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SUMMARY:Expanding the Archive: Syriac Literature and the Study of Early Christianity Today
DESCRIPTION:Through the work of editing and translating Syriac manuscripts\, scholars continue to enrich our historiography of the formative centuries of Christianity. This research has been particularly fruitful in the areas of biblical interpretation\, asceticism\, the history of doctrine\, and the role of women within the church. Dr. Walsh will provide a brief overview of these developments before focusing on the importance of poetry for biblical storytelling and spiritual formation. Using examples from the poetry of Narsai and Jacob of Serugh\, Dr. Walsh will explore the ways poets inherited the legacy of Ephrem and applied their own artistic brilliance to articulate a Christian worldview\, exhorting believers to live with fervent faith both in their own time and today. \n\nProfessor Walsh has generously assembled a bibliography of additional resources and introductory readings for Syriac Studies: \nBooks/Articles  \n\nBrock\, Sebastian P. The Luminous Eye: The Spiritual World Vision of Saint Ephrem the Syrian. Kalamazoo\, MI: Cistercian Publications\, 1985.\nBrock\, Sebastian P. An Introduction to Syriac Studies. Piscataway\, NJ: Gorgias Press\, 2006.\nBrock\, Sebastian P. and Susan Ashbrook Harvey. Holy Women of the Syrian Orient. Berkeley: University of California Press\, 1987. o Also see the Gorgias Press website for the published translations of mēmrē by Jacob of Serugh and Narsai!\nHarvey\, Susan Ashbrook. “Spoken Words\, Voiced Silence: Biblical Women in Syriac Tradition.” Journal of Early Christian Studies 9\, no. 1 (2001): 105-131.\nHarvey\, Susan Ashbrook. “Revisiting the Daughters of the Covenant: Women’s Choirs and Sacred Song in Ancient Syriac Christianity.” Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 8\, no. 2 (2005): 125-149.\nVan Rompay\, Lucas. “Past and Present Perceptions of Syriac Literary Tradition.” Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 3\, no. 1 (2000): 71-103.\nVan Rompay\, Lucas. “Society and Community in the Christian East.” In The Cambridge Companion to Justinian\, edited by Michael Maas\, 239-266. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press\, 2005.\nWickes\, Jeffrey. Bible and Poetry in Late Antique Mesopotamia: Ephrem’s Hymns on Faith (University of California Press\, 2019). o UC Press is an important publisher for research on early Christianity and Syriac literature\n\nWebsites and Online Resources – many of these organizations are on social media! \n\nGorgias Press and Beth Mardutho o They also publish Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies \nGorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of Syriac Heritage – edited by Sebastian P. Brock\, Aaron M. Butts\, George A. Kiraz\, and Lucas Van Rompay\nHill Museum and Manuscript Library o Follow the Syriac Manuscript Cataloger\, Dr. James Walters on Twitter\nSyriaca.org – The Syriac Reference Portal\nSyri.ac – The Annotated Bibliography of Syriac Resources Online\nHebrew University’s Comprehensive Bibliography of Syriac Christianity\nTo learn more about the contemporary study of ancient Judaism and Christianity\, read and follow the web journal\, Ancient Jew Review\n\n\nEastern Catholic Theology in Action\nDistinct in their liturgy\, theology\, spirituality\, and discipline of Church life\, 23 Eastern Churches are in communion with the Roman Catholic Church. The Second Vatican Council urged the Eastern Catholic Churches to cultivate and promote their unique share of the tradition. This series responds to that mandate and features leading scholars in the field to offer their theological perspectives drawn from the wisdom of Christian East. In view of broadening our understanding of the Catholic intellectual tradition\, this series draws attention to the vantage points of Christians who worship\, think\, and pray in continuity with the first 1\,000 years of the undivided Church. \nThis series is co-presented with the Godbearer Institute and co-sponsored by the Beatrice Institute\, the Calvert House Catholic Center\, the Catholic Theological Union\, the Institute for Faith and Culture\, God With Us Online\, the Harvard Catholic Forum\, the Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies\, the Nova Forum\, the Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham University\, the Saint Benedict Institute\, the St. Paul University Catholic Center\, St. Stephen Byzantine Catholic Church\, and the Tabor Life Institute. \nUpcoming Series Lectures: \nThursday\, November 12\, 7 p.m. CDT\nQuo Vadis: the Direction of Eastern Catholic Theology\, a Pastoral Perspective for the 21st Century | Archbishop Borys Gudziak (Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia and Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in the USA)
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-10-expanding-archive-syriac-literature-study-of-early-christianity-today-erin-walsh/
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SUMMARY:Fearful Symmetry: Cosmic Order and a Divine Creator
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. This event is organized by the Harvard Catholic Forum and is co-presented with the Lumen Christi Institute. This event will be held on Zoom (registration required) and live-streamed to the Harvard Catholic Forum’s YouTube page. \n— \nFor thousands of years\, some philosophers and scientists have argued that order in the universe points to a creator God. How does this argument hold up against the scientific discoveries of recent decades? Join us as theoretical particle physicist Stephen Barr examines the cosmic order and its relationship to a Divine Creator.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-10-fearful-symmetry-cosmic-order-a-divine-creator-stephen-m-barr/
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SUMMARY:Integral Bioethics in the Anthropocene
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. This event is being co-presented with the International Academy for Bioethical Inquiry\, and co-sponsored by the Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics. This event will be held on Zoom (registration required) and live-streamed on YouTube. \nIn 2000\, scientists argued that human impact on the Earth reached levels meriting the creation of a new geological epoch\, naming it the Anthropocene. The challenge of the Anthropocene is more than just an acknowledgement of changes to our planet\, but also a challenge to humanity\, pressing us to reconsider human health\, action\, and ethics. Can theological insights\, ranging from early Christian thinkers to Pope Francis’s Laudato si’\, help orient us in the Anthropocene\, or do they fall short of the challenge? Join as this interdisciplinary panel brings scientific\, theological\, and ethical perspectives to bear on integral bioethics in the Anthropocene.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-10-integral-bioethics-anthropocene-willis-jenkins-benjamin-de-foy/
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SUMMARY:Christ\, the True Origin of Humanity
DESCRIPTION:This event is co-presented by the Society of Catholic Scientists and the Science and Religion Initiative at the McGrath Institute for Church Life\, and is co-sponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute. \n“Its beginnings are no measure of its capabilities\, nor of its scope.” These words of St. John Henry Newman describing the character of great ideas works equally well in describing the human species. For many\, what we were in prehistory is what defines us now. But the Christian faith has a much different\, and more exciting\, perspective. In this presentation\, Chris Baglow will connect the beginning and the end of humanity\, relying on Scripture\, Tradition and the insights of modern science as well as modern theologians.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-10-christ-true-origin-of-humanity-chris-baglow/
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SUMMARY:The United Nations at 75: Catholic Perspectives
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. This event is co-presented with America Media\, the Kellogg Institute for International Studies\, and the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations\, and is co-sponsored by the Beatrice Institute\, the Collegium Institute\, the Harvard Catholic Forum\, the Institute for Faith and Culture\, the Institute for Human Ecology\, the Nova Forum for Catholic Thought\, and the St. Paul Catholic Center. This event will be held on Zoom (registration required) and live-streamed to YouTube. \nHistorically\, the Bishop of Rome and the diplomats representing the Holy See have played important roles in international affairs involving Empires and Kingdoms\, sometimes in making war\, sometimes negotiating marriages and alliances\, ideally in making peace. With the loss of the Papal States in 1870 and the creation of\, first\, the League of Nations\, and later\, the United Nations\, the Holy See has continued to play an important—and sometimes contested—role. Of course\, lay Catholics played an important role in founding the UN—as they did for the EU and in writing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This panel discussion explores the history of the Holy See’s relations with the United Nations\, the role of lay Catholics and Church leaders in developing the human rights tradition\, and the growing role of Catholic NGOs as they work alongside the UN for justice\, peace\, religious freedom\, and integral human development around the world. Moderated by Paolo Carozza (Notre Dame)\, this panel features the participation of Archbishop Gabriele Caccia\, Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations; Joseph Donnelly\, Delegate of Caritas Internationalis to the UN; and Mary Ann Glendon\, former US ambassador to the Holy See and expert in human rights.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-10-on-founding-of-un-mary-ann-glendon-paolo-carozza-joseph-cornelius-donnelly/
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SUMMARY:Fratelli Tutti: Engaging Pope Francis's New Encyclical on Social Friendship
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Institute for Human Ecology at Catholic University of America and America Media. The event will take place online over Zoom and YouTube livestream.\nWho is my neighbor? Who is my brother and sister? Drawing on central gospel themes found in the Good Samaritan narrative\, Pope Francis applies them to the whole “human family\,” proposing that the logic of social friendship and neighborly love move beyond the personal to touch on every major social sphere. Join as this panel of experts in Catholic Social Thought discuss Pope Francis’s latest social encyclical\, Fratelli Tutti.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-10-fratelli-tutti-engaging-pope-franciss-social-encyclical-on-social-friendship-joseph-capizzi-russell-hittinger/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201028T180000
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SUMMARY:Great Texts in Legal History Seminar and Discussion
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\n$104 Registration Fee/ $50 for JD students.\nOpen to lawyers and law school students. CLE credit available. \nOthers interested in participating should contact us. Seminars will be held online over Zoom. \nThe Lumen Christi Institute has partnered with the Catholic Lawyers Guild to offer a monthly close-reading seminar on “Great Texts in Legal History.”  The seminar will be led by Austin Walker (Assistant Director of the Lumen Christi Institute) and moderated by Judge Tom Donnelly. This monthly online seminar will allow lawyers to read and analyze great short works that illuminate the relationship between law\, ethics\, free will\, authority\, and God. Selections are short enough to read immediately beforehand. We will also read them during the session. \n\nSCHEDULE \nSeptember 23 | The Ten Commandments \nOctober 28 | Lincoln’s Second Inaugural \nNovember 18 | 2 Samuel 11 and 12: David and Bathsheba & Nathan rebukes David \nDecember 16 | Frederick Douglass\, What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? (excerpts) \nJanuary 20 | Thomas Aquinas\, Treatise on Law (excerpts) \nFebruary 24 | Lawrence Joseph\, Curriculum Vitae (poem)
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2021-02-great-texts-in-legal-history-seminar-thomas-donnelly/
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SUMMARY:Education and the Catholic Intellectual Life
DESCRIPTION:Open to current University of Chicago students (undergrads and grad students welcome). This event will take place over Zoom. \nJoin Calvert House and the Lumen Christi Institute for an hour-long panel discussion and Q&A on the Catholic Intellectual Life. Why do we pursue education in the first place? Why study topics that may not be directly relevant to our work? Do Christians approach their studies differently? There is no better time to think broadly about the meaning of education than at the start of a new school year. \nThe panel will feature Fr. Andrew Liaguminus\, chaplain of Calvert House; Jennifer Martin\, professor in the Program of Liberal Studies at Notre Dame; and Andrew Horne\, postdoctoral fellow at the Lumen Christi Institute
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-10-education-catholic-intellectual-life-andrew-horne-fr-andrew-liaugminas-jennifer-newsome-martin/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201029T183000
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SUMMARY:What Do Genesis 1-3 Tell Us About Creation in a Scientific Age?
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. This event is organized by the Harvard Catholic Forum\, co-presented by the Lumen Christi Institute\, and co-sponsored by the Society of Catholic Scientists and the Science & Religion Initiative at the McGrath Institute for Church Life. This event will be held on Zoom (registration required) and live-streamed to the Harvard Catholic Forum’s YouTube page. \n— \nModern readers fall naturally into a series of typical mistakes when interpreting the creation accounts in Genesis. Urging us to consider these texts with fresh eyes\, Fr. Clifford asks: Why does Genesis 1 describe creation as a 6-day work week? Why is Genesis 2-3 set on a large farm? And if today we cannot accept some of the Biblical writers’ assumptions\, how can they still instruct us?
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-10-what-do-genesis-1-3-tell-us-about-creation-in-a-scientific-age-richard-clifford-s-j/
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