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SUMMARY:WEBINAR: Lessons after the Lockdown: Public Health\, Economics\, and the Common Good
DESCRIPTION:Cosponsored by America Media\, CREDO\, the Beatrice Institute\, the Collegium Institute‘s Program on the Philosophy of Finance\, the Nova Forum\, the Saint Benedict Institute\, the Institute for Faith and Culture\, and the Institute for Human Ecology at the Catholic University of America\nAfter two months of lockdown\, nations across Europe and parts of the US are relaxing restrictions and facing new challenges. Where do we stand economically and socially? How might we have better protected the medically and economically vulnerable? How should we view the lockdown with its costs and benefits ethically? Our earlier event on “The Economic Costs of the Pandemic: Catholic Social Teaching and Economics in Dialogue\,” provoked lively reactions. This event will consider what the principles of the common good\, human dignity\, justice\, and solidarity mean in our present circumstances and how they ought to inform our prudential judgement going forward. Join as a panel of economists\, theologians\, and ethicists discuss lessons learned in the pandemic.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-06-lessons-from-lockdown/
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR: Nicholas of Cusa
DESCRIPTION:For the final installment of our Spring 2020 lecture series on “Reason and Wisdom in Medieval Christian Thought\,” Professor David Albertson leads us in exploring the work of German philosopher\, theologian\, astronomer\, and mystic\, Nicholas of Cusa.\nNicholas of Cusa (d. 1464) was a great late medieval\, early modern thinker and polymath who digested the medieval theological and contemplative traditions and pressed these in new directions. Living in tumultuous times\, his career in the Church as a cardinal was occupied by his work as a reformer and his efforts to re-unify the Eastern and Western Churches. Professor David Albertson will offer an introduction to the lesser-known but rich life and thought of this great German personality. \n\nThis lecture is part of our Spring Webinar Series on “Reason and Wisdom in Medieval Christian Thought” \nWhat can reason discover about God? Are there other possible ways to know God? Medieval Christians undertook great rational enterprises—including the sharp logic of Abelard and the grand system of Thomas Aquinas—as well as practiced experiential and contemplative modes of knowing\, as did Bernard of Clairvaux. This course will examine how different preeminent medieval Christian thinkers saw the relationship between reason and wisdom\, how to arrive at them\, and so how to seek the face of God. \nThis series is cosponsored by the Calvert House Catholic Center\, the Collegium Institute\, the Harvard Catholic Center\, the Nova Forum\, the Saint Benedict Institute\, the Beatrice Institute\, and the Institute for Faith and Culture.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-06-nicholas-of-cusa-david-albertson/
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR: Christians in Times of Catastrophe: Augustine's "City of God"
DESCRIPTION:Cosponsored by America Media\, the Collegium Institute\, the Saint Benedict Institute\, the Beatrice Institute\, the Nova Forum\, the Harvard Catholic Center\, the Institute for Faith and Culture\, and the Sacred and Profane Love podcast. \nAugustine of Hippo’s City of God is one of the great theological books of the Christian tradition\, laying out a vision of the Church and the Earthly City in parallel and of Christ’s work of salvation in history in the context of the sack of Rome (410) and other calamities. Augustine’s reflections on how Christians can understand and respond to catastrophes has become a wellspring in the Christian intellectual tradition and for us responding to todays troubles for the Church and for the world. In this web event\, Professor Jennifer Frey (Philosophy\, University of South Carolina) will lead a moderated conversation between Professor emeritus Russell Hittinger (Senior Fellow LCI) and Fr Michael Sherwin\, O.P. (Theology\, University of Fribourg) on Augustine’s context and the continued relevance of his wisdom for Christians in the time of pandemic\, economic turmoil\, and political and social tumult.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-05-christians-in-time-of-catastrophe-augustines-city-of-god/
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR: Becoming Human: Evolution\, Science\, and the Soul
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Lumen Christi Institute’s Newman Forum\, in cooperation with the University of St. Mary of the Lake\, Mundelein\, and the Archdiocese of Chicago Vocations Office. Open to current high school students. \nHigh school teachers and youth ministers are welcome to attend\, and are encouraged to bring groups. Group leaders are now able to register themselves and their students together! This is especially encouraged for groups coming from outside of Chicagoland\, to ensure groups remain together during the breakout sessions (see below).  \nWhat can the science of evolution know? How is it related to religion\, especially Catholic doctrine? Are they complementary or mutually exclusive? \nQuestions like these have guided much of the scientific and religious investigation of the 20th and 21st centuries. In recent decades\, discoveries of humanoid fossils have revealed new links between human ancestors and animals. Archaeologists and evolutionary biologists have called these discoveries “humans\,” but what does that mean for what it means to be human? How are you different or distinct from your pre-human ancestors?\n\nThe scientific evolutionary model is inherently limited in its understanding of the human person. It leaves us with as many questions as it answers: Where does the human soul come in? How are humans different from animals? What makes us human?\n\nAnswers to these questions can only be gained by recognizing the value –and the limits– of the evolutionary model. Philosophy and theology can provide us a guide when the science falls short.\n\nJoin us Thursday\, June 11th at 2:30pm CDT for an online lecture with Chris Baglow\, Director of the Science and Religion Initiative at Notre Dame’s McGrath Institute for Church Life. Dr. Baglow is also the author of the premier science and religion textbook used by numerous Catholic schools in its science and theology curricula\, Faith\, Science\, and Reason: Theology on the Cutting Edge.\n\nDuring our time together\, we’ll listen to a short lecture\, hold a brief Q&A\, and then break into discussion groups to further dialogue about the questions that arise at the intersection of Christianity and evolution. The event should run until approx. 4pm.\n\n\nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER\n\nThere is no charge for the seminar\, but a good-will donation of $10 is encouraged.\n\nWe are expecting a high volume of attendees for this event!  We encourage you to register by Tuesday\, June 9th to ensure your spot\, and to assist in our creation of discussion groups.\n\nThis event is made possible by a generous gift from the John Templeton Foundation\, as well as by a grant from The Our Sunday Visitor Institute\, as a part of their “Re-Captivating Millennials” initiative\, and by our many institutional and high school cosponsors: \n\nINSTITUTIONAL COSPONSORS:\nUniversity of St. Mary of the Lake\, Mundelein\, The Archdiocese of Chicago Vocations Office\, The McGrath Institute for Church Life\, The Society of Catholic Scientists\n\nHIGH SCHOOL COSPONSORS:\nBenet Academy\, Fenwick High School\, Northridge Preparatory School\, St. Ignatius College Prep\, Willows Academy\n\n\nIf you have questions regarding the Newman Forum\, registration\, or any of our programs\, feel free to reach out to the Newman Forum team:\n\nAustin Walker\nDirector of the Newman Forum\nawalker@lumenchristi.org\n\nMadison Chastain\nProgram Coordinator of the Newman Forum\nmchastain@lumenchristi.org
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-06-webinar-becoming-human-evolution-science-soul-chris-baglow/
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR: Dante as Poet and Philosopher
DESCRIPTION:A conversation with Professors Jason Aleksander (San Jose State University) and Arielle Saiber (Bowdoin College). Part of our Summer webinar series on “Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture\,” presented in collaboration with the American Cusanus Society \nDante Alighieri (1265-1321) was a Florentine writer and poet\, whose long poetic work\, The Divine Comedy\, has received recognition as one of the greatest artistic achievements in the West. Dante’s poetic artistry stands alongside his intellectual and philosophical thought throughout his writings and in his Comedy. In this webinar\, Professor Jason Aleksander (San José State U) and Professor Arielle Saiber (Bowdoin College) will discuss Dante’s interlocking poetic and philosophical production. \n\n2020 Summer Webinar Series on “Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture”\nWhat do reason and beauty have to do with each other? Since the modern Enlightenment and Romantic movements\, it has been tempting to see reason and beauty as separate or even opposed. In the Renaissance\, however\, rational and artistic pursuits bloomed together and even fed each other. Renaissance culture\, including fine art\, poetry\, architecture\, astronomy\, and humanistic thought\, both drew upon and extended ancient and medieval Christian intellectual traditions. This webinar course will examine different aspects of renaissance Christian thought and culture to explore how pursuits of reason interwove with the love of beauty. \nThis event is cosponsored by Calvert House\, the Collegium Institute\, the Genealogies of Modernity Project\, the Harvard Catholic Center\, the Nova Forum for Catholic Thought\, and St. Paul’s Catholic Center.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-06-webinar-dante-as-poet-philosopher/
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR: How NOT to Get Away with Murder (Again!)
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Lumen Christi Institute’s Newman Forum. Open to current high school students. \nWe’ve run this event in-person\, but now we’re bringing it to you online! When you register\, you will be sent a Zoom link to follow. The event will run from 3:00pm-4:00pm\nAre you already tired of being quarantined in your house? Feel a little bit like you might kill your siblings? \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: \nHow was a snake able to trick Eve? Why do Adam and Eve respond to God so suspiciously? And then there’s the Cain and Abel story…why on Earth does Cain jump to murdering his brother? What are we supposed to learn from this Scripture? \nThis hour-long seminar will investigate these 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\nCome to whichever session fits your new online schedule the best! All you’ll need is access to a Bible (either a real-life book or just online!) We’ll read the text together\, and discuss!\n\nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER!\nResources from this 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\n(Teachers and Youth Ministers may sit in\, if interested. Please register as “Other\,” and log in to the provided Zoom link 15 minutes prior to your session’s start time to ensure you are properly muted.)
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-06-how-not-to-get-away-with-murder-online-austin-walker/
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SUMMARY:Race\, Justice\, and Catholicism
DESCRIPTION:Cosponsored by America Media\, Boston College Law School\, the Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage\, and the Catholic Lawyers Guild of Chicago.\nThe cry in the streets of “no justice\, no peace” echoes the teaching of Popes John XXIII and Paul VI. The recent crises have again brought to the fore the reality that interracial justice has eluded America\, despite the promise of the civil rights movement. Slavery\, its original sin\, has dogged it from its founding. Segregation and mass incarceration continue this shameful legacy. Efforts to call Americans to take responsibility for this often find resistance in an individualistic ideology counter to the Catholic vision. Catholics find themselves on both sides of this history. \nThe Gospel and Catholic social teaching clearly reject racism. Yet up to this moment\, Catholic clergy and laity have often not lived up to this teaching\, helping to sustain racism\, rather than dismantle or reject it. If\, as Pope Francis reminds us\, we are all connected\, then injustice anywhere is not only a threat to justice everywhere—it is injustice everywhere. \nJoin us as a panel of distinguished legal scholars comes together to discuss our current moment and whether Catholicism can move from being part of the problem to becoming part of the solution.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-06-race-justice-catholicism/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200623T190000
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SUMMARY:Alberti and Renaissance Architecture
DESCRIPTION:An evening webinar with Professor of Architecture Il Kim (Auburn University). Part of our summer webinar series on “Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture\,” presented in collaboration with the American Cusanus Society \nLeon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) was a humanist and polymath.  His On Painting (1435/36) and On Architecture (1440s-1472) theorized the arts of painting and architecture\, elevating them to the level of the Liberal Arts.  The legacy of these works cast a long shadow in the Renaissance.  In this webinar\, Professor Kim will discuss Alberti’s architectural theory and practice as an all-encompassing pursuit of artistry in Italian Renaissance. \n\n2020 Summer Webinar Series on “Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture”\nWhat do reason and beauty have to do with each other? Since the modern Enlightenment and Romantic movements\, it has been tempting to see reason and beauty as separate or even opposed. In the Renaissance\, however\, rational and artistic pursuits bloomed together and even fed each other. Renaissance culture\, including fine art\, poetry\, architecture\, astronomy\, and humanistic thought\, both drew upon and extended ancient and medieval Christian intellectual traditions. This webinar course will examine different aspects of renaissance Christian thought and culture to explore how pursuits of reason interwove with the love of beauty. \nThis event is cosponsored by Calvert House\, the Beatrice Institute\, the Genealogies of Modernity Project\, the Harvard Catholic Center\, the Nova Forum for Catholic Thought\, and St. Paul’s Catholic Center.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-06-alberti-renaissance-architecture/
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SUMMARY:What Evolution Does and Does Not Tell Us about Humans
DESCRIPTION:Cosponsored by the Society of Catholic Scientists. This event is made possible by a grant from the John Templeton Foundation. \nDoes evolution fully explain the human? Recent paleontological and archeological work trace the deep lineages underlying many of our physical traits\, and reveals our complicated history as one of many hominid species. It is abundantly clear that modern humans are subject to the same evolutionary pressures as the rest of the biological world and that evolution continues to shape our species. However\, the developing story of our evolutionary history is frequently framed as a challenge to the claim of human uniqueness\, fundamental to the Judeo-Christian understanding of the creation of man. Does evolution truly undercut the assumption of human uniqueness? Is our understanding of biological evolution sufficient to explain what makes us human? Join us for an online lecture with evolutionary paleobiologist\, Simon Conway Morris\, as he examines “What Evolution Does and Does not Tell Us about Humans.”
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-06-evolution-and-the-human/
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SUMMARY:Marsilio Ficino and the Philosophy of Plato
DESCRIPTION:A webinar with Professor Denis Robichaud (University of Notre Dame). Part of our summer webinar series on “Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture\,” presented in collaboration with the American Cusanus Society \nIn the humanist recovery and study of Platonic thought and texts\, Marsilio Ficino (1433-99) was a brilliant luminary. He produced the first translation into Latin of all of Plato’s texts and of Plotinus’s Enneads\, and he translated and commented on numerous other Platonic works. Ficino was also more than a scholar\, he was also a philosopher and theologian whose network of students\, friends\, and correspondents extended far beyond his Florentine home. His philosophical thought fed early modern philosophy for generations but also raised questions of Ficino’s orthodoxy. In this webinar\, Professor Denis Robichaud (Notre Dame) will discuss Marsilio Ficino’s humanist\, philosophical\, and theological thought. \n\n2020 Summer Webinar Series on “Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture”\nWhat do reason and beauty have to do with each other? Since the modern Enlightenment and Romantic movements\, it has been tempting to see reason and beauty as separate or even opposed. In the Renaissance\, however\, rational and artistic pursuits bloomed together and even fed each other. Renaissance culture\, including fine art\, poetry\, architecture\, astronomy\, and humanistic thought\, both drew upon and extended ancient and medieval Christian intellectual traditions. This webinar course will examine different aspects of renaissance Christian thought and culture to explore how pursuits of reason interwove with the love of beauty. \nThis series is cosponsored by the Beatrice Institute\, Calvert House\, the Genealogies of Modernity Project\, the Harvard Catholic Center\,  the Nova Forum for Catholic Thought\, and St. Paul’s Catholic Center.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-06-marsilio-ficino-philosophy-of-plato-denis-robichaud/
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