Name: Is Free Will an Illusion? St. Thomas Aquinas and Human Action – Faith and Reason | West Suburban Catholic Culture Series
Start: 2024-04-10T18:30:00-05:00
End: 2024-04-10T20:30:00-05:00
Location: Ruth Lake Country Club

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February 2024
February 20th, 2024 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Non-Credit Course | The Seven Sacraments of the Catholic Church: Doors to the Sacred

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

Fr. Peter Bernardi, SJ, Lumen Christi Institute

REGISTER HERE This event is in-person only. Intended for university students, faculty, and staff. Others interested in attending please contact dstrobach@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. The Catholic Faith is profoundly sacramental. The Church recognizes seven sacraments: Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist, Reconciliation, Anointing of the Sick, Marriage, and Holy Orders. These sacred actions contain and confer Christ’s healing, transformative Grace. This class will highlight the theological meaning, Biblical basis, historical development, and our own personal experiences of the sacraments. The reality of the sacraments raises...
February 21st, 2024 @ 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Reconciling Justice: A Community Conversation on Criminal Justice Reform

This event is by invitation only. For more information, contact ccjrn@lumenchristi.org. An event for lawyers, legal scholars, judges, ministry leaders, social workers, clergy, and people who have been directly impacted by the criminal justice system to unite for dinner, plenary panel conversation, and round-table dialogue around criminal justice reform. The evening's purpose is to inspire hope, healing, and ideas on how to improve the legal system informed by religious wisdom and the experience of those directly affected by our criminal justice system. A mass preceding the program will be celebrated by Cardinal Blase Cupich. This event will begin with a plenary conversation...
February 21st, 2024 @ 7:00 pm - 11:15 pm

Viewing of Martin Scorsese’s Silence

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

This event is co-produced by the Critical Understanding of Liturgies & Traditions (CULT), a student RSO, and the Lumen Christi Institute, the home for the Catholic intellectual tradition at the University of Chicago. The movie will be screened at Gavin House (1220 E 58th St), directly across from the Booth School of Business. This event is sponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute’s Nicklin Fellows Program, which supports and encourages University of Chicago undergraduate students to develop their intellectual maturity. Francesco Rahe, who designed this program, is a 2023-2024 Nicklin Fellow. REGISTER HERE The place is Japan. The year is 1670....
February 22nd, 2024 @ 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Dubliners Graduate Reading Group

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

REGISTER HERE Open to current graduate students at the University of Chicago. Participants can come to whichever sessions they choose. Others interested in participating should contact Rose Johnson at rodojo23@uchicago.edu. Books and drinks will be provided. What do choice and responsibility look like for the modern person? How much are individuals determined by their families, their societies, and their religions? What freedom can be found within or outside these relationships? James Joyce addresses these questions and many others in his collection of short stories, Dubliners. Though rich and nuanced like all of Joyce’s writing, these short stories present a straightforward introduction to Joyce’s writing style...
February 26th, 2024 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

American Gothic Graduate Reading Group

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

REGISTER HERE Open to current graduate students at the University of Chicago. Participants can come to whichever sessions they choose. Others interested in participating should contact Sam Landon at snlandontn@gmail.com. Books, lunch, and beverages will be provided. Fear. Rot. The inescapability of the past. These and more are the themes of Gothic literature. Join us Mondays from 1-2pm at Gavin House for a discussion of Edgar Allen Poe, Ambrose Bierce, and Flannery O'Connor. Lunch provided. SCHEDULE: This group will meet on Mondays (beginning January 22nd) from 1:00pm - 2:00pm over lunch. January 22: "The Raven," Poe January 29: "Tell-Tale Heart," Poe Feburary...
March 2024
March 20th, 2024 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Catholic Women in the Arts and Sciences: An Underappreciated Tradition – Faith and Reason | West Suburban Catholic Culture Series

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

Bronwen McShea, Augustine Institute

The West Suburban Catholic Culture Series returns in 2024 to continue its series on "Faith and Reason as the Two Wings: The History and Enduring Importance of Catholic Philosophy" REGISTER HERE (Business casual attire encouraged. For questions, please email Marial Corona at mcorona@lumenchristi.org). Schedule: 6:30 p.m. Drinks | 7:00 p.m. Dinner, Lecture, & Q&A | 8:30 p.m. End March 20: Catholic Women in the Arts and Sciences: An Underappreciated Tradition Bronwen McShea (Professor of History, Augustine Institute) While many people are aware of the important intellectual and literary contributions of modern Catholic women such as St. Edith Stein and Flannery O'Connor, it is not...
March 22nd, 2024 @ 1:00 pm - 6:00 pm

The Quandaries of Biotechnology: Theory and Practice

BSLC 115 924 E 57th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Stephen C. Meredith, University of Chicago | Lesley Rice, Pontifical John Paul II Institute | Kyle E. Karches, Saint Louis University | Silvianne Aspray, University of Cambridge | Paul Scherz, University of Virginia

This event is free and open to the public. This event is cosponsored by The Program on Medicine and Religion at the University of Chicago, and The Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics at Saint Louis University. For more information, contact info@lumenchristi.org. How are new developments between biotechnology and big data including gene editing, brain-computer interfacing, and artificial intelligence changing our vision of what it means to be human? How does this bear in the ethical practices of medicine and research at the lab bench and at the bedside? How might an integrative vision of ethics contribute to this conversation? Are there alternative...
Master Classes

March 23rd, 2024 @ 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Grief, Suffering, and “The Art of Dying” in a Plague: Cyprian’s De Mortalitate

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

Paul Scherz, University of Virginia

Open to current graduate students and faculty. Advanced undergraduates and others interested in participating should contact dstrobach@lumenchristi.org. This event is in-person only. All registrants will receive copies of the selected readings, which should be read in advance of the class. Reception will follow. This event is made possible through the support of ‘In Lumine: Supporting the Catholic Intellectual Tradition on Campuses Nationwide’ (Grant #62372) from the John Templeton Foundation. The ancient Stoics rejected grief as a passion. Was it inhuman to grieve? Or was it inhuman to suppress this natural human affect? What about longing for lost loved ones or the fear of death? ...
April 2024
April 4th, 2024 @ 5:00 pm - 7:15 pm

Magis Lecture | Do We Know More than the Apostles? Or, Do Doctrines Develop?

Loyola Academy McGrath Family Performing Arts Center 3455 Illinois Rd, Wilmette, IL

Lewis Ayres, Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas - Angelicum, Rome

5:00 Mass | 5:45 Drinks & Hors d’Oeuvres | 6:30 Lecture | 7:15 End Co-presented by Loyola Academy. Free and open to the public. Registration required. For questions, please contact Marial Corona at mcorona@lumenchristi.org. Everyone realizes that some aspects of the Church have changed in the half-century since the Second Vatican Council. But has Catholic teaching actually changed? Moreover, can Catholics say that our understanding of the faith grows and deepens over time, that it develops? If we say “yes”, a simple but vital question follows: Can we say that we know more than the Apostles? ABOUT THE MAGIS SERIES The...
April 4th, 2024 @ 8:00 pm - May 9th, 2024 @ 9:00 pm

Brideshead Revisited Graduate Reading Group

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

REGISTER HERE Open to current graduate students at the University of Chicago. Participants can come to whichever sessions they choose. Others interested in participating should contact Jack Drury at jackdrury@uchicago.edu. Books and drinks will be provided. What do choice and responsibility look like for the modern person? How much are individuals determined by their families, their societies, and their religions? What freedom can be found within or outside these relationships? James Joyce addresses these questions and many others in his collection of short stories, Dubliners. Though rich and nuanced like all of Joyce’s writing, these short stories present a straightforward introduction to Joyce’s writing style...
April 10th, 2024 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Dante the Theologian: Ken Woodward Interviews Denys Turner

University Club of Chicago 76 E Monroe St Chicago, IL 60603, Downtown, IL

Kenneth Woodward, Lumen Christi Institute | Denys Turner, Yale University, Emeritus

12:00 Welcome, Blessing, Lunch is Served | 12:30 Interview | 1:30 End REGISTRATION OPENS ON MARCH 1 The dress code for the University Club can be consulted here, and parking information here. For questions, please email Marial Corona at mcorona@lumenchristi.org. All agree: Dante Alighieri was a great poet. But Denys Turner insists that he was also a great theologian—and that what makes his theology great is his poetry. Moreover, Turner argues, Dante was able to write his masterpiece only after he had personally journeyed through Hell and Purgatory like Dante, the pilgrim character in The Divine Comedy. Is this the case? Ken...
April 10th, 2024 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Is Free Will an Illusion? St. Thomas Aquinas and Human Action – Faith and Reason | West Suburban Catholic Culture Series

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

Stephen Brock, University of Chicago

The West Suburban Catholic Culture Series returns in 2024 to continue its series on "Faith and Reason as the Two Wings: The History and Enduring Importance of Catholic Philosophy" REGISTER HERE (Business casual attire encouraged. For questions, please email Marial Corona at mcorona@lumenchristi.org). Schedule: 6:30 p.m. Drinks | 7:00 p.m. Dinner, Lecture, & Q&A | 8:30 p.m. End April 10: Is Free Will an Illusion? St. Thomas Aquinas and Human Action Fr. Stephen Brock (Professor of Medieval Philosophy, Pontifical University of the Holy Cross) Americans prize freedom, of all kinds. Yet many today are being persuaded that there is no such thing as free...

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Non-Credit Course | The Seven Sacraments of the Catholic Church: Doors to the Sacred

Viewing of Martin Scorsese’s Silence

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American Gothic Graduate Reading Group

Catholic Women in the Arts and Sciences: An Underappreciated Tradition – Faith and Reason | West Suburban Catholic Culture Series

The Quandaries of Biotechnology: Theory and Practice

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Grief, Suffering, and “The Art of Dying” in a Plague: Cyprian’s De Mortalitate

Magis Lecture | Do We Know More than the Apostles? Or, Do Doctrines Develop?

Brideshead Revisited Graduate Reading Group

Dante the Theologian: Ken Woodward Interviews Denys Turner

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