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The Vocation of the Patristic Theologian: Teaching Nicaea

Lewis Towers, Loyola University of Chicago Water Tower Campus 111 E Pearson St, Chicago

This event is open to graduate students and faculty. For more information and to receive the registration link contact gzokal@lumenchristi.org  This 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 will speak to this topic in reference to the teaching of Nicaea in commemoration of the 1700th anniversary. What does the teaching of this council, its creed, its attendant historical context and reception, communicate about the essential character of the Patristic theologian? This reception and forum, following the annual meeting of the North...

Maimonides on Christianity and Islam

Kent Hall, Room 120 1020 E 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park

What did Maimonides say about Christianity and Islam? How would Averroes or Thomas Aquinas have responded to him? This symposium will be a thought-experiment in interreligious dialogue. David Novak (University of Toronto) will begin by explicating Maimonides’ position. Yousef Casewit (University of Chicago) will put on the persona of Al-Ghazali to reply. And Matthew Levering (University of St. Mary of the Lake) will reply as if he were Thomas Aquinas. A conversation moderated by James Robinson (University of Chicago) and an audience Q-and-A will follow.

Faculty Colloquium on The Uses of Idolatry

This event is a colloquium on William T. Cavanaugh's (DePaul University) book The Uses of Idolatry, which offers a sustained and interdisciplinary argument that worship has not waned in our supposedly “secular” world. Rather, the target of worship has changed, migrating from the explicit worship of God to the implicit worship of things. Cavanaugh examines modern idolatries and the ways in which humans become dominated by our own creations. J. Michelle Molina (Northwestern University) and Fr. Patrick Gilger, S.J. (Loyola University Chicago) will offer remarks on the book followed by responses from William Cavanaugh. The event will be moderated by...