Name: Passage to Modernity: Renaissance Christianity Today
Start: 2020-08-18T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2020-08-18T20:00:00-05:00
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July 2020
July 21st, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Titian’s Icons: Logos and Kairos in Renaissance Devotion

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An evening webinar lecture with Christoper Nygren (University of Pittsburgh). Part of our summer webinar series on "Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture," presented in collaboration with the American Cusanus Society Titian is one of the most famous painters of the Italian Renaissance. He is mostly known for his amazing mythological paintings and depictions of the female nude, which became a staple of the tradition of European painting. It is less well known that Titian was credited by his contemporaries with painting a miracle-working image. Looking at his paintings in light of this fact, it becomes clear that...
July 23rd, 2020 @ 10:00 am - 1:00 pm

A Sort of Bazaar or Pantechnicon: Newman’s Challenge to the Modern University

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REGISTER HERE This master class is open to current graduate students and advanced University of Chicago undergraduate students. It will take place online on Zoom. Others interested in participating should contact us. In 1854, John Henry Newman worried that the contemporary university was losing its ability to teach its students to see and recognize the truth. Instead of integrated learning, the university had instead become "a kind of bazaar, or pantechnicon," where various facts or theories were offered up without any attempt to make sense of the whole. This master class will investigate to what extent Newman's concerns have been realized and whether his proposed...
July 23rd, 2020 @ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

Chicago Catholics and the Quest for Interracial Justice

Free and open to the public. This event will be held online through Zoom. Registrants will be sent a link to the Zoom event or to a secondary livestream. Co-sponsored by the Catholic Lawyers Guild of Chicago the Department of Catholic Studies at DePaul University, Calvert House Catholic Center, the Sheil Catholic Center at Northwestern University and the Seminary Co-op Bookstore, With parish boundaries often mapping onto segregation lines, it might appear that the possibilities of Catholic efforts towards racial justice were eliminated from the start. This picture, however, is incomplete. Karen Johnson’s book, One in Christ: Chicago Catholics and the Quest for Interracial Justice (Oxford...
July 28th, 2020 @ 12:00 pm

Giordano Bruno and the Poetry of the Cosmos

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A webinar lecture with Valentina Zaffino (Pontifical Lateran University; Rome Global Gateway, University of Notre Dame). Part of our summer webinar series on "Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture," presented in collaboration with the American Cusanus Society Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, and cosmologist. Bruno’s notoriety is due both to his adventurous life and to his original reinterpretation of ancient thought in light of the new philosophical scenario. Valentina Zaffino will analyze Bruno’s image of the cosmos, focusing on his remodeled Neoplatonic background. In this context, as will be shown, the notions of harmony and beauty are closely related with Bruno’s...
July 29th, 2020 @ 10:00 am - July 30th, 2020 @ 3:30 pm

On the Eternity of the World: Aristotle, Bonaventure, Aquinas, Kant

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This master class is open to current graduate students and uper-level University of Chicago undergraduates. It will take place online via Zoom, in four sessions, over two days. Toward the end of his Physics, Aristotle argued that the motion in the physical world, and with it the world itself, never began and will never cease. Medieval Christian thinkers agreed that this position conflicted with revelation, but they assessed it in a wide variety of ways. In modernity, Kant used the problem of the world’s duration as evidence of the boundaries of mere reason. In this master class, we will go through...
July 30th, 2020 @ 12:00 pm

COVID and the Color Line: Race, Religion, and Public Health

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A conversation with Yolonda Wilson (Howard University), Shawnee Daniels-Sykes (Mount Mary University), and Utibe Essein (University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine), moderated by Vincent Lloyd (Villanova University). Co-organized with the International Academy for Bioethical Inquiry. Cosponsored by America Media and the Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics Free and open to the public. The event will be held online over Zoom and will be livestreamed on YouTube. COVID-19 has been described as a great equalizer, affecting all Americans alike. Yet, data collected throughout the pandemic has revealed startling disparities, particularly with communities of color being disproportionately impacted by the virus, suffering from both higher infection...
August 2020
Seminar

August 3rd, 2020 @ 9:00 am - August 11th, 2020 @ 5:00 pm

ONLINE SEMINAR on Dominican Theological Anthropology: Albert the Great and Meister Eckhart

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

APPLICATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED FOR THIS SEMINAR On consecutive Mondays and Tuesdays in August (August 3, 4, 10, 11) Bernard McGinn and Fr. Bernhard Blankenhorn will lead a set of young scholars through questions relating to the theological anthropologies of Albertus Magnus and Meister Eckhart. Topics of special interest will include contemplation, Albert on the imago dei, and Eckhart on the ground of the soul. Applicants should have some background in medieval philosophy and theology. More specifically, they should have a basic familiarity with Aristotelian anthropology, as well as general grasp of the Augustinian theology of the image of God...
August 4th, 2020 @ 12:00 pm

Reason and Beauty in Cambridge Platonism

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A webinar lecture with Douglas Hedley (University of Cambridge). Part of our summer webinar series on "Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture," presented in collaboration with the American Cusanus Society The Cambridge Platonists are the first modern Platonists. They are a group of English philosophers around the University of Cambridge in the seventeenth-century, in the context of reformed theology and the English Civil War. Yet while accepting the New Science of Copernicus and Galileo, they offer a fierce protest against mechanism and naturalism. Their notion of aesthetics and beauty--as historian Ernst Cassirer correctly saw--was one of the sources of...
August 6th, 2020 @ 12:00 pm

Pondering Hiroshima

Cosponsored by America Media, the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University, and the Institute for Human Ecology at the Catholic University of America. Free and open to the public. The event will be held online over Zoom and will be livestreamed on YouTube. Registrants will also get a specially created booklet drawing on the archives of America Magazine’s coverage of Hiroshima from the past 75 years. On August 6th and 9th, 1945, the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bombs destroyed the cities in a flash, and ultimately killed approximately 200,000 people. The Second World...
August 11th, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Richard Hooker’s Sapiential Theology: Reformed Platonism?

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An evening webinar lecture with Torrance Kirby (McGill University). Part of our summer webinar series on "Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture," presented in collaboration with the American Cusanus Society Richard Hooker (1554-1600) was a preeminent theologian and philosopher of the Elizabethan Church. His seminal book, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity (1593), set out a path for Anglican theology that was distinct from both Puritan and Roman Catholic thought. In Book I, Hooker identifies Law with Holy Wisdom and his treatment echoes the sapiential books of Scripture, viz. Proverbs, Job, and the Wisdom of Solomon. Hooker also...
August 13th, 2020 @ 5:00 pm

The Global Economic Effects of COVID-19: Perspectives from Economics and Catholic Social Thought

Free and open to the public. The event will be held online over Zoom and will be livestreamed on YouTube. Cosponsored by America Media and the Catholic Research Economists Discussion Organization. The adverse impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on the lives and livelihoods of people is hard to fully appreciate in real time. Moreover, it is not equally distributed across socio-economic groups within countries or across countries. This panel sets economics and Catholic Social Thought in dialogue, discussing the socio-economic consequences of the pandemic, the policies to mitigate it, and the values that ought inform our judgements.
August 18th, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Passage to Modernity: Renaissance Christianity Today

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An evening webinar lecture with Peter Casarella (Duke University). Part of our summer webinar series on "Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture," presented in collaboration with the American Cusanus Society Historian Jacob Burckhardt (d. 1897) famously argued that Italian humanism of the fourteenth and fifteenth century paved the way inevitably to modern individualism and secularism, but more recently Burckhardt's view has been largely discredited. Contemporary thinkers, Louis Dupré and Karsten Harries, each with very distinctive accents, made decisive contributions to overcoming of Burkhardtian forerunner mentality. In this concluding webinar, Professor Casarella will explore Dupré's and Harries' contributions to a post-Burckhardtian...

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A Sort of Bazaar or Pantechnicon: Newman’s Challenge to the Modern University

Chicago Catholics and the Quest for Interracial Justice

Giordano Bruno and the Poetry of the Cosmos

On the Eternity of the World: Aristotle, Bonaventure, Aquinas, Kant

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ONLINE SEMINAR on Dominican Theological Anthropology: Albert the Great and Meister Eckhart

Reason and Beauty in Cambridge Platonism

Richard Hooker’s Sapiential Theology: Reformed Platonism?

The Global Economic Effects of COVID-19: Perspectives from Economics and Catholic Social Thought

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