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SUMMARY:Evolution and the Catholic Faith
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\nMany 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.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-02-evolution-catholic-faith-stephen-m-barr/
LOCATION:Kent Hall\, Room 107\, 1020 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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SUMMARY:Reductionism in Science: Order from Chaos or Order from Ideas?
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\nOpen to current university students and faculty. Lunch will be served. \nJoin 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. \n“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 lower\, cruder\, and more trivial. By this way of thinking\, the further we push toward a more basic understanding of things\, the more we are immersed in meaningless\, brutish bits of matter.”
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-02-reductionism-in-science-order-from-chaos-or-order-from-ideas-stephen-m-barr/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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SUMMARY:Master Class: David Hume\, Julian of Norwich\, and the Problem of Evil
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\nThis 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. \nMore info TBA
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-02-master-class-david-hume-julian-of-norwich-problem-of-evil-denys-turner/
LOCATION:Faculty House at Columbia University\, 64 Morningside Drive\, New York\, NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170215T200000
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SUMMARY:Dei Verbum: Persons and Propositions
DESCRIPTION:Presented by St. Procopius Abbey\, Benedictine University\, and the Lumen Christi Institute \nFree and open to the public. \nContact Fr. Becket Franks\, O.S.B. with any questions.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-02-dei-verbum-persons-propositions-matthew-levering/
LOCATION:St. Procopius Abbey Church\, 5601 College Rd.\nLisle\, IL 60532\, Lisle\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170216T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170216T190000
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SUMMARY:What Does it Mean to Say the Son of God is 'Consubstantial' with the Father? New Insights about Augustine's Debt to Aristotle
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\nCosponsored by the Department of Philosophy \nIt is commonly accepted that Aristotelian ideas did not inform Latin-language metaphysics until the translation of Aristotle in the 12th century. However\, this opinion has arisen from a failure to understand how the metaphysics of Augustine fundamentally depends upon Victorinus’ assimilation of Aristotelian concepts and distinctions.   \nVictorinus\, mentioned by Augustine in Confessions Book 7\, was a Christian convert\, an eminent rhetor\, and one of the last philosophers in the western Roman Empire who was fully bilingual in Greek and Latin.  In the 350’s he wrote metaphysical treatises defending the Council of Nicea’s doctrine that the Son of God is ‘consubstantial’ with the Father. These treatises comment upon and assimilate core concepts of Aristotle’s Metaphysics and On the Soul.  Augustine appropriated these Aristotelian ideas from Victorinus. \nProf. Byers will also lead a master class on “Augustine on Human Freedom and Divine Grace” on Friday\, February 17.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-02-what-does-it-mean-to-say-son-of-god-is-consubstantial-with-father-new-insights-about-augustines-debt-to-aristotle-sarah-byers/
LOCATION:Harper Memorial Library 130\, 1116 East 59th Street\, Hyde Park\, IL
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SUMMARY:Master Class: Augustine on Human Freedom and Divine Grace: What is Really Going on in the ‘Conversion Scene’ in Augustine’s Confessions?
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\nThis master class is open to graduate and undergraduate students\, including non-University of Chicago students. Space is limited and offered on a first-come\, first-served basis. Copies of the readings will be made available online to all participants. \nAlthough the part of Augustine’s Confessions that describes his conversion to Christianity is arguably the most famous passage in his influential corpus\, scholars have long disagreed about how to understand this important section of Book 8. \nI will argue that the hermeneutical key to the passage is knowledge of the philosophical psychology that Augustine assumes in the passage\, which is a synthesis of Stoic and Platonic epistemological and motivational theory.  Augustine is claiming that his conversion was given to him by God – that is\, that is was a grace – but also that grace operates on humans by altering their natural cognitive and conative powers\, and that these powers were correctly described by Hellenistic philosophers. \nWe will examine the passage from Confessions Book 8 in depth\, bringing to bear the relevant philosophical context\, and then draw further conclusions about his position on the relation of human freedom to divine grace.  On the topic of grace and freedom we will make comparisons with Augustine’s later works\, as well as with the Reformation-era debate about grace and freedom\, alluding to authors such as Molina\, Bañez\, and Jansen. \nPrimary Readings: \nAugustine\, Confessions Books 6 and 8.  Please bring this text with you to the seminar. \nAdditional handouts of shorter texts from Hellenistic philosophy and from Augustine’s later corpus may be provided to read through during the seminar. \nOptional Secondary Readings: \nSarah Byers\, Perception\, Sensibility\, and Moral Motivation in Augustine (Cambridge: 2013). \nProf. Byers will give a lecture on Augustine’s Debt to Aristotle on Thursday\, February 16.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-02-master-class-augustine-on-human-freedom-divine-grace-what-is-really-going-on-in-conversion-scene-in-augustine-s-confessions-sarah-byers/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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SUMMARY:The Book of Judges
DESCRIPTION:6:00 Dinner | 6:30 Lecture \nOpen to current students and faculty. Others interested in attending please contact info@lumenchristi.org. Registrants are free to attend as many sessions as they choose. \nThe Book of Judges is a collection of loosely connected accounts of the loosely connected Israelite tribes in the period between the death of the general Joshua and the establishment of the first kingdom.   This time of religious and military crisis brought to the fore a series of heroes called šōṕēṭîm (judges) who\, as emergency agents of God’s deliverance and chastisement\, reconnected the Israelites to the promises made in the covenants. \nIn times when Bible-reading was common\, the vividness\, economy\, and narrative force of the episodes in Judges made the book a favorite (among the works of G.F. Händel\, for example\, are oratorios titled Deborah\, Gideon\, and Jephthah\, in addition to the better-known Samson).  Today appreciation for the book has declined\, as it serves comfortably neither the purposes of liturgy nor of polite politics. \nThis course will examine the principal episodes of Judges\, trying to develop some awareness and admiration of their distinctly Bronze Age flavor\, and connecting them theologically to the operation of the covenant in the Old Testament.  No prior familiarity with the book is presumed. \nJan 10   The First Judges — Chapters 1-3. \nJan 17   Deborah — Chapters 4-5. \nJan 24   Gideon — Chapters 6-8 \nJan 31   Jephthah — Chapters 10-12 \nFeb 7      Samson 1 — Chapters 13-14 \nFeb 14   Samson 2 — Chapters 15-16 \nFeb 21   Epilogues — Chapter 17
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-02-book-of-judges-paul-mankowski-sj/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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SUMMARY:Tracing our Shared Deep History: Evolutionary Anthropology and Theo-Drama
DESCRIPTION:Cosponsored by the Theology and Religious Ethics Workshop \nWhile theology and biological science often seem to be at odds\, there are productive ways of telling the Christian story of who we are as human beings which resonate with newer evolutionary theories. This lecture will argue that the most convincing theological approach is theo-drama\, where insights from the dramatic stage inform our theological reflections in relation to the drama of evolution. Such exchanges can be highly creative for theology and anthropology; neither party in the dialogue is reduced to the other\, and both are enriched in new and interesting ways.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-02-tracing-our-shared-deep-history-evolutionary-anthropology-theo-drama-celia-deane-drummond/
LOCATION:Social Sciences\, Room 122\, 1126 E 59th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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