event should email us or call...
February 15th, 2019 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Symposium on “Action versus Contemplation: Why an Ancient Debate Still Matters”

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

Listen to the symposium as a podcast episode. You can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page, iTunes channel, Stitcher, TuneIn, ListenNotes, Podbean, Pocket Casts, and Google Play Music. To view photos of the symposium, visit Lumen Christi's Facebook page. A symposium on the recent book Action versus Contemplation: Why an Ancient Debate Still Matters (University of Chicago Press, 2018) by Jennifer Summit and Blakey Vermeule. Free and open to the public. Persons with disabilities who may need assistance should contact us at 773-955-5887 or by email. Cosponsored by the English Department, the Seminary Coop Bookstore, the University of Chicago Press, the Our Sunday Visitor...
February 16th, 2019 @ 11:00 am - 2:00 pm

CANCELLED: Master Class on “Thomas Merton at Columbia: On the Love of Learning and the Desire for God”

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

Due to unforseen circumstances, Professor Inchausti has to cancel his visit to Chicago and unfortnately this event has been cancelled. Open to current university students and faculty. Others interested in participating should contact us. Copies of the readings will be provided to those who register. Thomas Merton is one of the most influential spiritual writers of the 20th century. His autobiography, Seven Storey Mountain, tells the story of a restless and brilliant young man who goes from a literature student at Columbia University to taking vows as a Trappist monk. In this two-part, one day master class, we will look...
February 20th, 2019 @ 1:00 am

Lumen Christi Institute – Young Catholic Professionals Great Books Seminar: The Novel and the Crisis of Faith

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, 28th Floor 155 North Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL 60606, Downtown, IL

REGISTRATION IS FULL. The Lumen Christi Institute is proud to announce a new program in partnership with the Chicago chapter of Young Catholic Professionals (YCP). The 2019 Lumen Christi Institute - Young Catholic Professionals Great Books Seminar is an adult educational initiative aimed at equipping Catholic professionals 40 and under with a deeper understanding of the Catholic intellectual and literary traditions. Participants will gather monthly downtown for guided discussions on excerpts from celebrated texts as they work through a syllabus crafted by seminar leader Fr. Paul Mankowski, SJ, Lumen Christi's scholar-in-residence. This year's theme is "The Novel and the Crisis of...
February 23rd, 2019 @ 10:00 am - 7:30 pm

Science, Creation, & the Catholic Imagination

Swift Hall 1025 E 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Listen to the lectures as podcast episodes. You can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page, iTunes channel, Stitcher, TuneIn, ListenNotes, Podbean, Pocket Casts, and Google Play Music. To view photos of the conference, visit Lumen Christi's Facebook page. Have you ever wondered if science and religion can co-exist? Or whether it is rational (or irrational) to believe in God? How can the story of Adam and Eve in the Book of Genesis be reconciled with the Big Bang? Or with evolution? What does The Lord of the Rings have to do with Jesus? And what exactly is hillbilly thomism? The intellectual tradition of the Catholic Church has been asking (and answering!) questions...
February 28th, 2019 @ 5:00 pm

Being, Nature, Grace: Clashing Visions in Milbank and Aquinas

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

To view photos of the lecture, visit Lumen Christi's Facebook page. Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion at the University of Chicago Divinity School and the Theology Club of the University of Chicago Divinity School. Persons with disabilities who may need assistance should contact us at 773-955-5887 or by email. Drawing from a chapter taken from a book in draft, in this talk DeHart will critically evaluate John Milbank's understanding of the relationship between creation and divine grace and offer an alternative, sourced in Aquinas, that he considers more adequate.
March 2019
March 2nd, 2019 @ 11:00 am - 2:00 pm

Master Class on “Bernard Lonergan’s Christian Realism and the Word of God as True”

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

Open to current university students and faculty. Others interested in participating should contact us. Copies of the readings will be provided to those who register. Bernard Lonergan, SJ (1904-1984), is widely praised as a giant of twentieth century theology and perhaps the most brilliant philosophical thinker of his generation. Still, he is an outlier in a firmament that includes such figures as Hans Urs von Balthasar, Karl Rahner, Henri de Lubac, and others. His best known works are not in theology itself but in philosophy (Insight: A Study of Human Understanding, 1957) and method (Method in Theology, 1972). Though a...
March 5th, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Weekly Non-Credit Course: “Who Do You Say That I Am? Visions of Christ in the Christian Tradition”

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. "But what about you? Who you say that I am?" (Lk 9.20) The Christian tradition arose in response to the question of the person of Jesus Christ, and in every generation Christians have struggled, debated, and developed answers to that question. This course will feature a selection of biblical, ancient, and medieval Christian thinkers who gave distinctive and highly...
March 13th, 2019 @ 5:00 pm

Symposium on “Science and Wonder”

BSLC 115 924 E 57th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Listen to the symposium as a podcast episode. You can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page, iTunes channel, Stitcher, TuneIn, ListenNotes, Podbean, Pocket Casts, and Google Play Music. To view photos of the symposium, visit Lumen Christi's Facebook page. Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Zygon Center for Religion and Science, the Seminary Coop Bookstore, and the Society of Catholic Scientists. Persons with disabilities who may need assistance should contact us at 773-955-5887 or by email. This program is made possible by a grant from the John Templeton Foundation and a Lemaître grant from the Magi Project. Copies of Prof. Sideris's...

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Pluralism In A Polarized Age: Navigating Our Deepest Differences Together

Mass for Candlemas with Schola Antiqua and Symposium on Sacred Music in Context and Practice

Symposium on “Action versus Contemplation: Why an Ancient Debate Still Matters”

CANCELLED: Master Class on “Thomas Merton at Columbia: On the Love of Learning and the Desire for God”

Lumen Christi Institute – Young Catholic Professionals Great Books Seminar: The Novel and the Crisis of Faith

Science, Creation, & the Catholic Imagination

Being, Nature, Grace: Clashing Visions in Milbank and Aquinas

Master Class on “Bernard Lonergan’s Christian Realism and the Word of God as True”

Weekly Non-Credit Course: “Who Do You Say That I Am? Visions of Christ in the Christian Tradition”

Symposium on “Science and Wonder”

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