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SUMMARY:Non-Credit Course - Faith\, Science\, and Reason
DESCRIPTION:This weekly non-credit course is open to current Chicago area students and faculty. Others interested in attending should contact us. Registrants are free to attend as many sessions as they choose. Sessions do not presuppose previous attendance or prior knowledge of the subject. \n\nIf the new Cosmic story\, that started with the Big Bang about 13.8 billion years\, were likened to a 30-volume encyclopedia\, each volume consisting of 450pp.\, each page the equivalent of a million years\, modern humans appear on the last page of the last volume. Are we humans a random consequence of evolving mindless matter or the crowning achievement of God’s creative plan? \nCan a Christian believer reconcile the findings of the modern natural sciences with their religious beliefs?  What about the Church’s condemnation of Galileo and the apparent atheism of Darwinian evolution?  Are religious faith and scientific reason intransigent enemies or convergent collaborators on the fundamental questions concerning the meaning and purpose of human life?  This non-credit class will discuss these questions with theologian Fr. Peter Bernardi\, S.J.\, and a series of guest speakers from the natural and social sciences\, as well as philosophy. \n\n6:00 PM Dinner | 6:30 PM Lecture \nSchedule: \nApril 5 | The Biblical Doctrine of Creation and Scientific Evolution: Conflict or Convergence? \nApril 12 | What does Athens (Philosophy) have to do with Jerusalem (Religious Faith)? \n  \nApril 19 | The Aristotelian Revolution & St. Thomas Aquinas’s ‘Summa’ on Faith and Reason \n  \nApril 26 | Can an intelligent person still be an atheist?  An Updated Assessment of Modern Atheism \n  \nMay 3 | Navigating Science and Religion: From Conflict to Dialogue with Humility – Prof. Joseph Vukov (Loyola University Chicago) \n  \nMay 10 | Conservation and Consumption in a Laudato Si Context – Prof. Christie Klimas (DePaul University) \n  \nMay 17 | Genetic Manipulation – Prof. Gayle Woloschak (Northwestern University) \n  \nMay 24 | Biological Evolution and the Christian Tradition – Dr. Peter Tierney (Lumen Christi Institute)
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2022-04-faith-science-reason-peter-bernardi-sj/
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SUMMARY:Lunch Discussion on "Theology and the Erotic: Has the Internet Killed Love?"
DESCRIPTION:Due to circumstances outside our control\, this event has been canceled. We hope to schedule events with Fr. Fields in future quarters. \nOpen to current students. Others interested in participating should contact us. Lunch will be provided for registrants. \nWhat does theology have to say about erotic love?  Better yet\, what is love? How can one distinguish between good loves and bad? \nIn this lunchtime discussion\, Fr. Stephen Fields (Hackett Professor of Theology\, Georgetown University) will offer some brief reflections on the nature of love from the perspective of philosophy and theology. Then we will open the floor for a wide-ranging discussion about the relevance of the study of love to contemporary events and issues.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2022-04-lunch-discussion-on-theology-erotic-has-internet-killed-love-stephen-fields-sj/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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SUMMARY:Symposium on "The Light that Binds: A Study in Thomas Aquinas's Metaphysics of Natural Law"
DESCRIPTION:A symposium on The Light that Binds: A Study in Thomas Aquinas’s Metaphysics of Natural Law by Fr. Stephen L. Brock (Wipf and Stock\, 2020). \nFree and open to the public. Registration is required. Cosponsored by Wipf and Stock Publishers\, the Department of History at the University of Chicago\, and the Seminary Co-op Bookstore.  Contact us with any questions. \nABOUT THE BOOK \nIf there is any one author in the history of moral thought who has come to be associated with the idea of natural law\, it is Saint Thomas Aquinas. Many things have been written about Aquinas’s natural law teaching\, and from many different perspectives. The aim of this book is to help see it from his own perspective. That is why the focus is metaphysical. Aquinas’s whole moral doctrine is laden with metaphysics\, and his natural law teaching especially so\, because it is all about first principles. The book centers on how Aquinas thinks the first principles of practical reason\, which for him are what make up natural law\, function as laws. It is a controversial question\, and the book engages a variety of readers of Aquinas\, including Francisco Suarez\, Jacques Maritain\, prominent analytical philosophers\, Straussians\, and the initiators of the New Natural Law theory. Among the issues addressed are the relation between natural law and natural inclination\, how far natural law depends on knowledge of human nature\, what its obligatory force consists in\, and\, above all\, how it is related to what for Aquinas is the first principle of all being\, the divine will. \nYou can purchase the book from our partners at the Seminary Co-op Bookstore. \n\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. \n\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/2022-01-symposium-on-light-that-binds-a-study-in-thomas-aquinass-metaphysics-of-natural-law-stephen-l-brock-russell-hittinger-matthew-levering-candace-vogler/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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SUMMARY:Logical to the Bitter End: Absurdity\, Suicide\, and Hope in Albert Camus’s The Myth of Sisyphus
DESCRIPTION:Does the absurdity of life dictate death? Can one find hope—can one truly live—in an absurd universe? \nThese are the questions Albert Camus labors mightily to answer in his seminal work\, The Myth of Sisyphus. Acknowledging the basic human impulse to seek meaning to existence\, Camus nevertheless holds that existence provides us with no answer and\, moreover\, never will. Given this absurdity\, Camus thus identifies suicide as the “one truly serious philosophical problem.” Why\, Camus poses\, do we bother to go on living once we recognize the absurdity of life? How\, in the face of absurdity\, can one embrace the struggle with meaninglessness and find happiness? In this reading course we will think seriously about these questions and closely examine the ways Camus provides for affirming life in an absurd universe. \nAlbert Camus\, The Myth of Sisyphus (Vintage 1991) \n\nApril 21: The Absurd Truth\, [Myth\, pp. 1-50]\nMay 5: Absurd Freedom\, [Myth\, pp. 51-92]\nMay 19: The Absurd Man\, [Myth\, pp. 93-123]\n\nThe reading group will be led by David Lyons\, Assistant Instructional Professor in the Social Sciences Collegiate Division at the University of Chicago. Each week\, we will meet and discuss over dinner at Gavin House (1220 E. 58th St.). Dinner is served at 6pm. Discussion begins at 6:15. The goal is to think deeply about the text\, ask meaningful questions\, and debate in good faith. Perhaps we’ll even touch on the meaning of life. Questions can be directed to Austin Walker. \nIllustration Copyright: Vedran Stimac (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2022-04-logical-to-bitter-end-absurdity-suicide-hope-in-albert-camus-s-myth-of-sisyphus-david-lyons/
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SUMMARY:Bernard of Clairvaux: Writing a Biography of the Difficult Saint
DESCRIPTION:A lecture with Professor Brian Patrick McGuire\, author of Bernard of Clairvaux: An Inner Life (Cornell University Press\, 2020). Free and open to the public. Registration is required. Cosponsored by the Bollandist Society\, Cornell University Press\, the Medieval Studies Workshop at the University of Chicago\, and the Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion. Contact us with any questions. \nFrom the presenter: \nThis lecture will be a combination of biography and autobiography: my various attempts at writing a biography of Bernard of Clairvaux and the history of my own life. I think it is important for historians to be aware of the contents of individual human lives and their contributions to their own time. In the case of Bernard\, I began with the assumption that he was a monster\, a churchman who did his utmost to destroy Peter Abelard and his new theology. But in the course of gaining life experience I came to understand what Bernard was facing: a conviction that it was his duty to involve himself in the life of the Church while at the same time seeking the contemplative life he had chosen at Clairvaux. It became easier for me to accept Bernard’s situation when I became involved after 1985 in helping asylum applicants in Denmark\, in a society whose officials did their best to send these people back where they came from. During these years until the early 1990s my view of Bernard changed as my perception of my own time changed. I came to see how difficult it is to live up to a Christian way of life and to help other people. \nMy lecture will not be pure autobiography but will concentrate on the contents of Bernard’s life as I have come to perceive him in my own research and writing. I have deemed him “the difficult saint” and as such he well fits our own difficult times\, when decency and charity are more needed than ever. \nABOUT THE BOOK​​​​​​ \nIn this intimate portrait of one of the Middle Ages’ most consequential men\, Brian Patrick McGuire delves into the life of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux to offer a refreshing interpretation that finds within this grand historical figure a deeply spiritual human being who longed for the reflective quietude of the monastery even as he helped shape the destiny of a church and a continent. Heresy and crusade\, politics and papacies\, theology and disputation shaped this astonishing man’s life\, and McGuire presents it all in a deeply informed and clear-eyed biography. \nFollowing Bernard from his birth in 1090 to his death in 1153 at the abbey he had founded four decades earlier\, Bernard of Clairvaux reveals a life teeming with momentous events and spiritual contemplation\, from Bernard’s central roles in the first great medieval reformation of the Church and the Second Crusade\, which he came to regret\, to the crafting of his books\, sermons\, and letters. We see what brought Bernard to monastic life and how he founded Clairvaux Abbey\, established a network of Cistercian monasteries across Europe\, and helped his brethren monks and abbots in heresy trials\, affairs of state\, and the papal schism of the 1130s. \nBy reevaluating Bernard’s life and legacy through his own words and those of the people closest to him\, McGuire reveals how this often-challenging saint saw himself and conveyed his convictions to others. Above all\, this fascinating biography depicts Saint Bernard of Clairvaux as a man guided by Christian revelation and open to the achievements of the human spirit.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2022-04-bernard-of-clairvaux-an-inner-life/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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SUMMARY:Friendship and Community: The Monastic Experience\, 350-1250
DESCRIPTION:A master class with Brian Patrick McGuire (Roskilde University). Open to current graduate students\, faculty\, and advanced University of Chicago undergraduate students. Others interested in participating should contact us. Registrants will receive copies of the prepared reading. \nFriendship has been apparent in our culture as a concern ever since the time of the Greeks. Today it is often ignored or taken for granted. Some readings of the Gospels would indicate that friendship is secondary. We are saved not because of our friendships but because we find how to love our enemies. For Augustine\, the architect of friendship\, converting to the Christian religion meant downsizing his friendships\, even though he still maintained them. For the Desert Fathers\, an abba is a father and not a friend\, and for Benedict in his monastic way of life\, one monk is never to defend another as a friend. The abbot is not to show preferences\, but an exception is made for especially deserving monks. \nIn our age so permeated with sexual sensibility\, the main concern in medieval life seems to have been fear of friendships in order to avoid sexual bonds\, but the sources speak otherwise. Bonds of friendship in the cloister were considered dangerous not because of sex but because monks could form cliques and defy the position of the abbot. And yet\, in spite of the fear of bonds that would upset the life of the cloister\, central monastic figures of the early Middle Ages\, such as Bede and Boniface\, cultivated friendships and almost simultaneously\, but independently of each other\, coined the term\, amicitia spiritalis. \nWhat had been in Cicero’s time an alliance of two aristocratic men to further their ambitions now became an accepted aspect of monastic life. This opening to friendship appeared especially in the twelfth century among the Cistercians. Bernard of Clairvaux used a language of friendship and his monk Aelred of Rievaulx converted Cicero’s “On Friendship” into “On Spiritual Friendship.” And yet Aelred’s celebration of the language and experience of friendship did not last\, and it is important to find what happened to spiritual friendship. \nReadings \n\nCicero\, On Friendship\nThe Rule of Saint Benedict\, esp. chapters 2\, 69 and 71\nAelred of Rievaulx\, Spiritual Friendship (Cistercian Publications)\nBrian Patrick McGuire\, Friendship and Community: The Monastic Experience (Cornell University Press\, 2010)\, especially ch. VII\, “Aelred of Rievaulx and the Limits of Friendship”.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2022-04-friendship-community-monastic-experience-350-1250/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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