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SUMMARY:An Unknown Constellation: Hannah Arendt Reads Étienne Gilson and Jacques Maritain
DESCRIPTION:This event is free and open to the public. For more information\, contact dstrobach@lumenchristi.org. A wine and cheese reception will follow. The location is tbd. \nThis event is cosponsored by the University of Chicago Committee on Social Thought. \nGerman philosopher and former UChicago professor\, Hannah Arendt stands as one of the most influential 20th century theorists of totalitarianism and political ideology. The sources for her unique insights remain obscure\, as she rarely revealed her influences outside of Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers. Thomas Meyer has discovered in unpublished archives and letters Arendt’s deep interest in two mid-century French Catholic thinkers: Etienne Gilson and Jacques Maritain. She explored their works during the “Third Reich\,” taking a special interest in Gilson’s philosophy of history and Maritain’s analysis of the state. Arendt valued their consistent way of thinking. A study of this “unknown constellation” traces unexpected connections among mid-century political theorists. \nOn the following day\, Prof. Meyer will lead a master class for students and faculty on Hannah Arendt’s famous work\, The Human Condition. \nImage courtesty of Barbara Niggl Radloff\,  \nhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hannah_Arendt_auf_dem_1._Kulturkritikerkongress\,_Barbara_Niggl_Radloff\,_FM-2019-1-5-9-16.jpg
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2024-2-arendt-and-her-catholic-interests/
LOCATION:Social Sciences\, Tea Room\, 1126 E 59th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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SUMMARY:Hannah Arendt and The Human Condition
DESCRIPTION:Open to current graduate students and faculty. Advanced undergraduates and others interested in participating should contact dstrobach@lumenchristi.org. This event is in-person only. All registrants will receive copies of the selected readings\, which should be read in advance of the class. An optional wine and cheese reception will follow.  \nHannah Arendt came to Chicago in the 1950’s and produced two remarkable works: The Human Condition (which began as her Walgreens lectures) and Between Past and Future (which she finished while she was at the University of Chicago’s Committee on Social Thought). This seminar-style master class will examine excerpts from these works in order to delineate Arendt’s treatment of the human condition\, the relation between the history of political thought and the present day\, and her work in light of Leo Strauss’ Natural Right and History. \nReadings:\nHannah Arendt: \n\nFrom Between Past and Future: “The Concept of History: Ancient and Modern”\nFrom The Human Condition: § 31 and 32 (“The Traditional Substitution of Making for Acting” and “The Process Character of Action”).\n\nLeo Strauss: \n\nFrom Natural Right and History: “Introduction” and “I. Natural Right and the Historical Approach.”\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 once they are ready. Please email David Strobach at dstrobach@lumenchristi.org to let us know you are coming. \nSchedule:\n11:30-12:00 | Optional pre-event lunch \n12:00-1:20 | Session 1 \n1:20-1:40 | Coffee break \n1:40-3:00 | Session 2 \n3:00-3:30 | Reception
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2024-2-arendt-the-human-condition/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
CATEGORIES:Master Classes
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SUMMARY:Care of Souls in Inquisition Spain
DESCRIPTION:This event is free and open to the public. For more information\, contact dstrobach@lumenchristi.org. A wine and cheese reception will follow. \nWhat did the practice of Christianity look like in a place shadowed by an inquisition? Were personal preferences\, conversations\, spiritual friendships\, and religious questions off the table by default? Did clergy under the Spanish Inquisition neglect their duty to care for souls? Sixteenth-century Spaniards — regardless of their vocation\, gender or education — defended and practiced a Catholicism that was rich in individual discretion\, human communication\, and theological inquiry. This talk lays out the evidence for an “inductive Catholicism\,” which even Spanish inquisitors sometimes endorsed.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2024-01-care-of-souls-in-inquisition-spain/
LOCATION:John Hope Franklin Room SSRB 224\, 1126 E 59th St.\, Chicago\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240210T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240210T193000
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SUMMARY:Red Mass and Lecture for Legal Professionals
DESCRIPTION:This event is free and open to the public.  \nThe Lumen Christi Institute\, Calvert House\, St. Thomas the Apostle Parish\, the St. Thomas More Society at the University of Chicago Law School\, and the Catholic Lawyers Guild of Chicago are pleased to announce their third annual Red Mass and Lecture. \nMass will be held at Bond Chapel at the University of Chicago. The celebrant will be Bishop Jeffrey Grob\, JCD. \nThe lecture will be held at Swift Hall. It will be offered by Dr. Lu Ann Homza. \nWhat is a Red Mass? \nA Red Mass is a Mass celebrated for members of the legal community. Through prayerful petition and thanksgiving the Red Mass requests guidance from the Holy Spirit for all who seek justice\, and offers the legal community an opportunity to reflect on the God-given power and responsibility of all in the legal profession. \nOriginating in Europe during the High Middle Ages\, the Red Mass is so-called from the red vestments traditionally worn in symbolism of the tongues of fire that descended on the Apostles at Pentecost (Acts 2:1–4). Its name also exemplifies the scarlet robes worn by royal judges that attended the Mass centuries ago. \nLecture by Dr. Lu Ann Homza\n“When Witches Litigate: New Evidence from Spanish Archives” \nWe often wonder whether our legal system is accessible to unaware\, under-educated\, or vulnerable people who need to use it. Remarkably\, between 1610 and 1612\, suspected witches in northern Spain turn out to have known exactly how to deploy the courts at their disposal\, despite being illiterate and Basque-speaking. The archives in Pamplona preserve multiple prosecutions launched by accused witches when they were defamed and illegally tortured in their villages. The witch-suspects won their cases; the defendants were severely punished. \nThis talk will explain the legal strategies\, emotional reasoning\, and practical measures that suspected witches used to regain their honor and punish their adversaries. Their examples illustrate how wide and deep their knowledge of the law was\, even in the most implausible circumstances. \nSchedule \n4:00 pm – Mass at Bond Chapel (1025 E. 58th St.)\n5:00 pm – Reception and Networking at Swift Hall (1025 E. 58th St.)\n5:45 pm – Lecture at Swift Hall (1025 E. 58th St.)\n6:30 pm – End
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2024-02-red-mass/
LOCATION:Bond Chapel & Swift Hall\, 1025 E. 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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SUMMARY:The Closing of the American Mind and the Death of Philosophy
DESCRIPTION:Open to current undergraduate students at the University of Chicago. Registration is capped at 20. Students who register after capacity has been reached will be put on a waitlist. All registrants will be provided with a free copy of the text. This seminar and the Nicklin Fellows are cosponsored by the First Analysis Institute. \nREGISTER HERE \nThe American university is premised on being open to a wide range of people and ideas\, the place “where community and friendship can exist in our times.” \n\nBut has the university perverted openness into a  “surrender to whatever is most powerful”?\nIs openness a virtue\, “that invites us to the quest for knowledge and certitude?”\nOr does openness “result in conformism”?\nIs “what is advertised as a great opening …a great closing\,” where indifference\, ignorance\, and relativism have closed the American mind to the pursuit of truth?\n\nThese questions animated Allan Bloom in his 1987 bestseller\, The Closing of the American Mind. A longtime member of the University of Chicago’s Committee on Social Thought with decades of experience teaching undergraduates\, Bloom lambasted the intellectual and spiritual state of American higher education.  From rock music to the sexual revolution\, from Nietzsche and Max Weber to concepts like “my values” and “the self\,” Bloom indicted the causes for the American undergraduate’s flat soul.  The only solution was a return to a Great Books education guided by Plato’s Republic. \nWe will read selections from The Closing of the American Mind to debate some of Bloom’s most contentious claims. Was what he said of undergraduates true in 1987? Is it true now? Has the university been corrupted by relativism? Do the Great Books provide a way out? \nJohn W. Boyer will join us for the first session. Boyer is the Senior Advisor to the President and the Martin A. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor of History at the University of Chicago. He served as Dean of the College from 1992 until 2023. \nSCHEDULE:\n6:00 PM Dinner | 6:15 PM Discussion | 7:30 PM Close \nWe encourage you to read the book in its entirety. Come ready to discuss at least the selections below. Books are provided. \nJanuary 17th: \n\nIntro + Part I: The Clean Slate\, Books\, and Relationships (Self-Centeredness\, Equality\, Race\, and Sex)\n\nJanuary 31st: \n\nPart II: The German Connection\, Values\, The Nietzcheanization of the Left\, and Our Ignorance\n\nFebruary 14th: \n\nPart III: The Sixties and the Student & the University\n\n\nThis event is part of Lumen Christi’s Fundamental Questions seminar\, a quarterly reading group designed for undergraduate students at the University of Chicago. By fostering intellectually rigorous conversation around culturally resonant texts\, we aim to allow students to experience the force of the deep existential concerns which animate our lives: “Where do my values come from? What is the good life? How can I become happy?” Our aim is not to answer such fundamental questions\, but rather to equip students with the intellectual skills needed to recognize and articulate them for themselves. This group welcomes students from all religious and philosophical backgrounds because existential questions of being are of concern to all. \nIn addition\, undergraduate students who participate in this seminar are eligible to become “Nicklin Fellows.” These fellows will have exclusive access to research and development grant funds to pursue their intellectual interests. Grants can be used to do things like the following: \n\nOrganize a reading group\nBring a speaker to campus\nOrganize a movie night\nDevelop and plan future fundamental questions seminars\nWrite a paper for a journal\nAnd more!\n\n 
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2023-10-the-closing-of-the-american-mind/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
CATEGORIES:Fundamental Questions Seminar
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SUMMARY:Winter Newman Forum Conference for High School Students: What Really Happened At…
DESCRIPTION:What really happens if we genetically engineer humans to thrive on Mars? What really happened at the medieval inquisition? What really happens when you see the face of God? \nDiscover the fascinating reality behind misunderstood topics by engaging with college professors and graduate students to discuss the wonders of science\, lessons of history\, beauty of literature\, and mysteries of faith.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/winter-newman-forum-conference-for-high-school-students-what-really-happened-at/
LOCATION:IL
CATEGORIES:Newman Forum
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240217T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240217T193000
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SUMMARY:White Mass and Lecture for Medical Professionals
DESCRIPTION:This event is free and open to the public.  \nThe Lumen Christi Institute\, Calvert House\, and St. Thomas the Apostle Parish are pleased to announce their first annual White Mass and Lecture. \nMass will be held at Bond Chapel at the University of Chicago. The celebrant will be Fr. Carlos Rodriguez. \nWhat is a White Mass? \nThe tradition of the White Mass in the United States finds its origins in the development of the national Catholic Medical Association in the early 1930s. From its inception\, the medical profession has been understood as a healing profession\, a way in which Christ’s work continues upon the earth. Moreover\, since the apparitions at Lourdes in the late 19th century\, the plight of the infirmed- and those who care for them- have taken on renewed appreciation in participating in the mysteries of Christ’s own life. The White Mass\, so named by the color worn by those in the healing profession of medicine\, gathers healthcare professionals under the patronage of St. Luke to ask God’s blessing upon the patient\, doctor\,  nurse\, and caregiver alike. \nLecture by Sr. Teresa Mary Kozlovski\, RSM\, MD\n“Catholic Health Care: Serving as Instruments of God’s Mercy” \nDuring our training as health care practitioners\, we learn about the body\, what is broken\, and how to fix it. Yet\, in our day-to-day practice in medicine\, we interact with human persons\, not bodies. How does our Catholic faith enlighten this reality and the practice of medicine? This lecture will explore topics including the dignity of each person made in the image and likeness of God\, the importance of the development of our own interior life\, the mercy of God\, and how incorporating these aspects of the faith lends to comprehensive health care and our service in medicine as instruments of God’s mercy. \nSchedule \n4:00 pm – Mass at Bond Chapel (1025 E. 58th St.)\n5:00 pm – Reception and Networking at Swift Hall (1025 E. 58th St.)\n5:45 pm – Lecture at Swift Hall (1025 E. 58th St.)\n6:30 pm – End \nThis event is made possible through the support of ‘In Lumine: Supporting the Catholic Intellectual Tradition on Campuses Nationwide’ (Grant #62372) from the John Templeton Foundation. The opinions expressed in this program are those of the presenter and do not necessarily reflect the views of the John Templeton Foundation.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2024-02-white-mass/
LOCATION:Bond Chapel & Swift Hall\, 1025 E. 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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SUMMARY:Non-Credit Course | The Seven Sacraments of the Catholic Church: Doors to the Sacred
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE \nThis event is in-person only. Intended for university students\, faculty\, and staff. Others interested in attending please contact dstrobach@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 Catholic Faith is profoundly sacramental. The Church recognizes seven sacraments: Baptism\, Confirmation\, Eucharist\, Reconciliation\, Anointing of the Sick\, Marriage\, and Holy Orders. These sacred actions contain and confer Christ’s healing\, transformative Grace. This class will highlight the theological meaning\, Biblical basis\, historical development\, and our own personal experiences of the sacraments. \nThe reality of the sacraments raises a number of complicated questions that this course will answer: \n\n\nWhy baptize infants?  Can the unbaptized be saved? \n\n\nWhy confess one’s sins to a priest? Can a priest ‘forgive’ you? \n\n\nWhat even is a ‘priest’? Why is Holy Orders conferred only on men? \n\n\nWhy should a sick person be anointed? \n\n\nIs marriage really ‘indissoluble’? How does an annulment differ from divorce? \n\n\nHow can the Eucharist be more than bread and wine?  What does the term ‘transubstantiation’ mean? \n\n\nAnd more! \n\n\nSCHEDULE  \nJanuary 9: The Biblical basis of Sacramentality\, Sacraments\, and Sacramentals \nJanuary 16: The Sacraments of Initiation: Baptism\, Confirmation and Eucharist \nJanuary 23: The Eucharist: “The Sacrament of Sacraments” \nJanuary 30: The Eucharist and the Eucharistic Liturgy: “Source and summit of the entire Christian life.” \nFebruary 6: Sacraments of Healing: Reconciliation [aka Penance] and the Anointing of the Sick \nFebruary 13: Sacrament of Marriage \nFebruary 20: Sacrament of Holy Orders \nFORMAT \nTuesdays\, January 9-February 20\n6:00pm: Dinner\n6:30pm: Presentation
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2023-010-winter-non-credit-course-the-seven-sacraments/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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SUMMARY:Reconciling Justice: A Community Conversation on Criminal Justice Reform
DESCRIPTION:This event is by invitation only. For more information\, contact ccjrn@lumenchristi.org. \nAn event for lawyers\, legal scholars\, judges\, ministry leaders\, social workers\, clergy\, and people who have been directly impacted by the criminal justice system to unite for dinner\, plenary panel conversation\, and round-table dialogue around criminal justice reform. The evening’s purpose is to inspire hope\, healing\, and ideas on how to improve the legal system informed by religious wisdom and the experience of those directly affected by our criminal justice system. A mass preceding the program will be celebrated by Cardinal Blase Cupich. \nThis event will begin with a plenary conversation featuring Cardinal Blase Cupich\, Sherrif Tom Dart\, Jeanne Bishop\, Joseph Mapp\, Eric Anderson\, Lisa Davis\, and Judge Erica Reddick \nCo-sponsored by the Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage at Loyola University Chicago\, the Hinda Institute\, Kolbe House Jail Ministry of the Archdiocese of Chicago\, the Catholic Lawyers Guild of Chicago\, the Athenaeum\,  the Loyola University Chicago School of Law\, and Precious Blood Ministry of Reconciliation. \nClick for more details about the Catholic Criminal Justice Reform Network. \nThe Organizing Committee of “Reconciling Justice: A Community Conversation on Criminal Justice Reform” comprise of:\n\n\n\n\nJudge Thomas More Donnelly\, Catholic Criminal Justice Reform Network\nFr. David Kelly\, C.PP.S.\, Precious Blood Ministry of Reconciliation\nMark McCombs\, Kolbe House Jail Ministry\nPamela Rubeo\, First Vice President\, Catholic Lawyers Guild of Chicago\nJoseph Mapp\, Precious Blood Ministry of Reconciliation\nEmily Cortina\, Kolbe House Jail Ministry\nJustice Ramon Ocasio\nJudge Sonia Gutierrez Antolec\nJudge Erica L. Reddick\nRahmiel Hayyim\, The Hinda Institute\nJeanne Bishop\nMegan McGrath\, Secretary\, Catholic Lawyers Guild of Chicago\nKimberly Lymore\, St. Sabina Catholic Church\nFr. David Jones\, St. Benedict the African\nMichael Le Chevallier\, The Lumen Christi Institute
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2024-02-reconciling-justice-a-community-conversation-on-criminal-justice-reform/
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SUMMARY:Viewing of Martin Scorsese's Silence
DESCRIPTION:This event is co-produced by the Critical Understanding of Liturgies & Traditions (CULT)\, a student RSO\, and the Lumen Christi Institute\, the home for the Catholic intellectual tradition at the University of Chicago. The movie will be screened at Gavin House (1220 E 58th St)\, directly across from the Booth School of Business. \nThis event is sponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute’s Nicklin Fellows Program\, which supports and encourages University of Chicago undergraduate students to develop their intellectual maturity. Francesco Rahe\, who designed this program\, is a 2023-2024 Nicklin Fellow.  \nREGISTER HERE \nThe place is Japan. The year is 1670. Catholicism has been rendered illegal; the remaining faithful are in hiding. Nevertheless\, Jesuit missionaries still travel there in secret from Europe–and one\, the famously pious Father Ferreira\, has just publicly given up his faith. Two Portuguese priests\, students of Father Ferreira\, set sail. They hope to sustain the Japanese Catholic community\, to find the path to sainthood\, and\, perhaps most of all\, to uncover why their beloved teacher apostatised. \nPublished in 1966\, Shusaku Endo’s Silence quickly became considered one of the greatest Catholic novels of the 20th century. It received the Tanizaki Prize and won its author numerous comparisons to Graham Greene. It examines questions relating to colonization\, self-sacrifice\, and\, the problem of evil. \nOn February 21st\, members of the University of Chicago community will interact with this fascinating period of Catholic history through the  2016 Martin Scorsese film adaptation of Endo’s novel. \nDinner will be provided\, as well as an introductory talk by Dr. Bruce Winkelman. The first 10 students to arrive will receive free copies of the Endo novel. \nSCHEDULE:\n6:00-6:30 pm: Dinner \n6:30-7:00 pm: Introduction From Dr. Winkelman \n7:00-9:50 pm: Screening of Martin Scorsese’s Silence \n9:50-10:15 pm: Optional Post-Event Conversation Over Cookies \nDr. Bruce Winkelman\, Divinity School Teaching Fellow at UChicago\, is a historian of religions whose work spans theory and method in the study of religion\, the history and historiography of Japanese religions\, and the invention of Buddhist traditions across East Asia.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2024-2-silence-movie-night/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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SUMMARY:Dubliners Graduate Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\nOpen to current graduate students at the University of Chicago. Participants can come to whichever sessions they choose. Others interested in participating should contact Rose Johnson at rodojo23@uchicago.edu. Books and drinks will be provided.  \nWhat do choice and responsibility look like for the modern person? How much are individuals determined by their families\, their societies\, and their religions? What freedom can be found within or outside these relationships? James Joyce addresses these questions and many others in his collection of short stories\, Dubliners.  \nThough rich and nuanced like all of Joyce’s writing\, these short stories present a straightforward introduction to Joyce’s writing style and to modern literary concepts of meaning. Join us at Gavin House on Thursdays at 8pm for drinks and conversation as we venture into the complicated and tragic world of one of the 20th century’s most brilliant authors! \nSCHEDULE:\nThis group will meet on Thursdays (beginning January 18th) from 8:00pm – 9:00pm over drinks. \n\nJanuary 18: Introduction to Joyce and “Evaline” (5 pages)\nJanuary 25: “After the Race”” (6 pages)\nFebruary 1: “The Boarding House” (7 pages)\nFebruary 8: “A Mother” (12 pages)\nFebruary 15: “A little Cloud” (14 pages)\nFebruary 22: “Grace” (21 pages)\n\nA copy of Dubliners will be provided to all participants. The reading may be picked up at Gavin House (1220 E 58th street) during buisness hours at the start of the winter quarter. \n\nThe University of Chicago is famous for its graduate student reading groups\, in which students pursue their own intellectual interests among friends in an informal setting. The Lumen Christi Institute supports this endeavor by sponsoring a number of graduate student reading groups each quarter. LCI provides space\, hospitality\, and books. \nReading groups cover the whole spectrum of ideas. Texts do not need to be explicitly Catholic\, though we follow St. Paul’s injunction to attend to whatever is true\, noble\, right\, admirable\, and lovely (Phil 4:8). Groups follow LCI’s guiding principles\, which… \n\n\nAffirm the intellectual life as good in itself \n\n\nAsk questions animated by the principle that “all knowledge forms one whole” \n\n\nTranscend the ideological / political divide (i.e.\, programs should not be partisan in nature) \n\n\nWelcome religious perspectives as part of the intellectual life (i.e.\, programs need not be theological in nature but conversations should be open to religious insights) \n\n\nNurture friendships\, to support the pursuit of truth\, beauty\, and goodness (i.e.\, programs should have a social component) \n\n\nThis quarter the reading groups will cover: The American Gothic\, James Joyce’s Dubliners\, Greek New Testament\, and Latin Vulgate.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2024-01-dubliners-reading-group/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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SUMMARY:American Gothic Graduate Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\nOpen to current graduate students at the University of Chicago. Participants can come to whichever sessions they choose. Others interested in participating should contact Sam Landon at snlandontn@gmail.com. Books\, lunch\, and beverages will be provided.  \nFear. Rot. The inescapability of the past. These and more are the themes of Gothic literature. Join us Mondays from 1-2pm at Gavin House for a discussion of Edgar Allen Poe\, Ambrose Bierce\, and Flannery O’Connor. Lunch provided. \nSCHEDULE:\nThis group will meet on Mondays (beginning January 22nd) from 1:00pm – 2:00pm over lunch. \n\nJanuary 22: “The Raven\,” Poe\nJanuary 29: “Tell-Tale Heart\,” Poe\nFeburary 5: “Moonlit Road\,” Bierce\nFeburary 12: “Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge\,” Bierce\nFeburary 19: “A Good Man Is Hard to Find\,” O’Connor\nFebruary 26: “Parker’s Back\,” O’Connor\n\nCopies of The Best of Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart\, The Raven\, The Cask of Amontillado\, and 30 Others\, Ghost and Horror Stories of Ambrose Bierce\, and The Complete Stories of Flannery O’Connor will be provided. They may be picked up at Gavin House (1220 E 58th street) during buisness hours at the start of the winter quarter. \n\nThe University of Chicago is famous for its graduate student reading groups\, in which students pursue their own intellectual interests among friends in an informal setting. The Lumen Christi Institute supports this endeavor by sponsoring a number of graduate student reading groups each quarter. LCI provides space\, hospitality\, and books. \nReading groups cover the whole spectrum of ideas. Texts do not need to be explicitly Catholic\, though we follow St. Paul’s injunction to attend to whatever is true\, noble\, right\, admirable\, and lovely (Phil 4:8). Groups follow LCI’s guiding principles\, which… \n\n\nAffirm the intellectual life as good in itself \n\n\nAsk questions animated by the principle that “all knowledge forms one whole” \n\n\nTranscend the ideological / political divide (i.e.\, programs should not be partisan in nature) \n\n\nWelcome religious perspectives as part of the intellectual life (i.e.\, programs need not be theological in nature but conversations should be open to religious insights) \n\n\nNurture friendships\, to support the pursuit of truth\, beauty\, and goodness (i.e.\, programs should have a social component) \n\n\nThis quarter the reading groups will cover: The American Gothic\, James Joyce’s Dubliners\, Greek New Testament\, and Latin Vulgate.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2024-01-american-gothic-reading-group/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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