Catholic Women in the Arts and Sciences: An Underappreciated Tradition – Faith and Reason | West Suburban Catholic Culture Series
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The West Suburban Catholic Culture Series returns in 2024 to continue its series on “Faith and Reason as the Two Wings: The History and Enduring Importance of Catholic Philosophy“ REGISTER HERE (Business casual attire encouraged. For questions, please email Marial Corona at mcorona@lumenchristi.org). Schedule: 6:30 p.m. Drinks | 7:00 p.m. Dinner, Lecture, & Q&A | 8:30 p.m. End March 20: Catholic Women in the Arts and Sciences: An Underappreciated Tradition Bronwen McShea (Professor of History, Augustine Institute) While many people are aware of the important intellectual and literary contributions of modern Catholic women such as St. Edith Stein and Flannery O’Connor, it is not…
Integrity, Creation, and a Restless Heart: Augustine’s Contribution to Philosophy – Faith and Reason | West Suburban Catholic Culture Series
The West Suburban Catholic Culture Series returns in 2024 to continue its series on “Faith and Reason as the Two Wings: The History and Enduring Importance of Catholic Philosophy“ REGISTER HERE (Business casual attire encouraged. For questions, please email Marial Corona at mcorona@lumenchristi.org). Schedule: 6:30 p.m. Drinks | 7:00 p.m. Dinner, Lecture, & Q&A | 8:30 p.m. End November 9: Integrity, Creation, and a Restless Heart: Augustine’s Contribution to Philosophy Jared Ortiz (Professor of Theology, Founder and Executive Director of the St. Benedict Institute, Hope College) Christianity integrates wisdom and worship, something no philosophy can do. Augustine understood this well and changed the parameters…
The One Thing Necessary: Monasticism and Philosophy – Faith and Reason | West Suburban Catholic Culture Series
The West Suburban Catholic Culture Series returns in 2024 to continue its series on “Faith and Reason as the Two Wings: The History and Enduring Importance of Catholic Philosophy“ REGISTER HERE (Business casual attire encouraged. For questions, please email Marial Corona at mcorona@lumenchristi.org). Schedule: 6:30 p.m. Drinks | 7:00 p.m. Dinner, Lecture, & Q&A | 8:30 p.m. End October 4: The One Thing Necessary: Monasticism and Philosophy Prior Peter Funk, OSB (Monastery of the Holy Cross) By integrating rigorous study and assiduous prayer within a life oriented towards the Truth, monasticism became a fertile ground for philosophical reflection, which starkly contrasts with modernity’s tendency…
Golden Calf: Philosophy and Theology in the Early Church – Faith and Reason | West Suburban Catholic Culture Series
The Greek and Roman world was, to say the least, immensely religious. The early Christians did not have not to convince their contemporaries of the existence of the divine, but to proclaim the nature and work of the incarnate God. The ideas and language of philosophy offered them many possibilities. As St. Justin Martyr wrote, “Whatever things were rightly said among all men are the property of us Christians.” Christians found great use of Greek and Roman philosophy, but they also found significant obstacles. The “gold” that was philosophy both clarified and confused Christians and their detractors.
In this lecture, Prof. Calvert will walk us through the fascinating exchange and enrichment that occurred between philosophy and theology in the early Church, allowing us to discover possibilities to better engage today’s world with the tools that philosophy affords us.
Is Free Will an Illusion? St. Thomas Aquinas and Human Action – Faith and Reason | West Suburban Catholic Culture Series
The West Suburban Catholic Culture Series returns in 2024 to continue its series on “Faith and Reason as the Two Wings: The History and Enduring Importance of Catholic Philosophy“ REGISTER HERE (Business casual attire encouraged. For questions, please email Marial Corona at mcorona@lumenchristi.org). Schedule: 6:30 p.m. Drinks | 7:00 p.m. Dinner, Lecture, & Q&A | 8:30 p.m. End April 10: Is Free Will an Illusion? St. Thomas Aquinas and Human Action Fr. Stephen Brock (Professor of Medieval Philosophy, Pontifical University of the Holy Cross) Americans prize freedom, of all kinds. Yet many today are being persuaded that there is no such thing as free…
A Catholic Vision of Art: Beauty – The Highway to God – A Catholic Vision of Culture in the 21st Century | West Suburban Catholic Culture Series
Beautiful art reflects the glory of the living, incarnate God, Jesus Christ, whether or not explicitly religious in subject matter. Art is not only an instrument and expression of culture, but also has a prophetic capacity to “prepare the way for the Lord” and transform the hearts of those who encounter it. This lecture will look at great works of art, both sacred and secular, and demonstrate how they can lead us to God.
Christianity, Culture, and Sport: From Play to Virtue – A Catholic Vision of Culture in the 21st Century | West Suburban Catholic Culture Series
Drawing on Brown’s exegetical exploration of Wisdom’s paideia in the Book of Wisdom, Clark Power explores the relationship between Christianity and culture (following Remi Brague) with a focus on sports and more specifically youth sports. He argues that sports is play and as such fosters children’s development of the theological and cardinal virtues. In childhood as well as adulthood, sports should lead us to a transcendent joy that is rooted in freedom, love, and hope for the future of the human community.
A Philosophy of Work, Leisure, and Catholic Culture – A Catholic Vision of Culture in the 21st Century | West Suburban Catholic Culture Series
In his well-known and influential essay, Leisure: The Basis of Culture, Josef Pieper claims that we in modern western society have come to inhabit a “world of total work,” and that an essential precondition for escape is recapturing a more ancient notion of “leisure” (in Greek: scholê, in Latin: otium). While much has been said in support of this claim, especially in Catholic intellectual circles, the focus has typically centered on the nature of leisure, which much of this dialogue takes as the starting point. In this lecture, Prof. Blaschko, who studies the philosophy of work at Notre Dame, will proceed in a different direction, asking “What kind of culture, and what kind of work culture, would we create if we wanted to incorporate genuine leisure into our lives?”
Reason & Regensburg: Pope Benedict and the Dialogue of Cultures
To bridge the cultural rift between Islam and the West, there is an urgent need to reestablish the mutually reinforcing dialogue between faith and reason in the West, and to support moderate Muslim scholars attempting to retrieve a non-voluntarist interpretation of Islam, often at risk to their own lives.
Thomas Aquinas, Scientist: How Might He Approach 21st Century Biotechnology
Despite flaws in his biology, Aquinas’ writings offer us guidance in our approach to 21st century biotechnology. Aquinas’ notion of a Just War provides us with a way for thinking about biotechnology, since both use morally ambiguous means to address evils in an imperfect world. A comparison of these two disparate issues can yield criteria for an ethics of biotechnology.