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Is the Human Mind Reducible to Physics?

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

a luncheon discussion with Stephen M. Barr (University of Delaware) REGISTER HERE This event is open to University of Chicago students. Lunch will be served. Others interested in attending, please contactinfo@lumenchrisit.org. Materialism or “physicalism” holds that all things, including human beings, are completely explicable in physical terms. While ancient and medieval thinkers expressed this view, […]

The Emergence of the Church’s Culture of Biblical Interpretation and Theology: Rhetoric, Philology, and Gnosticism in the 2nd Century

University of Chicago 5801 S Ellis Ave Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Lewis Ayres (University of Durham) To understand the exegetical culture that nurtured and formed classical Patristic exegesis, we must attend to some understudied features of the generation of Irenaeus and Clement of Alexandria. This generation, in response to the exegetical cultures of ‘Gnostic’ thinkers, developed the exegetical practice that became fundamental for all later Christian […]

Master Class on “Athanasius and the Struggle for Orthodoxy”

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

Brian Daley, S.J. (University of Notre Dame) REGISTER HERE This master class seminar will cover the theological and doctrinal issues surrounding the First Council of Nicaea, focusing on the Arian controversy over the nature of Christ in relation to the Father. Participants will read and discuss primary texts from the early Nicene controversy with one […]

Schola Antiqua Concert: A Renaissance Call to Arms

Le Jardin at the First Division Museum, Cantigny Park 1S151 Winfield Rd. Wheaton, IL 60189, Wheaton, IL, IL

Saturday, April 18, 3:00pm Le Jardin at the First Division Museum, Cantigny Park, Wheaton, IL $5 Parking; Free concert admission. DETAILS HERE Sunday, April 19, 2:00pm Art Institute of Chicago Concert included with museum admission. DETAILS HERE Schola Antiqua celebrates the fascination with arms and battle in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, particularly in the realm of […]

CANCELLED: Dante’s Theology of the Future: Inferno XIX and Paradiso XXXIII

Gallery Ballroom, Hotel Palomar 505 N State St. Chicago, IL 60654, Downtown, IL

Due to the funeral of our friend, supporter, and Episcopal Moderator His Eminence Francis Cardinal George, O.M.I. taking place on Thursday, we will unfortunately have to cancel the event with Giuseppe Mazzotta on “Dante’s Theology of the Future.” If you have already paid a registration fee, you will be refunded in the coming days. We […]

Amor Vincit Omnia: Keynote Lecture by Giuseppe Mazzotta

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

Giuseppe Mazzotta (Yale University) Keynote Lecture for the Graduate Student Conference on “Amor Vincit Omnia: Love as a Destructive Force in Italian Arts and Literature” Sponsored by: The Franke Institute for the Humanities, the Norman Waite Harris Fund, the Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Chicago, the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, the Department of […]

The Family in the Changing Economy

International House at the University of Chicago 1414 E 59th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

How does today’s economy impact the modern family? Several trends link mounting burdens on family life to economics: children are raised amid familial and fiscal instability, young people are delaying or forgoing marriage, the elderly are made increasingly vulnerable with a growing distance between generations and rising health care costs, and the families of economic […]

On a Possible Epistemology of Revelation

University of Chicago 5801 S Ellis Ave Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Jean-Luc Marion (University of Chicago) cosponsored by the Philosophy Department How is it possible to admit a rational truth that at the same moment could not be achieved by mere rationality? This implies a revision of the definition of knowing, and of the relation between will and understanding. Saint Augustine and Pascal – with some […]

The Jewish Roots of Catholic Charity

Jenner & Block, 45th Floor 353 N Clark St. Chicago, IL 60654, Downtown, IL

Gary A. Anderson (University of Notre Dame; author of Charity: The Place of the Poor in the Biblical Tradition) It has long been acknowledged that Jews and Christians distinguished themselves through charity to the poor. Though ancient Greeks and Romans were also generous, they funded theaters and baths rather than poorhouses and orphanages. How might we […]

Master Class on “Seeing and Being Seen: a Reading of Nicholas of Cusa’s “The Vision of God””

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

Jean-Luc Marion (University of Chicago) REGISTER HERE Nicholas of Cusa, in a famous essay on The Vision of God, explained how and why experiencing God does not mean first seeing an image of the divine, but to be under the gaze of Christ. This difference leads one to distinguish very clearly the icon from the idol. Participants […]

Luncheon Discussion with Jim Perry on Ethics in Private Equity

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

REGISTER HERE Intended for Booth School of Business and other University of Chicago students. Sponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute, Booth Catholic Students, the Christians in Business Group, and the Private Equity Group. Lunch will be served.

Metaphysics and the Soul in Thomas Aquinas

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

This 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 […]