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SUMMARY:Conscience and Human Rights in Thomas Aquinas and Some Predecessors
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. Registration is required. Contact us with any questions. Note the time for this event has been changed from 4:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. \nIn discussions of the history of the philosophy of human rights\, typically a distinction is made between theories that understand rights as objective and those that understand them as subjective (or\, to use a more contemporary term\, more “personalistic”).  This talk relates this issue to the history of reflection\, especially by Christian thinkers leading up to the thirteenth century\, regarding conscience.  It argues ultimately that Thomas Aquinas’s understanding of conscience\, influenced as it is by Aristotle\, entails an understanding of human rights that is primarily objective.  It concludes with a few remarks about the advantages of such an understanding. \n\nThis convening is open to all invitees regardless of vaccination status and\, because of ongoing health risks\, particularly to the unvaccinated\, participants are expected to adopt the risk mitigation measures (masking and social distancing\, etc.) appropriate to their vaccination status as advised by public health officials or to their individual vulnerabilities as advised by a medical professional. Public convening may not be safe for all and carries a risk for contracting COVID-19\, particularly for those unvaccinated. Participants will not know the vaccination status of others and should follow appropriate risk mitigation measures.\nIf you are not currently affiliated with the University (enrolled student\, faculty\, or staff) it is expected that you review the University’s COVID mitigation efforts. The University expects every event attendee to adopt precautions designed to mitigate the risk of viral transmission.\nIf you have any questions\, please contact us.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2021-10-conscience-human-rights-in-thomas-aquinas-some-predecessors-kevin-flannery-s-j/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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SUMMARY:Justice and Peace: A Radical Reconsideration of Public Safety – A Roundtable Discussion
DESCRIPTION:8:00 PM ET | 7:00 PM CT | 5:00 PM PT\nThis zoom webinar event is free and open to the public. Presented by Seattle University and The Catholic Criminal Justice Reform Network.  \nNearly fifty years ago\, Pope St. Paul VI said\, “If you want Peace\, work for Justice.”  Echoing his words\, “No Justice\, No Peace” has become the chant of protesters from Seattle to Atlanta seeking freedom not only from excessive use of force by police but also from unjust inequities across social and political structures.  This roundtable presentation invites policing scholars in the fields of law\, criminology\, and theological ethics to explore how we might build peace on a foundation of justice. The interdisciplinary panel will address the future of public safety through the lens of Catholic Social Teaching. \nProfessor Herschella Conyers (University of Chicago Law School) bleakly assesses the current state of affairs: “[R]eform must begin … with an acknowledgement of the sad history and present conditions that have left the people totally alienated from the police\, and afraid for their physical and emotional safety.”  Similarly\, Professor Michael Scott (Arizona State University) points to a possible source of guidance: “[I]nsofar as the Catholic Catechism represents a coherent and comprehensive moral code\, and if one accepts the proposition that law\, law enforcement and governance must\, minimally\, be moral\, then the Catholic Catechism…merits being consulted on police reform.” “In dialogue with the tradition of Catholic Social Teaching\, Professor Michael Jaycox (Seattle University) argues that “a credible Catholic commitment to pursuing the common good would have to include\, at minimum\, ensuring whatever social conditions are necessary for Black freedom from white violence.”  To advance the common good\, Professor Tobias Winright (St. Louis University) suggests that involving “the police in other community and social peacekeeping activities serves to contextualize\, moderate and restrain that use of force\, ensuring that it is a last resort.” \nThis panel serves as the keynote event for a three-day colloquium addressing Catholic perspectives on criminal justice reform. The workshops and public lectures include leading scholars examining how Catholic tradition and social thought might inform the challenges confronting today’s American criminal justice system.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2021-10-a-radical-reconsideration-of-public-safety-abolition-regulation-or-redemption/
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SUMMARY:A Life in Service of the Truth: The Legacy of Fr. Paul Mankowski\, SJ
DESCRIPTION:Fr. Paul Mankowski (1953 – 2020) was a brilliant essayist\, a singular wit\, and a devoted son of the Church. Born in South Bend\, Indiana\, he put himself through the University of Chicago while working summers in a steel mill. Called to a vocation with the Society of Jesus\, Fr. Paul entered the novitiate in 1976 before studying Classics at Oxford and Semitic languages at Harvard. \nThough lacking all instincts for self-promotion\, Fr. Paul quickly gained a reputation for his erudition and his razor-sharp intellect.  He suffered greatly for his loyalty to the Church before finding a home at the Lumen Christi Institute at the University of Chicago. Having returned to his alma mater\, he served as a fulcrum of intellectual and spiritual formation for countless students. In passing away unexpectedly on September 3\, 2020\, Fr. Paul Mankowski left a legacy of principled and courageous allegiance to the Church and her tradition of integrated intellectual and spiritual life. \nThis event will celebrate the life and legacy of Fr. Paul Mankowski through a conversation with Professor Gary Anderson (University of Notre Dame)\, who will comment on Fr. Paul’s work as a scholar. and Fr. Kevin Flannery\, SJ ( Pontifical Gregorian University)\, who will reflect on Fr. Paul’s life as a Jesuit (with Fr. Paul’s letters as a point of departure).
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2021-10-a-life-in-service-of-truth-legacy-of-fr-paul-mankowski-sj-gary-a-anderson-kevin-flannery-s-j/
LOCATION:University Club of Chicago\, 76 E Monroe St\nChicago\, IL 60603\, Downtown\, IL
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SUMMARY:Conversation on "The Rage of Innocence"
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. Presented by the Loyola University Chicago School of Law and the Catholic Criminal Justice Reform Network. Cosponsored by the Catholic Lawyers Guild of Chicago. \nA discussion of The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth with author and Professor Kris Henning in conversation with Pulitzer Prize winning author of Locking Up Our Own\, Professor James Forman\, Jr. \nIn January 2019\, Pope Francis told the detainees at a Panamanian youth prison: “You are part of [God’s] family; you have a lot to share with others.”  A fruitful society\, he said\, “is able to generate processes of inclusion and integration\, of caring and trying to create opportunities and alternatives that can offer new possibilities to the young\, to build a future through community\, education and employment. Such a community is healthy.”  Unfortunately\, our communities fail to offer a healthy\, inclusive\, and caring environment for court-involved youth–particularly youth of color–as Professor Kris Henning dramatically reveals. \nIn a searing and clear indictment of the juvenile and criminal legal system\, Kris Henning draws on her 25 years of representing young people accused of crimes to show the day-to-day brutalities endured by Black youth growing up under constant surveillance and persistent threat of physical and psychological abuse by police. Join Profs. Henning and Forman in a discussion of her critical and timely new book.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2021-10-rage-of-innocence-how-america-criminalizes-black-youth/
LOCATION:Loyola University Chicago Law School\, 25 East Pearson Street\, Chicago\, IL
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SUMMARY:The Salvific Power of the Inner Life of Christ: The Witness of the Ecumenical Councils
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. Registration for in-person attendance is not required\, but requested. Contact us with any questions. Note the time for this event has been changed from 4:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. This event is cosponsored by the Harvard Catholic Forum. \nStandard accounts of salvation in both East and West typically do not include a consideration of how Christ’s inner life-his thoughts\, feelings\, and intentions- are salvific. Such an omission is inconsistent with the witness of both the Scriptures and the ecumenical councils. \nIn affirming the necessity for human salvation of Christ’s human mind and will\, the ecumenical councils implicitly affirmed the salvific value of Christ’s inner life without providing a description of its inner contents. On the basis of Scripture and both Eastern and Western traditions\, such a description can be summarized by the notion of Christ’s saving “doxological contrition”. \nFr. Anatolios will also lead a master class for students and faculty on Friday\, October 22 on The Doctrine of Salvation in Nicholas Cabasilas’s The Life in Christ. \n\n\nThis convening is open to all invitees regardless of vaccination status and\, because of ongoing health risks\, particularly to the unvaccinated\, participants are expected to adopt the risk mitigation measures (masking and social distancing\, etc.) appropriate to their vaccination status as advised by public health officials or to their individual vulnerabilities as advised by a medical professional. Public convening may not be safe for all and carries a risk for contracting COVID-19\, particularly for those unvaccinated. Participants will not know the vaccination status of others and should follow appropriate risk mitigation measures.\nIf you are not currently affiliated with the University (enrolled student\, faculty\, or staff) it is expected that you review the University’s COVID mitigation efforts. The University expects every event attendee to adopt precautions designed to mitigate the risk of viral transmission.\nIf you have any questions\, please contact us.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2021-10-salvific-power-of-inner-life-of-christ-witness-of-ecumenical-councils/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, First Floor Common Room\, 1025 E 58th St\,Chicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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SUMMARY:The Doctrine of Salvation in Nicholas Cabasilas's "Life in Christ"
DESCRIPTION:THIS 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 Life in Christ will be provided for registrants. \nLife in Christ “originates in this life and arises from it. It is perfected\, however\, in the life to come\, when we shall have reached the last day. It cannot attain perfection in men’s souls in this life\, nor even in that which is to come without already having begun here.” \nSo writes the 14th century Greek theologian Nicholas Cabasilas in The Life in Christ. This work is a classic\, synthetic presentation of the Christian understood through the lens of the Byzantine Christian tradition. This master class will feature a disciplined reading of The Life in Christ led by Fr. Khaled Anatolios and will discuss Cabasilas’ soteriology found within the work. \nFr. Anatolios will also give a public lecture on Thursday\, October 21 on The Salvific Power of the Inner Life of Christ: The Witness of the Ecumenical Councils. \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/2021-10-doctrine-of-salvation-in-nicholas-cabasilass-life-in-christ/
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SUMMARY:The Riddle  of the Ring: Dark Magic & Spiritual Danger in Tolkien
DESCRIPTION:Open to current students and faculty. Dinner at 6:00 p.m. | Lecture at 6:30 p.m.\n“One Ring to rule them all\, One Ring to find them\, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.” Everyone knows that Sauron made the One Ring\, but nobody—including Tolkien—seems to know how it worked\, perhaps because nobody—including Tolkien—explained how Sauron made it. Where did Tolkien get the idea of magic rings? What would it mean to make a magic ring? And what might explain its effects? In this lecture\, Professor Rachel Fulton Brown gives a brief history of English magic in quest of the making of Sauron’s One Ring and explores the spiritual dangers in attempting to make such rings for Elves\, Dwarves\, Hobbits—and Men. \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. \nIf you have any questions\, please contact us.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2021-10-riddle-of-ring-dark-magic-spiritual-danger-in-tolkien-rachel-fulton-brown/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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