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Schola Antiqua Concert: “The Lion’s Ear: Music for Leo X”

Bond Chapel & Swift Hall 1025 E. 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park

Friday, February 20, 2015, 7:30pm Bond Chapel, University of Chicago Saturday, February 21, 8:00pm St. Clement Church, Chicago A concert by Schola Antiqua of Chicago Tickets available online or at the door (cash, check or credit) $25 adults / $10 student and senior Schola Antiqua teams up the talented young lutenist Ryaan Ahmed to present music in the milieu of Pope Leo X (r. 1513-21), one of the sixteenth century’s most important patrons of the arts. Part of the program will be devoted to sacred works that Leo “the Lion” would have encountered in the Sistine ]Chapel, an institution known for producing the...

Theology and Evolutionary Naturalism: How Much Can Biology Explain?

BSLC 001 924 E 57th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park

Thursday, February 19, 4:30pm BSLC 001, 924 East 57th Street John Haught (Georgetown University) REGISTER HERE Many scientists and philosophers claim that a Darwinian understanding of life has rendered the idea of God unnecessary. Descent, diversity, design, death, suffering, sex, intelligence, morality, and religion—features of life that had previously been understood theologically—now seem open to a purely natural explanation. This lecture will consider whether the claims of evolutionary naturalists are coherent and whether a theological understanding of life can still be reconciled with biological accounts. cosponsored by the Program on Medicine and Religion and the Theology and Religious Ethics Workshop

Master Class on “The Causality of Petitionary Prayer: C.S. Lewis, Peter Geach, & Thomas Aquinas”

Gavin House 1220 E 58th St., Chicago

Stephen L. Brock (Pontifical University of the Holy Cross) REGISTER HERE If, as Christians believe, God is all-wise and all-good, what sense does it make to ask Him for things?  He is already perfectly aware of our true needs, and He already wants to provide for them.  Many of our petitions, it seems, will be ignorant and misguided; and the others, unnecessary and superfluous.  And if He already knows everything that will happen, can our requests really make a difference anyway?  Yet petitionary prayer is part of the whole Christian tradition.  Jesus himself practiced it, exhorted His followers to do...