Religious Faith and Modern War
Downtown Lectures
REGISTER HERE $25 Registration includes breakfast You can read Phil Klay’s recent piece “The Citizen-Soldier: Moral Risk and the Modern Military” HERE. Photo courtesy of Hannah Dunphy
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University Club of Chicago 76 E Monroe St Chicago, IL 60603, Downtown, IL
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NYC Master Class on Michel Foucault and Humanism
Fordham President's Dining Room 113 West 60th Street, New York, NYA 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. ABOUT THE BOOK The 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...
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A Conversation with Phil Klay
Swift Hall, 3rd Floor Lecture 1025 E 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, ILREGISTER HERE cosponsored by the Committee on Creative Writing and the Seminar Coop Bookstore In 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.
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The Suspended Harp: Sounds of Faith in Medieval Jerusalem
The Met Cloisters - The Fuentidueña Chapel 99 Margaret Corbin Drive, New York, ILA concert by Schola Antiqua of Chicago (Lumen Christi Institute Artists-in-Residence) BUY TICKETS HERE The 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. Other performances: Sun, Oct 23, 3 pm Tickets to this event include Museum admission. This program, made possible by the William S. Lieberman Fund, is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Jerusalem 1000–1400: Every People Under...
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With Nature Marveling: Advent Music from Long Ago
Rockefeller Memorial Chapel 5850 S Woodlawn Ave. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, ILSchola 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.
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Reason, Wisdom, and Beauty in Medieval Christian Thought
Gavin House 1220 E 58th St., Chicago, IL6:00 Dinner | 6:30 Lecture Intended 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. With 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...
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Augustine’s Theology of Love
Swift Hall, 3rd Floor Lecture 1025 E 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, ILCosponsored by the Theology and Religious Ethics Workshop
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Lunch Discussion with Lisa Ruddick: “When Nothing is Cool”
Gavin House 1220 E 58th St., Chicago, ILOpen to current graduate students and faculty. Lunch will be provided. "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." Join 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."
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Visit to the Benedictine Monastery of the Holy Cross
The Monastery of the Holy Cross 3111 South Aberdeen St. Chicago, IL 60608, Chicago, ILREGISTER HERE Open to current university students. Others interested in attending should contact us. Join 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. More information on the music for Solemn Vespers can be found HERE. SCHEDULE 4:15pm Meet at Gavin House (1220 E. 58th St.) 4:30pm Depart from Hyde Park 5:00pm Arrive at...
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Evolution and the Catholic Faith
Kent Hall, Room 107 1020 E 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, ILREGISTER HERE Many 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.
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Reductionism in Science: Order from Chaos or Order from Ideas?
Gavin House 1220 E 58th St., Chicago, ILREGISTER HERE Open to current university students and faculty. Lunch will be served. Join 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. "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...
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Master Class: David Hume, Julian of Norwich, and the Problem of Evil
Faculty House at Columbia University 64 Morningside Drive, New York, NYREGISTER HERE This 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. More info TBA
