Name: Faith and Scholarship Integration Seminar
Start: 2022-11-12T11:00:00-06:00
End: 2022-11-12T11:00:00-06:00
Location: 5554 S. Woodlawn Ave.

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October 2022
October 21st, 2022 @ 2:00 pm

Master Class: Clashing over Mysticism: Balthasar and Rahner on Bonaventure

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

Open to current students and faculty. Others interested in participating should contact info@lumenchristi.org. Registrants will receive copies of the prepared reading. In an era of outstanding theologians who made the teachings of Vatican II possible, Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-88) and Karl Rahner (1904-84) emerge as titans. Both were German speaking: Rahner came from Baden and Balthasar from Switzerland. Rahner died as a Jesuit, having taught in Innsbruck, Munich, and Muenster. Balthasar left the order in mid-life to serve as chaplain to a secular institute in Basel. Both were prolific writers. Rahner’s chief works are Spirit in the World (1957),...
October 25th, 2022 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Synodality in Perspective: Traditions Past and Present

ONLINE World Wide Web, INTERNET

This online symposium series is being organized by the American Cusanus Society, Nova Forum and the Lumen Christi Institute. Additional Cosponsors include Commonweal, America Media, St. Anselm Institute for Catholic Thought and the Collegium Institute. Participation and Registration | All are invited to participate. To attend, please register online. Registration links are provided by each session and date below. Each session will be a dialogue with a moderator hosting a conversation between two scholars. About the Series | In light of Pope Francis’ call for global Catholic communities to enter into a two-year process on synodality, this six-part series will examine both the history...
October 25th, 2022 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Synodality Series Session 6 | The Synod of 2023: Process and Prospects

ONLINE World Wide Web, INTERNET

Free and open to the public. This online symposium series is being organized by the American Cusanus Society, Nova Forum and the Lumen Christi Institute. Additional Cosponsors include Commonweal, Harvard Catholic Forum, America Media, the St. Anselm Institute for Catholic Thought and the Collegium Institute. About the Series | In light of Pope Francis’ call for global Catholic communities to enter into a two-year process on synodality, this six-part series will examine both the history of synods and the current dialogue around the future of synodality in the Church. This series is an opportunity to learn more about the topic in advance of the October 2023 Rome summit, “For a Synodal Church.” Pope Francis...
October 26th, 2022 @ 12:00 am - October 30th, 2022 @ 12:00 am

Society, Law, and Virtue: Colloquium in Honor of Russell Hittinger

This is an invite-only colloquium in honor of Russell Hittinger. Hittinger has articulated many of the deepest Augustinian and Thomistic sources of natural law theory, given an influential critique of certain trends in contemporary natural law thinking, and shown how various conceptions of natural law have been embraced or rejected in American political debates since the middle of the twentieth century. Finally, his most recent work has shown how natural law principles have been integrated into Catholic social teaching since the French Revolution. This discussion will use Hittinger’s writings as a springboard to explore these perennial and timely topics in...
October 27th, 2022 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Symposium on “The Future of Natural Law”

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

Natural law theory has long been a central tenet of Christian philosophical and theological reflection on the relationship between God, the moral life, and society, and it has played an important historical role in shaping the political life of the United States and many other nations. The topic of natural law has also been the subject of many disputes and disagreements, both in the contemplative and practical orders. It is therefore important to take stock of this rich and complex history if we are to understand the current state of natural law thinking so as to ascertain what role it...
November 2022
November 1st, 2022 @ 12:00 pm

Lunch Discussion: “Are We Falling Back Into Paganism?”

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

Open to current students and faculty. Others interested in participating should contact info@lumenchristi.org.
November 1st, 2022 @ 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm

The Saints: How They Save Us and We Save Them

Saint Ignatius College Prep 1076 W Roosevelt Rd, Chicago, IL

This event is in-person only. There is no cost to attend. Please register by Thursday, October 27th. The Lumen Christi Institute, St. Ignatius College Prep, and The Bollandists Society in Belgium invite you to a special evening with Catherine M. Mooney, Associate Professor of Church History at Boston College’s School of Theology and Ministry. For questions, please reach out to Andrea Lamacki at andrea.lamacki@ignatius.org Schedule Mass | 5:00 in Cuneo Chapel at Saint Ignatius College Prep Reception | 5:30-6:15pm in the Brunswick Room Presentation | 6:15-7:15pm in the Brunswick Room
November 2nd, 2022 @ 2:00 pm - November 4th, 2022 @ 5:30 pm

The Contribution of Theology to Rationality: a Conference in Honor of Jean-Luc Marion

Swift Hall 1025 E 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

This event is co-sponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute and organized by the Martin Marty Center. For more information about the speakers, visit https://martycenter.org/events/the-contribution-of-theology-to-rationality This conference is held in honor of Jean-Luc Marion (Andrew Thomas Greeley and Grace McNichols Greeley Professor of Catholic Studies and Professor of the Philosophy of Religions and Theology, and Professor in Social Thought and Philosophy). It brings together scholars to give lectures that reflect Marion's past and current interests, highlight and honor his many contributions, and outline and define what he has meant for the Chicago tradition of doing theology as a conversation between reason and...
November 5th, 2022 @ 10:00 am - 1:00 pm

Master Class: “The Power of the Sacred” with Hans Joas

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

Open to current students and faculty. Others interested in participating should contact info@lumenchristi.org. All registrants will receive pdfs of the selected readings. The first 15 registrants will receive free copies of The Power of the Sacred. In the last twenty or thirty years, the co-called secularization thesis has lost much of its plausibility. This thesis means more than empirical statements about quantitative developments in the area of religious faith, practices or institutions. Rather, it refers to a particular explanation for such developments - namely, that there is a strong causal connection between societal modernization and the weakening of religion - in...
November 5th, 2022 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Your Mind Is Not A Computer, and God is Not Nice: Learning How To Think About God and Why

ONLINE World Wide Web, INTERNET

An online interview for high-school students and teachers. What happens when I think? What makes for good thinking? Can I discover "truth," and how would I know when I found it? How should I think about God? What is He like and how would my life change if I knew? To help answer these and other questions, the Newman Forum invites Prof. Ulrich Lehner (University of Notre Dame) to discuss his recent books Think Better: Unlocking the Power of Reason and God is Not Nice: Rejecting Pop Culture Theology and Discovering the God Worth Living For. The interview will be...
November 10th, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Superheroes, the Void, and Utopia: Reading Alan Moore’s Watchmen at the End of Days

5554 S. Woodlawn Ave. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Open to current undergraduate students at the University of Chicago. Registration is capped at 20. Students who register after capacity has been reached will be put on a waitlist. Copies of Watchmen will be provided to all participants. Who watches the Watchmen? The President of the United States is a septuagenarian nervously forced to confront an increasingly reactive Russia. Our technology has outstripped our power to control or even cope with it. Environmental collapse is right around the corner. Paranoia, dread, and hopelessness hover over all. The year, of course, is 1985, and the American president is…Richard Nixon? And, oh yes, there are...
November 12th, 2022 @ 11:00 am

Faith and Scholarship Integration Seminar

5554 S. Woodlawn Ave. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Open only to current graduate students. Registration required. To register, contact Fr. Peter Bernardi, SJ, at bernardisj@gmail.com. The Lumen Christi Institute will host periodic “integration seminars” at its newly acquired Woodlawn Residence. These seminars will promote discussion and reflection on how to relate one’s Catholic faith to one’s scholarship. Each seminar will feature a Catholic scholar sharing how she or he relates their Catholic faith to their field of research. These scholars will be drawn from a variety of fields: social and natural sciences, philosophy, history, etc. This sharing is intended to animate discussion among the participating students. Participation is by invitation...

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Synodality in Perspective: Traditions Past and Present

Synodality Series Session 6 | The Synod of 2023: Process and Prospects

Society, Law, and Virtue: Colloquium in Honor of Russell Hittinger

Lunch Discussion: “Are We Falling Back Into Paganism?”

The Saints: How They Save Us and We Save Them

The Contribution of Theology to Rationality: a Conference in Honor of Jean-Luc Marion

Master Class: “The Power of the Sacred” with Hans Joas

Your Mind Is Not A Computer, and God is Not Nice: Learning How To Think About God and Why

Superheroes, the Void, and Utopia: Reading Alan Moore’s Watchmen at the End of Days

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