Name: Magis Lecture | Evil and the God of Love
Start: 2023-04-18T17:30:00-05:00
End: 2023-04-18T19:00:00-05:00
Location: Loyola Academy McGrath Family Performing Arts Center

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February 2023
February 10th, 2023 @ 3:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Master Class on “Catholicism and Upheaval Between the World Wars”

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

John McGreevy, Notre Dame

Open to current students and faculty. Others interested in participating should contact info@lumenchristi.org. All registrants will receive pdfs of the selected readings, which should be read in advance of the class. The first 20 registrants will receive a free copy of Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis. This Master Class will use a mix of primary and secondary sources to examine global Catholicism in the thirty years preceding the opening of the Second Vatican Council in 1962. Themes include the political crisis of the 1930s and the turn toward democracy, Catholicism and post WWII decolonization and the "return to...
February 16th, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Winter 2023 Fundamental Questions Seminar: Sophocles’ Antigone

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

David Lyons, University of Chicago

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. All registrants will be provided with a copy of the text. “For death is gain to him whose life, like mine, is full of misery.” Here is the paradigmatic tragic lament, wrenched from Antigone in Sophocles' famous play. But what is tragedy? Is life miserable because it is meaningless? Or is the tragedy not that life has no value, but that it has too many values? What does one do when one’s...
February 22nd, 2023 @ 1:00 am

Ash Wednesday Reflection with Archbishop Borys Gudziak

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

Borys Gudziak, Archeparchy of Philadelphia; Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in the USA

Registration required. Open only to current students at the Univesity of Chicago. Registration is capped at 20. This event will be held at the Lumen Christi Woodlawn Residence for Graduate Students. Join us for a special evening program for students with Metropolitan Borys Gudziak. Metropolitan Borys is the head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in the United States. He is most known his work with the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv. After his PhD at Harvard University, he moved to post-Soviet Ukraine in the 1990’s and helped found--and then lead--the only Catholic University between Poland and Japan. He is currently...
February 22nd, 2023 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

Graduate Reading Group on “The Works of Frederick Douglass”

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

Open to current graduate students students at the University of Chicago. Participants can come to whichever sessions they choose. Others interested in participating should contact info@lumenchristi.org. Wine and cheese reception to follow. Frederick Douglass is, without a doubt, a great American writer and orator. Largely self taught, he wove together the traditions of American rhetoric and law, sacred scripture, classical insight, and the romantic language of his age. In so doing, he became a voice of conscience for the United States, a leading light in the abolition movement, and one of the most famous and respected men of his age–of...
February 23rd, 2023 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

Lessons from the Past to Heal the Future: A Perspective on healing Ukraine post-war

University Club of Chicago 76 E Monroe St Chicago, IL 60603, Downtown, IL

Borys Gudziak, Archeparchy of Philadelphia; Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in the USA

This event is open to the public. Registration is required. Please contact info@lumenchristi.org with any questions. As a Church historian, Metropolitan Borys Gudziak has dedicated his vocation to transcribing and articulating the experience of the underground Church in Ukraine during the 20th century. These lessons of perseverance and adherence to the gospel—embodying the cross, death and resurrection—form the foundation of the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, where Metropolitan Borys was at the beginnings of its re-birth and now serves as its president. At this luncheon, hear Metropolitan Gudziak draw deep from these hard-earned lessons from the past to discuss strategies for healing the wounds...
February 23rd, 2023 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Ideologies of War and Theologies of Healing: Ukraine one year later

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

Elizabeth Prodromou, Boston College | Perry Hamalis, North Central College | Gayle Woloschak, Northwestern University | Borys Gudziak, Archeparchy of Philadelphia; Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in the USA

This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact info@lumenchristi.org. This event is co-presented with Fordham University's Orthodox Christian Studies Center, and co-sponsored by the Sheptysky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies, Commonweal Magazine, America Media, the University of Chicago's Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion, the Three Hierarchs Orthodox Christian Fellowship, and CNEWA. One year later, the war in Ukraine has risen and fallen in the news cycle but remains an ever-pressing issue in Europe and abroad. Scholars, pundits, and public figures have done much to diagnose the ideological engines that drive the conflict, yet even the most careful public reflection...
February 28th, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Winter Non-Credit Course | Heresies, Ancient and Modern: The Truth about Error

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

Fr. Peter Bernardi, SJ, Lumen Christi Institute

Tuesdays, Jan. 10-Feb. 28 6:00pm: Dinner 6:30pm: Presentation Intended for university students and recent graduates. Others interested in attending please contact info@lumenchristi.org. Registrants are free to attend as many sessions as they choose. Sessions do not presuppose previous attendance or prior knowledge of the subject. What is “heresy?” At first glance, the term “heresy” might be dismissed as anachronistic, or even as repellent as the term “inquisition” or "auto-da-fe." Surprisingly, the Greek root of the term “heresy” does not mean “error,” but “choice.” Heresy entails a selective partiality that in one way or another rejects the integral fullness of catholic truth. Certain heresies are...
March 2023
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March 18th, 2023 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Our Troubled Minds, Our Anxious Age, and the Ancient Alternative of Cistercian Spirituality: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue

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Joseph Davis, University of Virginia | Sr. Maria Gonzalo, OCSO, Our Lady of the Angels Monastery

Watch the Recording Here This event is co-presented by the Lumen Christi Institute and the St. Anselm Institute for Catholic Thought at the University of Virginia. Find out more at their website: https://www.stanselminstitute.org/index.php/publicectures/upcominglectures/270-march-18-2023-public-lecture Have you ever been afflicted by a lack of focus, feelings of loneliness, debilitating anxieties, or inexplicable bouts of sadness, anger or despair in the midst of great personal achievements? Can advances in neurological medicine and pharmaceutical therapies heal our broken hearts, fix our troubled minds, and lead us to even greater personal triumphs? Many hope so, turning to neuro-chemical treatments that soothe our brains without bringing clarity...
March 30th, 2023 @ 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm

Money and the Good Life: a lunchtime discussion with Mary Hirschfeld

Booth School of Business 5807 S Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, IL

Mary Hirschfeld, University of Notre Dame

Open to current students and faculty. Box lunches will be served. To inquire about registration, please email info@lumenchristi.org. In 2018, Mary Hirschfeld, economist and theologian, made a landmark intervention in the relationship between economics and theology. By locating the source of economic life in the search for human happiness, Hirschfeld used a Thomistic framework to approach modern problems. Join us for a lunch discussion on how we might move "Toward a Humane Economy." Prof. Hirschfeld will also give a lecture later in the day on "Rethinking Economic Inequality: a Theological Perspective." A response will follow from Amir Sufi (Booth School...
March 30th, 2023 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Rethinking Economic Inequality: a Theological Perspective

Booth School of Business, Room 104-C 5807 S Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, IL

Amir Sufi, University of Chicago Booth | Mary Hirschfeld, University of Notre Dame

This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact info@lumenchristi.org. This event is co-presented by the Catholic Research Economists Discussion Organization (CREDO) and cosponsored by the In Lumine Network and Catholics at Booth. This event is made possible through the support of ‘In Lumine: Supporting the Catholic Intellectual Tradition on Campuses Nationwide’ (Grant #62372) from the John Templeton Foundation. Secular discourse about the problem of economic inequality rests on two foundational premises that are problematic from a theological point of view. First, individuals enter into society with the aim of bettering their own condition. Second, bettering one’s own...
April 2023
April 13th, 2023 @ 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm

From ESG to Impact Investing: Catholic reflections from the field

Booth School of Business 5807 S Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, IL

Terrence Keeley, Nanovic Institute | Luigi Zingales, University of Chicago, Booth

Registration required. Open to students and faculty only. Email info@lumenchristi.org to inquire about registration. Should business and finance play larger roles in resolving the great social and environmental challenges of our time? Proponents of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing say yes. They argue that ESG financial strategies can help reverse runaway carbon emissions and fix income and gender inequalities, among other ills. ESG-integrated investments already encompass more than $120 trillion in financial assets. Are they working as promised? If not, how can they be improved? In his new book Sustainable, Terrence Keeley, a finance-industry veteran offers an insider’s look at the promises, prospects,...
April 18th, 2023 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Magis Lecture | Evil and the God of Love

Loyola Academy McGrath Family Performing Arts Center 3455 Illinois Rd, Wilmette, IL

Stephen Fields, Georgetown University

Free and open to the public, but advance registration is required. For more information, contact info@lumenchristi.org. "Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is impotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Whence then is evil?” So the philosopher David Hume presents the classic 'problem of evil.' For Christians, this is no mere logical puzzle. It is a challenge to our relationship with a God who we are convinced is not only all-powerful, but all-loving. How can we love God, and know ourselves to be loved by God,...

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Lessons from the Past to Heal the Future: A Perspective on healing Ukraine post-war

Ideologies of War and Theologies of Healing: Ukraine one year later

Winter Non-Credit Course | Heresies, Ancient and Modern: The Truth about Error

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Our Troubled Minds, Our Anxious Age, and the Ancient Alternative of Cistercian Spirituality: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue

Money and the Good Life: a lunchtime discussion with Mary Hirschfeld

Rethinking Economic Inequality: a Theological Perspective

From ESG to Impact Investing: Catholic reflections from the field

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