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SUMMARY:Aquinas’s Five Ways and Where they Lead
DESCRIPTION:APPLY HERE\nThis intensive seminar will discuss St. Thomas Aquinas’s Five Ways of proving the existence of a God and the conception that he thinks they yield: that of a God who is at once utterly simple and utterly perfect\, and therefore utterly beyond our comprehension. The sessions will center on Summa theologiae\, I\, qq. 2-4—especially\, of course\, I\, q. 2\, a. 3\, which contains the Five Ways themselves—and on selected texts from I\, qq. 12 & 13.  Participants will also discuss relevant passages from other works of St. Thomas\, as well as his historical influences and some related contemporary issues. \n\nLOCATION AND FORMAT \n\nThe seminar will be held at Gavin House\, home of the Lumen Christi Institute in Hyde Park\, Chicago.\nBreakfast and lunch on the days of the seminar sessions along with several dinners will be provided.\nParticipants will be responsible for securing your own lodging for the seminar. We can assist and provide information on nearby accommodations. Participants will receive a stipend of up to $850 to offset travel and lodging expenses.\nParticipants should arrive on Sunday\, June 26 and depart on Saturday\, July 2 after the final session.\nParticipants will be required to read the assigned texts in preparation for the seminar.\nThis seminar was defered in 2020. As a result only a limited number of available spaces are available to new applicants.\n\nQUALIFICATIONS AND APPLICATION  \nThis seminar is open to Ph.D. students in theology\, philosophy\, classics\, and other relevant fields of study. \n\nA completed online application form.\nAn updated CV.\nAt least one and no more than two letter(s) of recommendation.\nA statement of research interest no longer than 750 words\, which includes an explanation of how this seminar might bear on the student’s current or future research plans.\nOne academic writing sample (30 pages maximum).\nAll application materials can be submitted via the online application. Incomplete applications will not be considered\n\n\nTHE APPLICATION DEADLINE IS FEBRUARY 15\, 2022. \nContact us with any questions.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2022-aquinas-five-ways/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
CATEGORIES:Summer Seminars
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SUMMARY:The Thought of John Henry Newman
DESCRIPTION:APPLY HERE\nNow in its ninth year\, this intensive seminar will examine the achievements of Saint John Henry Newman as a theologian\, philosopher\, educator\, preacher\, and writer. Remarkably\, in each of these areas Newman produced works that have come to be recognized as classics: An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine\, The Grammar of Assent\, The Idea of a University\, The Parochial and Plain Sermons\, and the Apologia Pro Vita Sua. This seminar will approach Newman’s thought through a critical engagement with these texts. \nLOCATION AND FORMAT \n\nThe seminar will be held at Merton College\, Oxford.\nThe seminar will be led by Fr. Fields with Fr. Ker serving as a guest lecturer.\nMeals and lodging will be provided.\nParticipants will receive a stipend of up to $700 to offset travel expenses.\nParticipants will arrive on Saturday\, July 2 and depart on Saturday\, July 9.\nParticipants will be required to read the assigned texts in preparation for the seminar.\nFifteen applicants will be admitted to the seminar.\n\nQUALIFICATIONS AND APPLICATION  \nThis seminar is open to Ph.D. students in theology\, philosophy\, classics\, and other relevant fields of study. \n\nA completed online application form.\nAn updated CV.\nAt least one and no more than two letter(s) of recommendation.\nA statement of research interest no longer than 750 words\, which includes an explanation of how this seminar might bear on the student’s current or future research plans.\nOne academic writing sample (30 pages maximum).\nAll application materials can be submitted via the online application. Incomplete applications will not be considered\n\n\nTHE APPLICATION DEADLINE IS FEBRUARY 15\, 2022. \nContact us with any questions.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2022-newman-seminar/
LOCATION:Merton College\, Oxford\, Merton St\, Oxford OX1 4JD\, UK\, Oxford\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Summer Seminars
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SUMMARY:Modern Science and Christian Faith for Graduate Students
DESCRIPTION:APPLY HERE\nThe goal of this seminar is to provide students with the background knowledge and conceptual tools necessary to understand and think clearly about the relation of science and faith. This will help them to integrate scientific and theological ways of understanding in their own thinking\, and make it possible for them to help others (including their future colleagues and students) to achieve such integration. The overarching goal is to help develop a cadre of people with a broad and informed understanding of these issues who can be the nucleus from which wider outreach efforts might grow. \nAmong the topics discussed will be the historical relationship of the Church and science; the relation of faith and reason; evidence for God in the existence and order of the cosmos; God and nature; primary and secondary causality; the supernatural and miracles; modern physics and natural theology; creation and providence; the beginning of the universe and modern cosmology; God and time; human origins and human distinctiveness; rationality\, freedom\, and the soul; physicalist reductionism and the human mind; Genesis and scriptural interpretation; biological evolution; biology and human nature; and the Fall\, original sin and concupiscence. \nPreparatory readings may include excerpts from: \n\n\nModern Physics and Ancient Faith (Stephen M. Barr) \n\n\nThe Believing Scientist (Stephen M. Barr) \n\n\nGalileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and Religion (ed. Ronald L. Numbers) \n\n\nMind and Cosmos (Thomas Nagel) \n\n\nThe Faith of the Early Fathers (William A. Jurgens) \n\n\nConfessions (St. Augustine) \n\n\nCity of God (St. Augustine) \n\n\nOn the Literal Meaning of Genesis (St. Augustine) \n\n\nSumma Contra Gentiles (St. Thomas Aquinas) \n\n\nIn the Beginning (Joseph Ratzinger) \n\n\nCommunion and Stewardship: Human Persons Created in the Image of God (International Theological Commission) \n\n\nThe Blind Watchmaker (Richard Dawkins). \n\n\nCatechism of the Catholic Church \n\n\nAddresses and statements on science and religion by Pope St. John Paul II \n\n\n“Hylomorphism and Human Wholeness:  Perspectives on the Mind-Brain Problem.” (Theology and Science)\,  Michael J. Dodds\, OP\, \n\n“Thomas Aquinas Meets Nim Chimpsky:  On the Debate about Human Nature and the Nature of Other Animals.” (The Aquinas Review)\, Marie I. George\n\nLOCATION AND FORMAT \n\n\nThe seminar will take place at Harvard University in Cambridge\, MA. Admitted students will be required to arrange their own travel to and from the seminar. \n\n\nAdmitted students will be granted a stipend of $350 to offset travel costs in addition to having their lodging and meals covered for the duration of the seminar. \n\n\nParticipants will arrive In Cambridge\, MA on Sunday\, July 3 and depart on Saturday\, July 9. The seminar will take place from Monday to Friday\, with a lecture and discussion session each morning and afternoon. \n\n\nParticipants will be required to read the assigned materials in preparation for the seminar. \n\n\nIn order to receive the $350 stipend\, students must participate fully in all seminar activities and complete a survey at the end of the seminar. \n\n\nAPPLICATION INFORMATION \n\n\nOpen to graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in STEM fields\, medicine\, the history of science\, philosophy\, theology\, and relevant fields. \n\n\nApplicants must submit an online application\, including details on their course of study\, a statement of interest\, and a letter of recommendation (optional). \n\n\nFor full consideration\, apply by April 15. After April 15\, applications will be evaluated on a rolling basis. \n\n\n15 applicants will be admitted to the seminar. \n\n\nThis seminar is made possible through the support of grant #62372 from the John Templeton Foundation\, “In Lumine: Promoting the Catholic Intellectual Tradition on Campuses Nationwide”  \n\nFREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS \nI am a PhD student graduating this academic year. Can I still apply?  Yes! \nI am currently an undergraduate but have been admitted to a graduate program for the next academic year. Can I still apply? Yes\, please indicate this in the statement of purpose in your application. \nI have attended a Lumen Christi Institute seminar in the past. May I still apply? Yes! \nDo I have to be Catholic to apply? No. The Lumen Christi Institute exists to promotes the Catholic intellectual tradition and is committed to the integration of the intellectual and spiritual life. The Institute welcomes seminar participants of all or no religious affiliation\, and wants to assure all applicants that the opportunities to participate in devotional activities are optional.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2022-grad-science-religion-seminar/
LOCATION:Harvard University\, Mount Auburn Street\, Cambridge\, MA
CATEGORIES:Summer Seminars
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SUMMARY:Origen of Alexandria’s On First Principles
DESCRIPTION:APPLY HERE\nThis seminar will be a close reading of Origen’s On First Principles\, supplemented by various other texts from his corpus. One of the first systematic presentations of the Christian faith\, On First Principles\, written c. 220\, is also a complex text to engage. While we possess some Greek fragments\, the whole survives only in a much later Latin translation. At the same time\, it is essential to see how the positions that Origen puts forth in this work relate to those we find developed in his biblical exegesis. Accordingly\, we will examine texts from the On First Principles in parallel with selections from his Commentary on John\, Against Celsus\, and his various Old Testament commentaries. \nPresented by the Lumen Christi Institute and the Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies at the University of St. Michael’s College in the University of Toronto. Cosponsored by the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto. \nLOCATION AND FORMAT \n\nThe seminar sessions will be held at Windle House\, hosted by the Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies\, at the University of St. Michael’s College in the University of Toronto.\nMeals and lodging will be provided.\nParticipants will receive a stipend of up to $350 to offset travel expenses.\nParticipants will arrive at on Sunday\, July 9 and depart on Saturday\, July 16.\nParticipants will be provided with a copy of On First Principles (Oxford University Press\, 2020) and will be expected to read it in preparation for the seminar.\nFifteen applicants will be admitted to the seminar.\n\nQUALIFICATIONS AND APPLICATION  \nThis seminar is open to PhD students in theology\, philosophy\, classics\, and other relevant fields of study. Working knowledge of relevant ancient languages will be helpful\, but not essential. \n\nA completed online application form.\nAn updated CV.\nAt least one and no more than two letter(s) of recommendation.\nA statement of research interest no longer than 750 words\, which includes an explanation of how this seminar might bear on the student’s current or future research plans.\nOne academic writing sample (30 pages maximum).\nAll application materials can be submitted via the online application. Incomplete applications will not be considered\n\n\nTHE APPLICATION DEADLINE IS FEBRUARY 15\, 2022. \nContact us with any questions.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2022-origen-seminar/
LOCATION:University of St. Michael’s College\, 81 St. Mary's Street\nToronto\, ON M5S 1J4\, Toronto\, ON
CATEGORIES:Summer Seminars
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SUMMARY:Catholic Social Thought: A Critical Investigation
DESCRIPTION:APPLY HERE\nIn this seminar\, students will read\, analyze\, and discern continuities and discontinuities in Catholic social thought from the late 19th century to the present. Lectures\, seminar reports\, and discussion will focus on original sources (encyclicals and other magisterial documents)\, beginning with Rerum novarum (1892) and concluding with Caritas in veritate (2009) and Evangelii Gaudium (2013). This intensive course is multi-disciplinary\, since this tradition of social thought overlaps several disciplines in the contemporary university including political science\, political philosophy\, law\, economics\, theology\, and history. \nLOCATION AND FORMAT \n\nThe seminar will be held in Berkeley\, CA. \nMeals and lodging will be provided.\nParticipants will receive a stipend of up to $350 to offset travel expenses.\nParticipants will arrive on Saturday\, July 30 and depart on Saturday\, August 6.\nParticipants will be required to read the assigned texts in preparation for the seminar.\nFifteen applicants will be admitted to the seminar.\n\nQUALIFICATIONS AND APPLICATION  \nThis seminar is open to Ph.D. and J.D. students in theology\, philosophy\, law\, social sciences\, and relevant fields of study \n\nA completed online application form.\nAn updated CV.\nAt least one and no more than two letter(s) of recommendation.\nA statement of research interest no longer than 750 words\, which includes an explanation of how this seminar might bear on the student’s current or future research plans.\nOne academic writing sample (30 pages maximum).\nAll application materials can be submitted via the online application. Incomplete applications will not be considered\n\n\nTHE APPLICATION DEADLINE IS FEBRUARY 15\, 2022. \nContact us with any questions.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2022-cst-seminar/
LOCATION:University of California\, Berkeley\, S Hall Rd.\nBerkeley\, CA 94720\, Berkeley\, CA
CATEGORIES:Summer Seminars
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