Master Class on “Karl Rahner’s Distinctive Theology of the Symbol”
Open to current university students and faculty. A link to the readings will be provided for registrants. In an era of outstanding theologians who made the teachings of the second Vatican Council possible, Karl Rahner (1904-84) stands out as a titan. A German Jesuit, he studied under Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) in Freiburg (among others). He taught on the faculties of Innsbruck, Munich, and Münster; served as a peritus at the Council and as a member of the International Theological Commission. His chief works include Spirit in the World (1957), a study of Thomas Aquinas’s theory of knowledge; Hearer of the…
Athens, Jerusalem—and Alexandria: Christian Wisdom between the Bible and Greek Philosophy
A lecture by Rémi Brague with a response by Jean-Luc Marion. Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Ethics Club at the Divinity School. This lecture will be audio and video recorded and accessible via this webpage shortly after the event. Persons with disabilities who need an accommodation in order to participate in this event should contact us by email or call 773-955-5887. Christian wisdom could work its way through the Hebrew Bible and Greek philosophy and produce some sort of “Alexandrian” synthesis by focusing on the Logos, a concept explicitly central to Greek philosophy and implicitly fundamental to…
What is Freedom? Some Reflections on Augustine
You can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page, iTunes channel, Stitcher, TuneIn, ListenNotes, Podbean, Pocket Casts, and Google Play Music. To view photos of the symposium, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. A lecture by Olivier Boulnois with responses by Jean-Luc Marion and Willemien Otten, and moderated by Ryan Coyne. Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Theology Club at the Divinity School. This lecture will be audio and video recorded and accessible via this webpage shortly after the event. Persons with disabilities who need an accommodation in order to participate in this event should contact us by email or call 773-955-5887.
Master Class on “Dark Night and Flame of Love: The Mysticism of John of the Cross”
Registration is required. Open to current university students and faculty. A copy of John of the Cross: Selected Writings (Paulist Press, 1987) will be provided for registrants. The Discalced Carmelite friar, Juan de la Cruz (1542-91), is one of the most famous of Catholic mystics. This one-time Master Class will present a synopsis of John’s mystical teaching as found in some of his noted poems, as well as the four prose works he composed as commentaries on these allusive and beautiful verses. John’s use of both poetry and prose raises issues about the relation of these two literary forms in…
Comparing Trent, Vactican I, and Vatican II
To view photos of the lecture, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. Free and open to the public. Based on a forthcoming book entitled When Bishops Meet: An Essay Comparing Trent, Vatican I, and Vatican II that bears the fruit of decades of scholarship, this lecture by one of the greatest living experts of modern Church history will compare the three modern ecumenical councils of the Catholic Church. John O’Malley also taught a master class on October 12 and participated in a symposium on October 13. To view photos of the lecture, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page.
Master Class on “Councils and Popes: Who’s in Charge?”
Registration is required. Open to current university students and faculty. A PDF of the assigned readings will be provided. The purpose of the seminar is to deepen understanding of the historical course of the relationship between councils and popes through an examination of four key texts published at four key moments in the ongoing dialectic between these two institutions. Our time together will be spent on a close reading and discussion of the texts, trying to understand them in their historical contexts. We will read them also with an eye to their possible relevance to the situation of the Catholic Church today. In…
Vatican I: Loss and Gain with Papal Governance of the Catholic Church
You can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page, iTunes channel, Stitcher, TuneIn, ListenNotes, Podbean, Pocket Casts, and Google Play Music. To read O’Malley’s contribution to this panel discussion in the Notre Dame McGrath Institute for Church Life’s Church Life Journal, click here. To view photos of the symposium, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Theology Club. A symposium and reception on the occasion of the publication of Vatican I: The Council and the Making of the Ultramontane Church (Harvard University Press, 2018) by Fr. John O’Malley, SJ. Copies of the book will be available for sale by…
Master Class on “Jacques Maritain, Étienne Gilson, and the Thomist Renewal in the 20th Century: Academic and Spiritual Approaches”
Open to current university students and faculty. PDFs of the assigned readings will be provided for those who register. For the Blessed Paul VI, Jacques Maritain (1882-1973) was a master “in the art of thinking and praying”. In 1975, Paul VI sent a letter to Etienne Gilson (1884-1978) to thank him for his whole life devoted to the search of truth and wisdom. In “Fides et Ratio” (1998, n.74), Saint John Paul II suggested Maritain and Gilson, among other names, as models of thinkers to reconcile philosophy and theology, reason and the word of God. What are the lessons taught…
Non-Credit Course on “Faith, Crisis, Christ”
6:00 Dinner | 6:30 Lecture This weekly non-credit course is open to current students and faculty. Registrants are free to attend as many sessions as they choose. Sessions do not presuppose previous attendance or prior knowledge of the subject. The project of fides quaerens intellectum (faith seeking understanding) is not reserved to professional theologians but is the prerogative of every thinking person, and can be especially pressing when the claims of religion—and rationality itself—are viewed with suspicion or contempt. The twentieth century and the first decades of our own have erected formidable systems of skepticism yet also brought into the field notable…
What do We Mean When We Speak of Revelation?
Listen to the lecture as a podcast episode. You can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page, iTunes channel, Stitcher, TuneIn, ListenNotes, Podbean, Pocket Casts, and Google Play Music. To view photos of the lecture, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought and The Philosophy of Religions Workshop. Persons with disabilities who may need assistance should contact us at 773-955-5887 or by email. In this lecture, philosopher Jean-Luc Marion will draw on reflections from his recent book Givenness and Revelation to develop a new concept of revelation. Traditionally, the idea of revelation seems to oppose…