Name: Newman’s Apologetics of the Imagination
Start: 2019-10-31T17:00:00-05:00
End: 2019-10-31T17:00:00-05:00
Location: Swift Hall, 3rd Floor Lecture

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August 2019
August 6th, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - August 7th, 2019 @ 6:00 pm

Reason, Revelation, Tradition: The Limits of Leo Strauss?

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

You can view photos of the event HERE. Leo Strauss is well known for both his critique of modernity and his insistence on the productive (but irreconcilable) tension between reason and revelation. Even if Strauss' recovery of the pre-modern philosophical life also opened a vista for the life of the saint to re-emerge, Strauss always contended that any synthesis between the two was theoretically untenable. Catholic students of political philosophy have therefore found themselves in an uneasy alliance with Strauss: in accepting his critical project, must they also accept his account of the natures of philosophy and faith? This two-day master class...
September 2019
September 14th, 2019 @ 9:30 am - 1:00 pm

Master Class on “The Writings of Meister Eckhart”

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

You can view photos of the event HERE. In this one-off seminar, participants will read and discuss the writings of late medieval German mystic and theologian Meister Eckhart (c. 1260-1327) with Bernard McGinn, Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago Divinity School and leading expert on the history of Christian spirituality and mysticism. Session 1. An Introduction to Eckhart “Introductions” in The Essential Sermons, pp. 5-61 German Sermon 52 in The Essential Sermons, pp. 199-203 The Sequence “Granum sinapis” (Handout) Session 2. Eckhart on Justice German Sermon 6 in The Essential Sermons, pp. 185-189 Commentary on the Gospel of John,...
October 2019
October 9th, 2019 @ 5:00 pm

What St. Benedict Taught the Dark Ages: His and Ours

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

REGISTER HERE Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the John U. Nef Commitee on Social Thought. Cardinal Newman, who will be canonized on October 13, is well known for his philosophy of education, especially for his masterwork The Idea of University (1853). But his most profound reflections on education are in his minor work “The Mission of St. Benedict” (1858), in which Newman treats the question of how to teach a beginner, even a beginner under the most unfavorable circumstances. Not a novice in dialectic and rhetoric, or in the theoretical or practical sciences, but a beginner in the quotidian...
October 11th, 2019 @ 2:00 pm - 5:15 pm

Master Class on Yves Simon’s “A General Theory of Authority”

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

REGISTER HERE Open to current students and faculty. Copies of the book A General Theory of Authority (University of Notre Dame Press, 1980) will be provided for those who register. Professor Hittinger will also give a lecture on October 9 on "What St. Benedict Taught the Dark Ages: His and Ours." Yves Simon (1903-1961) was a neo-scholastic philosopher who distinguished himself chiefly for his work in moral and political philosophy. A student of Jacques Maritain in Paris, in 1938 he accepted a visiting position at the University of Notre Dame where he was stranded after the outbreak of WWII. In...
October 17th, 2019 @ 5:00 pm

Genome Editing with CRISPR: Dignity and Other Faith-Based Considerations

BSLC 109 924 E 57th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

--- Cosponsored by the Program on Religion and Medicine at the University of Chicago, McCormick Theological Seminary, and the Society of Catholic Scientists. This program is made possible by a grant from the John Templeton Foundation. The discovery of CRISPR/Cas9 has revolutionized our ability to edit genomes, the human genome included. How do faith-based ethicists maneuver the landscape of human genetic engineering? What challenges do biotechnological advances pose to the dignity of the human person? Should genetic editing be celebrated? Cautiously advanced? Ruled out? In this lecture, biologist and Dominican Priest Nicanor Austriaco considered the prospects and challenges of CRISPR...
October 19th, 2019 @ 9:00 am - 4:30 pm

The Making of a Modern Saint: John Henry Newman on Faith and Education in a Secular Age

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

Cosponsored by Mundelein Seminary, the Archdiocese of Chicago Vocation Office, and the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame. This program is made possible in part by a gift from the Paluch Family Foundation and a grant from the John Templeton Foundation. Follow us on Instagram for updates about the event. Have you ever wondered why you go to school? Or what the point of it all is? What goes into making a big decision? And how do you fit together everything you know--or even the past with the future? John Henry Newman will be canonized...
October 23rd, 2019 @ 6:30 pm

Waiting for Jesus in Havana

The family is traditionally held to be the first church. Yet, the Latino Catholic home bears diverse local religious and cultural influences. How does one better understand the tapestry of one’s own religious experience and its relation to the Catholic tradition? Join us in this workshop as Carlos Eire, historian and expert in popular piety, draws from his memoirs “Waiting for Snow in Havana” and “Learning to Die in Miami” to discuss the diversity of religious strands that made up his own Cuban household and analyze the challenges and opportunities it presents to the Hispanic Catholic experience. Participants will walk...
October 24th, 2019 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila

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

This program was made possible in part by a grant from the Our Sunday Visitor Institute. A luncheon talk with Professor Carlos Eire (Yale) on the recent book on the life and many afterlives of one of the most enduring mystical testaments ever written: The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila. Saint Teresa of Avila’s Life is among the most remarkable accounts ever written of the human encounter with the divine. The Life is not really an autobiography at all, but rather a confession written for inquisitors by a nun whose raptures and mystical claims had aroused suspicion. Despite its...
October 24th, 2019 @ 5:15 pm

Symposium on “The Life of Teresa of Avila: A Biography”

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

Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion at the Divinity School, the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, and the Medieval Studies Workshop. This program was made possible in part by a grant from the Our Sunday Visitor Institute. Copies of The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila: A Biography (Princeton University Press, 2019) are available for sale by the Seminary Coop Bookstore. Saint Teresa of Avila’s Life is among the most remarkable accounts ever written of the human encounter with the divine. The Life is not really an autobiography at all,...
October 25th, 2019 @ 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Master Class on “The Life of Teresa of Avila”

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

This program was made possible in part by a grant from the Our Sunday Visitor Institute. The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila is one of the most remarkable accounts ever written of the human encounter with the divine. This text is not really an autobiography at all, despite the fact that it is widely regarded as such, but rather a confession written for inquisitors by a nun whose raptures and mystical claims had aroused suspicion. Despite its troubled origins, and despite the fact that some clergy continued to condemn it after it was published, the book has had a...
October 30th, 2019 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

John Henry Newman’s Path to Sainthood

Holy Name Cathedral Auditorium 730 North Wabash Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60611, River North, IL

This event was cosponsored by Mundelein Seminary, the Sheil Catholic Center at Northwestern University, the Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage at Loyola University Chicago, the Department of Catholic Studies at DePaul University, the Calvert House Catholic Center at the University of Chicago, and the John Paul II Newman Center at UIC. What makes a modern saint? On October 13th, Cardinal John Henry Newman (1801-1890), English theologian, philosopher and cardinal, was officially canonized a saint of the Roman Catholic Church. This event at Holy Name Cathedral was a presentation on the life and sanctity of John Henry Newman by...
October 31st, 2019 @ 5:00 pm

Newman’s Apologetics of the Imagination

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

This event was cosponsored by the Nicholson Center for British Studies. John Henry Newman famously insisted that "the heart is commonly reached not through the reason, but through the imagination." As a theologian, apologist, and the 19th century's most famous convert, Newman was keenly attentive to the foundations of religious belief. His apologetic career is, in some sense, an appeal to the imagination in contradistinction to the prevailing empiricism of Locke and Hume. In his novels, sermons, lectures, and even his philosophical magnum opus, the Grammar of Assent, Newman defends an understanding of the imagination that harmonizes religious faith and rational inquiry.

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