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SUMMARY:ONLINE SEMINAR on Dominican Theological Anthropology: Albert the Great and Meister Eckhart
DESCRIPTION:APPLICATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED FOR THIS SEMINAR \nOn consecutive Mondays and Tuesdays in August (August 3\, 4\, 10\, 11) Bernard McGinn and Fr. Bernhard Blankenhorn will lead a set of young scholars through questions relating to the theological anthropologies of Albertus Magnus and Meister Eckhart. Topics of special interest will include contemplation\, Albert on the imago dei\, and Eckhart on the ground of the soul. \nApplicants should have some background in medieval philosophy and theology. More specifically\, they should have a basic familiarity with Aristotelian anthropology\, as well as general grasp of the Augustinian theology of the image of God and medieval theories of contemplation. \nIntermediate knowledge of Latin is preferred\, but not required.  Applications who can read German and/or French secondary literature should be given preference. \nRequired Reading Before Seminar \nSimon Tugwell\, “Introduction\,” Albert and Thomas: Select Writings (Paulist Press\, 1988)\, 3-129. \nEdmund Colledge and Bernard McGinn\, “Introduction\,” Meister Eckhart: The Essential Sermons\, etc. (Paulist Press\, 1981)\, 5-81. \nRequired Reading During Seminar \nTexts \nAlbert the Great\, Commentary on Dionysius’s Mystical Theology\, in Albert and Thomas\, 133-98 \nAlbert the Great\, De Intellectu et intelligibili\, Book II\, chaps. 8-9 (Borgnet ed.\, IX:514-17) \nAlbert the Great\, Selections from Summa theologica\, Pars I (Cologne Edition XXXIV.1)\, q. 13\, chapter 1 (pp. 38-41); q. 13\, chapter 4 (pp. 44-48); q. 15\, chapter 2\, a. 2 (pp. 65-75). \nMeister Eckhart: The Essential Sermons\, etc. \nMeister Eckhart: Teacher and Preacher (Paulist Press\, 1986) \nStudies \nHenryk Anzulewicc\, “Anthropology: The Concept of Man in Albert the Great\,” in A Companion to Albert the Great\, 325-46 \nBernard Blankenhorn\, “The Mystery of Union with God\, 52-90\, and 131-48 \nBernard McGinn\, “Chapter 4. Meister Eckhart: Mystical Teacher and Preacher\,” in McGinn\, The Harvest of Mysticism\, 94-194 \nRupert J. Mayer\, “The Term ‘Ground of the Soul’ and ‘Sparkle of Reason’ in Eckhart and Aquinas\,” Medieval Mystical Theology 22 (2013): 120-38. \nSchedule \nMornings will contain two hour-long lecture/discussions of key texts. \nAfternoons will have two sessions of 45-minute guided discussion. \nThe final day (Tuesday\, August 11) will be devoted to short student presentations.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-mcginn-blankenhorn/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
CATEGORIES:Summer Seminars
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SUMMARY:Reason and Beauty in Cambridge Platonism
DESCRIPTION:A webinar lecture with Douglas Hedley (University of Cambridge). Part of our summer webinar series on “Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture\,” presented in collaboration with the American Cusanus Society\nThe Cambridge Platonists are the first modern Platonists. They are a group of English philosophers around the University of Cambridge in the seventeenth-century\, in the context of reformed theology and the English Civil War. Yet while accepting the New Science of Copernicus and Galileo\, they offer a fierce protest against mechanism and naturalism. Their notion of aesthetics and beauty–as historian Ernst Cassirer correctly saw–was one of the sources of the later Romantic movement. Their aesthetics has a theological foundation. As one of the Cambridge Platonists\, Benjamin Whichcote (d. 1683) wrote: “There is that in God that is more beautiful than power\, than will and Sovereignty\, viz. His righteousness\, His good-will\, His justice\, wisdom and the like’. In this webinar\, Professor Douglas Hedley will discuss the Cambridge Platonists’ thought on beauty and its theological dimension that is tied to a distinctly Platonic theory of enthusiasm or inspiration and that came to be a shaping force in 18th century 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 event 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/2020-08-reason-beauty-in-cambridge-platonism-douglas-hedley/
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SUMMARY:Pondering Hiroshima
DESCRIPTION:Cosponsored by America Media\, the Berkley Center for Religion\, Peace\, and World Affairs at Georgetown University\, and the Institute for Human Ecology at the Catholic University of America.\nFree and open to the public. The event will be held online over Zoom and will be livestreamed on YouTube. Registrants will also get a specially created booklet drawing on the archives of America Magazine’s coverage of Hiroshima from the past 75 years.  \nOn August 6th and 9th\, 1945\, the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bombs destroyed the cities in a flash\, and ultimately killed approximately 200\,000 people. The Second World War came to a close days later. 1945 was the first and last time a nuclear bomb was used in armed conflict. This technology has influenced international relations ever since and has raised questions about the appropriate use of force in a way that the firebombing of Dresden and Tokyo did not. The site of the bomb’s genesis was not a military base\, however\, but at the University of Chicago\, where the first self-sustaining nuclear reaction took place three years earlier\, opening the nuclear age and giving rise to a new source of energy\, life-saving technologies\, and unparalleled destruction. Join as we reflect upon the legacy and tension caught up in the event that was Hiroshima. \nThis event is dedicated to the memory of John P. Langan\, S.J.\, noted professor\, theologian and peace activist.  \nImage © AP Photo/Stanley Troutman
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-08-ponding-hiroshima-andrew-j-bacevich-archbishop-timothy-broglio-drew-christiansen-s-j-joseph-capizzi/
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SUMMARY:Richard Hooker’s Sapiential Theology: Reformed Platonism?
DESCRIPTION:An evening webinar lecture with Torrance Kirby (McGill 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 \nRichard Hooker (1554-1600) was a preeminent theologian and philosopher of the Elizabethan Church. His seminal book\, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity (1593)\, set out a path for Anglican theology that was distinct from both Puritan and Roman Catholic thought. In Book I\, Hooker identifies Law with Holy Wisdom and his treatment echoes the sapiential books of Scripture\, viz. Proverbs\, Job\, and the Wisdom of Solomon. Hooker also appeals to a hierarchical disposition of the species of law in the medieval scholastic conception of the ‘lex divinitatis’\, especially as formulated by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite and later by Thomas Aquinas. For Hooker\, the First Eternal Law concealed in the ‘Bosome of God’ is unutterable\, while its external emanation\, the Second Eternal Law\, is a ‘Voyce’ whose utterance constitutes the beautiful ‘Harmony of the Worlde’. This distinction between two species of Eternal Law owes much to the ancient Neoplatonic metaphysics of Proclus. Both Hooker’s sapiential theology and his invocation of the law of the ‘great chain’ stand in creative tension with his professed adherence to doctrine expressed by the Elizabethan Articles of Religion (1571). In this webinar\, Professor Torrance Kirby will examine the tension between Hooker’s sources and his theology and will ask whether Hooker is successful in reconciling his legal metaphysics with his Reformed soteriology. \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 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/2020-08-richard-hooker-s-sapiential-theology-reformed-platonism/
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SUMMARY:The Global Economic Effects of COVID-19: Perspectives from Economics and Catholic Social Thought
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. The event will be held online over Zoom and will be livestreamed on YouTube.\nCosponsored by America Media and the Catholic Research Economists Discussion Organization. \nThe adverse impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on the lives and livelihoods of people is hard to fully appreciate in real time.  Moreover\, it is not equally distributed across socio-economic groups within countries or across countries. This panel sets economics and Catholic Social Thought in dialogue\, discussing the socio-economic consequences of the pandemic\, the policies to mitigate it\, and the values that ought inform our judgements.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-08-global-economic-effects-of-covid-19-perspectives-from-economics-catholic-social-thought/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200818T190000
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SUMMARY:Passage to Modernity: Renaissance Christianity Today
DESCRIPTION:An evening webinar lecture with Peter Casarella (Duke 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 \nHistorian Jacob Burckhardt (d. 1897) famously argued that Italian humanism of the fourteenth and fifteenth century paved the way inevitably to modern individualism and secularism\, but more recently Burckhardt’s view has been largely discredited. Contemporary thinkers\, Louis Dupré and Karsten Harries\, each with very distinctive accents\, made decisive contributions to overcoming of Burkhardtian forerunner mentality. In this concluding webinar\, Professor Casarella will explore Dupré’s and Harries’ contributions to a post-Burckhardtian reading of the relationship of Italian humanism to modernity and also some of the limitations of the interpretations they proposed in the light of more recent ideas regarding post-structuralism and decolonial theory. \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 the Beatrice Institute\, 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/2020-08-passage-to-modernity-renaissance-christianity-today-peter-j-casarella/
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SUMMARY:Healing the Wounds of Racism: A Discussion with Members of Chicago’s “Back of the Yards” Community
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. Online registration required. This event is organized by the Catholic Lawyer’s Guild of Chicago\, and co-sponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute \n“Compassion isn’t just about feeling the pain of others; it’s about bringing them in toward yourself. If we love what God loves\, then\, in compassion\, margins get erased.” \n– Father Gregory Boyle\, Tattoos on the Heart (2010) \n“I have never seen – even in Mississippi and Alabama – mobs as hostile and as hate-filled as I’ve seen here in Chicago.”\n– Dr. Martin Luther King\, Jr. (1966) \nOur country is in a moment of reckoning. For too long\, black people have been marginalized and denied equal justice under the law. We have created\, in the words of Pope Francis\, “an economy of exclusion and inequality.” Evangelium Gaudium\, ¶ 53. Chicago\, sadly\, is no exception. At this critical juncture\, many of us find ourselves asking: What can we do to combat racism and bring about healing in our communities? \nTo move forward\, we must first seek to listen to and understand those who have suffered from the evils of racism. We must stand with those whose dignity has been denied and learn to “find Jesus in [their] faces\, in their voices\, in their pleas.” Evangelium Gaudium\, ¶ 91. Only once our hearts are changed can we hope to bring about change in our community and justice system. \nOn August 26 at 5:00 pm\, the Precious Blood Ministry of Reconciliation will introduce us to several residents of the Back of the Yards community in a discussion moderated by Father Dave Kelly\, C.P.P.S. These men and women will share their experiences with racial prejudice and their views on how we as a city might find reconciliation. An opportunity for questions and discussion will follow.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-08-healing-wounds-of-racism-a-discussion-with-members-of-chicago-s-back-of-yards-community/
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