Name: Are the Great Books Good for us? Liberal Education and the Christian Tradition
Start: 2020-01-18T12:30:00-06:00
End: 2020-01-18T14:30:00-06:00
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October 2019
October 25th, 2019 @ 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Master Class on “The Life of Teresa of Avila”

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

This program was made possible in part by a grant from the Our Sunday Visitor Institute. The 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...
October 30th, 2019 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

John Henry Newman’s Path to Sainthood

Holy Name Cathedral Auditorium 730 North Wabash Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60611, River North, IL

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. What 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...
October 31st, 2019 @ 5:00 pm

Newman’s Apologetics of the Imagination

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

This event was cosponsored by the Nicholson Center for British Studies. John 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.
November 2019
November 6th, 2019 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Science and Faith: Non-Overlapping Magisteria?

Faculty House at Columbia University 64 Morningside Drive, New York, NY

REGISTER HERE 5:30 Reception | 6:00pm Discussion Co-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. A Discussion with Stephen Barr (University of Delaware), Jonathan Lunine (Cornell University), moderated by Carlo Lancellotti (CUNY Staten Island). In 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...
November 15th, 2019 @ 3:00 pm - 7:00 pm

The Human Person in an Age of Biotechnology: A Symposium

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

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...
November 16th, 2019 @ 11:00 am - 2:00 pm

Master Class on “Heidegger & Aquinas on the Question Concerning Technology”

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

REGISTER HERE Open to current students and faculty. Copies of the readings will be provided for those who register. SCHEDULE 9:30am Coffee & Pastries 10:00am Session I 11:25am Break 11:35am Session II 1:00pm End, lunch REQUIRED READINGS Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, I, Q.47, Art.1-2 (on creation); III, Q.60, Art.2-4 (on sacraments) Martin Heidegger, The Question Concerning Technology RECOMMENDED READINGS Francisco 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. Bernard Stiegler, Technics and Time, 1 (Stanford University Press, 1998) pp. 1-27.
November 26th, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Non-Credit Course on Modern Science and Christian Faith

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

6:00 Dinner | 6:30 Lecture This 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. People 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...
December 2019
December 4th, 2019 @ 6:15 pm

The Open Question of Church Polity and Governance: Trent, Vatican I, Vatican II

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

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. Sexual 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...
December 7th, 2019 @ 11:00 am - 2:00 pm

Master Class on Yves Simon’s “Philosophy of Democratic Government”

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

REGISTER HERE Open to current students and faculty. Copies of Philosophy of Democratic Government (University of Notre Dame Press, 1993) will be provided for registrants. The 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. Twice during the first half of the twentieth-century, totalitarian systems have challenged the concept of democracy…. Democracy has been on...
January 2020
January 16th, 2020 @ 6:15 pm

Becoming Human in Light of the Gospel of John

Breasted Hall, Oriental Institute 1155 E 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

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. On 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...
January 17th, 2020 @ 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Master Class on Maximus the Confessor

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

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...
January 18th, 2020 @ 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm

Are the Great Books Good for us? Liberal Education and the Christian Tradition

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

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. Part I of the Winter 2020 Great Books and the Christian Tradition seminar series. --- Great Books and the Christian Tradition From the School of Alexandria and the reading of Scripture in the Monasteries, through the re-formulation of the Liberal Arts in the...

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Master Class on “The Life of Teresa of Avila”

John Henry Newman’s Path to Sainthood

Newman’s Apologetics of the Imagination

Science and Faith: Non-Overlapping Magisteria?

The Human Person in an Age of Biotechnology: A Symposium

Master Class on “Heidegger & Aquinas on the Question Concerning Technology”

Non-Credit Course on Modern Science and Christian Faith

The Open Question of Church Polity and Governance: Trent, Vatican I, Vatican II

Master Class on Yves Simon’s “Philosophy of Democratic Government”

Becoming Human in Light of the Gospel of John

Master Class on Maximus the Confessor

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