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Economics and Catholic Social Thought: A Primer

Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome Piazza Santa Apollinare, 49, 00186 Roma, Italy, Rome, Italy

Applications are now closed for this seminar. 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 […]

What Should We Fear? Courage and Cowardice in Public Life

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

REGISTER HERE This talk is free and open to the public. The talk and Q&A will be livestreamed HERE at 7pm central time. Moral theologian Jean Porter will give the talk "What should we fear? Courage and cowardice in public life" on Monday, June 5, 2017 at 7pm in the Swift Hall 3rd Floor Lecture […]

Is God Knowable by Natural Reason? Philosophy, Theology, and Trinitarian Thought in the Middle Ages

Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome Piazza Santa Apollinare, 49, 00186 Roma, Italy, Rome, Italy

In this seminar, historian of medieval theology Mark Clark and scholar of medieval philosophy Timothy Noone will offer an intensive survey of theological and philosophical debates about the natural knowledge of God in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Participants will read and discuss the writings of Peter Abelard, Peter Lombard, Bonaventure, Albert the Great, and […]

The Thought of John Henry Newman

Merton College, Oxford Merton St, Oxford OX1 4JD, UK, Oxford, United Kingdom

Now in its fifth consecutive year, this intensive seminar will examine Newman’s achievements as 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 […]

Master class on “On Hope” by Josef Pieper

Gavin House 1220 E 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

REGISTER HERE Open to currently enrolled undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty. Copies of the readings will be provided for participants via web link. The first of Josef Pieper’s three books on each of the theological virtues, On Hope was written in 1934 in response to the general feeling of despair in Europe leading up to […]

Catholic Social Thought: A Critical Investigation

University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, CA

In 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 […]

Master Class on Ressentiment and Democracy

Gavin House 1220 E 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

REGISTER HERE Open to currently enrolled undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty. Copies of the readings will be provided for participants via web link. Ressentiment is a term of art in philosophy and social theory for the psychological pathology of self-loathing that the human person may experience vis-à-vis an other who is imagined to be stronger, […]

Visit to the Art Institute of Chicago

Art Institute of Chicago 111 S Michigan Ave. Chicago, IL 60603, Downtown

Cosponsored by the Hildegard of Bingen Society. Open to University of Chicago students. Transportation and dinner will be provided. A Visit to the Art Institute of Chicago to the special exhibition "Doctrine and Devotion: Art of the Religious Orders of the Spanish Andes." ABOUT THE EXHIBITION Presenting 13 paintings by South American artists from the […]

Catholic Reform: The Council of Trent and the Catholic Enlightenment

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

Cosponsored by the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. About Ulrich Lehner's recent book The Catholic Enlightenment: "Whoever needs an act of faith to elucidate an event that can be explained by reason is a fool, and unworthy of reasonable thought." This line, spoken by the notorious 18th-century libertine Giacomo Casanova, illustrates a deeply entrenched […]

A Consistent Ethic of Solidarity: Transcending Self, Transforming the World

University of Chicago Law School Auditorium 1111 East 60th Street, Hyde Park, IL

Visit the conference webpage for more information. Free and open to the public. Registration Required. Cardinal Blase J. Cupich will deliver the Keynote Address for the October 13-14 Capstone Conference for the project Virtue, Happiness, & the Meaning of Life, which will feature discussions with the philosophers, religious thinkers, and psychologists who have been working […]

Schola Antiqua Concert: Music in Secret

St. Clement Parish 642 W Deming Pl. Chicago, IL 60614, Downtown, IL

British organist and Renaissance music historian Naomi Gregory leads the women of Schola Antiqua in a wide-ranging program of music from medieval and early modern convents. “Music in Secret” offers some of the earliest known polyphony associated with nuns from the anonymous 1543 collection of printed partbooks Musica quinque vocum. In addition to plainchant sung […]

The Power of the Sacred: An Alternative to the Narrative of Disenchantment

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

Free and open to the public Cosponsored by the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought Disenchantment is one of the key concepts in the self-understanding of "modernity." It was introduced by Max Weber, but its precise meaning in his writings and in the discourse of modernity is quite controversial. This lecture is based on […]