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SUMMARY:What St. Benedict Taught the Dark Ages:  His and Ours
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\nFree and open to the public. Cosponsored by the John U. Nef Commitee on Social Thought. \nCardinal Newman\, who will be canonized on October 13\, is well known for his philosophy of education\, especially for his masterwork The Idea of University (1853).  But his most profound reflections on education are in his minor work “The Mission of St. Benedict” (1858)\, in which Newman treats the question of how to teach a beginner\, even a beginner under the most unfavorable circumstances.  Not a novice in dialectic and rhetoric\, or in the theoretical or practical sciences\, but a beginner in the quotidian flow of life.\n\nIn the declining shadows of Roman order in the West\, the fifth-century monk St. Benedict authored a “simple Rule for beginners.”  How to divide a day\, how to honor one’s fellows of different social classes\, how to bury the dead\, how to distinguish tools and persons\, and many other things that bewilder us today.  Newman claimed that St. Benedict was the genius of “poetical” education\, which directs the first and maybe even final steps of living ordinary life as an integrated whole.\n\nProfessor Hittinger will also lead a master class for students and faculty on Yves Simon’s A General Theory of Authority on Friday\, October 11.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-10-benedicts-teaching-for-dark-ages-his-ours-russell-hittinger/
LOCATION:Classics 110\, 1010 E 59th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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SUMMARY:Master Class on Yves Simon's "A General Theory of Authority"
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\nOpen to current students and faculty. Copies of the book A General Theory of Authority (University of Notre Dame Press\, 1980) will be provided for those who register. Professor Hittinger will also give a lecture on October 9 on “What St. Benedict Taught the Dark Ages: His and Ours.” \nYves Simon (1903-1961) was a neo-scholastic philosopher who distinguished himself chiefly for his work in moral and political philosophy.  A student of Jacques Maritain in Paris\, in 1938 he accepted a visiting position at the University of Notre Dame where he was stranded after the outbreak of WWII.  In 1948 he became a member of the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.  Today he is perhaps best remembered and referenced for his work on the nature and functions of authority\, a topic that he traversed three times:  The Nature and Function of Authority (1940)\, Philosophy of Democratic Government (1951) based on his Walgreen Lectures at the University of Chicago (1948)\, and A General Theory of Authority (1962)\, published a year after his death. Why three times?  The simple answer is that he was a meticulous philosopher and therefore he endeavored to get his account just right.  Think for example of John Rawls’s multiple revisions of his theory of justice. \nBut it was also an imperative of his time and place.  A neo-scholastic philosopher in the mid-20th century had to account for rapidly changing social and political conditions that made it awkward to defend such basic terms of art as authority and common good.  The scholastic tradition had to reckon with the fact that the Catholic appropriation of the perennial philosophy seemed to side with the claims of authority against claims for liberty on a spectrum of social issues – from politics to family and religion.  After the rise of totalitarianism and the disaster of two world wars\, the claims for liberty were quite insistent and culturally ascendant.  The year of Simon’s Walgreen Lectures witnessed the U.N. Declaration on Human Rights and the global process of decolonization\, both of which underscored the principle of self-determination over and against more traditional kinds of authority.  Standard liberal accounts of authority for the most part were content to ground authority in theories of consent\, based on contractual understandings of consent to a utility – a resource-saving device for enhancement of individual choice.  This was a one-dimensional account of the function of authority\, but it had the advantage of comporting with the expectation that public powers serve and enhance individual liberty. This was the challenge Simon faced in putting forward a more robust account of authority. \nSCHEDULE \n1:30 welcome\, coffee and tea \n2:00 first session \n3:30 break \n3:45 second session \n5:15 reception \nSYLLABUS \nFIRST SESSION (2:00-3:30) \nInitial Presentation (30 minutes) \n\nThe issue of authority as Simon found it after WWII.\nNeo-scholastic problems.\nGeneral Theory:  Preview of the Main Question\, the Main Definition.\n\nReadings\, GTA: Chs. 1 (and 5)\, 2; Thomas Aquinas\, S.t. I\, 96.4. \nDiscussion: \nThe “bad name of authority\,” not altogether mistaken?  Is the bad name due to philosophical misunderstandings\, or to the frame and behavior of institutions\, or to the lived experience of modern peoples? \nDistinction between law and authority (20\, 48 n.11).  Does it work in favor of his general theory? \nLook carefully at four points that appear constitute the main chassis for his position: \n\nEssential and accidental functions of authority (20-22).\nPartnership vs common action (29-33\, and the coach-driver 135).\nThe essential function and the scenario of a multitude without deficiencies (37-47\, handout S.t. I\, 96.4).\nThe distinction between formal and material intention of a common good (57-65) – is he grappling with the issue of subsidiarity?\n\nSECOND SESSION (3.45-5.15) \nInitial Presentation (15 minutes). \n\nRecapitulation and a few remarks on authority and theoretical knowledge.\n\nReadings\,  GTA\, Chs. 3 and 4. \nDiscussion: \nAn authoritative “witness” does not\, all else being equal\, require the power to give orders and demand obedience (84-87).  The authority of a witness presupposes some kind of deficiency in the knower\, for it is substitutional (remedial) (93).  In the practical domain\, both essential and accidental functions of authority have as their end a (social) common good.  Does he now suggest a function of authority in theoretical matters that does not have a common good\, or “essential” function as its end? \nPerhaps the key to that question is his discussion of liberalism – freedom of thought as a “sociological agnosticism” that’s normative rather than merely prudential.  (102-109\, especially at 110-111).  Perhaps his anticipation of Rawls’s Political Liberalism (1993)? \nSimon regards philosophy as corrupted once it deliberately aims at winning social consensus (113-115).  This is a point that deserves some reflection.  Yet in “Truth and Community” (115-131) he wants to affirm that the search for truth is related to what is “fundamental in human sociability.”  That would be communion.  But social communion depends upon some kind of intellectual and spiritual consensus that serves common action (127). \nIs Chapter 3 somehow the core of Simon’s effort in GTA?  This is the material that he didn’t treat quite so explicitly in previous treatises on authority. \nChapter 4 reworks the preceding chapters.  What difference does Chapter 3 make to this restatement of the functions of authority?
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-10-master-class-on-yves-simons-a-general-theory-of-authority-russell-hittinger/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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SUMMARY:Genome Editing with CRISPR: Dignity and Other Faith-Based Considerations
DESCRIPTION:—\nCosponsored by the Program on Religion and Medicine at the University of Chicago\, McCormick Theological Seminary\, and the Society of Catholic Scientists. This program is made possible by a grant from the John Templeton Foundation. \nThe discovery of CRISPR/Cas9 has revolutionized our ability to edit genomes\, the human genome included. How do faith-based ethicists maneuver the landscape of human genetic engineering? What challenges do biotechnological advances pose to the dignity of the human person? Should genetic editing be celebrated? Cautiously advanced? Ruled out? In this lecture\, biologist and Dominican Priest Nicanor Austriaco considered the prospects and challenges of CRISPR for the promotion of human dignity.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-10-genome-editing-with-crispr-dignity-other-faith-based-considerations-nicanor-austriaco-o-p/
LOCATION:BSLC 109\, 924 E 57th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20191019T090000
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SUMMARY:The Making of a Modern Saint:  John Henry Newman on Faith and Education in a Secular Age
DESCRIPTION:Cosponsored by Mundelein Seminary\, the Archdiocese of Chicago Vocation Office\, and the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame. This program is made possible in part by a gift from the Paluch Family Foundation and a grant from the John Templeton Foundation. \nFollow us on Instagram for updates about the event. \n\nHave you ever wondered why you go to school? Or what the point of it all is? What goes into making a big decision? And how do you fit together everything you know–or even the past with the future? \nJohn Henry Newman will be canonized on October 13th. On October 19th\, we’ll celebrate his life and thought. \n\n\nIn the morning\, Dwight Lindley from Hillsdale College will talk about\, “Conversion\, the Key to Newman’s Life and Thought.” Newman understood his own conversion to be a gradual realization of what his most-deeply held principles required of him–it wasn’t some shallow “emotional” feeling. And Newman’s understanding of conversion helped him to give an account of the Church’s development over time (and how that development is both similar to and different from Darwinian evolution!).\n\nIn the afternoon\, Dave Deavel from University of St. Thomas will tell us about Newman’s idea of education. He will help us ask what a true education is. What does it mean to seek “knowledge for its own sake”? What does it mean when Newman describes the whole of knowledge as a “circle”? How do all the “subjects”—biology\, history\, philosophy\, theology\, and the rest—in the circle fit together? What unites them? Does theology have to be part of true education? How does “being educated” relate to my career? We’ll talk about all this and more in this lecture.\n\nThere will also be food\, games\, outdoor competitions\, and a prize for the winners.\n\n\nSCHEDULE \n9:00am Registration and Breakfast\n10:00am Welcome & Introductions\n10:15am Opening Prayer\n10:30am Prof. Lindley lecture on Newman’s life and times\n11:45am  Lunchtime discussion group\n1:00pm Outdoor activity\n2:15pm Prof. Deavel lecture on Science\, University\, and Liberal Education\n3:30pm Discussion Groups\n4:30pm Mass (optional)\n5:45pm Pizza Party (optional)
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-10-making-of-a-modern-saint-john-henry-newman-on-faith-education-in-a-secular-age/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
CATEGORIES:Newman Forum
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20191023T183000
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SUMMARY:Waiting for Jesus in Havana
DESCRIPTION:The family is traditionally held to be the first church. Yet\, the Latino Catholic home bears diverse local religious and cultural influences. How does one better understand the tapestry of one’s own religious experience and its relation to the Catholic tradition? \nJoin us in this workshop as Carlos Eire\, historian and expert in popular piety\, draws from his memoirs “Waiting for Snow in Havana” and “Learning to Die in Miami” to discuss the diversity of religious strands that made up his own Cuban household and analyze the challenges and opportunities it presents to the Hispanic Catholic experience. Participants will walk away with a deeper understanding of the local peculiarities of Catholic culture\, as well as of the perilous task of wrestling with one’s own religious beliefs while writing for a broad reading public. \nCosponsored by Cristo Rey Jesuit High School. This event is made possible in part by a grant from the Our Sunday Visitor Institute.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-10-waiting-for-jesus-in-havana-carlos-eire/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20191024T120000
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SUMMARY:The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila
DESCRIPTION:This program was made possible in part by a grant from the Our Sunday Visitor Institute. \nA luncheon talk with Professor Carlos Eire (Yale) on the recent book on the life and many afterlives of one of the most enduring mystical testaments ever written: The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila. \nSaint Teresa of Avila’s Life is among the most remarkable accounts ever written of the human encounter with the divine. The Life is not really an autobiography at all\, but rather a confession written for inquisitors by a nun whose raptures and mystical claims had aroused suspicion. Despite its troubled origins\, the book has had a profound impact on Christian spirituality for five centuries\, attracting admiration from readers as diverse as mystics\, philosophers\, artists\, psychoanalysts\, and neurologists. How did a manuscript once kept under lock and key by the Spanish Inquisition become one of the most inspiring religious books of all time? \nIn The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila: A Biography (Princeton University Press\, 2019) National Book Award winner Carlos Eire tells the story of this incomparable spiritual masterpiece\, examining its composition and reception in the sixteenth century\, the various ways its mystical teachings have been interpreted and reinterpreted across time\, and its enduring influence in our own secular age. \nProf. Eire also participated in a panel discussion of his book later that afternoon at the University of Chicago.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-10-life-of-saint-teresa-of-avila-carlos-eire/
LOCATION:University Club of Chicago\, 76 E Monroe St\nChicago\, IL 60603\, Downtown\, IL
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SUMMARY:Symposium on "The Life of Teresa of Avila: A Biography"
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion at the Divinity School\, the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures\, and the Medieval Studies Workshop. This program was made possible in part by a grant from the Our Sunday Visitor Institute. \nCopies of The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila: A Biography (Princeton University Press\, 2019) are available for sale by the Seminary Coop Bookstore. \nSaint Teresa of Avila’s Life is among the most remarkable accounts ever written of the human encounter with the divine. The Life is not really an autobiography at all\, but rather a confession written for inquisitors by a nun whose raptures and mystical claims had aroused suspicion. Despite its troubled origins\, the book has had a profound impact on Christian spirituality for five centuries\, attracting admiration from readers as diverse as mystics\, philosophers\, artists\, psychoanalysts\, and neurologists. How did a manuscript once kept under lock and key by the Spanish Inquisition become one of the most inspiring religious books of all time? \nIn The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila: A Biography (Princeton University Press\, 2019) National Book Award winner Carlos Eire tells the story of this incomparable spiritual masterpiece\, examining its composition and reception in the sixteenth century\, the various ways its mystical teachings have been interpreted and reinterpreted across time\, and its enduring influence in our own secular age. \nProfessor Eire also gave a luncheon talk that day at noon at the University of Chicago of Chicago. He also taught a three-hour master class for students and faculty on The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila on Friday\, October 25.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-10-symposium-on-life-of-teresa-of-avila-carlos-eire-bernard-mcginn/
LOCATION:Social Sciences\, Room 122\, 1126 E 59th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20191025T140000
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SUMMARY:Master Class on "The Life of Teresa of Avila"
DESCRIPTION:This program was made possible in part by a grant from the Our Sunday Visitor Institute. \nThe Life of Saint Teresa of Avila is one of the most remarkable accounts ever written of the human encounter with the divine.  This text is not really an autobiography at all\, despite the fact that it is widely regarded as such\, but rather a confession written for inquisitors by a nun whose raptures and mystical claims had aroused suspicion. Despite its troubled origins\, and despite the fact that some clergy continued to condemn it after it was published\, the book has had a profound impact on Christian spirituality for five centuries\, attracting admiration from readers as diverse as mystics\, philosophers\, artists\, psychoanalysts\, and neurologists. How and why did a manuscript once kept under lock and key by the Spanish Inquisition become an iconic text of the Counter-Reformation and an enduring influence on Western culture? \nThis master class will examine the historical and theological content of Saint Teresa’s audacious mystical theology. \nREQUIRED READING \n\nThe Life of Teresa of Avila (Penguin Classics\, 1988) Chs. 1-2\, 7-14\, 20-22\, 28-40.\n\nRECOMMENDED READING \n\nEire\, Carlos\, The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila: A Biography (Princeton University Press\, 2019).\n\nSCHEDULE \n1:30pm Coffee\, tea\, and pastries \n2:00pm Introduction\, Session I \n3:20pm Break \n3:40pm Session II \n5:00pm End\, wine and cheese reception \nProfessor Eire will also participate in a symposium on his new book The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila: A Biography on October 24.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-10-master-class-on-life-of-teresa-of-avila-carlos-eire/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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SUMMARY:John Henry Newman's Path to Sainthood
DESCRIPTION:This event was cosponsored by Mundelein Seminary\, the Sheil Catholic Center at Northwestern University\, the Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage at Loyola University Chicago\, the Department of Catholic Studies at DePaul University\, the Calvert House Catholic Center at the University of Chicago\, and the John Paul II Newman Center at UIC. \n\nWhat makes a modern saint? On October 13th\, Cardinal John Henry Newman (1801-1890)\, English theologian\, philosopher and cardinal\, was officially canonized a saint of the Roman Catholic Church. This event at Holy Name Cathedral was a presentation on the life and sanctity of John Henry Newman by leading Newman scholar of our time Fr. Ian Ker (Oxford) and Melissa Villalobos\, the woman whose miraculous cure led to Newman’s canonization. The event was moderated by Kenneth Woodward\, former religion editor of Newsweek and author of Making Saints.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-10-john-henry-nemwans-path-to-sainthood-ian-ker-kenneth-woodward/
LOCATION:Holy Name Cathedral Auditorium\, 730 North Wabash Avenue\nChicago\, Illinois 60611\, River North\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20191031T170000
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SUMMARY:Newman’s Apologetics of the Imagination
DESCRIPTION:This event was cosponsored by the Nicholson Center for British Studies. \nJohn Henry Newman famously insisted that “the heart is commonly reached not through the reason\, but through the imagination.”  As a theologian\, apologist\, and the 19th century’s most famous convert\, Newman was keenly attentive to the foundations of religious belief.  His apologetic career is\, in some sense\, an appeal to the imagination in contradistinction to the prevailing empiricism of Locke and Hume.  In his novels\, sermons\, lectures\, and even his philosophical magnum opus\, the Grammar of Assent\, Newman defends an understanding of the imagination that harmonizes religious faith and rational inquiry.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-10-newman-s-apologetics-of-imagination-ian-ker/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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