Name: Negotiating Tragedy and the Tragic: Discursive, Performative, and Interpretive Strategies in Late Ancient Christian Literature
Start: 2022-03-30T17:00:00-05:00
End: 2022-03-30T17:00:00-05:00
Location: Classics 110

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February 2022
February 17th, 2022 @ 6:30 pm

Ecumenical Panel on “For the Life of the World: Toward a Social Ethos of the Orthodox Church”

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

Free and open to the public. This program will be held as a hybrid, in-person and online event. Presented by the Lumen Christi Institute and the Fordham Orthodox Christian Studies Center. Cosponsored by the Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion and the Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies. “As we make this journey towards full communion, we already have the duty to offer common witness to the love of God for all people by working together in the service of humanity” —Common Declaration of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and Pope Francis, May 2014. This panel will examine the recent social document For the Life...
February 18th, 2022 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Master Class on “For the Life of the World: Toward a Social Ethos of the Orthodox Church”

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

Open to current students and faculty. Others interested in participating should contact us. Copies of the book will be available for registrants. Students and faculty are invited to join us for a seminar on For the Life of the World: Toward a Social Ethos of the Orthodox Church with two of the document's drafters, Profs. Perry Hamalis and Gayle Woloschak. The fruit of critical reflection by Orthodox Christian lay Scholars and Church leaders, For the Life of the World offers guidance to navigate contemporary challenges faced by the Orthodox Christian on a wide range of social issues—including racism, bioethics, ecology, and human rights....
February 19th, 2022 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Master Class on “Catholic Social Teaching and the Church-State Problem”

Open to current graduate students and faculty. Copies of the assigned readigns will be provided. This virtual master class will take place on Zoom. Readings The Teachings of Modern Roman Catholicism: On Law, Politics and Human Nature, Eds. John Witte and Frank Alexander (Columbia University Press, 2007), pp. 1-75 The Syllabus of Errors, Pope Pius IX, 1864 This master class serves as a preview of our upcoming summer seminar on Catholic Social Teaching for PhD and JD students co-taught by Prof. Hittinger. Learn more about the summer seminar here.
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February 23rd, 2022 @ 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Walker Percy on the Pursuit of Happiness in Apocalyptic Times

This virtual event is free and open to the public. This virtual event will be livestreamed on Zoom. For more information about the in person event, please contact us. The in-person event will take place at Ruth Lake Country Club in Hinsdale, Illinois. In Walker Percy's novel, Love in the Ruins, the narrator, a wealthy and successful denizen of American suburbia, admits that " everyone is happy, but our hearts broke with happiness." In this lecture, Dr. Jennifer Frey will discuss what Percy's novel can teach us about the pursuit of happiness in contemporary American life, and why the novel's biting satire is relevant to our contemporary political and...
February 24th, 2022 @ 2:00 pm

Lunch Discussion on “Walker Percy: Philosopher, Novelist, Catholic”

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

Open to current students and faculty. Others interested in joining should contact us. Lunch will be served. Join us for a lunch discussion with Prof. Jennifer Frey on the the work of novelist Walker Percy. Suggested readings from Signposts in a Strange Land "Naming and Being" (pp 130-138) "Physician as Novelist" (pp 191-196) "Why are you a Catholic?" (pp 304-315) A PDF of the readings will be provided to registrants. Prof. Frey will also give a lecture on Walker Percy at a hybrid event on Wednesday, February 23. For all events held at Gavin House, the Lumen Christi Institute follows Chicago Department...
March 2022
March 2nd, 2022 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

Catholic Culture Series on “Catholic Literary Heritage”

Ruth Lake Country Club 6200 South Madison Street, Hinsdale, IL

The Lumen Christi Institute's West Suburban Catholic Culture Series returns in 2021-22 with a monthly series on the theme of Catholic literary heritage. We will survey the history of literature written by Catholics from the early middle ages to the late twentieth century. What is Catholic literature? What is our Catholic literary heritage? St. John Henry Newman has informed us that Catholic literature is more than “religious literature” or “the literature of religious men.” Rather, Catholic literature is literature of “all subjects whatever, treated as a Catholic would treat them, and as he only can treat them.” Not only doctrine,...
March 3rd, 2022 @ 2:00 pm

Justice or Vengeance? How To Watch John Wick

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

Open to current students and faculty. Others interested in joining should contact us. Lunch will be served. Is John Wick only a guilty pleasure? Or is there, at the heart of these movies, a desire for justice—however roughly delivered? This lecture proposes that at the heart of the movies is indeed the desire for retributive justice: the payment of punishment for those who do wrong or reward for those who do right. It will defend the understanding of retributive justice as a real good and indicate how an appreciation of this virtue can aid human beings in pursuing the good...
March 9th, 2022 @ 7:30 pm

Recovering Biblical Love from Emotionalism and Eroticism
March 10th, 2022 @ 7:15 pm - 9:30 pm

Magis Series on Faith and Reason

Saint Ignatius College Prep 1076 W Roosevelt Rd, Chicago, IL

Free and open to the public. Presented by the Lumen Christi Institute and Saint Ignatius College Prep. What does it mean to believe? Does one believe because of evidence? In spite of evidence? Is belief the beginning of wisdom or the opposite of science? For over two thousand years, the Catholic Church has defended the rich interrelation between faith and reason. As Pope John Paul II said in his encyclical, Fides et Ratio, "Faith and reason are like the two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth." Faith without reason leads to superstition. Reason without...
March 20th, 2022 @ 3:00 pm

Music in Secret: Sounds from the Early Modern Convent

Rockefeller Memorial Chapel 5850 S Woodlawn Ave. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the University of Chicago Division of the Humanities, the Illinois Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts. The outstanding female contingent of Schola Antiqua presents a concert of medieval and early modern music by and for women in the convent. Their program "Music in Secret" includes works by Hildegard von Bingen and nuns from early modern Italy. The performance is complemented by keyboard works also heard in convents, played by organist and guest director Naomi Gregory. Cora Swenson Lee joins the ensemble on viola da gamba.
March 30th, 2022 @ 2:00 pm - March 31st, 2022 @ 6:15 pm

The Theology of Nature and the Nature of Theology

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

A conference held by the University of Chicago Divinity School, cosponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute. Download of Conference Abstracts. For more information see the Divinity School's conference webpage. Schedule: Wednesday, March 30 2:00pm-3:15pm Wesley Wildman (Boston University): "Prospects for a Naturalist, Critically Humanist, and Mystical Transreligious Understanding of Ultimate Reality" 3:30pm-4:45pm Karmen MacKendrick (LeMoyne College): "Out of Bounds: Collection, Division, Creation" 5:00pm-6:15pm Willemien Otten (University of Chicago Divinity School): "Double or Nothing: Creation and Gender in Eriugena, Hildegard, and Hadewijch" (the inaugural Dorothy Grant Maclear Lecture) Reception to follow Thursday, March 31 2:00pm-3:15pm William Schweiker (University of Chicago Divinity School): "How Natural is...
March 30th, 2022 @ 5:00 pm

Negotiating Tragedy and the Tragic: Discursive, Performative, and Interpretive Strategies in Late Ancient Christian Literature

Classics 110 1010 E 59th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Free and open to the public. Early Christian authors rarely composed tragedies, but they did discern elements of “the tragic” both in the background of sacred history and in the foreground of mundane experience. As a rhetorical, literary, and even theological artform, the mimesis of tragedy took shape concurrently in biblical interpretation and preaching, in autobiographical and hagiographical writing, in the framing of Christian moral response to human anguish and indignities, and in theological reflection on interrelated issues of providence, freedom, fate, and hope. This lecture will sample each of these dimensions, concentrating especially on works of the Cappadocian Fathers, John...

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Walker Percy on the Pursuit of Happiness in Apocalyptic Times

Lunch Discussion on “Walker Percy: Philosopher, Novelist, Catholic”

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Justice or Vengeance? How To Watch John Wick

Recovering Biblical Love from Emotionalism and Eroticism

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Music in Secret: Sounds from the Early Modern Convent

The Theology of Nature and the Nature of Theology

Negotiating Tragedy and the Tragic: Discursive, Performative, and Interpretive Strategies in Late Ancient Christian Literature

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