Name: The Theologian’s Vocation in the Academy Today: A Master Class for Graduate Students in Theology
Start: 2022-02-12T11:00:00-06:00
End: 2022-02-12T13:00:00-06:00

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January 2022
January 11th, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

The Search for God: Testimonies to Grace

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

Fr. Peter Bernardi, SJ, Lumen Christi Institute

This weekly non-credit course is open to current Chicago area students and faculty. Others interested in attending should contact us. Registrants are free to attend as many sessions as they choose. Sessions do not presuppose previous attendance or prior knowledge of the subject. One hundred and fifty years ago, Matthew Arnold described the receding of "the Sea of Faith" in the poem "Dover Beach." Today the culture of unbelief is even more pervasive, especially in secular academia. The stories of those who have struggled with intellectual doubts and personal conflicts in their quest for God and religious faith have much to teach and to inspire...
January 15th, 2022 @ 1:00 pm

Christian Intellectual Life in Today’s Universities: A Conversation with Fr. Thomas Joseph White, OP

Fr. Thomas Joseph White, OP is the newly appointed rector of the Angelicum, the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome. A prominent American theologian, Fr. White has also directed the Thomistic Institute in Washington, D.C. for many years. In this public webinar, Nova Forum executive director David Albertson interviews Fr. White about the state of Christian intellectual life in today’s universities, the challenges facing the secular academy, and the prospects of a renewal of Catholic intellectual formation. This event is presented by the Nova Forum for Catholic Thought, and cosponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute. Register for the event...
January 21st, 2022 @ 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm

POSTPONED: Jacques Maritain’s “Man and the State”

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

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED. WE WILL ANNOUNCE THE NEW DATE IN THE COMING WEEKS. THIS IS AN IN-PERSON EVENT. Open to current graduate students and University of Chicago Undergraduates. Others who are interested in participating should contact us. Copies of Man and the State (CUA Press, 1998) will be provided for registrants. Jacques Maritain (1882-1973) was perhaps the most influential Catholic social and political philosopher of the 20th century. He taught at Columbia and Princeton, and was a frequent guest lecturer at the University of Chicago, where he gave the Walgreen Lectures, later published as Man and the State (1951). Appointed the French...
February 2022
February 2nd, 2022 @ 2:00 pm

Making a Case for the Humanities with Zena Hitz

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

Open to current graduate students and faculty. Box lunches will be served. In her recent book, Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of the Intellectual Life, Zena Hitz writes "For some time, intellectual institutions in the United States have been under significant financial and political pressure to abandon education for programs with economic or political uses... we academic professionals have lost touch with our origins in ordinary human intellectual activity. We have thus lost the capacity to justify and explain to our fellow citizens or to philanthropists—much less to ourselves—why our institutions matter" (p.198). Should one studying or teaching in the...
February 2nd, 2022 @ 6:00 pm

Conversation on “Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life”

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

Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Undergraduate Program in Religious Studies at the University of Chicago. Copies of the book will be available for sale by the Seminary Co-op Bookstore at the event. This program will be held as a hybrid, in-person and online event. Join us for a conversation on Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life (Princeton University Press, 2020) with author Zena Hitz. ABOUT THE BOOK In an overloaded, superficial, technological world, in which almost everything and everybody is judged by its usefulness, where can we turn for escape, lasting pleasure, contemplation, or connection to others? While...
February 5th, 2022 @ 10:00 am - 4:30 pm

Big Questions and Catholic Scientists: A Science and Religion Fair for High School Students

University of Saint Mary of the Lake 1000 East Maple Avenue Mundelein, IL 60060, Mundelein, IL

Open to all high school students, parents, and teachers. Students attend for FREE (and all adult admission fees are waived if accompanied by at least one student.) In partnership with the Soceity of Catholic Scientists and the McGrath Institute for Church Life. Cosponsored by the Archdiocese of Chicago Vocations Office and the University of St. Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary. Want to learn from accomplished Catholic scientists about the harmony of faith and science? Interested in the Big Questions on the frontiers of scientific discovery? Then come to this Science and Religion Fair on February 5th at the University of...
February 7th, 2022 @ 2:00 pm

Student Lunch with Stephen Barr on “Should a Catholic Scientist Care About the Liberal Arts?”

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

Open to current graduate students and faculty. Cosponsored by Calvert House. Box lunches will be served. Join us at Gavin House, home of the Lumen Christi Institute, for a discussion with physicist Stephen Barr (President, Society of Catholic Scientists) for a conversation on what a Catholic scientist can learn from the study of philosophy, theology, and literature. Open to all students and faculty. Box lunches will be served. Prof. Barr will also give a lecture on Feb. 7 on "Is the Universe Made for Life? Anthropic Coincidences and Multiverse Ideas" For all events held at Gavin House, the Lumen Christi...
February 7th, 2022 @ 6:00 pm

Is the Universe Made for Life? Anthropic Coincidences and Multiverse Ideas

Kersten 120 5720 South Ellis Avenue, Hyde Park, IL

Free and Open to the Public. The late Stephen Hawking wrote, “Our universe and its laws appear to have a design that is both tailor-made to support us and, if we are to exist, leaves little room for alteration.” What lies behind such a claim? And what might explain such a remarkable fact (if it is a fact)? Join us as Dr. Stephen Barr speaks on both the science and the speculations surrounding anthropic coincidences. This convening is open to all invitees who are compliant with UChicago vaccination requirements and, because of ongoing health risks, particularly to the unvaccinated, participants are...
February 10th, 2022 @ 6:00 pm

Winter 2022 Undergraduate Reading Group: “Progress is Dead: Nietzsche’s Indictment of Modern Life in The Genealogy of Morals”

David Lyons, University of Chicago

“We are unknown to ourselves, we knowers: and with good reason.” The modern world tells us—and we tell ourselves—that we are enlightened and free, but it isn’t true. Our claims to knowledge are just another moral prejudice; our ostensible freedom is disguised slavery. So contends Friedrich Nietzsche in his On the Genealogy of Morality, where he punctures the self-satisfaction of socialists, democrats, reformers, the bourgeoisie, philosophers, scientists, and anyone else who claims to have it all figured out. This three-week reading group will discuss the three treatises of the Genealogy and debate the following claims: February 10 Is Democracy Slavery? (First Treatise, “ ‘Good and Evil,’ ‘Good...
February 10th, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 8:15 pm

Redeeming Punishment: Catholic Approaches to Criminal Justice Reform

Fluno Center, Auditorium 601 University Ave, Madison, WI 53715, Madison, WI

The Lumen Christi Institute's Catholic Criminal Justice Reform Network and the Catholic Social and Political Thought Initiative of the UW-Madison Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy present Catholic Perspectives on Criminal Justice Reform: a Scholarly Colloquium. This three-day public lecture and workshop series gathers a diverse array of legal scholars and ethicists to explore how Catholic tradition and social thought can inform the many challenges confronting today’s American criminal justice system. As part of this colloquium, there will be a keynote panel on "Redeeming Punishment: Catholic Approaches to Criminal Justice Reform," featuring Dean Strang, Cecelia Klingele, Rev. Javier del Castillo, and Secretary Kevin...
February 11th, 2022 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Master Class on Newman’s Oxford University Sermons

REGISTER HERE This event will be held online over Zoom. Open to current graduate students and faculty. Others interested in participating should contact us. More info TBA. Fr. Fields will also lead a summer seminar for graduate students on the thought of John Henry Newman at Merton College, Oxford this summer. More information can be found here.
February 12th, 2022 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm

The Theologian’s Vocation in the Academy Today: A Master Class for Graduate Students in Theology

Open to current graduate students in theology. Others interested in participating should contact us. A two-part, online master class for graduate students in theology on the vocation of the theologian in the contemporary academy. Dates: January 15 & February 12 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. CST via Zoom Overview: What is the vocation of the Catholic theologian in the academy today? The increasing focus within higher education toward producing economically successful citizens within late modernity’s secularized culture is well-known. Within the theological world itself, graduate programs in theology are deeply compartmentalized into distinct sub-disciplines that often take their self-understanding and academic culture...

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The Search for God: Testimonies to Grace

Christian Intellectual Life in Today’s Universities: A Conversation with Fr. Thomas Joseph White, OP

POSTPONED: Jacques Maritain’s “Man and the State”

Making a Case for the Humanities with Zena Hitz

Conversation on “Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life”

Big Questions and Catholic Scientists: A Science and Religion Fair for High School Students

Student Lunch with Stephen Barr on “Should a Catholic Scientist Care About the Liberal Arts?”

Is the Universe Made for Life? Anthropic Coincidences and Multiverse Ideas

Winter 2022 Undergraduate Reading Group: “Progress is Dead: Nietzsche’s Indictment of Modern Life in The Genealogy of Morals”

Redeeming Punishment: Catholic Approaches to Criminal Justice Reform

Master Class on Newman’s Oxford University Sermons

The Theologian’s Vocation in the Academy Today: A Master Class for Graduate Students in Theology

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