BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Lumen Christi Institute - ECPv6.15.9//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://lumenchristi.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Lumen Christi Institute REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20160313T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20161106T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20170312T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20171105T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20180311T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20181104T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20190310T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20191103T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20200308T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20201101T070000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170112T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170112T200000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165630Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260325T183645Z UID:10000534-1484251200-1484251200@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Augustine's Theology of Love DESCRIPTION:Cosponsored by the Theology and Religious Ethics Workshop URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-01-augustines-theology-of-love-david-vincent-meconi-s-j/ LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/saint_augustine_by_philippe_de_champaigne-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170127T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170127T143000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165629Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T193947Z UID:10000533-1485522000-1485527400@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Lunch Discussion with Lisa Ruddick: “When Nothing is Cool” DESCRIPTION:Open to current graduate students and faculty. Lunch will be provided. \n“I believe that the progressive fervor of the humanities\, while it reenergized inquiry in the 1980s and has since inspired countless valid lines of inquiry\, masks a second-order complex that is all about the thrill of destruction. In the name of critique\, anything except critique can be invaded or denatured. This is the game of academic cool.”\nJoin Professor Lisa Ruddick for a discussion of the nature of critique and the sense of the self among scholars in the humanities from her recent article “When Nothing is Cool.“ URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-01-lunch-discussion-with-lisa-ruddick-when-nothing-is-cool-lisa-ruddick/ LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/bookstacks.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170128T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170128T210000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165629Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164326Z UID:10000532-1485624600-1485637200@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Visit to the Benedictine Monastery of the Holy Cross DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\nOpen to current university students. Others interested in attending should contact us. \nJoin 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 with Gregorian Chant and Compline)\, and have dinner and discussion with Fr. Peter Funk\, O.S.B.\, prior of the monastery and alumnus of the University of Chicago. \nMore information on the music for Solemn Vespers can be found HERE. \nSCHEDULE \n4:15pm   Meet at Gavin House (1220 E. 58th St.)\n4:30pm   Depart from Hyde Park\n5:00pm   Arrive at the Monastery\, welcome by Fr. Funk\n5:15pm   Office of Vespers\n6:00pm   Dinner & Discussion\n7:15pm   Office of Compline\n8:00pm   Arrive back in Hyde Park URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-01-visit-to-benedictine-monastery-of-holy-cross-fr-peter-funk/ LOCATION:The Monastery of the Holy Cross\, 3111 South Aberdeen St.\nChicago\, IL 60608\, Chicago\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/sermon_sm.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170202T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170202T210000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165623Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260325T165015Z UID:10000531-1486065600-1486069200@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Evolution and the Catholic Faith DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\nMany people imagine that the Catholic Church was historically opposed to the theory of evolution or that there is something dangerous or dubious about Darwinian evolution from the viewpoint of Catholic theology.  These ideas are based on a variety of confusions and misconceptions.  This talk will show how Catholic thinkers and Catholic Church authorities looked at evolution. It will also respond to the arguments some Christians make against it\, and examine some of the more subtle issues\, such as the relation of chance to divine providence\, and the questions surrounding human origins and human distinctiveness. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-02-evolution-catholic-faith-stephen-m-barr/ LOCATION:Kent Hall\, Room 107\, 1020 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/creation-of-adam.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170203T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170203T143000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165622Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164320Z UID:10000530-1486126800-1486132200@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Reductionism in Science: Order from Chaos or Order from Ideas? DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\nOpen to current university students and faculty. Lunch will be served. \nJoin us for a discussion with physicist Stephen Barr on his article from First Things on the philosophical assumptions behind a tendency toward reductionism in the natural sciences. \n“This tendency to downgrade and diminish reflects a metaphysical prejudice that equates explanatory reduction with a grim slide down the ladder of being. Powerful explanatory schemes reveal things to be simpler than they appear. What simpler means in science is much discussed among philosophers—it is not at all a simple question. But to many materialists it seems to mean lower\, cruder\, and more trivial. By this way of thinking\, the further we push toward a more basic understanding of things\, the more we are immersed in meaningless\, brutish bits of matter.” URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-02-reductionism-in-science-order-from-chaos-or-order-from-ideas-stephen-m-barr/ LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/NGC_4414_-NASA-med-.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170204T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170204T173000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165618Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164317Z UID:10000529-1486218600-1486229400@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Master Class: David Hume\, Julian of Norwich\, and the Problem of Evil DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\nThis master class is open to current graduate students and faculty. Others interested in participating should contact us. Digital copies of the readings will be made available to participants. \nMore info TBA URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-02-master-class-david-hume-julian-of-norwich-problem-of-evil-denys-turner/ LOCATION:Faculty House at Columbia University\, 64 Morningside Drive\, New York\, NY ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/hume-julian.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170215T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170215T200000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165618Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164315Z UID:10000528-1487188800-1487188800@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Dei Verbum: Persons and Propositions DESCRIPTION:Presented by St. Procopius Abbey\, Benedictine University\, and the Lumen Christi Institute \nFree and open to the public. \nContact Fr. Becket Franks\, O.S.B. with any questions. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-02-dei-verbum-persons-propositions-matthew-levering/ LOCATION:St. Procopius Abbey Church\, 5601 College Rd.\nLisle\, IL 60532\, Lisle\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/dome-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170216T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170216T190000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165617Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164312Z UID:10000527-1487266200-1487271600@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:What Does it Mean to Say the Son of God is 'Consubstantial' with the Father? New Insights about Augustine's Debt to Aristotle DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\nCosponsored by the Department of Philosophy \nIt is commonly accepted that Aristotelian ideas did not inform Latin-language metaphysics until the translation of Aristotle in the 12th century. However\, this opinion has arisen from a failure to understand how the metaphysics of Augustine fundamentally depends upon Victorinus’ assimilation of Aristotelian concepts and distinctions.  \nVictorinus\, mentioned by Augustine in Confessions Book 7\, was a Christian convert\, an eminent rhetor\, and one of the last philosophers in the western Roman Empire who was fully bilingual in Greek and Latin.  In the 350’s he wrote metaphysical treatises defending the Council of Nicea’s doctrine that the Son of God is ‘consubstantial’ with the Father. These treatises comment upon and assimilate core concepts of Aristotle’s Metaphysics and On the Soul.  Augustine appropriated these Aristotelian ideas from Victorinus. \nProf. Byers will also lead a master class on “Augustine on Human Freedom and Divine Grace” on Friday\, February 17. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-02-what-does-it-mean-to-say-son-of-god-is-consubstantial-with-father-new-insights-about-augustines-debt-to-aristotle-sarah-byers/ LOCATION:Harper Memorial Library 130\, 1116 East 59th Street\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/rublev-trinity.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170217T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170217T180000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165615Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164309Z UID:10000526-1487343600-1487354400@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Master Class: Augustine on Human Freedom and Divine Grace: What is Really Going on in the ‘Conversion Scene’ in Augustine’s Confessions? DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\nThis master class is open to graduate and undergraduate students\, including non-University of Chicago students. Space is limited and offered on a first-come\, first-served basis. Copies of the readings will be made available online to all participants. \nAlthough the part of Augustine’s Confessions that describes his conversion to Christianity is arguably the most famous passage in his influential corpus\, scholars have long disagreed about how to understand this important section of Book 8. \nI will argue that the hermeneutical key to the passage is knowledge of the philosophical psychology that Augustine assumes in the passage\, which is a synthesis of Stoic and Platonic epistemological and motivational theory.  Augustine is claiming that his conversion was given to him by God – that is\, that is was a grace – but also that grace operates on humans by altering their natural cognitive and conative powers\, and that these powers were correctly described by Hellenistic philosophers. \nWe will examine the passage from Confessions Book 8 in depth\, bringing to bear the relevant philosophical context\, and then draw further conclusions about his position on the relation of human freedom to divine grace.  On the topic of grace and freedom we will make comparisons with Augustine’s later works\, as well as with the Reformation-era debate about grace and freedom\, alluding to authors such as Molina\, Bañez\, and Jansen. \nPrimary Readings: \nAugustine\, Confessions Books 6 and 8.  Please bring this text with you to the seminar. \nAdditional handouts of shorter texts from Hellenistic philosophy and from Augustine’s later corpus may be provided to read through during the seminar. \nOptional Secondary Readings: \nSarah Byers\, Perception\, Sensibility\, and Moral Motivation in Augustine (Cambridge: 2013). \nProf. Byers will give a lecture on Augustine’s Debt to Aristotle on Thursday\, February 16. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-02-master-class-augustine-on-human-freedom-divine-grace-what-is-really-going-on-in-conversion-scene-in-augustine-s-confessions-sarah-byers/ LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/fra_angelico_-_conversion_de_saint_augustin-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170221T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170221T210000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165614Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164306Z UID:10000525-1487703600-1487710800@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:The Book of Judges DESCRIPTION:6:00 Dinner | 6:30 Lecture \nOpen to current students and faculty. Others interested in attending please contact info@lumenchristi.org. Registrants are free to attend as many sessions as they choose. \nThe Book of Judges is a collection of loosely connected accounts of the loosely connected Israelite tribes in the period between the death of the general Joshua and the establishment of the first kingdom.   This time of religious and military crisis brought to the fore a series of heroes called šōṕēṭîm (judges) who\, as emergency agents of God’s deliverance and chastisement\, reconnected the Israelites to the promises made in the covenants. \nIn times when Bible-reading was common\, the vividness\, economy\, and narrative force of the episodes in Judges made the book a favorite (among the works of G.F. Händel\, for example\, are oratorios titled Deborah\, Gideon\, and Jephthah\, in addition to the better-known Samson).  Today appreciation for the book has declined\, as it serves comfortably neither the purposes of liturgy nor of polite politics. \nThis course will examine the principal episodes of Judges\, trying to develop some awareness and admiration of their distinctly Bronze Age flavor\, and connecting them theologically to the operation of the covenant in the Old Testament.  No prior familiarity with the book is presumed. \nJan 10   The First Judges — Chapters 1-3. \nJan 17   Deborah — Chapters 4-5. \nJan 24   Gideon — Chapters 6-8 \nJan 31   Jephthah — Chapters 10-12 \nFeb 7      Samson 1 — Chapters 13-14 \nFeb 14   Samson 2 — Chapters 15-16 \nFeb 21   Epilogues — Chapter 17 URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-02-book-of-judges-paul-mankowski-sj/ LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/samson-philistines.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170223T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170223T190000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165612Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164303Z UID:10000524-1487871000-1487876400@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Tracing our Shared Deep History: Evolutionary Anthropology and Theo-Drama DESCRIPTION:Cosponsored by the Theology and Religious Ethics Workshop \nWhile theology and biological science often seem to be at odds\, there are productive ways of telling the Christian story of who we are as human beings which resonate with newer evolutionary theories. This lecture will argue that the most convincing theological approach is theo-drama\, where insights from the dramatic stage inform our theological reflections in relation to the drama of evolution. Such exchanges can be highly creative for theology and anthropology; neither party in the dialogue is reduced to the other\, and both are enriched in new and interesting ways. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-02-tracing-our-shared-deep-history-evolutionary-anthropology-theo-drama-celia-deane-drummond/ LOCATION:Social Sciences\, Room 122\, 1126 E 59th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/sed_wall_1920x1200_1.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170303T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170303T143000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165607Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T194628Z UID:10000523-1488546000-1488551400@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:The Liberal Arts Then and Now DESCRIPTION:Open to current University of Chicago undergraduates. Lunch will be served. \nLiterary critic\, noted essayist\, and alumnus of the College Joseph Epstein will participate in a conversation with students about his life inside and outside the academy. Students are encouraged to read the short essay “Who Killed the Liberal Arts? And Why We Should Care” in preparation for the discussion. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-03-liberal-arts-then-now-joseph-epstein/ LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/books-bookstore-book-reading-159711-scaled.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170316T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170316T133000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165607Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260404T161905Z UID:10000522-1489665600-1489671000@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:The Soul of Early Irish Monasticism DESCRIPTION:Not many people are aware that when it comes to Irish religious history\, St. Patrick only scratches the surface. The island in fact has a rich and fascinating Christian heritage\, of which monks and sprawling monastic communities play a central role. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-03-soul-of-early-irish-monasticism-bernard-mcginn/ LOCATION:Union League Club\, 65 W Jackson Blvd.\nChicago\, IL 60604\, Downtown\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/KellsFol032vChristEnthroned.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170326T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170326T150000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165606Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164255Z UID:10000521-1490540400-1490540400@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Echoes from the Galleries DESCRIPTION:a concert with Schola Antiqua of Chicago (Lumen Christi Artists-in-Residence) \nBUY TICKETS\n$10 non-members | $5 members & students*\n* – Ticket allows for entry to the museum and event beginning at 2:30pm.  To enter the museum prior to 2:30pm\, please purchase a separate museum admission ticket. \nSchola Antiqua presents a concert in connection with the opening of The Deering Family Galleries of Medieval and Renaissance Art\, Arms\, and Armor at the Art Institute of Chicago. The program includes music inspired by beautifully illustrated books of hours and early sixteenth-century German art\, as well as pieces celebrating the theme of arms and armor\, prominently displayed in the galleries. The women of Schola Antiqua will perform works from a rare thirteenth-century liturgical book on exhibit\, which is known to have been associated with a Dominican convent. \nImmediately following the concert\, Jonathan Tavares–Associate Curator of Arms & Armor–will lead a short tour of the reinstallation. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-03-echoes-from-galleries-schola-antiqua-of-chicago/ LOCATION:Art Institute of Chicago\, 111 S Michigan Ave.\nChicago\, IL 60603\, Downtown ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/d886f6_7e3e546ef64c4fa89edb44fd423e9ff7~mv2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170331T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170331T160000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165606Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164252Z UID:10000520-1490976000-1490976000@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:The Greek East and the Spiritual Franciscan View of History DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\nCosponsored by the Theology & Religious Ethics Workshop \nThe Spiritual Franciscan Angelo Clareno (d.1337) fervently promoted the view that St. Francis’ life and Rule renewed the true evangelic life.  When ecclesiastical persecution led him to flee to Greece\, Angelo came into contact with both Greek monasticism and Greek theology based on the Church fathers. While in Greece\, he translated Greek texts and he found in Greek monastic traditions possibilities for living according to Francis’ rule outside the Franciscan order. Angelo’s time in Greece also led him to reflect on Church history and the relationship between Greek and Latin Christianity. Thus the eastern monastic tradition helped Angelo to explore ways of living the apostolic life and to develop a view of Church history that differed from other Spiritual Franciscans. \nIMAGE: Roma\, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale\, cod. Vitt. Em. 1167: Celestino V benedice Angelo Clareno e gli altri frati (particolare) URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-03-greek-east-spiritual-franciscan-view-of-history-brian-fitzgerald/ LOCATION:Swift Hall\, First Floor Common Room\, 1025 E 58th St\,Chicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/manoscritto3.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170406T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170406T163000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165604Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260325T165105Z UID:10000519-1491496200-1491496200@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Religious Origins of Modern Science? DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\nCosponsored by the Department of History and the Committee for the Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science \nIt is often thought that modern science developed largely independently of\, or even in opposition to\, religion.  Some historians\, however\, have suggested that religious factors played a key role in the emergence of modern science in the seventeenth century\, and were important in establishing a permanent and prominent place for scientific activity at the heart of modern Western culture.  This lecture explores a number of ways in which religion may have had a positive impact on the emergence and consolidation of modern science\, paying particular attention to the values needed to establish its social and intellectual legitimacy. \nCopies of The Territories of Science and Religion will be available for purchase. \nProf. Harrison will also lead a discussion for students on “The Cosmos and the Religious Quest” on Friday\, April 7. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-04-religious-origins-of-modern-science-peter-harrison/ LOCATION:Kersten 120\, 5720 South Ellis Avenue\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/territories-cover-CROPPED.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170407T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170407T133000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165603Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164246Z UID:10000518-1491566400-1491571800@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Lunch Discussion on "The Cosmos and the Religious Quest" DESCRIPTION:Students will read and discuss Chapter 2 from Professor Peter Harrison’s book The Territories of Science and Religion (University of Chicago\, 2015) entitled “The Cosmos and the Religious Quest.” \nProf. Harrison will also give a public lecture on “Religious Origins of Modern Science?” on Thursday\, April 6. \n\nABOUT THE BOOK \nThe conflict between science and religion seems indelible\, even eternal. Surely two such divergent views of the universe have always been in fierce opposition? Actually\, that’s not the case\, says Peter Harrison: our very concepts of science and religion are relatively recent\, emerging only in the past three hundred years\, and it is those very categories\, rather than their underlying concepts\, that constrain our understanding of how the formal study of nature relates to the religious life. \n\nIn The Territories of Science and Religion\, Harrison dismantles what we think we know about the two categories\, then puts it all back together again in a provocative\, productive new way. By tracing the history of these concepts for the first time in parallel\, he illuminates alternative boundaries and little-known relations between them—thereby making it possible for us to learn from their true history\, and see other possible ways that scientific study and the religious life might relate to\, influence\, and mutually enrich each other.\n\n\nA tour de force by a distinguished scholar working at the height of his powers\, The Territories of Science and Religion promises to forever alter the way we think about these fundamental pillars of human life and experience. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-04-lunch-discussion-on-cosmos-religious-quest-peter-harrison/ LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Flammarion-color.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170408T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170408T173000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165603Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164243Z UID:10000517-1491660000-1491672600@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Master Class on The Wisdom of Bernard of Clairvaux DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\nThis master class is open to current students and faculty. PDFs of the readings will be made available for participants. \nThis one-time Seminar will study selected writings of the great Cistercian theologian and mystic\, Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1157). Bernard was one of the most remarkable figures of the twelfth century—monastic leader\, ecclesiastical politician\, and noted theologian. His most important legacy\, however\, was as a mystic and mystical writer. His mystical treatises\, such as On Loving God (De diligendo Deo)\, and especially his eighty-six sermons on the biblical Song of Songs (Sermones super Cantica Canticorum)\, are among the most widely-read works in the history of Christian mysticism. The Seminar will focus on reading and analyzing On Loving God and selected sermons from the collection on the Song of Songs as found in Bernard of Clairvaux. Selected Works\, translated by G. R. Evans (New York: Paulist Press\, 1987)\, pp. 173-205\, and 209-78. In addition\, some other outlines and short extracts will be handed out during the Seminar. \nREQUIRED READINGS \n\nG.R. Evans\, trans.\, Bernard of Clairvaux: Selected Works (New York: Paulist Press\, 1988)\, pp.173-205\, 209-278.\n\nANCILLARY READINGS \n\nBernard McGinn & Patricia Ferris McGinn\, Early Christian Mystics (New Yorl: Crossroads Publishing\, 2003)\, pp. 207-230\nG.R. Evans\, trans.\, Bernard of Clairvaux: Selected Works (New York: Paulist Press\, 1988)\, pp.13-57.\n\nSCHEDULE \n1:30pm   Coffee & Tea\n2:00pm   Session I\n3:40pm   Break\n3:50pm   Session II\n5:30pm   Close\, Wine & Cheese Reception URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-04-master-class-on-wisdom-of-bernard-of-clairvaux-bernard-mcginn/ LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/bernard_of_clairvaux_-_gutenburg_-_13206.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170421T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170423T000000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165600Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164240Z UID:10000516-1492732800-1492905600@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:"Origins:" The Inaugural Conference of the Society of Catholic Scientists DESCRIPTION:WATCH VIDEOS HERE\nThe first annual conference of the Society of Catholic Scientists cosponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute \nThe conference brought together researchers on all aspects of origins\, from cosmos to consciousness.  Specific topics included current cosmological ideas on the beginning and fate of the universe\, fine-tuning and multiverse ideas\, habitable planets and astrobiology\, the origin of life\, the evolution of species\, and the origin of intelligence and consciousness. \nCONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS\n“The Origin and Evolution of Universes” – Prof. John D. Barrow (Univ. of  Cambridge) \n“The Origin and Evolution of Habitable Worlds” – Prof. Karin I. Öberg (Harvard Univ.) \n“Medieval Ideas of the Multiverse” – Prof. J. Christopher Clemens (University of North Carolina\, Chapel Hill) \n“The Origin of Evolution: The Interplay of Order and Contingency” – Prof. Daniel Kuebler (Franciscan University of Steubenville) \n“Process Information: A Novel Communication Theory with Applications to Evolutionary Biology” – Dr. Erick Chastain (Rutgers University) \n“Why Only Us: the origin of human language” –  Prof. Robert Berwick (MIT) \n“Science in the Light of the Christian View of the Human Person” – Fr. Joachim Ostermann\, O.F.M.\, Ph.D. (Franciscan Friars of Canada) \n“The Catholic Scientist in the Secular World: What is the meaning of our vocation and how does it distinguish us?” – Dr. Marisa March (University of Pennsylvania) \nSt. Albert Award Lecture: “To Find God in All Things: Grandeur in an Evolutionary View of Life”  – Prof. Kenneth R. Miller (Brown University) \nBanquet Address – Br. Guy Consolmagno (Director of the Vatican Observatory) \n“Georges Lemaitre’s Contributions to Cosmology” – Prof. Robert Scherrer (Vanderbilt University) \n“Are Probabilities Essential to Inferring Design?” – Prof. Robert C. Koons (University of Texas at Austin) \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nCONFERENCE MEDIA COVERAGE\nFaith And Science Come Together At Conference For Society Of Catholic Scientists\, Forbes \nCatholic Scientists Converge in Chicago to Ask Big Questions\, Catholic News Agency \nCatholic Scientists Discuss Faith’s Role in Work\, Our Sunday Visitor URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-04-origins-inaugural-conference-of-society-of-catholic-scientists-stephen-m-barr-john-barrow-robert-berwick-erick-chastain-chris-clemens-brother-guy-consolmagno-sj-robert-c-koons-daniel/ LOCATION:Millenium Knickerbocker Hotel\, 163 East Walton Place\, Downtown\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/DSC_0513-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170422T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170422T130000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165600Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164237Z UID:10000515-1492855200-1492866000@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Catholic and Protestant Reformations and the Genealogy of Modernity DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\nOpen to current graduate students and faculty \nAt this master class seminar\, participants will read and discuss Professor Carlos Eire’s essay “Incombustible Weber: How the Protestant Reformation Really Disenchanted the World” from Faithful Narratives: Historians\, Religion\, and the Challenge of Objectivity\, ed. Andrea Stark and Nina Caputo (Ithaca: Cornell University Press\, 2014). A PDF copy of the reading will be provided. \nThis chapter discusses how challenges to traditional beliefs about death and purgatory in the Protestant Reformation caused significant material consequences\, triggering a so-called “economic revolution.” Focusing on the issue of secularization in a present-day understanding of Protestant Reformation\, the chapter examines the concept of “disenchantment” as manifested in three distinguishing characteristics of Protestantism. First is the redefinition of how “matter” and “spirit” relate to each other\, which had led to iconoclasm and a new approach to rituals. Second is the redefinition of the boundaries between the “natural” and “supernatural” realms\, which led to the denial of mystical ecstasies. Lastly\, there is the separation of the living from the dead\, which led to a reconfiguring of conceptual and socioeconomic structures. \nSCHEDULE \n9:30am   Arrive\, continental breakfast \n10:00am   Session I \n11:25am   Break \n11:35am   Session II \n1:00pm   Buffet Lunch \n2:30pm   Close URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-04-catholic-protestant-reformations-genealogy-of-modernity-carlos-eire/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/luther-95-theses.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170427T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170427T190000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165559Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260404T151859Z UID:10000514-1493319600-1493319600@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:The Only Way To Truth Is By Love DESCRIPTION:A lecture on the occasion of the publication of Believing In Order To See (Fordham University Press\, 2017). Copies of the book will be available for purchase. \nCosponsored by the Theology and Religious Ethics Workshop and the Seminary Coop Bookstore. \n\n“Non intratur in veritatem nisi per caritatem” -St. Augustine\nBelieving does not always mean to make up for a deficit of knowledge\, but rather attaining the right stance to see that which appears. This rule applies not only to common perception\, but most of all to what Pascal\, following St. Augustine\, calls “divine things.” In faith\, as in beholding a beloved or a work of art\, what you see depends on how you stand in front of it. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-04-only-way-to-truth-is-by-love-jean-luc-marion/ LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Duccio_di_Buoninsegna_037.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170429T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170429T200000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165558Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164231Z UID:10000513-1493483400-1493496000@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Lecture on the Easter Mysteries\, Dinner\, and Prayer at the Monastery of the Holy Cross DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\nOpen to current university students and faculty. Transportation from Hyde Park will be provided. \nCosponsored by the Hildegard of Bingen Society. \nJoin 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 Vespers and Compline)\, and have dinner and discussion with Fr. Peter Funk\, O.S.B.\, prior of the monastery and alumnus of the University of Chicago. \nMore information about the monastery can be found HERE. \nSCHEDULE \n4:15pm   Meet at Gavin House (1220 E. 58th St.)\n4:30pm   Depart from Hyde Park\n5:00pm   Arrive at the Monastery\, welcome by Fr. Funk\n5:15pm   Office of Vespers\n6:00pm   Dinner & Discussion\n7:15pm   Office of Compline\n8:00pm   Arrive back in Hyde Park URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-04-lecture-on-easter-mysteries-dinner-prayer-at-monastery-of-holy-cross-fr-peter-funk/ LOCATION:The Monastery of the Holy Cross\, 3111 South Aberdeen St.\nChicago\, IL 60608\, Chicago\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/slide1-980x500.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170505T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170505T173000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165557Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164228Z UID:10000512-1493992800-1494005400@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Colloquium on "Givenness and Revelation" DESCRIPTION:Part of the Lumen Christi Institute’s faculty colloquia in philosophy and theology\, which bring together scholars from the region to discuss important questions in Catholic thought. \nAbout Givenness and Revelation\nGivenness and Revelation represents both the unity and the deep continuity of Jean-Luc Marion’s thinking over many decades. This investigation into the origins and evolution of the concept of revelation arises from an initial reappraisal of the tension between natural theology and the revealed knowledge of God or sacra doctrina. Marion draws on the re-definition of the notions of possibility and impossibility\, the critique of the reification of the subject\, and the unpredictability of the event in its relationship to the gift in order to assess the respective capacities of dogmatic theology\, modern metaphysics\, contemporary phenomenology\, and the biblical texts\, especially the New Testament\, to conceive the paradoxical phenomenality of a revelation. \nThis work thus brings us to the very heart and soul of Marion’s theology\, concluding with a phenomenological approach to the Trinity that uncovers the logic of gift performed in the scriptural manifestation of Jesus Christ as Son of the Father. Givenness and Revelation enhances not only our understanding of religious experience\, but enlarges the horizon of possibility of phenomenology itself. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-05-colloquium-on-givenness-revelation-jean-luc-marion-david-bentley-hart-cyril-oregan/ LOCATION:Swift Hall\, First Floor Common Room\, 1025 E 58th St\,Chicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Colloquium-Image-4.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170512T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170512T160000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165556Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260325T185002Z UID:10000511-1494604800-1494604800@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Aquinas and the Life of the Mind DESCRIPTION:Saint Thomas Aquinas regards mind\, or intellect\, as a form of life.  It is even the most perfect form\, he says\, because it carries the power of free choice. Yet we may wonder how free he thinks we really are.  For he insists that our mind’s life depends\, intimately\, on a cause outside itself.  But on his view\, freedom of choice would not even make sense without this cause; and our lives are fullest\, and freest\, when we focus more on it than on ourselves.  This is to follow the mind’s deepest urge\, which is toward that rather neglected virtue called wisdom. \n\nThis event is presented by the Virtue\, Happiness\, & the Meaning of Life Project\, made possible by a generous grant from the John Templeton Foundation\, and co-sponsored by the University of Chicago Divinity School\,  Martin Marty Center\, and the Lumen Christi Institute. \nIf you need assistance in order to fully participate in this event\, contact Valerie Wallace. \nPhoto of detail of the Piazza di Santa Maria Novella by Sarah Tarno. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-05-aquinas-life-of-mind-stephen-l-brock/ LOCATION:Harper Memorial Library 140\, 1116 East 59th Street\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Aquinas.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170516T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170516T200000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165555Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164222Z UID:10000510-1494957600-1494964800@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Gerard Manley Hopkins\, S.J.: The Priest & The Poet DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\n6:00pm Buffet Dinner  |  6:30pm Lecture \nOpen to current students. \nG M Hopkins (1844-1889) converted to the Catholic Church while a university student and later became a Jesuit priest and lecturer in classical Greek.  The poems by which he is known today were unpublished in his own lifetime\, but in some measure formed — and were formed by — his friendships and his distinctively sacramental view of his own priesthood. \nThis course will consist of seven classes in which\, after some brief biographical introduction\, two or three poems of Hopkins will be read\, together with pertinent material from his journal and letters\, and discussed with a view to understanding the relation between Hopkins’s temperament\, his faith\, and his art — and\, primarily\, with the aim of deepening enjoyment of the poems themselves.  No prior familiarity with Hopkins is presumed.  No class presumes attendance at any other and students are welcome to attend any or all. \nSCHEDULE \nApril 4th — Dawn \nApril 11th — Noon \nApril 18th — Night \nApril 25th — Summer \nMay 2nd — Autumn \nMay 9th — Winter \nMay 16th — Spring URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-05-gerard-manley-hopkins-s-j-priest-poet-paul-mankowski-sj/ LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/hopkins-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170517T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170517T163000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165551Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260325T185153Z UID:10000509-1495038600-1495038600@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:All Things Hold Together: A Great Books Education and the Catholic Tradition DESCRIPTION:The Great Books can lead us to God and a liberal arts education finds its fulfillment in the liturgy.  Yet\, the curriculum and culture of many universities today are\, by their very structure\, inimical to such ends.  Reflecting on his own education as a Fundamentals major at the University of Chicago and on the Catholic tradition he now teaches\, Professor Ortiz will consider the blessings and limits of a Great Books education and how the Catholic tradition might restore the promise of the liberal arts by providing a vision of the whole and cultivating a habit of praise and thanksgiving. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-05-all-things-hold-together-a-great-books-education-catholic-tradition-jared-ortiz/ LOCATION:Classics 110\, 1010 E 59th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/great-books-5-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170518T171500 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170518T193000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165550Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T193438Z UID:10000508-1495127700-1495135800@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Panel Discussion on "Natural Law in Court" DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\n$25 Registration / Free for Current Students and Faculty / 1 CLE CREDIT for an additional fee of $10 \nThis program has been approved by the Illinois MCLE Board for 1 hour of General CLE credit. Cosponsored by the Catholic Lawyers Guild of Chicago and the Loyola University Chicago School of Law. \nJoin us for a reception and panel discussion of the recent book by R. H. Helmholz\, Natural Law in Court: A History of Legal Theory in Practice (Harvard University Press\, 2015). Copies of the book will be available for purchase. \nUntil very recently\, lawyers in the Western tradition studied natural law as a part of their training\, and the task of the judicial system was to put its tenets into concrete form\, building an edifice of positive law on natural law’s foundations. Although much has been written about natural law in theory\, surprisingly little has been said about how it has shaped legal practice. Natural Law in Court asks how lawyers and judges made and interpreted natural law arguments in England\, Europe\, and the United States\, from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the American Civil War. \nSCHEDULE: \n5:15PM   Registration and Reception \n6:15PM   Program \n7:30PM   Close URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-05-panel-discussion-on-natural-law-in-court-r-h-helmholz-michael-moreland-jeffrey-pojanowski-adrian-vermeule/ LOCATION:Loyola University Chicago School of Law\, Power Rogers & Smith Ceremonial Courtroom (10th Floor)\, 25 E Pearson St.\nChicago\, IL 60611\, River North\, IL CATEGORIES:Downtown Lectures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/tiff:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/natural-law-in-court-COVER-Cropped.tiff END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170522T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170526T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241006T235418Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260115T191211Z UID:10000507-1495443600-1495818000@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Economics and Catholic Social Thought: A Primer DESCRIPTION:Applications are now closed for this seminar.\nThis seminar is designed as an introduction and immersion into Catholic social thought for graduate students and faculty in economics\, finance\, or related fields. Participants will cover foundational principles in Catholic social thought starting with the human person\, dignity\, freedom\, subsidiarity\, solidarity\, and the common good\, and moving toward applications of these principles to conceptual understandings and ethical considerations involving economic topics such as utility theory\, firm and business ethics\, wages\, markets\, globalization\, poverty\, and development. Participants will delve into social encyclicals\, secondary sources\, and relevant economics texts. \nThis seminar is cosponsored by the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture\, the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame\, the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts at the University of Notre Dame\, the Catholic Research Economists Discussion Organization\, and the Markets\, Culture\, and Ethics Research Center at the Pontifical University of Santa Croce. \nFormat: There will be twenty hours of class in addition to a full Roman experience.  Each class will open with a brief lecture\, and then we will turn to a seminar style discussion of the texts and issues at hand.  Classroom activities will be supplemented with opportunities for daily Mass\, meetings with Church leadership\, and visits to famous sights in Rome. \nLocation: The seminar will take place in Rome\, split between the University of Notre Dame’s Rome Global Gateway and the Pontificia Università della Santa Croce. Students will be provided with accommodations and meals\, and a limited number of travel stipends are available on a need basis. \nApplication Information:
This seminar will be open to Ph.D. students and faculty in Economics\, Finance and related fields. \nApplicants will be required to submit a completed online application form\, including: \n\nAn updated CV.\nA brief statement of research interest no longer than 750 words.\nOne academic writing sample.\n\nAll application materials can be submitted via the online application. Incomplete applications will not be considered. 15 students will be admitted to this seminar. \nApplication materials must be received by 11:59pm on MARCH 4\, 2017. \nPlease direct any further questions to contact@credo-economists.org. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-econ-cst/ LOCATION:Pontifical University of the Holy Cross\, Rome\, Piazza Santa Apollinare\, 49\, 00186 Roma\, Italy\, Rome\, Italy CATEGORIES:Summer Seminars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/st_peter-s_square-_vatican_city_-_april_2007-scaled.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170605T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170605T190000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165549Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164211Z UID:10000506-1496689200-1496689200@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:What Should We Fear? Courage and Cowardice in Public Life DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\nThis talk is free and open to the public. The talk and Q&A will be livestreamed HERE at 7pm central time. \nMoral theologian Jean Porter will give the talk “What should we fear? Courage and cowardice in public life” on Monday\, June 5\, 2017 at 7pm in the Swift Hall 3rd Floor Lecture Hall at the University of Chicago. An audience Q & A will be followed by a reception in the Swift Hall Common Room. \n\nThis event is presented by the Virtue\, Happiness\, and the Meaning of Life Project\, made possible by a generous grant from the John Templeton Foundation\, and is co-sponsored by the University of Chicago Divinity School\, Martin Marty Center\, and Lumen Chrisit Institute. \nIf you need assistance in order to fully participate in this event\, contact Valerie Wallace. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-06-what-should-we-fear-courage-cowardice-in-public-life-jean-porter/ LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Vatican.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170622T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170628T230000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241006T235418Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260115T191423Z UID:10000505-1498089600-1498690800@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Is God Knowable by Natural Reason? Philosophy\, Theology\, and Trinitarian Thought in the Middle Ages DESCRIPTION:In this seminar\, historian of medieval theology Mark Clark and scholar of medieval philosophy Timothy Noone will offer an intensive survey of theological and philosophical debates about the natural knowledge of God in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Participants will read and discuss the writings of Peter Abelard\, Peter Lombard\, Bonaventure\, Albert the Great\, and Thomas Aquinas as well as modern philosophical engagement with these questions. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017_natural_knowledge_of_god/ LOCATION:Pontifical University of the Holy Cross\, Rome\, Piazza Santa Apollinare\, 49\, 00186 Roma\, Italy\, Rome\, Italy CATEGORIES:Summer Seminars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/st_peter-s_square-_vatican_city_-_april_2007-scaled.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170709T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170715T230000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241006T235418Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260115T180350Z UID:10000504-1499558400-1500159600@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:The Thought of John Henry Newman DESCRIPTION:Now in its fifth consecutive year\, this intensive seminar will examine Newman’s achievements as theologian\, philosopher\, educator\, preacher\, and writer. Remarkably\, in each of these areas Newman produced works that have come to be recognized as classics: An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine\, The Grammar of Assent\, The Idea of a University\, The Parochial and Plain Sermons\, and the Apologia Pro Vita Sua. This seminar will approach Newman’s thought through a critical engagement with these texts. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017_thought_newman_ker/ LOCATION:Merton College\, Oxford\, Merton St\, Oxford OX1 4JD\, UK\, Oxford\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Summer Seminars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/merton.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170721T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170721T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165549Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164112Z UID:10000503-1500645600-1500656400@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Master class on "On Hope" by Josef Pieper DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\nOpen to currently enrolled undergraduates\, graduate students\, and faculty. Copies of the readings will be provided for participants via web link. \nThe first of Josef Pieper’s three books on each of the theological virtues\, On Hope was written in 1934 in response to the general feeling of despair in Europe leading up to World War II. Pieper seeks to reinvigorate the meaning of hope as a properly theological virtue that identifies our happiness in the anticipation of our reunion with our creator. \nJosef Pieper (1904-1997) was one of the most well known Thomist philosophers of the twentieth century. Schooled in the thought of Plato and St. Thomas Aquinas\, he also studied philosophy\, law\, and sociology\, and he was a professor at the University of Munster\, West Germany. His numerous books include Leisure\, the Basis of Culture; The Silence of St. Thomas; Happiness and Contemplation; and The End of Time: A Meditation on the Philosophy of History. \nDISCUSSION QUESTIONS \n\nHow are hope and optimism different?\nHow does theological hope differ from non-theological hope?\nWhat is the relationship of hope to love? To trust? To fear? To gratitude?\nHow are the grounds of hope and our understanding of them affected by cultural trends such as liberalism\, secularism\, progressivism and nihilism?\nDo you recognize manifestations in yourself and/or your acquaintances of acedia (sloth)?  If so\, what do you think are the causes?\n\nSCHEDULE \n1:30pm            Coffee & Tea\n2:00pm            Welcome\n2:15pm            Session I\n3:30pm            Break\n3:45pm            Session II\n5:00pm            End\, Wine & Cheese Reception URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-07-master-class-on-on-hope-by-josef-pieper-mark-shiffman/ LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/lci-default.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170730T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170806T230000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241006T235418Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260114T184937Z UID:10000502-1501372800-1502060400@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Catholic Social Thought: A Critical Investigation DESCRIPTION:In this seminar\, students will read\, analyze\, and discern continuities and discontinuities in Catholic Social Thought from the late 19th century to the present. Lectures\, seminar reports\, and discussion will focus on original sources (encyclicals and other magisterial documents)\, beginning with Rerum novarum (1892) and concluding with Caritas in veritate (2009) and Evangelii Gaudium (2013). This intensive course is multi-disciplinary\, since this tradition of social thought overlaps several disciplines in the contemporary university including political science\, political philosophy\, law\, economics\, theology\, and history. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017_cst_critical_investigation_hittinger/ LOCATION:University of California\, Santa Barbara\, University of California\, Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, CA CATEGORIES:Summer Seminars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/ucsb.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170818T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170818T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165546Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164106Z UID:10000501-1503064800-1503075600@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Master Class on Ressentiment and Democracy DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\nOpen to currently enrolled undergraduates\, graduate students\, and faculty. Copies of the readings will be provided for participants via web link. \nRessentiment is a term of art in philosophy and social theory for the psychological pathology of self-loathing that the human person may experience vis-à-vis an other who is imagined to be stronger\, more noble\, or “higher.” Friedrich Nietzsche famously associated ressentiment with the overturn of the ancient moral order and its replacement with Christian morality – such that glory\, honor\, and magnificence were replaced with humility\, turning the other cheek\, and poverty of spirit.  Nietzsche’s understanding of ressentiment is associated as well with his broader critique of modernity\, modern institutions like democracy and the market\, and modern sociality as reflected in notions such as mass society and Thus Spoke Zarathustra’s “last man.” \nThe phenomenologist and social theorist\, Max Scheler\, seized on the idea of ressentiment for his own critique of modernity\, but rejected Nietzsche’s argument that its provenance lies in Christianity. Ressentiment\, Scheler perceived\, is indeed at the heart of the crisis of modernity\, but its ubiquity in the contemporary world should be traced to modern institutions\, like the market and modern democracy\, and not to Christianity. Christianity\, he thought\, is fundamentally incompatible with the psychology of ressentiment and offers the clearest hope for reversing its danger. To what extent\, though\, does Scheler’s hope extend to the institution of democracy? \nAmong those directly influenced by Scheler’s thought were Edith Stein\, Waldemar Gurian\, Romano Guardini\, Roman Ingarden\, Dietrich von Hildebrand\, and Karol Wojtyla. \nREQUIRED READINGS \n\nMax Scheler\, Ressentiment\, tr. Lewis A. Coser\, Milwaukee\, Marquette University Press\, 1994. Chs. 3 & 4.\n\nSECONDARY READINGS \n\nFriedrich Nietzsche\, The Genealogy of Morals\, tr. Walter Kaufmann and R. J. Hollingdale\, New York\, Random House\, 1967. First Essay\, especially sections 8-14. Cf.\nFriedrich Nietzsche\, Thus Spoke Zarathustra \,tr. Adrian Del Caro\, Cambridge University Press\, 2006.  “Zarathustra’s Prologue\,” “Of the Flies of the Marketplace\,” and “Of the Tarantulas.”\n\nSCHEDULE \n1:30pm            Coffee & Tea\n2:00pm            Welcome\n2:15pm            Session I\n3:30pm            Break\n3:45pm            Session II\n5:00pm            End\, Wine & Cheese Reception URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-08-master-class-on-ressentiment-democracy-stephen-schneck/ LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/scheler-nietzsche.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20171005T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20171005T203000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165541Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T193840Z UID:10000500-1507222800-1507235400@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Visit to the Art Institute of Chicago DESCRIPTION:Cosponsored by the Hildegard of Bingen Society. \nOpen to University of Chicago students. Transportation and dinner will be provided. \nA Visit to the Art Institute of Chicago to the special exhibition “Doctrine and Devotion: Art of the Religious Orders of the Spanish Andes.” \nABOUT THE EXHIBITION\nPresenting 13 paintings by South American artists from the 17th through 19th century\, this focused exhibition introduces visitors to images promoted by several Catholic orders at work in the Spanish Andes—the Dominicans\, Franciscans\, Mercedarians\, and Jesuits—examining the politics of the distinct iconographies each group developed as they vied for devotees and dominion. \nSCHEDULE \n5:00PM:  Meet at Gavin House (1220 E. 58th St.)\n5:15PM:  Depart for the Art Institute\n6:00PM:  View Exhibition\n6:45PM:  Dinner at Terzo Piano\n8:30PM:  Arrive back in Hyde Park URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-10-visit-to-art-institute-of-chicago/ LOCATION:Art Institute of Chicago\, 111 S Michigan Ave.\nChicago\, IL 60603\, Downtown ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Doctrine-and-Devotion-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20171012T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20171012T163000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165540Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260322T143028Z UID:10000499-1507825800-1507825800@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Catholic Reform: The Council of Trent and the Catholic Enlightenment DESCRIPTION:Cosponsored by the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. \nAbout Ulrich Lehner’s recent book The Catholic Enlightenment: \n“Whoever needs an act of faith to elucidate an event that can be explained by reason is a fool\, and unworthy of reasonable thought.” This line\, spoken by the notorious 18th-century libertine Giacomo Casanova\, illustrates a deeply entrenched perception of religion\, as prevalent today as it was hundreds of years ago. It is the sentiment behind the narrative that Catholic beliefs were incompatible with the Enlightenment ideals. Catholics\, many claim\, are superstitious and traditional\, opposed to democracy and gender equality\, and hostile to science. It may come as a surprise\, then\, to learn that Casanova himself was a Catholic. In The Catholic Enlightenment\, Ulrich L. Lehner points to such figures as representatives of a long-overlooked thread of a reform-minded Catholicism\, which engaged Enlightenment ideals with as much fervor and intellectual gravity as anyone. Their story opens new pathways for understanding how faith and modernity can interact in our own time. \nLehner begins two hundred years before the Enlightenment\, when the Protestant Reformation destroyed the hegemony Catholicism had enjoyed for centuries. During this time the Catholic Church instituted several reforms\, such as better education for pastors\, more liberal ideas about the roles of women\, and an emphasis on human freedom as a critical feature of theology. These actions formed the foundation of the Enlightenment’s belief in individual freedom. While giants like Spinoza\, Locke\, and Voltaire became some of the most influential voices of the time\, Catholic Enlighteners were right alongside them. They denounced fanaticism\, superstition\, and prejudice as irreconcilable with the Enlightenment agenda. \nIn 1789\, the French Revolution dealt a devastating blow to their cause\, disillusioning many Catholics against the idea of modernization. Popes accumulated ever more power and the Catholic Enlightenment was snuffed out. It was not until the Second Vatican Council in 1962 that questions of Catholicism’s compatibility with modernity would be broached again. \nTo view photos of Lehner’s lecture\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nYou can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page\, iTunes channel\, Stitcher\, TuneIn\, ListenNotes\, Podbean\, Pocket Casts\, and Google Play Music. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-10-catholic-reform-council-of-trent-catholic-enlightenment-ulrich-l-lehner/ LOCATION:Swift Hall\, First Floor Common Room\, 1025 E 58th St\,Chicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/catholic-enlightenment-cover.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20171014T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20171014T180000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165540Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164056Z UID:10000498-1508004000-1508004000@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:A Consistent Ethic of Solidarity: Transcending Self\, Transforming the World DESCRIPTION:Visit the conference webpage for more information. \nFree and open to the public. Registration Required. \nCardinal Blase J. Cupich will deliver the Keynote Address for the October 13-14 Capstone Conference for the project Virtue\, Happiness\, & the Meaning of Life\, which will feature discussions with the philosophers\, religious thinkers\, and psychologists who have been working together to investigate whether self-transcendence helps to make ordinary cultivation and exercise of virtue a source of deep happiness and meaning in human life. \nThe President of the University of Chicago\, Robert.J. Zimmer\, will provide introductory remarks. A reception will follow Cardinal Cupich’s talk. \n\nThis event is presented by the Virtue\, Happiness\, and the Meaning of Life Project\, made possible by a generous grant from the John Templeton Foundation\, and is co-sponsored by The Chicago Center for Practical Wisdom\, the Committee on Social Thought\, the Lumen Christi Institute\, the Martin Marty Center\, the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society\, the University of Chicago Department of Philosophy\, the University of Chicago Divinity School\, and the University of Chicago Division of Humanities. \nIf you need assistance in order to fully participate in this event\, contact Valerie Wallace. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-10-a-consistent-ethic-of-solidarity-transcending-self-transforming-world-blase-cardinal-cupich/ LOCATION:University of Chicago Law School Auditorium\, 1111 East 60th Street\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Cardinal-Cupich-Image-Centered.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20171021T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20171021T200000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165539Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260328T155235Z UID:10000497-1508616000-1508616000@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Schola Antiqua Concert: Music in Secret DESCRIPTION:British organist and Renaissance music historian Naomi Gregory leads the women of Schola Antiqua in a wide-ranging program of music from medieval and early modern convents. “Music in Secret” offers some of the earliest known polyphony associated with nuns from the anonymous 1543 collection of printed partbooks Musica quinque vocum. In addition to plainchant sung from a recently unveiled source at the Art Institute of Chicago\, Schola Antiqua’s program will include the music of Sulpitia Cesis\, a nun from the northern Italian city of Modena. Gregory will also perform keyboard works linked to Italian convents. Guest viola da gamba player Cora Swenson Lee will provide accompaniment with Gregory. The program is generously sponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute. \nSchola Antiqua will perform the same concert on Friday\, October 20 at Rockefeller Memorial Chapel. \nTo view photos of the concert\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-10-schola-antiqua-concert-music-in-secret-schola-antiqua-of-chicago-2/ LOCATION:St. Clement Parish\, 642 W Deming Pl.\nChicago\, IL 60614\, Downtown\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/a6e646_4dd1b5289ae14bc9ab3cf38d6e737aa0~mv2_d_2323_3497_s_2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20171026T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20171026T163000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165538Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164049Z UID:10000496-1509035400-1509035400@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:The Power of the Sacred: An Alternative to the Narrative of Disenchantment DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public \nCosponsored by the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought \n\n\nDisenchantment is one of the key concepts in the self-understanding of “modernity.” It was introduced by Max Weber\, but its precise meaning in his writings and in the discourse of modernity is quite controversial. This lecture is based on a new book in which Hans Joas traces this concept through Weber’s writings\, criticizes it in fundamental respects\, and develops an alternative understanding of the connections between the history of power and the processes of sacralization. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-10-power-of-sacred-an-alternative-to-narrative-of-disenchantment-hans-joas/ LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Joas_Hans-portrait-picture.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20171028T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20171028T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165537Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164046Z UID:10000495-1509199200-1509210000@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Master Class on "Saint Thomas Aquinas on the Metaphysics of Evil" DESCRIPTION:Registration Required. Open to current students and faculty. Copies of the readings will be provided. \nTo view photos of the master class\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nSaint Thomas Aquinas’s general conception of evil is very well known\, and very simple.  Evil\, he holds\, is nothing other than privation of due good.  This conception has sometimes been criticized\, as not adequate to our experience of evil or to certain types of evil.  It is also connected with other controversial positions of his\, such as that no one directly intends evil.  And it is not easy to square with his own view that evil can specify moral acts and habits. \nIn order to evaluate Thomas’s conception of evil\, and also in order to understand fully his treatment of specific forms of evil such as sin and vice\, we need to study his fundamental\, metaphysical account of the nature and causes of evil.  His most complete presentation of the account is in two Quaestiones of the First Part of the Summa theologiae.  The seminar will consist mainly in working through these passages and discussing the questions that arise. \nPrimary Readings \n\nThomas Aquinas\, Summa theologiae\, I\, qq. 48-49.  Please bring this to the seminar.  The Latin version is of course recommended\, but not required.  PDFs of an English translation\, and of the optional readings\, will be provided for the participants via a web link.\n\nOptional Background and Secondary Readings \n\nThomas Aquinas\, Summa theologiae\, I\, q. 5.\nStephen L. Brock\, “Dead Ends\, Bad Form: the Positivity of Evil in the Summa theologiae\,” in The Critical Guide to the Summa Theologiae\, Cambridge University Press [forthcoming].\nLawrence Dewan\, O.P.\, “St. Thomas and the First Cause of Moral Evil\,” in Lawrence Dewan\, O.P.\, Wisdom\, Law\, and Virtue: Essays in Thomistic Ethics\, Fordham University Press\, New York 2007\, Chapter 11\, pp. 186-96 (with notes on pp. 546-7).\nJohn F. Crosby\, “Is All Evil Really Only Privation?\,” Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 2001\, 75 (2002)\, pp. 197-209.\n\nSCHEDULE \n1:30pm   Coffee & Pastries\n2:00pm   Session I\n3:25pm   Break\n3:35pm   Session II\n5:00pm   End\, wine and cheese reception URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-10-master-class-on-saint-thomas-aquinas-on-metaphysics-of-evil-stephen-l-brock/ LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/thomas-aquinas-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20171102T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20171102T163000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165536Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260322T143200Z UID:10000494-1509640200-1509640200@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:A Final Seriousness: Wallace Stevens' Late Poems Revisited DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Program in Poetry and Poetics and the Seminary Coop Bookstore. Copies of the book will be available for purchase. \nAbout The Whole Harmonium: The Life of Wallace Stevens by Paul Mariani: \nA perceptive\, enlightening biography of one of the most important American poets of the twentieth century\, as seen through his lifelong quest to find and describe the sublime in the human experience. \nWallace Stevens lived a richly imaginative life that found expression in his poetry. His philosophical questioning\, spiritual depth\, and brilliantly inventive use of language would be profound influences on poets as diverse as William Carlos Williams\, Hart Crane\, Elizabeth Bishop\, and John Ashbery. The Whole Harmonium presents Stevens within the living context of his times\, and as the creator of a poetry which has had a profound and lasting impact on the modern imagination itself. \nStevens established his career as an executive even as he wrote his poetry\, becoming a vice president with an insurance company in Hartford\, Connecticut. His first and most influential book\, Harmonium\, was not published until he was forty-four years old. In these poems\, Stevens drew on his interest in and understanding of modernism. Over time he became acquainted with the most accomplished of his contemporaries\, Robert Frost and William Carlos Williams among them\, but his personal style remained unique. He endured an increasingly unhappy marriage\, losing himself by writing poetry in his study. Yet he had a witty\, comic\, and Dionysian side to his personality\, including long fishing (and drinking) trips to Florida with his pals and a fascination with the sun-drenched tropics. \nPeople generally know two things about Wallace Stevens: that he is a “difficult” poet and that he was an insurance executive for most of his life. Stevens may be challenging to understand\, but he is also greatly rewarding to read. Now\, sixty years after Stevens’ death\, biographer and poet Paul Mariani shows how over the course of his life\, Stevens sought out the ineffable and spiritual in human existence in his search for the sublime. \nTo view photos of Mariani’s lecture\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nYou can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page\, iTunes channel\, Stitcher\, TuneIn\, ListenNotes\, Podbean\, Pocket Casts\, and Google Play Music. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-11-a-final-seriousness-wallace-stevens-late-poems-revisited-paul-mariani/ LOCATION:Swift Hall\, Room 106\, 1025 E 58th St\,\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/mariani.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20171103T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20171103T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165535Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164040Z UID:10000493-1509717600-1509728400@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Master Class on Gerard Manley Hopkins DESCRIPTION:Registration Required. Open to current students and faculty. Copies of the readings will be provided for registrants ahead of time. \nYou can read about Professor Mariani’s biography of Gerard Manley Hopkins HERE. \nTo view photos of the master class\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nREADINGS \n\nPaul Mariani\, “The Mystery and the Majesty of It\,” Studies in the Spirituality of Jesuits 47/2 (2015)\nGerard Manley Hopkins\, 6 sonnets (God’s Grandeur\, The Windhover\, Felix Randal\, Spelt from Sybil’s Leaves\, No worst there is none\, That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and in the comfort of the Ressurection\, To R.B.)\n\nSCHEDULE \n1:30pm   Coffee & Pastries\n2:00pm   Session I\n3:25pm   Break\n3:35pm   Session II\n5:00pm   End\, wine and cheese reception URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-11-master-class-on-gerard-manley-hopkins-paul-mariani/ LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/hopkins.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20171114T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20171114T203000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165528Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164037Z UID:10000492-1510686000-1510691400@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:The Gospel According to Matthew DESCRIPTION:6:00pm Buffet Dinner  |  6:30pm Lecture \nRegistration required. Open to current students and faculty. \nSt. Matthew’s Gospel brings us into powerful contact with Israel’s longed-for Messiah and permits us to hear the voice of Jesus of Nazareth with memorable vividness. Foregrounding the Israelite language of expectation\, the narrative views Jesus as Son of Man\, Son of David\, and Son of God\, reminding us of Israel’s messianic hopes and showing us how these hopes are\, in Jesus\, both brought to fulfillment and surpassed. The course will focus on what might be called the spirituality of the evangelist\, by means of a close reading of selected passages along with brief exegetical commentary and a general discussion. \nNo prior familiarity with the texts is presumed. No class presumes attendance at any other and students are welcome to attend any or all. \nSCHEDULE \nOctober 3.  A Face as a Man — Chapters 1-3 \nOctober 10.  Salt & Light — Chapters 4-5 \nOctober 17.  Old Love & New Law — Chapters 6-7 \nOctober 24.  The Kingdom Here and to Come — Chapters 8-17 \nOctober 31.   Means and Ends — Chapters 18-25 \nNovember 7.    Betrayal — Chapters 26-27 \nNovember 14.    Victory  — Chapter 28 URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-11-gospel-according-to-matthew-paul-mankowski-sj/ LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/The_Calling_of_Saint_Matthew-Caravaggo_-1599-1600--scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20171116T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20171116T213000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165527Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260325T164136Z UID:10000491-1510862400-1510867800@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Plato's Bedroom: Desire\, Union\, and Procreation DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Department of Philosophy. \nPlato found philosophy in some of the same erotic anxieties that permeate contemporary life\, and even explored themes central to Catholic conceptions of sexuality. This lecture will be based on central themes from Plato’s Symposium\, drawing on David O’Connor’s Plato’s Bedroom: Ancient Wisdom and Modern Love. \nABOUT Plato’s Bedroom \nPlato’s Bedroom is a book for people who want to be better at falling in love and being in love\, with all the ecstasies and dangers erotic life can bring. It is also an inviting book for readers who are intellectually playful and up for a challenge\, written with verve\, and full of stories thoughtful persons will find to be mirrors of their own erotic selves. Drawing on Greek myth\, Plato\, Shakespeare\, and a wide range of modern literature and movies\, the book gets Aphrodite talking with the young lovers in A Midsummer Night’s Dream\, and lets us listen in on Woody Allen arguing with Othello. The author’s account of how we seek\, fear\, avoid\, and sometimes destroy love\, is astonishingly fresh and engaging. \nThroughout its pages\, one hears the voice of an engaging teacher and the conversation of a wise friend. In short\, this is a work of practical philosophy\, not scholarship\, though only a scholar could have written it. It invites readers into a deep appreciation of timeless ancient wisdom through reflecting on their own powers for love and their susceptibility to desire. \nA distinctive feature of the book is the interweaving of two guiding threads in Plato’s conception of erotic experience: androgyny\, that is\, the integration of masculine and feminine; and creativity\, in both a sexual and a spiritual sense. These two aspects of Plato’s erotic vision\, androgyny and creativity\, lead readers to a sense of grateful wonder and sacred awe at our own erotic powers. Our natural experience of romantic love\, articulated so well by Plato\, points toward a more explicitly religious interpretation of love’s commitments and pleasures. The author brings out some surprising and delightful connections between Plato’s pagan eroticism and the Adam and Eve story\, Jesus’s teaching in the Gospels\, and Catholic views about marriage. \nPlato’s Bedroom will be the first book to tap into the perennial curiosity about love and sex through the enduring interest of the general reader in philosophical reflection on contemporary culture. \nTo view photos of O’Connor’s lecture\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nYou can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page\, iTunes channel\, Stitcher\, TuneIn\, ListenNotes\, Podbean\, Pocket Casts\, and Google Play Music. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-11-platos-bedroom-desire-union-procreation-david-oconnor/ LOCATION:Social Sciences\, Room 122\, 1126 E 59th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/oconnor-lecture.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20171117T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20171117T180000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165526Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164031Z UID:10000490-1510930800-1510941600@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Master Class on "Plato's Leaky Myths: How the Erotic Dialogues use Plato's Literary Predecessors" DESCRIPTION:Registration Required. Open to current students and faculty. \nThis seminar will look at striking examples of how in the Symposium and Phaedrus Plato read and re-wrote the myths available in the literary culture of his time. We will be especially interested in how the literary templates that seem to underlie the dialogues complicate their surface “doctrine.” \nSCHEDULE \n1:30pm   Coffee & Pastries\n2:00pm   Session I\n3:25pm   Break\n3:35pm   Session II\n5:00pm   End\, wine and cheese reception \nTo view photos of the master class\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-11-master-class-on-platos-leaky-myths-how-erotic-dialogues-use-platos-literary-predecessors-david-oconnor/ LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/oconnor-mc.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20171120T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20171120T203000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165522Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260129T145106Z UID:10000489-1511202600-1511209800@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Trinity Lutheran and the Future of Public Funding for Religious Entities: A Conversation with Richard Garnett and Andrew Koppelman DESCRIPTION:Cosponsored by the Catholic Lawyers Guild\, the Decalogue Society of Lawyers\, the Christian Legal Society\, the American Constitution Society\, the Federalist Society\, the Notre Dame Program on Church\, State & Society\, and Jenner & Block Chicago. \nShould a religious institution be denied public funding solely because it is owned and operated by a religious entity? The recent U.S. Supreme Court decision Trinity Lutheran Church v. Comer decided that the state of Missouri violated the Free Exercise Clause by disqualifying a religious school from a state program. In this conversation\, law scholars Richard Garnett and Andrew Koppelman will discuss the reasoning employed by the majority\, the concurring justices\, and the dissent; the place of Trinity Lutheran within broader public funding jurisprudence; and the implications of Trinity Lutheran for provisions under various state constitutions that bar all public funding for religious education and religious schools. Daniel B. Rodriguez\, Dean and Harold Washington Professor at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law\, will moderate the discussion. \nSchedule \n5:00pm            Registration\n5:30pm            Introductions\n5:40pm            Conversation\n6:30pm            Audience Q&A\n6:45pm            Reception\n7:30pm            Close \nTo view photos of the event\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nYou can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page\, iTunes channel\, Stitcher\, TuneIn\, ListenNotes\, Podbean\, Pocket Casts\, and Google Play Music. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-11-trinity-lutheran-future-of-public-funding-for-religious-entities-a-conversation-with-richard-garnett-andrew-koppelman-richard-garnett-andrew-m-koppelman-daniel-b-rodriguez/ LOCATION:Jenner & Block\, 45th Floor\, 353 N Clark St.\nChicago\, IL 60654\, Downtown\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Religious-entities-19-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20171129T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20171129T173000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165522Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260129T150031Z UID:10000488-1511976600-1511976600@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Body\, Eros\, and Eucharist DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. \nCosponsored by the Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion. \nAbout The Wedding Feast of the Lamb: \nIn The Wedding Feast of the Lamb\, Emmanuel Falque links philosophy and theology in an original fashion that allows us to see the full effect of theology’s “backlash” against philosophy. \n\nBy attending closely to the incarnation and the eucharist\, Falque develops a new concept of the body and of love: By avoiding the common mistake of “angelism”―consciousness without body―Falque considers the depths to which our humanity reflects animality\, or body without consciousness. He shows the continued relevance of the question “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” (John 6:52)\, especially to philosophy. \nWe need to question the meaning of “this is my body” in “a way that responds to the needs of our time” (Vatican II). Because of the ways that “Hoc est corpus meum” has shaped our culture and our modernity\, this is a problem both for religious belief and for culture. \nTo view photos of the event\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nYou can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page\, iTunes channel\, Stitcher\, TuneIn\, ListenNotes\, Podbean\, Pocket Casts\, and Google Play Music. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-11-body-eros-eucharist-emmanuel-falque/ LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/falque-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180106T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180106T213000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165519Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164022Z UID:10000487-1515268800-1515274200@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Angels\, Demons\, Heaven\, and Hell: On Christian "Mythology" and the Spiritual Life DESCRIPTION:Join the Lumen Christi Institute for a special Epiphany symposium and reception with medieval historian Rachel Fulton Brown and Benedictine Monk Fr. Peter Funk\, OSB. Free and open to the public. \nMany traditional Christian beliefs and teachings about spiritual realities have become unpalatable to modern sensibilities. Accounts of angelic visitations\, demonic possessions\, the stain of original sin\, and the threat of eternal torment are today considered untrue or irrelevant by non-believers and even many Christians. Why were such “myths” so central to Christian belief and practice for so many centuries? Is there any value in understanding why ancient\, medieval\, and contemporary Christians believe in such things? Or does Christianity need to be demythologized in order to survive in a post-enlightenment age? In this conversation\, Rachel Fulton Brown and Fr. Peter Funk\, OSB will consider the history of these “myths” and their relevance for contemporary spiritual practices. \nTo view photos of the symposium\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nImage: Michelangelo Buonarroti\, The Torment of Saint Anthony URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-01-angels-demons-heaven-hell-on-christian-mythology-spiritual-life-rachel-fulton-brown-fr-peter-funk/ LOCATION:Swift Hall\, First Floor Common Room\, 1025 E 58th St\,Chicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Michelangelo_Buonarroti_-_The_Torment_of_Saint_Anthony_-_Google_Art_Project_2-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180117T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180117T193000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165516Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260129T185908Z UID:10000486-1516210200-1516217400@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Religion and Religious Expression in the Academy and Public Life DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion on religion and religious expression in the academy and public life featuring Ross Douthat\, a panel of scholars\, and moderated by Willemien Otten (Professor of Theology and of the History of Christianity and Director of the Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion at the University of Chicago Divinity School). \nPresented by the Lumen Christi Institute\,The Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion at the Divinity School\,The Institute of Politics\, and the International House Global Voices Program. \nFree and open to the public. Persons with disabilities who may need assistance should contact the Office of Programs & External Relations in advance at 773-753-2274 or here. \nRoss Douthat also delivered a luncheon address on “The State of Religion in America” at the University Club of Chicago on January 18. \nYou can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page\, iTunes channel\, Stitcher\, TuneIn\, ListenNotes\, Podbean\, Pocket Casts\, and Google Play Music. \nPhoto courtesy of the Chicago Institute of Politics. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-01-religion-religious-expression-in-academy-public-life-ross-douthat-willemien-otten-geoffrey-r-stone-laurie-zoloth-william-schweiker-william-t-cavanaugh/ LOCATION:International House at the University of Chicago\, 1414 E 59th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/douthat-panel-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180118T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180118T143000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165515Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260129T191442Z UID:10000485-1516280400-1516285800@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:The State of Religion in America DESCRIPTION:$60 General / $600 Host Committee Member \nSince publishing Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics in 2012\, Ross Douthat’s commentary on American religious culture has established him as a prominent and thoughtful critic. This lecture will describe the three “world pictures” that dominate American religiosity: the biblical\, spiritual\, and secular. As these world pictures jockey for cultural dominance\, interesting questions arise. Can the biblical world picture gain ground? Will the secular world picture carry the day? Will the spiritual world picture be forced to give way to one of its more inflexible alternatives? These and other questions will be considered in view of contemporary political and cultural events. \nDouthat explored these themes in a popular 2013 column accessible here. \nRoss Douthat also participated in a panel discussion on “Religion and Religious Expression in the Academy and Public Life” at the University of Chicago on January 17. \nTo view photos of the luncheon\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nYou can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page\, iTunes channel\, Stitcher\, TuneIn\, ListenNotes\, Podbean\, Pocket Casts\, and Google Play Music. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-01-state-of-religion-in-america-ross-douthat/ LOCATION:University Club of Chicago\, 76 E Monroe St\nChicago\, IL 60603\, Downtown\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/douthat_1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180120T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180120T160000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165514Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260129T191050Z UID:10000484-1516464000-1516464000@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Science and Theology of Habitable Worlds Around Other Stars DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Hildegard of Bingen Society for Christian Thought and Culture. \nYou can view Professor Öberg’s recent presentation at the 2017 Society of Catholic Scientists Conference HERE. \nTo view photos of the event\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nYou can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page\, iTunes channel\, Stitcher\, TuneIn\, ListenNotes\, Podbean\, Pocket Casts\, and Google Play Music. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-01-science-theology-of-habitable-worlds-around-other-stars-karin-oberg/ LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Karin-Oberg.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180201T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180201T213000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165512Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260315T155541Z UID:10000483-1517515200-1517520600@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Why Liberalism Failed DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. \nCosponsored by the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought\, the Seminary Coop Bookstore\, and the Divinity School Theology Club. \nABOUT THE BOOK \nHas liberalism failed because it has succeeded? Of the three dominant ideologies of the twentieth century—fascism\, communism\, and liberalism—only the last remains. This has created a peculiar situation in which liberalism’s proponents tend to forget that it is an ideology and not the natural end-state of human political evolution. As Patrick Deneen argues in this provocative book\, liberalism is built on a foundation of contradictions: it trumpets equal rights while fostering incomparable material inequality; its legitimacy rests on consent\, yet it discourages civic commitments in favor of privatism; and in its pursuit of individual autonomy\, it has given rise to the most far-reaching\, comprehensive state system in human history. Here\, Deneen offers an astringent warning that the centripetal forces now at work on our political culture are not superficial flaws but inherent features of a system whose success is generating its own failure. \nYou can read recent reviews of Why Liberalism Failed in the Wall Street Journal  and the New York Times. \nProfessor Deneen also taught a master class on Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America on Friday\, February 2. \nTo view photos of the lecture\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nYou can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page\, iTunes channel\, Stitcher\, TuneIn\, ListenNotes\, Podbean\, Pocket Casts\, and Google Play Music. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-02-why-liberalism-failed-patrick-deneen/ LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/feb-deneen--2--scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180202T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180202T100000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20260129T151456Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260129T152750Z UID:10001909-1517563800-1517565600@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Patrick Deneen - Interview DESCRIPTION:Patrick Deneen\, David A. Potenziani Memorial College Chair at the University of Notre Dame\, sits down with Lumen Christi to discuss his bestselling book Why Liberalism Failed (Yale University Press\, 2018). URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/patrick-deneen-interview/ LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/lci-default.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180202T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180202T180000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165510Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164006Z UID:10000482-1517583600-1517594400@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Master Class on Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America DESCRIPTION:Open to current university students and faculty. Copies of Democracy in America will be available for participants who do not already have it. \nDISCUSSION QUESTIONS: \n\nWhat does Tocqueville mean by democracy?\nIs democracy inevitable (“providential”)? Is its corruption inevitable?\nWhat\, if anything\, follows democracy? Democratic despotism?\nDo Tocqueville’s recommendations for the role played by religion as a corrective to democracy apply any longer? Can they?\n\nREQUIRED READINGS: \nDemocracy in America (U of C Press\, Mansfield translation): \n\nAuthor’s Introduction: pp. 3-15\nI.i. 2: pp. 27-45\nI.i.5: (partial): pp. 57-65\nI.ii.9:  (partial): pp. 274-302\nII.i.1-3: pp. 403-415\nII.i. 5-8: pp. 417-428\nII.i.10-11: pp. 433-443\nII.ii.1-2: pp. 479-484\nII.ii.4-5: pp. 485-492\nII.ii.7-10: pp. 496-508\nII.ii.13: pp. 511-514\nII.ii.15: pp. 517-521\nII.ii.17: pp. 522-524\nII.ii.20: pp. 530-532\nII.iv.2-3: pp. 640-645\nII.iv.6: pp. 661-665\n\nProfessor Deneen also gave a lecture on Why Liberalism Failed on Thursday\, February 1. \nTo view photos of the master class\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-02-master-class-on-alexis-de-tocquevilles-democracy-in-america-patrick-deneen/ LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/deneen-wow.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180208T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180208T173000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165509Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260129T152132Z UID:10000481-1518111000-1518111000@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:The Moral Theology of Aquinas: Is it for Individuals? DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Theology Club at the Divinity School and the Hildegard of Bingen Society for Christian Thought and Culture. \nIs the moral teaching of Aquinas a purely cerebral\, speculative reflection that can hardly be correlated with practical Christian living\, or does it have a message that can be correlated with the experience and difficulties of an average individual? This lecture views the theology of Aquinas in the light of the concrete down-to earth approach focused on individuals that seems to be the basic gift of Pope Francis. It attempts to propose a reading of Aquinas that is spiritually nourishing. \nTo view photos of the lecture\, please visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nYou can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page\, iTunes channel\, Stitcher\, TuneIn\, ListenNotes\, Podbean\, Pocket Casts\, and Google Play Music. \n\nFr. Giertych also taught a master class on “Grace\, Free Choice\, and the Infused Virtues” on Friday\, February 9. \nOn Saturday\, February 10\, he joined with Notre Dame’s John C. Cavadini to lead a discussion on “The Role and Future of Theology” in the academy and the Church. View photos of that discussion. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-02-moral-theology-of-aquinas-is-it-for-individuals-wojciech-giertych-op/ LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/aquinas-apotheosis-zurburan-1. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180209T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180209T180000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165509Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T163959Z UID:10000480-1518188400-1518199200@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Master Class on Grace\, Free Choice\, and the Infused Virtues DESCRIPTION:Open to current university students and faculty. A link to the readings will be provided for registrants. \nSESSION I: “Grace and Free Choice” \nPrimary Reading: \n\nThomas Aquinas\, Summa Theologiae\, Ia\, q. 83\, art. 1-4\n\nSecondary Reading: \n\nServais Pinckaers OP\, The Sources of Christian Ethics\, (Washington\, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press\, 1995)\, chapters XIV-XV on the liberty of indifference and liberty of quality.\nDaniel Westberg\, Right Practical Reason. Aristotle\, Action\, and Prudence in Aquinas\, (Oxford: Clarendon Press\, 1994)\, p. 119-135.\nWojciech Giertych OP\, “Conscience and the Liberum Arbitrium”\, in: Crisis of Conscience\, ed. by John M. Haas\, (New York: The Crossroad Publishing Company\, 1996)\, p. 51-78.\n\nSESSION II: “Virtues infused by grace. What are they?” \nPrimary Reading: \n\nThomas Aquinas\, Summa Theologiae\, Ia-IIae\, q. 63\, art. 1-4\n\nSecondary Reading: \n\nServais Pinckaers OP\, “The Role of Virtue in Moral Theory”\, the pinckaers reader Renewing Moral Theology\, (Washington\, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press\, 2005)\, p. 288-303.\nRomanus Cessario\, OP\, “What Causes the Moral Virtues to Develop”\, The Moral Virtues and Theological Ethics\, (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press\, 1991)\, p. 94-125.\nWojciech Giertych OP\, “Virtue and Addiction”\, Nova et Vetera\, English Edition\, (Fall 2015)\, p. 969-1002.\n\n\nFr. Giertych also gave a lecture on “The Moral Theology of Aquinas: Is it for Individuals?” on Thursday\, February 8. \nOn Saturday\, February 10\, he joined with Notre Dame’s John C. Cavadini to lead a discussion on “The Role and Future of Theology” in the academy and the Church. View photos of that discussion. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-02-master-class-on-grace-free-choice-infused-virtues-wojciech-giertych-op/ LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/aquinas-apotheosis-zurburan END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180224T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180224T210000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165508Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T163956Z UID:10000479-1519491600-1519506000@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Monastery Visit: St. Benedict's Teaching on Humility DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\nTransportation will be provided from Hyde Park. Open to current university students and faculty. \nCosponsored by the Hildegard of Bingen Society. \nJoin 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 Vespers and Compline)\, and have dinner and discussion of St. Benedict’s Teaching on Humility by Michael Casey with Fr. Peter Funk\, OSB\, prior of the monastery and alumnus of the University of Chicago. \nMore information about the monastery can be found HERE. \nSCHEDULE \n4:15pm   Meet at Gavin House (1220 E. 58th St.)\n4:30pm   Depart from Hyde Park\n5:00pm   Arrive at the Monastery\, welcome by Fr. Funk\n5:15pm   Office of Vespers\n6:00pm   Dinner & Discussion\, A Guide to Living in the Truth: St. Benedict’s Teaching on Humility by Michael Casey\n7:15pm   Office of Compline\n8:00pm   Arrive back in Hyde Park URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-02-monastery-visit-st-benedicts-teaching-on-humility-fr-peter-funk/ LOCATION:The Monastery of the Holy Cross\, 3111 South Aberdeen St.\nChicago\, IL 60608\, Chicago\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/st-benedict-his-monks-eating-in-the-refectory.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180301T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180301T173000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165506Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260129T191739Z UID:10000478-1519925400-1519925400@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Thick and Dazzling Darkness: Religious Poetry in a Secular Age DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Program in Poetry and Poetics and the Seminary Coop Bookstore. Copies of the book will be available for purchase. \nYou can hear Peter O’Leary discuss the book in a recent OPEN STACKS Podcast interview. \nABOUT THE BOOK\nHow do poets use language to render the transcendent\, often dizzyingly inexpressible nature of the divine? In an age of secularism\, does spirituality have a place in modern American poetry? In Thick and Dazzling Darkness\, Peter O’Leary reads a diverse set of writers to argue for the existence and importance of religious poetry in twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature. He traces a poetic genealogy that begins with Whitman and Dickinson and continues in the work of contemporary writers to illuminate an often obscured but still central spiritual impulse that has shaped the production and imagination of American poetry. \nO’Leary presents close and comprehensive readings of the modernist\, late-modernist\, and postmodern poets Robinson Jeffers\, Frank Samperi\, and Robert Duncan\, as well as the contemporary poets Joseph Donahue\, Geoffrey Hill\, Fanny Howe\, Nathaniel Mackey\, Pam Rehm\, and Lissa Wolsak. Examining how these poets drew on a variety of traditions\, including Catholicism\, Gnosticism\, the Kabbalah\, and mysticism\, the book considers how modern and contemporary poets have articulated the spiritual in their work. O’Leary also argues that an anxiety of misunderstanding exists in the study and writing of poetry between secular and religious impulses and that the religious nature of poets’ works is too often marginalized or misunderstood. Examining the works of a specific poet in each chapter\, O’Leary reveals their complexity and offers a defense of the value and meaning of religious poetry against the grain of a secular society. \nTo view photos of O’Leary’s lecture\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nYou can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page\, iTunes channel\, Stitcher\, TuneIn\, ListenNotes\, Podbean\, Pocket Casts\, and Google Play Music. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-03-thick-dazzling-darkness-religious-poetry-in-a-secular-age-peter-oleary/ LOCATION:Swift Hall\, Room 106\, 1025 E 58th St\,\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/DSC_0521-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180306T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180306T210000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165504Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T150038Z UID:10000476-1520362800-1520370000@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Figures of Renaissance\, Reform\, and Renewal DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\n6:00 Dinner | 6:30 Lecture \nIntended for current students and faculty. Others interested in attending: please contact info@lumenchristi.org. Registrants are free to attend as many sessions as they choose. Sessions do not presuppose previous attendance or prior knowledge of the subject. \nThe Renaissance era is regarded as the period during which European civilization transitioned from the medieval to the modern. It was an era of reform and renewal in the Catholic Church as well\, a time in which traditions and practices were revisited\, rethought\, and matured. This course will introduce students to the reforms and renewal of Catholic beliefs and culture from the 14th through the 16th century\, with particular emphasis on select historical episodes\, dynamics\, and figures from the theological\, philosophical\, and spiritual traditions. \nJanuary 9\nJulian of Norwhich\nWillemien Otten (University of Chicago) \nJanuary 16\nThe Western Schism\nDavid Lyons (University of Chicago) \nJanuary 23\nChristian Humanism\nAda Palmer (University of Chicago) \nJanuary 30\nTeresa of Avila and John of the Cross\nFr. Gaspar Martinez (University of Chicago) \nFebruary 6\nLuther\, Müntzer\, and the German Peasants’ Revolt\nRobert Porwoll (University of Chicago) \nFebruary 13\nJohn Fisher\nFr. Paul Mankowski\, SJ (Lumen Christi Institute) \nFebruary 20\nSavonarola\nJo Walton \nFebruary 27\nEdmund Campion\nFr. Paul Mankowski\, SJ (Lumen Christi Institiute) \nMarch 6\nFrancis de Sales\nDavid Lyons (University of Chicago) URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-03-figures-of-renaissance-reform-renewal-willemien-otten-david-lyons-ada-palmer-fr-gaspar-martinez-robert-porwoll-paul-mankowski-sj-jo-walton/ LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/dome.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180311T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180311T150000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165503Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T150035Z UID:10000475-1520780400-1520780400@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Schola Antiqua Concert "Sounds of Faith of Medieval Jerusalem" DESCRIPTION:An acclaimed soundscape of sacred and devotional song developed for The Met Cloisters museum\, this one-hour program brings medieval traditions to life with sounds of status quo and religious change in and around Jerusalem. The vocalists of local ensemble Schola Antiqua are joined by special guests Amro Helmy\, oud\, and soprano Nell Snaidas. \nSchola Antiqua also performed the same program on Friday\, March 9 at the Oriental Institute. \nTo learn more about “Sounds of Faith\,” read this 2016 Commonweal review of the same performance. \nTo view photos of the March 9 performance\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-03-schola-antiqua-concert-sounds-of-faith-of-medieval-jerusalem-schola-antiqua-of-chicago-2/ LOCATION:St. Josaphat Church\, 2311 North Southport Avenue\nChicago\, IL 60614\, Lincoln Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/jerusalem.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180312T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180312T193000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165503Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260129T152538Z UID:10000474-1520875800-1520883000@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Silence\, Prayer\, and Contemplation in a Secular Society DESCRIPTION:Information on directions and parking can be found HERE. Information on the club’s dress code can be found HERE. \nOur secular society does nothing to encourage us to discover God’s presence in our lives through silent\, prayerful reflection. To the contrary\, the overload of media and noise discourage cultivating a habit of silent\, meditative prayer. Yet prayer of this kind is essential if we are to recognize and accept God’s mercy and love acting in our lives. The theological virtues of faith\, hope\, and charity grow in us when we cooperate with the grace that enables us to pray contemplatively and so enter into a deeper communion with the God who is Love. Cardinal Arborelius explores these themes and places them in conversation with the thought of Lawrence of the Resurrection\, Elizabeth of the Trinity\, Teresa of Ávila\, and John of the Cross.\n\nTo view photos of the evening\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nTo read the Chicago Catholic‘s coverage of the event\, click here. \nTo read the Arlington Catholic Herald‘s coverage of the event\, click here. \nYou can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page\, iTunes channel\, Stitcher\, TuneIn\, ListenNotes\, Podbean\, Pocket Casts\, and Google Play Music. \n\nCardinal Arborelius also gave a lecture at the University of Chicago on March 13 on “The Witness of Contemplative Women in the Heart of the Church.” \nTo learn more about Cardinal Arborelius\, read this Lumen Christi news item about his visit. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-03-silence-prayer-contemplation-in-a-secular-society-anders-cardinal-arborelius/ LOCATION:University Club of Chicago\, 76 E Monroe St\nChicago\, IL 60603\, Downtown\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/arborelius-ucc.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180313T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180313T160000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165500Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260129T153453Z UID:10000473-1520956800-1520956800@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:The Witness of Contemplative Women in the Heart of the Church DESCRIPTION:Cosponsored by the Theology Club of the University of Chicago’s Divinity School. \nFree and open to the public. \nIn this lecture\, Cardinal Arborelius explores the role that contemplative women have occupied in the Church throughout the ages and reflects on the witness they can offer to today’s secular society. By discussing women ranging from Mary the Mother of God through to Teresa of Ávila and the Little Flower\, Arborelius contends that the characteristically feminine charism for contemplative prayer can beautifully illuminate mystical union with God. Arborelius also contends that the feminine gift for loving presence to the marginalized\, modeled by Mother Theresa or St. Bridget of Sweden\, uniquely builds up a more just\, peaceful\, compassionate society. \nTo view photos of the lecture\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nYou can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page\, iTunes channel\, Stitcher\, TuneIn\, ListenNotes\, Podbean\, Pocket Casts\, and Google Play Music. \n\nCardinal Arborelius also gave an evening address on March 12 titled “Silence\, Prayer\, and Contemplation in a Seculary Society.” \nTo learn more about Cardinal Arborelius\, read this Lumen Christi news item about his visit. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-03-witness-of-contemplative-women-in-heart-of-church-anders-cardinal-arborelius/ LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/DSC_0050-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180327T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180327T190000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165457Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260129T192823Z UID:10000472-1522171800-1522177200@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:The Dignity of Politics: A Panel Discussion DESCRIPTION:Cosponsored by the Catholic Lawyers Guild of Chicago and Jenner & Block\, LLP \nA panel discussion featuring James R. Stoner and respondents Justice Mary Jane Theis\, Dan Cronin\, and Larry Suffredin. \nA dynamic society accords respect to political activities and the choice of a career in politics\, and it needs to do so for society to thrive. Politics is held in low repute today\, breeding contempt for the day-to-day activities of citizens and politicians involved in the making of law and public policy. Self-government is a great achievement; both rare and fragile\, it is only achieved by the virtue of those who participate in it. Contempt for politics and politicians imperils our republic by dissuading virtuous men and women from assisting in the making of law and public policy. \nTo view photos of the event\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nYou can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page\, iTunes channel\, Stitcher\, TuneIn\, ListenNotes\, Podbean\, Pocket Casts\, and Google Play Music. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-03-dignity-of-politics-a-panel-discussion-james-r-stoner-justice-mary-jane-theis-dan-cronin-larry-suffredin/ LOCATION:Jenner & Block\, 45th Floor\, 353 N Clark St.\nChicago\, IL 60654\, Downtown\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/fullsizeoutput_84b-scaled.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180405T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180405T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165454Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260315T160028Z UID:10000471-1522947600-1522947600@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Early Modern Catholic Social Teaching and World Order DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies\, the Early Modern and Mediterranean Worlds Workshop\, and the Ethics Club at the Divinity School. \nWestern distrust in liberal internationalism offers an opportunity for renewed theological reflection on the moral foundations of world order. After the Second World War\, transitional popes and Thomistic philosophers articulated a Christian vision of supranational society to quicken the support of universal human rights. Their personalist global ethic outlines the contribution of sixteenth-century Spanish theologians who promoted a conception of world order that affirmed the basic rights of believers and nonbelievers against the violent excesses of colonial expansion in el Nuevo Mundo. \nThe turn to early modern Catholic social teaching among Spanish theologians associated with the School of Salamanca represents an effort to break out of the Westphalian world system that dominates modern thinking about international relations. This lecture retrieves early modern Spanish theological voices to expose the colonialist underbelly of Westphalian rights discourse\, typified by Thomas Hobbes and John Locke\, and its radical domestication of the Church and human nature. Going beyond Westphalia and its anarchical view of global society enables a reconsideration of the Church’s moral witness of world order anew and the ongoing struggle for justice among dispossessed peoples besieged by aggressive forms of neocolonialism. \nOn April 6\, David Lantigua also led a Master Class on “Bishop Bartolomé de las Casas\, OP: Christian Faith and Amerindian Rights.” \nTo view photos of the lecture\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nYou can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page\, iTunes channel\, Stitcher\, TuneIn\, ListenNotes\, Podbean\, Pocket Casts\, and Google Play Music. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-04-early-modern-catholic-social-teaching-world-order-david-lantigua/ LOCATION:Swift Hall\, First Floor Common Room\, 1025 E 58th St\,Chicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/lantigua-scaled.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180406T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180406T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165453Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T150018Z UID:10000470-1523023200-1523034000@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Master Class on "Bishop Bartolomé de las Casas\, OP: Christian Faith and Amerindian Rights" DESCRIPTION:Open to current university students and faculty. A link to the readings will be provided for registrants. \nThis 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 philosopher\, and canon lawyer. Incredibly\, his legal advocacy and literary output was wholly dedicated to accounting for the injustices perpetrated by Spaniards against the native peoples of the Indies while defending their freedom and rights against European political domination and religious coercion to the faith. \nIn order to facilitate class discussion\, each session will focus on a distinct yet interrelated theme that generally corresponds to two phases of the friar’s life: before his appointment to the episcopate of Chiapa in New Spain (1484-1543) and after (1544-1566). Session I chiefly considers the transformation of Las Casas from priest-encomendero to a Dominican theorist and practitioner of peaceful evangelization. Session II focuses on his advocacy on behalf of Amerindian rights as bishop of Chiapa in the New World and back in Spain. \nREQUIRED READINGS \nBartolomé de las Casas\, The Only Way\, eds. Helen Rand Parish and Francis Patrick Sullivan (Paulist Press\, 1992)\, pp. 63-84; 112-116; 120-125 \n—–. Indian Freedom\, ed. Francis Patrick Sullivan\, S.J. (Sheed and Ward\, 1995)\, selections \nSUGGESTED READINGS \nGustavo Gutiérrez\, Las Casas: In Search of the Poor of Jesus Christ (Orbis Books\, 1993)\, trans. Robert Barr\, pp. 363-395 \nDavid Lantigua\, “Faith\, Liberty\, and the Defense of the Poor: Bishop Las Casas in the History of Human Rights\,” in Christianity and Freedom: Historical Perspectives\, eds. Timothy Shah and Allen Hertzke (Cambridge Press\, 2016)\, pp. 176-202 \nOn April 5\, David Lantigua gave a lecture on “Early Modern Catholic Social Thought and World Order.” URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-04-master-class-on-bishop-bartolome-de-las-casas-op-christian-faith-amerindian-rights-david-lantigua/ LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/las-casas.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180412T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180412T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165450Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260315T155806Z UID:10000469-1523552400-1523552400@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Perseverance in the Parish? Religious Attitudes from a Black Catholic Perspective DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by Catholic Theological Union and the Ethics Club at the Divinity School. \nDo 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 the “double consciousness” of African-American Catholic churchgoers\, Davis suggests that the contemporary experiences and perspectives of black Catholics do not support this framework for understanding faith in the African-American Catholic community. His lecture will deal with the results of his survey and its implications for conversations about marginalization and racial bias in the Church. \nTo view photos of the lecture\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nYou can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page\, iTunes channel\, Stitcher\, TuneIn\, ListenNotes\, Podbean\, Pocket Casts\, and Google Play Music. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-04-perseverance-in-parish-religious-attitudes-from-a-black-catholic-perspective-darren-davis/ LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/4-12-2018-Black-Catholicism-37--1--scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180415T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180415T160000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165444Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T150010Z UID:10000468-1523808000-1523808000@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:"Behold How Good and How Pleasant": A Memorial Concert for Theodore C. Karp DESCRIPTION:$25 General / $10 Students \nSchola 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 a full performance of Orlande de Lassus’s sonorous Prophetiae Sibyllarum. \nSchola Antiqua of Chicago also performed the same concert on Saturday\, April 14 at 8:00pm at Rockefeller Memorial Chapel at the University of Chicago. \nTo view photos of the April 14 performance\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-04-behold-how-good-how-pleasant-a-memorial-concert-for-theodore-c-karp-schola-antiqua-of-chicago-2/ LOCATION:Millar Chapel\, Northwestern University\n1870 Sheridan Rd\, Evanston ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/4-14-2018-Memorial-Concert-Theodore-Kray-2-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180419T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180419T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165441Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260210T235448Z UID:10000467-1524157200-1524157200@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:The Future of Liberalism: Relativism Confronts St. Augustine DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Theology Club at the Divinity School. \nThe 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 ground contemporary liberalism in relativist views of goodness and truth. These views will be brought into dialogue with St Augustine’s reflections on Rome. It will thereby develop a perspective on how Catholics should coexist with liberalism\, which retains value as a political framework. \nProfessor Fields also led a master class seminar on “Karl Rahner’s Distinctive Theology of the Symbol” on Saturday\, April 21. \nTo view photos of the lecture\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nYou can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page\, iTunes channel\, Stitcher\, TuneIn\, ListenNotes\, Podbean\, Pocket Casts\, and Google Play Music. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-04-future-of-liberalism-relativism-confronts-st-augustine-stephen-fields-sj/ LOCATION:Harper Memorial Library 130\, 1116 East 59th Street\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/4-19-2018-Stephen-Fields-Future-of-Liberalism--Zoe-Kaiser--23-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180421T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180421T130000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165439Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T150004Z UID:10000466-1524304800-1524315600@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Master Class on "Karl Rahner’s Distinctive Theology of the Symbol" DESCRIPTION:Open to current university students and faculty. A link to the readings will be provided for registrants. \nIn 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 Word (1941)\, which seeks to justify humanity’s natural ability to receive and assent to a divine revelation; Foundations of Christian Faith (1976)\, a systematic exposition of Catholic belief and practice; and the renowned Theological Investigations (1954-84)\, sixteen volumes on a wide range of topics written over the course of his career. \nAs a systematic theologian\, Rahner understood his role as using some criterion according to which the revealed doctrines of Christianity could be shown to be coherent\, even while they remain mysteries not fully comprehensible to reason.  His distinctive criterion is called the Realsymbol.  Our Master Class will study what it is\, how Rahner develops it\, and how he uses it better to understand the realities that we know both by reason and by faith. \nREADINGS \nKarl Rahner\, SJ\, “The Theology of the Symbol\,” in Theological Investigations (TI)\, vol. 4\, 221-52; “Oneness and Threefoldness of God in Discussion with Islam\,” TI 18\, 105-21; “On the Theology of the Incarnation\,” TI 4\, 105-20. [23 vols\, various places\, publishers\, and dates; originally Schriften zur Theologie (Einsiedeln: Benzinger\, 1954-84)]. \nStephen Fields\, SJ\, “Realsymbol as Sacramental\,” in Being As Symbol: On the Origins and Development of Karl Rahner’s Metaphysics (Washington\, DC: Georgetown University Press\, 2001)\, 38-54. \nSCHEDULE \n9:30am   Coffee & Pastries\n10:00am   Session I\n11:25am   Break\n11:35am   Session II\n1:00pm   Lunch \nProfessor Fields also gave a lecture on “The Future of Liberalism: Relativism Confronts St. Augustine” on Thursday\, April 19. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-04-master-class-on-karl-rahner-s-distinctive-theology-of-symbol-stephen-fields-sj/ LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/fields.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180503T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180503T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165435Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260129T154626Z UID:10000465-1525366800-1525366800@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Athens\, Jerusalem—and Alexandria: Christian Wisdom between the Bible and Greek Philosophy DESCRIPTION: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. \nChristian 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 Biblical revelation. \nYou can read about Professor Brague’s previous visit HERE. \nTo view photos of the event\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nYou can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page\, iTunes channel\, Stitcher\, TuneIn\, ListenNotes\, Podbean\, Pocket Casts\, and Google Play Music. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-05-athens-jerusalem-alexandria-christian-wisdom-between-bible-greek-philosophy-remi-brague-jean-luc-marion/ LOCATION:Breasted Hall\, Oriental Institute\, 1155 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/5-3-2018-Remi-Brague-Jean-Luc-Marion-38-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180504T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180504T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165434Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T145956Z UID:10000464-1525446000-1525453200@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Master Class on Paul Claudel's "The Muse Called Grace" DESCRIPTION:Open to current students and faculty. A copy of the poem with English translation will be circulated to those who RSVP. \nPaul 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. \nSCHEDULE:\n2:30pm    Coffee & Tea\n3:00pm    Seminar\n5:00pm    Wine & Cheese \nThe Franke Institute for the Humanities will host a conference on Paul Claudel for the 150th anniversary of his birth on May 18 & 19\, 2018. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-05-master-class-on-paul-claudels-muse-called-grace-remi-brague-thomas-pavel/ LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Claudel.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180505T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180505T200000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165432Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T145952Z UID:10000463-1525537800-1525550400@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Prayer\, Dinner\, and Discussion at the Benedictine Monastery of the Holy Cross DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\nTransportation will be provided from Hyde Park. Open to current university students and faculty. \nCosponsored by the Hildegard of Bingen Society. \nJoin 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. \nMore information about the monastery can be found HERE. \nSCHEDULE \n4:15pm   Meet at Gavin House (1220 E. 58th St.)\n4:30pm   Depart from Hyde Park\n5:00pm   Arrive at the Monastery\, welcome by Fr. Funk\n5:15pm   Office of Solemn Vespers\n6:00pm   Dinner & Discussion\n7:15pm   Office of Compline\n8:00pm   Arrive back in Hyde Park URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-05-prayer-dinner-discussion-at-benedictine-monastery-of-holy-cross-fr-peter-funk/ LOCATION:The Monastery of the Holy Cross\, 3111 South Aberdeen St.\nChicago\, IL 60608\, Chicago\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/2Vespers_Monks284-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180510T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180510T190000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165431Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260129T153852Z UID:10000462-1525978800-1525978800@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Elizabeth Anscombe on Living the Truth DESCRIPTION: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 practical reasoning.  The person who achieves this truth is virtuous\, someone who can stand as an exemplar (or rule and measure) for those who seek the truth but have not yet realized it in their lives. \nTo view photos of the lecture\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nYou can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page\, iTunes channel\, Stitcher\, TuneIn\, ListenNotes\, Podbean\, Pocket Casts\, and Google Play Music. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-05-elizabeth-anscombe-on-living-truth-jennifer-frey/ LOCATION:Classics 110\, 1010 E 59th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/frey.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180518T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180518T143000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165430Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T145944Z UID:10000461-1526648400-1526653800@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:The Book of Job and the Transmission of Biblical Wisdom DESCRIPTION:Open to current students and faculty. Lunch will be served. \nAll 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. \nImage: Job and His Friends\, Ilya Repin via Wikimedia Commons. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-05-book-of-job-transmission-of-biblical-wisdom-stuart-j-foster-paul-mankowski-sj/ LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Job_and_his_friends.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180519T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180519T150000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165427Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T145941Z UID:10000460-1526742000-1526742000@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Staged Reading of "Shakeshafte" by Rowan Williams DESCRIPTION:To view photos of the performance\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nYou 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. \nFree 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. \nYou can read about the Shakespeare Project of Chicago’s previous performance of “Shakeshafte” at the Chicago Reader. More information about the play can be found HERE. \nSCHEDULE \n2:30pm   Doors open\, refreshments & reception\n3:00pm   Introduction\, Professor Regina Schwartz (Northwestern University)\n3:10pm   Staged reading of “Shakeshafte” (with 15 minute intermission)\n5:00pm   Audience Q&A with cast and Professor Schwartz\n5:15pm   End \nRowan Williams was the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury\, holding that office from 2002 to 2012. He is currently master of Magdalene College\, Cambridge\, where he teaches Theology. A noted poet and translator of poetry\, Dr. Williams speaks or reads nine other languages\, and has published books on a wide range of theological\, historical\, and political themes. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-05-staged-reading-of-shakeshafte-by-rowan-williams-shakespeare-project-of-chicago/ LOCATION:International House at the University of Chicago\, 1414 E 59th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/fullsizeoutput_12ba-scaled.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180522T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180522T180000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165427Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T145937Z UID:10000459-1527012000-1527012000@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:The Hillbilly Thomist: Flannery O'Connor's Catholic Imagination DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\n6:00 Dinner | 6:30 Lecture \nThis 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. \nThe 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 into the radical non-conformists of the Protestant South\, such that her often grotesque characters are conveyed by convincing human portraits that at the same time rise above the particulars of time and place so as to speak to the Big Questions of faith and unbelief\, salvation and damnation. \nThis course will examine in detail seven of O’Connor’s short stories\, as well as the theology and artistic convictions from which they come to be\, supplemented by letters selected from her published correspondence.  Volunteers will be recruited to prepare and read aloud brief excerpts from the stories.  No previous acquaintance with the works of O’Connor is required or presumed. \nApril 3rd\nThe Hillbilly Thomist: An introduction to O’Connor and her work. \nApril 10th\n“The Enduring Chill” \nApril 17th\n“A Temple of the Holy Ghost” \nApril 24th\n“A Late Encounter with the Enemy” \nMay 1st\n“The Life You Save May Be Your Own” \nMay 8th\n“Parker’s Back” \nMay 15th\n“A Good Man Is Hard to Find” \nMay 22nd\n“Revelation” \nYou can watch a profile of Flannery O’Connor HERE. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-05-hillbilly-thomist-flannery-oconnors-catholic-imagination-paul-mankowski-sj/ LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/O-Connor.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180525T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180525T150000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165422Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260322T142650Z UID:10000458-1527260400-1527260400@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:What is Freedom? Some Reflections on Augustine DESCRIPTION: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. \nTo view photos of the symposium\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nA lecture by Olivier Boulnois with responses by Jean-Luc Marion and Willemien Otten\, and moderated by Ryan Coyne. \nFree and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Theology Club at the Divinity School. \nThis 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. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-05-what-is-freedom-some-reflections-on-augustine-olivier-boulnois-jean-luc-marion-willemien-otten-ryan-coyne/ LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/fullsizeoutput_15e8_1-scaled.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180610T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180613T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241006T235419Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260115T191227Z UID:10000457-1528621200-1528909200@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Economics and Catholic Social Thought: A Primer DESCRIPTION:You can download the poster here. \nNow in its third year\, this seminar is designed as an introduction and immersion into Catholic social thought for graduate students and faculty in economics\, finance\, or related fields. Participants will cover foundational principles in Catholic social thought\, starting with the human person\, dignity\, freedom\, subsidiarity\, solidarity\, and the common good\, and moving toward applications of these principles to conceptual understandings and ethical considerations involving economic topics such as utility theory\, firm and business ethics\, wages\, markets\, globalization\, poverty\, and development. Participants will delve into social encyclicals\, secondary sources\, and relevant economics texts. \nThis seminar is cosponsored by the Catholic Research Economists Discussion Organization\, the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture\, the Kellogg Institute for International Studies\, and the Notre Dame Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts. \nFormat: There will be two sessions each day\, featuring a different instructor. Each instructor will open with a lecture\, and then we will turn to a seminar-style discussion of the texts and issues at hand. In the final sessions\, we will discuss how the material can be applied to each student’s particular area of interest. \nLocation: The seminar will take place at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend\, Indiana. A limited number of travel stipends are available on a need basis. All participants will be provided with accommodations and meals. \nApplication Information: This seminar will be open to PhD students and faculty in economics\, finance and related fields. \nApplicants will be required to submit a completed online application form\, including: \n\nAn updated CV.\nA brief statement of research interest no longer than 750 words.\nOne academic writing sample.\n\nAll application materials can be submitted via the online application. Incomplete applications will not be considered. Fifteen students will be admitted to this seminar. \nPlease direct any further questions to contact@credo-economists.org. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-econ-cst/ LOCATION:University of Notre Dame\, Notre Dame\, IN 46556\, Notre Dame\, IN CATEGORIES:Summer Seminars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Budget-1_notre_dame-e1750807513975.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180617T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180630T000000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241006T235419Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T145927Z UID:10000456-1529193600-1530316800@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Undergraduate Seminar on Happiness and Freedom DESCRIPTION:APPLY HERE \nTHE APPLICATION DEADLINE FOR AMERICAN STUDENTS HAS PASSED. IRISH STUDENTS ARE STILL WELCOME TO APPLY UNTIL APRIL 16. \nUndergraduate students from Ireland and the US are invited to apply for this two-week seminar on “Happiness & Freedom.” Explore themes of nationalism\, modernity\, community\, and stability while being immersed in Irish culture and history. \nPresented by the Lumen Christi Institute and the University of Notre Dame. \nYou can download the poster here. \nABOUT THE SEMINAR\nHuman beings want to be happy. And they often see freedom as a necessary component in their happiness. What\, though\, should human beings be free from in order to be happy? Should human beings instead be free for certain things? In this two-week seminar\, we will explore philosophical\, theological\, and historical answers to the question of human freedom and happiness. Because of our location in Ireland\, we will focus on how the Irish have answered these questions throughout their history. We will pay special attention to the role that Christianity has played in contributing to (or perhaps detracting from) one’s freedom and happiness. \nFORMAT AND SCHEDULE\nWeek one will be held at the O’Connell House\, the Notre Dame Global Gateway in Dublin\, and week two will be held at Kylemore Abbey\, a Benedictine community in Connemara\, County Galway. The seminar readings and discussions will be supplemented by field trips around significant historical places in Dublin and County Galway. \nStudents will be provided with lodging\, transportation\, and most meals during the course of the seminar. Students will be responsible for arranging their own transportation to and from the seminar. Travel grants may be available on a need basis. \nGUEST LECTURERS\nMaria Cahill\, Lecturer\, University College Cork\nSiobhán Garrigan\, Loyola Chair of Theology\, Trinity College Dublin\nCyril O’Regan\, Huisking Professor of Theology\, University of Notre Dame\nDeclan Kiberd\, Donald and Marilyn Keough Professor of Irish Studies\, University of Notre Dame \nREADINGS\nIris Murdoch\, The Sovereignty of the Good\nAlasdair MacIntyre\, After Virtue\nR.F. Foster\, Modern Ireland 1600-1970\nWilliam Cavanaugh\, Being Consumed\nJames Joyce\, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man\nT. M. Charles-Edwards\, Early Christian Ireland\nRule of St Benedict\nHerbert McCabe\, “God” and “Prayer”\nServais Pinckaers\, OP\, The Pursuit of Happiness\nBenedict XVI\, Deus caritas est and Veritas in caritate \nHOW TO APPLY\nThis seminar is open to current undergraduate students from the US and Ireland (including those graduating in spring 2018). All application materials can be submitted via the online application. Incomplete applications will not be considered. Twenty students will be admitted to this seminar. \nApplication materials must be received by 11:59pm on MARCH 15\, 2018. \nThe Lumen Christi Institute exists to promote the Catholic intellectual tradition and is committed to the integration of the intellectual and spiritual life. The Institute welcomes seminar participants of all or no religious affiliation\, and wants to assure all applicants that the opportunities to participate in devotional activities are optional. \nContact us if you have any further questions. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-ireland-seminar/ LOCATION:Kylemore Abbey\, Kylemore Abbey\, Galway\, Ireland CATEGORIES:Seminar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/connemara-life-notre-dame-kylemore-abbey-16.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180627T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180704T000000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241006T235421Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260115T180631Z UID:10000455-1530057600-1530662400@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:St. Thomas Aquinas on Free Choice DESCRIPTION:You can download the poster here. \nThis seminar will be a five-day\, intensive discussion aimed at understanding and evaluating St. Thomas Aquinas’ account of liberum arbitrium and of the psychological and metaphysical principles that underlie it. The sessions will center on passages from the Summa Theologiae\, but we will also refer to other works of Aquinas\, such as the De Malo and the Commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics\, and to pertinent texts from other philosophers such as Plato\, Aristotle\, Kant\, and Anscombe. We will want to address some of the more controversial questions about Thomas’ views\, such as the following: Does he differ from Aristotle on the will\, and if so\, how? Did he change his own mind about the will? To what extent\, in Aquinas’ account\, does the freedom of the will depend upon the distinction between the will and the intellect? Does St. Thomas’ apparent intellectualism commit him to some kind of determinism with regard to choice?  Does he offer an adequate account of the choice of evil? In comparison with modern thinkers\, does he sufficiently appreciate the value of freedom? \nFormat: There will be two 2 ½ hour sessions each day. Each session will include an opening lecture and seminar-style discussion of the text and the issues at hand. Students will be expected to prepare the readings carefully and participate in the discussions of the material. \nLocation: The seminar will take place at the University of Chicago. Students will be provided with lodging\, meals\, and a travel stipend of up to $350. \nApplication Information: This seminar will be open to PhD students in the humanities and relevant fields (such as philosophy\, theology\, english\, classics\, & history). \nApplicants will be required to submit: \n\nA completed online application form.\nAn updated CV.\nAt least one and as many as two letter(s) of recommendation from a member of the program in which the student is currently enrolled.\nA statement of research interest no longer than 750 words\, which includes an explanation of how this seminar might bear on the student’s current or future research plans.\nOne academic writing sample (30 pages maximum).\n\nAll application materials can be submitted via the online application. Incomplete applications will not be considered. Fiften students will be admitted to this seminar. \n\nFrequently Asked Questions: \nCan I apply for more than one seminar?\nYes. You may apply for multiple seminars. Please indicate your order of preference in your statement of purpose for each application. Each applicant may only be admitted to one seminar. \nI am a PhD student graduating this academic year. Can I still apply?\nYes! \nI am currently an undergraduate or master’s student\, but have been admitted to a PhD program for the next academic year. Can I still apply?\nYes\, please indicate this somewhere in your application. \nI have attended a Lumen Christi Institute seminar in the past. May I still apply?\nYes! \nDo I have to be Catholic to apply?\nNo. The Lumen Christi Institute exists to promotes the Catholic intellectual tradition and is committed to the integration of the intellectual and spiritual life. The Institute welcomes seminar participants of all or no religious affiliation\, and wants to assure all applicants that the opportunities to participate in devotional activities are optional. \nContact us with any further questions. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-aquinas-seminar-brock/ LOCATION:University of Chicago\, 5801 S. Ellis Ave.\, University of Chicago\, IL CATEGORIES:Summer Seminars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/University_of_Chicago-_Harper_Library_1-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180707T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180714T000000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241006T235419Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260115T180409Z UID:10000454-1530921600-1531526400@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:The Thought of John Henry Newman DESCRIPTION:You can download the poster here. \nNow in its sixth consecutive year\, this intensive seminar will examine the achievements of Blessed John Henry Newman as a theologian\, philosopher\, educator\, preacher\, and writer. Remarkably\, in each of these areas Newman produced works that have come to be recognized as classics: An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine\, The Grammar of Assent\, The Idea of a University\, The Parochial and Plain Sermons\, and the Apologia Pro Vita Sua. This seminar will approach Newman’s thought through a critical engagement with these texts. \nFormat: There will be two 2-hour sessions each day. The seminar will include presentations by Professor Ker and by participants on the readings assigned\, followed by seminar-style discussion. \nLocation: The seminar will take place at Merton College at the University of Oxford. Students will be provided with lodging and meals while at Oxford\, and a travel stipend of up to $700. \nApplication Information: This seminar will be open to PhD students in the humanities and relevant fields (such as philosophy\, theology\, English\, classics\, & history). \nApplicants will be required to submit: \n\nA completed online application form.\nAn updated CV.\nAt least one and as many as two letter(s) of recommendation from a member of the program in which the student is currently enrolled.\nA statement of research interest no longer than 750 words\, which includes an explanation of how this seminar might bear on the student’s current or future research plans.\nOne academic writing sample (30 pages maximum).\n\nAll application materials can be submitted via the online application. Incomplete applications will not be considered. Fifteen students will be admitted to this seminar. \n\nFrequently Asked Questions: \nCan I apply for more than one seminar?\nYes. You may apply for multiple seminars. Please indicate your order of preference in your statement of purpose for each application. Each applicant may only be admitted to one seminar. \nI am a PhD student graduating this academic year. Can I still apply?\nYes! \nI am currently an undergraduate or masters student\, but have been admitted to a PhD program for the next academic year. Can I still apply?\nYes\, please indicate this somehwere in your application. \nI have attended a Lumen Christi Institute seminar in the past. May I still apply?\nYes! \nDo I have to be Catholic to apply?\nNo. The Lumen Christi Institute exists to promotes the Catholic intellectual tradition and is committed to the integration of the intellectual and spiritual life. The Institute welcomes seminar participants of all or no religious affiliation\, and wants to assure all applicants that the opportunities to participate in devotional activities are optional. \nContact us with any further questions. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-newman-seminar-ker/ LOCATION:Merton College\, Oxford\, Merton St\, Oxford OX1 4JD\, UK\, Oxford\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Summer Seminars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/IMG_1562-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180721T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180728T000000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241006T235419Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260115T182858Z UID:10000453-1532131200-1532736000@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Truth and Authority in Augustine's City of God DESCRIPTION:You can download the poster here. \nIn this seminar\, students will read\, analyze\, and discern continuities and discontinuities in Catholic Social Thought from the late 19th century to the present. Lectures\, seminar reports\, and discussion will focus on original sources (encyclicals and other magisterial documents)\, beginning with Rerum novarum (1892) and concluding with Caritas in veritate (2009) and Evangelii Gaudium (2013). This intensive course is multi-disciplinary\, since this tradition of social thought overlaps several disciplines in the contemporary university including political science\, political philosophy\, law\, economics\, theology\, and history. \nFormat: There will be two 2.5-hour sessions each day. Each session will include an opening lecture and seminar-style discussion of the text and the issues at hand. Students will be expected to prepare the readings carefully and participate in the discussions of the material. \nLocation:  The seminar will take place at the University of California\, Berkeley. Students will be provided with lodging\, meals\, and a travel stipend of up to $350. \nApplication Information: This seminar will be open to PhD students in the humanities and relevant fields (such as philosophy\, theology\, english\, classics\, and  history). \nApplicants will be required to submit: \n\nA completed online application form.\nAn updated CV.\nAt least one and as many as two letter(s) of recommendation from a member of the program in which the student is currently enrolled.\nA statement of research interest no longer than 750 words\, which includes an explanation of how this seminar might bear on the student’s current or future research plans.\nOne academic writing sample (30 pages maximum).\n\nAll application materials can be submitted via the online application. Incomplete applications will not be considered. Fifteen students will be admitted to this seminar. \n\nFrequently Asked Questions: \nCan I apply for more than one seminar?\nYes. You may apply for multiple seminars. Please indicate your order of preference in your statement of purpose for each application. Each applicant may only be admitted to one seminar. \nI am a PhD student graduating this academic year. Can I still apply?\nYes! \nI am currently an undergraduate or masters student\, but have been admitted to a PhD program for the next academic year. Can I still apply?\nYes\, please indicate this somewhere in your application. \nI have attended a Lumen Christi Institute seminar in the past. May I still apply?\nYes! \nDo I have to be Catholic to apply?\nNo. The Lumen Christi Institute exists to promote the Catholic Intellectual Tradition and is committed to the integration of the intellectual and spiritual life. The Institute welcomes seminar participants of all or no religious affiliation\, and wants to assure all applicants that the opportunities to participate in devotional activities are optional. \nContact us with any further questions. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-city-of-god-hittinger-sherwin/ LOCATION:University of California\, Berkeley\, S Hall Rd.\nBerkeley\, CA 94720\, Berkeley\, CA CATEGORIES:Summer Seminars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/UC-Berkeley-005-East-Asian-Library-and-North-Berkeley-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180922T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180922T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165421Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T150045Z UID:10000477-1537624800-1537635600@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Master Class on "Dark Night and Flame of Love: The Mysticism of John of the Cross" DESCRIPTION:Registration is required. Open to current university students and faculty. A copy of John of the Cross: Selected Writings (Paulist Press\, 1987) will be provided for registrants. \nThe Discalced Carmelite friar\, Juan de la Cruz (1542-91)\, is one of the most famous of Catholic mystics. This one-time Master Class will present a synopsis of John’s mystical teaching as found in some of his noted poems\, as well as the four prose works he composed as commentaries on these allusive and beautiful verses. John’s use of both poetry and prose raises issues about the relation of these two literary forms in mystical teaching (some of which will be addressed). The concentration\, however\, will be on the prose treatises as comprising one of the most influential summaries (summae) of mystical theology in the history of Christianity. In the popular mind\, John is most famous for his treatment of the “dark night” (noche oscura) of the senses and spirit\, the negative (apophatic) dimension of his doctrine; but for the Carmelite the suffering of the dark night was meant to lead to the positive (kataphatic) stage where the “living flame of love” (llama de amor viva) consumes and transforms the soul in God. \nThe Class will use the anthology of John’s writings found in Kieran Kavanaugh and Ernest Larkin\, eds.\, John of the Cross. Selected Writings (New York: Paulist Press\, 1987. It is advisable for the participants to try to read the whole of this\, but pages for special attention will be singled out in the syllabus. In addition\, some outlines and charts will be handed out at the beginning of the class. \nSCHEDULE \n1:30: Welcome with Coffee and Tea\n2:00-3:30: First Session\n3:00-3:15: Break\n3:15-5:15: Second Session\n5:15-5:30: End with Reception URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-09-master-class-on-dark-night-flame-of-love-mysticism-of-john-of-cross-bernard-mcginn/ LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Page-7_Background-John-of-the-Cross_Autumn-2013-Newsletter.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20181004T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20181004T190000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165418Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260322T143318Z UID:10000452-1538674200-1538679600@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Judging as Judgment DESCRIPTION: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. \nTo view photos of the event\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nFree and open to the public. Registration is required. \nCosponsored by the Catholic Lawyers Guild of Chicago\, the Decalogue Society of Lawyers\, the Christian Legal Society\, the Jewish Judges Association\, and Jenner & Block LLP. \nWhen a case is easy\, judges can act like umpires. But when a case is hard\, judges cannot simply apply the rules – they have to exercise judgment. We pretend that judges don’t make law in order to ensure that they are sufficiently responsive to social and political norms and to elected representatives. But contrary to popular belief\, the rule of law does not require judges to refrain from judgment. What the rule of law requires is that judges give impartial reasons for their decisions. And judges can only do that if they attend carefully to the normative arguments on both sides of hard cases and give reasons that could or should be accepted by the losing side. \nSCHEDULE \n5:00pm   Registration & Refreshments\n5:30pm   Welcome & Introduction\n5:35pm   “Judging as Judgment”\n6:20pm   Audience Q&A\n6:30pm   Reception\n7:30pm   End URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-10-judging-as-judgment-joseph-william-singer/ LOCATION:Jenner & Block\, 45th Floor\, 353 N Clark St.\nChicago\, IL 60654\, Downtown\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/04Ottobre2018-014-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20181011T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20181011T163000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165418Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T145727Z UID:10000451-1539275400-1539275400@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Comparing Trent\, Vactican I\, and Vatican II DESCRIPTION:To view photos of the lecture\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nFree and open to the public. \nBased on a forthcoming book entitled When Bishops Meet: An Essay Comparing Trent\, Vatican I\, and Vatican II that bears the fruit of decades of scholarship\, this lecture by one of the greatest living experts of modern Church history will compare the three modern ecumenical councils of the Catholic Church. \nJohn O’Malley also taught a master class on October 12 and participated in a symposium on October 13. \nTo view photos of the lecture\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-10-comparing-trent-vactican-i-vatican-ii/ LOCATION:Classics 110\, 1010 E 59th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/UNADJUSTEDRAW_thumb_310.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20181012T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20181012T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165415Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T145724Z UID:10000450-1539352800-1539363600@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Master Class on "Councils and Popes: Who's in Charge?" DESCRIPTION:Registration is required. Open to current university students and faculty. A PDF of the assigned readings will be provided. \nThe purpose of the seminar is to deepen understanding of the historical course of the relationship between councils and popes through an examination of four key texts published at four key moments in the ongoing dialectic between these two institutions. Our time together will be spent on a close reading and discussion of the texts\, trying to understand them in their historical contexts. We will read them also with an eye to their possible relevance to the situation of the Catholic Church today. In recent years\, for instance\, the word synodality has entered our ecclesiastical vocabulary. Synod is the Greek form of the Latin word for council. The two words are\, therefore\, synonyms. What should this mean for us? \nPRIMARY READINGS \n\nThe Council of Constance\, 1415\nThe Four Gallican Articles\, 1652\nPastor Aeternus\, Vatican Council I\, 1870\nLumen Gentium (Chapter three)\, Vatican Council II\, 1964\n\nBACKGROUND READINGS \n\nCouncil of Constance: Francis Oakley\, The Conciliarist Tradition (Oxford\, 2003).\nGallican Articles: Richard F. Constigan\, The Consensus of the Church and Papal Infallibility (Catholic UP\, 2005).\nPastor Aeternus: Austin Gaugh\, Paris and Rome: The Gallican Church and the Ultramontane Campaign (Oxford\, 1986). John W. O’Malley: Vatican I: The Council and the Making of the Ultramontane Church (Harvard\, 2018).\nLumen Gentium: John W. O’Malley\, What Happened at Vatican II (Harvard\, 2008).\n\nSCHEDULE \n1:30pm   Coffee & Tea\n2:00pm   Session I\n3:25pm   Break\n3:35pm   Session II\n5:00pm   Wine & cheese reception\n6:00pm   End \nJohn O’Malley also gave a lecture on October 11 and participated in a symposium on October 13. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-10-master-class-on-councils-popes-whos-in-charge/ LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/12October2018--011-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20181013T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20181013T153000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165411Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260322T143433Z UID:10000449-1539437400-1539444600@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Vatican I: Loss and Gain with Papal Governance of the Catholic Church DESCRIPTION: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. \nTo read O’Malley’s contribution to this panel discussion in the Notre Dame McGrath Institute for Church Life’s Church Life Journal\, click here. \nTo view photos of the symposium\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nFree and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Theology Club. \nA symposium and reception on the occasion of the publication of Vatican I: The Council and the Making of the Ultramontane Church (Harvard University Press\, 2018) by Fr. John O’Malley\, SJ. Copies of the book will be available for sale by the Seminary Co-op. \nVatican Council I (1869-1870) lasted barely eight months and produced only two documents.  The document Pastor Aeternus deeply reconfigured the government of the Church on the basis of the universal jurisdiction of the pope.  As we are now approaching the 150th anniversary of that event we can ask:  How has the papal-centered government fared over the centuries?  Did Vatican II initiate significant changes in the ecclesiastical government?  In light of these councils\, how should we evaluate the scandals and the fragmentation of episcopal governance in the Church? \nFr. O’Malley also gave a lecture on October 11 and taught a master class on October 12. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-10-vatican-i-loss-gain-with-papal-governance-of-catholic-church/ LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/10-13-2018-Vatican-I-29-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20181021T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20181021T173000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165408Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T145717Z UID:10000448-1540137600-1540143000@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Schola Antiqua Concert "La Rue @ 500" DESCRIPTION:$25 general/$10 student \nSchola Antiqua commemorates the quincentennial of the death of Pierre de la Rue (d. 1518)\, one of the most talented and highly-prized composers of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. In the service of the wealthy and influential Habsburg-Burgundian court\, La Rue actively wrote in all of the major musical genres of his time\, and this is echoed in the program’s design. Highlights from his carefully constructed masses include music for very low voices at the composer’s disposal. Some of his beloved motets and songs complete the program. This program is sponsored in part by the Lumen Christi Institute and by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council. \nSchola Antiqua performed the same concert on October 20 in Chicago. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-10-schola-antiqua-concert-la-rue-500-schola-antiqua-of-chicago-2/ LOCATION:Emmanuel Episcopal Church\, 203 S Kensington Ave\, La Grange ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/schola-cropped-new_1-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20181022T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20181022T132000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165407Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T145714Z UID:10000447-1540209600-1540214400@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Faith and Politics: Reflections of a Catholic Legislator DESCRIPTION:Open to current university students and faculty. Lunch will be served. \nJoin the Lumen Christi Institute and the Center for Latin American Studies for a lunch discussion with Ignacio Walker\, academic and former Chilean Secretary of State (2004-2006)\, on his current project entitled “Faith and Politics.” He will share reflections from his experience on negotiating faith commitments as a Catholic politician in a modern\, secular\, democratic\, pluralistic society. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-10-lunch-discussion-with-igancio-walker-on-faith-politics/ LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/gavin-house-summer-2016.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20181024T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20181024T163000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165405Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T145710Z UID:10000446-1540398600-1540398600@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Can Transcendence be Organized? The Catholic Church Between Universalism and Establishment DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Committee on Social Thought and the Theology Club. \nIf a religion differentiates itself from the culture of specific peoples\, states\, or empires and represents the ideal of moral universalism and an understanding of transcendence\, it cannot evade the problem of self-organization. While this is true of all “post-axial” religions\, this lecture restricts itself to the Christian Church and other forms of the social organization of Christians (sect\, denomination etc.). A comparison between the Catholic Church and these other forms and an understanding of their interaction in the history of Christianity is instructive with regard to the current debates about reforms in the Catholic Church. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-10-can-transcendence-be-organized-catholic-curch-between-universalism-establishment/ LOCATION:Swift Hall\, First Floor Common Room\, 1025 E 58th St\,Chicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/building-palace-religion-italy-church-cathedral-1061602-pxhere.com(1)-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20181031T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20181031T200000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165359Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260322T143601Z UID:10000445-1541012400-1541016000@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Georges Lemaître: His Science\, Faith\, and Why “Hubble’s Law” Ought to be Renamed DESCRIPTION: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. \nTo read an adapted version of Lunine’s lecture as an article published by the Notre Dame McGrath Institute for Church Life’s ​​​​​​​Church Life Journal\, click here. \nTo view photos of the lecture\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nFree and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics. \nGeorges Lemaître—a Belgian priest and cosmologist—proposed what came to be known as the “Big Bang” model of the origin of the cosmos. What is less well known is that Lemaître discovered and published Hubble’s law—the first observational basis for the expansion of the universe—in 1927—well before Edwin Hubble did. Lemaître also treated Einstein’s cosmological constant as a vacuum energy\, in 1933\, foreshadowing work done a half-century later. Lemaître is less well known as a pioneering cosmologist than as a chimeric figure with both a scientific and religious career. Thus he has been treated by historians differently from other scientists. In this talk Lunine will argue that renaming the “Hubble law” the “Hubble-Lemaître law” (resolution B4 2018 of the International Astronomical Union) is a reasonable solution to the dilemma posed by history’s treatment of the Belgian cosmologist. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-10-georges-lemaitre-his-science-faith-why-hubble-s-law-ought-to-be-renamed-jonathan-lunine/ LOCATION:Kent Hall\, Room 107\, 1020 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/10-31-2018-Lunine-on-Lemaitre-8-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20181101T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20181101T163000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165358Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260322T151204Z UID:10000444-1541089800-1541089800@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:The Collapse of Lehman Brothers: An Inside Story DESCRIPTION: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. \nTo view photos of Freidheim’s talk\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. This event was cosponsored by Catholics at Booth. \nWhat it was like to be inside the executive suite of Lehman Brothers during the financial crisis of 2008? Scott Freidheim—former Lehman Brothers Chief Administrative Officer and Executive Vice President—will offer a first-hand account of what happened in 2008\, why Lehman Brothers did not need to fail\, and how the fall of Lehman Brothers and great personal financial loss affected his sense of meaning as a person of faith. \nYou may also be interested in our event from 2011 on “Decision-Making in the Pressure Cooker: Lessons Learned from the Collapse of Lehman Brothers.” URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-11-collapse-of-lehman-brothers-an-inside-story/ LOCATION:Saieh Hall 021\, 5757 S. University Ave.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/8CNjT2m5T5ePuaH8R6YQLw_thumb_6a8.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20181110T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20181110T140000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165357Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T145659Z UID:10000443-1541847600-1541858400@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Master Class on "Jacques Maritain\, Étienne Gilson\, and the Thomist Renewal in the 20th Century: Academic and Spiritual Approaches" DESCRIPTION:Open to current university students and faculty. PDFs of the assigned readings will be provided for those who register. \nFor the Blessed Paul VI\, Jacques Maritain (1882-1973) was a master “in the art of thinking and praying”. In 1975\, Paul VI sent a letter to Etienne Gilson (1884-1978) to thank him for his whole life devoted to the search of truth and wisdom. In  “Fides et Ratio” (1998\, n.74)\, Saint John Paul II suggested Maritain and Gilson\, among other names\, as models of thinkers to reconcile philosophy and theology\, reason and the word of God. What are the lessons taught by Maritain and Gilson that could be fruitful for the Catholics of the XXI century? \nSCHEDULE \n9:30am   Coffee & tea\n10:00am   Session I\n11:25am   Break\n11:35am   Session II\n1:00pm   End\, Lunch URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-11-master-class-on-jacques-maritain-etienne-gilson-thomist-renewal-in-20th-century-academic-spiritual-approaches-florian-michel/ LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/gilson-maritain-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20181112T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20181112T173000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165356Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260322T143831Z UID:10000442-1542043800-1542043800@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Christian Citizenship: A Paradox? DESCRIPTION: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. \nTo view photos of the lecture\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nTo read Tardivel’s lecture in essay form in the Notre Dame McGrath Institute for Church Life’s Church Life Journal\, click here. \nYou can download the event poster here. \nFree and open to the public. Cosponsored by the France Chicago Center. \nDoes Christian faith imply a political doctrine such as a Christian political regime? Drawing on Justin\, Tertullian\, and Augustine\, Prof. Tardivel argues that even as Christian citizenship does not refer to a political doctrine\, it nonetheless demands a certain manner of living in the city\, presenting a paradox to classical political thinking. This lecture focuses on the paradox of Christian citizenship and its implications. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-11-christian-citizenship-a-paradox-emilie-tardivel/ LOCATION:Classics 110\, 1010 E 59th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/UNADJUSTEDRAW_thumb_16d7.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20181115T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20181115T143000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165351Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260322T150925Z UID:10000441-1542286800-1542292200@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:How Catholics Can Realize the Royal Priesthood of the Laity and Rebuild a Church in Crisis DESCRIPTION: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. \nTo view photos of the address\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nTo read the published version of the address in Commonweal\, click here. \nYou can download the event poster here. \n$30 Student (with ID) / $60 General / $600 Host Committee\nRegistration includes lunch. \nThe Church has long taught that all baptized Christians share in Christ’s royal priesthood\, and that we are “a chosen race\, a royal priesthood\, a holy nation\, God’s own people\,” who should “declare the wonderful deeds of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.” \nThe current crisis in which the American Church finds herself lies in a failure to realize this common priestly vocation\, and has led to clericalism\, the cover-up of sexual abuse\, lack of lay discipleship\, and a dearth of vocations. Fr. Michael Sweeney\, OP\, has developed a theology of the laity that addresses this theological misunderstanding. He has applied this theology of the laity both as co-founder of the St. Catherine of Siena Institute and as the co-founder of the Lay Mission Project of the Western Dominican Province. \nFr. Sweeney will speak to the suggestion of then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger that we ought to recognize a lay office in the Church in order to promote the full participation of the laity in the Church’s mission\, with a view to enabling a real collaboration between the laity and the hierarchy. \nFr. Sweeney also participated on a panel discussion on similar topics on the afternoon of November 15. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-11-how-lay-catholics-can-realize-royal-priesthood-of-laity-rebuild-a-church-in-crisis-fr-michael-sweeney-op/ LOCATION:University Club of Chicago\, 76 E Monroe St\nChicago\, IL 60603\, Downtown\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Downtown-Event-029-copy-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20181115T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20181115T173000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165349Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260322T151355Z UID:10000440-1542303000-1542303000@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:The Catholic Church in Crisis: A Panel Discussion DESCRIPTION: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. \nTo read Daniels’ contribution to this panel discussion in the Notre Dame McGrath Institute for Church Life’s Church Life Journal\, click here. \nTo view photos of the panel\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nYou can view and download the poster for the event here. \nFree and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Theology Club and the Catholic Students Association. \nSince questions of sexual abuse emerged in the Church\, and in other institutions\, in the 1980s\, some dioceses have (including Chicago) demonstrated leadership in dealing with the issue. After the “Spotlight” investigation by the Boston Globe\, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops established a “zero tolerance” policy toward the commission and cover-up of abuse. This panel of Catholic scholars and professionals will review the Church’s attempt to face this issue and will consider why it has reemerged in 2018\, relating that question to broader issues of clericalism and governance in the Catholic Church. \nFr. Sweeney also gave a downtown lunch address on November 15 on a related topic\, the challenge to lay Catholics to realize the fullness of their lives as Christians. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-11-catholic-church-in-crisis-a-panel-discussion-kim-daniels-russell-hittinger-fr-michael-sweeney-op/ LOCATION:Ida Noyes Hall\, Library\, 1212 E 59th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Ida-Noyes-Hall-Event-006-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20181120T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20181120T210000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165348Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T145646Z UID:10000439-1542740400-1542747600@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Non-Credit Course on "Faith\, Crisis\, Christ" DESCRIPTION:6:00 Dinner | 6:30 Lecture \nThis 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. \nThe project of fides quaerens intellectum (faith seeking understanding) is not reserved to professional theologians but is the prerogative of every thinking person\, and can be especially pressing when the claims of religion—and rationality itself—are viewed with suspicion or contempt. The twentieth century and the first decades of our own have erected formidable systems of skepticism yet also brought into the field notable creativity in addressing the problems of belief. This course will make use of classic works of anglophone Christian writers concerned to demonstrate how it is that faith permits the human person to see farther and to understand the world more deeply. \nSCHEDULE \nOCT 9: G.K. Chesterton\, The Everlasting Man. \nOCT 16: J.R.R. Tolkien\, On Fairy-Stories. \nOCT 23: C.S. Lewis\, Mere Christianity. \nOCT 30: J. Budziszewski\, The Line Through the Heart. \nNOV 6: Ronald A. Knox\, The Hidden Stream & In Soft Garments. \nNOV 13: C.S. Lewis\, The Screwtape Letters. \nNOV 20: J.R.R. Tolkien\, Selected Letters. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-11-non-credit-course-on-faith-crisis-christ/ LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Chesterton-Lewis-Tolkien.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20181201T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20181201T210000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165347Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T145642Z UID:10000438-1543685400-1543698000@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:"The Mystery of Hope: A Monk’s Reading of Spe Salvi" at the Benedictine Monastery of the Holy Cross DESCRIPTION:Transportation will be provided from Hyde Park. Open to current university students and faculty. \nJoin us for an evening of prayer and conversation with Benedictine monks at the Monastery of the Holy Cross on the south side of Chicago. Attendees will participate in prayer of the Divine Office (vespers and compline)\, and have dinner and discussion with Prior Peter Funk on Benedict XVI’s encyclical on the theological virtue of hope\, Spe Salvi. Fr. Peter will emphasize the need for hope in the life of the Church today. \nMore information about the monastery can be found HERE. \nSCHEDULE \n4:15pm   Meet at Gavin House (1220 E. 58th St.)\n4:30pm   Depart from Hyde Park\n5:00pm   Arrive at the Monastery\, welcome by Prior Funk\n5:15pm   Office of Vespers\n6:00pm Dinner & Discussion of Spe Salvi\n7:15pm   Office of Compline\n8:00pm   Arrive back in Hyde Park URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-12-benedictine-monastery-visit-fr-peter-funk/ LOCATION:The Monastery of the Holy Cross\, 3111 South Aberdeen St.\nChicago\, IL 60608\, Chicago\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/2Vespers_Monks284-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190116T181500 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190116T181500 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165342Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260322T191821Z UID:10000437-1547662500-1547662500@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:What do We Mean When We Speak of Revelation? DESCRIPTION:Listen to the lecture 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. \nTo view photos of the lecture\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nFree and open to the public. Cosponsored by the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought and The Philosophy of Religions Workshop. Persons with disabilities who may need assistance should contact us at 773-955-5887 or by email. \nIn this lecture\, philosopher Jean-Luc Marion will draw on reflections from his recent book Givenness and Revelation to develop a new concept of revelation. Traditionally\, the idea of revelation seems to oppose knowledge acquired through the use of reason and knowledge given by revelation. If revealed knowledge comes from elsewhere\, then it is of an entirely different order than the rational. Likewise\, if revelation merely makes something known that would be accessible to reason in other circumstances\, then revelation remains something superfluous to rationality. Is it possible to have a concept of revelation that overcomes this tension with reason and\, ultimately\, expands the limits of rationality? URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-01-what-do-we-mean-when-we-speak-of-revelation-jean-luc-marion/ LOCATION:Swift Hall\, First Floor Common Room\, 1025 E 58th St\,Chicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/1-16-2018-Jean-Luc-Marion-8-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190123T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190123T203000 DTSTAMP:20260406T130122 CREATED:20241003T165340Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T145636Z UID:10000436-1548268200-1548275400@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:CANCELLED New Melleray Abbey: A Chapter in the Story of Cistercian Trappist Monks in America DESCRIPTION:DUE TO WEATHER\, DOM MARK SCOTT HAS HAD TO POSTPONE HIS VISIT TO CHICAGO. THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.\nCosponsored by the Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage at Loyola University Chicago \n$500 Host Committee (includes 8 tickets) / $40 General / $10 students \n5:30pm   Hors d’oeuvres reception\n6:30pm   Talk and Q&A\n7:30pm   Close \nChristian monasticism began in the 3rd century when St. Anthony sought God (and battled demons) outside of Alexandria.  In a sense\, the story of New Melleray Abbey begins there with the “Desert Fathers” and continues through St. Benedict and his Rule (5th century)\, the Cistercian reform led by St. Bernard of Clairvaux (12th century)\, the austere reforms of La Trappe in Normandy (17th century)\, and\, in the 19th century\, the planting of Trappist Cistercian monasticism at Gethsemani Abbey in Kentucky by monks from France and at New Melleray in Iowa by Irish monks . In a rare public talk\, the Abbot of New Melleray will tell the story of the abbey in light of this longer history. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-01-new-melleray-abbey-a-chapter-in-story-of-cistercian-trappist-monks-in-america-dom-mark-scott-ocso/ LOCATION:Loyola University of Chicago – Water Tower Campus\, Schreiber Center\n16 East Pearson Street\nChicago\, IL 60611\, River North\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/sanctuary2.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR