Name: Angels, Demons, Heaven, and Hell: On Christian “Mythology” and the Spiritual Life
Start: 2018-01-06T20:00:00-06:00
End: 2018-01-06T21:30:00-06:00
Location: Swift Hall, First Floor Common Room

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October 2017
October 14th, 2017 @ 6:00 pm

A Consistent Ethic of Solidarity: Transcending Self, Transforming the World

University of Chicago Law School Auditorium 1111 East 60th Street, Hyde Park, IL

Visit the conference webpage for more information. Free and open to the public. Registration Required. Cardinal 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. The President of the University of Chicago, Robert.J. Zimmer, will provide introductory remarks. A reception will follow Cardinal Cupich's talk. This event...
October 21st, 2017 @ 8:00 pm

Schola Antiqua Concert: Music in Secret

St. Clement Parish 642 W Deming Pl. Chicago, IL 60614, Downtown, IL

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...
October 26th, 2017 @ 4:30 pm

The Power of the Sacred: An Alternative to the Narrative of Disenchantment

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

Free and open to the public Cosponsored by the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought Disenchantment 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.
October 28th, 2017 @ 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Master Class on “Saint Thomas Aquinas on the Metaphysics of Evil”

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

Registration Required. Open to current students and faculty. Copies of the readings will be provided. To view photos of the master class, visit Lumen Christi's Facebook page. Saint 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...
November 2017
November 2nd, 2017 @ 4:30 pm

A Final Seriousness: Wallace Stevens’ Late Poems Revisited

Swift Hall, Room 106 1025 E 58th St, Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

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. About The Whole Harmonium: The Life of Wallace Stevens by Paul Mariani: A 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. Wallace 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...
November 3rd, 2017 @ 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Master Class on Gerard Manley Hopkins

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

Registration Required. Open to current students and faculty. Copies of the readings will be provided for registrants ahead of time. You can read about Professor Mariani's biography of Gerard Manley Hopkins HERE. To view photos of the master class, visit Lumen Christi's Facebook page. READINGS Paul Mariani, "The Mystery and the Majesty of It," Studies in the Spirituality of Jesuits 47/2 (2015) Gerard 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.) SCHEDULE 1:30pm ...
November 14th, 2017 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

The Gospel According to Matthew

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

6:00pm Buffet Dinner | 6:30pm Lecture Registration required. Open to current students and faculty. St. 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...
November 16th, 2017 @ 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm

Plato’s Bedroom: Desire, Union, and Procreation

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

Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Department of Philosophy. Plato 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. ABOUT Plato's Bedroom Plato’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...
November 17th, 2017 @ 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Master Class on “Plato’s Leaky Myths: How the Erotic Dialogues use Plato’s Literary Predecessors”

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

Registration Required. Open to current students and faculty. This 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." SCHEDULE 1:30pm Coffee & Pastries 2:00pm Session I 3:25pm Break 3:35pm Session II 5:00pm End, wine and cheese reception To view photos of the master class, visit Lumen Christi's Facebook page.
November 20th, 2017 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Trinity Lutheran and the Future of Public Funding for Religious Entities: A Conversation with Richard Garnett and Andrew Koppelman

Jenner & Block, 45th Floor 353 N Clark St. Chicago, IL 60654, Downtown, IL

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. Should 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...
November 29th, 2017 @ 5:30 pm

Body, Eros, and Eucharist

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

Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion. About The Wedding Feast of the Lamb: In 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. By 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...
January 2018
January 6th, 2018 @ 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm

Angels, Demons, Heaven, and Hell: On Christian “Mythology” and the Spiritual Life

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

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. Many 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...

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