Name: Greek New Testament Reading Group
Start: 2024-05-07T13:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-05-07T14:00:00-05:00
Location: Gavin House

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April 2024
April 10th, 2024 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Is Free Will an Illusion? St. Thomas Aquinas and Human Action – Faith and Reason | West Suburban Catholic Culture Series

Ruth Lake Country Club 6200 South Madison Street, Hinsdale, IL

Stephen Brock, University of Chicago

The West Suburban Catholic Culture Series returns in 2024 to continue its series on "Faith and Reason as the Two Wings: The History and Enduring Importance of Catholic Philosophy" REGISTER HERE (Business casual attire encouraged. For questions, please email Marial Corona at mcorona@lumenchristi.org). Schedule: 6:30 p.m. Drinks | 7:00 p.m. Dinner, Lecture, & Q&A | 8:30 p.m. End April 10: Is Free Will an Illusion? St. Thomas Aquinas and Human Action Fr. Stephen Brock (Professor of Medieval Philosophy, Pontifical University of the Holy Cross) Americans prize freedom, of all kinds. Yet many today are being persuaded that there is no such thing as free...
April 11th, 2024 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Dante and a Poet’s Journey in Hope

Social Sciences, Room 122 1126 E 59th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Denys Turner, Yale University, Emeritus

REGISTER HERE This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact dstrobach@lumenchristi.org. A wine and cheese reception will follow. This event is cosponsored by the University of Chicago Committee on Social Thought, the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, and the Medieval Studies Workshop. Often praised for its evocative treatment of heaven and hell, Dante’s Commedia is a significant work of theology. Denys Turner will explain how Dante accomplishes by means of poetry what the formal theological treatises of the Middle Ages demonstrate through prosaic inference and proof. Poetry, Turner argues, is the most natural language to articulate...
Master Classes

April 12th, 2024 @ 2:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Poetry Being the Body: Theology in Dante

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

Denys Turner, Yale University, Emeritus

REGISTER HERE Open to current graduate students and faculty. Advanced undergraduates and others interested in participating should contact dstrobach@lumenchristi.org. This event is in-person only. All registrants will receive pdfs of the selected readings, which should be read in advance of the class. An optional wine and cheese reception will follow. The poet plays a crucial role in the development of a language of the “mystical” that paradoxically gives voice to the insufficiency of human speech in the face of the reality of the divine. The revelation of this insufficiency speaks effectively to theology’s positive, affirming, role. Poetry is a pre-theological anticipation...
April 26th, 2024 @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

Can We Be Good On Our Own? Ancient Pagans and Modern Scientists on Thomistic Moral Virtue

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

Emily Austin, University of Chicago | Angela Knobel, University of Dallas | Daniel Lapsley, University of Notre Dame | Candace Vogler, University of Chicago

Open to students and faculty. For more information, contact dstrobach@lumenchristi.org. This event is cosponsored by the University of Notre Dame Press and made possible through the support of ‘In Lumine: Supporting the Catholic Intellectual Tradition on Campuses Nationwide’ (Grant #62372) from the John Templeton Foundation. Thomas Aquinas, like a good Aristotelian, holds that the moral virtues can be cultivated in human beings by habitual moral action. And like a good Christian, he also holds that God can gift (or 'infuse') the moral virtues into a human being. Can humans become good on their own? Or do they require external assistance? ...
Master Classes

April 27th, 2024 @ 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Thomas Aquinas on Virtue and Grace in the Moral Life

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

Angela Knobel, University of Dallas

Open to current graduate students and faculty. Advanced undergraduates and others interested in participating should contact dstrobach@lumenchristi.org. This event is in-person only. All registrants will receive copies of the selected readings, which should be read in advance of the class. An optional wine and cheese reception will follow. 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. Thomas Aquinas distinguishes between two kinds of moral virtue: acquired moral virtues, which are cultivated though one’s power and via one’s own repeated good acts, and infused...
May 2024
May 1st, 2024 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Texts of Existence: The Interplay of Religion, Individualism, and the Cosmos in Borges and Nietzsche.

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

This event is sponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute’s Nicklin Fellows Program, which supports and encourages University of Chicago undergraduate students to develop their intellectual maturity. Arjun Mazumdar, who designed this program, is a 2023-2024 Nicklin Fellow. This program is for undergraduate students only. REGISTER HERE In "Texts of Existence," we will explore the depths of existentialism, religion, and the meaning of life through the lens of literary and philosophical classics. Our reading group will study the works of Jorge Luis Borges and Friedrich Nietzsche. Expect to read and analyze passages together, form a collaborative understanding of texts, and tackle...
May 2nd, 2024 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

What is Ideology? A Conversation with Mark Shiffman and James Matthew Wilson

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

Mark Shiffman, Saint Patrick’s Seminary and University | James Matthew Wilson, University of Saint Thomas, Houston

5:30 Cocktail and Hors d’Oeuvres | 6:30 Opening Remarks | 6:45 Dialogue and Q&A | 7:30 End Co-presented by Public Discourse, the online journal of the Witherspoon Institute, dedicated to renewing the culture through thoughtful reflections on education, family, and religion. Supported by Wiseblood Books. Discounted student tickets are available. Please contact Marial Corona at mcorona@lumenchristi.org for more information on this or any other matter. “Ideology” is a word in near-ubiquitous use: it is deployed to describe everything from religious identity (‘radical Islamic ideology’) and political principle (‘the contest between woke and MAGA ideology’) to gastronomic preferences (‘the ideology of meat in US culture’). Does...
May 2nd, 2024 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

The Managerial Revolution: What Went Wrong?

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

This event is sponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute’s Nicklin Fellows Program, which supports and encourages University of Chicago undergraduate students to develop their intellectual maturity. Max Baumeister, who designed this program, is a 2023-2024 Nicklin Fellow. This program is for undergraduate students only. REGISTER HERE “ has real intellectual courage, and writes about real issues,” wrote George Orwell. Chicago native, prominent Trotskyist early in his intellectual life, student of J. R. R. Tolkien at Oxford, and recommended by George Kennan during WWII to work at the Office of Strategic Services (predecessor of the CIA), to say James Burnham was...
May 2nd, 2024 @ 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Wendell Berry’s World-Ending Fire Graduate Reading Group

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

Open to current graduate students at the University of Chicago. Participants can come to whichever sessions they choose. Others interested in participating should contact Franklin Joyce at jfjoyce@uchicago.edu. Books and drinks will be provided. Wendell Berry is America’s foremost contemporary advocate for a community-centered form of life he calls “agrarianism,” which focuses on the American relationship to the land and local circumstances. Berry’s articulation of agrarian life reveals the inadequacies of both crass industrialism and the popular “movements” of environmentalism. Furthermore, Berry seriously implements a Christian understanding of a world created by love and entrusted into the care of human stewards. For readers searching...
Master Classes

May 3rd, 2024 @ 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

The Ontology of Beauty

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

James Matthew Wilson, University of Saint Thomas, Houston

Open to current graduate students and faculty. Advanced undergraduates and others interested in participating should contact dstrobach@lumenchristi.org. This event is in-person only. All registrants will receive copies of the selected readings, which should be read in advance of the class. An optional wine and cheese reception will follow. The theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar once claimed that if modern man denies the reality of beauty, he will lose the capacity for love and prayer, and indeed truth, goodness, and being itself will be lost to him. This seminar will explore von Balthasar's less than obvious claims by returning to Plato and...
Master Classes

May 3rd, 2024 @ 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

The Ontology of Beauty

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

James Matthew Wilson, University of Saint Thomas, Houston

Open to current graduate students and faculty. Advanced undergraduates and others interested in participating should contact dstrobach@lumenchristi.org. This event is in-person only. All registrants will receive copies of the selected readings, which should be read in advance of the class. An optional wine and cheese reception will follow. The theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar once claimed that if modern man denies the reality of beauty, he will lose the capacity for love and prayer, and indeed truth, goodness, and being itself will be lost to him. This seminar will explore von Balthasar's less than obvious claims by returning to Plato and...
May 7th, 2024 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Greek New Testament Reading Group

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

Open to current students and faculty at the University of Chicago. Participants can come to whichever sessions they choose. Others interested in participating should contact Joe Haydt at jhaydt@uchicago.edu. Lunch will be provided. This winter the Greek New Testament Reading Group will work through parables from the Gospel of Luke. We will pay particular attention to chapters sixteen and seventeen. Fr. Peter Bernardi will be on hand for theological questions. All levels of Greek are welcome, and lunch will be provided. SCHEDULE: This group will meet every Tuesday (beginning April 2nd) from 1pm - 2pm. The University of Chicago is famous for...

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Texts of Existence: The Interplay of Religion, Individualism, and the Cosmos in Borges and Nietzsche.

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The Managerial Revolution: What Went Wrong?

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