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Master Class on Gerard Manley Hopkins

Gavin House 1220 E 58th St., Chicago

Registration Required. Open to current students and faculty. Copies of the readings will be provided for registrants ahead of time. You can read about Professor Mariani's biography of Gerard Manley Hopkins HERE. To view photos of the master class, visit Lumen Christi's Facebook page. READINGS Paul Mariani, "The Mystery and the Majesty of It," Studies in the Spirituality of Jesuits 47/2 (2015) Gerard Manley Hopkins, 6 sonnets (God's Grandeur, The Windhover, Felix Randal, Spelt from Sybil's Leaves, No worst there is none, That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and in the comfort of the Ressurection, To R.B.) SCHEDULE 1:30pm  ...

A Final Seriousness: Wallace Stevens’ Late Poems Revisited

Swift Hall, Room 106 1025 E 58th St, Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park

Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Program in Poetry and Poetics and the Seminary Coop Bookstore. Copies of the book will be available for purchase. About The Whole Harmonium: The Life of Wallace Stevens by Paul Mariani: A perceptive, enlightening biography of one of the most important American poets of the twentieth century, as seen through his lifelong quest to find and describe the sublime in the human experience. Wallace Stevens lived a richly imaginative life that found expression in his poetry. His philosophical questioning, spiritual depth, and brilliantly inventive use of language would be profound influences...

Master Class on “Saint Thomas Aquinas on the Metaphysics of Evil”

Gavin House 1220 E 58th St., Chicago

Registration Required. Open to current students and faculty. Copies of the readings will be provided. To view photos of the master class, visit Lumen Christi's Facebook page. Saint Thomas Aquinas’s general conception of evil is very well known, and very simple.  Evil, he holds, is nothing other than privation of due good.  This conception has sometimes been criticized, as not adequate to our experience of evil or to certain types of evil.  It is also connected with other controversial positions of his, such as that no one directly intends evil.  And it is not easy to square with his own...