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Love Your Enemies: Retribution and Forgiveness

University of Chicago 5801 S Ellis Ave Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park

Regina M. Schwartz (Northwestern University) cosponsored by the Department of English The law presumes not only the right but the duty to punish: it does not ask whether it should punish, but how much, who, when, and how. In contrast, Christianity offers a different response to wrongdoing: Jesus engaged in a polemical attack on “the reciprocity code,” the assumption that good should be reciprocated with good and evil with evil. “Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you” (Luke 6:27-28). How are we to begin to comprehend...

Winter Non-Credit Course on Romans

Gavin House 1220 E 58th St., Chicago

Fr. Paul Mankowski, S.J. (LCI Scholar-in Residence) Intended for current students and faculty. Others interested in attending please contact info@lumenchristi.org. Registrants are free to attend as many sessions as they choose. REGISTER HERE The most consequential and controversial of his writings, St. Paul’s Letter to the Romans was written to instruct new Christians on the meaning of faith and discipleship.  This course will present Paul’s teaching in Romans from the perspective of Roman Catholic doctrine, while engaging the more provocative arguments of the Church Fathers, the Schoolmen, the Reformers, and modern exegetes.  Knowledge of Biblical Greek or familiarity with New Testament...

NY Reception for A Godly Humanism: Clarifying the Hope That Lies Within

The Westin New York at Times Square 270 W. 43rd St. New York, NY 10036, New York

CLICK HERE for a recent article and photos from this event. Timothy Cardinal Dolan (Archbishop of New York) Robert Louis Wilken (University of Virginia) Join us for a reception in celebration of the newly released book A Godly Humanism: Clarifying the Hope that Lies Within (CUA Press, 2015) by the late Francis Cardinal George, O.M.I.  This occasion will include a reception and remarks by His Eminence, Timothy Cardinal Dolan (Archbishop of New York) and Robert Louis Wilken (Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia). Finished by Francis Cardinal George, O.M.I. nine days before his death, A Godly Humanismoffers an account of the Catholic intellectual...