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SUMMARY:Magis Lecture | Do We Know More than the Apostles? Or\, Do Doctrines Develop?
DESCRIPTION:5:00 Mass  | 5:45 Drinks & Hors d’Oeuvres  | 6:30 Lecture  | 7:15 End \nCo-presented by Loyola Academy.  \nFree and open to the public. Registration required. For questions\, please contact Marial Corona at mcorona@lumenchristi.org. \nEveryone realizes that some aspects of the Church have changed in the half-century since the Second Vatican Council. But has Catholic teaching actually changed? Moreover\, can Catholics say that our understanding of the faith grows and deepens over time\, that it develops? If we say “yes”\, a simple but vital question follows: Can we say that we know more than the Apostles? \nABOUT THE MAGIS SERIES \nThe Magis Series on Faith and Reason is a partnership between the Lumen Christi Institute\, St. Ignatius College Prep\, and Loyola Academy to bring accessible yet sophisticated lectures on the Church’s intellectual tradition to the broad lay public. The event is open to everyone from high school students to retirees. Anyone who desires a lively entree into the mind of the Church is welcome and encouraged to attend; no affiliation with either high school is needed.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2024-04-magis-lecture-do-we-know-more-than-apostles-or-do-doctrines-develop/
LOCATION:Loyola Academy McGrath Family Performing Arts Center\, 3455 Illinois Rd\, Wilmette\, IL\, 60091
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SUMMARY:Brideshead Revisited 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 Jack Drury at jackdrury@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/2024-04-brideshead-revisited-reading-group/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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SUMMARY:Dante the Theologian: Ken Woodward Interviews Denys Turner
DESCRIPTION:12:00 Welcome\, Blessing\, Lunch is Served   |   12:30 Interview   |   1:30 End  \nREGISTRATION OPENS ON MARCH 1\nThe dress code for the University Club can be consulted here\, and parking information here.\nFor questions\, please email Marial Corona at mcorona@lumenchristi.org. \nAll agree: Dante Alighieri was a great poet. But Denys Turner insists that he was also a great theologian—and that what makes his theology great is his poetry. Moreover\, Turner argues\, Dante was able to write his masterpiece only after he had personally journeyed through Hell and Purgatory like Dante\, the pilgrim character in The Divine Comedy. Is this the case? \nKen Woodward\, former Newsweek religion editor and Lumen Christi’s Writer-in-Residence\, will press these questions during a luncheon interview with Denys Turner\, to help us learn about Dante’s pilgrimage in hope\, and appreciate his poetry as an entry point into theological discovery.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2023-10-luncheon-featuring-denys-turner-his-new-book-dante-theologian/
LOCATION:University Club of Chicago\, 76 E Monroe St\nChicago\, IL 60603\, Downtown\, IL
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SUMMARY:Is Free Will an Illusion? St. Thomas Aquinas and Human Action - Faith and Reason | West Suburban Catholic Culture Series
DESCRIPTION:The West Suburban Catholic Culture Series returns in 2024 to continue its series on\n“Faith and Reason as the Two Wings:\nThe History and Enduring Importance of Catholic Philosophy“\nREGISTER HERE\n(Business casual attire encouraged. For questions\, please email Marial Corona at mcorona@lumenchristi.org). \nSchedule: 6:30 p.m. Drinks | 7:00 p.m. Dinner\, Lecture\, & Q&A | 8:30 p.m. End \nApril 10:\nIs Free Will an Illusion? St. Thomas Aquinas and Human Action\nFr. Stephen Brock (Professor of Medieval Philosophy\, Pontifical University of the Holy Cross)\nAmericans prize freedom\, of all kinds. Yet many today are being persuaded that there is no such thing as free will. It is a serious issue. If you are Christian\, then you believe in free will. But can you answer the arguments against it? Can you even say with precision what it is? Saint Thomas Aquinas can. He can also help greatly to answer those arguments and to do so in a way that believers and nonbelievers alike can understand. \nSERIES DESCRIPTION \nIn his 2006 Regensburg Address\, Pope Benedict XVI argued that “it is necessary and reasonable to raise the question of God through the use of reason\, and to do so in the context of the tradition of the Christian Faith.” \nChristianity shared a sense of “reason” with Greek philosophy. Jesus himself was the Word (Logos)\, the Greek word for reason and speech.  St. Paul himself reminded us that Christian worship is “reasonable worship” (logike latreia) (Rom. 12:1)\, and while love “transcends” knowledge and can perceive more than thought alone\, it remains the love of the God who is Logos (Eph. 3:19). \nFaith and reason support one another; however\, many have tried to tear them asunder. The Reformation tried to get to a “pure” faith without reason; modern atheism has claimed that nothing can be “known” about God. When faith and reason are pulled apart\, we lose sight of God and of ourselves\, since we are made to know and love God. \nIn this year’s WSCCS\, we will challenge the all-too-common assumption that the Church’s faith stands in opposition to reason. Join us as we examine the philosophical\, monastic\, and artistic geniuses who have borne the Church aloft through their engagement and enrichment of worldly wisdom. \nEach month\, we will gather at Ruth Lake Country Club. Over dinner\, we will listen to a sophisticated yet accessible lecture offered by accomplished academics. The lectures will introduce insights from the treasure house of the Church’s intellectual tradition and their bearing on contemporary themes and issues\, presenting faithful Catholic teaching in a way that avoids the acrimony of the culture wars. \nCALENDAR \nSeptember 13: Golden Calf: Philosophy and Theology in the Early Church\nKenneth Calvert (Professor of History\, Director of the Oxford Program\, Hillsdale College) \nOctober 4: The One Thing Necessary: Monasticism and Philosophy\nPrior Peter Funk\, OSB (Monastery of the Holy Cross) \nNovember 9: Integrity\, Creation\, and a Restless Heart: Augustine’s Contribution to Philosophy\nJared Ortiz (Professor of Theology\, Founder and Executive Director of the St. Benedict Institute\, Hope College) \nMarch 20: Catholic Women in the Arts and Sciences: An Underappreciated Tradition\nBronwen McShea (Professor of History\, Augustine Institute) \nApril 10: Is Free Will an Illusion? St. Thomas Aquinas and Human Action\nFr. Stephen Brock (Professor of Medieval Philosophy\, Pontifical University of the Holy Cross) \nMay 15: The Bond of All Creation: Renaissance Humanism and the Incarnate Word\nMatthew Gaetano (Professor of History\, Hillsdale College) \nAPRIL SPEAKER \nFr. Stephen Brock
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/is-free-will-an-illusion-st-thomas-aquinas-and-human-action-faith-and-reason-west-suburban-catholic-culture-series/
LOCATION:Ruth Lake Country Club\, 6200 South Madison Street\, Hinsdale\, IL
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SUMMARY:Dante and a Poet’s Journey in Hope
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\nThis event is free and open to the public. For more information\, contact dstrobach@lumenchristi.org. A wine and cheese reception will follow.  \nThis event is cosponsored by the University of Chicago Committee on Social Thought\, the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures\, and the Medieval Studies Workshop. \nOften praised for its evocative treatment of heaven and hell\, Dante’s Commedia is a significant work of theology. Denys Turner will explain how Dante accomplishes by means of poetry what the formal theological treatises of the Middle Ages demonstrate through prosaic inference and proof. Poetry\, Turner argues\, is the most natural language to articulate the “journey of the soul into God\,” and a point of entry into the mystery of the divine. Dante’s poetry discloses the theological significance of hope in the pilgrim’s journey towards the “abiding city.” \nOn the following day\, Prof. Turner will lead a master class for students and faculty titled\, “Poetry Being The Body: Theology in Dante.”
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2024-04-dante/
LOCATION:Social Sciences\, Room 122\, 1126 E 59th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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SUMMARY:Poetry Being the Body: Theology in Dante
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\nOpen 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 pdfs of the selected readings\, which should be read in advance of the class. An optional wine and cheese reception will follow.  \nThe poet plays a crucial role in the development of a language of the “mystical”  that paradoxically gives voice to the insufficiency of human speech in the face of the reality of the divine. The revelation of this insufficiency speaks effectively to theology’s positive\, affirming\, role. Poetry is a pre-theological anticipation of theology. \nProf. Turner will build this argument with the three parts of Dante’s Commedia. Alongside this great text\, Prof. Turner will reference a chapter from God\, Mystery\, and Mystification\, which sets out formally a theological epistemology to which Dante gives a poetic voice. \nReadings:\nSelections will be from Dante’s Commedia and Turner’s book\, Dante the Theologian. \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:\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/2024-04-poetry-being-the-body/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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SUMMARY:Can We Be Good On Our Own? Ancient Pagans and Modern Scientists on Thomistic Moral Virtue
DESCRIPTION:Open to students and faculty. For more information\, contact dstrobach@lumenchristi.org.  \nThis event is cosponsored by the University of Notre Dame Press and made possible through the support of ‘In Lumine: Supporting the Catholic Intellectual Tradition on Campuses Nationwide’ (Grant #62372) from the John Templeton Foundation. \nThomas Aquinas\, like a good Aristotelian\, holds that the moral virtues can be cultivated in human beings by habitual moral action. And like a good Christian\, he also holds that God can gift (or ‘infuse’) the moral virtues into a human being. Can humans become good on their own? Or do they require external assistance?  This symposium will consider the question of infused moral virtue: how does Aquinas describe the bestowal of moral virtues on an individual by God? How is his description related to the classical account of virtues acquired by virtuous action? How does modern science make sense of these insights? Essentially\, the question is the following: What would pagan philosophers and modern psychologists (or ‘scientists-of-mind’) make of what Thomas Aquinas says about the work of grace in the moral life? \nIn this symposium\, Angela Knobel (Associate Professor of Philosophy\, University of Dallas) will present a Thomistic perspective of the interplay between grace and virtuous action in the moral life. Then\, Candace Vogler will respond on the inadequacies of Aristotle. Daniel Lapsley (Professor of Psychology\, University of Notre Dame) will offer an opinion on what modern psychology might say to Aristotle and Aquinas. Emily Austin (Assistant Professor of Classics\, University of Chicago) will moderate as the conversation develops. \nOn Saturday\, Prof. Knobel will lead a Master Class titled Aquinas on Virtue and Grace in the Moral Life.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2024-04-infused-virtue/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, First Floor Common Room\, 1025 E 58th St\,Chicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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SUMMARY:Thomas Aquinas on Virtue and Grace in the Moral Life
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.  \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. \nThomas Aquinas distinguishes between two kinds of moral virtue: acquired moral virtues\, which are cultivated though one’s power and via one’s own repeated good acts\, and infused moral virtues\, which are bestowed on man directly by God in the moment of baptism.  The distinction between these two types of virtue is the focus of this master class.  The goal will be to understand how Aquinas understands the difference between the two types of virtue: the sources from which each spring\, the ways in which the acts of each differ\, and whether and to what extent he believes the two different types of virtue interact. \nThe first 15 registrants will receive a copy of Knobel’s book\, Aquinas and the Infused Moral Virtues. \nReadings:\nDisputed Questions on the Virtues (Preferably the Atkins translation): \n◊ Disputed Question on the Virtues in General a.8-11; (48 pages) \nSumma Theologiae (Preferably Alfred Freddoso’s translation\, available online at https://www3.nd.edu/~afreddos/summa-translation/TOC.htm) \n◊ Prima Secundae q.61 a.5\, 62\, 63\, 68 (22 pages total) \nAquinas and the Infused Moral Virtues \n◊ Chapter 6 (30 pages) \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. \nDiscussion Questions:\n◊ Conceptually\, what seem to be the most important differences between the  infused and acquired virtues? Aquinas repeatedly speaks of virtues as  “proceeding from principles\,” and of the different “seeds” of infused and  acquired virtue\, respectively. What is meant by the language of “principle” and  “seed\,” and how are those notions important in Aquinas’s understanding of  infused and/or acquired virtue? What is meant by the claim that the two types  of virtue differ in “species”? What role does the difference in the “end” that  each virtue is ordered to play\, and how important is it? \n◊ a.10 ad.4 of the Disputed Question on the Virtues in General and q.61 a.5 of the Prima Secundae are two of the very few texts where Aquinas says anything at all  about the relationship between the infused and acquired virtues. What do  these texts imply\, and is what each text implies the same or different? \n◊ Given Aquinas’s insistence that only the infused virtues order us to supernatural beatitude\, can it ever make sense on his account to pursue only  acquired virtue? \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
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LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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