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SUMMARY:Francis & Francis: Encountering Muslims\, Past & Present
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. This event is part of a webinar series\, “Catholics & Muslims: History\, Theology\, Encounters\,” presented by the Lumen Christi Institute and the American Cusanus Society. \nThis session will consider two Christian-Muslim encounters: the first between St. Francis of Assisi and Sultan al-Malik in 1219 in Egypt during the Crusades\, and the second between Pope Francis and Grand Imam Ahmed el-Tayeb in Abu Dhabi eight centuries later\, on Feb. 4\, 2019\, when they co-signed the historic “Document on Human Fraternity.” How have personal relationships between Christians and Muslims affected both the practice of interreligious dialogue and the Catholic theology of Islam? \n\nCatholics & Muslims: History\, Theology\, Encounters  \nThe 1965 Vatican II document Nostra Aetate 3 encouraged Catholics and Muslims to “forget the past” and focus on a more positive future together\, one based on dialogue and cooperation. Since then\, Catholics at all levels\, from popes to parishioners\, have heeded this call. However\, the complicated\, centuries-long history of Christian-Muslim relations demands attention. Instead of “forgetting the past\,” Catholics need to revisit this history\, both on their own and with their Muslim partners. In this series\, we will examine Nicholas of Cusa’s approach to the Qur’an; the history of Mary as a bridge or barrier in Christian relations with Muslims; and St. Francis and Pope Francis as models of fraternal encounter. \nThis series is co-presented by the Lumen Christi Institute and the American Cusanus Society. This series is cosponsored by the Graymoor Ecumenical & Interreligious Institute\, the Australian Catholic University\, the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies\, St. Paul’s Catholic Center\, the Nova Forum for Catholic Thought\, the Saint Benedict Institute\, the Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage\, and both the Jay Phillips Center for Interreligious Studies and the Encountering Islam Initiative at the University of St. Thomas (Minnesota).
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2021-09-francis-francis-encountering-muslims-past-present/
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SUMMARY:Master Class on "The Integralism of Jacques Maritain" Part I
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON EVENT. Open to current graduate students and University of Chicago Undergraduates. Others who are interested in participating should contact us. Copies of The Primacy of the Spiritual: On the Things that are not Caesar’s (Cluny Media\, 2020) will be provided for registrants. \nJacques Maritain (1882-1973) was perhaps the most influential Catholic social and political philosopher of the 20th century.  He taught at Columbia and Princeton\, and was a frequent guest lecturer at the University of Chicago\, where he gave the Walgreen Lectures\, later published as Man and the State (1951).  Appointed the French Ambassador to the Holy See after WWII\, Maritain’s thought influenced not only four popes but also the generation of bishops who attended the Second Vatican Council. \nThis master class will focus on his critique of Action Française\, a right-wing integralism led by Charles Maurras and supported by many influential French Catholics\, including Maritain himself.  It’s slogan La politique d’abord! (“Politics first!”) was condemned by Rome\, causing Maritain to rethink his own position in The Primacy of the Spiritual (1927). \n\nThis is the first of a series of three master classes on the political thought of Jacques Maritain. Dates for the subsequent master classes are to be announced. \nPART II\nWe turn to Maritain’s most important work\, Integral Humanism (1936).  Published on the eve of the Second World War\, it had its most profound effect upon the post-war generation engaged in rebuilding Europe and eventually reforming the Church at the Council. In it\, Maritain clearly proposes an alternative to the political integralisms of his era. \nPART III\nWe take up Maritain’s mature political philosophy\, encapsulated in his University of Chicago lectures.  Man and the State reflects his recent work on human rights commissions\, and it represents a fairly accurate testament of his philosophy of the nature and limits of political order. \n\nFor all events held at Gavin House\, the Lumen Christi Institute follows Chicago Department of Public Health Guidance for in-person gatherings. Please see here for the city’s most up-to-date guidelines. These are guidelines subject to change.\n\n\nIf you have any questions about accessibility\, please contact us.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2021-09-master-class-on-integralism-of-jacques-maritain-part-i-russell-hittinger/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210926T193000
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SUMMARY:The Christological Structure of Spiritual Growth In the Thought of St. Bernard
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. This event will be held online through Zoom (registration required) and live-streamed to YouTube. This event is part of a summer webinar series on Monastic Wisdom. \nThe development of spiritual life is caused and modeled by the stages in the history of Jesus: the converting soul first develops an emotional love for Jesus in the flesh: This love is moody and lacks  judgment in discerning right and wrong (amor carnalis).  Next\, Jesus the teacher instructs the soul in the moral virtues (amor rationalis) but the soul lacks the joy of love and virtue. In the final stage of spiritual growth the soul is able to know and love the glorified risen Christ (amor spiritualis) who dwells in the soul as wisdom\, the taste of good. \n\nWisdom from the Heart of the Cistercian Tradition \nJoin us once per month\, June through September\, for four Sunday evening sessions featuring monks from Our Lady of Dallas Monastery who will lead us through a series of reflections examining the contours of the monastic intellectual tradition. At the foundations of the Cistercian order is the reform movement of St. Bernard of Clairvaux. In faithfulness to their founder\, these webinars invite participants to see how the monastic approach to Scripture\, theology\, and the common life might reform our own understanding and endeavors in the labors of daily Christianity. \nThis series is co-presented with Our Lady of Dallas Cistercian Abbey\, and co-sponsored by the Harvard Catholic Forum\, the Nova Forum\, the Saint Benedict Institute\, and Studies in Catholic Faith and Culture at the University of Dallas. \nPrevious events in this series: \nJune 27\, 2021: \nThe Song of Songs in Monastic Interpretation\nFr. Joseph Van House\, O. Cist. \n— \nJuly 25\, 2021: \nA School for the Lord’s Service”: A Meditation on the Rule of St. Benedict\nFr. Abbot Peter Verhalen\, O. Cist. \n— \nAugust 22\, 2021: \nThe Monastics before the Scholastics: An Introduction to Medieval Monastic Theology\nFr. John Bayer\, O. Cist.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2021-09-compassion-of-a-miserable-heart-love-of-others-according-to-st-bernard-of-clairvaux-fr-roch-kereszty-o-cist/
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SUMMARY:The University and Your Soul: Integrating Faith\, Prayer\, and the Intellectual Life
DESCRIPTION:Open to current University of Chicago undergraduates ONLY. Registration required. FREE DINNER! Cosponsored by Calvert House Catholic Center.\nJoin the Lumen Christi Institute and Calvert House for a panel discussion of practical ways to engage and integrate your Catholic faith and intellectual life at the university. \n\n\nFor all events held at Gavin House\, the Lumen Christi Institute follows Chicago Department of Public Health Guidance for in-person gatherings. Please see here for the city’s most up-to-date guidelines. These are guidelines subject to change. \n\n\n\nIf you have any questions about accessibility\, please contact us.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2021-09-university-your-soul-integrating-faith-prayer-intellectual-life/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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SUMMARY:Cruel But Usual:  Solitary Confinement's Tortured History
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. This event will be held online through Zoom (registration required) and live-streamed to YouTube. Presented by the Catholic Criminal Justice Reform Network and cosponsored by the Catholic Mobilizing Network.\nPope Francis has denounced the use of solitary confinement.  He describes it as “torture” employed under the “pretext of offering greater security to society or special treatment for certain categories of prisoners\, its main characteristic is none other than external isolation.” The result is the degradation of the human person through the imposed “lack of sensory stimuli\, the total impossibility of communication and the lack of contact with other human beings induce mental and physical suffering such as paranoia\, anxiety\, depression\, weight loss\, and significantly increase the suicidal tendency.” \nOur panel of legal scholars will discuss solitary confinement in light of history and contemporary practice. Professor Andrea Armstrong\, whose work was highlighted in the August 16\, 2021 issue of the New Yorker\, will discuss contemporary conditions of solitary confinement\, including its effects on healthcare and mortality in the Louisiana prison system.  Her presentation will include art\, pictures\, and video of solitary cells used recently in Louisiana. Professor David Shapiro will take us back to the beginning of solitary confinement in the United States\, discussing his important work on early use of solitary confinement in the Walnut Street Jail.  This groundbreaking work was published in the Harvard Law review.  Finally\, Professor John Stinneford will endeavor to tie present and past together by discussing the relationship between solitary confinement and the American punishment tradition. The panelists will also discuss constitutional\, statutory\, and administrative approaches to solitary confinement  However\, we must discuss these varied views regarding the the legality of solitary confinement in light of Pope Francis’s question:  Can depriving a human being of the company of other humans ever be just?
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2021-09-cruel-but-usual/
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