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The Vocation of the Patristic Theologian: Teaching Nicaea

Lewis Towers, Loyola University of Chicago Water Tower Campus 111 E Pearson St, Chicago, United States
Michael C. Magree, Boston College | Khaled Anatolios, University of Notre Dame | Erin Walsh, University of Chicago | Paul Blowers, Milligan University | Lewis Ayres, Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas - Angelicum, Rome

This event is open to graduate students and faculty. For more information and to receive the registration link contact gzokal@lumenchristi.org  This forum invites graduate students and scholars of patristics to reflect on the nature of the craft and its relationship to contemporary theological studies, the academy, and church today. A panel of scholars will speak to this topic in reference to the teaching of Nicaea in commemoration of the 1700th anniversary. What does the teaching of this council, its creed, its attendant historical context and reception, communicate about the essential character of the Patristic theologian? This reception and forum, following the annual meeting of the North...

Reading Groups
Event Series On the Nature of Angels: Thomas Aquinas Reading Group

On the Nature of Angels: Thomas Aquinas Reading Course

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

One of St. Thomas Aquinas's very last projects was a treatise on angels. With a more historical approach than that of either Summa on the subject, it addresses such topics the immateriality of angels, their origin, their knowledge, and the distinctions among them, including the distinction between the good ones and the bad ones. Along the way, it offers some of Thomas’s most sophisticated discussions of the metaphysics of creation, hylomorphism, and participation.

Summer Seminars
Event Series Summer Seminars

The Thought of René Girard

University of Southern California University Park Campus 3551 Trousdale Pkwy, Los Angeles, CA
Cynthia Haven | Trevor Cribben Merrill, UCLA | Grant Kaplan, Saint Louis University

Apply here Description: One of the most influential 20th century Catholic thinkers, René Girard transformed our understanding of culture, religion, and human desire. Through an intensive reading of Girard’s works, in conjunction with the fiction of the greatest writers, this five-day seminar will explore imitation, conflict, and scapegoating, connecting them to central themes of Christian theology. The seminar is co-sponsored by the Nova Forum for Catholic Thought. Location and Format: This seminar will be held at University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Students will meet twice daily during 2.5 hr sessions in seminar style lecture and discussion. Students will...

Summer Seminars
Event Series Summer Seminars

Catholic Social Thought in Business Education

University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN 46556, Notre Dame, IN
James Otteson, University of Notre Dame | Andreas Widmer, Catholic University of America | Martin Schlag, University of Saint Thomas | Lloyd Sandelands, University of Michigan

Apply here We are pleased to announce the fifth annual seminar on "Business and Catholic Social Thought: A Primer." During the seminar, graduate students and faculty members in business schools 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 in...

Summer Seminars
Event Series Summer Seminars

Dionysius the Areopagite: The Corpus and Its Legacy

University of St. Michael's College 81 St. Mary's Street Toronto, ON M5S 1J4, Toronto, ON
Paul Blowers, Milligan University | Rev. Andrew Summerson, University of St. Michael’s College | Lewis Ayres, Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas - Angelicum, Rome

Apply here Co-presented with the Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies at the University of St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto. Dionysius the Areopagite is a figure who is as elusive as his prose is powerful. The course will involve a close reading of his entire corpus and situating his writings in the intellectual and historical context of the first millennium. We will further outline the indelible marks he leaves on subsequent Christian theology, liturgy, and the broader philosophical tradition. LOCATION AND FORMAT The seminar will be held at Sheptytsky House at the University of St. Michael’s College in the...

Summer Seminars

Self Knowledge as “First Philosophy:” Introducing Bernard Lonergan

Boston College 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, MA, United States
Roberto J. De La Noval, Boston College | Jeremy D. Wilkins, Boston College

Apply Here The seminar is co-presented by the Lonergan Institute. This graduate seminar is designed as an advanced introduction to the thought of Bernard Lonergan, SJ. The seminar will examine Lonergan’s approach to self-knowledge and “self-appropriation,” epistemology, and method in metaphysics and theology. The main text for the course will be Lonergan's seminal Insight: A Study of Human Understanding. Upon first publication in 1957, Insight was greeted by reviewers as “probably… one of the great philosophical treatises of the century,” “a profound book… evincing an extraordinary sense for the persistent significance of ancient and medieval thought in the light of...

Summer Seminars

Truth and Authority in Augustines City of God

University of California, Berkeley S Hall Rd. Berkeley, CA 94720, Berkeley, CA
Michael Sherwin | Russell Hittinger, Catholic University of America

Apply here This seminar is an intensive week-long course in how to read, analyze, and discern the many themes in Augustine’s most ambitious and sprawling work. The City of God tells the history of two societies, and their respective origins, progress, and appointed ends. The story is engaged first from the evidence of profane history (I-XI) and then from the evidence of revelation (XII-XXII). In this seminar, participants will discuss how Augustine reckons with the crisis of the ancient and the human city, and whether it is possible to reconcile truth and authority across the competing domains of polity, religion,...

Summer Seminars
Event Series Summer Seminars

Economics and Catholic Social Thought – A Primer

Pontifical Catholic University of Chile Av. Vicuña Mackenna 4860, Macul, Santiago de Chile, Chile
Andrew Yuengert, Pepperdine University | Joseph Kaboski, University of Notre Dame | Kirk Doran, University of Notre Dame | Mary Hirschfeld, University of Notre Dame

Apply here Now in its eight 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. This seminar is sponsored...