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SUMMARY:POSTPONED: Catholic Social Teaching and Society: An Introduction to the Tradition and Substance of Christian Social Doctrine
DESCRIPTION:THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN POSTPONED TO SUMMER 2020\nThe manifold and deepening social\, political\, and economic crises that people and their governments face have called forth a strongly renewed interest in the Christian social teaching tradition\, and the contributions that insights from the tradition might make to responding to these exigencies. This revival of interest brings several thorny problems in its wake: Why does the Church speak on these matters\, and based on what authority? What role does the Church properly have in this context? What contributions can she make to such worldly concerns? What does the Church have to offer in responding to the complexities of the contemporary world situation? These represent particularly important questions given the Catholic Church’s revived role as a transnational\, global organization whose views have assumed increasing significance in a post-Cold War world with increasingly diffuse sources of recognized authority. \nThe first week will provide a fundamental introduction to the history\, philosophical currents\, and theology that informs the Catholic social tradition. The second week features an interdisciplinary and international conversation between American and European participants concentrated on the meaning of social justice and its principles in light of the Christian tradition; a consideration of the Christian sources that inform the “social market economy” and the institutions of the “social-state”; and the challenges that AI and digitalization pose to human work and well-being. \nThe seminar will feature lectures\, discussions\, and working groups\, but also opportunities to meet with political\, social and Church leaders. The program has the special goal of bringing American and German students into conversation to share their perspectives\, to build networks and to seek common approaches to addressing both to contemporary crises and unforeseen developments in a way that will keep the human at the center of all our considerations. \nFormat: coming soon! \nLocation:  The seminar will take place at Abtei Michaelsberg\, Siegburg\, Germany. \nApplication Information: This seminar will be open to MA\, MTS\, MDiv\, PhD\, JD\, Post Doc\, and advanced undergraduates in all disciplines. \nApplicants will be required to submit: \n\nA completed online application form.\nAn updated CV.\nAt least one and as many as two letter(s) of recommendation from a member of the program in which the student is currently enrolled.\nA statement of research interest no longer than 750 words\, which includes an explanation of how this seminar might bear on the student’s current or future research plans.\nOne academic writing sample (30 pages maximum).\n\n\nFREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS \nCan I apply for more than one seminar? Yes. You may apply for multiple seminars. Please indicate your order of preference in your statement of purpose for each application. Each applicant may only be admitted to one seminar. \nI have attended a Lumen Christi Institute seminar in the past. May I still apply? Yes! \nDo I have to be Catholic to apply? No. The Lumen Christi Institute exists to promotes the Catholic intellectual tradition and is committed to the integration of the intellectual and spiritual life. The Institute welcomes seminar participants of all or no religious affiliation\, and wants to assure all applicants that the opportunities to participate in devotional activities are optional. \nIn addition to the travel stipend\, are there other funding possibilities? Seminar participation includes an opportunity to give a formal presentation and inclusion in the official program and schedule. We encourage participants to seek funding from their home institutions or other sources to supplement the travel stipend offered by the Lumen Christi Institute. \nWhen do I get my travel stipend? Stipends are distributed as a refund after successful completion of the seminar and seminar evaluations. Exceptions can be made on case by case basis. \nContact us with any further questions.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-cst-germany/
LOCATION:Abtei Michaelsberg\, TBD\, Siegburg\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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SUMMARY:Undergraduate Seminar: Augustine on Self\, God\, and Society
DESCRIPTION:APPLICATION COMING SOON\nAugustine is one of the great minds of the Church and of western history. In this week-long intensive seminar\, undergraduates and recent graduates will learn how to read\, analyze\, and discern the theme of the self in relation to God and society across Augustine’s corpus. The seminar is anchored in an in-depth reading of Augustine’s Confessions\, one of the great masterpieces of literature that continues to speak across the centuries even as it is rooted in antiquity. This will be supplemented by selections from The City of God and On the Trinity.  \nApplication materials are due March 1. \n\nFREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS \nCan I apply for more than one seminar? Yes. You may apply for multiple seminars. Please indicate your order of preference in your statement of purpose for each application. Each applicant may only be admitted to one seminar. \nDo I have to be Catholic to apply? No. The Lumen Christi Institute exists to promotes the Catholic intellectual tradition and is committed to the integration of the intellectual and spiritual life. The Institute welcomes seminar participants of all or no religious affiliation\, and wants to assure all applicants that the opportunities to participate in devotional activities are optional. \nIn addition to the travel stipend\, are there other funding possibilities? Seminar participation includes an opportunity to give a formal presentation and inclusion in the official program and schedule. We encourage participants to seek funding from their home institutions or other sources to supplement the travel stipend offered by the Lumen Christi Institute. \nWhen do I get my travel stipend? Stipends are distributed as a refund after successful completion of the seminar and seminar evaluations. Exceptions can be made on case by case basis.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-augustine-self-society/
LOCATION:St. Albert’s Priory\, 5890 Birch Ct\, Oakland\, CA
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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SUMMARY:Modern Science and the Catholic Faith for Undergraduates
DESCRIPTION:Applications are now closed.\nThe goal of this seminar is to provide students with the background knowledge and conceptual tools necessary to understand and think clearly about the relation of science and faith. This will help them to integrate scientific and theological ways of understanding in their own thinking\, and make it possible for them to help others (including their future colleagues and students) to achieve such integration. The overarching goal is to help develop a cadre of people with a broad and informed understanding of these issues who can be the nucleus from which wider outreach efforts might grow. \nAmong the topics discussed will be the historical relationship of the Church and science; the relation of faith and reason; evidence for God in the existence and order of the cosmos; God and nature; primary and secondary causality; the supernatural and miracles; modern physics and natural theology; creation and providence; the beginning of the universe and modern cosmology; God and time; human origins and human distinctiveness; rationality\, freedom\, and the soul; physicalist reductionism and the human mind; Genesis and scriptural interpretation; biological evolution; biology and human nature; and the Fall\, original sin and concupiscence. \nPreparatory readings will include excerpts from: \n\nModern Physics and Ancient Faith (Stephen M. Barr)\nThe Believing Scientist (Stephen M. Barr)\nThomistic Evolution (Fr. Nicanor Austriaco et al.)\nScience and Belief in a Nuclear Age (Peter E. Hodgson)\nGod’s Mechanics (Br. Guy Consolmagno)\nGod and Reason in the Middle Ages (Edward Grant)\nGalileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and Religion (ed. Ronald L. Numbers)\nMind and Cosmos (Thomas Nagel)\nThe Faith of the Early Fathers (William A. Jurgens)\nConfessions (St. Augustine)\nCity of God (St. Augustine)\nOn the Literal Meaning of Genesis (St. Augustine)\nSumma Contra Gentiles (St. Thomas Aquinas)\nIn the Beginning (Joseph Ratzinger)\naddresses and statements on science and religion by Pope St. John Paul II\nCommunion and Stewardship: Human Persons Created in the Image of God (International Theological Commission)\nsections of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. \n\nLOCATION AND FORMAT \n\nThe seminar will take place at Saint Joseph Abbey and Seminary College in St. Benedict\, LA. Admitted students will be required to arrange their own travel to and from the seminar.\nAdmitted students will be granted a stipend of $350 to offset travel costs in addition to having their lodging and meals covered for the duration of the seminar.\nParticipants will arrive at Saint Joseph on Sunday\, July 28 and depart on Saturday\, August 3. The seminar will take place from Monday to Friday\, with a lecture and discussion session each morning and afternoon.\nParticipants will be required read the assigned materials in preparation for the seminar.\nIn order to receive the $350 stipend\, students must participate fully in all seminar activities and complete a survey at the end of the seminar.\n\nAPPLICATION INFORMATION \n\nOpen to all undergraduate students\, including those who graduate in 2019 and recent graduates.\nApplicants must submit an online application\, including details on their course of study\, a statement of interest\, and a letter of recommendation.\nFor full consideration\, apply by May 12. After May 12\, applications will be evaluated on a rolling basis.\n15 applicants will be admitted to the seminar.\n\nThis seminar is part of the Lumen Christi Institute’s “Science and Religion: A Dialogue of Cultures” project generously supported by the John Templeton Foundation. \n\nFREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS \nI am a college student graduating this academic year. Can I still apply?  Yes! \nDo I have to be Catholic to apply? No. The Lumen Christi Institute exists to promotes the Catholic intellectual tradition and is committed to the integration of the intellectual and spiritual life. The Institute welcomes seminar participants of all or no religious affiliation\, and wants to assure all applicants that the opportunities to participate in devotional activities are optional.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-undergrad-science-religion-seminar/
LOCATION:Saint Joseph Abbey and Seminary College\, 75376 River Road\, St. Benedict\, LA
CATEGORIES:Summer Seminars
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SUMMARY:Reason\, Revelation\, Tradition: The Limits of Leo Strauss?
DESCRIPTION:You can view photos of the event HERE. \nLeo Strauss is well known for both his critique of modernity and his insistence on the productive (but irreconcilable) tension between reason and revelation. Even if Strauss’ recovery of the pre-modern philosophical life also opened a vista for the life of the saint to re-emerge\, Strauss always contended that any synthesis between the two was theoretically untenable. Catholic students of political philosophy have therefore found themselves in an uneasy alliance with Strauss: in accepting his critical project\, must they also accept his account of the natures of philosophy and faith? \nThis two-day master class will investigate what might be called the limits of Strauss. It will begin with an appreciation of his work\, especially his critique of historicism. After that it will investigate the problem of reason and revelation by comparing Strauss with fellow-travelers like MacIntyre and Pieper. Central questions will concern Strauss’ insistence that revelation must be conceived of as a totalizing “law\,” as well as whether Strauss’ account of reason is purely discursive or open to noetic ascent. \nREADINGS \n\nMark Shiffman\, “The Limits of Strauss’ Recovery of Pre-modern Political Philosophy”\nLeo Strauss\, selections from “Reason and Revelation” (sections 4-6\, 8; pp. 145-55 and 161-164)\nLeo Strauss\, “Natural Right and the Historical Approach”\nLeo Strauss\, selections from “Progress or Return?” (section 2; pp. 267-298)\nAlasdair MacIntyre\, reflections on the rationality of traditions (Three Rival Versions of Moral Inquiry\, pp. 127-157)\n​​​​​​​Josef Pieper\, “The Negative Element in the Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas” (The Silence of St. Thomas\, pp. 45-74)\n\nSCHEDULE \nTuesday\, August 6 \n1:30pm – Arrival at Gavin House & reception \n2pm – First Session: Strauss’ Writings\, introduced by Mark Shiffman (Villanova University) \n3:15pm – Break \n3:30pm – Second Session: Strauss’ Writings\, with 10-minute student presentation (Will Wood\, University of Chicago) \n4:45pm – Conclusion \n5:30pm – Informal Dinner at Gavin House \nWednesday\, August 7 \n9:30am – Arrival at Gavin and Coffee \n10am – Third Session: MacIntyre on tradition\, with 10-minute student presentation (Nathan Pinkoski\, University of Toronto) \n11:15am – Break \n11:30am – Fourth Session: Pieper on Aquinas\, with 10-minute presentation (Mark Hoipkemier\, University of Virginia) \n12:45pm – Conclusion \n1pm – Informal Lunch at Gavin House \n2:30pm – Final Session: Summation\, a discussion of Strauss’ “Reason and Revelation\,” with our appraisal of Strauss’ formulation of the problem \n3:45pm – Conclusion \nStudents are responsible for arranging their own travel and lodging. With questions\, please contact master class organizer Austin Walker at awalker@lumenchristi.org.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-08-master-class-on-strauss-macintyre-pieper-on-reason-revelation-mark-shiffman/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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