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SUMMARY:Becoming Human in Light of the Gospel of John
DESCRIPTION:This event was Cosponsored by the Theology and Ethics Workshop\, the Orthodox Christian Fellowship\, and St. Makarios the Great Orthodox Mission. Fr. Behr also led a master class for students and faculty on January 17 on Maximus the Confessor. \nOn his way to Rome\, Ignatius of Antioch urges the Christians there not to interfere with his impending martyrdom: ‘hinder me not from living\, do not wish me to die\, allow me to receive the light\, when I will have arrived here\, I will be a human being’! In this lecture\, Fr John Behr will explore how the Gospel of John alludes back to Genesis to show that Christ is the true human being\, inviting us also to become human. \n\nAbout Fr. Behr’s book John the Theologian and his Paschal Gospel: A Prologue to Theology (Oxford University Press\, 2019) \nThis study brings three different kinds of readers of the Gospel of John together with the theological goal of understanding what is meant by Incarnation and how it relates to Pascha\, the Passion of Christ\, how this is conceived of as revelation\, and how we speak of it. The first group of readers are the Christian writers from the early centuries\, some of whom (such as Irenaeus of Lyons) stood in direct continuity\, through Polycarp of Smyrna\, with John himself. In exploring these writers\, John Behr offers a glimpse of the figure of John and the celebration of Pascha\, which held to have started with him. \nThe second group of readers are modern scriptural scholars\, from whom we learn of the apocalyptic dimensions of John’s Gospel and the way in which it presents the life of Christ in terms of the Temple and its feasts. With Christ’s own body\, finally erected on the Cross\, being the true Temple in an offering of love rather than a sacrifice for sin. An offering in which Jesus becomes the flesh he offers for consumption\, the bread which descends from heaven\, so that ‘incarnation’ is not an event now in the past\, but the embodiment of God in those who follow Christ in the present. \nThe third reader is Michel Henry\, a French Phenomenologist\, whose reading of John opens up further surprising dimensions of this Gospel\, which yet align with those uncovered in the first parts of this work. This thought-provoking work brings these threads together to reflect on the nature and task of Christian theology.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-01-becoming-human-in-light-of-gospel-of-john-fr-john-behr/
LOCATION:Breasted Hall\, Oriental Institute\, 1155 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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SUMMARY:Master Class on Maximus the Confessor
DESCRIPTION:St. Maximus the Confessor is rapidly becoming one of the most studied of all early Christian theologians; the depths and richness of his writings and theology are being ever more appreciated. This masterclass focused on one specific—and short—text\, Ambiguum 41\, perhaps the richest of them all and certainly the one for which is best known. It speaks of five fundamental differences or divisions within being\, with the vocation of the human being to unite them: Uncreated and created; intelligible and sensible; heaven and earth; paradise and the inhabited world; male and female. We will work through the Greek text (with a parallel edition)\, and compare his treatment of the male/female distinction to that which we find in Gregory of Nyssa’s De Hominis Opificio.\nReading \n\nMaximus the Confessor\, Ambiguum 41 (PDF supplied) from Maximos the Confessor: On Difficulties in the Church Fathers: The Ambigua\, ed. and trans. Nicholas Constas\, Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library\, 2 volumes (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press\, 2014)\nGregory of Nyssa\, On the Making of Man (PDF supplied)\n\nSuggested Background Reading: \n\nPaul Blowers\, Maximus the Confessor: Jesus Christ and the Transfiguration of the World (Oxford: OUP\, 2016).\nL. Thunberg\, Microcosm and Mediator: The Theological Anthropology of Maximus the Confessor\, 2nd edn. (Open Court Publishing Co. 1995).\nTorstein Theodor Tollefsen\, The Christocentric Cosmology of St. Maximus the Confessor\, OECS (Oxford: Oxford University Press\, 2008).\nMelchisedec Törönen\, Union and Distinction in the Thought of St. Maximus the Confessor\, OECS (Oxford: Oxford University Press\, 2007).\n\nSchedule: \n1:30pm Coffee\, Tea\, & Pastries\n2:00pm Session I\n3:25pm Break\n3:35pm Session II\n5:00pm End\, Wine & Cheese reception \nFr. Behr also gave a lecture on January 16 on Becoming Human in the Light of the Gospel of John.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-01-master-class-on-maximus-confessor-fr-john-behr/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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SUMMARY:Are the Great Books Good for us? Liberal Education and the Christian Tradition
DESCRIPTION:What are the liberal arts? Is there more than one tradition of humanistic liberal learning\, and what’s the connection between them the UChicago core curriculum? Professor Jared Ortiz (an undergrad alum of UChicago) hosted a lunchtime conversation about the tradition of liberal education\, its reception in Catholic thought\, and the question of what an education is for. \nPart I of the Winter 2020 Great Books and the Christian Tradition seminar series. \n— \nGreat Books and the Christian Tradition  \nFrom the School of Alexandria and the reading of Scripture in the Monasteries\, through the re-formulation of the Liberal Arts in the medieval schools and universities\, in the renewal of the tradition that included Petrarch\, Erasmus\, John Henry Newman\, and Ressourcement\, the development of the Liberal Arts Tradition has been intertwined with Christian thought. This series highlights the connection between the Liberal Arts and the Christian Intellectual Tradition and aims to recover the humanistic and contemplative spirit of a truly liberal education. \nOther seminars in the series include: \nII. Achievement and the Christian Life: What is Education For? \nIII. What is Wrong with Curiosity? Augustine on Curiosity and the Use and the Abuse of the Intellect in the Confessions \nIV: Is it Rational to Believe in Miracles? A Discussion of David Hume’s Argument Against Believing in Miracles
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-01-are-great-books-good-for-us-liberal-education-christian-tradition/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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SUMMARY:How NOT To Get Away with Murder
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Lumen Christi Institute’s Newman Forum. Open to current high school students. \nThe book of Genesis is one of the most interesting and difficult books of the Bible. And there is so much more to it than meets the eye.  For example: \nWhen the snake approaches Eve for the first time\, he asks her: “Did God really say\, ‘You shall not eat from any of the trees in the garden’?”  But that isn’t what God said at all.  He told Adam\, “You are free to eat from any of the trees of the garden except the tree of knowledge of good and evil.”  Already\, the snake has changed God’s command in order to make God appear unjust. God says: all but one. The snake says: none at all\, right?  Eve is in trouble–she wasn’t there when God gave Adam the original command. She hadn’t been created yet.  If she heard the command at all\, she heard it second-hand from Adam.  As you can see\, the snake is very devious.\n\nThis 90-minute seminar will investigate this and other passages in the 3rd and 4th chapters of Genesis.  By reading the text closely and paying attention to what is (and isn’t) there\, we will discover a whole new complexity to the relationship between God\, the first four humans\, and the snake.  Not only is God revealed as imminently just and merciful\, but also as a very acute observer of human psychology!\n\nResources from the seminar are drawn from Joseph Ratzinger’s (Pope Bendict’s) In the Beginning…’: A Catholic Understanding of the Story of Creation and the Fall.\n\nThere is no charge for the seminar\, but a good-will donation of $10 is encouraged.\n\nOn February 15\, the Newman Forum will host a day-long conference for high school students on “Creation: Artistic & Divine.”\nIMAGE: The First Mourning by William-Adolphe Bouguereau\, 1888 courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-01-how-not-to-get-away-with-murder-austin-walker/
LOCATION:St. John Cantius Church\, 825 N Carpenter St\nChicago\, IL 60642\, Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:Newman Forum
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SUMMARY:Achievement and the Christian Life: What is Education For?
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\nWhat is achievement? What is success?  Does the human desire for achievement or success have a natural end\, or is it restless and never-satisfied?  In other words\, what do we understand human fulfillment to be\, and how does our university education contribute to that fulfillment? \nIn this lunch time discussion\, Elizabeth Corey\, professor of political philosophy and director of the Honors Program at Baylor University\, will suggest two ways of being human in the world: the culture of achievement and the culture of love.  Guided by insights drawn from sources as wide as the Odyssey\, the Nichomachean Ethics\, Dorothy Sayers\, and Albert Camus\, Prof. Corey will discuss the purpose of a liberal education and the possible means of reconciling achievement with love. \nOpen to Students. Undergraduates are particularly encouraged to attend. A brief reading will be sent to registrants beforehand \nPart II of the Winter 2020 Great Books and the Christian Tradition seminar series. \n— \nGreat Books and the Christian Tradition  \nFrom the School of Alexandria and the reading of Scripture in the Monasteries\, through the re-formulation of the Liberal Arts in the medieval schools and universities\, in the renewal of the tradition that included Petrarch\, Erasmus\, John Henry Newman\, and Ressourcement\, the development of the Liberal Arts Tradition has been intertwined with Christian thought. This series highlights the connection between the Liberal Arts and the Christian Intellectual Tradition and aims to recover the humanistic and contemplative spirit of a truly liberal education. \nOther seminars in the series include: \nI. Are the Great Books Good for us? Liberal Education and the Christian Tradition \nIII. What is Wrong with Curiosity? Augustine on Curiosity and the Use and the Abuse of the Intellect in the Confessions \nIV: Is it Rational to Believe in Miracles? A Discussion of David Hume’s Argument Against Believing in Miracles
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-01-what-is-education-for/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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