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Master Class on The Wisdom of Bernard of Clairvaux

Gavin House 1220 E 58th St., Chicago

REGISTER HERE This master class is open to current students and faculty. PDFs of the readings will be made available for participants. This one-time Seminar will study selected writings of the great Cistercian theologian and mystic, Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1157). Bernard was one of the most remarkable figures of the twelfth century—monastic leader, ecclesiastical politician, and noted theologian. His most important legacy, however, was as a mystic and mystical writer. His mystical treatises, such as On Loving God (De diligendo Deo), and especially his eighty-six sermons on the biblical Song of Songs (Sermones super Cantica Canticorum), are among the most...

Lunch Discussion on “The Cosmos and the Religious Quest”

Gavin House 1220 E 58th St., Chicago

Students will read and discuss Chapter 2 from Professor Peter Harrison's book The Territories of Science and Religion (University of Chicago, 2015) entitled "The Cosmos and the Religious Quest." Prof. Harrison will also give a public lecture on "Religious Origins of Modern Science?" on Thursday, April 6. ABOUT THE BOOK The conflict between science and religion seems indelible, even eternal. Surely two such divergent views of the universe have always been in fierce opposition? Actually, that’s not the case, says Peter Harrison: our very concepts of science and religion are relatively recent, emerging only in the past three hundred years,...

Religious Origins of Modern Science?

Kersten 120 5720 South Ellis Avenue, Hyde Park

REGISTER HERE Cosponsored by the Department of History and the Committee for the Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science It is often thought that modern science developed largely independently of, or even in opposition to, religion.  Some historians, however, have suggested that religious factors played a key role in the emergence of modern science in the seventeenth century, and were important in establishing a permanent and prominent place for scientific activity at the heart of modern Western culture.  This lecture explores a number of ways in which religion may have had a positive impact on the emergence and consolidation of...