Name: Symposium on “The Future of Natural Law”
Start: 2022-10-27T17:00:00-05:00
End: 2022-10-27T18:30:00-05:00
Location: Swift Hall, First Floor Common Room

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September 2022
September 23rd, 2022 @ 8:00 am - 9:30 am

Renewing Digital Space: Addressing Pope Francis’ Concerns and Warnings

ONLINE World Wide Web, INTERNET

Pope Francis has challenged the Church and the world to explore “both the pathologies our digital culture imposes – especially on our young – and investigate how this technology can and has helped people reach their full potential.” Join us for a virtual conversation that will explore the anthropological, theological, sociological and legal constructs that are necessary to address these challenges posed by the digital age. This online event is free and open to the public. This event is hosted by CAPP-USA and co-sponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute. SPEAKERS: Prof. Evelyn Aswad The University of Oklahoma College of Law’s Herman G....
October 2022
October 4th, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Synodality Series Session 4 | Eastern Catholic and Orthodox Christians: Contexts and Dialogue

ONLINE World Wide Web, INTERNET

Free and open to the public. This online symposium series is being organized by the American Cusanus Society, Nova Forum and the Lumen Christi Institute. Additional Cosponsors include Commonweal, Harvard Catholic Forum, America Media, the St. Anselm Institute for Catholic Thought and the Collegium Institute. About the Series | In light of Pope Francis’ call for global Catholic communities to enter into a two-year process on synodality, this six-part series will examine both the history of synods and the current dialogue around the future of synodality in the Church. This series is an opportunity to learn more about the topic in advance of the October 2023 Rome summit, “For a Synodal Church.” Pope Francis...
October 13th, 2022 @ 12:00 am - October 14th, 2022 @ 12:00 am

In Lumine Network Meeting

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

The In Lumine Network consists of six independent institutes for Catholic Thought located at elite research universities in the United States. Funded by a generous grant from the John Templeton Foundation, the In Lumine network aims to advance dialogue between theology, philosophy, and the natural and social sciences on the campuses they serve. The founding members of the network include: the Lumen Christi Institute at the University of Chicago, the Nova Forum at the University of Southern California, the Saint Anselm Institute at the University of Virginia, COLLIS at Cornell University, the Collegium Institute at the University of Pennsylvania, and the...
October 15th, 2022 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Master Class: “Adventures of a Primary Care Theologian” with Fr. Roch Kereszty

ONLINE World Wide Web, INTERNET

Open to current students and faculty. Others interested in participating should contact info@lumenchristi.org. Registrants will receive copies of the prepared reading. An Online Master Class with Fr. Roch Kereszty, O. Cist For over 40 years, Fr. Roch Kereszty has taught and published in nearly every area of theology—Christology, ecclesiology, and interreligious dialogue to name a few. During this master class, Fr. Kereszty will discuss selected texts from his own work and discuss his life and vocation: a clandestine novice in Communist Hungary, a student during the years of the Second Vatican Council, long-time professor at the University of Dallas and form...
October 18th, 2022 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Synodality Series Session 5 | Pope Francis’ Vision of a Synodal Church: CELAM and Ignatian Tradition

ONLINE World Wide Web, INTERNET

Free and open to the public. This online symposium series is being organized by the American Cusanus Society, Nova Forum and the Lumen Christi Institute. Additional Cosponsors include Commonweal, Harvard Catholic Forum, America Media, the St. Anselm Institute for Catholic Thought and the Collegium Institute. About the Series | In light of Pope Francis’ call for global Catholic communities to enter into a two-year process on synodality, this six-part series will examine both the history of synods and the current dialogue around the future of synodality in the Church. This series is an opportunity to learn more about the topic in advance of the October 2023 Rome summit, “For a Synodal Church.” Pope Francis...
October 19th, 2022 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Magis Lecture | Pro and Con: Does Faith Ignore Reason?

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

Free and open to the public. Every Sunday, Christian worshipers profess the Nicene Creed. The Creed formulates and supports our belief in one God, but there appears to be scant empirical evidence for many of its claims that we acknowledge to be true. We don’t profess the Creed because we’ve been persuaded by overwhelming evidence. Is it reasonable, then, to believe that the Creed's claims are true? Or does our profession of faith shove our reason into exile? So says Sam Harris, a recent "popular atheist,” who argues that faith is by nature unreasonable. But William James, the 19th-century American psychologist,...
October 20th, 2022 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Symposium on “The Future of Christian Art”

Social Sciences, Room 122 1126 E 59th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Is there a future for Christian Art? Can beauty save a “modern” world? This symposium features a presentation by Fr. Stephen Fields, SJ (Georgetown) in which he distinguishes between modernity and previous periods of the Western Christian experience and draws upon the work of Hans Urs von Balathasar to argue that Christians must reconceive the meaning of “beauty.” Responses will follow from University of Chicago art historian Karin Krause and Chicago Artist John David Mooney. This event is being supported by funds from the Fr. Paul V. Mankowski, S.J. Memorial Fund for Jesuit Scholarship. Fr. Paul, former Jesuit Scholar-in-Residence for the Lumen...
October 21st, 2022 @ 2:00 pm

Master Class: Clashing over Mysticism: Balthasar and Rahner on Bonaventure

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

Open to current students and faculty. Others interested in participating should contact info@lumenchristi.org. Registrants will receive copies of the prepared reading. In an era of outstanding theologians who made the teachings of Vatican II possible, Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-88) and Karl Rahner (1904-84) emerge as titans. Both were German speaking: Rahner came from Baden and Balthasar from Switzerland. Rahner died as a Jesuit, having taught in Innsbruck, Munich, and Muenster. Balthasar left the order in mid-life to serve as chaplain to a secular institute in Basel. Both were prolific writers. Rahner’s chief works are Spirit in the World (1957),...
October 25th, 2022 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Synodality in Perspective: Traditions Past and Present

ONLINE World Wide Web, INTERNET

This online symposium series is being organized by the American Cusanus Society, Nova Forum and the Lumen Christi Institute. Additional Cosponsors include Commonweal, America Media, St. Anselm Institute for Catholic Thought and the Collegium Institute. Participation and Registration | All are invited to participate. To attend, please register online. Registration links are provided by each session and date below. Each session will be a dialogue with a moderator hosting a conversation between two scholars. About the Series | In light of Pope Francis’ call for global Catholic communities to enter into a two-year process on synodality, this six-part series will examine both the history...
October 25th, 2022 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Synodality Series Session 6 | The Synod of 2023: Process and Prospects

ONLINE World Wide Web, INTERNET

Free and open to the public. This online symposium series is being organized by the American Cusanus Society, Nova Forum and the Lumen Christi Institute. Additional Cosponsors include Commonweal, Harvard Catholic Forum, America Media, the St. Anselm Institute for Catholic Thought and the Collegium Institute. About the Series | In light of Pope Francis’ call for global Catholic communities to enter into a two-year process on synodality, this six-part series will examine both the history of synods and the current dialogue around the future of synodality in the Church. This series is an opportunity to learn more about the topic in advance of the October 2023 Rome summit, “For a Synodal Church.” Pope Francis...
October 26th, 2022 @ 12:00 am - October 30th, 2022 @ 12:00 am

Society, Law, and Virtue: Colloquium in Honor of Russell Hittinger

This is an invite-only colloquium in honor of Russell Hittinger. Hittinger has articulated many of the deepest Augustinian and Thomistic sources of natural law theory, given an influential critique of certain trends in contemporary natural law thinking, and shown how various conceptions of natural law have been embraced or rejected in American political debates since the middle of the twentieth century. Finally, his most recent work has shown how natural law principles have been integrated into Catholic social teaching since the French Revolution. This discussion will use Hittinger’s writings as a springboard to explore these perennial and timely topics in...
October 27th, 2022 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Symposium on “The Future of Natural Law”

Swift Hall, First Floor Common Room 1025 E 58th St,Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Natural law theory has long been a central tenet of Christian philosophical and theological reflection on the relationship between God, the moral life, and society, and it has played an important historical role in shaping the political life of the United States and many other nations. The topic of natural law has also been the subject of many disputes and disagreements, both in the contemplative and practical orders. It is therefore important to take stock of this rich and complex history if we are to understand the current state of natural law thinking so as to ascertain what role it...

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Synodality in Perspective: Traditions Past and Present

Synodality Series Session 6 | The Synod of 2023: Process and Prospects

Society, Law, and Virtue: Colloquium in Honor of Russell Hittinger

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