BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Lumen Christi Institute - ECPv6.15.9//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Lumen Christi Institute X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://lumenchristi.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Lumen Christi Institute REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20170312T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20171105T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20180311T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20181104T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20190310T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20191103T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20200308T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20201101T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20210314T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20211107T070000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180415T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180415T160000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112805 CREATED:20241003T165444Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T150010Z UID:10000468-1523808000-1523808000@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:"Behold How Good and How Pleasant": A Memorial Concert for Theodore C. Karp DESCRIPTION:$25 General / $10 Students \nSchola Antiqua celebrates the life and contributions of musicologist and Northwestern University professor emeritus Theodore “Ted” C. Karp (1926-2015) with a program of music that reflects the wide-ranging areas of early music study that he touched in his fruitful career. One of the titans of plainchant scholarship\, Karp can be found in debates about the genre in its early and late stages. The ensemble explores not only plainsong but also other areas of Karp’s investigations from music of the troubadours to some of the earliest surviving polyphony in western music history. The program concludes with a full performance of Orlande de Lassus’s sonorous Prophetiae Sibyllarum. \nSchola Antiqua of Chicago also performed the same concert on Saturday\, April 14 at 8:00pm at Rockefeller Memorial Chapel at the University of Chicago. \nTo view photos of the April 14 performance\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-04-behold-how-good-how-pleasant-a-memorial-concert-for-theodore-c-karp-schola-antiqua-of-chicago-2/ LOCATION:Millar Chapel\, Northwestern University\n1870 Sheridan Rd\, Evanston ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/4-14-2018-Memorial-Concert-Theodore-Kray-2-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180419T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180419T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112805 CREATED:20241003T165441Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260210T235448Z UID:10000467-1524157200-1524157200@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:The Future of Liberalism: Relativism Confronts St. Augustine DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Theology Club at the Divinity School. \nThe future of political liberalism is a topic much discussed in recent scholarly books and popular journals. This lecture will integrate the recent argument of Patrick Deneen in Why Liberalism Failed\, beginning where the book leaves off by addressing the following question: If it is true\, as many have argued\, that liberalism has become morally corroded\, then can reasonable people still make a case for our continued cooperation with it? Discussing thinkers like Richard Rorty and John Rawls\, this lecture will critically examine efforts to ground contemporary liberalism in relativist views of goodness and truth. These views will be brought into dialogue with St Augustine’s reflections on Rome. It will thereby develop a perspective on how Catholics should coexist with liberalism\, which retains value as a political framework. \nProfessor Fields also led a master class seminar on “Karl Rahner’s Distinctive Theology of the Symbol” on Saturday\, April 21. \nTo view photos of the lecture\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nYou can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page\, iTunes channel\, Stitcher\, TuneIn\, ListenNotes\, Podbean\, Pocket Casts\, and Google Play Music. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-04-future-of-liberalism-relativism-confronts-st-augustine-stephen-fields-sj/ LOCATION:Harper Memorial Library 130\, 1116 East 59th Street\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/4-19-2018-Stephen-Fields-Future-of-Liberalism--Zoe-Kaiser--23-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180421T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180421T130000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112805 CREATED:20241003T165439Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T150004Z UID:10000466-1524304800-1524315600@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Master Class on "Karl Rahner’s Distinctive Theology of the Symbol" DESCRIPTION:Open to current university students and faculty. A link to the readings will be provided for registrants. \nIn an era of outstanding theologians who made the teachings of the second Vatican Council possible\, Karl Rahner (1904-84) stands out as a titan.  A German Jesuit\, he studied under Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) in Freiburg (among others).  He taught on the faculties of Innsbruck\, Munich\, and Münster; served as a peritus at the Council and as a member of the International Theological Commission.  His chief works include Spirit in the World (1957)\, a study of Thomas Aquinas’s theory of knowledge; Hearer of the Word (1941)\, which seeks to justify humanity’s natural ability to receive and assent to a divine revelation; Foundations of Christian Faith (1976)\, a systematic exposition of Catholic belief and practice; and the renowned Theological Investigations (1954-84)\, sixteen volumes on a wide range of topics written over the course of his career. \nAs a systematic theologian\, Rahner understood his role as using some criterion according to which the revealed doctrines of Christianity could be shown to be coherent\, even while they remain mysteries not fully comprehensible to reason.  His distinctive criterion is called the Realsymbol.  Our Master Class will study what it is\, how Rahner develops it\, and how he uses it better to understand the realities that we know both by reason and by faith. \nREADINGS \nKarl Rahner\, SJ\, “The Theology of the Symbol\,” in Theological Investigations (TI)\, vol. 4\, 221-52; “Oneness and Threefoldness of God in Discussion with Islam\,” TI 18\, 105-21; “On the Theology of the Incarnation\,” TI 4\, 105-20. [23 vols\, various places\, publishers\, and dates; originally Schriften zur Theologie (Einsiedeln: Benzinger\, 1954-84)]. \nStephen Fields\, SJ\, “Realsymbol as Sacramental\,” in Being As Symbol: On the Origins and Development of Karl Rahner’s Metaphysics (Washington\, DC: Georgetown University Press\, 2001)\, 38-54. \nSCHEDULE \n9:30am   Coffee & Pastries\n10:00am   Session I\n11:25am   Break\n11:35am   Session II\n1:00pm   Lunch \nProfessor Fields also gave a lecture on “The Future of Liberalism: Relativism Confronts St. Augustine” on Thursday\, April 19. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-04-master-class-on-karl-rahner-s-distinctive-theology-of-symbol-stephen-fields-sj/ LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/fields.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180503T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180503T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112805 CREATED:20241003T165435Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260129T154626Z UID:10000465-1525366800-1525366800@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Athens\, Jerusalem—and Alexandria: Christian Wisdom between the Bible and Greek Philosophy DESCRIPTION:A lecture by Rémi Brague with a response by Jean-Luc Marion. Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Ethics Club at the Divinity School. This lecture will be audio and video recorded and accessible via this webpage shortly after the event. Persons with disabilities who need an accommodation in order to participate in this event should contact us by email or call 773-955-5887. \nChristian wisdom could work its way through the Hebrew Bible and Greek philosophy and produce some sort of “Alexandrian” synthesis by focusing on the Logos\, a concept explicitly central to Greek philosophy and implicitly fundamental to Biblical revelation. \nYou can read about Professor Brague’s previous visit HERE. \nTo view photos of the event\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nYou can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page\, iTunes channel\, Stitcher\, TuneIn\, ListenNotes\, Podbean\, Pocket Casts\, and Google Play Music. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-05-athens-jerusalem-alexandria-christian-wisdom-between-bible-greek-philosophy-remi-brague-jean-luc-marion/ LOCATION:Breasted Hall\, Oriental Institute\, 1155 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/5-3-2018-Remi-Brague-Jean-Luc-Marion-38-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180504T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180504T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112805 CREATED:20241003T165434Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T145956Z UID:10000464-1525446000-1525453200@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Master Class on Paul Claudel's "The Muse Called Grace" DESCRIPTION:Open to current students and faculty. A copy of the poem with English translation will be circulated to those who RSVP. \nPaul Claudel can be described as the greatest French Catholic poet of the 20th century.  His ode The Muse Called Grace celebrates the deep links between human and divine love\, between poetry and faith. Join Professors Rémi Brague and Thomas Pavel for a master class on the poem. Previous familiarity with Paul Claudel is not required. \nSCHEDULE:\n2:30pm    Coffee & Tea\n3:00pm    Seminar\n5:00pm    Wine & Cheese \nThe Franke Institute for the Humanities will host a conference on Paul Claudel for the 150th anniversary of his birth on May 18 & 19\, 2018. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-05-master-class-on-paul-claudels-muse-called-grace-remi-brague-thomas-pavel/ LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Claudel.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180505T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180505T200000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112805 CREATED:20241003T165432Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T145952Z UID:10000463-1525537800-1525550400@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Prayer\, Dinner\, and Discussion at the Benedictine Monastery of the Holy Cross DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\nTransportation will be provided from Hyde Park. Open to current university students and faculty. \nCosponsored by the Hildegard of Bingen Society. \nJoin us for an evening of prayer with Benedictine Monks at the Monastery of the Holy Cross. Students will participate in the prayer of the Divine Office (including Solemn Vespers and Compline)\, and have dinner and discussion with Fr. Peter Funk\, OSB\, prior of the monastery and alumnus of the University of Chicago. This evening will feature a special Solemn Vespers\, in which the monks will be accompanied by Schola Laudis. \nMore information about the monastery can be found HERE. \nSCHEDULE \n4:15pm   Meet at Gavin House (1220 E. 58th St.)\n4:30pm   Depart from Hyde Park\n5:00pm   Arrive at the Monastery\, welcome by Fr. Funk\n5:15pm   Office of Solemn Vespers\n6:00pm   Dinner & Discussion\n7:15pm   Office of Compline\n8:00pm   Arrive back in Hyde Park URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-05-prayer-dinner-discussion-at-benedictine-monastery-of-holy-cross-fr-peter-funk/ LOCATION:The Monastery of the Holy Cross\, 3111 South Aberdeen St.\nChicago\, IL 60608\, Chicago\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/2Vespers_Monks284-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180510T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180510T190000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112805 CREATED:20241003T165431Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260129T153852Z UID:10000462-1525978800-1525978800@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Elizabeth Anscombe on Living the Truth DESCRIPTION:Elizabeth Anscombe was one of the most important and influential analytic philosophers of the twentieth century. One of the last lectures she delivered was titled “Doing the Truth.” In it\, she set out to identify and clarify a specifically practical mode of truth as the proper goal of a specifically practical mode of reasoning and knowledge.  This talk will explore how Anscombe understands practical truth by relating it to her influential theory of the intentionality of action; its ultimate suggestion is that “doing the truth” just is living a good human life–i.e.\, knowingly performing actions in accordance with true judgments of right practical reasoning.  The person who achieves this truth is virtuous\, someone who can stand as an exemplar (or rule and measure) for those who seek the truth but have not yet realized it in their lives. \nTo view photos of the lecture\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nYou can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page\, iTunes channel\, Stitcher\, TuneIn\, ListenNotes\, Podbean\, Pocket Casts\, and Google Play Music. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-05-elizabeth-anscombe-on-living-truth-jennifer-frey/ LOCATION:Classics 110\, 1010 E 59th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/frey.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180518T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180518T143000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112805 CREATED:20241003T165430Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T145944Z UID:10000461-1526648400-1526653800@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:The Book of Job and the Transmission of Biblical Wisdom DESCRIPTION:Open to current students and faculty. Lunch will be served. \nAll too often\, reading Scripture is merely an exercise in self-flattery and reinforcing our own preconceptions. But reading Scripture cross-culturally draws us more deeply into the text and undoes some of those preconceptions. Reading Job\, one of Scripture’s most enigmatic books\, in Lomwe with Lomwe-speakers can surprise a North American reader\, illuminating what is present and what is absent. This presentation will center on a close-reading of passages from the text of Job. \nImage: Job and His Friends\, Ilya Repin via Wikimedia Commons. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-05-book-of-job-transmission-of-biblical-wisdom-stuart-j-foster-paul-mankowski-sj/ LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Job_and_his_friends.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180519T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180519T150000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112805 CREATED:20241003T165427Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T145941Z UID:10000460-1526742000-1526742000@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Staged Reading of "Shakeshafte" by Rowan Williams DESCRIPTION:To view photos of the performance\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nYou are invited to join the Shakespeare Project of Chicago for a special staged reading of a new play by Rowan Willams\, a “fantasia” on the possible relationship between William Shakespeare and Edmund Campion. \nFree and open to the public. Online registration is recommended but not required. Refreshments will be served. Sponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute and the International House Global Voices Program. Persons with disabilities who may need assistance should contact the Office of Programs & External Relations in advance at 773-753-2274 or email HERE. \nYou can read about the Shakespeare Project of Chicago’s previous performance of “Shakeshafte” at the Chicago Reader. More information about the play can be found HERE. \nSCHEDULE \n2:30pm   Doors open\, refreshments & reception\n3:00pm   Introduction\, Professor Regina Schwartz (Northwestern University)\n3:10pm   Staged reading of “Shakeshafte” (with 15 minute intermission)\n5:00pm   Audience Q&A with cast and Professor Schwartz\n5:15pm   End \nRowan Williams was the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury\, holding that office from 2002 to 2012. He is currently master of Magdalene College\, Cambridge\, where he teaches Theology. A noted poet and translator of poetry\, Dr. Williams speaks or reads nine other languages\, and has published books on a wide range of theological\, historical\, and political themes. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-05-staged-reading-of-shakeshafte-by-rowan-williams-shakespeare-project-of-chicago/ LOCATION:International House at the University of Chicago\, 1414 E 59th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/fullsizeoutput_12ba-scaled.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180522T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180522T180000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112805 CREATED:20241003T165427Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T145937Z UID:10000459-1527012000-1527012000@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:The Hillbilly Thomist: Flannery O'Connor's Catholic Imagination DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\n6:00 Dinner | 6:30 Lecture \nThis weekly non-credit course is open to current students and faculty. Registrants are free to attend as many sessions as they choose. Sessions do not presuppose previous attendance or prior knowledge of the subject. \nThe fiction writer and essayist Flannery O’Connor (1925-1964) once complained that she was pegged as “a hillbilly nihilist\,” whereas she viewed herself as “a hillbilly Thomist.”  Her profound Catholic faith served in many respects to detach her from the rural Georgia in which she lived and worked\, and at the same time gave her a sympathy for and insight into the radical non-conformists of the Protestant South\, such that her often grotesque characters are conveyed by convincing human portraits that at the same time rise above the particulars of time and place so as to speak to the Big Questions of faith and unbelief\, salvation and damnation. \nThis course will examine in detail seven of O’Connor’s short stories\, as well as the theology and artistic convictions from which they come to be\, supplemented by letters selected from her published correspondence.  Volunteers will be recruited to prepare and read aloud brief excerpts from the stories.  No previous acquaintance with the works of O’Connor is required or presumed. \nApril 3rd\nThe Hillbilly Thomist: An introduction to O’Connor and her work. \nApril 10th\n“The Enduring Chill” \nApril 17th\n“A Temple of the Holy Ghost” \nApril 24th\n“A Late Encounter with the Enemy” \nMay 1st\n“The Life You Save May Be Your Own” \nMay 8th\n“Parker’s Back” \nMay 15th\n“A Good Man Is Hard to Find” \nMay 22nd\n“Revelation” \nYou can watch a profile of Flannery O’Connor HERE. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-05-hillbilly-thomist-flannery-oconnors-catholic-imagination-paul-mankowski-sj/ LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/O-Connor.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180525T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180525T150000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112805 CREATED:20241003T165422Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260322T142650Z UID:10000458-1527260400-1527260400@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:What is Freedom? Some Reflections on Augustine DESCRIPTION:You can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page\, iTunes channel\, Stitcher\, TuneIn\, ListenNotes\, Podbean\, Pocket Casts\, and Google Play Music. \nTo view photos of the symposium\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nA lecture by Olivier Boulnois with responses by Jean-Luc Marion and Willemien Otten\, and moderated by Ryan Coyne. \nFree and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Theology Club at the Divinity School. \nThis lecture will be audio and video recorded and accessible via this webpage shortly after the event. Persons with disabilities who need an accommodation in order to participate in this event should contact us by email or call 773-955-5887. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-05-what-is-freedom-some-reflections-on-augustine-olivier-boulnois-jean-luc-marion-willemien-otten-ryan-coyne/ LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/fullsizeoutput_15e8_1-scaled.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180610T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180613T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112805 CREATED:20241006T235419Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260115T191227Z UID:10000457-1528621200-1528909200@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Economics and Catholic Social Thought: A Primer DESCRIPTION:You can download the poster here. \nNow in its third year\, this seminar is designed as an introduction and immersion into Catholic social thought for graduate students and faculty in economics\, finance\, or related fields. Participants will cover foundational principles in Catholic social thought\, starting with the human person\, dignity\, freedom\, subsidiarity\, solidarity\, and the common good\, and moving toward applications of these principles to conceptual understandings and ethical considerations involving economic topics such as utility theory\, firm and business ethics\, wages\, markets\, globalization\, poverty\, and development. Participants will delve into social encyclicals\, secondary sources\, and relevant economics texts. \nThis seminar is cosponsored by the Catholic Research Economists Discussion Organization\, the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture\, the Kellogg Institute for International Studies\, and the Notre Dame Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts. \nFormat: There will be two sessions each day\, featuring a different instructor. Each instructor will open with a lecture\, and then we will turn to a seminar-style discussion of the texts and issues at hand. In the final sessions\, we will discuss how the material can be applied to each student’s particular area of interest. \nLocation: The seminar will take place at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend\, Indiana. A limited number of travel stipends are available on a need basis. All participants will be provided with accommodations and meals. \nApplication Information: This seminar will be open to PhD students and faculty in economics\, finance and related fields. \nApplicants will be required to submit a completed online application form\, including: \n\nAn updated CV.\nA brief statement of research interest no longer than 750 words.\nOne academic writing sample.\n\nAll application materials can be submitted via the online application. Incomplete applications will not be considered. Fifteen students will be admitted to this seminar. \nPlease direct any further questions to contact@credo-economists.org. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-econ-cst/ LOCATION:University of Notre Dame\, Notre Dame\, IN 46556\, Notre Dame\, IN CATEGORIES:Summer Seminars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Budget-1_notre_dame-e1750807513975.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180617T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180630T000000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112805 CREATED:20241006T235419Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T145927Z UID:10000456-1529193600-1530316800@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Undergraduate Seminar on Happiness and Freedom DESCRIPTION:APPLY HERE \nTHE APPLICATION DEADLINE FOR AMERICAN STUDENTS HAS PASSED. IRISH STUDENTS ARE STILL WELCOME TO APPLY UNTIL APRIL 16. \nUndergraduate students from Ireland and the US are invited to apply for this two-week seminar on “Happiness & Freedom.” Explore themes of nationalism\, modernity\, community\, and stability while being immersed in Irish culture and history. \nPresented by the Lumen Christi Institute and the University of Notre Dame. \nYou can download the poster here. \nABOUT THE SEMINAR\nHuman beings want to be happy. And they often see freedom as a necessary component in their happiness. What\, though\, should human beings be free from in order to be happy? Should human beings instead be free for certain things? In this two-week seminar\, we will explore philosophical\, theological\, and historical answers to the question of human freedom and happiness. Because of our location in Ireland\, we will focus on how the Irish have answered these questions throughout their history. We will pay special attention to the role that Christianity has played in contributing to (or perhaps detracting from) one’s freedom and happiness. \nFORMAT AND SCHEDULE\nWeek one will be held at the O’Connell House\, the Notre Dame Global Gateway in Dublin\, and week two will be held at Kylemore Abbey\, a Benedictine community in Connemara\, County Galway. The seminar readings and discussions will be supplemented by field trips around significant historical places in Dublin and County Galway. \nStudents will be provided with lodging\, transportation\, and most meals during the course of the seminar. Students will be responsible for arranging their own transportation to and from the seminar. Travel grants may be available on a need basis. \nGUEST LECTURERS\nMaria Cahill\, Lecturer\, University College Cork\nSiobhán Garrigan\, Loyola Chair of Theology\, Trinity College Dublin\nCyril O’Regan\, Huisking Professor of Theology\, University of Notre Dame\nDeclan Kiberd\, Donald and Marilyn Keough Professor of Irish Studies\, University of Notre Dame \nREADINGS\nIris Murdoch\, The Sovereignty of the Good\nAlasdair MacIntyre\, After Virtue\nR.F. Foster\, Modern Ireland 1600-1970\nWilliam Cavanaugh\, Being Consumed\nJames Joyce\, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man\nT. M. Charles-Edwards\, Early Christian Ireland\nRule of St Benedict\nHerbert McCabe\, “God” and “Prayer”\nServais Pinckaers\, OP\, The Pursuit of Happiness\nBenedict XVI\, Deus caritas est and Veritas in caritate \nHOW TO APPLY\nThis seminar is open to current undergraduate students from the US and Ireland (including those graduating in spring 2018). All application materials can be submitted via the online application. Incomplete applications will not be considered. Twenty students will be admitted to this seminar. \nApplication materials must be received by 11:59pm on MARCH 15\, 2018. \nThe Lumen Christi Institute exists to promote the Catholic intellectual tradition and is committed to the integration of the intellectual and spiritual life. The Institute welcomes seminar participants of all or no religious affiliation\, and wants to assure all applicants that the opportunities to participate in devotional activities are optional. \nContact us if you have any further questions. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-ireland-seminar/ LOCATION:Kylemore Abbey\, Kylemore Abbey\, Galway\, Ireland CATEGORIES:Seminar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/connemara-life-notre-dame-kylemore-abbey-16.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180627T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180704T000000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112805 CREATED:20241006T235421Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260115T180631Z UID:10000455-1530057600-1530662400@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:St. Thomas Aquinas on Free Choice DESCRIPTION:You can download the poster here. \nThis seminar will be a five-day\, intensive discussion aimed at understanding and evaluating St. Thomas Aquinas’ account of liberum arbitrium and of the psychological and metaphysical principles that underlie it. The sessions will center on passages from the Summa Theologiae\, but we will also refer to other works of Aquinas\, such as the De Malo and the Commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics\, and to pertinent texts from other philosophers such as Plato\, Aristotle\, Kant\, and Anscombe. We will want to address some of the more controversial questions about Thomas’ views\, such as the following: Does he differ from Aristotle on the will\, and if so\, how? Did he change his own mind about the will? To what extent\, in Aquinas’ account\, does the freedom of the will depend upon the distinction between the will and the intellect? Does St. Thomas’ apparent intellectualism commit him to some kind of determinism with regard to choice?  Does he offer an adequate account of the choice of evil? In comparison with modern thinkers\, does he sufficiently appreciate the value of freedom? \nFormat: There will be two 2 ½ hour sessions each day. Each session will include an opening lecture and seminar-style discussion of the text and the issues at hand. Students will be expected to prepare the readings carefully and participate in the discussions of the material. \nLocation: The seminar will take place at the University of Chicago. Students will be provided with lodging\, meals\, and a travel stipend of up to $350. \nApplication Information: This seminar will be open to PhD students in the humanities and relevant fields (such as philosophy\, theology\, english\, classics\, & history). \nApplicants will be required to submit: \n\nA completed online application form.\nAn updated CV.\nAt least one and as many as two letter(s) of recommendation from a member of the program in which the student is currently enrolled.\nA statement of research interest no longer than 750 words\, which includes an explanation of how this seminar might bear on the student’s current or future research plans.\nOne academic writing sample (30 pages maximum).\n\nAll application materials can be submitted via the online application. Incomplete applications will not be considered. Fiften students will be admitted to this seminar. \n\nFrequently Asked Questions: \nCan I apply for more than one seminar?\nYes. You may apply for multiple seminars. Please indicate your order of preference in your statement of purpose for each application. Each applicant may only be admitted to one seminar. \nI am a PhD student graduating this academic year. Can I still apply?\nYes! \nI am currently an undergraduate or master’s student\, but have been admitted to a PhD program for the next academic year. Can I still apply?\nYes\, please indicate this somewhere in your application. \nI have attended a Lumen Christi Institute seminar in the past. May I still apply?\nYes! \nDo I have to be Catholic to apply?\nNo. The Lumen Christi Institute exists to promotes the Catholic intellectual tradition and is committed to the integration of the intellectual and spiritual life. The Institute welcomes seminar participants of all or no religious affiliation\, and wants to assure all applicants that the opportunities to participate in devotional activities are optional. \nContact us with any further questions. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-aquinas-seminar-brock/ LOCATION:University of Chicago\, 5801 S. Ellis Ave.\, University of Chicago\, IL CATEGORIES:Summer Seminars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/University_of_Chicago-_Harper_Library_1-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180707T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180714T000000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112805 CREATED:20241006T235419Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260115T180409Z UID:10000454-1530921600-1531526400@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:The Thought of John Henry Newman DESCRIPTION:You can download the poster here. \nNow in its sixth consecutive year\, this intensive seminar will examine the achievements of Blessed John Henry Newman as a theologian\, philosopher\, educator\, preacher\, and writer. Remarkably\, in each of these areas Newman produced works that have come to be recognized as classics: An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine\, The Grammar of Assent\, The Idea of a University\, The Parochial and Plain Sermons\, and the Apologia Pro Vita Sua. This seminar will approach Newman’s thought through a critical engagement with these texts. \nFormat: There will be two 2-hour sessions each day. The seminar will include presentations by Professor Ker and by participants on the readings assigned\, followed by seminar-style discussion. \nLocation: The seminar will take place at Merton College at the University of Oxford. Students will be provided with lodging and meals while at Oxford\, and a travel stipend of up to $700. \nApplication Information: This seminar will be open to PhD students in the humanities and relevant fields (such as philosophy\, theology\, English\, classics\, & history). \nApplicants will be required to submit: \n\nA completed online application form.\nAn updated CV.\nAt least one and as many as two letter(s) of recommendation from a member of the program in which the student is currently enrolled.\nA statement of research interest no longer than 750 words\, which includes an explanation of how this seminar might bear on the student’s current or future research plans.\nOne academic writing sample (30 pages maximum).\n\nAll application materials can be submitted via the online application. Incomplete applications will not be considered. Fifteen students will be admitted to this seminar. \n\nFrequently Asked Questions: \nCan I apply for more than one seminar?\nYes. You may apply for multiple seminars. Please indicate your order of preference in your statement of purpose for each application. Each applicant may only be admitted to one seminar. \nI am a PhD student graduating this academic year. Can I still apply?\nYes! \nI am currently an undergraduate or masters student\, but have been admitted to a PhD program for the next academic year. Can I still apply?\nYes\, please indicate this somehwere in your application. \nI have attended a Lumen Christi Institute seminar in the past. May I still apply?\nYes! \nDo I have to be Catholic to apply?\nNo. The Lumen Christi Institute exists to promotes the Catholic intellectual tradition and is committed to the integration of the intellectual and spiritual life. The Institute welcomes seminar participants of all or no religious affiliation\, and wants to assure all applicants that the opportunities to participate in devotional activities are optional. \nContact us with any further questions. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-newman-seminar-ker/ LOCATION:Merton College\, Oxford\, Merton St\, Oxford OX1 4JD\, UK\, Oxford\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Summer Seminars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/IMG_1562-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180721T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180728T000000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112805 CREATED:20241006T235419Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260115T182858Z UID:10000453-1532131200-1532736000@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Truth and Authority in Augustine's City of God DESCRIPTION:You can download the poster here. \nIn this seminar\, students will read\, analyze\, and discern continuities and discontinuities in Catholic Social Thought from the late 19th century to the present. Lectures\, seminar reports\, and discussion will focus on original sources (encyclicals and other magisterial documents)\, beginning with Rerum novarum (1892) and concluding with Caritas in veritate (2009) and Evangelii Gaudium (2013). This intensive course is multi-disciplinary\, since this tradition of social thought overlaps several disciplines in the contemporary university including political science\, political philosophy\, law\, economics\, theology\, and history. \nFormat: There will be two 2.5-hour sessions each day. Each session will include an opening lecture and seminar-style discussion of the text and the issues at hand. Students will be expected to prepare the readings carefully and participate in the discussions of the material. \nLocation:  The seminar will take place at the University of California\, Berkeley. Students will be provided with lodging\, meals\, and a travel stipend of up to $350. \nApplication Information: This seminar will be open to PhD students in the humanities and relevant fields (such as philosophy\, theology\, english\, classics\, and  history). \nApplicants will be required to submit: \n\nA completed online application form.\nAn updated CV.\nAt least one and as many as two letter(s) of recommendation from a member of the program in which the student is currently enrolled.\nA statement of research interest no longer than 750 words\, which includes an explanation of how this seminar might bear on the student’s current or future research plans.\nOne academic writing sample (30 pages maximum).\n\nAll application materials can be submitted via the online application. Incomplete applications will not be considered. Fifteen students will be admitted to this seminar. \n\nFrequently Asked Questions: \nCan I apply for more than one seminar?\nYes. You may apply for multiple seminars. Please indicate your order of preference in your statement of purpose for each application. Each applicant may only be admitted to one seminar. \nI am a PhD student graduating this academic year. Can I still apply?\nYes! \nI am currently an undergraduate or masters student\, but have been admitted to a PhD program for the next academic year. Can I still apply?\nYes\, please indicate this somewhere in your application. \nI have attended a Lumen Christi Institute seminar in the past. May I still apply?\nYes! \nDo I have to be Catholic to apply?\nNo. The Lumen Christi Institute exists to promote the Catholic Intellectual Tradition and is committed to the integration of the intellectual and spiritual life. The Institute welcomes seminar participants of all or no religious affiliation\, and wants to assure all applicants that the opportunities to participate in devotional activities are optional. \nContact us with any further questions. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-city-of-god-hittinger-sherwin/ LOCATION:University of California\, Berkeley\, S Hall Rd.\nBerkeley\, CA 94720\, Berkeley\, CA CATEGORIES:Summer Seminars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/UC-Berkeley-005-East-Asian-Library-and-North-Berkeley-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180922T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180922T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112805 CREATED:20241003T165421Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T150045Z UID:10000477-1537624800-1537635600@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Master Class on "Dark Night and Flame of Love: The Mysticism of John of the Cross" DESCRIPTION:Registration is required. Open to current university students and faculty. A copy of John of the Cross: Selected Writings (Paulist Press\, 1987) will be provided for registrants. \nThe Discalced Carmelite friar\, Juan de la Cruz (1542-91)\, is one of the most famous of Catholic mystics. This one-time Master Class will present a synopsis of John’s mystical teaching as found in some of his noted poems\, as well as the four prose works he composed as commentaries on these allusive and beautiful verses. John’s use of both poetry and prose raises issues about the relation of these two literary forms in mystical teaching (some of which will be addressed). The concentration\, however\, will be on the prose treatises as comprising one of the most influential summaries (summae) of mystical theology in the history of Christianity. In the popular mind\, John is most famous for his treatment of the “dark night” (noche oscura) of the senses and spirit\, the negative (apophatic) dimension of his doctrine; but for the Carmelite the suffering of the dark night was meant to lead to the positive (kataphatic) stage where the “living flame of love” (llama de amor viva) consumes and transforms the soul in God. \nThe Class will use the anthology of John’s writings found in Kieran Kavanaugh and Ernest Larkin\, eds.\, John of the Cross. Selected Writings (New York: Paulist Press\, 1987. It is advisable for the participants to try to read the whole of this\, but pages for special attention will be singled out in the syllabus. In addition\, some outlines and charts will be handed out at the beginning of the class. \nSCHEDULE \n1:30: Welcome with Coffee and Tea\n2:00-3:30: First Session\n3:00-3:15: Break\n3:15-5:15: Second Session\n5:15-5:30: End with Reception URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-09-master-class-on-dark-night-flame-of-love-mysticism-of-john-of-cross-bernard-mcginn/ LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Page-7_Background-John-of-the-Cross_Autumn-2013-Newsletter.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20181004T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20181004T190000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112805 CREATED:20241003T165418Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260322T143318Z UID:10000452-1538674200-1538679600@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Judging as Judgment DESCRIPTION:You can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page\, iTunes channel\, Stitcher\, TuneIn\, ListenNotes\, Podbean\, Pocket Casts\, and Google Play Music. \nTo view photos of the event\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nFree and open to the public. Registration is required. \nCosponsored by the Catholic Lawyers Guild of Chicago\, the Decalogue Society of Lawyers\, the Christian Legal Society\, the Jewish Judges Association\, and Jenner & Block LLP. \nWhen a case is easy\, judges can act like umpires. But when a case is hard\, judges cannot simply apply the rules – they have to exercise judgment. We pretend that judges don’t make law in order to ensure that they are sufficiently responsive to social and political norms and to elected representatives. But contrary to popular belief\, the rule of law does not require judges to refrain from judgment. What the rule of law requires is that judges give impartial reasons for their decisions. And judges can only do that if they attend carefully to the normative arguments on both sides of hard cases and give reasons that could or should be accepted by the losing side. \nSCHEDULE \n5:00pm   Registration & Refreshments\n5:30pm   Welcome & Introduction\n5:35pm   “Judging as Judgment”\n6:20pm   Audience Q&A\n6:30pm   Reception\n7:30pm   End URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-10-judging-as-judgment-joseph-william-singer/ LOCATION:Jenner & Block\, 45th Floor\, 353 N Clark St.\nChicago\, IL 60654\, Downtown\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/04Ottobre2018-014-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20181011T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20181011T163000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112805 CREATED:20241003T165418Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T145727Z UID:10000451-1539275400-1539275400@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Comparing Trent\, Vactican I\, and Vatican II DESCRIPTION:To view photos of the lecture\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nFree and open to the public. \nBased on a forthcoming book entitled When Bishops Meet: An Essay Comparing Trent\, Vatican I\, and Vatican II that bears the fruit of decades of scholarship\, this lecture by one of the greatest living experts of modern Church history will compare the three modern ecumenical councils of the Catholic Church. \nJohn O’Malley also taught a master class on October 12 and participated in a symposium on October 13. \nTo view photos of the lecture\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-10-comparing-trent-vactican-i-vatican-ii/ LOCATION:Classics 110\, 1010 E 59th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/UNADJUSTEDRAW_thumb_310.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20181012T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20181012T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112805 CREATED:20241003T165415Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T145724Z UID:10000450-1539352800-1539363600@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Master Class on "Councils and Popes: Who's in Charge?" DESCRIPTION:Registration is required. Open to current university students and faculty. A PDF of the assigned readings will be provided. \nThe purpose of the seminar is to deepen understanding of the historical course of the relationship between councils and popes through an examination of four key texts published at four key moments in the ongoing dialectic between these two institutions. Our time together will be spent on a close reading and discussion of the texts\, trying to understand them in their historical contexts. We will read them also with an eye to their possible relevance to the situation of the Catholic Church today. In recent years\, for instance\, the word synodality has entered our ecclesiastical vocabulary. Synod is the Greek form of the Latin word for council. The two words are\, therefore\, synonyms. What should this mean for us? \nPRIMARY READINGS \n\nThe Council of Constance\, 1415\nThe Four Gallican Articles\, 1652\nPastor Aeternus\, Vatican Council I\, 1870\nLumen Gentium (Chapter three)\, Vatican Council II\, 1964\n\nBACKGROUND READINGS \n\nCouncil of Constance: Francis Oakley\, The Conciliarist Tradition (Oxford\, 2003).\nGallican Articles: Richard F. Constigan\, The Consensus of the Church and Papal Infallibility (Catholic UP\, 2005).\nPastor Aeternus: Austin Gaugh\, Paris and Rome: The Gallican Church and the Ultramontane Campaign (Oxford\, 1986). John W. O’Malley: Vatican I: The Council and the Making of the Ultramontane Church (Harvard\, 2018).\nLumen Gentium: John W. O’Malley\, What Happened at Vatican II (Harvard\, 2008).\n\nSCHEDULE \n1:30pm   Coffee & Tea\n2:00pm   Session I\n3:25pm   Break\n3:35pm   Session II\n5:00pm   Wine & cheese reception\n6:00pm   End \nJohn O’Malley also gave a lecture on October 11 and participated in a symposium on October 13. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-10-master-class-on-councils-popes-whos-in-charge/ LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/12October2018--011-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20181013T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20181013T153000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241003T165411Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260322T143433Z UID:10000449-1539437400-1539444600@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Vatican I: Loss and Gain with Papal Governance of the Catholic Church DESCRIPTION:You can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page\, iTunes channel\, Stitcher\, TuneIn\, ListenNotes\, Podbean\, Pocket Casts\, and Google Play Music. \nTo read O’Malley’s contribution to this panel discussion in the Notre Dame McGrath Institute for Church Life’s Church Life Journal\, click here. \nTo view photos of the symposium\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nFree and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Theology Club. \nA symposium and reception on the occasion of the publication of Vatican I: The Council and the Making of the Ultramontane Church (Harvard University Press\, 2018) by Fr. John O’Malley\, SJ. Copies of the book will be available for sale by the Seminary Co-op. \nVatican Council I (1869-1870) lasted barely eight months and produced only two documents.  The document Pastor Aeternus deeply reconfigured the government of the Church on the basis of the universal jurisdiction of the pope.  As we are now approaching the 150th anniversary of that event we can ask:  How has the papal-centered government fared over the centuries?  Did Vatican II initiate significant changes in the ecclesiastical government?  In light of these councils\, how should we evaluate the scandals and the fragmentation of episcopal governance in the Church? \nFr. O’Malley also gave a lecture on October 11 and taught a master class on October 12. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-10-vatican-i-loss-gain-with-papal-governance-of-catholic-church/ LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/10-13-2018-Vatican-I-29-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20181021T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20181021T173000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241003T165408Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T145717Z UID:10000448-1540137600-1540143000@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Schola Antiqua Concert "La Rue @ 500" DESCRIPTION:$25 general/$10 student \nSchola Antiqua commemorates the quincentennial of the death of Pierre de la Rue (d. 1518)\, one of the most talented and highly-prized composers of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. In the service of the wealthy and influential Habsburg-Burgundian court\, La Rue actively wrote in all of the major musical genres of his time\, and this is echoed in the program’s design. Highlights from his carefully constructed masses include music for very low voices at the composer’s disposal. Some of his beloved motets and songs complete the program. This program is sponsored in part by the Lumen Christi Institute and by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council. \nSchola Antiqua performed the same concert on October 20 in Chicago. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-10-schola-antiqua-concert-la-rue-500-schola-antiqua-of-chicago-2/ LOCATION:Emmanuel Episcopal Church\, 203 S Kensington Ave\, La Grange ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/schola-cropped-new_1-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20181022T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20181022T132000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241003T165407Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T145714Z UID:10000447-1540209600-1540214400@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Faith and Politics: Reflections of a Catholic Legislator DESCRIPTION:Open to current university students and faculty. Lunch will be served. \nJoin the Lumen Christi Institute and the Center for Latin American Studies for a lunch discussion with Ignacio Walker\, academic and former Chilean Secretary of State (2004-2006)\, on his current project entitled “Faith and Politics.” He will share reflections from his experience on negotiating faith commitments as a Catholic politician in a modern\, secular\, democratic\, pluralistic society. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-10-lunch-discussion-with-igancio-walker-on-faith-politics/ LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/gavin-house-summer-2016.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20181024T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20181024T163000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241003T165405Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T145710Z UID:10000446-1540398600-1540398600@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Can Transcendence be Organized? The Catholic Church Between Universalism and Establishment DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Committee on Social Thought and the Theology Club. \nIf a religion differentiates itself from the culture of specific peoples\, states\, or empires and represents the ideal of moral universalism and an understanding of transcendence\, it cannot evade the problem of self-organization. While this is true of all “post-axial” religions\, this lecture restricts itself to the Christian Church and other forms of the social organization of Christians (sect\, denomination etc.). A comparison between the Catholic Church and these other forms and an understanding of their interaction in the history of Christianity is instructive with regard to the current debates about reforms in the Catholic Church. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-10-can-transcendence-be-organized-catholic-curch-between-universalism-establishment/ LOCATION:Swift Hall\, First Floor Common Room\, 1025 E 58th St\,Chicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/building-palace-religion-italy-church-cathedral-1061602-pxhere.com(1)-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20181031T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20181031T200000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241003T165359Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260322T143601Z UID:10000445-1541012400-1541016000@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Georges Lemaître: His Science\, Faith\, and Why “Hubble’s Law” Ought to be Renamed DESCRIPTION:You can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page\, iTunes channel\, Stitcher\, TuneIn\, ListenNotes\, Podbean\, Pocket Casts\, and Google Play Music. \nTo read an adapted version of Lunine’s lecture as an article published by the Notre Dame McGrath Institute for Church Life’s ​​​​​​​Church Life Journal\, click here. \nTo view photos of the lecture\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nFree and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics. \nGeorges Lemaître—a Belgian priest and cosmologist—proposed what came to be known as the “Big Bang” model of the origin of the cosmos. What is less well known is that Lemaître discovered and published Hubble’s law—the first observational basis for the expansion of the universe—in 1927—well before Edwin Hubble did. Lemaître also treated Einstein’s cosmological constant as a vacuum energy\, in 1933\, foreshadowing work done a half-century later. Lemaître is less well known as a pioneering cosmologist than as a chimeric figure with both a scientific and religious career. Thus he has been treated by historians differently from other scientists. In this talk Lunine will argue that renaming the “Hubble law” the “Hubble-Lemaître law” (resolution B4 2018 of the International Astronomical Union) is a reasonable solution to the dilemma posed by history’s treatment of the Belgian cosmologist. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-10-georges-lemaitre-his-science-faith-why-hubble-s-law-ought-to-be-renamed-jonathan-lunine/ LOCATION:Kent Hall\, Room 107\, 1020 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/10-31-2018-Lunine-on-Lemaitre-8-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20181101T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20181101T163000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241003T165358Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260322T151204Z UID:10000444-1541089800-1541089800@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:The Collapse of Lehman Brothers: An Inside Story DESCRIPTION:You can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page\, iTunes channel\, Stitcher\, TuneIn\, ListenNotes\, Podbean\, Pocket Casts\, and Google Play Music. \nTo view photos of Freidheim’s talk\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. This event was cosponsored by Catholics at Booth. \nWhat it was like to be inside the executive suite of Lehman Brothers during the financial crisis of 2008? Scott Freidheim—former Lehman Brothers Chief Administrative Officer and Executive Vice President—will offer a first-hand account of what happened in 2008\, why Lehman Brothers did not need to fail\, and how the fall of Lehman Brothers and great personal financial loss affected his sense of meaning as a person of faith. \nYou may also be interested in our event from 2011 on “Decision-Making in the Pressure Cooker: Lessons Learned from the Collapse of Lehman Brothers.” URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-11-collapse-of-lehman-brothers-an-inside-story/ LOCATION:Saieh Hall 021\, 5757 S. University Ave.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/8CNjT2m5T5ePuaH8R6YQLw_thumb_6a8.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20181110T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20181110T140000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241003T165357Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T145659Z UID:10000443-1541847600-1541858400@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Master Class on "Jacques Maritain\, Étienne Gilson\, and the Thomist Renewal in the 20th Century: Academic and Spiritual Approaches" DESCRIPTION:Open to current university students and faculty. PDFs of the assigned readings will be provided for those who register. \nFor the Blessed Paul VI\, Jacques Maritain (1882-1973) was a master “in the art of thinking and praying”. In 1975\, Paul VI sent a letter to Etienne Gilson (1884-1978) to thank him for his whole life devoted to the search of truth and wisdom. In  “Fides et Ratio” (1998\, n.74)\, Saint John Paul II suggested Maritain and Gilson\, among other names\, as models of thinkers to reconcile philosophy and theology\, reason and the word of God. What are the lessons taught by Maritain and Gilson that could be fruitful for the Catholics of the XXI century? \nSCHEDULE \n9:30am   Coffee & tea\n10:00am   Session I\n11:25am   Break\n11:35am   Session II\n1:00pm   End\, Lunch URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-11-master-class-on-jacques-maritain-etienne-gilson-thomist-renewal-in-20th-century-academic-spiritual-approaches-florian-michel/ LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/gilson-maritain-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20181112T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20181112T173000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241003T165356Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260322T143831Z UID:10000442-1542043800-1542043800@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Christian Citizenship: A Paradox? DESCRIPTION:You can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page\, iTunes channel\, Stitcher\, TuneIn\, ListenNotes\, Podbean\, Pocket Casts\, and Google Play Music. \nTo view photos of the lecture\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nTo read Tardivel’s lecture in essay form in the Notre Dame McGrath Institute for Church Life’s Church Life Journal\, click here. \nYou can download the event poster here. \nFree and open to the public. Cosponsored by the France Chicago Center. \nDoes Christian faith imply a political doctrine such as a Christian political regime? Drawing on Justin\, Tertullian\, and Augustine\, Prof. Tardivel argues that even as Christian citizenship does not refer to a political doctrine\, it nonetheless demands a certain manner of living in the city\, presenting a paradox to classical political thinking. This lecture focuses on the paradox of Christian citizenship and its implications. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-11-christian-citizenship-a-paradox-emilie-tardivel/ LOCATION:Classics 110\, 1010 E 59th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/UNADJUSTEDRAW_thumb_16d7.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20181115T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20181115T143000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241003T165351Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260322T150925Z UID:10000441-1542286800-1542292200@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:How Catholics Can Realize the Royal Priesthood of the Laity and Rebuild a Church in Crisis DESCRIPTION:You can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page\, iTunes channel\, Stitcher\, TuneIn\, ListenNotes\, Podbean\, Pocket Casts\, and Google Play Music. \nTo view photos of the address\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nTo read the published version of the address in Commonweal\, click here. \nYou can download the event poster here. \n$30 Student (with ID) / $60 General / $600 Host Committee\nRegistration includes lunch. \nThe Church has long taught that all baptized Christians share in Christ’s royal priesthood\, and that we are “a chosen race\, a royal priesthood\, a holy nation\, God’s own people\,” who should “declare the wonderful deeds of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.” \nThe current crisis in which the American Church finds herself lies in a failure to realize this common priestly vocation\, and has led to clericalism\, the cover-up of sexual abuse\, lack of lay discipleship\, and a dearth of vocations. Fr. Michael Sweeney\, OP\, has developed a theology of the laity that addresses this theological misunderstanding. He has applied this theology of the laity both as co-founder of the St. Catherine of Siena Institute and as the co-founder of the Lay Mission Project of the Western Dominican Province. \nFr. Sweeney will speak to the suggestion of then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger that we ought to recognize a lay office in the Church in order to promote the full participation of the laity in the Church’s mission\, with a view to enabling a real collaboration between the laity and the hierarchy. \nFr. Sweeney also participated on a panel discussion on similar topics on the afternoon of November 15. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-11-how-lay-catholics-can-realize-royal-priesthood-of-laity-rebuild-a-church-in-crisis-fr-michael-sweeney-op/ LOCATION:University Club of Chicago\, 76 E Monroe St\nChicago\, IL 60603\, Downtown\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Downtown-Event-029-copy-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20181115T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20181115T173000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241003T165349Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260322T151355Z UID:10000440-1542303000-1542303000@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:The Catholic Church in Crisis: A Panel Discussion DESCRIPTION:You can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page\, iTunes channel\, Stitcher\, TuneIn\, ListenNotes\, Podbean\, Pocket Casts\, and Google Play Music. \nTo read Daniels’ contribution to this panel discussion in the Notre Dame McGrath Institute for Church Life’s Church Life Journal\, click here. \nTo view photos of the panel\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nYou can view and download the poster for the event here. \nFree and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Theology Club and the Catholic Students Association. \nSince questions of sexual abuse emerged in the Church\, and in other institutions\, in the 1980s\, some dioceses have (including Chicago) demonstrated leadership in dealing with the issue. After the “Spotlight” investigation by the Boston Globe\, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops established a “zero tolerance” policy toward the commission and cover-up of abuse. This panel of Catholic scholars and professionals will review the Church’s attempt to face this issue and will consider why it has reemerged in 2018\, relating that question to broader issues of clericalism and governance in the Catholic Church. \nFr. Sweeney also gave a downtown lunch address on November 15 on a related topic\, the challenge to lay Catholics to realize the fullness of their lives as Christians. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-11-catholic-church-in-crisis-a-panel-discussion-kim-daniels-russell-hittinger-fr-michael-sweeney-op/ LOCATION:Ida Noyes Hall\, Library\, 1212 E 59th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Ida-Noyes-Hall-Event-006-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20181120T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20181120T210000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241003T165348Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T145646Z UID:10000439-1542740400-1542747600@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Non-Credit Course on "Faith\, Crisis\, Christ" DESCRIPTION:6:00 Dinner | 6:30 Lecture \nThis weekly non-credit course is open to current students and faculty. Registrants are free to attend as many sessions as they choose. Sessions do not presuppose previous attendance or prior knowledge of the subject. \nThe project of fides quaerens intellectum (faith seeking understanding) is not reserved to professional theologians but is the prerogative of every thinking person\, and can be especially pressing when the claims of religion—and rationality itself—are viewed with suspicion or contempt. The twentieth century and the first decades of our own have erected formidable systems of skepticism yet also brought into the field notable creativity in addressing the problems of belief. This course will make use of classic works of anglophone Christian writers concerned to demonstrate how it is that faith permits the human person to see farther and to understand the world more deeply. \nSCHEDULE \nOCT 9: G.K. Chesterton\, The Everlasting Man. \nOCT 16: J.R.R. Tolkien\, On Fairy-Stories. \nOCT 23: C.S. Lewis\, Mere Christianity. \nOCT 30: J. Budziszewski\, The Line Through the Heart. \nNOV 6: Ronald A. Knox\, The Hidden Stream & In Soft Garments. \nNOV 13: C.S. Lewis\, The Screwtape Letters. \nNOV 20: J.R.R. Tolkien\, Selected Letters. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-11-non-credit-course-on-faith-crisis-christ/ LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Chesterton-Lewis-Tolkien.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20181201T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20181201T210000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241003T165347Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T145642Z UID:10000438-1543685400-1543698000@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:"The Mystery of Hope: A Monk’s Reading of Spe Salvi" at the Benedictine Monastery of the Holy Cross DESCRIPTION:Transportation will be provided from Hyde Park. Open to current university students and faculty. \nJoin us for an evening of prayer and conversation with Benedictine monks at the Monastery of the Holy Cross on the south side of Chicago. Attendees will participate in prayer of the Divine Office (vespers and compline)\, and have dinner and discussion with Prior Peter Funk on Benedict XVI’s encyclical on the theological virtue of hope\, Spe Salvi. Fr. Peter will emphasize the need for hope in the life of the Church today. \nMore information about the monastery can be found HERE. \nSCHEDULE \n4:15pm   Meet at Gavin House (1220 E. 58th St.)\n4:30pm   Depart from Hyde Park\n5:00pm   Arrive at the Monastery\, welcome by Prior Funk\n5:15pm   Office of Vespers\n6:00pm Dinner & Discussion of Spe Salvi\n7:15pm   Office of Compline\n8:00pm   Arrive back in Hyde Park URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-12-benedictine-monastery-visit-fr-peter-funk/ LOCATION:The Monastery of the Holy Cross\, 3111 South Aberdeen St.\nChicago\, IL 60608\, Chicago\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/2Vespers_Monks284-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190116T181500 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190116T181500 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241003T165342Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260322T191821Z UID:10000437-1547662500-1547662500@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:What do We Mean When We Speak of Revelation? DESCRIPTION:Listen to the lecture as a podcast episode. You can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page\, iTunes channel\, Stitcher\, TuneIn\, ListenNotes\, Podbean\, Pocket Casts\, and Google Play Music. \nTo view photos of the lecture\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nFree and open to the public. Cosponsored by the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought and The Philosophy of Religions Workshop. Persons with disabilities who may need assistance should contact us at 773-955-5887 or by email. \nIn this lecture\, philosopher Jean-Luc Marion will draw on reflections from his recent book Givenness and Revelation to develop a new concept of revelation. Traditionally\, the idea of revelation seems to oppose knowledge acquired through the use of reason and knowledge given by revelation. If revealed knowledge comes from elsewhere\, then it is of an entirely different order than the rational. Likewise\, if revelation merely makes something known that would be accessible to reason in other circumstances\, then revelation remains something superfluous to rationality. Is it possible to have a concept of revelation that overcomes this tension with reason and\, ultimately\, expands the limits of rationality? URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-01-what-do-we-mean-when-we-speak-of-revelation-jean-luc-marion/ LOCATION:Swift Hall\, First Floor Common Room\, 1025 E 58th St\,Chicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/1-16-2018-Jean-Luc-Marion-8-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190123T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190123T203000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241003T165340Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T145636Z UID:10000436-1548268200-1548275400@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:CANCELLED New Melleray Abbey: A Chapter in the Story of Cistercian Trappist Monks in America DESCRIPTION:DUE TO WEATHER\, DOM MARK SCOTT HAS HAD TO POSTPONE HIS VISIT TO CHICAGO. THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.\nCosponsored by the Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage at Loyola University Chicago \n$500 Host Committee (includes 8 tickets) / $40 General / $10 students \n5:30pm   Hors d’oeuvres reception\n6:30pm   Talk and Q&A\n7:30pm   Close \nChristian monasticism began in the 3rd century when St. Anthony sought God (and battled demons) outside of Alexandria.  In a sense\, the story of New Melleray Abbey begins there with the “Desert Fathers” and continues through St. Benedict and his Rule (5th century)\, the Cistercian reform led by St. Bernard of Clairvaux (12th century)\, the austere reforms of La Trappe in Normandy (17th century)\, and\, in the 19th century\, the planting of Trappist Cistercian monasticism at Gethsemani Abbey in Kentucky by monks from France and at New Melleray in Iowa by Irish monks . In a rare public talk\, the Abbot of New Melleray will tell the story of the abbey in light of this longer history. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-01-new-melleray-abbey-a-chapter-in-story-of-cistercian-trappist-monks-in-america-dom-mark-scott-ocso/ LOCATION:Loyola University of Chicago – Water Tower Campus\, Schreiber Center\n16 East Pearson Street\nChicago\, IL 60611\, River North\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/sanctuary2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190124T181500 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190124T181500 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241003T165339Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T145633Z UID:10000435-1548353700-1548353700@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:CANCELLED Monks\, Silence\, God: The History of the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance DESCRIPTION:DUE TO WEATHER\, DOM MARK SCOTT HAS HAD TO POSTPONE HIS VISIT TO CHICAGO. THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.\nFree and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Theology Club and the Calvert House Catholic Center. Persons with disabilities who may need assistance should contact us at 773-955-5887 or by email. \nAt this talk Dom Mark Scott\, OCSO\, abbot of New Melleray Abbey\, will give an overview of the history and spirituality of the contemplative monastic order known as the Trappists. \nDom Mark will also lead a master class for students on the Song of Songs on January 25. More info HERE. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-01-who-are-trappists-history-of-order-of-cistercians-of-strict-observance-dom-mark-scott-ocso/ LOCATION:Swift Hall\, First Floor Common Room\, 1025 E 58th St\,Chicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/La-Trappe-trappist-bier-25.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190125T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190125T131500 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241003T165338Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T145630Z UID:10000434-1548414000-1548422100@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:CANCELLED Master Class on the Song of Songs DESCRIPTION:DUE TO WEATHER\, DOM MARK SCOTT HAS HAD TO POSTPONE HIS VISIT TO CHICAGO. THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.\nRegistration required. Open to current students and faculty. \nDom Mark Scott\, OCSO\, will lead students through a Cistercian reading of the Song of Songs with reference to sermons of Bernard of Clairvaux. \nSCHEDULE \n9:30am  Coffee\, tea\, and pastries\n10:00am  Session I\n11:00am  Break\n11:15am  Session II\n12:15pm  Close \nOPTIONAL PREPARATORY READINGS \n\nSong of Songs\nBernard of Clairvaux\, Collected Works (Paulist Press\, 1987). Sermons 1\, 2\, 3\, 8\, 50\, 74\, 80\, 83\, 84. (PDF link provided when you register.)\n\nDom Mark will also give a talk on the history of the Trappists on January 24. More info HERE. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-01-master-class-on-song-of-songs/ LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Bernard_of_Clairvaux_13th_century.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190131T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190131T203000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241003T165337Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260322T191702Z UID:10000433-1548966600-1548966600@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Pluralism In A Polarized Age: Navigating Our Deepest Differences Together DESCRIPTION:Listen to the conversation as a podcast episode. You can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page\, iTunes channel\, Stitcher\, TuneIn\, ListenNotes\, Podbean\, Pocket Casts\, and Google Play Music. \nTo view photos of the discussion\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nFree and open to the public. Persons with disabilities who need assistance should contact the Office of Programs and External Relations in advance at 773-753-2274 or i-house-programs@uchicago.edu. \nPresented by the Veritas Forum at the University of Chicago: Cana\, Cru\, the Christian Legal Society\, Hyde Park Church (UBF)\, Intervarsity\, Living Hope Church\, the Lumen Christi Institute\, Navigators Chicago\, and the Vineyard Church. \nCosponsored by the Institute of Politics\, the International House Global Voices Program\, the Office of Spiritual Life\, the Law School\, the Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Relgion\, the Department of Political Science\, the St Thomas More Society\, the Seminary Coop Bookstore\, and the University of Chicago Press. \nIn our increasingly polarized society\, how do we speak to one another about our deepest beliefs? Can we even bring our personal religious and political convictions to bear in the university and other public spaces? And how does pluralism contribute to greater flourishing in our society? Join us as two of our nation’s leading voices on pluralism discuss their own beliefs and what it means to bring one’s whole person (including one’s religious\, political\, and ethical convictions) into the public square with confidence and humility. \nFor more information about the Veritas Forum at the University of Chicago\, visit HERE. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-01-pluralism-in-a-polarized-age-navigating-our-deepest-differences-together-eboo-patel-john-inazu/ LOCATION:International House at the University of Chicago\, 1414 E 59th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/1-31-2019-Pluralism-23.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190202T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190202T133000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241003T165337Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260322T192535Z UID:10000432-1549101600-1549114200@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Mass for Candlemas with Schola Antiqua and Symposium on Sacred Music in Context and Practice DESCRIPTION:Listen to the symposium as a podcast episode. You can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page\, iTunes channel\, Stitcher\, TuneIn\, ListenNotes\, Podbean\, Pocket Casts\, and Google Play Music. \nTo view photos of the Mass and symposium\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nRegistration required. $15 for general audience/FREE for current students and faculty/FREE for those only attending the Mass.\nIn honor of Fr. Willard Jabusch (1930-2018)\, former Chaplain of Calvert House\, Priest of the Archdiocese of Chicago\, writer\, and composer. Cosponsored by Calvert House Catholic Center. Persons with disabilities who need an accommodation in order to participate in this event should email us or call 773-955-5887. \nThis Mass for the Feast of the Presentation (Candlemas) will feature chant by Schola Antiqua of Chicago. Following the Mass—for those registered—there will be a breakfast reception and a symposium\, which will consider historical perspectives on music for the feast from the medieval period and early modern Italy. In addition it will reflect on modern incorporations of the plainchant and polyphonic tradition in contexts such as a contemporary monastic community and a degree program in Sacred Music at the University of Notre Dame. \n\nSCHEDULE \n9:00-10:15am   |   Bond Chapel \n   Mass \nPrior Peter Funk\, OSB\, Celebrant\nMichael Alan Anderson\, Director\, Schola Antiqua of Chicago \n10:15-11:00am   |   Swift Common Room (1st Floor) \n   Continental Breakfast and Registration \n11:00am-12:30pm   |   Swift Lecture Hall (3rd Floor) \n   Symposium “Sacred Music in Context and Practice” \nMichael Anderson\, University of Rochester\nMargot Fassler\, University of Notre Dame\nPrior Peter Funk\, OSB\, Monastery of the Holy Cross\nPeter Jeffery\, University of Notre Dame\nRobert Kendrick\, University of Chicago URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-02-candlemas-liturgy-symposium-on-sacred-music-in-context-practice-michael-alan-anderson-margot-fassler-fr-peter-funk-peter-jeffery-robert-l-kendrick-schola-antiqua-of-chicago/ LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/hello.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190215T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190215T180000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241003T165332Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260322T193032Z UID:10000431-1550246400-1550253600@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Symposium on "Action versus Contemplation: Why an Ancient Debate Still Matters" DESCRIPTION:Listen to the symposium as a podcast episode. You can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page\, iTunes channel\, Stitcher\, TuneIn\, ListenNotes\, Podbean\, Pocket Casts\, and Google Play Music. \nTo view photos of the symposium\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nA symposium on the recent book Action versus Contemplation: Why an Ancient Debate Still Matters (University of Chicago Press\, 2018) by Jennifer Summit and Blakey Vermeule. Free and open to the public. Persons with disabilities who may need assistance should contact us at 773-955-5887 or by email. \nCosponsored by the English Department\, the Seminary Coop Bookstore\, the University of Chicago Press\, the Our Sunday Visitor Institute\, and the Theology Club at the Divinity School. Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event. \n“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone\,” Blaise Pascal wrote in 1654. But then there’s Walt Whitman\, in 1856: “Whoever you are\, come forth! Or man or woman come forth! / You must not stay sleeping and dallying there in the house.” \nIt is truly an ancient debate: Is it better to be active or contemplative? To do or to think? To make an impact\, or to understand the world more deeply? With Action versus Contemplation\, Jennifer Summit and Blakey Vermeule address the question in a refreshingly unexpected way: by refusing to take sides. Rather\, they argue for a rethinking of the very opposition. The active and the contemplative can—and should—be vibrantly alive in each of us\, fused rather than sundered. Writing in a personable\, accessible style\, Summit and Vermeule guide readers through the long history of this debate from Plato to Pixar\, drawing compelling connections to the questions and problems of today. \n\n\n\n\n“Though the book will be valuable to a wide readership\, the recurring theme of current trends in education makes it particularly important within the academy. This engaging and clever book will generate important conversations. Highly recommended.”\nChoice\n\n\n\n\n\n“A fascinating and inspiring tour of big ideas–worth both contemplating and acting on.“\nSarah Bakewell\, author of At the Existentialist Cafe\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Action versus Contemplation brings a cooling sense of balance to a whole range of important and often highly polarized arguments about technology\, work\, education\, and more. How liberating to discover that we don’t need to choose between nostalgia and philistinism\, Captain Ludd and Dr. Pangloss. Even better\, the authors give us not just historical elaborations of the theoretical complementarity of action and contemplation\, but actual\, already-existing examples of the middle position at work today. They show us that\, no matter how ‘soulless’ society seems to become\, meaning-seeking behavior does and always will continue.”\nWilliam Deresiewicz\, author of Excellent Sheep\n\n\n\n\n\n“This is a very subtle and surprising book that nevertheless goes down easy because you expect it to take a side in a binary (i.e.\, to take your side)\, but instead it seeks to transcend that binary. There’s great generosity of spirit in their writing and thinking\, and that generosity will have a salutary effect on all those whose thinking this book will touch. Action versus Contemplation is itself a contemplative document meant to intervene in the world it addresses\, to get us to rethink practical matters\, and to act in ways that will promote thinking. It urges action as a way of thinking\, and thinking as a way of acting\, and is a model of what it advocates for.”\n\nWilliam Flesch\, Brandeis University URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-02-symposium-on-action-versus-contemplation-why-an-ancient-debate-still-matters/ LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/ActionVSContemplation-002-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190216T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190216T140000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241003T165331Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T145619Z UID:10000430-1550314800-1550325600@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Master Class on "Thomas Merton at Columbia: On the Love of Learning and the Desire for God" DESCRIPTION:Due to unforseen circumstances\, Professor Inchausti has to cancel his visit to Chicago and unfortnately this event has been cancelled. \nOpen to current university students and faculty. Others interested in participating should contact us.  Copies of the readings will be provided to those who register. \nThomas Merton is one of the most influential spiritual writers of the 20th century. His autobiography\, Seven Storey Mountain\, tells the story of a restless and brilliant young man who goes from a literature student at Columbia University to taking vows as a Trappist monk. In this two-part\, one day master class\, we will look at Merton’s education at Columbia leading up to his conversion to Roman Catholicism and then pick up his intellectual journey twenty years later by examining the content and continuing relevance of his “Cold War Prophecies.” \nReadings \n\nSeven Storey Mountain\, Part One: Chapter 4 “Children of the Marketplace pp. 145-182 and Part Two: Chapter 1 “With a Great Price” pp.185-246.\nConjectures of a Guilty By-Stander\, Part Two: Truth and Violence: An Interesting Era pp. 65-128.\n\nSchedule \n9:30am   Coffee & Pastries\n10:00am   Session I\n11:25am   Break\n11:35am   Session II\n1:00pm   End\, Optional Lunch URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-02-master-class-on-thomas-merton-at-columbia-on-love-of-learning-desire-for-god-robert-l-inchausti/ LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/merton.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190220T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190220T010000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241003T165328Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T145616Z UID:10000429-1550624400-1550624400@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Lumen Christi Institute - Young Catholic Professionals Great Books Seminar: The Novel and the Crisis of Faith DESCRIPTION:REGISTRATION IS FULL.\nThe Lumen Christi Institute is proud to announce a new program in partnership with the Chicago chapter of Young Catholic Professionals (YCP). The 2019 Lumen Christi Institute – Young Catholic Professionals Great Books Seminar is an adult educational initiative aimed at equipping Catholic professionals 40 and under with a deeper understanding of the Catholic intellectual and literary traditions. Participants will gather monthly downtown for guided discussions on excerpts from celebrated texts as they work through a syllabus crafted by seminar leader Fr. Paul Mankowski\, SJ\, Lumen Christi’s scholar-in-residence. \nThis year’s theme is “The Novel and the Crisis of Faith.” The late 19th and 20th century novel provided Christian authors with a genre through which to examine the conflict of faith in Christ with vastly strengthened anti-Christian forces in politics\, culture\, and society. The examination of the fictional depiction of the dynamics of salvation and damnation will aim at deepening our own understanding of the ways in which faith simultaneously engages the world while it disentangles itself from worldliness. The discussions are to focus on relatively short selections (40 – 90 pages) from the assigned novels\, although participants are encouraged to read the works in their entirety. \nTo view the syllabus\, which you will also receive upon registering\, click here. \nThe cost of seminar registration covers refreshments\, drinks\, and course materials for the eight seminar meetings from February to September. Registration will close when 35 participants have signed up and is is available on a first-come\, first-served basis; 20 seats will be reserved for members of YCP Chicago. Registrants need not attend every session in order to register; they must still pay the full cost of registration. Registrants may choose to purchase books on their own rather than via Lumen Christi (see pricing below). \nDates: \nFebruary 20\nMarch 21\nApril 25\nMay 22\nJune 26\nJuly 24\nAugust 21\nSeptember 25 \nSchedule: \n5:30pm – beer\, wine\, and heavy hors d’oeuvres social\n6pm – seminar begins\n7pm – seminar ends \nPrice: \nWith books\, for YCP Chicago members or those who sign up for membership: $100\nWith books\, for non-YCP Chicago members: $380\nWithout books\, for YCP Chicago members or those who sign up for membership: $50\nWithout books\, for non-YCP Chicago members: $280 \nWith any additional inquiries please contact Michael Bradley at mbradley@lumenchristi.org. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-02-great-books-seminar/ LOCATION:Skadden\, Arps\, Slate\, Meagher & Flom LLP\, 28th Floor\, 155 North Wacker Drive\,\nChicago\, IL 60606\, Downtown\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/University_of_Chicago-_Harper_Library_1-2-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190223T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190223T193000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241003T165326Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260206T164432Z UID:10000428-1550916000-1550950200@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Science\, Creation\, & the Catholic Imagination DESCRIPTION:Listen to the lectures as podcast episodes. You can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page\, iTunes channel\, Stitcher\, TuneIn\, ListenNotes\, Podbean\, Pocket Casts\, and Google Play Music. \nTo view photos of the conference\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nHave you ever wondered if science and religion can co-exist? Or whether it is rational (or irrational) to believe in God? How can the story of Adam and Eve in the Book of Genesis be reconciled with the Big Bang? Or with evolution? What does The Lord of the Rings have to do with Jesus? And what exactly is hillbilly thomism? \nThe intellectual tradition of the Catholic Church has been asking (and answering!) questions of this kind for two thousand years. If you are interested in discussing these questions with college professors\, graduate students\, and other high schoolers from all over Chicagoland\, register below. \nSponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute\, the Archdiocese of Chicago Vocation Office\, Relevant Radio\, St. Ignatius College Prep\, the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame\, Fenwick High School\, and the Theology Club. This program is made possible by a grant from the John Templeton Foundation. \nOpen to current high school students. Breakfast\, Lunch and Dinner are included. For any parents and chaperones who will be present\, an optional lunchtime event will be held nearby at Gavin House (1220 East 58th Street) at 12:00pm.  Lunch will be provided.  If you are interested in participating in this lunchtime event\, please indicate it on the registration page. Need-based scholarships are available upon request. Please contact us with any questions about this program. \nA day-long conference for high school students to provide an introduction to the Catholic vision of intellectual life and culture. Students will listen to lectures by expert scholars\, participate in break-out group discussions\, meet and socialize with other high school students\, and attend mass. More info\, including a detailed schedule will be available soon. \nTENTATIVE SCHEDULE \n\n\n\n9 – 9:45 | Registration and Breakfast in Swift Common Room \n9:45 – 10 | Opening Prayer \n10 – 11 | Session 1: Lecture on Faith and Reason with Prof. Meghan Sullivan \n11 – 11:15 | Break \n11:15 – 12:15 | Session 2: Lecture on Cosmology and Creation with Fr. John Kartje \n12:30 – 1:15 | Lunchtime discussion session \n1:30 – 2:30 | Session 3: Lecture on the Catholic Imagination with Prof. Michael Murphy \n2:45 – 3:15 | Scavenger Hunt* \n3:15 – 4:15 | Afternoon discussion session \n4:30 – 5:30 | Mass in Bond Chapel (this anticipatory mass fulfills the Sunday obligation) \n5:30 – 6:30 | OPTIONAL closing reception \nParents and chaperones are invited to a lunchtime discussion with Dr. Chris Baglow of Notre Dame’s Mcgrath Institute for Church Life\, to be held at Gavin House (1220 E. 58th St). URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-02-science-creation-catholic-imagination/ LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL CATEGORIES:Newman Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/feb-23-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190228T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190228T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241003T165323Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T145610Z UID:10000427-1551373200-1551373200@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Being\, Nature\, Grace: Clashing Visions in Milbank and Aquinas DESCRIPTION:To view photos of the lecture\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nFree and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion at the University of Chicago Divinity School and the Theology Club of the University of Chicago Divinity School. Persons with disabilities who may need assistance should contact us at 773-955-5887 or by email. \nDrawing from a chapter taken from a book in draft\, in this talk DeHart will critically evaluate John Milbank’s understanding of the relationship between creation and divine grace and offer an alternative\, sourced in Aquinas\, that he considers more adequate. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-02-being-nature-grace-clashing-visions-in-milbank-aquinas/ LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Being-Nature-Grace-012-copy-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190302T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190302T140000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241003T165321Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T145607Z UID:10000426-1551524400-1551535200@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Master Class on "Bernard Lonergan’s Christian Realism and the Word of God as True" DESCRIPTION:Open to current university students and faculty. Others interested in participating should contact us.  Copies of the readings will be provided to those who register. \nBernard Lonergan\, SJ (1904-1984)\, is widely praised as a giant of twentieth century theology and perhaps the most brilliant philosophical thinker of his generation. Still\, he is an outlier in a firmament that includes such figures as Hans Urs von Balthasar\, Karl Rahner\, Henri de Lubac\, and others. His best known works are not in theology itself but in philosophy (Insight: A Study of Human Understanding\, 1957) and method (Method in Theology\, 1972). Though a professor in Rome\, he was mostly on the sidelines at Vatican II. His contemporaries were largely jaded by neo-Thomist revival and zealous to return to the Fathers\, but Lonergan’s return was to Aquinas himself. The ferment of his generation would burst the old wineskins of neo-Scholasticism\, but Lonergan was obliged to pour his theological ideas into them: two giant textbooks for his students at the Gregorian University in Rome (De Deo Trino\, De Verbo Incarnato). They appeared in their last editions in 1964\, which may have been the least propitious year on record for the presentation of a Latin manual to the theological public. \nLonergan stood apart from the currents of the day partly because he aimed to play a longer game. The renovation of Christian thought\, he felt\, required an intervention at the fundamental level of theological and philosophical method. In Insight he studied how understanding develops in mathematics\, the natural sciences\, common sense\, and philosophy. His ulterior aim was to bring to light the principles of scientific progress in theology and so promote more effective collaboration and coherence in theology. \nThis seminar focuses on the relationship of Lonergan’s philosophical work to his project in theology\, not in its entirety but in one key dimension. Our topic will be realism and the Word of God as true. The first session will focus on Lonergan’s philosophical articulation of cognitional structure\, his realism\, and his conception of the contemporary role of philosophy in Christian thought. The second session will consider his approach to the development and meaningfulness of Christian doctrine as an engagement with the truth-intention of God’s word to us. \nREQUIRED READINGS \n\nBernard J.F. Lonergan\, “Cognitional Structure\,” in Collection\, Collected Works 4\, pp. 205-221.\nBernard J.F. Lonergan\, “Questionnaire on Philosophy\,” in Philosophical and Theological Papers\, 1965-1980\, Collected Works 17\, pp. 352-383.\nBernard J.F. Lonergan\, “The De-hellenization of Dogma\,” in A Second Collection\, pp. 11-32.\nBernard J.F. Lonergan\, “The Origins of Christian Realism\,” in A Second Collection\, 239-261.\n\nSUGGESTED READINGS \n\nBernard J.F. Lonergan\, “Christology Today: Methodological Reflections\,” in A Third Collection\, pp. 74-99.\nJeremy D. Wilkins\, Before Truth: Lonergan\, Aquinas\, and the Problem of Wisdom (Washington\, D.C.: The CUA Press\, 2018). Chapter 3\, “A ‘Wisdom of the Concrete’\,” introduces Lonergan’s fundamental project.\nChapter 7\, “Doctrine and Meaning\,” explores his approach to the development and meaningfulness of Christian doctrine.\n\nSCHEDULE \n9:30am   Coffee & Pastries\n10:00am   Session I\, “Cognitional Structure” and “Questionnaire on Philosophy”\n11:25am   Break\n11:35am   Session II\, “The De-hellenization of Dogma” and “Origins of Christian Realism”\n1:00pm   End\, Optional Lunch URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-03-master-class-on-lonergans-christian-realism-or-why-theology-cannot-avoid-philosophy-jeremy-wilkins/ LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Lonergan.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190305T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190305T210000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241003T165319Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T145604Z UID:10000425-1551812400-1551819600@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Weekly Non-Credit Course: "Who Do You Say That I Am? Visions of Christ in the Christian Tradition" DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\n6:00 Dinner | 6:30 Lecture \nThis weekly non-credit course is open to current students and faculty. Registrants are free to attend as many sessions as they choose. Sessions do not presuppose previous attendance or prior knowledge of the subject. \n“But what about you? Who you say that I am?” (Lk 9.20) The Christian tradition arose in response to the question of the person of Jesus Christ\, and in every generation Christians have struggled\, debated\, and developed answers to that question. This course will feature a selection of biblical\, ancient\, and medieval Christian thinkers who gave distinctive and highly influential answers to this question. The texts of the New Testament itself present Jesus Christ in various modes and forms\, and early Christians struggled to articulate Christ’s humanity\, divinity\, incarnation\, and his response to the question of evil. \nLanguage\, Truth & Logos\nJanuary 15  |  Fr. Paul Mankowski\, SJ (Lumen Christi Institute) \nThe Gospel of Mark\nJanuary 22   |   Fr. Don Senior\, CP (Catholic Theological Union) \nPOSTPONED DUE TO WEATHER | The Gospel of John\nJanuary 29   |   Fr. Andrew Liaugminas (Calvert House Catholic Center) \nLetter to the Hebrews\nFebruary 5   |   Cameron Ferguson (University of Chicago) \nIrenaeus of Lyon\nFebruary 12   |   Scott Moringiello (DePaul University) \nAthanasius\nFebruary 19   |   Scott Moringiello (DePaul University) \nMary\, Mother of God\nFebruary 26   |   Rachel Fulton Brown (University of Chicago) \nJulian of Norwich\nMarch 5   |   Bernard McGinn (University of Chicago) URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-01-winter-non-credit/ LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Christ_Pantocrator_mosaic_from_Hagia_Sophia_2744_x_2900_pixels_3.1_MB-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190313T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190313T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241003T165314Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260322T194007Z UID:10000424-1552496400-1552496400@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Symposium on "Science and Wonder" DESCRIPTION:Listen to the symposium as a podcast episode. You can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page\, iTunes channel\, Stitcher\, TuneIn\, ListenNotes\, Podbean\, Pocket Casts\, and Google Play Music. \nTo view photos of the symposium\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nFree and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Zygon Center for Religion and Science\, the Seminary Coop Bookstore\, and the Society of Catholic Scientists. Persons with disabilities who may need assistance should contact us at 773-955-5887 or by email. This program is made possible by a grant from the John Templeton Foundation and a Lemaître grant from the Magi Project. Copies of Prof. Sideris’s recent book Consecrating Science: Wonder\, Knowledge\, and the Natural World (University of California Press\, 2017) will be available for sale by the Seminary Coop Bookstore at the event. \nHow is science related to mystery? What role does wonder play in inquiry and discovery? What are the best means of sharing and communicating wonder? Has scientific inquiry become itself a kind of religious practice? If so\, does the study of theology or religion shed light on it? Join us for a discussion with an astrophysicist\, a poet\, an evolutionary biologist\, and a religious ethicist on the experience and nature of wonder in science. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-03-symposium-on-science-wonder/ LOCATION:BSLC 115\, 924 E 57th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/3-13-2019-Wonder-in-Science-and-Ethics-13-copy-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190320T171500 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190320T171500 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241003T165312Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260322T194730Z UID:10000423-1553102100-1553102100@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Financial Markets and Moral Inquiry DESCRIPTION:Listen to these events as podcast episodes. You can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page\, iTunes channel\, Stitcher\, TuneIn\, ListenNotes\, Podbean\, Pocket Casts\, and Google Play Music. \nTo view photos of the symposium\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nTo read the National Catholic Reporter‘s coverage of the public symposium\, click here. \nFree and open to the public. Cosponsored by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development and Committee on International Justice and Peace\, Catholics at Booth\, and the Catholic Students Association. This event is made possible in part by a grant from the Our Sunday Visitor Institute. Persons with disabilities who may need assistance should contact us at 773-955-5887 or by email. \nPart of the Lumen Christi Institute’s Ninth Conference on Economics & Catholic Social Thought. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-03-financial-markets-moral-inquiry/ LOCATION:Ida Noyes Hall\, Max Palevsky Cinema\, 1212 E 59th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/20March2019-007-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190405T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190405T160000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241003T165310Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260322T194140Z UID:10000422-1554480000-1554480000@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Symposium on "Catholicism and Democracy" DESCRIPTION:Listen to the symposium as a podcast episode. You can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page\, iTunes channel\, Stitcher\, TuneIn\, ListenNotes\, Podbean\, Pocket Casts\, and Google Play Music. \nTo view photos of the symposium\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nFree and open to the public. Persons with disabilities who may need assistance should contact us at 773-955-5887 or by email. Copies of the book will be available for sale by the Seminary Coop Bookstore at the event. \nABOUT THE BOOK \nLooking at leading philosophers and political theologians—among them Joseph de Maistre\, Alexis de Tocqueville\, and Charles Péguy—Perreau-Saussine shows how the Church redefined its relationship to the state in the long wake of the French Revolution. \nDisenfranchised by the fall of the monarchy\, the church in France at first embraced that most conservative of ideologies\, “ultramontanism” (an emphasis on the central role of the papacy). Catholics whose church had lost its national status henceforth looked to the papacy for spiritual authority. Perreau-Saussine argues that this move paradoxically combined a fundamental repudiation of the liberal political order with an implicit acknowledgment of one of its core principles\, the autonomy of the church from the state. However\, as Perreau-Saussine shows\, in the context of twentieth-century totalitarianism\, the Catholic Church retrieved elements of its Gallican heritage and came to embrace another liberal (and Gallican) principle\, the autonomy of the state from the church\, for the sake of its corollary\, freedom of religion. Perreau-Saussine concludes that Catholics came to terms with liberal democracy\, though not without abiding concerns about the potential of that system to compromise freedom of religion in the pursuit of other goals. \n\n\n\n“Many people think that the reconciliation of the Catholic Church and liberal democracy consummated at Vatican II represents a sudden shift. Perreau-Saussine shows to the contrary that it has deep roots in the history of the church\, and in particular in the Gallicanism of ancien regime France. Even Vatican I can be seen as a stage on this long march. This rich and fascinating book sheds much light on what this reconciliation means—and what it couldn’t mean.”—Charles Taylor\, professor emeritus\, McGill University\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“The modest title of this erudite and thoughtful book belies its actual achievement. It makes an important contribution to understanding a topic that seems likely to occupy thinking people in the West for some time to come: the general relation between politics and religion in the modern world.”—Raymond Geuss\, author of Philosophy and Real Politics\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Catholicism and Democracy is a wonderfully fresh interpretation of the fascinating and tortuous path of Catholic political theology over the last two hundred years. With its strong narrative\, this original book required me to turn the historical frame upside down and look at issues in a new way.”—F. Russell Hittinger\, University of Tulsa\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Catholicism and Democracy looks at some of the ironies and paradoxes inherent in the relationship of the Catholic Church to modern politics. Deftly weaving together political history and literary interpretations of that history\, Perreau-Saussine tells an important story with persuasion and brilliant insight.”—James B. Murphy\, Dartmouth College URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-04-symposium-on-catholicism-democracy/ LOCATION:Breasted Hall\, Oriental Institute\, 1155 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Catholicism_Democracy-005-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190406T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190406T130000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241003T165306Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T145402Z UID:10000421-1554544800-1554555600@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Master Class on Romano Guardini's "The End of the Modern World" DESCRIPTION:To view photos of the master class\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nOpen to current students and faculty. Copies of the book will be provided for registrants. \nRomano Guardini (1885-1968)—Italian-born German priest—was one of the greatest Catholic minds of the 20th century. He helped shape Catholic theology between the two world wars and after\, as well as the thinking of many non-Catholics of the period. He contributed to the Liturgical Movement and influenced the reforms of the Second Vatican Council. His legacy continues to be felt through Pope Benedict\, who studied with him\, and Pope Francis\, who researched Guardini’s work as part of his graduate study. In the classic work The End of the Modern World Guardini presents a historical\, philosophical\, and theological inquiry into the nature of the modern age. \nBackground on Fr. Romano Guardini’s importance can be found HERE. \nSCHEDULE \n9:30am   Coffee & Pastries\n10:00am   Session I\n11:25am   Break\n11:35am   Session II\n1:00pm   End\, Optional Lunch URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-04-master-class-on-romano-guardinis-end-of-modern-world-remi-brague/ LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/4-6-2019-Remi-Brague-Master-Class-91-copy-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190410T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190410T180000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241003T165306Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T145359Z UID:10000420-1554919200-1554919200@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:The Preferential Option for the Poor Today DESCRIPTION:One of the most important ideas in Catholic Social Teaching of the last half century is the “preferential option for the poor.” It is a phrase that describes the Church’s ethical positions in the world\, but it also conveys important theological notions about God. Though utilized across a range of magisterial texts of recent memory\, the idea finds its most substantial development from theologians on Latin American soil. It is no wonder then that the preferential option is a crucial idea that runs through the encyclicals of Pope Francis. \nThis seminar will elaborate an understanding of the phrase\, “preferential option for the poor\,” describe how it developed historically\, and suggest ways that it remains central to Catholic faith today. In particular\, it will focus on two Latin American figures who have powerfully given meaning to this phrase in their teaching and their lives: Fr. Gustavo Gutiérrez\, OP (Peru) and St. Óscar Romero (El Salvador). \nThrough a study of their writing and lived example of these important Latin American witnesses\, participants will be encouraged to reflect on how their legacies and the preferential option represent an important resource for U.S. Latinx Catholics. \nREADINGS \nGustavo Gutiérrez\, “Liberation Theology for the Twenty First Century\,” in Romero’s Legacy: The Call to Peace and Justice\, Pilar Hogan Closkey and John P. Hogan\, eds. (Lanham\, Md: Rowman & Littlefield\, 2007)\, p. 45-59. \nÓscar A. Romero\, “The Church’s Mission Today\,” a selection from his 2nd pastoral letter\, The Church\, the Body of Christ in History\, in Voice of the Voiceless: The Four Pastoral Letters and Other Statements (Maryknoll\, NY: Orbis Books\, 1985)\, p. 65-75. \n— \nThis event is part of a series on the Hispanic Catholic experience\, made possible by a generous grant from the Our Sunday Visitor Institute. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-04-preferential-option-for-poor-today/ LOCATION:IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/romero.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190411T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190411T133000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241003T165304Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260322T195236Z UID:10000419-1554984000-1554989400@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:The Life and Legacy of Saint Oscar Romero DESCRIPTION:Listen to the address as a podcast episode. You can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page\, iTunes channel\, Stitcher\, TuneIn\, ListenNotes\, Podbean\, Pocket Casts\, and Google Play Music. \nTo view photos of the talk\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nThis program was made possible in part by a grant from the Our Sunday Visitor Institute. \nJoin us for a luncheon talk on the recently canonized Óscar Romero. Since his death in 1980\, the world is still absorbing the witness of Óscar Romero\, the Archbishop of San Salvador\, martyred for his commitment to the poor and social justice. Prof. Lee will consider how Romero’s witness challenges Christians in the U.S. to reimagine a robust Christian spirituality that is at once a mystical encounter with God and a prophetic engagement in the struggle for justice. He will also reflect on the implications of the archbishop’s recognition as a martyr and on the model of holiness he offers for the wider Church today. \nProf. Lee also participated in a panel discussion of his book later that afternoon at the University of Chicago. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-04-life-of-saint-oscar-romero/ LOCATION:University Club of Chicago\, 76 E Monroe St\nChicago\, IL 60603\, Downtown\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/UniversityClub041119-026-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190411T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190411T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241003T165303Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T145351Z UID:10000418-1555002000-1555002000@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Symposium on "Revolutionary Saint: The Theological Legacy of Oscar Romero" DESCRIPTION:Cosponsored by the Theology Club at the University of Chicago Divinity School and Orbis Books. This program was made possible in part by a grant from the Our Sunday Visitor Institute. \nJoin us for a symposium of the recent book Revolutionary Saint: The Theological Legacy of Óscar Romero (Orbis Books\, 2018) by Michael Lee. Copies of the book will be available for sale by the Seminary Coop Bookstore at the event. \nAbout the book \nMany years after his death in 1980\, the world is still absorbing the witness of Óscar Romero\, the archbishop of San Salvador\, martyred for his commitment to the poor and social justice. In this work\, Michael E. Lee offers a profound reflection on the theological implications of Romero’s life and ministry. \nDrawing on Romero’s biography as well as his homilies and other writings\, Lee considers specifically how Romero’s witness challenges Christians in the U.S. to reimagine a robust Christian spirituality that is at once a mystical encounter with God and a prophetic engagement in the struggle for justice. In light of Romero’s beatification and canonization\, Lee reflects on the implications of the archbishop’s recognition as a martyr and on the model of holiness he offers for the wider Church today. \nProf. Lee also gave a luncheon talk in downtown Chicago earlier on the 11th on “The Life and Legacy of Saint Oscar Romero.” URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-04-symposium-on-revolutionary-saint-theological-legacy-of-oscar-romero-michael-lee-peter-j-casarella/ LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Revolutionary-Saint.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190425T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190425T190000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241003T165301Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T145348Z UID:10000417-1556218800-1556218800@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:On Bones and Genomes: What Can Science Tell Us About Being Human? DESCRIPTION:To view photos of the conversation\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nFree and open to the public. Part of the Lumen Christi Institute’s “Science and Religion: A Dialogue of Cultures” project generously supported by the John Templeton Foundation. \nPresented by the Veritas Forum at the University of Chicago\, the Martin Marty Center\, Cana\, Cru\, the Graduate Christian Fellowship\, Holy Trinity Church\, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship\, Living Hope Church\, the Lumen Christi Institute\, the Program on Medicine and Religion\, and the Zygon Center for Religion and Science. \nRecent advances in science and technology have made great strides in addressing some of our deepest questions about being human. These advances help us to have a better understanding of who we are\, where we came from\, and what humanity’s place in nature might be. But are there limits to what science can tell us about being human? And does religious belief have anything to contribute to answering such questions? Join us for a conversation between two world-class professors as they discuss what makes us human. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-04-on-bones-genomes-what-can-science-tell-us-about-being-human-zeray-alemseged-praveen-sethupathy/ LOCATION:Kent Hall\, Room 107\, 1020 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/OnBones_Genomes-005-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190502T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190502T193000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241003T165256Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260322T200021Z UID:10000416-1556818200-1556825400@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:The Legacy of Fr. Theodore Hesburgh\, CSC DESCRIPTION:Listen to the panel discussion as a podcast episode. You can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page\, iTunes channel\, Stitcher\, TuneIn\, ListenNotes\, Podbean\, Pocket Casts\, and Google Play Music. \nTo view photos of the discussion\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nTo read the National Catholic Reporter‘s coverage of the event\, click here. \nA reception and panel discussion on the occasion of the publication of American Priest: The Ambitious Life and Conflicted Legacy of Notre Dame’s Father Ted Hesburgh by Fr. Wilson D. Miscamble\, C.S.C. \nCopies of the book will be available for purchase by the Seminary Coop Bookstore. \nAccording to the great University of Chicago President Robert Maynard Hutchins\, Fr. Hesburgh’s record at Notre Dame in the 1950’s and 1960’s was “one of the most spectacular achievements in higher education in the last 25 years.” \nConsidered for many decades to be the most influential priest in America\, Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh\, CSC\, played pivotal roles in higher education\, the Catholic Church\, and national and international affairs. In American Priest\, historian and Notre Dame priest-professor Wilson D. Miscamble\, CSC\, tracks how Hesburgh transformed Catholic higher education in the postwar era and explores how he became a much-celebrated voice in America at large. \nUnderstanding Hesburgh’s life and work illuminates the journey that the Catholic Church traversed over the second half of the twentieth century. Exploring and evaluating Hesburgh’s importance\, then\, contributes not only to the colorful history of Notre Dame but also to make sense of the American Catholic experience. \nSCHEDULE \n5:00pm   Registration\n5:30pm   Welcome & Introduction\n5:35pm   The Legacy of Fr. Ted Hesburgh\, CSC\n6:45pm   Open bar & Hors d’oeuvres Reception\n7:30pm   End URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-05-life-legacy-of-fr-ted-hesburgh-csc-william-t-cavanaugh-jennifer-mason-mcaward-fr-bill-miscamble-csc-kenneth-woodward/ LOCATION:Skadden\, Arps\, Slate\, Meagher & Flom LLP\, 28th Floor\, 155 North Wacker Drive\,\nChicago\, IL 60606\, Downtown\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/American-Priest-103-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190509T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190509T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241003T165251Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260322T200125Z UID:10000415-1557421200-1557421200@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:The Hope of Exodus in Black Theology DESCRIPTION:Listen to the panel discussion as a podcast episode. You can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page\, iTunes channel\, Stitcher\, TuneIn\, ListenNotes\, Podbean\, Pocket Casts\, and Google Play Music. \nTo view photos of the lecture\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nTo listen to Prevot’s podcast interview with the Archdiocese of Chicago’s Black Catholic Initiative podcast hosted by Deacon John Cook\, click here. \nFree and open to the public. Part of the Lumen Christi Institute’s Black Catholic Initiative. Cosponsored by the Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion\, the Center for the Study of Race\, Politics & Culture\, Alchemy in Color at the Divinity School\, the Theology Club at the Divinity School\, and the Ethics Club at the Divinity School. Persons with disabilities who may need assistance should contact us at 773-955-5887 or by email. \nFor generations\, black Christians in the United States have found hope in the biblical story of Exodus. Refusing the white supremacist interpretation of Christianity as a religion requiring obedience to masters\, black Christians have used the Exodus narrative to develop an interpretation of Christianity as a religion promising deliverance from slavery and oppression. This was a central motif in James Cone’s black theology\, as it emerged from the late 1960s struggles for black liberation. In subsequent decades\, black scholars of Christianity such as Delores Williams\, Eddie Glaude\, Kelly Brown Douglas\, and Willie Jennings have approached the story of Exodus in critical new ways that both complicate and renew the hope that it offers. In his lecture\, Prevot will sketch this recent history of black Christian interpretation of Exodus and considers its implications for Christian theology today. \nAndrew Prevot also taught a master class on Hans Urs von Balthasar on Mystical Theology and “The Metaphysics of the Saints” on May 10. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-05-hope-of-exodus-in-black-womanist-theology-andrew-prevot/ LOCATION:Swift Hall\, First Floor Common Room\, 1025 E 58th St\,Chicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/5-9-2019-Andrew-Prevot-13-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190510T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190510T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241003T165247Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T145336Z UID:10000414-1557496800-1557507600@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Hans Urs von Balthasar on Mystical Theology and “The Metaphysics of the Saints” DESCRIPTION:To view photos of the master class\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nOpen to current students and faculty. Copies of the readings will be provided for registrants. \nHans Urs von Balthasar (1905–1988) was one of the most prolific and controversial Catholic theologians of the twentieth century. Responses to his work have ranged from the effusive to the dismissive. Instead of favoring any such one-sided judgments\, however\, I invite participants in this seminar to focus on two tasks that require considerably more scholarly effort. First\, there is the task simply of understanding Balthasar—that is\, making sense of his claims\, their historical and intellectual contexts\, the arguments that he offers in support of them\, the style in which he expresses them\, and the current debates surrounding them. Second\, there is the task of evaluating his work—that is\, clarifying what critiques may be warranted within the space of a sufficiently charitable interpretation and what positions theologians attuned to contemporary needs and realities ought to take on various aspects of his thought. \nIn particular\, this seminar considers Balthasar in connection with the Christian tradition of mystical theology. Like many great figures in this tradition\, Balthasar believes that theology and sanctity\, thought and prayer\, contemplation and action\, knowledge and love ought to go together. As a mystical theologian\, he is not content merely to comment on Christian doctrine (though it remains absolutely essential). He seeks to clarify the conditions under which the creature can be drawn into union with God through Christ and the Holy Spirit. He is interested as much in the lived experience of grace as in its theorization. The first part of the seminar offers some important context for understanding Balthasar (with help from Peter Henrici\, S.J.) and highlights Balthasar’s famous essay\, “Theology and Sanctity\,” which offers a more or less adequate snapshot of his mystical theology. The second part of the seminar delves a bit deeper to study his complex genealogical arguments in the section of The Glory of the Lord\, volume 5\, called “The Metaphysics of the Saints.” Here Balthasar both exposes the mystical theological roots of certain modern conceptual and practical maladies and attempts to identify their mystical theological antidotes. \nThe recommended readings may be helpful to seminar participants who are interested in the question of Balthasar’s gender essentialism (see Corinne Crammer’s “One Sex or Two?”) or in the ecumenical potential of Balthasar’s mystical theology in the midst of debates between Karl Barth and Erich Pryzwara\, and their intellectual descendants\, about the analogia entis (see my “Dialectic and Analogy”). \nREQUIRED READINGS \n      For session 1: \nHenrici\, Peter\, S.J. “Hans Urs von Balthasar: A Sketch of His Life.” In Hans Urs von Balthasar: His Life and Work. Edited by David L. Schindler. San Francisco: Ignatius Press\, 1991. 7–43. \nBalthasar\, Hans Urs von. “Theology and Sanctity.” In Explorations in Theology\, volume 1\, The Word Made Flesh. San Francisco: Ignatius Press\, 1989. 181–209. \nFor session 2: \nBalthasar\, Hans Urs von. “The Metaphysics of the Saints.” In The Glory of the Lord: A Theological Aesthetics\, volume 5\, The Realm of Metaphysics in the Modern Age. Translated by Oliver Davies\, et al. San Francisco: Ignatius Press\, 1991. 48–140. \nSUGGESTED READINGS \nCrammer\, Corinne. “One Sex or Two? Balthasar’s Theology of the Sexes.” In The Cambridge Companion to Hans Urs von Balthasar. Edited by Edward Oakes\, S.J. and David Moss. New York: Cambridge University Press\, 2004. 93–112. \nPrevot\, Andrew. “Dialectic and Analogy in Balthasar’s ‘The Metaphysics of the Saints.’” Pro Ecclesia: A Journal of Catholic and Evangelical Theology 26\, no. 3 (Summer 2017): 261–77. \nAndrew Prevot also gave a lecture on The Hope of Exodus in Black Theology on May 9. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-05-master-class-on-von-balthasars-theological-method-andrew-prevot/ LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/5-10-2019-Andrew-Prevot-11-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190515T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190515T200000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241003T165243Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T145333Z UID:10000413-1557945000-1557950400@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:What is Contemplation? Reflections of a Monk DESCRIPTION:6:30pm Dinner | 7:00pm Discussion\nOpen to current students and faculty. Dinner will be served. Cosponsored by Calvert House and the Catholic Students Association. Made possible by a grant from the Our Sunday Visitor Institute. \nFrom mindfulness while brushing one’s teeth\, to Yoga at Rockefeller\, to new meditation apps\, there is a renewed interest today in the contemplative life as a counterbalance to the active life. But what exactly is contemplation and how is it relevant to the life of a student? Come and join University of Chicago alumnus and Benedictine Monk Fr. Peter Funk\, OSB\, for a conversation about why he was drawn to a life as a contemplative monk and how the monastic vision of the interior life can enrich our busy lives. \nWe will also organize a trip to Fr. Peter’s Benedictine Monastery of the Holy Cross on Saturday\, May 18. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-05-what-is-contemplation-fr-peter-funk/ LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/beach-sea-coast-water-sand-ocean-595543-pxhere.com-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190518T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190518T200000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241003T165242Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T145329Z UID:10000412-1558197000-1558209600@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:"The Spirit of the Liturgy" at the Monastery of the Holy Cross DESCRIPTION:Transportation will be provided from Hyde Park. Open to current university students and faculty. Cosponsored by Calvert House. \nJoin us for an edifying evening of prayer\, dinner\, and conversation with Benedictine monks at the Monastery of the Holy Cross on the south side of Chicago. Attendees will participate in prayer of the Divine Office (Vespers and Compline)\, have dinner\, and discuss Romano Guardini’s classic work The Spirit of the Liturgy with Prior Peter Funk. Following the monastic tradition of the oral reading of a text during meals\, the students will listen to selections from The Spirit of the Liturgy while they eat\, then discuss what they’ve heard\, relating it to their own experiences and to the liturgy at the monastery. \nMore information about the monastery can be found HERE. \nSCHEDULE \n4:15pm   Meet at Gavin House (1220 E. 58th St.)\n4:30pm   Depart from Hyde Park\n5:00pm   Arrive at the Monastery\, welcome by Prior Funk\n5:15pm   Office of Vespers\n6:00pm   Dinner & Discussion\n7:15pm   Office of Compline\n8:00pm   Arrive back in Hyde Park \nStudents are also invited to a discussion with Fr. Peter on May 15 on “What is Contemplation?” URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-05-benedictine-monastery-visit-fr-peter-funk/ LOCATION:The Monastery of the Holy Cross\, 3111 South Aberdeen St.\nChicago\, IL 60608\, Chicago\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/2Vespers_Monks284.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190520T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190520T183000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241003T165239Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T145326Z UID:10000411-1558377000-1558377000@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Notre Dame de Paris : Devastation and Reconstruction DESCRIPTION:To watch the video of the discussion\, visit the Alliance Française’s Facebook page here (first half) and here (second half). \nTo view photos of the discussion\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nOrganized by the Lumen Christi Institute with co-sponsor and host the Alliance Française de Chicago. \n\nFree for Alliance Française members/ $10 for non-members. \nNotre Dame de Paris in flames. Smartphone and television screens across the world light up one after the other\, sending shockwaves as the heart of Paris burns. What is it about the old stones\, the stained glass rosette\, and the 800 year old charpente (wood roof frame) called “the forest” that brought people together for a few hours? \nArtifact of a medieval faith; icon immortalized by Victor Hugo and turned into a hit on Broadway; haut-lieu of the most touristic city in the world; pawn in renewed political and architectural high stakes. What does the cathedral in the heart of Paris mean for them\, and for each of us? \nTo sort out the history\, the meaning\, and most of all\, the future of Notre Dame de Paris\, the Alliance Francaise de Chicago welcomes Jean-Luc Marion\, theologian\, member of the Académie Française and an active participant in the founding of the Lumen Christi Institute. Jean-Luc Marion will be in conversation with Thomas Pavel\, professor at the Department of Romance Languages of the University of Chicago. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-05-notre-dame-de-paris-devastation-reconstruction-jean-luc-marion-thomas-pavel/ LOCATION:Alliance Française de Chicago\, 54 West Chicago Avenue\nChicago\, IL 60610\, Downtown ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Alliance-Francaise-012-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190521T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190521T200000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241003T165238Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T145323Z UID:10000410-1558461600-1558468800@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Weekly Non-Credit Course: "The Prophets and Christian Prayer" DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\n6:00 Dinner | 6:30 Lecture \nThis weekly non-credit course is open to current students and faculty. Registrants are free to attend as many sessions as they choose. Sessions do not presuppose previous attendance or prior knowledge of the subject. \nIn its broadest sense\, biblical prophecy—in both the Old and New Testaments—includes the activities and utterances of seers\, dreamers\, ecstatics\, diviners\, mystics\, and declaimers of unmediated divine discourse: oracles\, instruction\, admonition\, consolation.  This course will examine literary and non-literary prophecy as a supernaturally accomplished conduit of God’s will\, along with the various instruments by which that will is communicated.  In addition\, we will look at the ways in which prophetic action and discourse shaped the contemplative and liturgical life of the early Church\, as well as the prayer of the later centuries. \nApril 9 | Introduction to Biblical Prophecy \nApril 16 | Amos & Hosea & the nəbîʾîm \nApril 23 | Isaiah \nApril 30 | Jeremiah \nMay 7 | Elijah & Elisha \nMay 14 | Ezekiel & Daniel \nMay 21 | New Testament Prophets & Prophecy URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-05-weekly-non-credit-course-biblical-prophecy-christian-prayer-paul-mankowski-sj/ LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Moses_&_Bush_Icon_Sinai_c12th_century_1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190523T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190523T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241003T165236Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260322T200233Z UID:10000409-1558630800-1558630800@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Symposium on "The Cross: History\, Art\, and Controversy" DESCRIPTION:Listen to the symposium as a podcast episode. You can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page\, iTunes channel\, Stitcher\, TuneIn\, ListenNotes\, Podbean\, Pocket Casts\, and Google Play Music. \nTo view photos of the symposium\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nCosponsored by the Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion\, the Medieval Studies Workshop\, the Early Christian Studies Workshop\, and the Research in Art and Visual Evidence Workshop. Free and open to the public. Copies of the book will be available for sale at the event by the Seminary Coop Bookstore. Persons with disabilities who may need assistance should contact us at 773-955-5887 or by email. \nJoin us for a symposium discussion of the recent book by Robin Jensen\, The Cross: History\, Art\, and Controversy (Harvard University Press\, 2017). \nIn The Cross\, Robin Jensen takes readers on an intellectual and spiritual journey through the two-thousand-year evolution of the cross as an idea and an artifact\, illuminating the controversies—along with the forms of devotion—this central symbol of Christianity inspires. Her wide-ranging study focuses on the cross in painting and literature\, the quest for the “true cross” in Jerusalem\, and the symbol’s role in conflicts from the Crusades to wars of colonial conquest. The Cross also reveals how Jews and Muslims viewed the most sacred of all Christian emblems and explains its role in public life in the West today. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-05-symposium-on-cross-history-art-controversy-robin-jensen-karin-krause-bernard-mcginn/ LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/TheCross05232019-007-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190524T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190524T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241003T165235Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T145317Z UID:10000408-1558711800-1558717200@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Humanistic Liberal Arts Education\, the University\, and the Catholic Tradition: from the Age of Van Doren and Hutchins to Today DESCRIPTION:Open to current students and faculty \n\n\na colloquium discussion with an introductory presentation by Professor F. Russell Hittinger\, William K. Warren Professor Emeritus of Catholic Studies at the University of Tulsa\, and a response by J. Columcille Dever\, PhD Candidate in the History of Christianity at the University of Notre Dame\n3:00PM Coffee & Tea\n3:30PM Colloquium Discussion\n5:00PM Close\, Wine & Cheese Reception\n\n\nToday with the emphasis on STEM and business education\, the tradition of liberal arts education in America (and elsewhere in the world) faces a challenging environment. The recent abolition of several humanities departments at the University of Tulsa sparked protest from faculty and students who value the liberal arts tradition at that institution. Hittinger will report on the lessons to be drawn from the situation in Tulsa.\n\nIn facing this challenge\, one can learn from the case made for a liberal arts education by figures such as Robert Maynard Hutchins and Mark Van Doren at The University of Chicago and Columbia University in the first half of the 20th century. At the same time\, the current situation is radically different\, given the loss of piety for the values of the “West” and its civilization in our multi-cultural\, globalized society. In a similar way\, the academic disciplines of the humanities are less able to make a case for themselves. And the Catholic intellectual tradition would be interpreted in a different manner from how it was seen in the first half of the 20th century.\n\nOne would expect leading Catholic universities to make the liberal arts tradition central to their mission and to be in a position to play a leading role in contemporary discussion of the relevance of a curriculum of humanistic education in a democratic society. Indeed this is done in a creative way on the margins of Catholic higher education\, but not by the most prestigious or leading Catholic colleges.\n\nIronically\, in an address to Catholic educators (cited by Msgr. John Tracy Ellis in his seminal article “American Catholics and the Intellectual Life”)\, Robert Maynard Hutchins urged Catholic colleges to emphasize the “the longest intellectual tradition of any institution in the contemporary world” and\, in the words of Ellis\, to “make it come alive in American intellectual circles.”\n\nCatholic colleges seem to have missed the pearl of great price pointed to by Hutchins\, while they took up his second order challenge of matching the best secular universities in terms of “high academic standards\, development of habits of work\, and research….”\n\nThe colloquium discussion will focus on the question of how scholars at Catholic and secular universities might make a case for a humanistic liberal arts education in today’s culture and how they see its relation to “the longest intellectual tradition of any institution in the contemporary world.”\n\n\nThe article of John Tracy Ellis can be found HERE. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-05-humanistic-liberal-arts-education-university-catholic-tradition-from-age-of-van-doren-hutchins-to-today-russell-hittinger/ LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/ppmjdhjempljhppa.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190530T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190530T160000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241003T165228Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T145313Z UID:10000407-1559232000-1559232000@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Mary at the Art Institute DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\n\nOpen to all university students. Registration Required. Cosponsored with Calvert House.\nMary is the most-depicted woman in the history of Western art\, which means that images of her are both ubiquitous and bewildering in their variety. Marian images are used in the Christian liturgy\, for private devotion\, for political statements\, and for pushing boundaries—and for almost everything else as well.\n\nJoin University of Chicago graduate students Fr. Gabriel Torretta\, OP\, and Lauren Beversluis for a visit to the Chicago Art Institute as they explain the building blocks of Marian images by discussing works that span both Mary’s own life and its living history in painting.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSCHEDULE\n\n3:30pm Meet at Gavin House\, take rideshare to the museum\n4:00pm Meet in the South Garden at the Chicago Art Institute to pray the rosary\n4:30pm Museum visit (free admission with student ID)\n6:00pm Dinner at Terzo Piano URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-05-mary-at-art-institute/ LOCATION:Art Institute of Chicago\, 111 S Michigan Ave.\nChicago\, IL 60603\, Downtown ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Annunciation-Hitchcock.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190602T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190605T000000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241006T235421Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260115T191456Z UID:10000012-1559433600-1559692800@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Business and Catholic Social Thought: A Primer DESCRIPTION:APPLICATIONS FOR THIS SEMINAR ARE CLOSED \nWe are excited to announce our newly created seminar designed as an introduction and immersion into Catholic social thought for graduate students and faculty in business schools. Participants will cover foundational principles in Catholic social thought and apply them to their own field of research and teaching. This seminar aims at widening epistemological preconceptions and showing practical implications of Catholic social thought for business in a way that affirms the goodness of business directed toward the common good. Participants will delve into social encyclicals\, secondary sources\, and relevant business texts that show the path for principled entrepreneurship. \nThis seminar is cosponsored by the John A. Ryan Institute for Catholic Social Thought at the University of St. Thomas (MN); the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame; the Ciocca Center for Principled Entrepreneurship at the Catholic University of America; the Lumen Christi Institute; and the Markets\, Culture and Ethics Research Centre at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross\, Rome. \n\nFormat: There will be four sessions each day\, featuring a different instructor. Each instructor will open with a lecture\, and then we will turn to a seminar-style discussion of the texts and issues at hand. \nLocation: The seminar will take place at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend\, Indiana. A limited number of travel stipends are available on a per need basis (see the application form). All participants will be provided with accommodations and meals. \nApplication Information: This seminar will be open to graduate students and faculty of any specialization in business schools. \nApplicants will be required to submit a completed online application\, including: \n\nAn updated CV/resume.\nA brief statement of research interest related to Catholic social thought no longer than 750 words.\nOne academic writing sample.\n\nAll application materials can be submitted via the online application. Incomplete applications will not be considered. Fifteen students will be admitted to this seminar. Application materials are due March 1. \nPlease direct any further questions HERE URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-business-and-cst/ LOCATION:University of Notre Dame\, Notre Dame\, IN 46556\, Notre Dame\, IN CATEGORIES:Summer Seminars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Budget-1_notre_dame-e1750807513975.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190607T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190607T133000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241003T165225Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T145015Z UID:10000406-1559908800-1559914200@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:A New 'Scientia': Can Theology Unify the Sciences and Humanities? DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\nOpen to current students and faculty. Lunch will be served. A PDF of the reading will be provided when you register. Cosponsored by the Morris Fishbein Center for the History of Science and Medicine. \na luncheon discussion with philosopher Conor Cunningham (University of Nottingham) on his current research project\, which will be published as Soul and the Marriage of Discourse: Theology as Effective Theory. \nThe question of the relation between the sciences and that of the Humanities has been a source of tension ever since the advent of Modernity. Over the last hundred years this has only grown more pronounced\, not only between the Humanities and the sciences (both social and natural)\, but within the natural sciences\, as there has been an internecine jostling for priority\, especially considering high-energy physics’ pursuit of a Theory of Everything\, a ‘master science’. \nWittgenstein warned us of such temptation: ‘A main cause of philosophical disease—a one sided diet: one nourishes one’s thinking with only one kind of example’. More powerfully\, Dostoevsky in his own inimitable manner warns: ‘Half-knowledge is a tyrant without precedent\, one that has its own priests and slaves; a tyrant that is worshipped with unprecedented awe and adulation and before which science itself fawns and cringes’. \nAgainst such apartheid\, and its concomitant ‘theocracy’\, this research project develops an original\, expansive and mutually beneficial understanding of the relation between different modes of knowledge (scientia) that eliminates such conflicts\, whilst concurrently encouraging synthetic engagements with existence that do not discourage specialisms; rather they provide space for them. \nREQUIRED READING\n“Theology as Effective Theory: A Metaphysics of Mixt” \nSUGGESTED READING\n“Soul and the Marriage of Discourse” \nProf. Cunningham will also give a talk on June 11 at Loyola University Chicago’s Water Tower Campus on “Saving Darwin’s Soul and Science’s Life.” URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-06-a-new-scientia-can-theology-unify-sciences-humanities/ LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Septem-artes-liberales_Herrad-von-Landsberg_Hortus-deliciarum_1180.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190611T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190614T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241006T235421Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260115T191323Z UID:10000405-1560243600-1560531600@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Economics & Catholic Social Thought: A Primer DESCRIPTION:APPLICATIONS FOR THIS SEMINAR ARE CLOSED\nNow in its fourth year\, this seminar is designed as an introduction and immersion into Catholic social thought for graduate students and junior faculty in economics\, finance\, or related fields. Participants will cover foundational principles in Catholic social thought\, starting with the human person\, dignity\, freedom\, subsidiarity\, solidarity\, and the common good\, and moving toward applications of these principles to conceptual understandings and ethical considerations involving economic topics such as utility theory\, firm and business ethics\, wages\, markets\, globalization\, poverty\, and development. Participants will delve into social encyclicals\, secondary sources\, and relevant economics texts. \nThis seminar is sponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute; the Catholic Research Economists Discussion Organization; the De Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture; the Kellogg Institute for International Studies; and the he Institute for the Scholarship in the Liberal Arts\, College of Arts and Letters\, University of Notre Dame. \n*Dates reflect the days of seminar sessions. Participants should expect to arrive on June 10 and depart on June 15. \n\nFormat: There will be ten sessions over the course of four days\, featuring a different instructor. Each instructor will open with a lecture\, and then we will turn to a seminar style discussion of the texts and issues at hand. In the final sessions\, we will discuss how the material can be applied to each student’s particular area of interest. There will also be opportunities for mass and several outings to important religious sites. \nLocation: The seminar will take place at the Notre Dame Global Gateway outside of Jerusalem. Participants will be provided with accommodations and meals\, and a limited number of travel stipends are available on a need basis. \nApplication Information:
This seminar will be open to Ph.D. students and faculty in Economics\, Finance and related fields. \nApplicants will be required to submit a completed online application form\, including: \n\nAn updated CV.\nA brief statement of research interest no longer than 750 words.\nOne academic writing sample.\n\nAll application materials can be submitted via the online application. Incomplete applications will not be considered. 15 applicants will be admitted to this seminar. \nApplication materials are due March 1. \nPlease direct any further questions to contact@credo-economists.org. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-econ-cst/ LOCATION:Notre Dame Global Gateway\, Ha-Rosmarin St\, Jerusalem\, Israel CATEGORIES:Summer Seminars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/nd-jerusalem.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190611T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190611T193000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241003T165221Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T145007Z UID:10000404-1560274200-1560281400@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Saving Darwin's Soul and Science's Life DESCRIPTION:$25 General / Free for current students with ID\n$500 Host Committee (includes 10 tickets) / $2\,500 Event Vice-Chair (includes 10 tickets)  / $5\,000 Event Chair (includes 10 tickets). This program is made possible by a grant from the John Templeton Foundation and is cosponsred by the Society of Catholic Scientists. \n5:30pm   Hors d’oeuvres reception\n6:30pm   Talk and Q&A\n7:30pm   Close \nThe late 19th century witnessed the invention of what is now a well-worn trope: Science versus Religion. From this contrived construction modern fundamentalism was born: Scientific\, Religious\, and Philosophical. Such fundamentalisms spawned artificial ghettos of specialization that encouraged ambitions for totalizing disciplines. Darwinism was itself an example and victim of such blinkered vanity. Only by realizing the intrinsic marriage of all modes of knowledge can humanity’s most creative efforts flourish; otherwise\, nihilism ensues. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-06-saving-darwins-soul-sciences-life/ LOCATION:Kasbeer Hall\, 15th Floor\nPhilip H. Corboy Law Center\n25 East Pearson Street\, Downtown\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Saving-Darwin-Graphic.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190616T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190621T120000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241006T235432Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260115T191757Z UID:10000403-1560686400-1561118400@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Monastic Wisdom Seminar DESCRIPTION:APPLICATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED\n“Understanding is wholly useless if it is not based upon wisdom\, in that while it penetrates the higher mysteries without the counterpoise of wisdom\, its own lightness is only lifting it up to meet with the heavier fall.” \n– St. Gregory the Great\, Moralia in Job\, 1.32.45 \n“Idleness is an enemy of the soul. Therefore\, the brothers should be occupied according to schedule in either manual labor or holy reading.” \n– St. Benedict of Nursia\, Rule\, Chapter 48 \n“My words are meant for you\, whoever you are\, who laying aside your own will\, take up the all-powerful and righteous arms of obedience to fight under the true King\, the Lord Jesus Christ.” \n– St. Benedict of Nursia\, Rule\, Prologue \nThe Lumen Christi Institute and New Melleray Abbey have partnered to organize a retreat aimed at exploring the monastic wisdom tradition. The Trappist community at New Melleray Abbey in Iowa represents an ancient and continual tradition of Christian monasticism with roots in the early Church. Students with an interest in theology or spirituality may be familiar with some of the major figures in this tradition—St. John Cassian\, St. Benedict of Nursia\, St. Bernard of Clairvaux. It is less likely they have spent time putting into practice the lessons of prayer\, spiritual reading\, and silence in an organized manner. \nThe contention of the Monastic Wisdom Seminar is that monastic disciplines must be practiced to be understood. Participants will spend a week praying\, conferencing\, reading\, and working with the monks of New Melleray Abbey. The goals of the retreat are fourfold: \n\n\nIntroduce participants to monastic life\, the Divine Office\, and the history and theology of monasticism. \n\n\nIntroduce participants to monastic practices\, including the discipline of silence\, the principle of ora et labora and lectio divina. \n\n\nProvide an opportunity for participants to reflect on Catholic practices of daily prayer and their relation to monastic life. \n\n\nStudy of texts of major figures of the monastic tradition. \n\n\nPRINCIPAL TEXTS FOR DISCUSSION \n\n\nJean Leclercq\, The Love of Learning and the Desire for God\, trans. Catharine Misrahi (New York: Fordham University Press\, 1982). \n\n\nSt. Athanasius\, “The Life of Antony\,” in Athanasius: The Life of Antony and the Letter to Marcellinus\, trans. Robert C. Gregg (Mahwah\, NJ: Paulist Press\, 1979). \n\n\nJohn Cassian\, Conferences\, trans. Colm Luibheid\, Classics of Western Spirituality (Mahwah\, NJ: Paulist Press\, 1985). \n\n\nSt. Benedict of Nursia\, The Rule of St. Benedict\, trans. Carolinne White (London: Penguin Classics\, 2008). \n\n\nSt. Bernard of Clairvaux\, “On Loving God” in Bernard of Clairvaux: Selected Works\, trans. G.R. Evans\, Classics of Western Spirituality (Mahwah\, NJ: Paulist Press\, 1987). \n\n\nLOCATION AND FORMAT \n\n\nThe seminar will take place at New Melleray Abbey in Peosta\, Iowa. \n\n\nTravel stipends will be available for currently enrolled students. \n\n\nLodging\, meals\, and books will be provided. \n\n\nParticipants will arrive at New Melleray on Sunday\, June 16 and depart on Friday\, June 21. \n\n\nParticipants will be required read the assigned materials in preparation for the seminar. \n\n\nAPPLICATION INFORMATION \n\n\nOpen to men aged 18 through 35. Catholics and non-Catholics are invited to apply. \n\n\nApplicants must submit an online application including a statement of interest\, a CV or resume\, and a letter of recommendation from a professor or pastor. \n\n\nApplications will be evaluated on a rolling basis. Apply no later than May 17th to receive full consideration. \n\n\nA maximum of 15 applicants will be admitted to the seminar. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-monastic-wisdom-seminar/ LOCATION:New Melleray Abbey\, 6632 Melleray Cir\nPeosta\, IA 52068\, New Melleray Abbey\, IA CATEGORIES:Summer Seminars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/sanctuary2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190627T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190703T000000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241006T235424Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260115T191538Z UID:10000402-1561636800-1562112000@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Metaphysics and the Soul in Thomas Aquinas DESCRIPTION:APPLICATIONS FOR THIS SEMINAR ARE CLOSED \nThis seminar will be a five-day\, intensive discussion of St. Thomas Aquinas’s account of the nature of the soul\, with particular attention paid to the metaphysical principles on which it rests. The sessions will center on Summa Theologiae\, I\, qq. 75-77\, concerning the soul in itself\, its essential relation to the body\, and its role as the primary principle of vital activity. Participants will also discuss relevant passages from other works of St. Thomas\, as well as his historical influences (such as Plato\, Aristotle\, and Augustine) and some contemporary literature on the topic. Finally\, the seminar will take up related issues\, such as Aquinas’s understanding of the relation between metaphysics and theology\, his handling of the Augustinian tradition\, his reaction to the Averroists\, and how his account of the soul relates to later philosophical developments such as Cartesianism and personalism. \nFormat: There will be two 2 ½ hour sessions each day. Each session will include an opening lecture and seminar-style discussion of the text and the issues at hand. Students will be expected to prepare the readings carefully and participate in the discussions of the material. \nLocation: The seminar will take place at the University of Chicago. Students will be provided with lodging and meals for the duration of the seminar\, and a travel stipend of up to $350. \nApplication Information: This seminar will be open to doctoral students in the humanities and relevant fields. \nApplicants will be required to submit: \n\nA completed online application form.\nAn updated CV.\nAt least one and as many as two letter(s) of recommendation from a member of the program in which the student is currently enrolled.\nA statement of research interest no longer than 750 words\, which includes an explanation of how this seminar might bear on the student’s current or future research plans.\nOne academic writing sample (30 pages maximum).\n\nAll application materials can be submitted via the online application. Incomplete applications will not be considered. Fifteen students will be admitted to this seminar. Application materials are due March 15. \n\nFREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS \nCan I apply for more than one seminar? Yes. You may apply for multiple seminars. Please indicate your order of preference in your statement of purpose for each application. Each applicant may only be admitted to one seminar. \nI am a PhD student graduating this academic year. Can I still apply? Yes! \nI am currently an undergraduate or masters student\, but have been admitted to a PhD program for the next academic year. Can I still apply?\nYes\, please indicate this in the statement of purpose in your application. \nI have attended a Lumen Christi Institute seminar in the past. May I still apply? Yes! \nDo I have to be Catholic to apply? No. The Lumen Christi Institute exists to promotes the Catholic intellectual tradition and is committed to the integration of the intellectual and spiritual life. The Institute welcomes seminar participants of all or no religious affiliation\, and wants to assure all applicants that the opportunities to participate in devotional activities are optional. \nIn addition to the travel stipend\, are there other funding possibilities? Seminar participation includes an opportunity to give a formal presentation and inclusion in the official program and schedule. We encourage participants to seek funding from their home institutions or other sources to supplement the travel stipend offered by the Lumen Christi Institute. \nWhen do I get my travel stipend? Stipends are distributed as a refund after successful completion of the seminar and seminar evaluations. Exceptions can be made on case by case basis. \nContact us with any further questions. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-aquinas-brock-seminar/ LOCATION:University of Chicago\, 5801 S. Ellis Ave.\, University of Chicago\, IL CATEGORIES:Summer Seminars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/lippo_memmi_-_triumph_of_st_thomas_aquinas_-_wga15020.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190630T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190706T120000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241006T235425Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260115T191731Z UID:10000401-1561896000-1562414400@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Modern Science and the Catholic Faith for Graduate Students DESCRIPTION:Applications are now closed.\nThe goal of this seminar is to provide students with the background knowledge and conceptual tools necessary to understand and think clearly about the relation of science and faith. This will help them to integrate scientific and theological ways of understanding in their own thinking\, and make it possible for them to help others (including their future colleagues and students) to achieve such integration. The overarching goal is to help develop a cadre of people with a broad and informed understanding of these issues who can be the nucleus from which wider outreach efforts might grow. \nAmong the topics discussed will be the historical relationship of the Church and science; the relation of faith and reason; evidence for God in the existence and order of the cosmos; God and nature; primary and secondary causality; the supernatural and miracles; modern physics and natural theology; creation and providence; the beginning of the universe and modern cosmology; God and time; human origins and human distinctiveness; rationality\, freedom\, and the soul; physicalist reductionism and the human mind; Genesis and scriptural interpretation; biological evolution; biology and human nature; and the Fall\, original sin and concupiscence. \nPreparatory readings will include excerpts from: \n\nModern Physics and Ancient Faith (Stephen M. Barr)\nThe Believing Scientist (Stephen M. Barr)\nThomistic Evolution (Fr. Nicanor Austriaco et al.)\nScience and Belief in a Nuclear Age (Peter E. Hodgson)\nGod’s Mechanics (Br. Guy Consolmagno)\nGod and Reason in the Middle Ages (Edward Grant)\nGalileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and Religion (ed. Ronald L. Numbers)\nMind and Cosmos (Thomas Nagel)\nThe Faith of the Early Fathers (William A. Jurgens)\nConfessions (St. Augustine)\nCity of God (St. Augustine)\nOn the Literal Meaning of Genesis (St. Augustine)\nSumma Contra Gentiles (St. Thomas Aquinas)\nIn the Beginning (Joseph Ratzinger)\naddresses and statements on science and religion by Pope St. John Paul II\nCommunion and Stewardship: Human Persons Created in the Image of God (International Theological Commission)\nsections of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. \n\nThis seminar is made possible by a grant from the John Templeton Foundation. \nLOCATION AND FORMAT \n\nThe seminar will take place at Providence College in Providence\, RI. Admitted students will be required to arrange their own travel to and from the seminar.\nAdmitted students will be granted a stipend of $350 to offset travel costs in addition to having their lodging and meals covered for the duration of the seminar.\nParticipants will arrive at Providence College on Sunday\, June 30 and depart on Saturday\, July 6. The seminar will take place from Monday to Friday\, with a lecture and discussion session each morning and afternoon.\nParticipants will be required read the assigned materials in preparation for the seminar.\nIn order to receive the $350 stipend\, students must participate fully in all seminar activities and complete a survey at the end of the seminar.\n\nAPPLICATION INFORMATION \n\nOpen to graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in STEM fields\, medicine\, the history of science\, philosophy\, theology\, and relevant fields.\nApplicants must submit an online application\, including details on their course of study\, a statement of interest\, and a letter of recommendation (optional).\nFor full consideration\, apply by May 12. After May 12\, applications will be evaluated on a rolling basis.\n15 applicants will be admitted to the seminar.\n\nThis seminar is part of the Lumen Christi Institute’s “Science and Religion: A Dialogue of Cultures” project generously supported by the John Templeton Foundation and is cosponsored by the Society of Catholic Scientists. \n\nFREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS \nI am a PhD student graduating this academic year. Can I still apply?  Yes! \nI am currently an undergraduate or but have been admitted to a graduate program for the next academic year. Can I still apply? Yes\, please indicate this in the statement of purpose in your application. \nI have attended a Lumen Christi Institute seminar in the past. May I still apply? Yes! \nDo I have to be Catholic to apply? No. The Lumen Christi Institute exists to promotes the Catholic intellectual tradition and is committed to the integration of the intellectual and spiritual life. The Institute welcomes seminar participants of all or no religious affiliation\, and wants to assure all applicants that the opportunities to participate in devotional activities are optional. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-grad-science-religion-seminar/ LOCATION:Providence College\, 1 Cunningham Square\, Providence\, RI CATEGORIES:Summer Seminars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/S-R-seminar-graphic-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190706T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190713T000000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241006T235421Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260115T180429Z UID:10000400-1562371200-1562976000@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:The Thought of John Henry Newman DESCRIPTION:APPLICATIONS ARE CLOSED FOR THIS SEMINAR \nNow in its seventh consecutive year\, this intensive seminar will examine the achievements of Blessed John Henry Newman as a theologian\, philosopher\, educator\, preacher\, and writer. Remarkably\, in each of these areas Newman produced works that have come to be recognized as classics: An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine\, The Grammar of Assent\, The Idea of a University\, The Parochial and Plain Sermons\, and the Apologia Pro Vita Sua. This seminar will approach Newman’s thought through a critical engagement with these texts. \nFormat: There will be two 2-hour sessions each day. The seminar will include presentations by Professor Ker and by participants on the readings assigned\, followed by seminar-style discussion. \nLocation: The seminar will take place at Merton College at the University of Oxford. Participants will be provided with lodging and most meals for the duration of the seminar\, and a travel stipend of up to $700. \nApplication Information: This seminar is open to PhD students\, post docs\, and junior faculty in the humanities and relevant fields. \nApplicants will be required to submit: \n\nA completed online application form.\nAn updated CV.\nAt least one and as many as two letter(s) of recommendation from a member of the program in which the applicant is currently enrolled.\nA statement of research interest no longer than 750 words\, which includes an explanation of how this seminar might bear on the student’s current or future research plans.\nOne academic writing sample (30 pages maximum).\n\nAll application materials can be submitted via the online application. Incomplete applications will not be considered. Fifteen applicants will be admitted to this seminar. Application materials are due March 15. \n\nFREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS \nCan I apply for more than one seminar? Yes. You may apply for multiple seminars. Please indicate your order of preference in your statement of purpose for each application. Each applicant may only be admitted to one seminar. \nI am a PhD student graduating this academic year. Can I still apply? Yes! \nI am currently an undergraduate or masters student\, but have been admitted to a PhD program for the next academic year. Can I still apply?\nYes\, please indicate this somehwere in your application. \nI have attended a Lumen Christi Institute seminar in the past. May I still apply? Yes! \nDo I have to be Catholic to apply? No. The Lumen Christi Institute exists to promotes the Catholic intellectual tradition and is committed to the integration of the intellectual and spiritual life. The Institute welcomes seminar participants of all or no religious affiliation\, and wants to assure all applicants that the opportunities to participate in devotional activities are optional. \nIn addition to the travel stipend\, are there other funding possibilities? Seminar participation includes an opportunity to give a formal presentation and inclusion in the official program and schedule. We encourage participants to seek funding from their home institutions or other sources to supplement the travel stipend offered by the Lumen Christi Institute. \nWhen do I get my Travel Stipend? Stipends are distributed as a refund after successful completion of the seminar and seminar evaluations. Exceptions can be made on case by case basis. \nContact us with any further questions. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-newman-seminar-ker/ LOCATION:Merton College\, Oxford\, Merton St\, Oxford OX1 4JD\, UK\, Oxford\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Summer Seminars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Oxford-4_1-1-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190715T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190721T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241006T235424Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260115T191606Z UID:10000399-1563181200-1563728400@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:The Thought of Rene Girard DESCRIPTION:APPLICATIONS FOR THIS SEMINAR ARE CLOSED \nOne of the most influential 20th century Catholic thinkers\, René Girard transformed our understanding of culture\, religion\, and human behavior. His “mimetic theory” builds on the demystifying power of the Old and New Testaments to illuminate the religious history of mankind. Through an intensive reading of his major works of literary analysis\, religious anthropology\, and Biblical exegesis\, this five-day seminar will explore Girard’s key insights into imitation\, conflict\, and scapegoating\, connecting them to central themes of Christian theology. \nFormat: There will be two 2.5-hour sessions each day. Each session will include an opening lecture and seminar-style discussion of the text and the issues at hand. Students will be expected to prepare the readings carefully and participate in the discussions of the material. \nLocation: The seminar will take place at Saint-Michel de Frigolet Abbey near Avignon\, France. Participants will be provided with lodging and meals for the duration of the seminar\, and a travel stipend of up to $700. \nApplication Requirements: This seminar is open to PhD students in the humanities and relevant fields. \nApplicants will be required to submit: \n\nA completed online application form.\nAn updated CV.\nAt least one and as many as two letter(s) of recommendation from a member of the program in which the student is currently enrolled.\nA statement of research interest no longer than 750 words\, which includes an explanation of how this seminar might bear on the student’s current or future research plans.\nOne academic writing sample (30 pages maximum).\n\nAll application materials can be submitted via the online application. Incomplete applications will not be considered. Fifteen applicants will be admitted to this seminar. Application materials are due March 15. \n\nFREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS \nCan I apply for more than one seminar? Yes. You may apply for multiple seminars. Please indicate your order of preference in your statement of purpose for each application. Each applicant may only be admitted to one seminar. \nI am a PhD student graduating this academic year. Can I still apply? Yes! \nI am currently an undergraduate or masters student\, but have been admitted to a PhD program for the next academic year. Can I still apply?\nYes\, please indicate this somehwere in your application. \nI have attended a Lumen Christi Institute seminar in the past. May I still apply? Yes! \nDo I have to be Catholic to apply? No. The Lumen Christi Institute exists to promotes the Catholic intellectual tradition and is committed to the integration of the intellectual and spiritual life. The Institute welcomes seminar participants of all or no religious affiliation\, and wants to assure all applicants that the opportunities to participate in devotional activities are optional. \nIn addition to the travel stipend\, are there other funding possibilities? Seminar participation includes an opportunity to give a formal presentation and inclusion in the official program and schedule. We encourage participants to seek funding from their home institutions or other sources to supplement the travel stipend offered by the Lumen Christi Institute. \nWhen do I get my travel stipend? Stipends are distributed as a refund after successful completion of the seminar and seminar evaluations. Exceptions can be made on case by case basis. \nContact us with any further questions. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-girard-seminar/ LOCATION:Saint-Michel de Frigolet Abbey\, La Montagnette\, 13150 \nTarascon\, France\, Saint-Michel de Frigolet Abbey\, France CATEGORIES:Summer Seminars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Girard-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190720T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190727T000000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241006T235423Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260114T185005Z UID:10000398-1563580800-1564185600@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Catholic Social Thought: A Critical Investigation DESCRIPTION:APPLICATIONS FOR THIS SEMINAR ARE CLOSED\nIn this seminar\, students will read\, analyze\, and discern continuities and discontinuities in Catholic social thought from the late 19th century to the present. Lectures\, seminar reports\, and discussion will focus on original sources (encyclicals and other magisterial documents)\, beginning with Rerum novarum (1892) and concluding with Caritas in veritate (2009) and Evangelii Gaudium (2013). This intensive course is multi-disciplinary\, since this tradition of social thought overlaps several disciplines in the contemporary university including political science\, political philosophy\, law\, economics\, theology\, and history.\nFormat: There will be two 2.5-hour sessions each day. Each session will include an opening lecture and seminar-style discussion of the text and the issues at hand. Students will be expected to prepare the readings carefully and participate in the discussions of the material. \nLocation:  The seminar will take place at the University of California\, Berkeley. Participants will be provided with lodging and most meals for the duration of the seminar\, and a travel stipend of up to $350. \nApplication Information: This seminar will be open to PhD students\, JD students\, post docs\, and junior faculty in the humanities\, social sciences\, and relevant fields. \nApplicants will be required to submit: \n\nA completed online application form.\nAn updated CV.\nAt least one and as many as two letter(s) of recommendation from a member of the program in which the student is currently enrolled.\nA statement of research interest no longer than 750 words\, which includes an explanation of how this seminar might bear on the student’s current or future research plans.\nOne academic writing sample (30 pages maximum).\n\nAll application materials can be submitted via the online application. Incomplete applications will not be considered. Fifteen students will be admitted to this seminar. Application materials are due March 15. \n\nFREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS \nCan I apply for more than one seminar? Yes. You may apply for multiple seminars. Please indicate your order of preference in your statement of purpose for each application. Each applicant may only be admitted to one seminar. \nI am a PhD student graduating this academic year. Can I still apply? Yes! \nI am currently an undergraduate or masters student\, but have been admitted to a PhD program for the next academic year. Can I still apply?\nYes\, please indicate this somehwere in your application. \nI have attended a Lumen Christi Institute seminar in the past. May I still apply? Yes! \nDo I have to be Catholic to apply? No. The Lumen Christi Institute exists to promotes the Catholic intellectual tradition and is committed to the integration of the intellectual and spiritual life. The Institute welcomes seminar participants of all or no religious affiliation\, and wants to assure all applicants that the opportunities to participate in devotional activities are optional. \nIn addition to the travel stipend\, are there other funding possibilities? Seminar participation includes an opportunity to give a formal presentation and inclusion in the official program and schedule. We encourage participants to seek funding from their home institutions or other sources to supplement the travel stipend offered by the Lumen Christi Institute. \nWhen do I get my Travel Stipend? Stipends are distributed as a refund after successful completion of the seminar and seminar evaluations. Exceptions can be made on case by case basis. \nContact us with any further questions. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-cst-seminar-hittinger/ LOCATION:University of California\, Berkeley\, S Hall Rd.\nBerkeley\, CA 94720\, Berkeley\, CA CATEGORIES:Summer Seminars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/IMG_2368-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190721T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190803T000000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241006T235424Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T144941Z UID:10000397-1563667200-1564790400@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:POSTPONED: Catholic Social Teaching and Society: An Introduction to the Tradition and Substance of Christian Social Doctrine DESCRIPTION:THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN POSTPONED TO SUMMER 2020\nThe manifold and deepening social\, political\, and economic crises that people and their governments face have called forth a strongly renewed interest in the Christian social teaching tradition\, and the contributions that insights from the tradition might make to responding to these exigencies. This revival of interest brings several thorny problems in its wake: Why does the Church speak on these matters\, and based on what authority? What role does the Church properly have in this context? What contributions can she make to such worldly concerns? What does the Church have to offer in responding to the complexities of the contemporary world situation? These represent particularly important questions given the Catholic Church’s revived role as a transnational\, global organization whose views have assumed increasing significance in a post-Cold War world with increasingly diffuse sources of recognized authority. \nThe first week will provide a fundamental introduction to the history\, philosophical currents\, and theology that informs the Catholic social tradition. The second week features an interdisciplinary and international conversation between American and European participants concentrated on the meaning of social justice and its principles in light of the Christian tradition; a consideration of the Christian sources that inform the “social market economy” and the institutions of the “social-state”; and the challenges that AI and digitalization pose to human work and well-being. \nThe seminar will feature lectures\, discussions\, and working groups\, but also opportunities to meet with political\, social and Church leaders. The program has the special goal of bringing American and German students into conversation to share their perspectives\, to build networks and to seek common approaches to addressing both to contemporary crises and unforeseen developments in a way that will keep the human at the center of all our considerations. \nFormat: coming soon! \nLocation:  The seminar will take place at Abtei Michaelsberg\, Siegburg\, Germany. \nApplication Information: This seminar will be open to MA\, MTS\, MDiv\, PhD\, JD\, Post Doc\, and advanced undergraduates in all disciplines. \nApplicants will be required to submit: \n\nA completed online application form.\nAn updated CV.\nAt least one and as many as two letter(s) of recommendation from a member of the program in which the student is currently enrolled.\nA statement of research interest no longer than 750 words\, which includes an explanation of how this seminar might bear on the student’s current or future research plans.\nOne academic writing sample (30 pages maximum).\n\n\nFREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS \nCan I apply for more than one seminar? Yes. You may apply for multiple seminars. Please indicate your order of preference in your statement of purpose for each application. Each applicant may only be admitted to one seminar. \nI have attended a Lumen Christi Institute seminar in the past. May I still apply? Yes! \nDo I have to be Catholic to apply? No. The Lumen Christi Institute exists to promotes the Catholic intellectual tradition and is committed to the integration of the intellectual and spiritual life. The Institute welcomes seminar participants of all or no religious affiliation\, and wants to assure all applicants that the opportunities to participate in devotional activities are optional. \nIn addition to the travel stipend\, are there other funding possibilities? Seminar participation includes an opportunity to give a formal presentation and inclusion in the official program and schedule. We encourage participants to seek funding from their home institutions or other sources to supplement the travel stipend offered by the Lumen Christi Institute. \nWhen do I get my travel stipend? Stipends are distributed as a refund after successful completion of the seminar and seminar evaluations. Exceptions can be made on case by case basis. \nContact us with any further questions. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-cst-germany/ LOCATION:Abtei Michaelsberg\, TBD\, Siegburg\, Germany CATEGORIES:Seminar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/abbey.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190728T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190803T000000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241006T235424Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T144938Z UID:10000396-1564272000-1564790400@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Undergraduate Seminar: Augustine on Self\, God\, and Society DESCRIPTION:APPLICATION COMING SOON\nAugustine is one of the great minds of the Church and of western history. In this week-long intensive seminar\, undergraduates and recent graduates will learn how to read\, analyze\, and discern the theme of the self in relation to God and society across Augustine’s corpus. The seminar is anchored in an in-depth reading of Augustine’s Confessions\, one of the great masterpieces of literature that continues to speak across the centuries even as it is rooted in antiquity. This will be supplemented by selections from The City of God and On the Trinity.  \nApplication materials are due March 1. \n\nFREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS \nCan I apply for more than one seminar? Yes. You may apply for multiple seminars. Please indicate your order of preference in your statement of purpose for each application. Each applicant may only be admitted to one seminar. \nDo I have to be Catholic to apply? No. The Lumen Christi Institute exists to promotes the Catholic intellectual tradition and is committed to the integration of the intellectual and spiritual life. The Institute welcomes seminar participants of all or no religious affiliation\, and wants to assure all applicants that the opportunities to participate in devotional activities are optional. \nIn addition to the travel stipend\, are there other funding possibilities? Seminar participation includes an opportunity to give a formal presentation and inclusion in the official program and schedule. We encourage participants to seek funding from their home institutions or other sources to supplement the travel stipend offered by the Lumen Christi Institute. \nWhen do I get my travel stipend? Stipends are distributed as a refund after successful completion of the seminar and seminar evaluations. Exceptions can be made on case by case basis. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-augustine-self-society/ LOCATION:St. Albert’s Priory\, 5890 Birch Ct\, Oakland\, CA CATEGORIES:Seminar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/auggy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190728T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190803T120000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241006T235432Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260115T191714Z UID:10000395-1564315200-1564833600@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Modern Science and the Catholic Faith for Undergraduates DESCRIPTION:Applications are now closed.\nThe goal of this seminar is to provide students with the background knowledge and conceptual tools necessary to understand and think clearly about the relation of science and faith. This will help them to integrate scientific and theological ways of understanding in their own thinking\, and make it possible for them to help others (including their future colleagues and students) to achieve such integration. The overarching goal is to help develop a cadre of people with a broad and informed understanding of these issues who can be the nucleus from which wider outreach efforts might grow. \nAmong the topics discussed will be the historical relationship of the Church and science; the relation of faith and reason; evidence for God in the existence and order of the cosmos; God and nature; primary and secondary causality; the supernatural and miracles; modern physics and natural theology; creation and providence; the beginning of the universe and modern cosmology; God and time; human origins and human distinctiveness; rationality\, freedom\, and the soul; physicalist reductionism and the human mind; Genesis and scriptural interpretation; biological evolution; biology and human nature; and the Fall\, original sin and concupiscence. \nPreparatory readings will include excerpts from: \n\nModern Physics and Ancient Faith (Stephen M. Barr)\nThe Believing Scientist (Stephen M. Barr)\nThomistic Evolution (Fr. Nicanor Austriaco et al.)\nScience and Belief in a Nuclear Age (Peter E. Hodgson)\nGod’s Mechanics (Br. Guy Consolmagno)\nGod and Reason in the Middle Ages (Edward Grant)\nGalileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and Religion (ed. Ronald L. Numbers)\nMind and Cosmos (Thomas Nagel)\nThe Faith of the Early Fathers (William A. Jurgens)\nConfessions (St. Augustine)\nCity of God (St. Augustine)\nOn the Literal Meaning of Genesis (St. Augustine)\nSumma Contra Gentiles (St. Thomas Aquinas)\nIn the Beginning (Joseph Ratzinger)\naddresses and statements on science and religion by Pope St. John Paul II\nCommunion and Stewardship: Human Persons Created in the Image of God (International Theological Commission)\nsections of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. \n\nLOCATION AND FORMAT \n\nThe seminar will take place at Saint Joseph Abbey and Seminary College in St. Benedict\, LA. Admitted students will be required to arrange their own travel to and from the seminar.\nAdmitted students will be granted a stipend of $350 to offset travel costs in addition to having their lodging and meals covered for the duration of the seminar.\nParticipants will arrive at Saint Joseph on Sunday\, July 28 and depart on Saturday\, August 3. The seminar will take place from Monday to Friday\, with a lecture and discussion session each morning and afternoon.\nParticipants will be required read the assigned materials in preparation for the seminar.\nIn order to receive the $350 stipend\, students must participate fully in all seminar activities and complete a survey at the end of the seminar.\n\nAPPLICATION INFORMATION \n\nOpen to all undergraduate students\, including those who graduate in 2019 and recent graduates.\nApplicants must submit an online application\, including details on their course of study\, a statement of interest\, and a letter of recommendation.\nFor full consideration\, apply by May 12. After May 12\, applications will be evaluated on a rolling basis.\n15 applicants will be admitted to the seminar.\n\nThis seminar is part of the Lumen Christi Institute’s “Science and Religion: A Dialogue of Cultures” project generously supported by the John Templeton Foundation. \n\nFREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS \nI am a college student graduating this academic year. Can I still apply?  Yes! \nDo I have to be Catholic to apply? No. The Lumen Christi Institute exists to promotes the Catholic intellectual tradition and is committed to the integration of the intellectual and spiritual life. The Institute welcomes seminar participants of all or no religious affiliation\, and wants to assure all applicants that the opportunities to participate in devotional activities are optional. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-undergrad-science-religion-seminar/ LOCATION:Saint Joseph Abbey and Seminary College\, 75376 River Road\, St. Benedict\, LA CATEGORIES:Summer Seminars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/saint-joseph-seminary-college-campus.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190806T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190807T180000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241003T165220Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T144930Z UID:10000394-1565096400-1565200800@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Reason\, Revelation\, Tradition: The Limits of Leo Strauss? DESCRIPTION:You can view photos of the event HERE. \nLeo Strauss is well known for both his critique of modernity and his insistence on the productive (but irreconcilable) tension between reason and revelation. Even if Strauss’ recovery of the pre-modern philosophical life also opened a vista for the life of the saint to re-emerge\, Strauss always contended that any synthesis between the two was theoretically untenable. Catholic students of political philosophy have therefore found themselves in an uneasy alliance with Strauss: in accepting his critical project\, must they also accept his account of the natures of philosophy and faith? \nThis two-day master class will investigate what might be called the limits of Strauss. It will begin with an appreciation of his work\, especially his critique of historicism. After that it will investigate the problem of reason and revelation by comparing Strauss with fellow-travelers like MacIntyre and Pieper. Central questions will concern Strauss’ insistence that revelation must be conceived of as a totalizing “law\,” as well as whether Strauss’ account of reason is purely discursive or open to noetic ascent. \nREADINGS \n\nMark Shiffman\, “The Limits of Strauss’ Recovery of Pre-modern Political Philosophy”\nLeo Strauss\, selections from “Reason and Revelation” (sections 4-6\, 8; pp. 145-55 and 161-164)\nLeo Strauss\, “Natural Right and the Historical Approach”\nLeo Strauss\, selections from “Progress or Return?” (section 2; pp. 267-298)\nAlasdair MacIntyre\, reflections on the rationality of traditions (Three Rival Versions of Moral Inquiry\, pp. 127-157)\n​​​​​​​Josef Pieper\, “The Negative Element in the Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas” (The Silence of St. Thomas\, pp. 45-74)\n\nSCHEDULE \nTuesday\, August 6 \n1:30pm – Arrival at Gavin House & reception \n2pm – First Session: Strauss’ Writings\, introduced by Mark Shiffman (Villanova University) \n3:15pm – Break \n3:30pm – Second Session: Strauss’ Writings\, with 10-minute student presentation (Will Wood\, University of Chicago) \n4:45pm – Conclusion \n5:30pm – Informal Dinner at Gavin House \nWednesday\, August 7 \n9:30am – Arrival at Gavin and Coffee \n10am – Third Session: MacIntyre on tradition\, with 10-minute student presentation (Nathan Pinkoski\, University of Toronto) \n11:15am – Break \n11:30am – Fourth Session: Pieper on Aquinas\, with 10-minute presentation (Mark Hoipkemier\, University of Virginia) \n12:45pm – Conclusion \n1pm – Informal Lunch at Gavin House \n2:30pm – Final Session: Summation\, a discussion of Strauss’ “Reason and Revelation\,” with our appraisal of Strauss’ formulation of the problem \n3:45pm – Conclusion \nStudents are responsible for arranging their own travel and lodging. With questions\, please contact master class organizer Austin Walker at awalker@lumenchristi.org. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-08-master-class-on-strauss-macintyre-pieper-on-reason-revelation-mark-shiffman/ LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/saint-paul-preaching-in-athens-after-raphael-a1f715-1600.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190914T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190914T130000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241003T165220Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T144926Z UID:10000393-1568453400-1568466000@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Master Class on "The Writings of Meister Eckhart" DESCRIPTION:You can view photos of the event HERE. \nIn this one-off seminar\, participants will read and discuss the writings of late medieval German mystic and theologian Meister Eckhart (c. 1260-1327) with Bernard McGinn\, Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago Divinity School and leading expert on the history of Christian spirituality and mysticism. \nSession 1. An Introduction to Eckhart \n\n“Introductions” in The Essential Sermons\, pp. 5-­61\nGerman Sermon 52 in The Essential Sermons\, pp. 199-­203\nThe Sequence “Granum sinapis” (Handout)\n\nSession 2. Eckhart on Justice \n\nGerman Sermon 6 in The Essential Sermons\, pp. 185-­189\nCommentary on the Gospel of John\, “Prologue” nn. 1-­‐‑23 in The Essential Sermons\, pp. 122-­129\n\nSession 3. Eckhart on Intellect \n\nLatin Sermon XXIX\, in Meister Eckhart\, Teacher and Preacher\, pp. 223-­26\nQuestion 1\, in Meister Eckhart\, Parisian Questions and Prologues\, pp. 43-­50\n\nSCHEDULE \n9:00am Coffee & Tea\n9:30am Session 1\n10:30am Break\n10:45am Session 2\n11:45pm Break\n12:00pm Session 3\n1:00pm End\, optional lunch served URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-09-master-class-on-writings-of-meister-eckhart/ LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Eckhart.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20191009T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20191009T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241003T165219Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T144923Z UID:10000392-1570640400-1570640400@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:What St. Benedict Taught the Dark Ages: His and Ours DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\nFree and open to the public. Cosponsored by the John U. Nef Commitee on Social Thought. \nCardinal Newman\, who will be canonized on October 13\, is well known for his philosophy of education\, especially for his masterwork The Idea of University (1853).  But his most profound reflections on education are in his minor work “The Mission of St. Benedict” (1858)\, in which Newman treats the question of how to teach a beginner\, even a beginner under the most unfavorable circumstances.  Not a novice in dialectic and rhetoric\, or in the theoretical or practical sciences\, but a beginner in the quotidian flow of life.\n\nIn the declining shadows of Roman order in the West\, the fifth-century monk St. Benedict authored a “simple Rule for beginners.”  How to divide a day\, how to honor one’s fellows of different social classes\, how to bury the dead\, how to distinguish tools and persons\, and many other things that bewilder us today.  Newman claimed that St. Benedict was the genius of “poetical” education\, which directs the first and maybe even final steps of living ordinary life as an integrated whole.\n\nProfessor Hittinger will also lead a master class for students and faculty on Yves Simon’s A General Theory of Authority on Friday\, October 11. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-10-benedicts-teaching-for-dark-ages-his-ours-russell-hittinger/ LOCATION:Classics 110\, 1010 E 59th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Benedict.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20191011T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20191011T171500 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241003T165217Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T144920Z UID:10000391-1570802400-1570814100@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Master Class on Yves Simon's "A General Theory of Authority" DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\nOpen to current students and faculty. Copies of the book A General Theory of Authority (University of Notre Dame Press\, 1980) will be provided for those who register. Professor Hittinger will also give a lecture on October 9 on “What St. Benedict Taught the Dark Ages: His and Ours.” \nYves Simon (1903-1961) was a neo-scholastic philosopher who distinguished himself chiefly for his work in moral and political philosophy.  A student of Jacques Maritain in Paris\, in 1938 he accepted a visiting position at the University of Notre Dame where he was stranded after the outbreak of WWII.  In 1948 he became a member of the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.  Today he is perhaps best remembered and referenced for his work on the nature and functions of authority\, a topic that he traversed three times:  The Nature and Function of Authority (1940)\, Philosophy of Democratic Government (1951) based on his Walgreen Lectures at the University of Chicago (1948)\, and A General Theory of Authority (1962)\, published a year after his death. Why three times?  The simple answer is that he was a meticulous philosopher and therefore he endeavored to get his account just right.  Think for example of John Rawls’s multiple revisions of his theory of justice. \nBut it was also an imperative of his time and place.  A neo-scholastic philosopher in the mid-20th century had to account for rapidly changing social and political conditions that made it awkward to defend such basic terms of art as authority and common good.  The scholastic tradition had to reckon with the fact that the Catholic appropriation of the perennial philosophy seemed to side with the claims of authority against claims for liberty on a spectrum of social issues – from politics to family and religion.  After the rise of totalitarianism and the disaster of two world wars\, the claims for liberty were quite insistent and culturally ascendant.  The year of Simon’s Walgreen Lectures witnessed the U.N. Declaration on Human Rights and the global process of decolonization\, both of which underscored the principle of self-determination over and against more traditional kinds of authority.  Standard liberal accounts of authority for the most part were content to ground authority in theories of consent\, based on contractual understandings of consent to a utility – a resource-saving device for enhancement of individual choice.  This was a one-dimensional account of the function of authority\, but it had the advantage of comporting with the expectation that public powers serve and enhance individual liberty. This was the challenge Simon faced in putting forward a more robust account of authority. \nSCHEDULE \n1:30 welcome\, coffee and tea \n2:00 first session \n3:30 break \n3:45 second session \n5:15 reception \nSYLLABUS \nFIRST SESSION (2:00-3:30) \nInitial Presentation (30 minutes) \n\nThe issue of authority as Simon found it after WWII.\nNeo-scholastic problems.\nGeneral Theory:  Preview of the Main Question\, the Main Definition.\n\nReadings\, GTA: Chs. 1 (and 5)\, 2; Thomas Aquinas\, S.t. I\, 96.4. \nDiscussion: \nThe “bad name of authority\,” not altogether mistaken?  Is the bad name due to philosophical misunderstandings\, or to the frame and behavior of institutions\, or to the lived experience of modern peoples? \nDistinction between law and authority (20\, 48 n.11).  Does it work in favor of his general theory? \nLook carefully at four points that appear constitute the main chassis for his position: \n\nEssential and accidental functions of authority (20-22).\nPartnership vs common action (29-33\, and the coach-driver 135).\nThe essential function and the scenario of a multitude without deficiencies (37-47\, handout S.t. I\, 96.4).\nThe distinction between formal and material intention of a common good (57-65) – is he grappling with the issue of subsidiarity?\n\nSECOND SESSION (3.45-5.15) \nInitial Presentation (15 minutes). \n\nRecapitulation and a few remarks on authority and theoretical knowledge.\n\nReadings\,  GTA\, Chs. 3 and 4. \nDiscussion: \nAn authoritative “witness” does not\, all else being equal\, require the power to give orders and demand obedience (84-87).  The authority of a witness presupposes some kind of deficiency in the knower\, for it is substitutional (remedial) (93).  In the practical domain\, both essential and accidental functions of authority have as their end a (social) common good.  Does he now suggest a function of authority in theoretical matters that does not have a common good\, or “essential” function as its end? \nPerhaps the key to that question is his discussion of liberalism – freedom of thought as a “sociological agnosticism” that’s normative rather than merely prudential.  (102-109\, especially at 110-111).  Perhaps his anticipation of Rawls’s Political Liberalism (1993)? \nSimon regards philosophy as corrupted once it deliberately aims at winning social consensus (113-115).  This is a point that deserves some reflection.  Yet in “Truth and Community” (115-131) he wants to affirm that the search for truth is related to what is “fundamental in human sociability.”  That would be communion.  But social communion depends upon some kind of intellectual and spiritual consensus that serves common action (127). \nIs Chapter 3 somehow the core of Simon’s effort in GTA?  This is the material that he didn’t treat quite so explicitly in previous treatises on authority. \nChapter 4 reworks the preceding chapters.  What difference does Chapter 3 make to this restatement of the functions of authority? URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-10-master-class-on-yves-simons-a-general-theory-of-authority-russell-hittinger/ LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/authority-book-cover.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20191017T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20191017T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241003T165216Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260322T200330Z UID:10000390-1571331600-1571331600@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Genome Editing with CRISPR: Dignity and Other Faith-Based Considerations DESCRIPTION:—\nCosponsored by the Program on Religion and Medicine at the University of Chicago\, McCormick Theological Seminary\, and the Society of Catholic Scientists. This program is made possible by a grant from the John Templeton Foundation. \nThe discovery of CRISPR/Cas9 has revolutionized our ability to edit genomes\, the human genome included. How do faith-based ethicists maneuver the landscape of human genetic engineering? What challenges do biotechnological advances pose to the dignity of the human person? Should genetic editing be celebrated? Cautiously advanced? Ruled out? In this lecture\, biologist and Dominican Priest Nicanor Austriaco considered the prospects and challenges of CRISPR for the promotion of human dignity. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-10-genome-editing-with-crispr-dignity-other-faith-based-considerations-nicanor-austriaco-o-p/ LOCATION:BSLC 109\, 924 E 57th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/CRISPR.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20191019T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20191019T163000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241003T165215Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260206T164539Z UID:10000389-1571475600-1571502600@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:The Making of a Modern Saint: John Henry Newman on Faith and Education in a Secular Age DESCRIPTION:Cosponsored by Mundelein Seminary\, the Archdiocese of Chicago Vocation Office\, and the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame. This program is made possible in part by a gift from the Paluch Family Foundation and a grant from the John Templeton Foundation. \nFollow us on Instagram for updates about the event. \n\nHave you ever wondered why you go to school? Or what the point of it all is? What goes into making a big decision? And how do you fit together everything you know–or even the past with the future? \nJohn Henry Newman will be canonized on October 13th. On October 19th\, we’ll celebrate his life and thought. \n\n\nIn the morning\, Dwight Lindley from Hillsdale College will talk about\, “Conversion\, the Key to Newman’s Life and Thought.” Newman understood his own conversion to be a gradual realization of what his most-deeply held principles required of him–it wasn’t some shallow “emotional” feeling. And Newman’s understanding of conversion helped him to give an account of the Church’s development over time (and how that development is both similar to and different from Darwinian evolution!).\n\nIn the afternoon\, Dave Deavel from University of St. Thomas will tell us about Newman’s idea of education. He will help us ask what a true education is. What does it mean to seek “knowledge for its own sake”? What does it mean when Newman describes the whole of knowledge as a “circle”? How do all the “subjects”—biology\, history\, philosophy\, theology\, and the rest—in the circle fit together? What unites them? Does theology have to be part of true education? How does “being educated” relate to my career? We’ll talk about all this and more in this lecture.\n\nThere will also be food\, games\, outdoor competitions\, and a prize for the winners.\n\n\nSCHEDULE \n9:00am Registration and Breakfast\n10:00am Welcome & Introductions\n10:15am Opening Prayer\n10:30am Prof. Lindley lecture on Newman’s life and times\n11:45am  Lunchtime discussion group\n1:00pm Outdoor activity\n2:15pm Prof. Deavel lecture on Science\, University\, and Liberal Education\n3:30pm Discussion Groups\n4:30pm Mass (optional)\n5:45pm Pizza Party (optional) URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-10-making-of-a-modern-saint-john-henry-newman-on-faith-education-in-a-secular-age/ LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL CATEGORIES:Newman Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/ENGLAND-BISHOPS-NEWMAN-SAINT-22291-CNS-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20191023T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20191023T183000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241003T165210Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T144908Z UID:10000388-1571855400-1571855400@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Waiting for Jesus in Havana DESCRIPTION:The family is traditionally held to be the first church. Yet\, the Latino Catholic home bears diverse local religious and cultural influences. How does one better understand the tapestry of one’s own religious experience and its relation to the Catholic tradition? \nJoin us in this workshop as Carlos Eire\, historian and expert in popular piety\, draws from his memoirs “Waiting for Snow in Havana” and “Learning to Die in Miami” to discuss the diversity of religious strands that made up his own Cuban household and analyze the challenges and opportunities it presents to the Hispanic Catholic experience. Participants will walk away with a deeper understanding of the local peculiarities of Catholic culture\, as well as of the perilous task of wrestling with one’s own religious beliefs while writing for a broad reading public. \nCosponsored by Cristo Rey Jesuit High School. This event is made possible in part by a grant from the Our Sunday Visitor Institute. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-10-waiting-for-jesus-in-havana-carlos-eire/ LOCATION:IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/DSC_1561-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20191024T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20191024T133000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241003T165210Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T144905Z UID:10000387-1571918400-1571923800@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila DESCRIPTION:This program was made possible in part by a grant from the Our Sunday Visitor Institute. \nA luncheon talk with Professor Carlos Eire (Yale) on the recent book on the life and many afterlives of one of the most enduring mystical testaments ever written: The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila. \nSaint Teresa of Avila’s Life is among the most remarkable accounts ever written of the human encounter with the divine. The Life is not really an autobiography at all\, but rather a confession written for inquisitors by a nun whose raptures and mystical claims had aroused suspicion. Despite its troubled origins\, the book has had a profound impact on Christian spirituality for five centuries\, attracting admiration from readers as diverse as mystics\, philosophers\, artists\, psychoanalysts\, and neurologists. How did a manuscript once kept under lock and key by the Spanish Inquisition become one of the most inspiring religious books of all time? \nIn The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila: A Biography (Princeton University Press\, 2019) National Book Award winner Carlos Eire tells the story of this incomparable spiritual masterpiece\, examining its composition and reception in the sixteenth century\, the various ways its mystical teachings have been interpreted and reinterpreted across time\, and its enduring influence in our own secular age. \nProf. Eire also participated in a panel discussion of his book later that afternoon at the University of Chicago. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-10-life-of-saint-teresa-of-avila-carlos-eire/ LOCATION:University Club of Chicago\, 76 E Monroe St\nChicago\, IL 60603\, Downtown\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Eire_St.Teresa_1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20191024T171500 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20191024T171500 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241003T165206Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T144902Z UID:10000386-1571937300-1571937300@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Symposium on "The Life of Teresa of Avila: A Biography" DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion at the Divinity School\, the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures\, and the Medieval Studies Workshop. This program was made possible in part by a grant from the Our Sunday Visitor Institute. \nCopies of The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila: A Biography (Princeton University Press\, 2019) are available for sale by the Seminary Coop Bookstore. \nSaint Teresa of Avila’s Life is among the most remarkable accounts ever written of the human encounter with the divine. The Life is not really an autobiography at all\, but rather a confession written for inquisitors by a nun whose raptures and mystical claims had aroused suspicion. Despite its troubled origins\, the book has had a profound impact on Christian spirituality for five centuries\, attracting admiration from readers as diverse as mystics\, philosophers\, artists\, psychoanalysts\, and neurologists. How did a manuscript once kept under lock and key by the Spanish Inquisition become one of the most inspiring religious books of all time? \nIn The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila: A Biography (Princeton University Press\, 2019) National Book Award winner Carlos Eire tells the story of this incomparable spiritual masterpiece\, examining its composition and reception in the sixteenth century\, the various ways its mystical teachings have been interpreted and reinterpreted across time\, and its enduring influence in our own secular age. \nProfessor Eire also gave a luncheon talk that day at noon at the University of Chicago of Chicago. He also taught a three-hour master class for students and faculty on The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila on Friday\, October 25. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-10-symposium-on-life-of-teresa-of-avila-carlos-eire-bernard-mcginn/ LOCATION:Social Sciences\, Room 122\, 1126 E 59th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Eire_St.Teresa.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20191025T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20191025T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241003T165205Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T144858Z UID:10000385-1572012000-1572022800@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Master Class on "The Life of Teresa of Avila" DESCRIPTION:This program was made possible in part by a grant from the Our Sunday Visitor Institute. \nThe Life of Saint Teresa of Avila is one of the most remarkable accounts ever written of the human encounter with the divine.  This text is not really an autobiography at all\, despite the fact that it is widely regarded as such\, but rather a confession written for inquisitors by a nun whose raptures and mystical claims had aroused suspicion. Despite its troubled origins\, and despite the fact that some clergy continued to condemn it after it was published\, the book has had a profound impact on Christian spirituality for five centuries\, attracting admiration from readers as diverse as mystics\, philosophers\, artists\, psychoanalysts\, and neurologists. How and why did a manuscript once kept under lock and key by the Spanish Inquisition become an iconic text of the Counter-Reformation and an enduring influence on Western culture? \nThis master class will examine the historical and theological content of Saint Teresa’s audacious mystical theology. \nREQUIRED READING \n\nThe Life of Teresa of Avila (Penguin Classics\, 1988) Chs. 1-2\, 7-14\, 20-22\, 28-40.\n\nRECOMMENDED READING \n\nEire\, Carlos\, The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila: A Biography (Princeton University Press\, 2019).\n\nSCHEDULE \n1:30pm Coffee\, tea\, and pastries \n2:00pm Introduction\, Session I \n3:20pm Break \n3:40pm Session II \n5:00pm End\, wine and cheese reception \nProfessor Eire will also participate in a symposium on his new book The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila: A Biography on October 24. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-10-master-class-on-life-of-teresa-of-avila-carlos-eire/ LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Penguin-Teresa-Cover.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20191030T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20191030T190000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241003T165205Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251024T191830Z UID:10000384-1572456600-1572462000@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:John Henry Newman's Path to Sainthood DESCRIPTION:This event was cosponsored by Mundelein Seminary\, the Sheil Catholic Center at Northwestern University\, the Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage at Loyola University Chicago\, the Department of Catholic Studies at DePaul University\, the Calvert House Catholic Center at the University of Chicago\, and the John Paul II Newman Center at UIC. \n\nWhat makes a modern saint? On October 13th\, Cardinal John Henry Newman (1801-1890)\, English theologian\, philosopher and cardinal\, was officially canonized a saint of the Roman Catholic Church. This event at Holy Name Cathedral was a presentation on the life and sanctity of John Henry Newman by leading Newman scholar of our time Fr. Ian Ker (Oxford) and Melissa Villalobos\, the woman whose miraculous cure led to Newman’s canonization. The event was moderated by Kenneth Woodward\, former religion editor of Newsweek and author of Making Saints. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-10-john-henry-nemwans-path-to-sainthood-ian-ker-kenneth-woodward/ LOCATION:Holy Name Cathedral Auditorium\, 730 North Wabash Avenue\nChicago\, Illinois 60611\, River North\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/newman-1200-800.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20191031T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20191031T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241003T165203Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251024T192050Z UID:10000383-1572541200-1572541200@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Newman’s Apologetics of the Imagination DESCRIPTION:This event was cosponsored by the Nicholson Center for British Studies. \nJohn Henry Newman famously insisted that “the heart is commonly reached not through the reason\, but through the imagination.”  As a theologian\, apologist\, and the 19th century’s most famous convert\, Newman was keenly attentive to the foundations of religious belief.  His apologetic career is\, in some sense\, an appeal to the imagination in contradistinction to the prevailing empiricism of Locke and Hume.  In his novels\, sermons\, lectures\, and even his philosophical magnum opus\, the Grammar of Assent\, Newman defends an understanding of the imagination that harmonizes religious faith and rational inquiry. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-10-newman-s-apologetics-of-imagination-ian-ker/ LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/portrait-of-newman-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20191106T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20191106T203000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241003T165203Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T144848Z UID:10000382-1573065000-1573072200@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Science and Faith: Non-Overlapping Magisteria? DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\n5:30 Reception | 6:00pm Discussion \nCo-sponsored by The Columbia University Seminar on Catholicism\, Culture and Modernity\, the Columbia Catholic Ministry\, and the Society of Catholic Scientists. This programming is made possible by a grant from the Templeton Foundation. \nA Discussion with Stephen Barr (University of Delaware)\, Jonathan Lunine (Cornell University)\, moderated by Carlo Lancellotti (CUNY Staten Island). \nIn reaction to Pope John Paul II’s 1996 address to the Pontifical Academy of the Sciences\, “Truth Cannot Contradict Truth”\, Stephen Jay Gould famously published his view on religion and science being non-overlapping magisteria (NOMA). He proposed that religion and science were distinct and separate domains of teaching authority\, with no interference between–or influence upon–each other. Gould maintained that science documents the factual character of the natural world and seeks theoretical constructs to explain those facts\, while religion operates on the “realm of human purposes\, meanings\, and values.” \nThis consensus position proved popular among scientists and people of faith for its diplomacy\, but is such a model sufficient for understanding the relationship between faith and science? Can science inform faith? Does religious thinking shape our approach towards science and its application\, and does that necessarily contradict NOMA? Come as two Catholic scientists weigh in on the chasms and connections of Science and Religion. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-11-science-faith-non-overlapping-magisteria-stephen-m-barr-jonathan-lunine/ LOCATION:Faculty House at Columbia University\, 64 Morningside Drive\, New York\, NY ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Mountains-of-Creation-nebulae.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20191115T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20191115T190000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241003T165200Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251024T193733Z UID:10000381-1573830000-1573844400@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:The Human Person in an Age of Biotechnology: A Symposium DESCRIPTION:We are at the very outset of the Age of Biotechnology. This presses anew questions regarding the limits of the human person. What is the human species from the point of view of evolutionary biology? How malleable is this definition? Is there such a thing as a species? How does this compare to philosophical perspectives on the person? The questions above are not new\, but they have acquired new urgency with recent advances in biotechnology. In ths symposium\, six distinguished scholars discuss these and other pressing questions in two panels–the first addressing these issues in the practice of science and application of biotechnology in the world\, and the second addressing these issues from the point of theory.\nCosponsored by the Program on Religion and Medicine at the University of Chicago\,the Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion\, the Theology and Ethics Workshop\, the Society of Catholic Scientists\, and McCormick Theological Seminary. This program is made possible by a grant from the John Templeton Foundation and the Our Sunday Visitor Institute. \nSchedule: \nPanel 1 — Praxis \nGaymon Bennett (Arizona State University): “The Algorithm and the Spirit: Big Tech and the Enchantments of Biotechnology” \nJohn Novembre (University of Chicago): “The expanding scope for genetic discrimination: New genetic predictors and their challenges” \nStephen Meredith (University of Chicago): “Brave New World: Revisited – Revisited.” \nModerator: Victoria Prince (University of Chicago) \nPanel 2 — Theoria \nPaul Scherz (Catholic University of America): “Being Human as Being at Risk: The Shift from Genetic Determinism to Precision Medicine” \nWillemien Otten (University of Chicago): “The dynamics between nature and human nature on perpetration and victimhood” \nJeff Bishop (Saint Louis University): “On the Being of Humans and the Being of Technology” \nModerator: Hille Haker (Loyola University Chicago) URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-11-human-person-in-an-age-of-biotechnology-a-symposium/ LOCATION:BSLC 115\, 924 E 57th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/vitruvian-man.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20191116T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20191116T140000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241003T165159Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T144841Z UID:10000380-1573902000-1573912800@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Master Class on "Heidegger & Aquinas on the Question Concerning Technology" DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\nOpen to current students and faculty. Copies of the readings will be provided for those who register. \nSCHEDULE \n9:30am Coffee & Pastries\n10:00am Session I\n11:25am Break\n11:35am Session II\n1:00pm End\, lunch \nREQUIRED READINGS \n\nThomas Aquinas\, Summa Theologica\, I\, Q.47\, Art.1-2 (on creation); III\, Q.60\, Art.2-4 (on sacraments)\nMartin Heidegger\, The Question Concerning Technology \n\nRECOMMENDED READINGS \n\nFrancisco Benzoni. “Thomas Aquinas and Environmental Ethics: A Reconsideration of Providence and Salvation.” The Journal of Religion\, Vol. 85\, No. 3 (July 2005)\, pp. 446-476.\nBernard Stiegler\, Technics and Time\, 1 (Stanford University Press\, 1998) pp. 1-27. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-11-heidegger-aquinas-on-question-concerning-technology-jeffrey-bishop-stephen-meredith/ LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Heidegger-Aquinas-Graphic.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20191126T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20191126T210000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241003T165156Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T144837Z UID:10000379-1574794800-1574802000@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Non-Credit Course on Modern Science and Christian Faith DESCRIPTION:6:00 Dinner | 6:30 Lecture\nThis weekly non-credit course is open to current students and faculty. Registrants are free to attend as many sessions as they choose. Sessions do not presuppose previous attendance or prior knowledge of the subject. This program is made possible by a grant from the John Templeton Foundation and The Our Sunday Visitor Institute. \nPeople of faith have been deeply involved in the pursuit of science throughout the history of the discipline\, from pioneering advances like the Big Bang and the building blocks of modern genetics\, to the everyday\, incremental toil of research. Yet\, it is a commonly held belief that there has long been an irreconcilable conflict between science and faith. From where does this proposed conflict emerge? How can faith complement one’s approach towards\, and interpretation of\, science? How can science complement one’s understanding of the Christian faith? How does one respond to ever new challenges raised by modern science and technology? Through this Autumn non-credit course\, visiting Scientists and Theologians will explore some of these questions from within their particular disciplines. \nSCHEDULE \nOct. 8: “Science & Faith: Clash or Harmony?\nStephen Barr (University of Delaware) \nOct 15: “Science & Faith: Understanding and Correcting Models of Conflict”\nChris Baglow (McGrath Institute\, University of Notre Dame) \nOct 22: “The Evolving Universe”\nDan Fabrycky (University of Chicago) \nOct 29: “How to Engage Mystery: Advice from a Scientist for Nones\, Nuns\, and All”\nFr. John Kartje  (University of Saint Mary of the Lake) \nNov 5: “Materialistic Reductionism and Science”\nStephen Barr (University of Delaware) \nNov 12: “Disease and the Problem of Evil”\nStephen Meredith (University of Chicago) \nNov 19: “Biological Evolution and Christian Faith”\nPeter Tierney (Lumen Christ Institute) \nNov 26: “Fate in Science and Religion”\nJames Donovan (North Central College) URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-11-non-credit-course-on-modern-science-christian-faith/ LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/S-R-seminar-graphic_1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20191204T181500 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20191204T181500 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241003T165155Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251024T192231Z UID:10000378-1575483300-1575483300@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:The Open Question of Church Polity and Governance: Trent\, Vatican I\, Vatican II DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Theology and Ethics Workshop at the Divinity School and the Midwest Province of the Society of Jesus.\nSexual and financial scandals are prompting Catholics to ask hard and painful questions about church government.  Who is in charge?  How is responsibility and accountability for governance distributed in the Church?  By no means is this the first time that the Catholic Church has reckoned with the letter and the spirit of its own governance. Drawing from his latest book\, When Bishops Meet: An Essay Comparing Trent\, Vatican I\, and Vatican II (Harvard\, 2019)\, Fr. John O’Malley\, S.J. retraces how the three modern ecumenical councils grappled with church reform and highlight resources in that tradition that may help us today. A response from Russell Hittinger follows\, leading to open discussion moderated by Jennifer Newsome Martin (University of Notre Dame). URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-12-open-question-of-church-polity-trent-vatican-i-vatican-ii-russell-hittinger-john-omalley-sj/ LOCATION:Social Sciences\, Room 122\, 1126 E 59th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/vatican-ii_1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20191207T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20191207T140000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241003T165155Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T144831Z UID:10000377-1575716400-1575727200@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Master Class on Yves Simon's "Philosophy of Democratic Government" DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\nOpen to current students and faculty. Copies of Philosophy of Democratic Government (University of Notre Dame Press\, 1993) will be provided for registrants. \nThe Charles R. Walgreen Foundation for the Study of American Institutions was established in June 1937 to foster greater appreciation of American life and values among University of Chicago students.  An important work of the Foundation was the Walgreen Lectures.  After the Second World War these lectures were published with a Foreward from the Foundation. \nTwice during the first half of the twentieth-century\, totalitarian systems have challenged the concept of democracy…. Democracy has been on the defensive; it has been defended more and more often with the pragmatic argument.  But this argument has proved no match for the competing systems.  Democracy\, works\, it is true – but so did fascism\, until it was destroyed from the outside.  The need for a philosophy that show democracy to be grounded firmly on rational principles – this need is apparent. \nEspecially noteworthy is the fact that the need for philosophical reflection was met by four émigré scholars whose Walgreen lectures are still in print and widely read some seventy later.  In 1948 Yves Simon (Philosophy of Democratic Government); in 1949 Leo Strauss (Natural Right and History); in 1950 Jacques Maritain (Man and the State); in 1951 Eric Voegelin (New Science of Politics).  In a similar vein\, Hannah Arendt would give the 1956 lectures (On the Human Condition). \nThis masterclass is made possible by a grant from the Our Sunday Visitor Institute. \nSCHEDULE \n9:30am Coffee & Pastries\n10:00am Session I\n11:25am Break\n11:35am Session II\n1:00pm End\, lunch \nFIRST SESSION \nChap. 1.  We can focus on pages 19-71\, which cover the functions of authority in any society that has a political common good.  For those who have read his two other books on authority\, this material can be quickly read as a review of those themes\, particularly his distinction between authority exercised to correct a deficiency in the governed and authority made necessary by a plenitude of the good. \nChap. 3.  We will read the entire chapter.  Here\, Simon raises what he calls the “great difficulty”:  “it seems to be impossible to account for social life without assuming that man can bind the conscience of his neighbor; on the other hand\, it is not easy to see how a man can ever enjoy such power.”  We need to discuss his understanding of three theories that account for the origin of legitimate command and obedience:  Coach-Driver\, Designation\, and Transmission. \nSECOND SESSION \nChap. 2.  Democratic Freedom.  We can pick up the conversation at pages 108-149.  Is democratic freedom\, more or less the same thing as Liberalism?  Is democratic freedom\,  more or less\, the same thing as a regime of human rights?  (The 1948 U.N. Declaration of Human Rights was issued the year of his Walgreen lecture). \nChap. 4.  Democratic Equality.  I am eager to get our discussion into the final section\, “Equality versus Exploitation” (pp. 230-259). URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-12-master-class-on-yves-simons-philosophy-of-democratic-government/ LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Simon-Yves.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200116T181500 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200116T181500 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241003T165153Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251024T205342Z UID:10000376-1579198500-1579198500@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Becoming Human in Light of the Gospel of John DESCRIPTION:This event was Cosponsored by the Theology and Ethics Workshop\, the Orthodox Christian Fellowship\, and St. Makarios the Great Orthodox Mission. Fr. Behr also led a master class for students and faculty on January 17 on Maximus the Confessor. \nOn his way to Rome\, Ignatius of Antioch urges the Christians there not to interfere with his impending martyrdom: ‘hinder me not from living\, do not wish me to die\, allow me to receive the light\, when I will have arrived here\, I will be a human being’! In this lecture\, Fr John Behr will explore how the Gospel of John alludes back to Genesis to show that Christ is the true human being\, inviting us also to become human. \n\nAbout Fr. Behr’s book John the Theologian and his Paschal Gospel: A Prologue to Theology (Oxford University Press\, 2019) \nThis study brings three different kinds of readers of the Gospel of John together with the theological goal of understanding what is meant by Incarnation and how it relates to Pascha\, the Passion of Christ\, how this is conceived of as revelation\, and how we speak of it. The first group of readers are the Christian writers from the early centuries\, some of whom (such as Irenaeus of Lyons) stood in direct continuity\, through Polycarp of Smyrna\, with John himself. In exploring these writers\, John Behr offers a glimpse of the figure of John and the celebration of Pascha\, which held to have started with him. \nThe second group of readers are modern scriptural scholars\, from whom we learn of the apocalyptic dimensions of John’s Gospel and the way in which it presents the life of Christ in terms of the Temple and its feasts. With Christ’s own body\, finally erected on the Cross\, being the true Temple in an offering of love rather than a sacrifice for sin. An offering in which Jesus becomes the flesh he offers for consumption\, the bread which descends from heaven\, so that ‘incarnation’ is not an event now in the past\, but the embodiment of God in those who follow Christ in the present. \nThe third reader is Michel Henry\, a French Phenomenologist\, whose reading of John opens up further surprising dimensions of this Gospel\, which yet align with those uncovered in the first parts of this work. This thought-provoking work brings these threads together to reflect on the nature and task of Christian theology. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-01-becoming-human-in-light-of-gospel-of-john-fr-john-behr/ LOCATION:Breasted Hall\, Oriental Institute\, 1155 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Crucifixion_of_Christ_mdq5jp.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200117T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200117T180000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241003T165152Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T144824Z UID:10000375-1579273200-1579284000@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Master Class on Maximus the Confessor DESCRIPTION:St. Maximus the Confessor is rapidly becoming one of the most studied of all early Christian theologians; the depths and richness of his writings and theology are being ever more appreciated. This masterclass focused on one specific—and short—text\, Ambiguum 41\, perhaps the richest of them all and certainly the one for which is best known. It speaks of five fundamental differences or divisions within being\, with the vocation of the human being to unite them: Uncreated and created; intelligible and sensible; heaven and earth; paradise and the inhabited world; male and female. We will work through the Greek text (with a parallel edition)\, and compare his treatment of the male/female distinction to that which we find in Gregory of Nyssa’s De Hominis Opificio.\nReading \n\nMaximus the Confessor\, Ambiguum 41 (PDF supplied) from Maximos the Confessor: On Difficulties in the Church Fathers: The Ambigua\, ed. and trans. Nicholas Constas\, Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library\, 2 volumes (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press\, 2014)\nGregory of Nyssa\, On the Making of Man (PDF supplied)\n\nSuggested Background Reading: \n\nPaul Blowers\, Maximus the Confessor: Jesus Christ and the Transfiguration of the World (Oxford: OUP\, 2016).\nL. Thunberg\, Microcosm and Mediator: The Theological Anthropology of Maximus the Confessor\, 2nd edn. (Open Court Publishing Co. 1995).\nTorstein Theodor Tollefsen\, The Christocentric Cosmology of St. Maximus the Confessor\, OECS (Oxford: Oxford University Press\, 2008).\nMelchisedec Törönen\, Union and Distinction in the Thought of St. Maximus the Confessor\, OECS (Oxford: Oxford University Press\, 2007).\n\nSchedule: \n1:30pm Coffee\, Tea\, & Pastries\n2:00pm Session I\n3:25pm Break\n3:35pm Session II\n5:00pm End\, Wine & Cheese reception \nFr. Behr also gave a lecture on January 16 on Becoming Human in the Light of the Gospel of John. URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-01-master-class-on-maximus-confessor-fr-john-behr/ LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Maksim_ispovednik.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200118T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200118T143000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241003T165150Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T144821Z UID:10000374-1579350600-1579357800@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Are the Great Books Good for us? Liberal Education and the Christian Tradition DESCRIPTION:What are the liberal arts? Is there more than one tradition of humanistic liberal learning\, and what’s the connection between them the UChicago core curriculum? Professor Jared Ortiz (an undergrad alum of UChicago) hosted a lunchtime conversation about the tradition of liberal education\, its reception in Catholic thought\, and the question of what an education is for. \nPart I of the Winter 2020 Great Books and the Christian Tradition seminar series. \n— \nGreat Books and the Christian Tradition \nFrom the School of Alexandria and the reading of Scripture in the Monasteries\, through the re-formulation of the Liberal Arts in the medieval schools and universities\, in the renewal of the tradition that included Petrarch\, Erasmus\, John Henry Newman\, and Ressourcement\, the development of the Liberal Arts Tradition has been intertwined with Christian thought. This series highlights the connection between the Liberal Arts and the Christian Intellectual Tradition and aims to recover the humanistic and contemplative spirit of a truly liberal education. \nOther seminars in the series include: \nII. Achievement and the Christian Life: What is Education For? \nIII. What is Wrong with Curiosity? Augustine on Curiosity and the Use and the Abuse of the Intellect in the Confessions \nIV: Is it Rational to Believe in Miracles? A Discussion of David Hume’s Argument Against Believing in Miracles URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-01-are-great-books-good-for-us-liberal-education-christian-tradition/ LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/great-books-4-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200119T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200119T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241003T165149Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260206T164639Z UID:10000373-1579446000-1579453200@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:How NOT To Get Away with Murder DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Lumen Christi Institute’s Newman Forum. Open to current high school students. \nThe book of Genesis is one of the most interesting and difficult books of the Bible. And there is so much more to it than meets the eye.  For example: \nWhen the snake approaches Eve for the first time\, he asks her: “Did God really say\, ‘You shall not eat from any of the trees in the garden’?”  But that isn’t what God said at all.  He told Adam\, “You are free to eat from any of the trees of the garden except the tree of knowledge of good and evil.”  Already\, the snake has changed God’s command in order to make God appear unjust. God says: all but one. The snake says: none at all\, right?  Eve is in trouble–she wasn’t there when God gave Adam the original command. She hadn’t been created yet.  If she heard the command at all\, she heard it second-hand from Adam.  As you can see\, the snake is very devious.\n\nThis 90-minute seminar will investigate this and other passages in the 3rd and 4th chapters of Genesis.  By reading the text closely and paying attention to what is (and isn’t) there\, we will discover a whole new complexity to the relationship between God\, the first four humans\, and the snake.  Not only is God revealed as imminently just and merciful\, but also as a very acute observer of human psychology!\n\nResources from the seminar are drawn from Joseph Ratzinger’s (Pope Bendict’s) In the Beginning…’: A Catholic Understanding of the Story of Creation and the Fall.\n\nThere is no charge for the seminar\, but a good-will donation of $10 is encouraged.\n\nOn February 15\, the Newman Forum will host a day-long conference for high school students on “Creation: Artistic & Divine.”\nIMAGE: The First Mourning by William-Adolphe Bouguereau\, 1888 courtesy of Wikimedia Commons URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-01-how-not-to-get-away-with-murder-austin-walker/ LOCATION:St. John Cantius Church\, 825 N Carpenter St\nChicago\, IL 60642\, Chicago\, IL CATEGORIES:Newman Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Bouguereau-Ebel.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200121T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200121T153000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241003T165147Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T144815Z UID:10000372-1579615200-1579620600@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:Achievement and the Christian Life: What is Education For? DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\nWhat is achievement? What is success?  Does the human desire for achievement or success have a natural end\, or is it restless and never-satisfied?  In other words\, what do we understand human fulfillment to be\, and how does our university education contribute to that fulfillment? \nIn this lunch time discussion\, Elizabeth Corey\, professor of political philosophy and director of the Honors Program at Baylor University\, will suggest two ways of being human in the world: the culture of achievement and the culture of love.  Guided by insights drawn from sources as wide as the Odyssey\, the Nichomachean Ethics\, Dorothy Sayers\, and Albert Camus\, Prof. Corey will discuss the purpose of a liberal education and the possible means of reconciling achievement with love. \nOpen to Students. Undergraduates are particularly encouraged to attend. A brief reading will be sent to registrants beforehand \nPart II of the Winter 2020 Great Books and the Christian Tradition seminar series. \n— \nGreat Books and the Christian Tradition \nFrom the School of Alexandria and the reading of Scripture in the Monasteries\, through the re-formulation of the Liberal Arts in the medieval schools and universities\, in the renewal of the tradition that included Petrarch\, Erasmus\, John Henry Newman\, and Ressourcement\, the development of the Liberal Arts Tradition has been intertwined with Christian thought. This series highlights the connection between the Liberal Arts and the Christian Intellectual Tradition and aims to recover the humanistic and contemplative spirit of a truly liberal education. \nOther seminars in the series include: \nI. Are the Great Books Good for us? Liberal Education and the Christian Tradition \nIII. What is Wrong with Curiosity? Augustine on Curiosity and the Use and the Abuse of the Intellect in the Confessions \nIV: Is it Rational to Believe in Miracles? A Discussion of David Hume’s Argument Against Believing in Miracles URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-01-what-is-education-for/ LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/great-books-3-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200208T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200208T210000 DTSTAMP:20260406T112806 CREATED:20241003T165144Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T144812Z UID:10000371-1581188400-1581195600@lumenchristi.org SUMMARY:What is Wrong with Curiosity? Augustine on Curiosity and the Use and the Abuse of the Intellect in the Confessions DESCRIPTION:What could be wrong with curiosity? “Long live curiosity\,” proclaims the Museum of Science and Industry\, and modernity unanimously praises it as the beginning of intellectual discovery. But\, surprisingly\, Augustine of Hippo criticizes “curiositas” in his Confessions. Is Augustine’s notion out-moded? Is the pursuit of knowledge adverse to Christian faith? Or could Augustine’s concern about the proper use and the abuse of intellectual pursuits inform ideas of liberal education? \nOver dinner on Saturday evening\, E. John Ellison (University of Chicago) will lead a discussion on the modern notion of curiosity and Augustine’s critique on curiositas especially in Confessions\, Book 10.35. \nOpen to undergraduate students. No prior reading required. Dinner will be served \nPart III of the Winter 2020 Great Books and the Christian Tradition seminar series. \n— \nGreat Books and the Christian Tradition \nFrom the School of Alexandria and the reading of Scripture in the Monasteries\, through the re-formulation of the Liberal Arts in the medieval schools and universities\, in the renewal of the tradition that included Petrarch\, Erasmus\, John Henry Newman\, and Ressourcement\, the development of the Liberal Arts Tradition has been intertwined with Christian thought. This series highlights the connection between the Liberal Arts and the Christian Intellectual Tradition and aims to recover the humanistic and contemplative spirit of a truly liberal education. \nOther seminars in the series include: \nI. Are the Great Books Good for us? Liberal Education and the Christian Tradition \nII. Achievement and the Christian Life: What is Education For? \nIV: Is it Rational to Believe in Miracles? A Discussion of David Hume’s Argument Against Believing in Miracles URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-02-what-is-wrong-with-curiosity-augustine-on-curiosity-use-abuse-of-intellect-in-confessions/ LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/great-books-2-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR