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SUMMARY:Poetry Being the Body: Theology in Dante
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\nOpen to current graduate students and faculty. Advanced undergraduates and others interested in participating should contact dstrobach@lumenchristi.org. This event is in-person only. All registrants will receive pdfs of the selected readings\, which should be read in advance of the class. An optional wine and cheese reception will follow.  \nThe poet plays a crucial role in the development of a language of the “mystical”  that paradoxically gives voice to the insufficiency of human speech in the face of the reality of the divine. The revelation of this insufficiency speaks effectively to theology’s positive\, affirming\, role. Poetry is a pre-theological anticipation of theology. \nProf. Turner will build this argument with the three parts of Dante’s Commedia. Alongside this great text\, Prof. Turner will reference a chapter from God\, Mystery\, and Mystification\, which sets out formally a theological epistemology to which Dante gives a poetic voice. \nReadings:\nSelections will be from Dante’s Commedia and Turner’s book\, Dante the Theologian. \nBoth the required and recommended readings will be distributed to participants via Dropbox. If you prefer\, you can pick up a printout of the readings at Gavin House (1220 E. 58th Street) Mon-Fri\, 10am-4pm once they are ready. Please email David Strobach at dstrobach@lumenchristi.org to let us know you are coming. \nSchedule:\n1:30-2:00 | Pre-event coffee and cookies \n2:00-3:20 | Session 1 \n3:20-3:40 | Break \n3:40-5:00 | Session 2 \n5:00-5:30 | Reception
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2024-04-poetry-being-the-body/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
CATEGORIES:Master Classes
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SUMMARY:Grief\, Suffering\, and "The Art of Dying" in a Plague: Cyprian’s De Mortalitate
DESCRIPTION:Open to current graduate students and faculty. Advanced undergraduates and others interested in participating should contact dstrobach@lumenchristi.org. This event is in-person only. All registrants will receive copies of the selected readings\, which should be read in advance of the class. Reception will follow.  \nThis event is made possible through the support of ‘In Lumine: Supporting the Catholic Intellectual Tradition on Campuses Nationwide’ (Grant #62372) from the John Templeton Foundation. \nThe ancient Stoics rejected grief as a passion.  Was it inhuman to grieve? Or was it inhuman to suppress this natural human affect?  What about longing for lost loved ones or the fear of death?  To what extent did early Christian teaching modify or reject the Stoics? And how does one approach the possibility of loss and death today\, in a contemporary medical context that has prioritized statistical analysis and abstraction in lieu of concern for the concrete ‘other’? \nCyprian of Carthage’s sermon Mortality\, delivered in the middle of a devastating plague in the third century\, provides an early Christian vision of how to face death\, which both takes up and transforms ancient Stoic approaches to death. This seminar-style discussion will explore these themes as well as its call to care for others despite risk. It will explore these insights in relation to today’s dramatically changed medical context in which care for the human person risks being occluded by statistical abstraction. \nReadings:\nCyprian’s “Mortality” from Treatises in CUA’s Fathers of the Church Series (pp. 193-221). \nSecondary: \nScherz “Grief\, Death\, and Longing in Stoic and Christian Ethics” Journal of Religious Ethics 45: 1 (2017)\, 7–28. \nScherz\, “Chapter 10: Caring for the Statistical Other” in The Ethics of Precision Medicine: The Problems of Prevention in Healthcare (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press\, Forthcoming). \nBoth the required and recommended readings will be distributed to participants via Dropbox. If you prefer\, you can pick up a printout of the readings at Gavin House (1220 E. 58th Street) Mon-Fri\, 10am-4pm once they are ready. Please email David Strobach at dstrobach@lumenchristi.org to let us know you are coming. \nDiscussion Questions:\nAccording to Cyprian\, how should Christians approach death? How is this similar and/or different from contemporary stances toward death? \nFor Cyprian\, how does a proper attitude toward death affect our actions and feelings toward others? How does it affect our emotions for loved ones who have died? \nSchedule:\n11:30-12:00 | Optional pre-event lunch \n12:00-1:20 | Session 1 \n1:20-1:40 | Coffee break \n1:40-3:00 | Session 2 \n3:00-3:30 | Reception
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2024-03-scherz-master-class/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
CATEGORIES:Master Classes
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240203T130000
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SUMMARY:Hannah Arendt and The Human Condition
DESCRIPTION:Open to current graduate students and faculty. Advanced undergraduates and others interested in participating should contact dstrobach@lumenchristi.org. This event is in-person only. All registrants will receive copies of the selected readings\, which should be read in advance of the class. An optional wine and cheese reception will follow.  \nHannah Arendt came to Chicago in the 1950’s and produced two remarkable works: The Human Condition (which began as her Walgreens lectures) and Between Past and Future (which she finished while she was at the University of Chicago’s Committee on Social Thought). This seminar-style master class will examine excerpts from these works in order to delineate Arendt’s treatment of the human condition\, the relation between the history of political thought and the present day\, and her work in light of Leo Strauss’ Natural Right and History. \nReadings:\nHannah Arendt: \n\nFrom Between Past and Future: “The Concept of History: Ancient and Modern”\nFrom The Human Condition: § 31 and 32 (“The Traditional Substitution of Making for Acting” and “The Process Character of Action”).\n\nLeo Strauss: \n\nFrom Natural Right and History: “Introduction” and “I. Natural Right and the Historical Approach.”\n\nBoth the required and recommended readings will be distributed to participants via Dropbox. If you prefer\, you can pick up a printout of the readings at Gavin House (1220 E. 58th Street) Mon-Fri\, 10am-4pm once they are ready. Please email David Strobach at dstrobach@lumenchristi.org to let us know you are coming. \nSchedule:\n11:30-12:00 | Optional pre-event lunch \n12:00-1:20 | Session 1 \n1:20-1:40 | Coffee break \n1:40-3:00 | Session 2 \n3:00-3:30 | Reception
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2024-2-arendt-the-human-condition/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
CATEGORIES:Master Classes
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SUMMARY:Pondering the Psalms with Early Christians: Origen and Augustine
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE \nThis online-only event is for students\, faculty and university staff only. Registration is required. For more information\, please contact info@lumenchristi.org. \nThis online event will take place from 9:00am – 11:00am C.T. / 10:00am – 12:00pm E.T. on Saturday\, October 28th. \nExegesis is the core of early Christian theology and this comes alive in the interpretation of the psalms. In this master class we will look at two interpreters of the psalms—Origen and Augustine—led by Lewis Ayres (Durham University/Australian Catholic University/Angelicum) and Paul Blowers (Milligan University)\, two leaders of our upcoming summer seminar. \nThis online master class is a preview of our regular summer seminar offering in Patristics. \nReadings:\n\nOrigen of Alexandria\, Homily 1 on Psalm 77\nAugustine of Hippo\, Exposition 2 of Psalm 30\n\nReadings for the masterclass can be found here.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2023-10-pondering-the-psalms-with-origen-and-augustine/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231020T140000
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SUMMARY:Letters from Lake Como and Other Approaches: Guardini and Heidegger on Technology
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE \nOpen to current graduate students and faculty. Advanced undergraduates and others interested in participating should contact dstrobach@lumenchristi.org. All registrants will receive a copy of the required reading\, which should be read in advance of the class. An optional wine and cheese reception will follow.  \nThis master class is made possible through the support of ‘In Lumine: Supporting the Catholic Intellectual Tradition on Campuses Nationwide’ (Grant #62372) from the John Templeton Foundation.  \nThis masterclass will cover Romano Guardini’s Letters from Lake Como\, written between 1923-1925\, and will focus on the relationship between technology\, human nature\, and culture. It will take a special interest in his discussion of how some modern technology disrupts man’s historical and traditional relationship to nature. Some modern technology\, Guardini argues\, makes man into a dominator of nature instead of one who works in harmony with it. This significant difference alters man’s understanding of his relationship to humanity\, to God\, and to the cosmos. \nGuardini’s critique of technology both influences and departs from Martin Heidegger’s famous treatment in his “The Question Concerning Technology.” The master class will conclude with a comparison of Guardini and Heidiegger. \nReadings:\nRequired: Guardini\, Romano. Letters from Lake Como: Explorations in Technology and the Human Race. Ressourcement : Retrieval & Renewal in Catholic Thought\, 1994. \nRecommended: Heidegger\, Martin. “The Question Concerning Technology.” In The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays\, translated by William Lovitt\, 3-36. New York and London: Garland Punlishing Inc.\, 1977. \nThe readings will be available at Gavin House (1220 E. 58th Street) Mon-Fri\, 10am-4pm. Please email David Strobach at dstrobach@lumenchristi.org to let us know you are coming. \nSchedule:\n1:30-2:00 | Pre-event coffee and cookies \n2:00-3:20 | Session 1 \n3:20-3:40 | Break \n3:40-5:00 | Session 2 \n5:00-5:30 | Reception
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2023-10-guardini-master-class/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
CATEGORIES:Master Classes
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