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SUMMARY:Retribution and St. Thomas Aquinas's Teaching on Justice
DESCRIPTION:Open to current students and faculty. This event is co-sponsored by the St. Thomas More Society at the University of Chicago Law School. Others interested in participating should contact info@lumenchristi.org. This event is in-person only. All registrants will receive pdfs of the selected readings\, which should be read in advance of the class. An optional wine and cheese reception will follow.  \nThomas Aquinas assigns two functions to punishment\, retributive and medicinal. He sees the retributive function as the primary one\, pertaining to the very idea of punishment\, and it will be the focus of this master class. The aim will be to determine how exactly retribution fits within Aquinas’s teaching on justice. For although there is no doubt that he considers it to be a matter of justice\, he has surprisingly little to say about it within his massive treatment of that virtue in the Summa theologiae. Legal theory and theology overlap on this topic\, but scholarly literature on it is scant. Yet surely a clear understanding of Aquinas’s teaching on punishment in general is necessary for grasping his teachings on particular issues\, such as capital punishment (on which the literature is huge). \nThere will be several questions to address. To which kind of justice does Thomas think retribution belongs? How does it constitute that kind of justice? Who is given their own or their right through retribution? Does it not really pertain to legal justice? Is it obligatory? The readings provided will furnish the background needed to engage the topic. \nReadings:\nRequired Readings (from the Summa Theologiae): to be completed before class \n\nI.21.1\nII-II.57.1\nII-II.58.1\,2\,5\,6\,7\,8\,10\,11\nII-II.59.1\,3\nII-II.60.1\,5\nII-II.61.1-4\nII.II.62.1\,3\nII-II.63.1\,4\nII-II.108.2\n\nRecommended Readings (from the Summa Theologiae): \n\nI-II.21.3\,4\nI-II.87.1\,6\,7\nI.21.2-4\nII-II.67.4\nII-II.108.1\,3\,4\nIII.85.3\n\nBoth the required and recommended readings will be distributed to participants via Dropbox. If you prefer\, you can pick up a printout of the readings at Gavin House (1220 E. 58th Street) Mon-Fri\, 10am-4pm. Please email Dan Stanley at dstanley@lumenchristi.org to let us know you are coming. \nSchedule:\n1:30-2:00 | Pre-event coffee and cookies \n2:00-3:20 | Session 1 \n3:20-3:40 | Break \n3:40-5:00 | Session 2 \n5:00-5:30 | Reception
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2023-05-retribution-st-thomas-aquinass-teaching-on-justice/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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SUMMARY:Lunch Discussion with Sally Blount: "Faith\, Markets\, and Meaning"
DESCRIPTION:This event is co-presented by the Lumen Christi Institute and Catholics at Booth. Registration required. Open to students and faculty only. Email m.lechevallier@lumenchristi.org to inquire about registration. \nAccording to the Edelman Trust Barometer\, business firms have become the only “trusted” social Institution. Simultaneously\, there has been a growing drumbeat around corporate “purpose” over the last 10 years – with companies writing ever more expansive purpose statements about how their firms “improve the world\,” “make lives more joyful\,” and “create meaningful community.” Yet\, business leaders have little training in moral philosophy or religion; markets systems are not inherently wise\, kind\, or fair. And\, at its heart\, a company’s purpose must be\, first and foremost\, its promise to its customers and investors. As people of faith\, our hope must be in something bigger and more profound . . . What might Catholic Social Teaching suggest? \n 
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2023-05-lunch-discussion-with-sally-blount-sally-blount/
LOCATION:Booth School of Business\, 5807 S Woodlawn Avenue\, Chicago\, IL
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SUMMARY:Maximus the Confessor Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Mondays\, April 17- May 15\, 2023 | 4:30- 6:00 PM \nOpen to current students and faculty at the University of Chicago. Copies of the Ambigua will be provided. Participants can come to whichever sessions they choose. No previous knowledge of the subject-matter required. Non-students interested in participating should contact info@lumenchristi.org. Food and beverages will be provided.  \nMaximus the Confessor (580-662) is considered one of the most speculative and creative theologians from the first millennium of Christianity. Yet\, Maximus’s genius is at its most generative in conversation with the past. His largest work\, the Ambigua\, comments on difficult passages in the works of Gregory Nazianzen (4th century) and Dionysius the Areopagite (6th century). Maximus’ broad and deep thinking is on full display throughout this commentary\, responses to single passages becoming small treatises in their own right. \nThe Ambigua reveals Maximus’ wide ranging interests in metaphysics\, cosmology\, anthropology\, Christology\, language\, and time. His wide learning in all these areas are  put at the service of exploring these earlier Christian works. \nThis reading group seizes upon the insight gleaned from Maximus’ method: creativity is born from a rigorous engagement with the past. Through a reading of selected Ambigua\, we will explore his bold\, christological vision of the cosmos\, rooted in the deep reading of his priors. \nFood\, beverages\, and Greek/English copies of the Ambigua will be provided. \nSCHEDULE\nApril 17: Quid Ambigua? \n\n“Ambiguum 21\,” 421-447\nRecommended Reading:\n\n“Prologue to Ambigua to Thomas\,” 3-7\n“Prologue to Ambigua to John\,” 63-69\n\n\n\nApril 24: Trinity & Christology \n\n“Ambiguum 1\,” 7-11\n“Ambiguum 5\,” 31-59\n\nMay 1: Creation & Salvation \n\n“Ambiguum 7\,” Selections\n\nMay 8: Interpretation: Scripture & Cosmos \n\n“Ambiguum 10\,” Selections\n\nMay 15: The Practice of Theology \n\n“Ambiguum 13\,” 349-355
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2023-04-maximus-confessor-reading-group-fr-andrew-summerson/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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SUMMARY:Spring Non-Credit Course | Shame\, Suffering\, and the Scandal of the Cross
DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays\, March 28-May 16\n6:00pm: Dinner\n6:30pm: Presentation \nThis event is in-person only. Intended for university students and recent graduates. Others interested in attending please contact info@lumenchristi.org. \nRegistrants are free to attend as many sessions as they choose. Sessions do not presuppose previous attendance or prior knowledge of the subject. \nThe human experiences of suffering\, shame\, and evil are assaults on our deepest desire for happiness.   The atrocities that darken human history\, especially the Holocaust\, and disasters like the recent earthquakes in Turkey & Syria call into question the Christian belief in God’s Providence.  Correspondingly\, Christ’s public passion and tortured death have always been a scandal to human reason (St. Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians 1:18-25).  Nevertheless\,  Christian faith proclaims that the Cross of Christ has saved us (Ibid.\, 15:3-5). \nThis Lumen Christi Institute spring quarter class will consider the redemptive ‘causality’ of the cross\, its relationship to our own experiences of suffering\, and the credibility of the claim of Christ’s bodily resurrection. \nSCHEDULE  \nMarch 28: The Evil of Auschwitz\, the Scandal of the Cross\, and the Death of God \nApril 4: Things aren’t the way they are supposed to be: the Fall and the Need for Salvation. \nApril 11: The Cross of Christ: “My God\, my God\, why have you forsaken me?” \nApril 18: The Saving Efficacy of the Cross of Christ: the Eastern Christian Tradition \nApril 25: The Saving Efficacy of the Cross of Christ: the Western Christian Tradition \nMay 2: The Resurrection of Jesus Christ: Linchpin of Hope for the Victory of Good over Evil. \nMay 9: The Shroud of Turin: Photographic negative of a tortured\, crucified man: Artifact of the Bodily Resurrection of Jesus Christ? \nMay 16: Living the Paschal Mystery: “This is a trustworthy saying: If we die with him\, we will also live with him. If we endure hardship\, we will reign with him.” [2 Timothy 2:11]
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2023-03-spring-non-credit-course-shame-suffering-scandal-of-cross/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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