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The Humanity of the Saints We Study: 2nd Annual Forum on the Vocation of the Patristic Theologian

Beane Hall, Lewis Towers, Loyola University of Chicago Water Tower Campus 111 East Pearson St, Chicago

Register Here  This 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. “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.” –Émile Mersch, The Theology of the Mystical Body This forum invites graduate students and scholars of patristics to reflect on the nature of the craft and...

The Bond of All Creation: Renaissance Humanism and the Incarnate Word – Faith and Reason | West Suburban Catholic Culture Series

Ruth Lake Country Club 6200 South Madison Street, Hinsdale

The 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.

G.K. Chesterton’s Orthodoxy: Reading Course

Gavin House 1220 E 58th St., Chicago

Open to current students at the University of Chicago. Participants can come to whichever sessions they choose. Books, lunch, and beverages will be provided.  Author 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...