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SUMMARY:Catholic Culture Series on "Catholic Literary Heritage"
DESCRIPTION:The Lumen Christi Institute’s West Suburban Catholic Culture Series returns in 2021-22 with a monthly series on the theme of Catholic literary heritage. We will survey the history of literature written by Catholics from the early middle ages to the late twentieth century.\nWhat is Catholic literature? What is our Catholic literary heritage? St. John Henry Newman has informed us that Catholic literature is more than “religious literature” or “the literature of religious men.” Rather\, Catholic literature is literature of “all subjects whatever\, treated as a Catholic would treat them\, and as he only can treat them.” Not only doctrine\, controversy\, and history; but all of human life\, as seen from the perspective given by Revelation and the life of the Church. \nParticipants will receive a booklet with extracts from the authors covered in the lectures. No advance reading is required\, but our speakers will refer to the extracts in their lectures. The selections will offer an accessible foray into authors like Dante\, Shakespeare\, Anselm of Canterbury\, and the author of The Pearl and Gawain and the Green Knight. \nSPRING SEMESTER SCHEDULE \n6:30 p.m. cocktails | 7:00 p.m. dinner\, lecture\, & Q&A | 8:30 p.m. end \nMAR 2: English Catholic Revival of the 19th-20th Centuries\nProf. David Deavel (University of St. Thomas\, MN) \nAPR 6: 20th Century American Catholic Literature\nProf. David Griffith (University of Notre Dame) \nMAY 11: The Catholic Imagination in Modern American Poetry  *Livestreamed on Zoom* \nProf. James Matthew Wilson (University of St. Thomas\, Houston) \nFALL SEMESTER SCHEDULE \nSEP 15: Medieval Catholic Literature \nProf. Rachel Fulton Brown (University of Chicago) \nOCT 13: Shakespeare \nProf. Michael P. Murphy (Loyola University Chicago) \nNOV 10: Dante\nProf. Jennifer Newsome Martin (University of Notre Dame)
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2021-09-catholic-culture-series-on-catholic-literary-heritage-rachel-fulton-brown-michael-p-murphy-jennifer-newsome-martin/
LOCATION:Ruth Lake Country Club\, 6200 South Madison Street\, Hinsdale\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220303T140000
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SUMMARY:Justice or Vengeance? How To Watch John Wick
DESCRIPTION:Open to current students and faculty. Others interested in joining should contact us. Lunch will be served.\nIs John Wick only a guilty pleasure? Or is there\, at the heart of these movies\, a desire for justice—however roughly delivered? This lecture proposes that at the heart of the movies is indeed the desire for retributive justice: the payment of punishment for those who do wrong or reward for those who do right. It will defend the understanding of retributive justice as a real good and indicate how an appreciation of this virtue can aid human beings in pursuing the good society—and even love. \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/2022-03-john-wick/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220309T193000
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SUMMARY:Recovering Biblical Love from Emotionalism and Eroticism
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URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2022-03-recovering-biblical-love-from-emotionalism-eroticism/
LOCATION:IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220310T191500
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220310T213000
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SUMMARY:Magis Series on Faith and Reason
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. Presented by the Lumen Christi Institute and Saint Ignatius College Prep.\nWhat does it mean to believe? Does one believe because of evidence? In spite of evidence? Is belief the beginning of wisdom or the opposite of science? For over two thousand years\, the Catholic Church has defended the rich interrelation between faith and reason. As Pope John Paul II said in his encyclical\, Fides et Ratio\, “Faith and reason are like the two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth.” Faith without reason leads to superstition. Reason without faith leads to nihilism and relativism. Reason needs faith; faith needs reason; we need both. \nThis course will be framed by Pope John Paul II’s encyclical Fides et Ratio \, and optional selections of the encyclical will be suggested to help frame the lectures. We will work our way forward in history beginning with ancient Greek philosophy\, which Clement of Alexandria dubbed “the second Old Testament.” Then we will read selections from the early church fathers and the scholastic masters of the medieval church. Finally\, we will consider the question of faith and reason in modern times\, with a special session devoted to faith and science. We will be able to see how questions of faith and reason have been grappled with for millennia\, and how we are the inheritors of a fascinating and rich tradition. \nThis lecture and discussion series uses an innovative format. A lecture will be followed one week later by an optional discussion-based lunch seminar. Texts introduced during the lecture will be discussed in a low-stakes format with Fr. Bernardi over lunch. \n\nSERIES SCHEDULE \nThe Two Wings of the Spirit: Traditions of Faith and Reason \n\nThursday\, March 10 Faith and Reason in the Patristic Era: ‘What Does Athens have to do with Jerusalem?’ with Fr. Peter Bernardi\, SJ\nThursday\, March 31 Faith and Reason in the Medieval Era: ‘Faith Seeking Understanding\,’ with Fr. Peter Bernardi\, SJ\n\n\nThe Crisis of Belief in a Secular Age: Reconciling Faith\, Science\, and Reason\n\nThursday\, May 12 Catholic and Protestant Responses to the ‘Ebbing of the Sea of Faith\,’ with Fr. Peter Bernardi\, SJ\nWednesday\, May 18  “Emotion\, Metaphor\, and Memory: Leveraging the Tools of Science in Service of Spiritual Discernment” with guest lecturer Fr. John Kartje\n\nSESSION SCHEDULE \n5:30 p.m. Mass optional | 6:15 p.m. Drinks & Hors d’Oeuvres | 7:00 p.m. Dinner & Lecture | 8:30 p.m. End
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2022-05-magis-series-on-faith-reason/
LOCATION:Saint Ignatius College Prep\, 1076 W Roosevelt Rd\, Chicago\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220320T150000
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SUMMARY:Music in Secret: Sounds from the Early Modern Convent
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the University of Chicago Division of the Humanities\, the Illinois Arts Council\, and the National Endowment for the Arts.\nThe outstanding female contingent of Schola Antiqua presents a concert of medieval and early modern music by and for women in the convent. Their program “Music in Secret” includes works by Hildegard von Bingen and nuns from early modern Italy. The performance is complemented by keyboard works also heard in convents\, played by organist and guest director Naomi Gregory. Cora Swenson Lee joins the ensemble on viola da gamba.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2022-03-schola-antiqua-concert-music-in-secret-schola-antiqua-of-chicago/
LOCATION:Rockefeller Memorial Chapel\, 5850 S Woodlawn Ave.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220330T140000
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SUMMARY:The Theology of Nature and the Nature of Theology
DESCRIPTION:A conference held by the University of Chicago Divinity School\, cosponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute. \nDownload of Conference Abstracts. \nFor more information see the Divinity School’s conference webpage. \n\nSchedule: \nWednesday\, March 30 \n2:00pm-3:15pm\nWesley Wildman (Boston University):  “Prospects for a Naturalist\, Critically Humanist\, and Mystical Transreligious Understanding of Ultimate Reality” \n3:30pm-4:45pm\nKarmen MacKendrick (LeMoyne College): “Out of Bounds: Collection\, Division\, Creation” \n5:00pm-6:15pm\nWillemien Otten (University of Chicago Divinity School): “Double or Nothing: Creation and Gender in Eriugena\, Hildegard\, and Hadewijch” (the inaugural Dorothy Grant Maclear Lecture) \nReception to follow \nThursday\, March 31 \n2:00pm-3:15pm\nWilliam Schweiker (University of Chicago Divinity School): “How Natural is Goodness?” \n3:30pm-4:45pm\nM. Burcht Pranger (University of Amsterdam): “Corpus Mysticum: Henri de Lubac on Nature and Supernature” \n5:00pm-6:15pm\nJean-Luc Marion (University of Chicago Divinity School): “Karl Barth on the Being of the World Before God”
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2022-03-theology-of-nature-nature-of-theology/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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SUMMARY:Negotiating Tragedy and the Tragic: Discursive\, Performative\, and Interpretive Strategies in Late Ancient Christian Literature
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. \nEarly Christian authors rarely composed tragedies\, but they did discern elements of “the tragic” both in the background of sacred history and in the foreground of mundane experience. As a rhetorical\, literary\, and even theological artform\, the mimesis of tragedy took shape concurrently in biblical interpretation and preaching\, in autobiographical and hagiographical writing\, in the framing of Christian moral response to human anguish and indignities\, and in theological reflection on interrelated issues of providence\, freedom\, fate\, and hope. \nThis lecture will sample each of these dimensions\, concentrating especially on works of the Cappadocian Fathers\, John Chrysostom\, and Augustine\, in texts ranging from Gregory of Nyssa’s ascetical works\, to Gregory Nazianzen’s autobiographical poetry and select orations\, to Chrysostom’s expository sermons and Letters to Olympias\, to Augustine’s Confessions. Blowers will also treat the enduring question of the meaning of “the tragic” in an early Christian lens. Christian authors\, while keen to uphold the unique perspectives of Scripture\, could hardly ignore the definition of the tragic in classical Greek and Roman tragedies and in the long wake of Plato’s criticism of the poets and tragedians as hucksters and traffickers in emotion who subverted the philosophical quest. But could Christianity accommodate the idea of existential “dead ends”? Could it abide the prospect of irredeemable and uncompensated evils? By way of conclusion the lecture will address\, albeit concisely\, the state of the question of the utility (or not) of tragical mimesis in constructive Christian theology. \nProf. Blowers will also lead a discussion for students on “Finding Tragedy in the Bible with Its Early Christian Interpreters” on Thursday\, March 31. \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/2022-03-negotiating-tragedy/
LOCATION:Classics 110\, 1010 E 59th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220331T130000
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SUMMARY:Finding Tragedy in the Bible with Its Early Christian Interpreters
DESCRIPTION:Open to current students and faculty. Box lunches will be served. \nProf. Blowers will also give a lecture on “Negotiating Tragedy and the Tragic: Discursive\, Performative\, and Interpretive Strategies in Late Ancient Christian Literature”  on March 30.  \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/2022-03-finding-tragedy/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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