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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240501T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240501T193000
DTSTAMP:20260419T125213
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SUMMARY:Texts of Existence: The Interplay of Religion\, Individualism\, and the Cosmos in Borges and Nietzsche.
DESCRIPTION:This 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. Arjun Mazumdar\, who designed this program\, is a 2023-2024 Nicklin Fellow. This program is for undergraduate students only. \nREGISTER HERE \nIn “Texts of Existence\,” we will explore the depths of existentialism\, religion\, and the meaning of life through the lens of literary and philosophical classics. Our reading group will study the works of Jorge Luis Borges and Friedrich Nietzsche. Expect to read and analyze passages together\, form a collaborative understanding of texts\, and tackle crucial questions regarding purpose\, “the good life\,” and the implications of religion (or its absence) in our lives. Books and dinner will be provided. We will read the short stories together before we begin our discussion. \nThemes: existentialism and individualism\, the search for authenticity amidst the absurd\, and the role of religion and spirituality. \nSCHEDULE:\nPilot Session: Borges\, “The Approach to Al-Mu’tasim\,” Discussion \nFebruary 22nd\, Thursday\, 6-7:30 PM\, Gavin House \nSession 1: Introduction to Nietzsche’s The Gay Science \nApril 3rd\, Wednesday\, 6 – 7:30 PM\, Gavin House \nSession 2: The Gay Science Discussion \nApril 24th\, Wednesday\, 6-7:30 PM\, Gavin House \nSession 3: Borges\, “The Library of Babel\,” Discussion \nMay 1st\, Wednesday\, 6 – 7:30 PM\, Gavin House
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2024-2-borges-and-nietzsche/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240502T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240502T193000
DTSTAMP:20260419T125213
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SUMMARY:What is Ideology? A Conversation with Mark Shiffman and James Matthew Wilson
DESCRIPTION:5:30 Cocktail and Hors d’Oeuvres  |   6:30 Opening Remarks   |   6:45 Dialogue and Q&A   |   7:30 End   \nCo-presented by Public Discourse\, the online journal of the Witherspoon Institute\, dedicated to renewing the culture through thoughtful reflections on education\, family\, and religion. Supported by Wiseblood Books.\nDiscounted student tickets are available. Please contact Marial Corona at mcorona@lumenchristi.org for more information on this or any other matter. \n“Ideology” is a word in near-ubiquitous use: it is deployed to describe everything from religious identity (‘radical Islamic ideology’) and political principle (‘the contest between woke and MAGA ideology’) to gastronomic preferences (‘the ideology of meat in US culture’). \nDoes a word used so widely and vaguely still possess concrete meaning? In his new book\, What is Ideology?\, political theorist Mark Shiffman has studied the history of the concept and identified it as a distinctly modern phenomenon. Shiffman argues that ideological thinking attempts to subject all reality to a narrow and reductive schema in order to produce a redemptive social-political order and engineer a new type of human being. Moreover\, he  explains how  our own imprecise use of the term makes us even more susceptible to ideological control. \nTo point towards an escape from ideological thinking\, Shiffman engages a diverse array of thinkers\, from Thomas Hobbes and Karl Marx\, to John Adams and Antonio Gramsci\, to Ralph Ellison and Hannah Arendt. \nOn the evening of May 2nd\, Mark Shiffman will discuss these topics with the esteemed poet and cultural critic James Matthew Wilson. They will trace the history of the term ideology\, discuss its deforming effects on political life and the soul\, and suggest how “non-ideological thinking” can be restored by drawing on resources from the classical and Christian traditions of philosophy\, theology\, art\, and literature.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2024-05-what-is-ideology-a-conversation-mark-shiffman-james-matthew-wilson/
LOCATION:University Club of Chicago\, 76 E Monroe St\nChicago\, IL 60603\, Downtown\, IL
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SUMMARY:The Managerial Revolution: What Went Wrong?
DESCRIPTION:This 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. Max Baumeister\, who designed this program\, is a 2023-2024 Nicklin Fellow. This program is for undergraduate students only. \nREGISTER HERE \n“[James Burnham] has real intellectual courage\, and writes about real issues\,” wrote George Orwell. Chicago native\, prominent Trotskyist early in his intellectual life\, student of J. R. R. Tolkien at Oxford\, and recommended by George Kennan during WWII to work at the Office of Strategic Services (predecessor of the CIA)\, to say James Burnham was an interesting man would be an understatement. Burnham is best known for his book The Managerial Revolution (1941) in which he claimed that (1) capitalism would be displaced not by communism or socialism but by “managerialism” and (2) FDR’s The New Deal\, the Soviet Union\, and Fascism in Europe were all part of the same centralizing\, bureaucratic trend that was—and perhaps still is—happening all over the globe. Was he right? How applicable is his theory in the 21st century? \nSCHEDULE:\nThis group will meet on Thursdays (April 4-May 2) from 6:00pm – 730pm over dinner.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2024-2-burnham-the-managerial-revolution/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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DTSTAMP:20260419T125213
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SUMMARY:Wendell Berry's World-Ending Fire Graduate Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Open to current graduate students at the University of Chicago. Participants can come to whichever sessions they choose. Others interested in participating should contact Franklin Joyce at jfjoyce@uchicago.edu. Books and drinks will be provided.  \nWendell Berry is America’s foremost contemporary advocate for a community-centered form of life he calls “agrarianism\,”  which focuses on the American relationship to the land and local circumstances. Berry’s articulation of agrarian life reveals the inadequacies of both crass industrialism and the popular “movements” of environmentalism. Furthermore\, Berry seriously implements a Christian understanding of a world created by love and entrusted into the care of human stewards. For readers searching to avoid the party slogans or who want a fresh perspective on what it means to be an “American\,” Berry is a vital thinker to engage. \nSCHEDULE:\nThis group will meet on Thursdays (beginning April 4th) from 8:00pm – 9:00pm over drinks. \n\nApril 4: “Native Hill” (Intro to Berry as a thinker)\nArpil 11: “Two Minds”/”Quantity versus Form” (Alternative [agrarian] modes of thinking about self\, land\, death)\nApril 18: “The Work of Local Culture”/”Some Thoughts on Citizenship and Conscience in Honor of Don Pratt” (Agrarian conception of a moral community)\nApril 25: “Faustian Economics”/”Economy and Pleasure” (Critique of economic systems and proposed alternatives)\nMay 2: “The Way of Ignorance”/”In Defense of Literacy” (Popular attitudes on writing/knowledge/specialization with a proposed shift toward literacy)\n\nA copy of World-Ending Fire 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. \nThis reading group is made possible through the support of the grant ‘In Lumine: Supporting the Catholic Intellectual Tradition on Campuses Nationwide’ (Grant #62372) from the John Templeton Foundation. \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)
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2024-04-wendell-berry-reading-group/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240503T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240503T170000
DTSTAMP:20260419T125213
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SUMMARY:The Ontology of Beauty
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.  \nThe theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar once claimed that if modern man denies the reality of beauty\, he will lose the capacity for love and prayer\, and indeed truth\, goodness\, and being itself will be lost to him. This seminar will explore von Balthasar’s less than obvious claims by returning to Plato and exploring the way in which beauty was “lost” in western thought before it was recovered by the provocative manifesto of French philosopher\, Jacques Maritain. Beauty\, Maritain proposed\, could save the world from unintelligibility and prepare it for salvation. \nReadings:\nThe readings consist of selections from Plato\, Jacques Maritain\, and Hans Urs von Balthasar. \nBoth the required and recommended readings will be distributed to participants via Dropbox and PDFs. 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 pastries and coffee \n2:00-3:20 | Session 1 \n3:20-3:40 | Coffee break \n3:40-5:00 | Session 2 \n5:00-5:30 | Reception
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2024-05-wilson-master-class/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
CATEGORIES:Master Classes
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240503T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240503T170000
DTSTAMP:20260419T125213
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SUMMARY:The Ontology of Beauty
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.  \nThe theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar once claimed that if modern man denies the reality of beauty\, he will lose the capacity for love and prayer\, and indeed truth\, goodness\, and being itself will be lost to him. This seminar will explore von Balthasar’s less than obvious claims by returning to Plato and exploring the way in which beauty was “lost” in western thought before it was recovered by the provocative manifesto of French philosopher\, Jacques Maritain. Beauty\, Maritain proposed\, could save the world from unintelligibility and prepare it for salvation. \nReadings:\nThe readings consist of selections from Plato\, Jacques Maritain\, and Hans Urs von Balthasar. \nBoth the required and recommended readings will be distributed to participants via Dropbox and PDFs. 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 pastries and coffee \n2:00-3:20 | Session 1 \n3:20-3:40 | Coffee break \n3:40-5:00 | Session 2 \n5:00-5:30 | Reception
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2024-05-wilson-master-class-2/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
CATEGORIES:Master Classes
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240507T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240507T140000
DTSTAMP:20260419T125213
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SUMMARY:Greek New Testament Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Open to current students and faculty at the University of Chicago. Participants can come to whichever sessions they choose. Others interested in participating should contact Joe Haydt at jhaydt@uchicago.edu. Lunch will be provided.  \nThis winter the Greek New Testament Reading Group will work through parables from the Gospel of Luke. We will pay particular attention to chapters sixteen and seventeen. Fr. Peter Bernardi will be on hand for theological questions. All levels of Greek are welcome\, and lunch will be provided. \nSCHEDULE:\nThis group will meet every Tuesday (beginning April 2nd) from 1pm – 2pm. \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)
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2024-04-greek-new-testament/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240507T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240507T193000
DTSTAMP:20260419T125213
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SUMMARY:Non-Credit Course | Approaches to Virtue: Secular and Religious\, Ancient and Modern
DESCRIPTION:This event is in-person only. Intended for university students\, faculty\, and staff. Others interested in attending please contact dstrobach@lumenchristi.org. This non-credit course is cosponsored by the Hyde Park Institute and made possible through the support of ‘In Lumine: Supporting the Catholic Intellectual Tradition on Campuses Nationwide’ (Grant #62372) from the John Templeton Foundation. \nRegistrants are free to attend as many sessions as they choose. Sessions do not presuppose previous attendance or prior knowledge of the subject. \nHow is a human being made better? By an increase in knowledge? Through a discipline of habit? By a gift from the gods? Through the reformation of unjust social structures? By a better understanding of the human mind’s rational and irrational impulses? \nIn this non-credit course\, esteemed scholars from the University of Chicago will consider a variety of answers to the question of how one can grow in virtue. They will investigate multiple philosophical and theological perspectives in the intellectual history of the moral life. \nEach session will be devoted to the thought of an individual thinker or perspective. \nSCHEDULE  \nApril 9th: Aristotle \n\nwith Gabriel Lear (Chair of the Committee on Social Thought\, Professor of Philosophy and in the Committee on Social Thought)\n\nApril 16th: Thomas Aquinas \n\nwith Fr. Stephen Brock (Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago; Ordinary Professor of Medieval Philosophy at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross)\n\nApril 23rd: Machiavelli \n\nwith Hanna Gray (Professor of History Emerita at the University of Chicago; former President of the University of Chicago)\n\nApril 30th: Medicine and Virtue \n\nwith Kathryn Rowland (Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery\, Section of Pediatric Surgery\, at the University of Chicago)\n\nMay 7th: Wisdom \n\nwith Howard Nusbaum (Director and Founder of the Chicago Center for Practical Wisdom and Stella M. Rowley Professor of Psychology at the University of Chicago)\n\nFORMAT \nTuesdays\, April 9-May 7\n6:00pm: Dinner\n6:30pm: Presentation
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2024-04-spring-non-credit-course-on-virtue/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240510T104500
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240510T114500
DTSTAMP:20260419T125213
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SUMMARY:Latin Vulgate Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Open to current students and faculty at the University of Chicago. Participants can come to whichever sessions they choose. Others interested in participating should contact Emily Barnum at ebarnum@uchicago.edu. Coffee\, tea\, and pastries will be provided.  \nSt. Jerome’s Latin translation of the Bible was used exclusively by the Western Church for centuries; its significance for the Roman Catholic tradition cannot be overstated. In this group\, we will work through sections of the Vulgate in order to appreciate its beauty and practice our Latin. For the first session\, no preparation is necessary; we will decide together which texts we will read. Please come with a desire to grow in Latin Bible knowledge with St. Jerome and friends! \nSCHEDULE:\nThis group will meet every Friday (beginning April 5th) from 10:45am – 11:45am over coffee\, tea\, and pastries. \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)
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2024-10-vulgate/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240511T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240511T200000
DTSTAMP:20260419T125213
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SUMMARY:Visit to the Monastery of the Holy Cross
DESCRIPTION:Open to current university students and faculty. Others interested in attending please contact dstrobach@lumenchristi.org. Transportation will be provided. \nJoin us for an edifying evening of prayer\, dinner\, and conversation with the Benedictine monks at the Monastery of the Holy Cross on the south side of Chicago. We will pray the Divine Office (Vespers and Compline)\, have dinner\, and discuss a spiritual topic with prior of the monastery and University of Chicago alum Fr. Peter Funk\, OSB. Following monastic tradition of oral reading during meals\, selections of a text will be read during dinner and discussion will follow. \nMore information about the monastery can be found here. \nSchedule \n4:15pm   Meet at Gavin House (1220 E. 58th St.)\n4:30pm   Depart from Hyde Park\n5:00pm   Arrive at the Monastery\, welcome by Prior Funk\n5:15pm   Office of Vespers\n6:00pm   Dinner & Discussion\n7:15pm   Office of Compline\n8:00pm   Arrive back in Hyde Park
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2024-05-may-visit-to-monastery-of-holy-cross/
LOCATION:The Monastery of the Holy Cross\, 3111 South Aberdeen St.\nChicago\, IL 60608\, Chicago\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240515T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240515T141500
DTSTAMP:20260419T125213
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SUMMARY:G.K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy: Reading Course
DESCRIPTION:Open to current students at the University of Chicago. Participants can come to whichever sessions they choose. Books\, lunch\, and beverages will be provided.  \nAuthor of the Father Brown detective stories\, journalist\, poet and literary critic\, social philosopher\, hagiographer\, and popular Christian apologist\, the multi-faceted genius of Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) eludes easy classification!  You are invited to engage with Chesterton’s insights into the ‘suicide of thought’\, his defense of the common man over against Nietzsche’s ‘superman\,’ and his extraordinary appreciation of ‘the romance of orthodoxy’ as set out in his classic work Orthodoxy.  There are no pre-requisites\, only an openness for savoring paradoxes and skewering ideologies. \nCopies of Chesterton’s Orthodoxy will be provided. They may be picked up at Gavin House (1220 E 58th street) during buisness hours at the start of the spring quarter. \nSCHEDULE:\nThis group will meet on Wednesdays (beginning March 27th) from 1:00pm – 2:15pm over lunch.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2024-03-chesterton-reading-course/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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SUMMARY:The Bond of All Creation: Renaissance Humanism and the Incarnate Word - 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 \nMay 15:\nThe Bond of All Creation: Renaissance Humanism and the Incarnate Word\nMatthew Gaetano (Hillsdale College)\nThe Italian Renaissance rarely plays a central role in our understanding of the story of Catholic theology\, even though many of us love Renaissance art and literature. In this talk\, Dr. Gaetano will show how philosophers\, poets\, and painters of this era saw faith and reason as “two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth.” Key figures of the Italian Renaissance such as Petrarch\, Marsilio Ficino\, Giovanni Pico\, and Raphael went back to the sources in Greek antiquity and found in Plato a yearning for the divine Logos or Word\, a Word only fully revealed in the Incarnation of Jesus Christ. \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) \nMAY SPEAKER \nMatthew Gaetano
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2023-09-catholic-culture-series-on-faith-and-reason/
LOCATION:Ruth Lake Country Club\, 6200 South Madison Street\, Hinsdale\, IL
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SUMMARY:The Humanity of the Saints We Study: 2nd Annual Forum on the Vocation of the Patristic Theologian
DESCRIPTION:Register Here  \nThis reception and forum\, following the annual meeting of the North American Patristics Society\, is co-sponsored by the Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies and the Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage at the Loyola University of Chicago. \n“Grace\, as we are out to believe\, should preserve the pastors of the church and even more their most important actions\, but it does not suppress their failures—that would be to suppress their humanity.” \n–Émile Mersch\, The Theology of the Mystical Body \nThis forum invites graduate students and scholars of patristics to reflect on the nature of the craft and its relationship to contemporary theological studies\, the academy\, and church today. A panel of scholars\, featuring Lewis Ayres\, Paul Blowers\, and Morwenna Ludlow\, will speak on the nature of the vocation of the patristic theologian through an exploration of the intersection between the humanity within Christian history and the theology we derive from our study.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2024-05-humanity-of-saints-we-study-lewis-ayres-paul-blowers/
LOCATION:Beane Hall\, Lewis Towers\, Loyola University of Chicago Water Tower Campus\, 111 East Pearson St\, Chicago\, IL\, 60611
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