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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170505T140000
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SUMMARY:Colloquium on "Givenness and Revelation"
DESCRIPTION:Part of the Lumen Christi Institute’s faculty colloquia in philosophy and theology\, which bring together scholars from the region to discuss important questions in Catholic thought. \nAbout Givenness and Revelation\nGivenness and Revelation represents both the unity and the deep continuity of Jean-Luc Marion’s thinking over many decades. This investigation into the origins and evolution of the concept of revelation arises from an initial reappraisal of the tension between natural theology and the revealed knowledge of God or sacra doctrina. Marion draws on the re-definition of the notions of possibility and impossibility\, the critique of the reification of the subject\, and the unpredictability of the event in its relationship to the gift in order to assess the respective capacities of dogmatic theology\, modern metaphysics\, contemporary phenomenology\, and the biblical texts\, especially the New Testament\, to conceive the paradoxical phenomenality of a revelation. \nThis work thus brings us to the very heart and soul of Marion’s theology\, concluding with a phenomenological approach to the Trinity that uncovers the logic of gift performed in the scriptural manifestation of Jesus Christ as Son of the Father. Givenness and Revelation enhances not only our understanding of religious experience\, but enlarges the horizon of possibility of phenomenology itself.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-05-colloquium-on-givenness-revelation-jean-luc-marion-david-bentley-hart-cyril-oregan/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, First Floor Common Room\, 1025 E 58th St\,Chicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170429T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170429T200000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
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SUMMARY:Lecture on the Easter Mysteries\, Dinner\, and Prayer at the Monastery of the Holy Cross
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\nOpen to current university students and faculty. Transportation from Hyde Park will be provided. \nCosponsored by the Hildegard of Bingen Society. \nJoin us for an evening of prayer with Benedictine Monks at the Monastery of the Holy Cross. Students will participate in the prayer of the Divine Office (including Vespers and Compline)\, and have dinner and discussion with Fr. Peter Funk\, O.S.B.\, prior of the monastery and alumnus of the University of Chicago. \nMore information about the monastery can be found HERE. \nSCHEDULE \n4:15pm   Meet at Gavin House (1220 E. 58th St.)\n4:30pm   Depart from Hyde Park\n5:00pm   Arrive at the Monastery\, welcome by Fr. Funk\n5:15pm   Office of Vespers\n6:00pm   Dinner & Discussion\n7:15pm   Office of Compline\n8:00pm   Arrive back in Hyde Park
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-04-lecture-on-easter-mysteries-dinner-prayer-at-monastery-of-holy-cross-fr-peter-funk/
LOCATION:The Monastery of the Holy Cross\, 3111 South Aberdeen St.\nChicago\, IL 60608\, Chicago\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170427T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170427T190000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165559Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260404T151859Z
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SUMMARY:The Only Way To Truth Is By Love
DESCRIPTION:A lecture on the occasion of the publication of Believing In Order To See (Fordham University Press\, 2017). Copies of the book will be available for purchase. \nCosponsored by the Theology and Religious Ethics Workshop and the Seminary Coop Bookstore. \n\n“Non intratur in veritatem nisi per caritatem” -St. Augustine\nBelieving does not always mean to make up for a deficit of knowledge\, but rather attaining the right stance to see that which appears. This rule applies not only to common perception\, but most of all to what Pascal\, following St. Augustine\, calls “divine things.” In faith\, as in beholding a beloved or a work of art\, what you see depends on how you stand in front of it.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-04-only-way-to-truth-is-by-love-jean-luc-marion/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170422T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170422T130000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165600Z
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SUMMARY:Catholic and Protestant Reformations and the Genealogy of Modernity
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\nOpen to current graduate students and faculty \nAt this master class seminar\, participants will read and discuss Professor Carlos Eire’s essay “Incombustible Weber: How the Protestant Reformation Really Disenchanted the World” from Faithful Narratives: Historians\, Religion\, and the Challenge of Objectivity\, ed. Andrea Stark and Nina Caputo (Ithaca: Cornell University Press\, 2014). A PDF copy of the reading will be provided. \nThis chapter discusses how challenges to traditional beliefs about death and purgatory in the Protestant Reformation caused significant material consequences\, triggering a so-called “economic revolution.” Focusing on the issue of secularization in a present-day understanding of Protestant Reformation\, the chapter examines the concept of “disenchantment” as manifested in three distinguishing characteristics of Protestantism. First is the redefinition of how “matter” and “spirit” relate to each other\, which had led to iconoclasm and a new approach to rituals. Second is the redefinition of the boundaries between the “natural” and “supernatural” realms\, which led to the denial of mystical ecstasies. Lastly\, there is the separation of the living from the dead\, which led to a reconfiguring of conceptual and socioeconomic structures. \nSCHEDULE \n9:30am   Arrive\, continental breakfast \n10:00am   Session I \n11:25am   Break \n11:35am   Session II \n1:00pm   Buffet Lunch \n2:30pm   Close
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-04-catholic-protestant-reformations-genealogy-of-modernity-carlos-eire/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170421T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170423T000000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
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SUMMARY:"Origins:" The Inaugural Conference of the Society of Catholic Scientists
DESCRIPTION:WATCH VIDEOS HERE\nThe first annual conference of the Society of Catholic Scientists cosponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute \nThe conference brought together researchers on all aspects of origins\, from cosmos to consciousness.  Specific topics included current cosmological ideas on the beginning and fate of the universe\, fine-tuning and multiverse ideas\, habitable planets and astrobiology\, the origin of life\, the evolution of species\, and the origin of intelligence and consciousness. \nCONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS\n“The Origin and Evolution of Universes” – Prof. John D. Barrow (Univ. of  Cambridge) \n“The Origin and Evolution of Habitable Worlds” – Prof. Karin I. Öberg (Harvard Univ.)  \n“Medieval Ideas of the Multiverse” – Prof. J. Christopher Clemens (University of North Carolina\, Chapel Hill)  \n“The Origin of Evolution: The Interplay of Order and Contingency” – Prof. Daniel Kuebler (Franciscan University of Steubenville) \n“Process Information: A Novel Communication Theory with Applications to Evolutionary Biology” – Dr. Erick Chastain (Rutgers University) \n“Why Only Us: the origin of human language” –  Prof. Robert Berwick (MIT) \n“Science in the Light of the Christian View of the Human Person” – Fr. Joachim Ostermann\, O.F.M.\, Ph.D. (Franciscan Friars of Canada)  \n“The Catholic Scientist in the Secular World: What is the meaning of our vocation and how does it distinguish us?” – Dr. Marisa March (University of Pennsylvania) \nSt. Albert Award Lecture: “To Find God in All Things: Grandeur in an Evolutionary View of Life”  – Prof. Kenneth R. Miller (Brown University) \nBanquet Address – Br. Guy Consolmagno (Director of the Vatican Observatory) \n“Georges Lemaitre’s Contributions to Cosmology” – Prof. Robert Scherrer (Vanderbilt University) \n“Are Probabilities Essential to Inferring Design?” – Prof. Robert C. Koons (University of Texas at Austin)  \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nCONFERENCE MEDIA COVERAGE\nFaith And Science Come Together At Conference For Society Of Catholic Scientists\, Forbes \nCatholic Scientists Converge in Chicago to Ask Big Questions\, Catholic News Agency \nCatholic Scientists Discuss Faith’s Role in Work\, Our Sunday Visitor
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-04-origins-inaugural-conference-of-society-of-catholic-scientists-stephen-m-barr-john-barrow-robert-berwick-erick-chastain-chris-clemens-brother-guy-consolmagno-sj-robert-c-koons-daniel/
LOCATION:Millenium Knickerbocker Hotel\, 163 East Walton Place\, Downtown\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170408T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170408T173000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
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SUMMARY:Master Class on The Wisdom of Bernard of Clairvaux
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\nThis master class is open to current students and faculty. PDFs of the readings will be made available for participants. \nThis one-time Seminar will study selected writings of the great Cistercian theologian and mystic\, Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1157). Bernard was one of the most remarkable figures of the twelfth century—monastic leader\, ecclesiastical politician\, and noted theologian. His most important legacy\, however\, was as a mystic and mystical writer. His mystical treatises\, such as On Loving God (De diligendo Deo)\, and especially his eighty-six sermons on the biblical Song of Songs (Sermones super Cantica Canticorum)\, are among the most widely-read works in the history of Christian mysticism. The Seminar will focus on reading and analyzing On Loving God and selected sermons from the collection on the Song of Songs as found in Bernard of Clairvaux. Selected Works\, translated by G. R. Evans (New York: Paulist Press\, 1987)\, pp. 173-205\, and 209-78. In addition\, some other outlines and short extracts will be handed out during the Seminar. \nREQUIRED READINGS \n\nG.R. Evans\, trans.\, Bernard of Clairvaux: Selected Works (New York: Paulist Press\, 1988)\, pp.173-205\, 209-278.\n\nANCILLARY READINGS \n\nBernard McGinn & Patricia Ferris McGinn\, Early Christian Mystics (New Yorl: Crossroads Publishing\, 2003)\, pp. 207-230\nG.R. Evans\, trans.\, Bernard of Clairvaux: Selected Works (New York: Paulist Press\, 1988)\, pp.13-57.\n\nSCHEDULE \n1:30pm   Coffee & Tea\n2:00pm   Session I\n3:40pm   Break\n3:50pm   Session II\n5:30pm   Close\, Wine & Cheese Reception
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-04-master-class-on-wisdom-of-bernard-of-clairvaux-bernard-mcginn/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170407T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170407T133000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
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LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164246Z
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SUMMARY:Lunch Discussion on "The Cosmos and the Religious Quest"
DESCRIPTION:Students will read and discuss Chapter 2 from Professor Peter Harrison’s book The Territories of Science and Religion (University of Chicago\, 2015) entitled “The Cosmos and the Religious Quest.” \nProf. Harrison will also give a public lecture on “Religious Origins of Modern Science?” on Thursday\, April 6. \n\nABOUT THE BOOK \nThe conflict between science and religion seems indelible\, even eternal. Surely two such divergent views of the universe have always been in fierce opposition? Actually\, that’s not the case\, says Peter Harrison: our very concepts of science and religion are relatively recent\, emerging only in the past three hundred years\, and it is those very categories\, rather than their underlying concepts\, that constrain our understanding of how the formal study of nature relates to the religious life. \n\nIn The Territories of Science and Religion\, Harrison dismantles what we think we know about the two categories\, then puts it all back together again in a provocative\, productive new way. By tracing the history of these concepts for the first time in parallel\, he illuminates alternative boundaries and little-known relations between them—thereby making it possible for us to learn from their true history\, and see other possible ways that scientific study and the religious life might relate to\, influence\, and mutually enrich each other.\n\n\nA tour de force by a distinguished scholar working at the height of his powers\, The Territories of Science and Religion promises to forever alter the way we think about these fundamental pillars of human life and experience.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-04-lunch-discussion-on-cosmos-religious-quest-peter-harrison/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170406T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170406T163000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165604Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260325T165105Z
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SUMMARY:Religious Origins of Modern Science?
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\nCosponsored by the Department of History and the Committee for the Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science \nIt is often thought that modern science developed largely independently of\, or even in opposition to\, religion.  Some historians\, however\, have suggested that religious factors played a key role in the emergence of modern science in the seventeenth century\, and were important in establishing a permanent and prominent place for scientific activity at the heart of modern Western culture.  This lecture explores a number of ways in which religion may have had a positive impact on the emergence and consolidation of modern science\, paying particular attention to the values needed to establish its social and intellectual legitimacy. \nCopies of The Territories of Science and Religion will be available for purchase. \nProf. Harrison will also lead a discussion for students on “The Cosmos and the Religious Quest” on Friday\, April 7.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-04-religious-origins-of-modern-science-peter-harrison/
LOCATION:Kersten 120\, 5720 South Ellis Avenue\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170331T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170331T160000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165606Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164252Z
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SUMMARY:The Greek East and the Spiritual Franciscan View of History
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\nCosponsored by the Theology & Religious Ethics Workshop \nThe Spiritual Franciscan Angelo Clareno (d.1337) fervently promoted the view that St. Francis’ life and Rule renewed the true evangelic life.  When ecclesiastical persecution led him to flee to Greece\, Angelo came into contact with both Greek monasticism and Greek theology based on the Church fathers. While in Greece\, he translated Greek texts and he found in Greek monastic traditions possibilities for living according to Francis’ rule outside the Franciscan order. Angelo’s time in Greece also led him to reflect on Church history and the relationship between Greek and Latin Christianity. Thus the eastern monastic tradition helped Angelo to explore ways of living the apostolic life and to develop a view of Church history that differed from other Spiritual Franciscans. \nIMAGE: Roma\, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale\, cod. Vitt. Em. 1167: Celestino V benedice Angelo Clareno e gli altri frati (particolare)
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-03-greek-east-spiritual-franciscan-view-of-history-brian-fitzgerald/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, First Floor Common Room\, 1025 E 58th St\,Chicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170326T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170326T150000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
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SUMMARY:Echoes from the Galleries
DESCRIPTION:a concert with Schola Antiqua of Chicago (Lumen Christi Artists-in-Residence) \nBUY TICKETS\n$10 non-members | $5 members & students*\n* – Ticket allows for entry to the museum and event beginning at 2:30pm.  To enter the museum prior to 2:30pm\, please purchase a separate museum admission ticket. \nSchola Antiqua presents a concert in connection with the opening of The Deering Family Galleries of Medieval and Renaissance Art\, Arms\, and Armor at the Art Institute of Chicago. The program includes music inspired by beautifully illustrated books of hours and early sixteenth-century German art\, as well as pieces celebrating the theme of arms and armor\, prominently displayed in the galleries. The women of Schola Antiqua will perform works from a rare thirteenth-century liturgical book on exhibit\, which is known to have been associated with a Dominican convent. \nImmediately following the concert\, Jonathan Tavares–Associate Curator of Arms & Armor–will lead a short tour of the reinstallation.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-03-echoes-from-galleries-schola-antiqua-of-chicago/
LOCATION:Art Institute of Chicago\, 111 S Michigan Ave.\nChicago\, IL 60603\, Downtown
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170316T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170316T133000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
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SUMMARY:The Soul of Early Irish Monasticism
DESCRIPTION:Not many people are aware that when it comes to Irish religious history\, St. Patrick only scratches the surface. The island in fact has a rich and fascinating Christian heritage\, of which monks and sprawling monastic communities play a central role.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-03-soul-of-early-irish-monasticism-bernard-mcginn/
LOCATION:Union League Club\, 65 W Jackson Blvd.\nChicago\, IL 60604\, Downtown\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170303T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170303T143000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165607Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T194628Z
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SUMMARY:The Liberal Arts Then and Now
DESCRIPTION:Open to current University of Chicago undergraduates. Lunch will be served. \nLiterary critic\, noted essayist\, and alumnus of the College Joseph Epstein will participate in a conversation with students about his life inside and outside the academy. Students are encouraged to read the short essay “Who Killed the Liberal Arts? And Why We Should Care” in preparation for the discussion.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-03-liberal-arts-then-now-joseph-epstein/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170223T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170223T190000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165612Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164303Z
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SUMMARY:Tracing our Shared Deep History: Evolutionary Anthropology and Theo-Drama
DESCRIPTION:Cosponsored by the Theology and Religious Ethics Workshop \nWhile theology and biological science often seem to be at odds\, there are productive ways of telling the Christian story of who we are as human beings which resonate with newer evolutionary theories. This lecture will argue that the most convincing theological approach is theo-drama\, where insights from the dramatic stage inform our theological reflections in relation to the drama of evolution. Such exchanges can be highly creative for theology and anthropology; neither party in the dialogue is reduced to the other\, and both are enriched in new and interesting ways.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-02-tracing-our-shared-deep-history-evolutionary-anthropology-theo-drama-celia-deane-drummond/
LOCATION:Social Sciences\, Room 122\, 1126 E 59th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170221T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170221T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165614Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164306Z
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SUMMARY:The Book of Judges
DESCRIPTION:6:00 Dinner | 6:30 Lecture \nOpen to current students and faculty. Others interested in attending please contact info@lumenchristi.org. Registrants are free to attend as many sessions as they choose. \nThe Book of Judges is a collection of loosely connected accounts of the loosely connected Israelite tribes in the period between the death of the general Joshua and the establishment of the first kingdom.   This time of religious and military crisis brought to the fore a series of heroes called šōṕēṭîm (judges) who\, as emergency agents of God’s deliverance and chastisement\, reconnected the Israelites to the promises made in the covenants. \nIn times when Bible-reading was common\, the vividness\, economy\, and narrative force of the episodes in Judges made the book a favorite (among the works of G.F. Händel\, for example\, are oratorios titled Deborah\, Gideon\, and Jephthah\, in addition to the better-known Samson).  Today appreciation for the book has declined\, as it serves comfortably neither the purposes of liturgy nor of polite politics. \nThis course will examine the principal episodes of Judges\, trying to develop some awareness and admiration of their distinctly Bronze Age flavor\, and connecting them theologically to the operation of the covenant in the Old Testament.  No prior familiarity with the book is presumed. \nJan 10   The First Judges — Chapters 1-3. \nJan 17   Deborah — Chapters 4-5. \nJan 24   Gideon — Chapters 6-8 \nJan 31   Jephthah — Chapters 10-12 \nFeb 7      Samson 1 — Chapters 13-14 \nFeb 14   Samson 2 — Chapters 15-16 \nFeb 21   Epilogues — Chapter 17
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-02-book-of-judges-paul-mankowski-sj/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170217T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170217T180000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165615Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164309Z
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SUMMARY:Master Class: Augustine on Human Freedom and Divine Grace: What is Really Going on in the ‘Conversion Scene’ in Augustine’s Confessions?
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\nThis master class is open to graduate and undergraduate students\, including non-University of Chicago students. Space is limited and offered on a first-come\, first-served basis. Copies of the readings will be made available online to all participants. \nAlthough the part of Augustine’s Confessions that describes his conversion to Christianity is arguably the most famous passage in his influential corpus\, scholars have long disagreed about how to understand this important section of Book 8. \nI will argue that the hermeneutical key to the passage is knowledge of the philosophical psychology that Augustine assumes in the passage\, which is a synthesis of Stoic and Platonic epistemological and motivational theory.  Augustine is claiming that his conversion was given to him by God – that is\, that is was a grace – but also that grace operates on humans by altering their natural cognitive and conative powers\, and that these powers were correctly described by Hellenistic philosophers. \nWe will examine the passage from Confessions Book 8 in depth\, bringing to bear the relevant philosophical context\, and then draw further conclusions about his position on the relation of human freedom to divine grace.  On the topic of grace and freedom we will make comparisons with Augustine’s later works\, as well as with the Reformation-era debate about grace and freedom\, alluding to authors such as Molina\, Bañez\, and Jansen. \nPrimary Readings: \nAugustine\, Confessions Books 6 and 8.  Please bring this text with you to the seminar. \nAdditional handouts of shorter texts from Hellenistic philosophy and from Augustine’s later corpus may be provided to read through during the seminar. \nOptional Secondary Readings: \nSarah Byers\, Perception\, Sensibility\, and Moral Motivation in Augustine (Cambridge: 2013). \nProf. Byers will give a lecture on Augustine’s Debt to Aristotle on Thursday\, February 16.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-02-master-class-augustine-on-human-freedom-divine-grace-what-is-really-going-on-in-conversion-scene-in-augustine-s-confessions-sarah-byers/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170216T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170216T190000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165617Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164312Z
UID:10000527-1487266200-1487271600@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:What Does it Mean to Say the Son of God is 'Consubstantial' with the Father? New Insights about Augustine's Debt to Aristotle
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\nCosponsored by the Department of Philosophy \nIt is commonly accepted that Aristotelian ideas did not inform Latin-language metaphysics until the translation of Aristotle in the 12th century. However\, this opinion has arisen from a failure to understand how the metaphysics of Augustine fundamentally depends upon Victorinus’ assimilation of Aristotelian concepts and distinctions.   \nVictorinus\, mentioned by Augustine in Confessions Book 7\, was a Christian convert\, an eminent rhetor\, and one of the last philosophers in the western Roman Empire who was fully bilingual in Greek and Latin.  In the 350’s he wrote metaphysical treatises defending the Council of Nicea’s doctrine that the Son of God is ‘consubstantial’ with the Father. These treatises comment upon and assimilate core concepts of Aristotle’s Metaphysics and On the Soul.  Augustine appropriated these Aristotelian ideas from Victorinus. \nProf. Byers will also lead a master class on “Augustine on Human Freedom and Divine Grace” on Friday\, February 17.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-02-what-does-it-mean-to-say-son-of-god-is-consubstantial-with-father-new-insights-about-augustines-debt-to-aristotle-sarah-byers/
LOCATION:Harper Memorial Library 130\, 1116 East 59th Street\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170215T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170215T200000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165618Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164315Z
UID:10000528-1487188800-1487188800@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:Dei Verbum: Persons and Propositions
DESCRIPTION:Presented by St. Procopius Abbey\, Benedictine University\, and the Lumen Christi Institute \nFree and open to the public. \nContact Fr. Becket Franks\, O.S.B. with any questions.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-02-dei-verbum-persons-propositions-matthew-levering/
LOCATION:St. Procopius Abbey Church\, 5601 College Rd.\nLisle\, IL 60532\, Lisle\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170204T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170204T173000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165618Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164317Z
UID:10000529-1486218600-1486229400@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:Master Class: David Hume\, Julian of Norwich\, and the Problem of Evil
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\nThis master class is open to current graduate students and faculty. Others interested in participating should contact us. Digital copies of the readings will be made available to participants. \nMore info TBA
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-02-master-class-david-hume-julian-of-norwich-problem-of-evil-denys-turner/
LOCATION:Faculty House at Columbia University\, 64 Morningside Drive\, New York\, NY
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170203T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170203T143000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165622Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164320Z
UID:10000530-1486126800-1486132200@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:Reductionism in Science: Order from Chaos or Order from Ideas?
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\nOpen to current university students and faculty. Lunch will be served. \nJoin us for a discussion with physicist Stephen Barr on his article from First Things on the philosophical assumptions behind a tendency toward reductionism in the natural sciences. \n“This tendency to downgrade and diminish reflects a metaphysical prejudice that equates explanatory reduction with a grim slide down the ladder of being. Powerful explanatory schemes reveal things to be simpler than they appear. What simpler means in science is much discussed among philosophers—it is not at all a simple question. But to many materialists it seems to mean lower\, cruder\, and more trivial. By this way of thinking\, the further we push toward a more basic understanding of things\, the more we are immersed in meaningless\, brutish bits of matter.”
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-02-reductionism-in-science-order-from-chaos-or-order-from-ideas-stephen-m-barr/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170202T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170202T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165623Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260325T165015Z
UID:10000531-1486065600-1486069200@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:Evolution and the Catholic Faith
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\nMany people imagine that the Catholic Church was historically opposed to the theory of evolution or that there is something dangerous or dubious about Darwinian evolution from the viewpoint of Catholic theology.  These ideas are based on a variety of confusions and misconceptions.  This talk will show how Catholic thinkers and Catholic Church authorities looked at evolution. It will also respond to the arguments some Christians make against it\, and examine some of the more subtle issues\, such as the relation of chance to divine providence\, and the questions surrounding human origins and human distinctiveness.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-02-evolution-catholic-faith-stephen-m-barr/
LOCATION:Kent Hall\, Room 107\, 1020 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170128T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170128T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165629Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164326Z
UID:10000532-1485624600-1485637200@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:Visit to the Benedictine Monastery of the Holy Cross
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\nOpen to current university students. Others interested in attending should contact us. \nJoin us for an evening of prayer with Benedictine Monks at the Monastery of the Holy Cross. Students will participate in the prayer of the Divine Office (including Solemn Vespers with Gregorian Chant and Compline)\, and have dinner and discussion with Fr. Peter Funk\, O.S.B.\, prior of the monastery and alumnus of the University of Chicago. \nMore information on the music for Solemn Vespers can be found HERE. \nSCHEDULE \n4:15pm   Meet at Gavin House (1220 E. 58th St.)\n4:30pm   Depart from Hyde Park\n5:00pm   Arrive at the Monastery\, welcome by Fr. Funk\n5:15pm   Office of Vespers\n6:00pm   Dinner & Discussion\n7:15pm   Office of Compline\n8:00pm   Arrive back in Hyde Park
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-01-visit-to-benedictine-monastery-of-holy-cross-fr-peter-funk/
LOCATION:The Monastery of the Holy Cross\, 3111 South Aberdeen St.\nChicago\, IL 60608\, Chicago\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170127T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170127T143000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165629Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T193947Z
UID:10000533-1485522000-1485527400@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:Lunch Discussion with Lisa Ruddick: “When Nothing is Cool”
DESCRIPTION:Open to current graduate students and faculty. Lunch will be provided. \n“I believe that the progressive fervor of the humanities\, while it reenergized inquiry in the 1980s and has since inspired countless valid lines of inquiry\, masks a second-order complex that is all about the thrill of destruction. In the name of critique\, anything except critique can be invaded or denatured. This is the game of academic cool.”\nJoin Professor Lisa Ruddick for a discussion of the nature of critique and the sense of the self among scholars in the humanities from her recent article “When Nothing is Cool.“
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-01-lunch-discussion-with-lisa-ruddick-when-nothing-is-cool-lisa-ruddick/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170112T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170112T200000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165630Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260325T183645Z
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SUMMARY:Augustine's Theology of Love
DESCRIPTION:Cosponsored by the Theology and Religious Ethics Workshop
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-01-augustines-theology-of-love-david-vincent-meconi-s-j/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20161129T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20161129T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165632Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164334Z
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SUMMARY:Reason\, Wisdom\, and Beauty in Medieval Christian Thought
DESCRIPTION:6:00 Dinner | 6:30 Lecture \nIntended for current students and faculty. Others interested in attending: please contact info@lumenchristi.org. Registrants are free to attend as many sessions as they choose. \nWith the recovery of the works of Aristotle in the Latin West\, the development of the scholastic method of reasoning\, and the creation of the universities\, a style of academic philosophy and theology developed in the late medieval period in which the practice of reasoning about Christian revelation was developed independent of spirituality and\, often\, the search for wisdom. Previously\, in the works of the Church Fathers and the great monastic writers\, theology was rooted in a spiritual life uniting prayer and the search for understanding. \nThis course will introduce students to major Christian figures and themes of the medieval period\, with special attention to the relationship of faith and reason. \nEriugena\nWillemien Otten (University of Chicago)\nOctober 11 \nBernard of Clairvaux\nBernard McGinn (University of Chicago)\nOctober 18 \nAnselm of Canterbury\nAaron Canty (Saint Xavier University)\nOctober 25 \nHugh & Richard of St. Victor\nRobert Porwoll (University of Chicago)\nNovember 1 \nBonaventure\nPeter Casarella (Univeristy of Notre Dame)\nNovember 8 \n*Beauty as Splendor\nFr. Paul Mankowski\, SJ (Lumen Christi Institute)\nNovember 15 \nThomas a Kempis\nRalph Keen (University of Illinois at Chicago)\nNovember 22 \nJohn Climacus\nPerry Hamalis (North Central College)\nNovember 29 \n*Note the speaker and topic for this session has been changed. We hope to reschedule a talk by Denis McNamara in the future.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2016-11-reason-wisdom-beauty-in-medieval-christian-thought-willemien-otten-bernard-mcginn-aaron-canty-robert-porwoll-peter-j-casarella-paul-mankowski-sj-ralph-keen-perry-hamalis/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20161127T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20161127T180000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165632Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164337Z
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SUMMARY:With Nature Marveling: Advent Music from Long Ago
DESCRIPTION:Schola Antiqua begins Advent with a rich array of late-medieval musical styles interwoven to promote a timeless sense of anticipation that befits the season. The group sings contemplative plainchant and a delightful set of medieval English carols\, while also offering a glimpse into a splendid Netherlandish service of Matins for Christmas Eve.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2016-11-with-nature-marveling-advent-music-from-long-ago-schola-antiqua-of-chicago/
LOCATION:Rockefeller Memorial Chapel\, 5850 S Woodlawn Ave.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20161023T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20161023T140000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165632Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164340Z
UID:10000537-1477227600-1477231200@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:The Suspended Harp: Sounds of Faith in Medieval Jerusalem
DESCRIPTION:A concert by Schola Antiqua of Chicago (Lumen Christi Institute Artists-in-Residence) \nBUY TICKETS HERE\nThe vocal ensemble Schola Antiqua of Chicago brings “musicality and sound beyond question” (Early Music America) to the sacred repertoire of Jerusalem: Georgian and Armenian hymns; cantorial psalms; Sufic devotional music; and Jewish\, Christian\, and Muslim calls to prayer. This program features special guests oudist Amro Helmy\, and soprano Nell Snaidas. \nOther performances:\nSun\, Oct 23\, 3 pm \nTickets to this event include Museum admission. \nThis program\, made possible by the William S. Lieberman Fund\, is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Jerusalem 1000–1400: Every People Under Heaven\, on view September 26\, 2016–January 8\, 2017.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2016-10-suspended-harp-sounds-of-faith-in-medieval-jerusalem-schola-antiqua-of-chicago/
LOCATION:The Met Cloisters – The Fuentidueña Chapel\, 99 Margaret Corbin Drive\, New York\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20161021T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20161021T170000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165633Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164435Z
UID:10000539-1477063800-1477069200@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:A Conversation with Phil Klay
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\ncosponsored by the Committee on Creative Writing and the Seminar Coop Bookstore \nIn this informal conversation\, Phil Klay and Scott Moringiello (DePaul University) will discuss how literature helps us reflect on themes of brutality\, faith\, fear\, and morality to deepen our understanding of faith and humanity. In 2014\, Phil Klay was awarded the National Book Award Prize for Redeployment\, a collection of short stories that takes readers to the frontlines of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan\, asking us to understand what happened there\, and what happened to the soldiers who returned.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2016-10-a-conversation-with-phil-klay-phil-klay-scott-d-moringiello/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20161021T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20161021T170000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165634Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164438Z
UID:10000540-1477058400-1477069200@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:NYC Master Class on Michel Foucault and Humanism
DESCRIPTION:A half-day seminar discussion of the chapter “Contesting Humanism: Michel Foucault” from the new book by philosopher Rémi Brague. This master class is open to graduate students and faculty. Undergraduates or others interested in participating should contact us. PDFs of the book will be made available online for all participants. \nABOUT THE BOOK \nThe Legitimacy of the Human (St. Augustine’s Press\, 2016) presents itself as a satellite work to a more voluminous effort by Rémi Brague\, The Kingdom of Man. The larger book argues the thesis of the increasingly visible failure of the modern project\, founded upon a view of man as thoroughly emancipated and autonomous\, his own sovereign and the world’s. This is most visible in our technological powers and predicaments\, with their ever-growing capacity to destroy or fundamentally transform our humanity\, but understandings of freedom and equality unable to justify themselves before the bar of reason\, but willfully asserting themselves\, complement the picture. If modernity’s precious gains are to be preserved\, and with them their beneficiaries\, modern human beings\, then the founding thoughts of the modern world need to be revisited and revised\, often in terms of a creative reengagement with premodern ones. A new\, truly humanistic\, culture needs to be sought. \nThe Legitimacy of the Human drives home that basic argument\, surveying contemporary challenges to the very existence of humanity\, then interrogating modern thought and philosophy for reasons it might have for the continuation of the human adventure. Brague finds the self-proclaimed advocates of the modern strikingly silent or even negative about the proposition. To be sure\, in many instances modern philosophy has helped humanity organize itself better in terms of justice\, peaceful coexistence\, and prosperity. But on the basic question whether it is good that humans exist\, it is strangely tongue-tied. Other authorities must be consulted\, other sources drawn from\, to credibly answer that fundamental existential question. The last two chapters of the book hearken to the answer of the biblical God\, as expressed in Genesis 1 and recapitulated by the Word Incarnate of the Gospels.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2016-10-nyc-master-class-on-michel-foucault-humanism-remi-brague/
LOCATION:Fordham President’s Dining Room\, 113 West 60th Street\, New York\, NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20161021T073000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20161021T083000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165634Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T193419Z
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SUMMARY:Religious Faith and Modern War
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\n$25 Registration includes breakfast \nYou can read Phil Klay’s recent piece “The Citizen-Soldier: Moral Risk and the Modern Military” HERE. \nPhoto courtesy of Hannah Dunphy
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2016-10-religious-faith-modern-war-phil-klay/
LOCATION:University Club of Chicago\, 76 E Monroe St\nChicago\, IL 60603\, Downtown\, IL
CATEGORIES:Downtown Lectures
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20161019T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20161019T180000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165635Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260404T154145Z
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SUMMARY:The Near East in the First Millenium: A Bird's Eye View
DESCRIPTION:Cosponsored by the France Chicago Center and the Department of Near East Languages and Civilizations \nThe Near East of today is very much in the center of attention\, for obvious political and military reasons. Yet\, it is worth while to look at its past cultural history. It was for millennia the hub of the world’s higher culture. It was especially fruitful in the Roman Empire and in the first centuries of Islam. Its influence on European culture was real. It is a duty for us all to recall this heritage and to try and save what is left of it.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2016-10-near-east-in-first-millenium-a-birds-eye-view-remi-brague/
LOCATION:Classics 110\, 1010 E 59th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20161015T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20161015T170000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165637Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164443Z
UID:10000542-1476540000-1476550800@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:Master Class on the Epistle to Diognetus
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\nThis master class is open to graduate and undergraduate students\, including non-University of Chicago students. Space is limited and offered on a first-come\, first-served basis. \nA masterpiece of early Christian apologetic literature (about 200)\, this short anonymous writing gives a vivid description of the paradoxical way in which Christians live in the pagan world and gives us precious hints about God’s ways. The actuality of such an ancient work for our secularized world is amazing. \nThe text can be found HERE.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2016-10-master-class-on-epistle-to-diognetus-remi-brague/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20161007T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20161007T153000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165637Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260404T154348Z
UID:10000543-1475854200-1475854200@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:The Conciliar Heritage: The Politics of Oblivion
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\nCosponsored by the History Department and the Medieval Studies Workshop \nIn the early fifteenth century\, the general council assembled at Constance and\, representing the universal Church\, put an end to the scandalous schism which for almost forty years had divided the Latin Church between rival lines of claimants to the papal office. It did so by claiming and exercising an authority superior to that of the pope\, an authority by virtue of which it could impose constitutional limits on the exercise of his prerogatives\, stand in judgment over him\, and if need be\, depose him for wrongdoing. This lecture will consider the nature and history of the conciliarist tradition of ecclesiastical constitutionalism across the half millennium down to 1870 when Vatican I\, by confirming Cardinal Manning’s claim that “ultramontanism is Catholic Christianity”\, consigned it to oblivion. \nYou can read more about Professor Oakley’s book The Conciliarist Tradition HERE.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2016-10-conciliar-heritage-politics-of-oblivion-francis-oakley/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, First Floor Common Room\, 1025 E 58th St\,Chicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20161006T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20161006T163000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165640Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260328T160512Z
UID:10000544-1475771400-1475771400@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:Kingship: The Politics of Enchantment
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\nCosponsored by the History Department and the Medieval Studies Workshop \nThe lecture will focus on the extraordinary millennial career of the sacral kingship down through the ages and across the globe as the most common form of government known to humankind. It will trace its survival down into the early modern era and highlight the unexpected turn whereby it drew the papacy itself into its ideological orbit and helped transform the popes into the last of the great sacral monarchs. \nYou can read more about Prof. Oakley’s book on Kingship HERE.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2016-10-kingship-politics-of-enchantment-francis-oakley/
LOCATION:Classics 110\, 1010 E 59th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160927T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160927T193000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165641Z
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SUMMARY:Getting Religion: Faith\, Culture\, and Politics from the Age of Eisenhower to the Era of Obama
DESCRIPTION:ABOUT THE BOOK \nImpeccably researched\, thought-challenging and leavened by wit\, Getting Religion\, the highly-anticipated new book from Kenneth L. Woodward\, is ideal perfect for readers looking to understand how religion came to be a contentious element in 21st century public life. \nHere the award-winning author blends memoir (especially of the postwar era) with copious reporting and shrewd historical analysis to tell the story of how American religion\, culture and politics influenced each other in the second half of the 20th century. There are few people writing today who could tell this important story with such authority and insight. A scholar as well as one of the nation’s most respected journalists\, Woodward served as Newsweek’s religion editor for nearly forty years\, reporting from five continents and contributing over 700 articles\, including nearly 100 cover stories\, on a wide range of social issues\, ideas and movements. \nBeginning with a bold reassessment of the Fifties\, Woodward’s narrative weaves through Civil Rights era and the movements that followed in its wake: the anti-Vietnam movement; Liberation theology in Latin America; the rise of Evangelicalism and decline of mainline Protestantism; women’s liberation and Bible; the turn to Asian spirituality; the transformation of the family and emergence of religious cults; and the embrace of righteous politics by both the Republican and Democratic Parties. \nAlong the way\, Woodward provides riveting portraits of many of the era’s major figures: preachers like Billy Graham and Jerry Falwell; politicians Mario Cuomo and Hillary Clinton; movement leaders Daniel Berrigan\, Abraham Joshua Heschel\, and Richard John Neuhaus; influential thinkers ranging from Erik Erikson to Elizabeth Kubler-Ross; feminist theologians Rosemary Reuther and Elizabeth Schussler-Fiorenza; and est impresario Werner Erhardt; plus the author’s long time friend\, the Dalai Lama. \nFor readers interested in how religion\, economics\, family life and politics influence each other\, Woodward introduces fresh a fresh vocabulary of terms such as “embedded religion\,” “movement religion” and “entrepreneurial religion” to illuminate the interweaving of the secular and sacred in American public life. \nThis is one of those rare books that changes the way Americans think about belief\, behavior and belonging.\nPRAISE FOR THE BOOK \n“In this thoughtful book\, Ken Woodward offers us a memorable portrait of the past seven decades of American life and culture. From Reinhold Niebuhr to Billy Graham\, from Abraham Heschel to the Dali Lama\, from George W. Bush to Hillary Clinton\, Woodward captures the personalities and charts the philosophical trends that have shaped the way we live now.” – Jon Meacham\, Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author of Destiny and Power \n“For decades\, Kenneth Woodward covered religion like no one else in the field: with a keen intellect\, an open mind\, a big heart\, and most of all\, the inability to write a dull sentence. In his new memoir\, which mixes his own religious upbringing with a typically clearheaded analysis of the times in which he lived (and on which he reported)\, he takes us on a fascinating journey of what he rightly calls the most volatile religious period in American history.  You may open the book for the historical tour\, but you’ll stay with it because of your brilliant guide.” – James Martin\, SJ\, New York Times bestselling author of Jesus: A Pilgrimage. \nWoodward’s book is brilliant—lively\, historically informed\, and spiced throughout with his trademark wit. Having personally witnessed many of most important events in American religion over the past half century\, Woodward provides close-up\, moment-to-moment reality to stories others often missed. His judgments are consistently edgy but also appreciative of the achievements of the era’s key players he came to know so well. – Grant Wacker\, Gilbert T. Rowe Professor Emeritus of Christian History\, Duke Divinity School \n“No American journalist has patrolled the borders of that often-troubled relationship between faith and culture longer or better than Kenneth Woodward. He’s a reporter of the old school\, taking the time both to get the story right and to be artful about how he crafts his prose. As Woodward says himself\, “being there matters\,” and in this book\, you’ll find the wisdom of someone who’s just flat-out been there. This is a superb book.” – John L. Allen Jr\, editor of Crux and author of A People of Hope \n“This survey and interpretation of the American socio-religious scene over the past half century is deeply resourced\, comprehensive in coverage\, fair-minded in its judgments\, and eminently readable. It covers much more than politics\, but Woodward has original things to tell us on that highly charged topic. His account of the religious right is a model of clarity\, and he balances that by calling attention to often overlooked religious dimensions to Democratic party politics — especially the importance of Methodism in the political formation of George McGovern and Hillary Clinton. All in all\, a terrific book.” – Philip Gleason\, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. \n“If ever there were a journalist who could write of his journey through the multi-dimensional worlds of religion in America — and in the world\, it is Kenneth Woodward. Religion Reported is a fascinating account of his almost 40 years as the religion editor of Newsweek. He takes us behind the scenes with illuminating portrayals of some of the major religious and political leaders of the latter twentieth century and does so with thorough research\, balanced reporting\, candid assessments\, and more than a little humor. As Woodward notes\, ‘being there’ mattered. It becomes clear that the author has been everywhere on the religion scene and his observations are incisive and insightful.  Readers of this engaging book will feel\, as I did\, that they were there also.” – Michael Cromartie\, Vice President\, Ethics and Public Policy Center \nNot since de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America\, has there been such a personal and insightful survey of religion in American life. Ken Woodward’s Getting Religion is in some ways even better because de Tocqueville was a just visitor to America while Woodward is a sympathetic insider who loves church and state as well as the separation between them that mutually enriches both.  This is a masterful record of the dance of religion on American shores since the second world war.  Ken Woodward may be the only one who could have written it. –Rabbi Marc Gellman\, Ph.D.\, former religion columnist for Newsweek.com \n \n\n 
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2016-09-getting-religion-faith-culture-politics-from-age-of-eisenhower-to-era-of-obama-kenneth-woodward-martin-marty/
LOCATION:University Club of Chicago\, 76 E Monroe St\nChicago\, IL 60603\, Downtown\, IL
CATEGORIES:Downtown Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160917T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160917T143000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165643Z
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SUMMARY:NYC Master Class on "The Wisdom of Bernard of Clairvaux"
DESCRIPTION:This master class is open to graduate students and faculty. Undergraduates or others interested in participating should contact us. PDFs of the readings will be made available online for all participants. Complimentary copies of Early Christian Mystics (Crossroads\, 2003) will be provided at the seminar. \nThis one-time Seminar will study selected writings of the great Cistercian theologian and mystic\, Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1157). Bernard was one of the most remarkable figures of the twelfth century—monastic leader\, ecclesiastical politician\, and noted theologian. His most important legacy\, however\, was as a mystic and mystical writer. His mystical treatises\, such as On Loving God (De diligendo Deo)\, and especially his eighty-six sermons on the biblical Song of Songs (Sermones super Cantica Canticorum)\, are among the most widely-read works in the history of Christian mysticism. The Seminar will focus on reading and analyzing On Loving God and selected sermons from the collection on the Song of Songs as found in Bernard of Clairvaux. Selected Works\, translated by G. R. Evans (New York: Paulist Press\, 1987)\, pp. 173-205\, and 209-78. In addition\, some other outlines and short extracts will be handed out during the Seminar. \nREQUIRED READINGS \n\nG.R. Evans\, trans.\, Bernard of Clairvaux: Selected Works (New York: Paulist Press\, 1988)\, pp.173-205\, 209-278.\n\nANCILLARY READINGS \n\nBernard McGinn & Patricia Ferris McGinn\, Early Christian Mystics (New Yorl: Crossroads Publishing\, 2003)\, pp. 207-230\nG.R. Evans\, trans.\, Bernard of Clairvaux: Selected Works (New York: Paulist Press\, 1988)\, pp.13-57.\n\nSCHEDULE \n9:30am   Welcome Reception\n10:00am   Session I\n11:15am   Break\n11:45am   Session II\n1:00pm   Close\, Buffet Lunch\n2:30pm   End
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2016-09-nyc-master-class-on-wisdom-of-bernard-of-clairvaux-bernard-mcginn/
LOCATION:Faculty House at Columbia University\, 64 Morningside Drive\, New York\, NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160730T230000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160806T230000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241006T235414Z
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SUMMARY:Catholic Social Thought: A Critical Investigation
DESCRIPTION: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 this tradition of social thought overlaps several disciplines in the contemporary university including political science\, political philosophy\, law\, economics\, theology\, and history.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2016_cst_critical_investigation_hittinger/
LOCATION:University of California\, Berkeley\, S Hall Rd.\nBerkeley\, CA 94720\, Berkeley\, CA
CATEGORIES:Summer Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160710T230000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160715T230000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241006T235414Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260115T180302Z
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SUMMARY:The Thought of John Henry Newman
DESCRIPTION:Now in its fourth 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 Parochial and Plain Sermons\, and the Apologia Pro Vita Sua. This seminar will approach Newman’s thought through a critical engagement with these texts.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2016_thought_newman_ker/
LOCATION:Merton College\, Oxford\, Merton St\, Oxford OX1 4JD\, UK\, Oxford\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Summer Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160623T230000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160628T230000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241006T235413Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260115T183526Z
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SUMMARY:Aquinas’s Five Ways and Where they Lead
DESCRIPTION:This intensive seminar will discuss St. Thomas Aquinas’s Five Ways of proving the existence of a God and the conception that he thinks they yield: that of a God who is at once utterly simple and utterly perfect\, and therefore utterly beyond our comprehension. The sessions will center on Summa Theologiae\, I\, qq. 2-4—especially\, of course\, q. 2\, a. 3\, which contains the Five Ways themselves—and on selected texts from qq. 12 & 13.  Participants will also discuss relevant passages from other works of St. Thomas\, as well as his historical influences and some related contemporary issues.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2016_aquinas_five_ways/
LOCATION:Pontifical University of the Holy Cross\, Rome\, Piazza Santa Apollinare\, 49\, 00186 Roma\, Italy\, Rome\, Italy
CATEGORIES:Summer Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160526T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160526T153000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165643Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260404T160333Z
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SUMMARY:Symposium on Heidegger's Confessions
DESCRIPTION:Cosponsored by the Philosophy of Religions Workshop and the Theology & Religious Ethics Workshop \nAlthough Martin Heidegger is nearly as notorious as Friedrich Nietzsche for embracing the death of God\, the philosopher himself acknowledged that Christianity accompanied him at every stage of his career. In Heidegger’s Confessions\, Ryan Coyne isolates a crucially important player in this story: Saint Augustine. Uncovering the significance of Saint Augustine in Heidegger’s philosophy\, he details the complex and conflicted ways in which Heidegger paradoxically sought to define himself against the Christian tradition while at the same time making use of its resources.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2016-05-symposium-on-heideggers-confessions-ryan-coyne-jean-luc-marion-gregory-freid/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160519T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160520T170000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165645Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260404T143509Z
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SUMMARY:Caring for our Common Home: Economics\, Environment\, & Catholic Social Thought
DESCRIPTION:THURSDAY\, MAY 19\nThe International House at The University of Chicago \nPublic Symposium\nArchbishop Thomas G. Wenski\, Archbishop of Miami\nChristopher Barrett\, Cornell University\nMary Evelyn Tucker\, Yale University\nMichael Greenstone\, The University of Chicago\nV. Ramanathan\, The University of California\, San Diego \nFRIDAY\, MAY 20\nThe Hilton Chicago/Magnificent Mile Suites \nSESSION I: The Current State of Environmental Degradation and its Impact on the Most Vulnerable\nRichard Carson\, The University of California\, San Diego\nChristopher Barrett\, Cornell University \nSESSION II: Catholic Social Teaching on the Environment\nJame Schaefer\, Marquette University\nDavid Cloutier\, Mount St. Mary’s University \nSession III: Practical Responses to the Problem\nGeoffrey Heal\, Columbia University\nMark Jacobsen\, The University of California\, San Diego\nBishop Richard Pates\, Bishop of Des Moines
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2016-05-caring-for-our-common-home-economics-environment-catholic-social-thought-archbishop-thomas-g-wenski-michael-greenstone-christopher-barrett-mary-evelyn-tucker-v-ramanathan/
LOCATION:International House at the University of Chicago\, 1414 E 59th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160514T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160514T183000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165647Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164513Z
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SUMMARY:Schola Antiqua Concert: Caged Byrd
DESCRIPTION:General $25 / Students $10. Purchase tickets HERE. \nA concert of sacred motets and keyboard music by William Byrd with Jason Moy\, harpsichord. \nFor more information visit the Schola Antiqua website.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2016-05-schola-antiqua-concert-caged-byrd-schola-antiqua-of-chicago/
LOCATION:St. John Cantius Church\, 825 N Carpenter St\nChicago\, IL 60642\, Chicago\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160512T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160512T180000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165647Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260404T152116Z
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SUMMARY:The Myth of Autonomy
DESCRIPTION:Modernity and post-modernity share an evolving notion of autonomy\, conceived along nominalist lines\,\nthat runs counter to earlier concepts of human freedom developed by the likes of Irenaeus and Anselm.\nPersona creatus is today displacing homo gratus\, both culturally and politically. What is at stake in\nthis evolution? Fundamental theology\, obviously\, and anthropology too. Perception of the body as well\,\ntogether with the legislation or policies by which we try to reinforce our sense of autonomy and our\nclaims to ‘dignity’ in the sphere of the body. So what if this sense is mistaken? What if we have autonomy\nwrong? Professor Farrow’s public lecture will ask us to think again about autonomy.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2016-05-myth-of-autonomy-douglas-farrow/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, First Floor Common Room\, 1025 E 58th St\,Chicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160507T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160507T170000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165648Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260328T152714Z
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SUMMARY:Pope Francis\, Marriage\, and the Family
DESCRIPTION:In the wake of a synodal process that reflected on “the vocation and mission of the family today\,” (RF 1) Pope Francis recently released a sweeping and rich post-synodal Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia on love in the family\, in which he invites Christian families to “value the gifts of marriage and the family\, and to persevere in a love strengthened by the virtues of generosity\, commitment\, fidelity and patience” and invites everyone to “be a sign of mercy and closeness wherever family life remains imperfect or lacks peace and joy” (AL 5). Spouses Anna and Michael Moreland will consider how the themes and goals of the document address the place of marriage and the family in the life of the church today.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2016-05-pope-francis-marriage-family-anna-bonta-moreland-michael-moreland/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, First Floor Common Room\, 1025 E 58th St\,Chicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160503T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160503T180000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165654Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164522Z
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SUMMARY:Harsh Justice: The Widening Divide Between America and Europe
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\nFree and open to the public \na panel discussion with \nJames Q. Whitman\, Yale University Law School \nRespondents \nHon. Tom Dart\,Cook County Sheriff \nHon. Colleen Sheehan\, Cook County Circuit Court Judge \nKim Foxx\, Former Assistant State’s Attorney\, Juvenile Justice Division\, and Former Chief of Staff to President of Cook County Board\, Toni Preckwinkle \nHon. Ann M. Burke (moderator)\, Illinois Supreme Court Justice \nCosponsored by The Catholic Lawyers Guild of Chicago and The John Howard Association \nCriminal punishment in America has become harsh and degrading–more so than any other western democracy. Executions and long prison terms are commonplace in America. Countries like France and Germany\, by contrast\, are systematically mild. European offenders are rarely sent to prison\, and when they are\, they serve far shorter terms than their American counterparts. Why is America so comparatively harsh? The answer lies in America’s triumphant embrace of a non-hierarchical social system and distrust of state power which have contributed to a law of punishment that is more willing to degrade offenders. \nThe panelists will discuss how Professor Whitman’s comparison of the European and American systems might highlight and uncover aspects of the criminal justice system in Cook County and Illinois that could be improved. \nEvent Schedule\n4:30-5:00   Registration\n5:00-6:30   Event\n6:30-7:30   Reception
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2016-05-harsh-justice-widening-divide-between-america-europe-james-q-whitman/
LOCATION:Jenner & Block\, 45th Floor\, 353 N Clark St.\nChicago\, IL 60654\, Downtown\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160426T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160426T180000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165655Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164525Z
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SUMMARY:The Work of Our Redemption: A Liturgical Theology of Sacrosanctum Concilium
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public \n\nPart of an annual lecture series hosted by St. Procopius Abbey and Benedictine University on the Documents of Vatican II commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council. \nContact Fr. Becket Franks\, OSB with any questions at bfranks (at) procopius.org or 630-829-9253.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2016-04-work-of-our-redemption-a-liturgical-theology-of-sacrosanctum-concilium-timothy-omalley/
LOCATION:St. Procopius Abbey Church\, 5601 College Rd.\nLisle\, IL 60532\, Lisle\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160420T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160420T153000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165657Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164527Z
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SUMMARY:The Inquisition: What Really Happened?
DESCRIPTION:The Inquisition is a subject of much cultural fascination\, invoking images of book burnings and gruesome executions. Yet these were only a small part of the activities of a vast and complex organization\, involved in many subtler aspects of society\, from the regulation of prostitution and homosexuality\, to the development of copyright\, to prescribing differences between elite and lower class education.  This panel of experts on the history of the Inquisition will discuss the realities behind the myths about this vast effort at information control\, torn between many different goals and powers\, and staffed by members who were often scholars or scientists themselves.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2016-04-inquisition-what-really-happened-hannah-marcus-daniele-macuglia-ada-palmer/
LOCATION:Harper Memorial Library 120\, 1116 East 59th Street\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160419T161500
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160419T181500
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165658Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260328T142149Z
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SUMMARY:Reception for A Godly Humanism: Clarifying the Hope That Lies Within
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a reception to celebrate the recently released book A Godly Humanism: Clarifying the Hope that Lies Within (CUA Press\, 2015) by the late Francis Cardinal George\, O.M.I. on the one-year anniversary of his passing. \n\n\nFinished by Francis Cardinal George\, O.M.I. nine days before his death\, A Godly Humanismoffers an account of the Catholic intellectual life by one of the most gifted thinkers to serve as bishop in the American Church. It draws on figures such as St. Augustine\, St. Thomas Aquinas\, St. John Paul II\, and Pope Benedict XVI to express a vision of the Church as a communion built around the relationship of God to human beings and of human beings to one another. The book provides a starting point for the interpretation of “Pope Francis’s Magisterium [as] evidence of another horizon having been opened more clearly for believers.”
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2016-04-reception-for-a-godly-humanism-clarifying-hope-that-lies-within-gary-a-anderson-jean-luc-marion-anna-bonta-moreland-francis-cardinal-george-omi/
LOCATION:University Club of Chicago\, 76 E Monroe St\nChicago\, IL 60603\, Downtown\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160414T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160414T180000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165659Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164533Z
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SUMMARY:Sin as Self-Sabotage: Saint Augustine on Ravishing One's Own Ruin
DESCRIPTION:When St. Augustine innocuously yet infamously stole some pears in his youth\, he confessed that he did it simply because he was in love with his own ruin.  Have you ever looked at your sins as the way you destroy that which you do not like about yourself?  Fr. Meconi’s talk will draw from this Augustinian insight that sin is really a form of self-sabotage\, a way of keeping ourselves away from an intimacy and a love we all know we in no way deserve.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2016-04-sin-as-self-sabotage-saint-augustine-on-ravishing-ones-own-ruin-david-vincent-meconi-s-j/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, First Floor Common Room\, 1025 E 58th St\,Chicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160408T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160408T180000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165701Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260328T161809Z
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SUMMARY:Interpreting Pope Francis: Evangelization and the Family
DESCRIPTION:cosponsored by the Theology and Religious Ethics Workshop \nThis lecture will address the potential changes in the Catholic Church’s approach to marriage and family life to result from the Extraordinary Synod on the Family convened by Pope Francis this month. It will examine what this synod reveals about the relationship between the doctrinal and the pastoral and the papacy and the episcopate.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2016-04-interpreting-pope-francis-evangelization-family-anna-bonta-moreland/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160408T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160408T160000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
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SUMMARY:master class on The Morality of Exchange: Bargaining and Gift-Giving in Thomas Aquinas and Pope Benedict XVI
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE \nThis master class is open to graduate and undergraduate students\, including non-University of Chicago students. Space is limited and offered on a first-come\, first-served basis. Copies of the readings will be provided. \nPope Benedict’s 2009 Encyclical-Letter\, Caritas in veritate\, breaks new ground in the tradition of Catholic social teaching by explicitly calling for a new theory of economic exchange. Whereas the traditional scholastic theory of the “just price” was focused on “the principle of the equivalence in value of exchanged goods” (par. 35)\, a new theory of exchange must focus instead on “a metaphysical understanding of the relations between persons” (par. 53). True\, Thomas Aquinas pioneered this new approach to the morality of exchange when he argued that the Golden Rule must take precedence over the logic of the just price: the relation between persons must trump the relation between the goods exchanged. Caritas in veritate argues further for a new theory of exchange that combines elements of mutual gain with elements of gift-giving. Here again we see a revision of traditional scholastic theory in which every transaction was defined exclusively either as a unilateral gift (subject to norms of distributive justice and charity) or as a bilateral exchange (subject to norms of commutative justice). Benedict\, by contrast\, calls for a vision of economic life in which gift-giving and exchange are mixed\, so that bargains are “redolent with the spirit of gift” (par. 37) in a new “economy of gratuitousness” (par. 38). According to Benedict\, economic bargains are self-interested while gifts stem from altruistic love. I will call this sharp contrast into question by revising the traditional scholastic analysis of the just price\, which was focused on the equality of the goods exchanged and instead focus on the moral equality of the parties to an exchange. \nDiscussion Questions \n\nWhat is a just price? How is a just price related to a market price? Can the government impose a just price on goods?\nIs economic exchange inherently self-interested? Is there a place for love in the marketplace?\nWhat is a gift? Do all gifts involve exchange? Why do bribes often take the form of gifts? Why do people often resent receiving “charity”?\nWhat does Benedict mean by “an economy of gratuitousness”?\nWhat matters most for justice? Equality of the commodities exchanged or the equality of the parties to an exchange?\n\nReadings: \n\nThomas Aquinas on Justice in Buying and Selling.\nEncyclical Letter of Benedict XVI: Caritas in Veritate\nJames Bernard Murphy: The Morality of Bargaining (Journal of Business Ethics 2011 (100: 79-88).g
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2016-04-master-class-on-morality-of-exchange-bargaining-gift-giving-in-thomas-aquinas-pope-benedict-xvi-james-bernard-murphy/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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SUMMARY:Sacred Violence: The Legacy of René Girard
DESCRIPTION:A panel discussion with William Cavanaugh (DePaul University)\, Jean-Luc Marion (University of Chicago)\, and James B. Murphy (Dartmouth College) at the University of Chicago on April 7\, 2016. \nRené Girard (1923-2015) has been described as the Darwin of the human sciences for his theories of the origin of violence and religion and the imitative character of human behavior (mimesis). His books\, among them Violence and the Sacred and Things Hidden since the Foundation of the World\, span the fields of Literary Criticism\, Psychology\, Anthropology\, Sociology\, History\, Biblical Hermeneutics and Theology. While his theories have attracted many devoted disciples\, Girard has also sparked controversy for his sweeping general claims\, tendentious readings of canonical works\, and his explicitly Christian perspective. This panel discussion will consider the significance of Girard’s thought for the human sciences. \n\ncosponsored by the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought and the Theology & Religious Ethics Workshop
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2016-04-sacred-violence-legacy-of-rene-girard-james-bernard-murphy-william-t-cavanaugh-jean-luc-marion/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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SUMMARY:Spring Non-Credit Course on the Sacraments
DESCRIPTION:6:00 Dinner | 6:30 Lecture\n\nIntended for current students and faculty. Others interested in attending please contact info@lumenchristi.org. Registrants are free to attend as many sessions as they choose. \nREGISTER HERE \nJesus’ words and actions during his hidden life and public ministry were already salvific\, for they anticipated the power of his Paschal mystery. They announced and prepared what he was going to give the Church when all was accomplished. The mysteries of Christ’s life are the foundations of what he would henceforth dispense in the sacraments\, through the ministers of his Church\, for “what was visible in our Savior has passed over into his mysteries.”\n— from the Catechism of the Catholic Church\, #1115\, quoting St. Leo the Great\, Sermo 74\, 2\, \nThis course will examine the doctrine\, history\, and theology of the seven sacraments\, along with a discussion of contemporary pastoral concerns. No previous knowledge of or instruction in Catholic sacramental theology is presumed. \nApril 5               The Sacrament of Penance \nApril 12             The Sacrament of Holy Orders \nApril 26             The Sacrament of Baptism \nMay 3                 The Sacrament of the Eucharist \nMay 10              The Sacrament of Confirmation \nMay 17              The Sacrament of Extreme Unction \nMay 24              The Sacrament of Matrimony
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2016-04-spring-non-credit-course-on-sacraments-paul-mankowski-sj/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160401T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160401T123000
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Luncheon discussion of Tolkien's "On Fairy-Stories" and Lewis's "Transposition"
DESCRIPTION:Due to unforeseen personal reasons\, Carol Zaleski’s visit has been postponed. We hope to reschedule this event for a future date. \nAt this luncheon event\, students will read and discuss J.R.R. Tolkein’s essay “On Fairy-Stories” and C.S. Lewis’s essay “Transposition” with Carol & Philip Zaleski (co-authors ofThe Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings) \nREGISTER HERE \nThis event is open to current University of Chicago students. Lunch will be served. Space is limited and offered on a first-come first-serve basis. PDFs of the readings will be provided.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2016-04-cancelled-luncheon-discussion-of-tolkiens-on-fairy-stories-lewiss-transposition-carol-zaleski-philip-zaleski/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160331T140000
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: The Recovered Image: C.S. Lewis\, J.R.R. Tolkien\, and the Inklings
DESCRIPTION:Due to unforeseen personal reasons\, Carol & Philip Zaleski’s visit has been postponed. We hope to reschedule this event for a future date. \nThursday\, March 31\, 7:00pm\nUniversity of Chicago\, Location TBA \nCarol & Philip Zaleski (Smith College) \nREGISTER HERE \ncosponsored by the Seminary Co-op Bookstore \nThe literary historian\, novelist and critic C. S. Lewis is the most widely read Christian writer of his century and ours; the philologist J.R.R. Tolkien our most beloved mythmaker. For three decades\, they and their closest associates (including the philosopher of language Owen Barfield and the eccentric fantasist Charles Williams) formed a literary club known as the Inklings\, which met every week in Lewis’s Magdalen College rooms and nearby Oxford pubs. They read aloud works in progress\, drank\, argued\, and encouraged one another to write the kind of books they loved to read — even if it meant bucking modernist trends. Philip and Carol Zaleski\, co-authors of The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings\, will present the literary and spiritual project of the Inklings as one of recovery rather than reaction: recovery of the living tradition of Christian humanism in the face of war\, environmental degradation\, and secular indifference.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2016-03-cancelled-recovered-image-c-s-lewis-j-r-r-tolkien-inklings-carol-zaleski-philip-zaleski/
LOCATION:University of Chicago–TBA\, N/A\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160331T110000
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings
DESCRIPTION:Due to unforeseen personal reasons\, Carol Zaleski’s visit has been postponed. We hope to reschedule this event for a future date. \nwith co-authors Philip & Carol Zaleski \nREGISTER HERE\n$50 General/ $15 Student/ $500 Table Sponsorship \nAt this luncheon event\, authors Philip and Carol Zaleski will discuss their book The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien\, C.S. Lewis\, Owen Barfield\, Charles Williams. \nFor three decades\, C.S. Lewis (author of The Chronicles of Narnia)\, J.R.R. Tolkien (author of The Lord of the Rings)\, and their closest associates met weekly in Oxford pubs as a literary club known as the Inklings. This book examines their project of recovering a tradition of Christian Humanism in the face of war\, environmental degradation\, and secular indifference. \nRomantics who scorned rebellion\, fantasists who prized reality\, wartime writers who believed in hope\, Christians with cosmic reach\, the Inklings sought to revitalize literature and faith in the twentieth century’s darkest years-and did so in dazzling style. \n\nPraise for The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings \nNamed Book of the Year by the Conference on Christianity and Literature \n“The husband-and-wife team of Philip and Carol Zaleski bring to bear both extensive scholarship and a neatly interwoven narrative; this is a story about storytellers\, and it shows . . . In The Fellowship\, the authors never cease to feel for the Inklings\, particularly sympathizing with their yearnings for spiritual and professional fulfillment\, with occasional wry asides on the nature of their marriages and their politics to take note of shortcomings both personal and institutional. Taken together\, it makes the overarching life of the group something greater than the sum of its parts.” ―Genevieve Valentine\, The New York Times Book Review \n“This is a long overdue study of an abidingly fascinating and creative group of writers. There has not been a serious treatment of the whole group and their interactions for more than thirty years\, and this excellent book brings together a great deal of new discussion and discovery in a lively\, readable\, sympathetic but not uncritical survey that allows these remarkable figures to emerge in all their human complexity and diverse gifts. The authors deserve warm congratulations.” ―Rowan Williams\, former Archbishop of Canterbury and author of The Lion’s World: A Journey into the Heart of Narnia \n“The Zaleskis have produced a major work of biography and criticism\, and if you are a devotee of any of the Inklings\, you will want to read it.” ―Michael Dirda\, The Washington Post \n“The Zaleskis deftly interweave the four stories [of Lewis\, Tolkien\, Barfield\, and Williams]\, showing how\, when read together\, these very different men can help us more clearly see the state of literary and religious culture in mid-century England and beyond.” ―Anthony Domestico\, Christian Science Monitor \n“A fascinating overview of this ‘intellectual orchestra’ . . . a captivating story of young writers finding their literary footing while trying to rectify competing desires for happiness\, love\, fame\, and faith.” ―Ethan Gilsdorf\, The Boston Globe \n“The Fellowship makes a convincing case that [the Inklings’s] cultural legacy deserves comparison with that of the less Christian\, more intellectually austere Bloomsbury group.” ―Lev Grossman\, Time Magazine \n“A gutsy\, glorious adoration of the English fantasy and faerie traditions\, which celebrates what sometimes seems like a fantastical time when religion didn’t destroy art but created it.” ―Joshua Cohen\, Harper’s Magazine \n“A highly readable group biography . . . The Zaleskis do an impressive job.” ―Elizabeth Hand\, Los Angeles Times \n“It’s difficult to overstate the influence of the two most famous Inklings\, Tolkien and C.S. Lewis\, on varied fields including Christian apologetics and fantasy writing. The Zaleskis trace the history of this informal club of Oxford-educated\, Christian intellectuals\, which first coalesced in the early 1930s\, by focusing on four of the most prominent Inklings: Tolkien\, Lewis\, mystic Charles Williams\, and philosopher Owen Barfield. As scholarship\, the book is immensely successful\, describing its protagonists’ strengths and shortcomings with insight and facility.” ―Publishers Weekly (starred review) \n“Like expert commentators at a fencing match\, Philip Zaleski and Carol Zaleski give a sparkling account of how J.R.R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis\, those friendly duelists\, and their eager teammates\, Owen Barfield and Charles Williams\, sharpened one another’s wits and dazzled the world with words. The Inklings were that rare thing\, an elite with an inclusive spirit\, and the Zaleskis share the same ethos\, brilliantly mastering the details of their brief but never forgetting to be readable. Thorough\, lucid\, balanced\, and well judged\, this is literary biography of the very best kind.” ―Michael Ward\, University of Oxford\, author of Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis \n“[A] well-researched\, consistently engaging group biography . . . richly detailed . . . A bountiful literary history.” ―Kirkus \n“[A] prodigious work . . . [The Fellowship\,] which is extensively researched\, provides a fascinating look at British literary society during the first half of the 20th century. . . For all fans of Tolkien and Lewis\, this excellent title will also appeal to readers interested in Christian scholarship and 20th-century British literature and history.” ―Erica Swenson Danowitz\, Library Journal (starred review) \n“The Fellowship . . . is a mental map\, a religious journey\, and the biography of a brotherhood. Plenty of distinguished Inklings came and went over the years . . . but the Zaleskis zoom in on (and out from) the primary axis of Tolkien\, Lewis\, Williams\, and Barfield . . . . Christians all\, these men formed what the Zaleskis call ‘a perfect compass rose of faith’: Barfield the proto-New Ager\, Tolkien the rather prim orthodox Catholic\, Lewis the noisy and dogmatically ordinary layman and popular theologian\, Williams the ritualistic Anglican with a taste for sorcery . . . . Who can compare with these writers? . . . . The Inklings . . . are still gathering steam.” ―James Parker\, The Atlantic
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2016-03-cancelled-fellowship-literary-lives-of-inklings-carol-zaleski-philip-zaleski/
LOCATION:University Club of Chicago\, 76 E Monroe St\nChicago\, IL 60603\, Downtown\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160330T153000
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: In Praise of Purgatory
DESCRIPTION:Due to unforeseen personal reasons\, Carol Zaleski’s visit has been postponed. We hope to reschedule this event for a future date. \nCarol Zaleski (Smith College) \nREGISTER HERE \ncosponsored by the Medieval Studies Workshop and the Theology & Religious Ethics Workshop \nThe idea of Purgatory – “that second kingdom\,” as Dante puts it\, “where the human soul is cleansed and made fit to ascend to Heaven” — is present in germ throughout world religions\, fully articulated (and discriminated from ‘hell lite’) by the Catholic tradition\, rejected by the Reformers\, yet never wholly suppressed. Carol Zaleski will speak about the idea of purgatory with a view to its analogues in secular and religious literature\, its ecumenical possibilities\, and its enduring moral and spiritual significance.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2016-03-cancelled-in-praise-of-purgatory-carol-zaleski/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, First Floor Common Room\, 1025 E 58th St\,Chicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160225T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160225T190000
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SUMMARY:San Marco\, the Dominican Monastery at the Heart of Renaissance Florence
DESCRIPTION:A lecture with Ada Palmer (University of Chicago) \n\nCosponsored by the Department of History \nIt is difficult today to imagine a world in which religious communities were deeply intertwined with the civic order and when a third of a town’s population might be priests\, monks\, and nuns. In Renaissance Florence the Dominican Monastery of San Marco was intimately tied to every aspect of city life\, from commerce and patronage\, to civil broils and foreign invasions\, to education and medicine\, to the great artists\, architects and radical thinkers who earned the Florentine Renaissance its eternal fame. This lecture will explore the monastery’s role as a center of social and spiritual life.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2016-02-san-marco-dominican-monastery-at-heart-of-renaissance-florence-ada-palmer/
LOCATION:Social Sciences\, Room 122\, 1126 E 59th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160219T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160219T160000
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SUMMARY:Master Class on "Virtues of Thought in Aristotle"
DESCRIPTION:Aryeh Kosman (Haverford College) \nREGISTER HERE \nThis master class is open to graduate and undergraduate students\, including non-University of Chicago students. Space is limited and offered on a first-come\, first-served basis. Copies of the readings will be provided. \nThis seminar will discuss Aristotle’s account in Book 6 of the Nicomachean Ethics of what he there terms “virtues of thought” – ἀρετὰι τῆς διανοίας – distinguishing them from virtues τοῦ ἤθοuς – virtues of character.   Virtues of thought seem to be those cognitive states that enable us to think well – to reason correctly and to judge truly\, sometimes about what is the case\, sometimes about how best to make something\, sometimes about how best to act. Thus the states that Aristotle proceeds to specify early in Book 6: these he designates art\, understanding\, prudence\, wisdom and intellect. These virtues are apparently states of character enabling the kinds of activities in which we engage when we deliberate or reason or plan or develop theories. They are\, to put it simply\, virtues that enable us to think well. But on another interpretation\, virtues of thought are not states of character enabling good thinking\, but those aspects of our character by virtue of which we are in general able to reason well concerning how best to bring about the objects of our desire. On this reading Aristotle’s distinction highlights the fact that all virtuous activities in general require good thinking\, rather than the fact that some virtuous activities in particular are instances of good thinking.  In addition to reading Book 6 of the Ethics and related texts of Aristotle\, participants will read and discuss a short essay by Dr. Kosman on this subject\, which suggests that it will be fruitful for understanding Aristotle that we keep both of these interpretations in view. \nREADINGS \n\nAristotle\, Nicomachean Ethics Book 6\nKosman\, Aryeh\, Virtues of Thought (Harvard University Press\, 2014) Ch. 15 on “Aristotle on the Virtues of Thought”
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2016-02-master-class-on-virtues-of-thought-in-aristotle-aryeh-kosman/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160218T000000
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SUMMARY:Aristotle on the Contemplation of the Divine
DESCRIPTION:Aryeh Kosman (Haverford College) \nCosponsored by the Philosophy Department \nAristotle’s remarks in the last book of the Nicomachean Ethics that the highest form of happiness consists in θεωρία is often translated as revealing happiness to consist in contemplation\, without noting that both terms designate a kind of seeing\, a mode of vision. This oversight if more remarkable when we recall that the vision in question is that of the divine. What does Aristotle mean by “seeing the divine?” This lecture will suggest that one way to understand Aristotle is to hear him as urging that happiness is associated with seeing the world as divine. Such seeing looks beyond the structuring of the world as good and bad and sees the world simply as it is. The association of this seeing with νοῦς makes precisely this point: νοῦς sees things simply as they are. Seeing the world’s divinity is not to have failed in judgment; it is to have relinquishedjudgment as to good and bad and as to the success of things going well or not well. It is simply to accept the presence of the world as its mere being\, a being that in its shining bestows its presence upon sentient subjects like ourselves.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2016-02-aristotle-on-contemplation-of-divine-aryeh-kosman/
LOCATION:Classics 110\, 1010 E 59th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160211T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160211T000000
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SUMMARY:Putting First Things First: The Story of Richard John Neuhaus' Vocation to Public Life
DESCRIPTION:Randy Boyagoda (author of Richard John Neuhaus: A Life in the Public Square) \nCosponsored by First Things\, the Chicago Leadership Forum\, and Relevant Radio \nFor all the political controversies that Fr. Richard John Neuhaus was involved in over his four decades in American public life\, and these were many\, he really understood his work in vocational terms. In other words\, he understood his work foremost as the work of a man of God. It’s too simple to dismiss him (or admire him!) as a Republican in a Roman collar\, as many of his later critics and fans did. Learn the full story of Fr. Neuhaus’ life\, his moving from Lutheran to Catholic and from Left to Right\, and discover that a religiously-informed vocation to public life is  as straightforward\, triumphant or disappointing as these markers might suggest (depending on your own religious and intellectual politics). \n  \n \n \n\nReviews of Richard John Neuhaus: A Life in the Public Square (Image\, 2015) \n“Deeply researched\, lucidly written.” – New York Times \n“In Richard John Neuhaus: A Life in the Public Square\, Randy Boyagoda captures his subject’s deep sense of vocation and the complexity of his personality\, offering a comprehensive biography and\, along the way\, a thoughtful introduction to some of the ‘culture wars’ of the past several decades.” – Wall Street Journal \n“[A] stellar biography.” – Publishers Weekly \n“Boyagoda dispassionately describes this fascinating and active life\, and he manages to blend skills as a folksy storyteller\, researcher and unbiased historian\, providing a biography that is balanced\, interesting and relevant. A useful\, provocative spotlight on one of the leading lights of the 20th century.” – Kirkus \n“[A] page-turner.” – National Review \n“Boyagoda’s biography is an invaluable account of the political and ecclesiastical controversies in which Neuhaus played a central\, influential and controversial role.” – America Magazine \n“A wonderful biography.” − Raymond Arroyo\, New York Times bestselling author and host\, EWTN’s The World Over \n“Boyagoda persuasively argues that Neuhaus was a charismatic leader and original thinker whose contributions to American culture and politics make him someone worth knowing about.” − American Conservative \n“Boyagoda’s luminously intelligent study of the man makes clear that Richard John Neuhaus — however one regards his politics — deserved his place in a long line of memorable American preacher politicians.” − National Post \n“Neuhaus was a hugely influential figure\, and Boyagoda tells his story with novelistic empathy and narrative panache.” − The Globe and Mail \n“Boyagoda found the Neuhaus I knew\, complete with all the man’s winsome qualities and not a few of his contradictions. Not surprisingly\, he also revealed facets of the man I could never guess.” − Russell E. Saltzman\, Aleteia \n“And up until now\, no one has offered a more credible\, careful\, and colorful biography of this convert to Catholicism. “ – Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan\, Archbishop of New York\, author ofTrue Freedom \n“Thorough\, vivid\, and keenly understanding of the interplay of personality\, faith\, and cultural context\, Boyagoda’s biography of Neuhaus does justice to this man of faith.” – Carl A. Anderson\, Supreme Knight\, Knights of Columbus \n“Until his death in 2009\, Father Richard John Neuhaus was a powerhouse in American public life and a monument in American Catholic history…Randy Boyagoda\, an extraordinary author best known for his work in fiction\, knew that someone had to tell Fr. Neuhaus’ story — and that it deserved to be told well.” − CatholicVote.org
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2016-02-putting-first-things-first-story-of-richard-john-neuhaus-vocation-to-public-life-randy-boyagoda/
LOCATION:University Club of Chicago\, 76 E Monroe St\nChicago\, IL 60603\, Downtown\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160206T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160207T140000
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SUMMARY:Slavic Routes: Music from Renaissance Prague
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, February 6\, 7:30pm\nSt. Vincent DePaul Parish1010 West Webster Avenue \nSunday\, February 7\, 2:00pm\nRockefeller Memorial Chapel\n5850 South Woodlawn Avenue \nTICKETS AVAILABLE HERE \n$25 General/$10 Students \nIn the sixteenth century\, all roads led to Prague – or from it. The city had long been an incubator for rich musical activity and was an important stop for composers from neighboring Poland\, Slovenia\, and Germany\, but also from farther afield.  Schola Antiqua’s program brings a fascinating cross-section of sacred vocal polyphony from this musical crossroads together – and to life. In-concert commentary by Erika Supria Honisch\, Assistant Professor of Music History and Theory at Stony Brook University. \nFor more information visit the Schola Antiqua website.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2016-02-slavic-routes-music-from-renaissance-prague-schola-antiqua-of-chicago/
LOCATION:St. Vincent DePaul Parish\, 1010 W Webster Ave.\nChicago\, Il 60614\, Chicago\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160205T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160205T170000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165711Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164727Z
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SUMMARY:Master Class on The First Known in 13th Century Epistemology
DESCRIPTION:Timothy B. Noone (Catholic University of America) \nREGISTER HERE \nThis master class is open to graduate and undergraduate students\, including non-University of Chicago students. Space is limited and offered on a first-come\, first-served basis. Copies of the readings will be provided. \nThis seminar will begin with crucial texts from the middle of the thirteenth century that set up the problem of the first known as that problem came to be discussed in the writings of Aquinas\, Henry of Ghent\, and Duns Scotus.  Thereafter\, the seminar will examine the three authors mentioned on the issue of the first known and explore how their positions fit into other elements of their theories of cognition. The problem of whether or not to allow that God is in some vague sense the first thing known in an through the concept of being figures into\, and is background to\, parallel themes in the epistemology of thirteenth century philosophy\, including the issue of divine illumination and the theory of abstraction.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2016-02-master-class-on-first-known-in-13th-century-epistemology-timothy-b-noone/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160204T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160204T163000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165711Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260328T143357Z
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SUMMARY:St. Bonaventure on Education\, Philosophy\, and the Sciences
DESCRIPTION:Timothy B. Noone (Catholic University of America) \nREGISTER HERE \nCosponsored by the Philosophy Department and the Medieval Studies Workshop \nThis lecture will situate Bonaventure’s thought on education\, philosophy\, and the sciences into the context of the thirteenth century’s controversies regarding the place of philosophy in the universities and human life generally.  While Bonaventure accepts the essential and irreplaceable role of philosophy and science in the progress of human knowledge and endorses the claim that they both perfect the human intellect\, he insists that science and philosophy are in a hierarchy of knowledge that transcends them\, culminating in the study of Sacred Scripture\, theology\, and mystical vision.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2016-02-st-bonaventure-on-education-philosophy-sciences-timothy-b-noone/
LOCATION:Classics 110\, 1010 E 59th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160128T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160128T200000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165711Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260315T162215Z
UID:10000575-1454011200-1454011200@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:Aquinas: Poet and Contemplative
DESCRIPTION:Cosponsored by the Medieval Studies Workshop and the Theology and Religious Ethics Workshop\n\n“The well-known is what we have yet to learn.” T.S. Eliot \nWhat do we know of the prayer-life of St Thomas Aquinas? This lecture will be directly concerned with this question\, and the answer may well come as a surprise to many people. Aquinas is still today almost exclusively regarded as an outstanding scholastic philosopher and theologian. But what is little known is that he was also a master of the spiritual life and a very considerable poet\, perhaps even the greatest Latin poet of the Middle Ages.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2016-01-aquinas-poet-contemplative-paul-murray-o-p/
LOCATION:University of Chicago\, 5801 S Ellis Ave\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160122T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160122T200000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165713Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164736Z
UID:10000576-1453474800-1453492800@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:Master Class on Pseudo Dionysius
DESCRIPTION:Bernard McGinn (University of Chicago) \nREGISTER HERE \nREGISTRATION IS CURRENTLY FULL. If you are interested in attending\, contact us and we will inform you if space becomes available. \nCosponsored by the Medieval Studies Workshop \nParticipants will be provided with a complimentary copy ofPseudo Dionysius: The Complete Works (Paulist Press). \nThis master class is open to graduate and undergraduate students\, including non-University of Chicago students. Space is limited and offered on a first-come\, first-served basis. \nThis one-time Seminar will discuss the writings of the mysterious Eastern monk (ca. 500 C.E.) who hid his identity under the name of the Athenian Dionysius of the Areopagus mentioned in Acts 17:32. These texts\, thought to be quasi-apostolic for centuries\, were among the most influential in the history of Christian theology and mysticism. The translation used will be that of Colm Luibheid\, Pseudo-Dionysius. The Complete Works (New York: Paulist Press\, 1987. The Classics of Western Spirituality). We will discuss specific sections of these writings\, but participants are encouraged to read as much of the whole as they are able (240 pp. in this translation).
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2016-01-master-class-on-pseudo-dionysius-bernard-mcginn/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160114T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160114T173000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165713Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260325T164931Z
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SUMMARY:Love Your Enemies: Retribution and Forgiveness
DESCRIPTION:Regina M. Schwartz (Northwestern University) \ncosponsored by the Department of English \nThe law presumes not only the right but the duty to punish: it does not ask whether it should punish\, but how much\, who\, when\, and how. In contrast\, Christianity offers a different response to wrongdoing: Jesus engaged in a polemical attack on “the reciprocity code\,” the assumption that good should be reciprocated with good and evil with evil. “Love your enemies\, do good to those who hate you\, bless those who curse you\, pray for those who abuse you” (Luke 6:27-28). How are we to begin to comprehend this radical difference?
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2016-01-love-your-enemies-retribution-forgiveness-regina-schwartz/
LOCATION:University of Chicago\, 5801 S Ellis Ave\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160112T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160223T180000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165714Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164742Z
UID:10000578-1452621600-1456250400@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:Winter Non-Credit Course on Romans
DESCRIPTION:Fr. Paul Mankowski\, S.J. (LCI Scholar-in Residence) \nIntended for current students and faculty. Others interested in attending please contact info@lumenchristi.org. Registrants are free to attend as many sessions as they choose. \nREGISTER HERE \nThe most consequential and controversial of his writings\, St. Paul’s Letter to the Romans was written to instruct new Christians on the meaning of faith and discipleship.  This course will present Paul’s teaching in Romans from the perspective of Roman Catholic doctrine\, while engaging the more provocative arguments of the Church Fathers\, the Schoolmen\, the Reformers\, and modern exegetes.  Knowledge of Biblical Greek or familiarity with New Testament writing is not required. \nJanuary 12\nApostleship \nJanuary 19\nJew & Greek \nJanuary 26\nSalvation \nFebruary 2\nJudgment \nFebruary 9\nRighteousness \nFebruary 16\nJustification \nFebruary 23\nTransformation
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2016-01-winter-non-credit-course-on-romans-paul-mankowski-sj/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20151215T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20151215T200000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165715Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164745Z
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SUMMARY:NY Reception for A Godly Humanism: Clarifying the Hope That Lies Within
DESCRIPTION:CLICK HERE for a recent article and photos from this event. \nTimothy Cardinal Dolan (Archbishop of New York)\nRobert Louis Wilken (University of Virginia) \nJoin us for a reception in celebration of the newly released book A Godly Humanism: Clarifying the Hope that Lies Within (CUA Press\, 2015) by the late Francis Cardinal George\, O.M.I.  This occasion will include a reception and remarks by His Eminence\, Timothy Cardinal Dolan (Archbishop of New York) and Robert Louis Wilken (Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia). \nFinished by Francis Cardinal George\, O.M.I. nine days before his death\, A Godly Humanismoffers an account of the Catholic intellectual life by one of the most gifted thinkers to serve as bishop in the American Church. It draws on figures such as St. Augustine\, St. Thomas Aquinas\, St. John Paul II\, and Pope Benedict XVI to express a vision of the Church as a communion built around the relationship of God to human beings and of human beings to one another. The book provides a starting point for the interpretation of “Pope Francis’s Magisterium [as] evidence of another horizon having been opened more clearly for believers.” \nPresented by the Lumen Christi Institute\, First Things\, and America Magazine. Copies of the book will be available for purchase.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2015-12-ny-reception-for-a-godly-humanism-clarifying-hope-that-lies-within-timothy-cardinal-dolan-robert-louis-wilken-francis-cardinal-george-omi/
LOCATION:The Westin New York at Times Square\, 270 W. 43rd St.\nNew York\, NY 10036\, New York\, NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20151210T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20151210T193000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165716Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164748Z
UID:10000580-1449768600-1449775800@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:The Present and Future of Religious Freedom
DESCRIPTION:Cosponsored by the Christian Legal Society \nRecent controversy over the HHS contraceptive mandate and the participation of faith-based organizations in federal grant programs has raised questions about religious freedom in the American legal and political systems. This discussion will consider the perceived conflict between civil rights and religious freedom and the roles of Congress\, the judiciary\, and administrative agencies for how religious freedom will be understood\, applied\, and protected in the future.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2015-12-present-future-of-religious-freedom-michael-moreland/
LOCATION:Jones Day\, 77 W Upper Wacker Dr.\nChicago\, IL 60601\, Downtown\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20151120T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20151120T170000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165717Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164751Z
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SUMMARY:Master Class on Faith and Reason in the Thought of John Henry Newman: The Oxford University Sermons
DESCRIPTION:Reinhard Hütter (Duke University) \nREGISTER HERE \nThis master class is open to all graduate and undergraduate students\, including non-University of Chicago students. Space is limited and offered on a first-come\, first-served basis. If you have any questions\, please contact Mark Franzen. \nThis three-hour seminar will focus on the one of Newman’s works\, which he himself called “the best\, not the most perfect\, book I have done.” The Oxford University Sermons are the Anglican precursor and still the best introduction to the Catholic Newman’s masterwork\, The Grammar of Assent. Sermons 10-15 constitute a precis of Newman’s mature theory of religious belief. In these sermons he develops the epistemological basis for belief in objective dogma and dogmatic theology. The masterclass will focus its attention especially on sermons 10-13. \nNo background knowledge of the topic is required to participate. Copies of the book John Henry Newman\, Fifteen Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford Between A.D. 1826 and 1843\, introd. by Mary Katherine Tillman (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press\, 1997) will be provided free of charge for participants. \nReadings: \n\nSermon 10 “Faith and Reason\, Contrasted as Habits of Mind”\nSermon 11 “The Nature of Faith in Relation to Reason”\nSermon 12 “Love as Safeguard of Faith against Superstition”\nSermon 13 “Implicit and Explicit Reason”
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2015-11-master-class-on-faith-reason-in-thought-of-john-henry-newman-oxford-university-sermons-reinhard-hutter/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20151119T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20151119T163000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165717Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260404T141646Z
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SUMMARY:Divine Faith and Private Judgment in Newman and Aquinas
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE \ncosponsored by the Theology and Religious Ethics Workshop
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2015-11-divine-faith-private-judgment-in-newman-aquinas-reinhard-hutter/
LOCATION:Classics 110\, 1010 E 59th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20151114T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20151114T200000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165718Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164757Z
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SUMMARY:Dinner and Prayer at the Monastery of the Holy Cross
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE \nCosponsored by Calvert House. Open to current university students. Others interested in attending please contact info@lumenchristi.org. \nJoin us for an evening of prayer with Benedictine Monks at the Monastery of the Holy Cross. Students will participate in the prayer of the Divine Office (Vespers and Compline)\, and have dinner and discussion with Fr. Peter Funk\, O.S.B.\, prior of the monastery and alumnus of the University of Chicago. \nTo find out more about liturgy at the monastery\, go HERE. \nSCHEDULE \n4:00pm   Meet at Gavin House (1220 E. 58th St.)\n4:30pm   Depart from Hyde Park\n5:00pm   Arrive at the Monastery\, welcome by Fr. Funk\n5:15pm   Office of Vespers\n5:45pm   Dinner & Discussion\n7:15pm   Office of Compline\n8:00pm   Arrive back in Hyde Park
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2015-11-dinner-prayer-at-monastery-of-holy-cross-fr-peter-funk/
LOCATION:The Monastery of the Holy Cross\, 3111 South Aberdeen St.\nChicago\, IL 60608\, Chicago\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20151111T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20151111T163000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165718Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260328T153040Z
UID:10000584-1447259400-1447259400@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:Pondus Dei: The Weight of God in Anselm's Poetics
DESCRIPTION:cosponsored by the Medieval Studies Workshop \nThe meaning of Anselm’s famous ‘sola ratione’ or ‘by reason alone’ has been the subject of much debate. Is it a principle of reason or a principle of faith? This lecture will argue that the sola ratione instead operates as a poetical principle in Anselm’s work at large\, steering his various writings –treatises\, meditations\, prayers\, and letters – into a comprehensive oeuvre. As a result of this poetic use of sola ratione\, his work is characterized by a certain playfulness. However lofty questions of divine absence and presence may be\, the sola ratione guarantees that meditating about questions of faith and reason keeps within the boundaries of a ‘divina commedia’ of sorts.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2015-11-pondus-dei-weight-of-god-in-anselms-poetics-burcht-pranger/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20151109T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20151109T193000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165718Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164803Z
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SUMMARY:Master Class on Anselm of Canterbury: Reason\, Logic\, and Meditation
DESCRIPTION:Burcht Pranger (University of Amsterdam) \nREGISTER HERE \nOpen to current University of Chicago students. Dinner will be served. Readings will be provided for all participants. Others interested in attending\, please contact us. \nThis master class seminar will cover three major works by Anselm of Canterbury: Proslogion\, Cur deus homo and theFirst Meditation. The discussion will revolve around the question: how to read Anselm properly and comprehensively? Most often Anselm’s discourse in his various works is compartmentalized into either rational\, theological or meditative text blocks. By focusing on texts that differ as to their outlook\, we will try at once to honor the differences in discourse while at the same time tracing the various turns and moves Anselm makes both in argumentation and meditation. So doing\, it will become clear that\, where the various types may differ and are entitled to their independence\, Anselm’s rhetorical moves and turns will prove to be similar to each other to the point of telling us something comprehensive about his way of writing and reading. \nREADINGS: \nAnselm of Canterbury \n\nProslogion\, chapters 1-15\, 26.\nCur deus homo\, Preface\, book I\, chapters 1\,2\, 7\,21\, 25;  Book II\, chapters 17\, 18\, 19.\nFirst Meditation\n\nM.B. Pranger \n\nThe Artificiality of Christianity: Essays on the Poetics of Monasticism (Stanford\, Stanford University Press\, 2003); Introduction to Part Two: ‘Density.’
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2015-11-master-class-on-anselm-of-canterbury-reason-logic-meditation-burcht-pranger/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, First Floor Common Room\, 1025 E 58th St\,Chicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20151029T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20151029T123000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165719Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164806Z
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SUMMARY:Toward a Theology of Science
DESCRIPTION:Tom McLeish (Durham University) \nREGISTER HERE \nThis event is open to students\, faculty\, and scientists at the University of Chicago. Lunch will be served. Others interested in attending\, please contactinfo@lumenchrisit.org. \nAt this luncheon events\, student will discuss a chapter from Faith & Wisdom in Science (Oxford University Press\, 2014) on “A Theology of Science?” with author Tom McLeish. A PDF of the chapter will be made available to read beforehand and attendees will be given complimentary copies of the book. \nIn the book\, McLeish’s narrative approach develops a natural critique of the cultural separation of sciences and humanities\, suggesting an approach to science\, or in its more ancient form natural philosophy – the ‘love of wisdom of natural things’ – that can draw on theological and cultural roots. Following the theme of pain in human confrontation with nature\, it develops a ‘Theology of Science’\, recognising that both scientific and theological worldviews must be ‘of’ each other\, not holding separate domains. Science finds its place within an old story of participative reconciliation with a nature\, of which we start ignorant and fearful\, but learn to perceive and work with in wisdom. Surprisingly\, science becomes a deeply religious activity. There are urgent lessons for education\, the political process of decision-making on science and technology\, our relationship with the global environment\, and the way that both religious and secular communities alike celebrate and govern science.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2015-10-toward-a-theology-of-science-tom-mcleish/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20151024T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20151030T183000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165720Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164809Z
UID:10000587-1445716800-1446229800@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:Schola Antiqua Concert "The Night Watch: Music for Vespers"
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, October 24: 8:00PM\nSt. James Chapel\, Quigley Center\n103 E. Chestnut\, Chicago\, IL\n$25 General/$10 Student\nTICKETS \nFriday\, October 30\, 7:30PM\nSt. Joseph Chapel\, University of St. Francis\n500 Wilcox St.\, Joliet\, IL\n$10 General/$7 Student\nTICKETS \nFor more information visit the Schola Antiqua website.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2015-10-schola-antiqua-concert-night-watch-music-for-vespers-schola-antiqua-of-chicago/
LOCATION:St. James Chapel\, Quigley Center\, 835 North Rush Street\nChicago\, IL 60611\, Chicago\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20151016T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20151016T160000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165720Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164812Z
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SUMMARY:Master Class on "Love Alone is Credible"
DESCRIPTION:Rémi Brague (Sorbonne; University of Munich) \nREGISTER HERE \nThis master class is open to all graduate and undergraduate students\, including non-University of Chicago students. Copies of the readings will be provided. Space is limited and offered on a first-come\, first-served basis. If you have any questions\, please contact Mark Franzen. \nThe thin pamphlet (1963) summarizes Hans Urs von Bathasar’s (1905-1988) masterpiece The Glory of the Lord: A Theological Aesthetics (1961-1969). The booklet is compact\, but rich. As a consequence\, the reading is arduous\, but extremely rewarding. After a sketch of the evolution of Christian theology in its two main epochs\, von Balthasar brings the content of Revelation back to the self-assertion of God’s love through Christ. Beyond any merely human work of love\, always finite and imperfect\, the Christian message allows us to access Love as the ground of Being. The class will focus on the two central chapters 3 and 6 and possibly end with a foray into chapter 10. \nREQUIRED READING: \nH. U. von Balthasar\, Love Alone Is Credible\, tr. D. C. Schindler\, San Francisco\, Ignatius Press\, 2004. Chs. 3\, 6\, & 10. \nSECONDARY READING: \nPeter Henrici\, SJ\, “Hans Urs von Balthasar: a Sketch of His Life”\, Communio: International Catholic Review 16/3 (fall\, 1989): 306–50.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2015-10-master-class-on-love-alone-is-credible-remi-brague/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20151015T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20151015T153000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165720Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260328T164601Z
UID:10000589-1444923000-1444923000@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:From Ancient Philosophy to Christian Wisdom: A Symposium
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2015-10-from-ancient-philosophy-to-christian-wisdom-a-symposium-remi-brague-reverend-brian-daley-sj/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20151014T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20151014T163000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165723Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260404T142603Z
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SUMMARY:Conservation as Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Rémi Brague (Sorbonne\, University of Munich)\n\nCosponsored by the France Chicago Center\n\n\nIf the contrary of civilization is barbarism\, we have to take seriously the etymology of the latter word\, i.e. the inability to engage in a conversation. Conversation presupposes some continuity. First\, with the past that may have something to teach us (which is the meaning of “conservatism”)\, then with nature that is not a mere quarry or pantry\, but has something to tell us as well\, and finally with God as creator in the Logos.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2015-10-conservation-as-conversation-remi-brague/
LOCATION:Classics 110\, 1010 E 59th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20151007T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20151007T190000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165724Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260315T161649Z
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SUMMARY:Morals or Metaphysics: The Place of Charity in Christian Thought
DESCRIPTION:cosponsored by the Theology and Religious Ethics Workshop and the Early Christian Studies Workshop \nWhen modern persons think about assistance for the poor the two major categories that tend to dominate are the motivations of the donor (altruism) and the effects of the donation (social justice).  Though both of these attributes were part of classical Christian thinking\, they stood on a deeper foundation: a description of the type of world God had made. And so\, charity was as much about metaphysics as it was morality.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2015-10-morals-or-metaphysics-place-of-charity-in-christian-thought-gary-a-anderson/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, First Floor Common Room\, 1025 E 58th St\,Chicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20151006T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20151117T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165727Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164825Z
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SUMMARY:Church Fathers Non-Credit Course
DESCRIPTION:TUESDAYS \n6:00pm Buffet Dinner\n6:30pm Lecture \nIntended for current students and recent graduates of the University of Chicago. Others interested in attending please contactinfo@lumenchristi.org. \nREGISTER HERE \n“Greatness\, depth\, boldness\, flexibility\, certainty and flaming love—these virtues of youth are marks of patristic theology. Perhaps the Church will never again see the likes of such an array of larger-than-life figures such as mark the period from Irenaeus to Athanasius\, Basil\, Cyril\, Chrysostom\, Ambrose\, and Augustine”\n– Hans Urs von Balthasar\, “The Fathers\, the Scholastics\, and Ourselves” \nFrom the close of the apostolic age until the 8th century\, the Church Fathers developed a vision of Christian wisdom\, debated the nature of Christ\, grace and free will\, the role of the Church\, and the meaning of a Christian life in the context of a changing social and political world. This series will introduce students to major figures and themes of the patristic period and convey their relevance to the life of faith today. \nOctober 6\nSt. Ignatius of Antioch\nScott Moringiello\, DePaul University \nOctober 13\nSt. Irenaeus of Lyons\nScott Moringiello\, DePaul University \nOctober 20\nSt. Clement of Alexandria\nScott Moringiello\, DePaul University \nOctober 27\nSt. Jerome\nPaul Mankowski\, S.J.\, Lumen Christi Institute \nNovember 3\nSt. Athanasius of Alexandria\nAaron Canty\, Saint Xavier University \nNovember 10\nSt. Gregory of Nyssa\nAndrew Radde-Gallwitz\, University of Notre Dame \nNovember 17\nWhy the Fathers Still Matter\nMsgr. Michael Heintz\, University of Notre Dame
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2015-10-church-fathers-non-credit-course-scott-d-moringiello-paul-mankowski-sj-aaron-canty-andrew-radde-gallwitz-rev-msgr-michael-heintz/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150802T230000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150808T230000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241006T235414Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260114T184331Z
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SUMMARY:Catholic Social Thought: A Critical Investigation
DESCRIPTION: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). This intensive course is multi-disciplinary\, since this tradition of social thought overlaps several disciplines in the contemporary university including political science\, political philosophy\, law\, economics\, theology\, and history. This will be the third time Prof. Hittinger has led this seminar. \nFormat: There will be two 2 ½ hour sessions each day. Professor Hittinger will open each session with a lecture\, and then we will turn to general\, seminar-style discussion of the text and the issues at hand. Students will be expected to make seminar presentations of the material under discussion. \nLocation: The seminar will take place at the University of California\, Berkeley. Students will be provided with a travel stipend\, accommodations\, and meals. . Students will be provided with a travel stipend\, accommodations\, and meals. \nApplication Information: 
This seminar will be open to Ph.D. students in the humanities and social sciences (such as philosophy\, theology\, political science\, history & medieval studies). \nApplicants will be required to submit: \n\nA completed online application form found HERE.\nAn updated CV.\nAt least one and as many as two letter(s) of recommendation from a member of the program in which the student is currently enrolled.\nA statement of research interest no longer than 750 words\, which includes an explanation of how this seminar might bear on the student’s current or future research plans.\nOne academic writing sample (30 pages maximum).\n\nAll application materials can be submitted via the online application except for letters of recommendation\, which can be emailed to mfranzen@lumenchristi.org or mailed to: Lumen Christi Institute\, Graduate Seminars\, 1220 East 58th Streeet\, Chicago\, IL 60637. Incomplete applications will not be considered. 15 students will be admitted to this seminar. \nApplication materials must be received by 11:59pm CST on MARCH 1\, 2013. \nThe Lumen Christi is an institute for the promotion of the Catholic Intellectual Tradition and is committed to the integration of the intellectual and spiritual life. The Institute welcomes seminar participants of all or no religious affiliation\, and wants to assure all applicants that the opportunities to participate in devotional activities are optional. \nAny further questions can be directed to Mark Franzen at mfranzen@lumenchristi.org.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2015_cst_critical_investigation_hittinger/
LOCATION:University of California\, Berkeley\, S Hall Rd.\nBerkeley\, CA 94720\, Berkeley\, CA
CATEGORIES:Summer Seminars
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150711T230000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150716T230000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241006T235416Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260115T180126Z
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SUMMARY:The Thought of John Henry Newman
DESCRIPTION:APPLY HERE \nNow in its third consecutive year\, this seminar is an intensive five-day course for graduate students on the thought of Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman. It will examine Newman’s achievement 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 Parochial and Plain Sermons\, and the Apologia Pro Vita Sua. This seminar will approach Newman’s thought through a critical engagement with these texts. \nFormat: There will be two 2-hour sessions each day. The seminar will include presentations by Prof. Ker and by participants on the readings assigned\, followed by seminar style discussion. \nLocation: The seminar will be held at Merton College at the University of Oxford. Students will be provided with a travel stipend\, accommodations\, and meals. \nApplication Information: 
 This seminar will be open to Ph.D. students in the humanities and social sciences (such as philosophy\, theology\, english\, classics\, & history). Applicants will be required to submit: \n\n\n A completed online application form found HERE.\nAn updated CV.\nAt least one and as many as two letter(s) of recommendation from a member of the program in which the student is currently enrolled.\nA statement of research interest no longer than 750 words\, which includes an explanation of how this seminar might bear on the student’s current or future research plans.\nOne academic writing sample (30 pages maximum).\n\nAll application materials can be submitted via the online application except for letters of recommendation\, which can be emailed to mfranzen@lumenchristi.org or mailed to: Lumen Christi Institute\, Graduate Seminars\, 1220 East 58th Street\, Chicago\, IL 60637. Incomplete applications will not be considered. 15 students will be admitted to this seminar. \nApplication materials must be received by 11:59pm CST on FEBRUARY 15\, 2015. \nThe Lumen Christi is an institute for the promotion of the Catholic Intellectual Tradition and is committed to the integration of the intellectual and spiritual life. The Institute welcomes seminar participants of all or no religious affiliation\, and wants to assure all applicants that the opportunities to participate in devotional activities are optional. \nAny further questions can be directed to Mark Franzen at mfranzen@lumenchristi.org
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2015_oxford_thought_of_newman_ker/
LOCATION:Merton College\, Oxford\, Merton St\, Oxford OX1 4JD\, UK\, Oxford\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Summer Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150618T230000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150623T230000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241006T235414Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260115T182942Z
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SUMMARY:Metaphysics and the Soul in Thomas Aquinas
DESCRIPTION: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 the primary principle of vital activity. Participants will also discuss relevant passages from other works of St. Thomas\, as well as his historical influences (such as Plato\, Aristotle\, and Augustine) and some contemporary literature on the topic. Finally\, the seminar will take up related issues\, such as Aquinas’s understanding of the relation between metaphysics and theology\, his handling of the Augustinian tradition\, his reaction to the Averroists\, and how his account of the soul relates to later philosophical developments such as Cartesianism and personalism. \nFormat: There will be two 2 ½ hour sessions each day. Each session will include an opening lecture and seminar-style discussion of the text and the issues at hand. Students will be expected to prepare the readings carefully and participate in the discussions of the material. \nLocation: The seminar will take place at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross\, Rome. Students will be provided with a travel stipend\, accommodations\, and meals. \nApplication Information: 
This seminar will be open to Ph.D. students in the humanities and social sciences (such as philosophy\, theology\, & medieval studies). \nApplicants will be required to submit: \n\nA completed online application form found HERE.\nAn updated CV.\nAt least one and as many as two letter(s) of recommendation from a member of the program in which the student is currently enrolled.\nA statement of research interest no longer than 750 words\, which includes an explanation of how this seminar might bear on the student’s current or future research plans.\nOne academic writing sample (30 pages maximum).\n\nAll application materials can be submitted via the online application except for letters of recommendation\, which can be emailed to mfranzen@lumenchristi.org or mailed to: Lumen Christi Institute\, Graduate Seminars\, 1220 East 58th Streeet\, Chicago\, IL 60637. Incomplete applications will not be considered. 15 students will be admitted to this seminar. \nApplication materials must be received by 11:59pm CST on FEBRUARY 15\, 2015. \nThe Lumen Christi is an institute for the promotion of the Catholic Intellectual Tradition and is committed to the integration of the intellectual and spiritual life. The Institute welcomes seminar participants of all or no religious affiliation\, and wants to assure all applicants that the opportunities to participate in devotional activities are optional. \nAny further questions can be directed to Mark Franzen at mfranzen@lumenchristi.org.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2015_metaphysics_and_the_soul_brock/
LOCATION:Pontifical University of the Holy Cross\, Rome\, Piazza Santa Apollinare\, 49\, 00186 Roma\, Italy\, Rome\, Italy
CATEGORIES:Summer Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150513T114500
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150513T114500
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165727Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164837Z
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SUMMARY:Luncheon Discussion with Jim Perry on Ethics in Private Equity
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE \nIntended for Booth School of Business and other University of Chicago students. \nSponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute\, Booth Catholic Students\, the Christians in Business Group\, and the Private Equity Group. Lunch will be served.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2015-05-luncheon-discussion-with-jim-perry-on-ethics-in-private-equity-james-n-perry-jr/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150508T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150508T180000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165728Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164841Z
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SUMMARY:Master Class on "Seeing and Being Seen: a Reading of Nicholas of Cusa's "The Vision of God""
DESCRIPTION:Jean-Luc Marion (University of Chicago) \nREGISTER HERE \nNicholas 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 will read The Vision of God in preparation for this discussion. \nCopies of the book Nicholas of Cusa: Selected Spiritual Writings (Paulist Press\, 1997) will be provided free of charge for participants. \nThis master class is open to all graduate and undergraduate students\, including non-University of Chicago students. Space is limited and offered on a first-come\, first-served basis. If you have any questions\, please contact Mark Franzen.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2015-05-master-class-on-seeing-being-seen-a-reading-of-nicholas-of-cusas-vision-of-god-jean-luc-marion/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150507T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150507T160000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165730Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260328T161731Z
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SUMMARY:The Jewish Roots of Catholic Charity
DESCRIPTION:Gary A. Anderson (University of Notre Dame; author of Charity: The Place of the Poor in the Biblical Tradition) \nIt 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 explain this difference? In this significant reappraisal of charity in the biblical tradition\, Gary Anderson argues that the poor constituted the privileged place where Jews and Christians met God. Though concerns for social justice were not unknown to early Jews and Christians\, the poor achieved the importance they did primarily because they were thought to be “living altars\,” a place to make a sacrifice\, a loan to God that he\, as the ultimate guarantor\, could be trusted to repay in turn. Contrary to the assertions of Reformation and modern critiques\, belief in a heavenly treasury was not just about self-interest. Sifting through biblical and post biblical texts\, Anderson shows how charity affirms the goodness of the created order; the world was created through charity and therefore rewards it. \nHosted by Jenner & Block. Cosponsored by The Lumen Christi Institute\, The Catholic Lawyers Guild\, The Decalogue Society of Lawyers\, The Jewish Judges Association of Illinois\, and The National Center for the Laity.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2015-05-jewish-roots-of-catholic-charity-gary-a-anderson/
LOCATION:Jenner & Block\, 45th Floor\, 353 N Clark St.\nChicago\, IL 60654\, Downtown\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150506T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150506T163000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165731Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260328T153920Z
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SUMMARY:On a Possible Epistemology of Revelation
DESCRIPTION:Jean-Luc Marion (University of Chicago) \ncosponsored by the Philosophy Department \nHow 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 others – may give a clue.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2015-05-on-a-possible-epistemology-of-revelation-jean-luc-marion/
LOCATION:University of Chicago\, 5801 S Ellis Ave\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150430T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150430T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165739Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260404T153501Z
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SUMMARY:The Family in the Changing Economy
DESCRIPTION: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 refugees are often divided across national borders or go legally unrecognized. Yet families form us as persons and are integral both to society and the economy. Situated between the 2014 and 2015 Synod Of Bishops On The Family\, this symposium will feature dialogue among Bishop Cantù\, economists\, and scholars on what insights Catholic social teaching and contemporary economics can offer into the current crisis of the family in the changing economy. \nOpening Remarks\nBlase J. Cupich\, Archbishop of Chicago \nKeynote Address\nOscar Cantú\, Bishop of Las Cruces\, NM; Chair\, USCCB Committee on International Justice and Peace \nPanelists\nPierre-André Chiappori\, Columbia University\nWilliam Evans\, University of Notre Dame\nChristine Firer Hinze\, Fordham University\nValerie Ramey\, University of California\, San Diego \nThis program is part of the Lumen Christi Institute’s Seventh Annual Conference in Economics and Catholic Social Thought\, a continuing exchange between research economists\, bishops\, and scholars. \n\nPresented by the Lumen Christi Institute for Catholic Thought. Co-sponsored by The International House Global Voices Program\, & The Seng Foundation Program for Market-Based Programs and Catholic Values at the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts\, and the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2015-04-family-in-changing-economy-bishop-oscar-cantu-pierre-andre-chiappori-william-evans-christine-firer-hinze-valerie-ramey/
LOCATION:International House at the University of Chicago\, 1414 E 59th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150424T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150424T163000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165740Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260325T185045Z
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SUMMARY:Amor Vincit Omnia: Keynote Lecture by Giuseppe Mazzotta
DESCRIPTION:Giuseppe Mazzotta (Yale University)\nKeynote Lecture for the Graduate Student Conference on “Amor Vincit Omnia: Love as a Destructive Force in Italian Arts and Literature” \n\nSponsored 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 Art History\, the Center for Study of Gender and Sexuality\, the Western Mediterranean Workshop\, and the Lumen Christi Institute. \nFor more information\, please contact: Taylor Dimke at tdimke [at] uchicago.edu.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2015-04-amor-vincit-omnia-keynote-lecture-by-giuseppe-mazzotta-giuseppe-mazzotta/
LOCATION:Breasted Hall\, Oriental Institute\, 1155 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150423T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150423T160000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165740Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164856Z
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Dante's Theology of the Future: Inferno XIX and Paradiso XXXIII
DESCRIPTION: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.” \n\nIf you have already paid a registration fee\, you will be refunded in the coming days. We also plan to reschedule the event for sometime in the near future. \n\n\n…so did I strive with this new mystery:\n   I yearned to know how could our image fit\n   into that circle\, how could it conform;\nbut my own wings could not take me so high-\n   then a great flash of understanding struck\n   my mind\, and suddenly its wish was granted.\nAt this point power failed high fantasy\n   but\, like a wheel in perfect balance turning\,\n   I felt my will and my desire impelled\nby the Love that moves the sun and the other stars.\n– Dante\, The Divine Comedy: Paradise\, Canto XXXIII\, trans. Mark Musa
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2015-04-cancelled-dantes-theology-of-future-inferno-xix-paradiso-xxxiii-giuseppe-mazzotta/
LOCATION:Gallery Ballroom\, Hotel Palomar\, 505 N State St.\nChicago\, IL 60654\, Downtown\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150418T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150419T140000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165742Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164859Z
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SUMMARY:Schola Antiqua Concert: A Renaissance Call to Arms
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, April 18\, 3:00pm\nLe Jardin at the First Division Museum\, Cantigny Park\, Wheaton\, IL\n$5 Parking; Free concert admission. DETAILS HERE \nSunday\, April 19\, 2:00pm\nArt Institute of Chicago\nConcert included with museum admission. DETAILS HERE \nSchola Antiqua celebrates the fascination with arms and battle in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries\, particularly in the realm of sacred music\, in which the notions of the Christian soldier and Christ as warrior played significant roles.\n\n\nSchola Antiqua of Chicago is currently the Artists-in-Residence at the Lumen Christi Institute. More information can be found HERE.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2015-04-schola-antiqua-concert-a-renaissance-call-to-arms-schola-antiqua-of-chicago/
LOCATION:Le Jardin at the First Division Museum\, Cantigny Park\, 1S151 Winfield Rd.\nWheaton\, IL 60189\, Wheaton\, IL\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150417T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150417T180000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165742Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164903Z
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SUMMARY:Master Class on "Athanasius and the Struggle for Orthodoxy"
DESCRIPTION:Brian Daley\, S.J. (University of Notre Dame) \nREGISTER HERE \nThis 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 of the world’s leading scholars of the Patristic period. \nReadings: \nThe Controversy over Arius of Alexandria: Letters by Arius\, Alexander of Alexandria\, and Eusebius of Ceasaraea: \n\nRusch\, William G. (ed.)\, The Trinitarian Controversy (Fortress\, 1980) pp. 29-44.\nHardy\, Edward R. (ed.)\, Christology of the Later Fathers (Westminster\, 1954) pp. 329-340.\n\nFrom Athanasius of Alexandria: \n\nOration Against the Arians\, chs. I-X\, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers; Second Series (Hendrickson\, 1994) vol. 4\, pp. 303-326.\nOn the Decrees of Nicea\, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers; Second Series (Hendrickson\, 1994) vol. 4\, pp. 149-172.\n\nSecondary Reading: \n\nAnatolios\, Khaled\, Retrieving Nicaea (Baker\, 2011) pp. 15-31; 99-133.\n\nThis master class is open to all graduate and undergraduate students\, including non-University of Chicago students. Copies of the readings will be provided. Space is limited and offered on a first-come\, first-served basis. If you have any questions\, please contact Mark Franzen.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2015-04-master-class-on-athanasius-struggle-for-orthodoxy-reverend-brian-daley-sj/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150415T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150415T163000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
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SUMMARY:The Emergence of the Church's Culture of Biblical Interpretation and Theology: Rhetoric\, Philology\, and Gnosticism in the 2nd Century
DESCRIPTION:Lewis Ayres (University of Durham) \nTo 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 doctrinal disputes and for Christian speculative thought. Bringing this historical moment into clearer focus helps us think about the character of Christian thought today.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2015-04-emergence-of-churchs-culture-of-biblical-interpretation-theology-rhetoric-philology-gnosticism-in-2nd-century-lewis-ayres/
LOCATION:University of Chicago\, 5801 S Ellis Ave\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150410T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150410T133000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165742Z
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SUMMARY:Is the Human Mind Reducible to Physics?
DESCRIPTION:a luncheon discussion with\nStephen M. Barr (University of Delaware) \nREGISTER HERE \nThis event is open to University of Chicago students. Lunch will be served. Others interested in attending\, please contactinfo@lumenchrisit.org. \nMaterialism or “physicalism” holds that all things\, including human beings\, are completely explicable in physical terms. While ancient and medieval thinkers expressed this view\, it gained a new power with the success of Newtonian physics\, whose laws were universal and deterministic\, giving rise to the belief that the entire physical universe is a closed system of cause and effect. Does this reduction of human beings to purely physical factors eliminate the possibility of free will? Is an understanding of the human mind as immaterial made impossible by the discoveries of the natural sciences? In this discussion\, Prof. Stephen Barr will argue that there is more to the human mind than physicalism can explain\, and that reason and science\, including recent discoveries in quantum mechanics\, imply that the human mind is immaterial. \nParticipants are encouraged to read THIS SHORT PAPER by Prof. Barr in preparation for the discussion.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2015-04-is-human-mind-reducible-to-physics-stephen-m-barr/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150409T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150409T190000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165743Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260315T160625Z
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SUMMARY:Science and Religion: The Myth of Conflict
DESCRIPTION:In many ways\, the supposed conflict between science and religion is really a conflict between “scientific materialism” and religion. The lecture will review the story of the relation between Christianity and science\, discuss several discoveries of the twentieth century (primarily in physics)\, and argue that these are more consonant with the traditional Judeo-Christian view of the cosmos and of human beings than with scientific materialism.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2015-04-science-religion-myth-of-conflict-stephen-m-barr/
LOCATION:University of Chicago\, 5801 S Ellis Ave\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150406T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150518T180000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165746Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165001Z
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SUMMARY:Pope Benedict's Jesus of Nazareth Non-Credit Course
DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays\, April 7-May 19\nGavin House\, 1220 East 58th Street\n6:00pm: Dinner\n6:30pm: Presentation \nPaul Mankowski\, S.J. (Lumen Christi Institute Scholar-in-Residence) \nREGISTER HERE \nOpen to current university students and recent graduates. Others interested in attending please contactinfo@lumenchristi.org. \n“This book is solely an expression of my personal search ‘for the face of the Lord’.”  Pope Benedict XVI’s Jesus of Nazareth is the product of a lifetime’s prayerful contemplation of scripture by an eminent theologian\, for whom the person of Jesus is the key to understanding both the sacred text and the human person:  “Jesus has brought God and with God the truth about our origin and destiny: faith\, hope\, and love.”  The course will provide background for recognizing the several tributaries of Christian theology and scholarship that Benedict brings together in this work\, and will examine in detail the chief moments in the life of Jesus on which he throws new light.  No prior familiarity with the work of Josef Ratzinger is presumed.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2015-04-pope-benedicts-jesus-of-nazareth-non-credit-course-paul-mankowski-sj/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150305T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150305T173000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165748Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260328T161531Z
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SUMMARY:John Paul II and the Crisis of Modern Times
DESCRIPTION:Russell Hittinger (University of Tulsa) \nThis lecture will compare the great pontificates that represented two “modern times”: Leo XIII at the end of the 19th century and John Paul II at the end of the 20th. Between Leo’s birth in 1810 to JPII’s death in 2005\, the lived experience of these two men encompass all modern times\, both secular and ecclesiastical – from Napoleon to the iPhone. What was at stake for the Church over the course of this rapidly changing century? How did the social teaching of these two popes differ in addressing the modern crises of their day?
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2015-03-john-paul-ii-crisis-of-modern-times-russell-hittinger/
LOCATION:Classics 110\, 1010 E 59th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150228T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150228T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165748Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165009Z
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SUMMARY:Lectio Divina at the Benedictine Monastery of the Holy Cross
DESCRIPTION:Intended for current university students. Others interested in attending please contact info@lumenchristi.org.\n\nJoin us for an evening of prayer with Benedictine Monks at the Monastery of the Holy Cross. Students will participate in the prayer of the Divine Office (Vespers and Compline)\, dine with the monks\, and learn about the Benedectine tradition of Sacred Reading or Lectio Divina with Fr. Peter Funk\, O.S.B.\, prior of the monastery and alum of the University of Chicago. Divine Reading is an ancient Christian practice of reading scripture that includes reading\, meditation\, prayer\, and contemplation (Lectio\, Meditatio\, Oratio\, and Contemplatio). This is an excellent opportunity to get into the prayerful spirit of Lent. \nSCHEDULE: \n4:00pm: Meet at Gavin House (1220 E. 58th St.)\n4:30pm: Depart from Hyde Park\n5:00pm: Arrive at the Monastery of the Holy Cross\, Welcome and Introduction\n5:15pm: Office of Vespers\n5:40pm: Dinner\n6:20pm: Introduction to Lectio Divina by Fr. Peter Funk\n7:15pm: Office of Compline\n8:00pm: Arrive back in Hyde Park \nTo find out more about liturgy at the monastery\, go HERE.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2015-02-lectio-divina-at-benedictine-monastery-of-holy-cross-fr-peter-funk/
LOCATION:The Monastery of the Holy Cross\, 3111 South Aberdeen St.\nChicago\, IL 60608\, Chicago\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150221T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150221T143000
DTSTAMP:20260405T152308
CREATED:20241003T165749Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165013Z
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SUMMARY:The New Atheism: A Conversation with John Haught
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE \nIn this luncheon conversation with students\, Prof. John Haught will discuss the New Atheist critiques of religion. Do such arguments live up to a strict adherence to reason? Do they do justice to the religions they rebuke or\, for that matter\, the atheism they champion? \nThis event is open to all University of Chicago students. Lunch will be served. Others interested in attending\, please contact info@lumenchrisit.org.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2015-02-new-atheism-a-conversation-with-john-haught-john-f-haught/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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