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The Authority of Law in Recent Catholic Political Philosophy

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

Cosponsored by the Center for Law, Philosophy and Human Values This lecture considers several recent attempts by Catholic political philosophers working in the natural law tradition to give an account of law’s authority, and their success in answering some recent criticism. The difficulties in providing a successful natural law account of law’s authority gives us […]

Symposium on Caritas in Veritate

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

Published upon the heels of the global financial collapse of 2008, Benedict XVI’s social encyclical, Caritas in Veritate, has been received with great controversy in America. Conservatives have criticized the encyclical’s indictment of neoliberal policies while progressives have severed the encyclical’s social concerns from their origin in the sanctity of human life. This panel discussion of Caritas in Veritate will consider […]

From Curiosity to Studiousness: Catechizing the Appetite for Knowledge

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

It’s a good thing, almost everyone would say, to want to know things; that view is certainly bone-deep in our universities and colleges, as well as in the church. But there are different ways of coming to want to know things, different ways of training and forming the appetite for knowledge. It has been traditional […]

West Meets East: French Sacred Music from Cyprus

Rockefeller Memorial Chapel 5850 S Woodlawn Ave. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Tickets: $15 general, $5 students and seniors University of Chicago students free with ID Cosponsored by the France Chicago Center

The Apocalypse in Origen and the Origenian Tradition

Classics 110 1010 E 59th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

This lecture will investigate the interpretation of the Book of Revelation, or Apocalypse, in Origen and the Origenian tradition. Why does Origen accept this book, whereas many Origenian exegetes do not? What role does Millenarianism play in this choice, and what kind of exegesis does Origen apply in order to accept the Apocalypse? In answering these questions and others, the lecture looks to two […]

Catholics in Political Life

Loyola University Chicago School of Law, Power Rogers & Smith Ceremonial Courtroom (10th Floor) 25 E Pearson St. Chicago, IL 60611, River North, IL

Catholicisme

College des Bernardins 18 rue Poissy 75005 Paris, France, Paris, France

Panelists include Charles Taylor and Paul Thibaud. All presentations given in French.

Seminar: De Trinitate and De Civitate Dei

University of Saint Mary of the Lake 1000 East Maple Avenue Mundelein, IL 60060, Mundelein, IL

Professor Paul Griffiths (Duke University) led a seminar on Augustine’s seminal later works, De Trinitate and De Civitate Dei at the University of St. Mary of the Lake Conference Center in Mundelein, Illinois.

Spiritual Exercises and the Contemporary Academy

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

The work of Pierre Hadot and, in his later years, Michel Foucault on the ancient pagan and Christian practices of askesis, or “spiritual exercise,” has proven to be of interest not only to scholars of the late classical and early Christian era, but to a much broader range of humanists working across a variety of […]

How the University of Chicago Opened My American Mind

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

Fr. Benedict Ashley’s life at the University of Chicago in the 1930’s included Trotskyite activism and participation in the first Great Books Seminar led by President Robert Maynard Hutchins. His lecture will consider liberal education in light of this history and the life of scholarship and inquiry it inspired.

Is There a Christian Philosophy?

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

Jean-Luc Marion delivers a lecture titled "Is There a Christian Philosophy?" on November 10, 2010 at the University of Chicago.