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SUMMARY:Passage to Modernity: Renaissance Christianity Today
DESCRIPTION:An evening webinar lecture with Peter Casarella (Duke University). Part of our summer webinar series on “Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture\,” presented in collaboration with the American Cusanus Society \nHistorian Jacob Burckhardt (d. 1897) famously argued that Italian humanism of the fourteenth and fifteenth century paved the way inevitably to modern individualism and secularism\, but more recently Burckhardt’s view has been largely discredited. Contemporary thinkers\, Louis Dupré and Karsten Harries\, each with very distinctive accents\, made decisive contributions to overcoming of Burkhardtian forerunner mentality. In this concluding webinar\, Professor Casarella will explore Dupré’s and Harries’ contributions to a post-Burckhardtian reading of the relationship of Italian humanism to modernity and also some of the limitations of the interpretations they proposed in the light of more recent ideas regarding post-structuralism and decolonial theory. \n\n2020 Summer Webinar Series on “Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture”\nWhat do reason and beauty have to do with each other? Since the modern Enlightenment and Romantic movements\, it has been tempting to see reason and beauty as separate or even opposed. In the Renaissance\, however\, rational and artistic pursuits bloomed together and even fed each other. Renaissance culture\, including fine art\, poetry\, architecture\, astronomy\, and humanistic thought\, both drew upon and extended ancient and medieval Christian intellectual traditions. This webinar course will examine different aspects of renaissance Christian thought and culture to explore how pursuits of reason interwove with the love of beauty. \nThis event is cosponsored by the Beatrice Institute\, Calvert House\, the Collegium Institute\, the Genealogies of Modernity Project\, the Harvard Catholic Center\, the Nova Forum for Catholic Thought\, and St. Paul’s Catholic Center.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-08-passage-to-modernity-renaissance-christianity-today-peter-j-casarella/
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SUMMARY:Richard Hooker’s Sapiential Theology: Reformed Platonism?
DESCRIPTION:An evening webinar lecture with Torrance Kirby (McGill University). Part of our summer webinar series on “Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture\,” presented in collaboration with the American Cusanus Society \nRichard Hooker (1554-1600) was a preeminent theologian and philosopher of the Elizabethan Church. His seminal book\, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity (1593)\, set out a path for Anglican theology that was distinct from both Puritan and Roman Catholic thought. In Book I\, Hooker identifies Law with Holy Wisdom and his treatment echoes the sapiential books of Scripture\, viz. Proverbs\, Job\, and the Wisdom of Solomon. Hooker also appeals to a hierarchical disposition of the species of law in the medieval scholastic conception of the ‘lex divinitatis’\, especially as formulated by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite and later by Thomas Aquinas. For Hooker\, the First Eternal Law concealed in the ‘Bosome of God’ is unutterable\, while its external emanation\, the Second Eternal Law\, is a ‘Voyce’ whose utterance constitutes the beautiful ‘Harmony of the Worlde’. This distinction between two species of Eternal Law owes much to the ancient Neoplatonic metaphysics of Proclus. Both Hooker’s sapiential theology and his invocation of the law of the ‘great chain’ stand in creative tension with his professed adherence to doctrine expressed by the Elizabethan Articles of Religion (1571). In this webinar\, Professor Torrance Kirby will examine the tension between Hooker’s sources and his theology and will ask whether Hooker is successful in reconciling his legal metaphysics with his Reformed soteriology. \n\n2020 Summer Webinar Series on “Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture”\nWhat do reason and beauty have to do with each other? Since the modern Enlightenment and Romantic movements\, it has been tempting to see reason and beauty as separate or even opposed. In the Renaissance\, however\, rational and artistic pursuits bloomed together and even fed each other. Renaissance culture\, including fine art\, poetry\, architecture\, astronomy\, and humanistic thought\, both drew upon and extended ancient and medieval Christian intellectual traditions. This webinar course will examine different aspects of renaissance Christian thought and culture to explore how pursuits of reason interwove with the love of beauty. \nThis event is cosponsored by the Beatrice Institute\, Calvert House\, the Genealogies of Modernity Project\, the Harvard Catholic Center\, the Nova Forum for Catholic Thought\, and St. Paul’s Catholic Center.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-08-richard-hooker-s-sapiential-theology-reformed-platonism/
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SUMMARY:Reason and Beauty in Cambridge Platonism
DESCRIPTION:A webinar lecture with Douglas Hedley (University of Cambridge). Part of our summer webinar series on “Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture\,” presented in collaboration with the American Cusanus Society\nThe Cambridge Platonists are the first modern Platonists. They are a group of English philosophers around the University of Cambridge in the seventeenth-century\, in the context of reformed theology and the English Civil War. Yet while accepting the New Science of Copernicus and Galileo\, they offer a fierce protest against mechanism and naturalism. Their notion of aesthetics and beauty–as historian Ernst Cassirer correctly saw–was one of the sources of the later Romantic movement. Their aesthetics has a theological foundation. As one of the Cambridge Platonists\, Benjamin Whichcote (d. 1683) wrote: “There is that in God that is more beautiful than power\, than will and Sovereignty\, viz. His righteousness\, His good-will\, His justice\, wisdom and the like’. In this webinar\, Professor Douglas Hedley will discuss the Cambridge Platonists’ thought on beauty and its theological dimension that is tied to a distinctly Platonic theory of enthusiasm or inspiration and that came to be a shaping force in 18th century thought.\n\n2020 Summer Webinar Series on “Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture”\nWhat do reason and beauty have to do with each other? Since the modern Enlightenment and Romantic movements\, it has been tempting to see reason and beauty as separate or even opposed. In the Renaissance\, however\, rational and artistic pursuits bloomed together and even fed each other. Renaissance culture\, including fine art\, poetry\, architecture\, astronomy\, and humanistic thought\, both drew upon and extended ancient and medieval Christian intellectual traditions. This webinar course will examine different aspects of renaissance Christian thought and culture to explore how pursuits of reason interwove with the love of beauty. \nThis event is cosponsored by the Beatrice Institute\, Calvert House\, the Genealogies of Modernity Project\, the Harvard Catholic Center\, the Nova Forum for Catholic Thought\, and St. Paul’s Catholic Center.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-08-reason-beauty-in-cambridge-platonism-douglas-hedley/
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SUMMARY:COVID and the Color Line: Race\, Religion\, and Public Health
DESCRIPTION:A conversation with Yolonda Wilson (Howard University)\, Shawnee Daniels-Sykes (Mount Mary University)\, and Utibe Essein (University of Pittsburgh\, School of Medicine)\, moderated by Vincent Lloyd (Villanova University). Co-organized with the International Academy for Bioethical Inquiry. \nCosponsored by America Media and the Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics \nFree and open to the public. The event will be held online over Zoom and will be livestreamed on YouTube. \nCOVID-19 has been described as a great equalizer\, affecting all Americans alike. Yet\, data collected throughout the pandemic has revealed startling disparities\, particularly with communities of color being disproportionately impacted by the virus\, suffering from both higher infection rates and higher death rates. What are the roots of these asymmetries? How do economics\, politics\, and issues of healthcare—including how racial preconceptions have historically impacted medical treatment and public health policy—contribute? What resources do we have within our communities and within our religious traditions to respond? Join for an interdisciplinary panel of philosophers\, public health experts\, and theological ethicists as we seek to understand and respond to COVID and the color line.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-07-covid-color-line-race-religion-public-health-shawnee-daniels-sykes-yolanda-wilson-vincent-lloyd/
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SUMMARY:On the Eternity of the World: Aristotle\, Bonaventure\, Aquinas\, Kant
DESCRIPTION:This master class is open to current graduate students and uper-level University of Chicago undergraduates. It will take place online via Zoom\, in four sessions\, over two days. \nToward the end of his Physics\, Aristotle argued that the motion in the physical world\, and with it the world itself\, never began and will never cease.  Medieval Christian thinkers agreed that this position conflicted with revelation\, but they assessed it in a wide variety of ways.  In modernity\, Kant used the problem of the world’s duration as evidence of the boundaries of mere reason. \nIn this master class\, we will go through Aristotle’s arguments\, Bonaventure’s rejection of them and insistence that the world’s having begun can be proved\, Aquinas’s denial of any possible proof on either side\, and Kant’s antinomous “proofs” for both sides.  The readings invite discussion of such topics as the relation between reason and faith\, how to understand creation ex nihilo\, the relation between physics and metaphysics\, and the limits of human knowledge. \nSCHEDULE \n\nWednesday\, July 29\, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM; 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM\nThursday\, July 30\, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM; 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM\n\nREADINGS \n\nAristotle\, Physics\, VIII.1-2\, 250b10-253a21\nBonaventure\, In II Sent.\, d. 1\, p. 1\, a. 1\, q. 2\nThomas Aquinas\, Summa theologiae I\, q. 45\, aa. 1-2; Summa theologiae I\, q. 46; Compendium theologiae ch. 98-99; Summa contra gentiles\, II\, caps. 31-37; On the Eternity of the World\nImmanuel Kant\, Critique of Pure Reason\, Transcendental Dialectic\, II.2.2\, First Antinomy
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-07-on-eternity-of-world-aristotle-bonaventure-aquinas-kant-stephen-l-brock/
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SUMMARY:Giordano Bruno and the Poetry of the Cosmos
DESCRIPTION:A webinar lecture with Valentina Zaffino (Pontifical Lateran University; Rome Global Gateway\, University of Notre Dame). Part of our summer webinar series on “Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture\,” presented in collaboration with the American Cusanus Society\nGiordano Bruno (1548-1600) was an Italian Dominican friar\, philosopher\, mathematician\, and cosmologist. Bruno’s notoriety is due both to his adventurous life and to his original reinterpretation of ancient thought in light of the new philosophical scenario. Valentina Zaffino will analyze Bruno’s image of the cosmos\, focusing on his remodeled Neoplatonic background. In this context\, as will be shown\, the notions of harmony and beauty are closely related with Bruno’s fascinating claim of the infinity of the cosmos. \n\n2020 Summer Webinar Series on “Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture”\nWhat do reason and beauty have to do with each other? Since the modern Enlightenment and Romantic movements\, it has been tempting to see reason and beauty as separate or even opposed. In the Renaissance\, however\, rational and artistic pursuits bloomed together and even fed each other. Renaissance culture\, including fine art\, poetry\, architecture\, astronomy\, and humanistic thought\, both drew upon and extended ancient and medieval Christian intellectual traditions. This webinar course will examine different aspects of renaissance Christian thought and culture to explore how pursuits of reason interwove with the love of beauty. \nThis event is cosponsored by the Beatrice Institute\, Calvert House\, the Genealogies of Modernity Project\, the Harvard Catholic Center\, the Nova Forum for Catholic Thought\, and St. Paul’s Catholic Center.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-07-giordano-bruno-poetry-of-cosmos/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200723T100000
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SUMMARY:A Sort of Bazaar or Pantechnicon: Newman's Challenge to the Modern University
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE \nThis master class is open to current graduate students and advanced University of Chicago undergraduate students. It will take place online on Zoom. Others interested in participating should contact us. \nIn 1854\, John Henry Newman worried that the contemporary university was losing its ability to teach its students to see and recognize the truth. Instead of integrated learning\, the university had instead become “a kind of bazaar\, or pantechnicon\,” where various facts or theories were offered up without any attempt to make sense of the whole. This master class will investigate to what extent Newman’s concerns have been realized and whether his proposed solutions can still be obtained. \nThis masterclass will be composed of three parts. In the first\, Fr. Fields will sketch out the general argument of the Idea. In the second\, he will offer some suggestions about how Newman’s insights can diagnose the contemporary ills of the university. The third will be a wide-ranging discussion grounded in two short lectures Newman gave at his Catholic University of Ireland\, “A Form of Infidelity of the Day” and “Christianity and Scientific Investigation” \nAssigned Readings: (all from The Idea of a University) \n\nPreface;\nDiscourse 5 – Knowledge Its Own End;\n“A Form of Infidelity of the Day\,”\n“Christianity and Scientific Investigation”
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-07-a-sort-of-bazaar-or-pantechnicon-newmans-challenge-to-modern-university-stephen-fields-sj/
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SUMMARY:Titian's Icons: Logos and Kairos in Renaissance Devotion
DESCRIPTION:An evening webinar lecture with Christoper Nygren (University of Pittsburgh). Part of our summer webinar series on “Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture\,” presented in collaboration with the American Cusanus Society \nTitian is one of the most famous painters of the Italian Renaissance. He is mostly known for his amazing mythological paintings and depictions of the female nude\, which became a staple of the tradition of European painting. It is less well known that Titian was credited by his contemporaries with painting a miracle-working image. Looking at his paintings in light of this fact\, it becomes clear that Titian dedicated a great deal of energy to painting small-format pictures depicting biblical subjects\, which can rightly be called icons. This presentation will outline Titian’s engagement with icons and show how the artist frequently deviated from received subjects and iconographies to develop new kinds of icons that were directed at inciting conversion in the beholder. \n\n2020 Summer Webinar Series on “Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture”\nWhat do reason and beauty have to do with each other? Since the modern Enlightenment and Romantic movements\, it has been tempting to see reason and beauty as separate or even opposed. In the Renaissance\, however\, rational and artistic pursuits bloomed together and even fed each other. Renaissance culture\, including fine art\, poetry\, architecture\, astronomy\, and humanistic thought\, both drew upon and extended ancient and medieval Christian intellectual traditions. This webinar course will examine different aspects of renaissance Christian thought and culture to explore how pursuits of reason interwove with the love of beauty. \nThis event is cosponsored by the Beatrice Institute\, Calvert House\, the Genealogies of Modernity Project\, the Harvard Catholic Center\, the Nova Forum for Catholic Thought\, and St. Paul’s Catholic Center.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-07-titians-icons-logos-kairos-in-renaissance-devotion-christopher-nygren/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200713T110000
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SUMMARY:2020 Newman Forum Summer Institute
DESCRIPTION:The Newman Forum aims to run a week-long Summer Institute for high school students at Mundelein Seminary every year. Due to COVID-19 concerns\, this year’s Institute will run ONLINE\, Mondays and Thursdays\, from July 13th-30th. \nThis year’s Summer Institute will be centered on the three transcendentals: Truth\, Goodness\, and Beauty! \nFeelings of wonder point us to transcendental truths and drive some of the most important philosophical and theological pursuits: How do we describe the feeling of seeing a radiant sunset to someone who didn’t see it? How do we explain that feeling of resonance when we learn a lesson in school that really speaks to our lives? Why are we moved when we see someone perform an act of kindness for someone else in need? This is beauty\, truth\, and goodness. Sometimes they seem quite simple! But they are also deep mysteries\, and they relate to some of the biggest mysteries of our Catholic faith. Click here for more about the curriculum! \nMonday classes will consist of lectures and brief fundamentals Q&A. Thursdays will consist of discussions of the lectures and short weekly assigned texts. All class meetings will run from 11am-12:30pm. \nMondays (July 13th\, 20th\, and 27th) \n11:00-11:25 Philosophy lecture \n11:25-11:35 Philosophy Q&A \n11:35-11:45 Break \n11:45-12:10 Theology lecture \n12:10-12:30 Theology Q&A \nThursdays (July 16th\, 23rd\, and 30th) \n11:00-11:15 Introduction and overview \n11:15-11:45 Discussion Groups \n11:45-12:30 Large Group Discussion \nThe program cost is $50 for local\, Chicagoland participants (including our broader Illinois\, Wisconsin\, Indiana\, and Michigan neighbors!) $125 for non-local participants. \nApplications for the 2020 Summer Institute are rolling\, and have been extended until July 6th.  \nAll high school students–including incoming freshmen and outgoing seniors–are welcome to apply! \nApplicants will be notified within two weeks of submitting their applications whether or not they have been accepted. \nCLICK HERE TO APPLY!
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-newman-forum-summer-institute/
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SUMMARY:Women Humanists in the Renaissance: Paradise and Free Speech in Moderata Fonte
DESCRIPTION:An evening webinar lecture with Tamara Albertini (University of Hawai’i at Manoa). Part of our summer webinar series on “Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture\,” presented in collaboration with the American Cusanus Society\n\nAfter a brief review of women humanists like Laura Cerata\, Cassandra Fedele\, Lucrezia Marinella\, and Isotta Nogarola\, the presentation will focus on Moderata Fonte’s dialogue The Merit of Women Where One Clearly Discovers How Dignified and Perfect They Are (1600). In that dialogue\, Fonte creates a locus amoenus characterized by a centered garden visited by seven female interlocutors to discuss what options women have to take charge of their lives. The presentation will end by comparing and contrasting Fonte’s garden with Giovanni Pico della Mirandola’s paradise in his Oration on the Dignity of Man (1486)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2020 Summer Webinar Series on “Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture”\nWhat do reason and beauty have to do with each other? Since the modern Enlightenment and Romantic movements\, it has been tempting to see reason and beauty as separate or even opposed. In the Renaissance\, however\, rational and artistic pursuits bloomed together and even fed each other. Renaissance culture\, including fine art\, poetry\, architecture\, astronomy\, and humanistic thought\, both drew upon and extended ancient and medieval Christian intellectual traditions. This webinar course will examine different aspects of renaissance Christian thought and culture to explore how pursuits of reason interwove with the love of beauty. \nThis event is cosponsored by the Beatrice Institute\, Calvert House\, the Genealogies of Modernity Project\, the Harvard Catholic Center\, the Nova Forum for Catholic Thought\, and St. Paul’s Catholic Center.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-07-women-humanists-in-renaissance-paradise-free-speech-in-moderata-fonte/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200624T120000
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SUMMARY:What Evolution Does and Does Not Tell Us about Humans
DESCRIPTION:Cosponsored by the Society of Catholic Scientists. This event is made possible by a grant from the John Templeton Foundation. \nDoes evolution fully explain the human? Recent paleontological and archeological work trace the deep lineages underlying many of our physical traits\, and reveals our complicated history as one of many hominid species. It is abundantly clear that modern humans are subject to the same evolutionary pressures as the rest of the biological world and that evolution continues to shape our species. However\, the developing story of our evolutionary history is frequently framed as a challenge to the claim of human uniqueness\, fundamental to the Judeo-Christian understanding of the creation of man. Does evolution truly undercut the assumption of human uniqueness? Is our understanding of biological evolution sufficient to explain what makes us human? Join us for an online lecture with evolutionary paleobiologist\, Simon Conway Morris\, as he examines “What Evolution Does and Does not Tell Us about Humans.”
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-06-evolution-and-the-human/
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SUMMARY:Alberti and Renaissance Architecture
DESCRIPTION:An evening webinar with Professor of Architecture Il Kim (Auburn University). Part of our summer webinar series on “Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture\,” presented in collaboration with the American Cusanus Society \nLeon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) was a humanist and polymath.  His On Painting (1435/36) and On Architecture (1440s-1472) theorized the arts of painting and architecture\, elevating them to the level of the Liberal Arts.  The legacy of these works cast a long shadow in the Renaissance.  In this webinar\, Professor Kim will discuss Alberti’s architectural theory and practice as an all-encompassing pursuit of artistry in Italian Renaissance. \n\n2020 Summer Webinar Series on “Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture”\nWhat do reason and beauty have to do with each other? Since the modern Enlightenment and Romantic movements\, it has been tempting to see reason and beauty as separate or even opposed. In the Renaissance\, however\, rational and artistic pursuits bloomed together and even fed each other. Renaissance culture\, including fine art\, poetry\, architecture\, astronomy\, and humanistic thought\, both drew upon and extended ancient and medieval Christian intellectual traditions. This webinar course will examine different aspects of renaissance Christian thought and culture to explore how pursuits of reason interwove with the love of beauty. \nThis event is cosponsored by Calvert House\, the Beatrice Institute\, the Genealogies of Modernity Project\, the Harvard Catholic Center\, the Nova Forum for Catholic Thought\, and St. Paul’s Catholic Center.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-06-alberti-renaissance-architecture/
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR: Dante as Poet and Philosopher
DESCRIPTION:A conversation with Professors Jason Aleksander (San Jose State University) and Arielle Saiber (Bowdoin College). Part of our Summer webinar series on “Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture\,” presented in collaboration with the American Cusanus Society \nDante Alighieri (1265-1321) was a Florentine writer and poet\, whose long poetic work\, The Divine Comedy\, has received recognition as one of the greatest artistic achievements in the West. Dante’s poetic artistry stands alongside his intellectual and philosophical thought throughout his writings and in his Comedy. In this webinar\, Professor Jason Aleksander (San José State U) and Professor Arielle Saiber (Bowdoin College) will discuss Dante’s interlocking poetic and philosophical production. \n\n2020 Summer Webinar Series on “Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture”\nWhat do reason and beauty have to do with each other? Since the modern Enlightenment and Romantic movements\, it has been tempting to see reason and beauty as separate or even opposed. In the Renaissance\, however\, rational and artistic pursuits bloomed together and even fed each other. Renaissance culture\, including fine art\, poetry\, architecture\, astronomy\, and humanistic thought\, both drew upon and extended ancient and medieval Christian intellectual traditions. This webinar course will examine different aspects of renaissance Christian thought and culture to explore how pursuits of reason interwove with the love of beauty. \nThis event is cosponsored by Calvert House\, the Collegium Institute\, the Genealogies of Modernity Project\, the Harvard Catholic Center\, the Nova Forum for Catholic Thought\, and St. Paul’s Catholic Center.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-06-webinar-dante-as-poet-philosopher/
LOCATION:ONLINE\, World Wide Web\, INTERNET
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200604T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200604T190000
DTSTAMP:20260419T094802
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR: Nicholas of Cusa
DESCRIPTION:For the final installment of our Spring 2020 lecture series on “Reason and Wisdom in Medieval Christian Thought\,” Professor David Albertson leads us in exploring the work of German philosopher\, theologian\, astronomer\, and mystic\, Nicholas of Cusa.\nNicholas of Cusa (d. 1464) was a great late medieval\, early modern thinker and polymath who digested the medieval theological and contemplative traditions and pressed these in new directions. Living in tumultuous times\, his career in the Church as a cardinal was occupied by his work as a reformer and his efforts to re-unify the Eastern and Western Churches. Professor David Albertson will offer an introduction to the lesser-known but rich life and thought of this great German personality. \n\nThis lecture is part of our Spring Webinar Series on “Reason and Wisdom in Medieval Christian Thought” \nWhat can reason discover about God? Are there other possible ways to know God? Medieval Christians undertook great rational enterprises—including the sharp logic of Abelard and the grand system of Thomas Aquinas—as well as practiced experiential and contemplative modes of knowing\, as did Bernard of Clairvaux. This course will examine how different preeminent medieval Christian thinkers saw the relationship between reason and wisdom\, how to arrive at them\, and so how to seek the face of God. \nThis series is cosponsored by the Calvert House Catholic Center\, the Collegium Institute\, the Harvard Catholic Center\, the Nova Forum\, the Saint Benedict Institute\, the Beatrice Institute\, and the Institute for Faith and Culture.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-06-nicholas-of-cusa-david-albertson/
LOCATION:ONLINE\, World Wide Web\, INTERNET
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200528T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200528T190000
DTSTAMP:20260419T094802
CREATED:20241003T165045Z
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR: On Meister Eckhart
DESCRIPTION:Meister Eckhart (d. ca. 1328) was a famous and popular German mystical writer and preacher. After formal theological training in the University of Paris\, following the footsteps of Thomas Aquinas and Bonaventure\, Eckhart charted a distinctive mystical dialectical theological in his writings and sermons and drew theological controversy. His thought became an inspiration for a tradition of mystical thought after him and remains a wellspring of religious and theological thought today. Professor Bernard McGinn will introduce the life and some of the principal themes of Eckhart’s enigmatic thought.\n\nThis lecture is part of our Spring Webinar Series on “Reason and Wisdom in Medieval Christian Thought” \nWhat can reason discover about God? Are there other possible ways to know God? Medieval Christians undertook great rational enterprises—including the sharp logic of Abelard and the grand system of Thomas Aquinas—as well as practiced experiential and contemplative modes of knowing\, as did Bernard of Clairvaux. This course will examine how different preeminent medieval Christian thinkers saw the relationship between reason and wisdom\, how to arrive at them\, and so how to seek the face of God. \nThis series is cosponsored by the Calvert House Catholic Center\, the Collegium Institute\, the Harvard Catholic Center\, the Nova Forum\, the Saint Benedict Institute\, the Beatrice Institute\, and the Institute for Faith and Culture. \nUpcoming Seminars: \nThursday\, June 4\, 7PM\nNicholas of Cusa | David Albertson (University of Southern California)
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-05-meister-eckhart-bernard-mcginn/
LOCATION:ONLINE\, World Wide Web\, INTERNET
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200521T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200521T200000
DTSTAMP:20260419T094802
CREATED:20241003T165051Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260325T171335Z
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR: St. Bonaventure
DESCRIPTION:Bonaventure (d. 1274) was a pivotal figure whose complex responded effectively to the challenges of his day and inspired both theological and philosophical thought up to the present day. As a contemporary of fellow mendicant St Thomas Aquinas\, Bonaventure also taught at the University of Paris and formulated an original approach to the new Aristotelian thought. Later known as the Seraphic Doctor\, Bonaventure fused profound theological thought with heart-felt spirituality and set out a vision of the life and charism of the recent St Francis of Assisi to provide peace-making leadership for the new Franciscan order. Professor Kevin Hughes will introduce the complex and multifaceted thought of Bonaventure.\nThis lecture is part of our Spring Webinar Series on “Reason and Wisdom in Medieval Christian Thought” \nWhat can reason discover about God? Are there other possible ways to know God? Medieval Christians undertook great rational enterprises—including the sharp logic of Abelard and the grand system of Thomas Aquinas—as well as practiced experiential and contemplative modes of knowing\, as did Bernard of Clairvaux. This course will examine how different preeminent medieval Christian thinkers saw the relationship between reason and wisdom\, how to arrive at them\, and so how to seek the face of God. \nThis series is cosponsored by the Calvert House Catholic Center\, the Collegium Institute\, the Harvard Catholic Center\, the Nova Forum\, the Saint Benedict Institute\, the Beatrice Institute\, and the Institute for Faith and Culture. \nUpcoming Seminars: \nThursday\, May 28\, 7PM\nMeister Eckhart | Bernard McGinn (University of Chicago) \nThursday\, June 4\, 7PM\nNicholas of Cusa | David Albertson (University of Southern California)
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-05-webinar-kevin-hughes-on-bonaventure/
LOCATION:ONLINE\, World Wide Web\, INTERNET
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200514T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200514T200000
DTSTAMP:20260419T094802
CREATED:20241003T165053Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260322T201916Z
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR: The Wisdom of Enclosure in Julian of Norwich's Showings
DESCRIPTION:Julian of Norwich (d. ca. 1416) was a widely respected and sought-out English thinker and spiritual counsellor. She lived as an anchorite\, enclosed in a cell attached to a church in Norwich\, Julian’s Showings are a book of spiritual visions that emerged from her life of prayer and that wrestle with the profound theological mysteries of fitting evil and suffering with God’s mercy and love. Professor Katie Bugyis will examine Julian’s thought in the context of her vocation of enclosed prayer. \n\nThis lecture is part of our Spring Webinar Series on “Reason and Wisdom in Medieval Christian Thought” \nWhat can reason discover about God? Are there other possible ways to know God? Medieval Christians undertook great rational enterprises—including the sharp logic of Abelard and the grand system of Thomas Aquinas—as well as practiced experiential and contemplative modes of knowing\, as did Bernard of Clairvaux. This course will examine how different preeminent medieval Christian thinkers saw the relationship between reason and wisdom\, how to arrive at them\, and so how to seek the face of God. \nThis series is cosponsored by the Collegium Institute\, the Nova Forum\, the Saint Benedict Institute\, the Beatrice Institute\, the Harvard Catholic Center\, and the Calvert House Catholic Center. \nUpcoming Seminars: \nThursday\, May 21\, 7PM\nBonaventure (Title TBD) | Kevin Hughes (Villanova University) \nThursday\, May 28\, 7PM\nMeister Eckhart | Bernard McGinn (University of Chicago) \nThursday\, June 4\, 7PM\nNicholas of Cusa | David Albertson (University of Southern California)
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-05-webinar-katie-bugyis-on-julian-of-norwich/
LOCATION:ONLINE\, World Wide Web\, INTERNET
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200508T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200508T170000
DTSTAMP:20260419T094802
CREATED:20241003T165058Z
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SUMMARY:Issues and Challenges in Economics\, Catholic Social Thought\, and Public Policy: A conversation with Joseph Kaboski
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE \nCan Economics and Catholic Social Thought be set in dialogue? Is there a place for Catholic Social Teaching in Public Policy? How does the scholar bridge one’s academic discipline and one’s religious faith? Harris School students and faculty are invited to join us in conversation with economist and consultant to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB)\, Joseph Kaboski\, on Economics\, Catholic Social Thought\, and Public Policy. \nThis event is closed to the public and open to Harris School students\, faculty\, and staff only
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-05-issues-challenges-in-economics-catholic-social-thought-policy-a-conversation-with-joe-kaboski-joseph-kaboski/
LOCATION:ONLINE\, World Wide Web\, INTERNET
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200507T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200507T200000
DTSTAMP:20260419T094802
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR: On Peter Abelard and Bernard of Clairvaux
DESCRIPTION:Peter Abelard (d. 1142) and Bernard of Clairvaux (d. 1153) were contemporaries who both emerged from the new twelfth-century schools. But their dispositions\, personalities\, and eventual conflict have come to represent a conflict between the rising scholastic and the traditional monastic cultures of learning. Professor Willemien Otten will introduce these iconic twelfth-century personalities\, the direction of their work\, and the theological controversy that put them on opposing sides. \n\nThis lecture is part of our Spring Webinar Series on “Reason and Wisdom in Medieval Christian Thought” \nWhat can reason discover about God? Are there other possible ways to know God? Medieval Christians undertook great rational enterprises—including the sharp logic of Abelard and the grand system of Thomas Aquinas—as well as practiced experiential and contemplative modes of knowing\, as did Bernard of Clairvaux. This course will examine how different preeminent medieval Christian thinkers saw the relationship between reason and wisdom\, how to arrive at them\, and so how to seek the face of God. \nThis series is cosponsored by the Collegium Institute\, the Nova Forum\, the Saint Benedict Institute\, the Beatrice Institute\, the Harvard Catholic Center\, and the Calvert House Catholic Center. \nUpcoming Seminars: \nThursday\, May 14\, 7PM\nJulian of Norwich | Katie Bugyis (University of Notre Dame) \nThursday\, May 21\, 7PM\nBonaventure | Kevin Hughes (Villanova University) \nThursday\, May 28\, 7PM\nMeister Eckhart | Bernard McGinn (University of Chicago) \nThursday\, June 4\, 7PM\nNicholas of Cusa | David Albertson (University of Southern California)
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-05-webinar-abelard-bernard-of-clairvaux-willemien-otten/
LOCATION:ONLINE\, World Wide Web\, INTERNET
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200430T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200430T200000
DTSTAMP:20260419T094802
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR: Hildegard of Bingen
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our fourth Spring Webinar Series lecture with renowned medievalist Barbara Newman\, who will introduce us to the life of Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1169). A German Benedictine Abbess\, Hildegard produced works of visionary theology drawn from her mystical vision and one of the largest surviving collections of medieval musical compositions. \nAs a female religious in the 12th century\, she held a remarkable influence in the Church through preaching tours across Germany and correspondence with popes\, emperors\, and other monastic reformers. In 2012\, she was named a Doctor of the Church by Pope Benedict XVI. \n\nThis lecture is part of our Spring Webinar Series on “Reason and Wisdom in Medieval Christian Thought” \nWhat can reason discover about God? Are there other possible ways to know God? Medieval Christians undertook great rational enterprises—including the sharp logic of Abelard and the grand system of Thomas Aquinas—as well as practiced experiential and contemplative modes of knowing\, as did Bernard of Clairvaux. This course will examine how different preeminent medieval Christian thinkers saw the relationship between reason and wisdom\, how to arrive at them\, and so how to seek the face of God. \nThis series is cosponsored by the Calvert House Catholic Center\, the Collegium Institute\, the Harvard Catholic Center\, the Nova Forum\, the Beatrice Institute\, and the Saint Benedict Institute\,  \nUpcoming Seminars: \nThursday\, May 7\, 7PM\nAbelard and Bernard of Clairvaux | Willemien Otten (University of Chicago) \nThursday\, May 14\, 7PM\nJulian of Norwich | Katie Bugyis (University of Notre Dame) \nThursday\, May 21\, 7PM\nBonaventure | Kevin Hughes (Villanova University) \nThursday\, May 28\, 7PM\nMeister Eckhart | Bernard McGinn (University of Chicago) \nThursday\, June 4\, 7PM\nNicholas of Cusa | David Albertson (University of Southern California)
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-04-webinar-hildegard-of-bingen/
LOCATION:ONLINE\, World Wide Web\, INTERNET
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200423T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200423T200000
DTSTAMP:20260419T094802
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR: Thomas Aquinas on Ways to Know God
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the third installment of our Spring Webinar Series. Professor Brian Carl\, who teaches philosophy at the University of St Thomas in Houston\, will present on the thought of Saint Thomas of Aquinas\, O.P. (d. 1274) on the ways to know God. Thomas was a friar of the Order of Preachers whose capacious mind bequeathed many treasures for the Christian tradition\, including scriptural commentaries\, philosophical treatises and commentary\, his Summa theologiae\, and devotional and liturgical texts. Thomas’ approach to the knowledge of God is complex\, acknowledging dialectical\, rational\, as well as revelatory\, gracious\, and mystical modes. \n\nThis lecture is part of our Spring Webinar Series on “Reason and Wisdom in Medieval Christian Thought” \nWhat can reason discover about God? Are there other possible ways to know God? Medieval Christians undertook great rational enterprises—including the sharp logic of Abelard and the grand system of Thomas Aquinas—as well as practiced experiential and contemplative modes of knowing\, as did Bernard of Clairvaux. This course will examine how different preeminent medieval Christian thinkers saw the relationship between reason and wisdom\, how to arrive at them\, and so how to seek the face of God. \nThis series is cosponsored by the Calvert House Catholic Center\, the Collegium Institute\, the Harvard Catholic Center\, the Nova Forum\, the Saint Benedict Institute\, and the St. Paul’s University Catholic Center. \nUpcoming Seminars: \nThursday\, April 30\, 7PM\nHildegard of Bingen (Title TBD) | Barbara Newman (Northwestern University) \nThursday\, May 7\, 7PM\nAbelard and Bernard of Clairvaux (Title TBD) | Willemien Otten (University of Chicago) \nThursday\, May 14\, 7PM\nJulian of Norwich (Title TBD) | Katie Bugyis (University of Notre Dame) \nThursday\, May 21\, 7PM\nBonaventure (Title TBD) | Kevin Hughes (Villanova University) \nThursday\, May 28\, 7PM\nMeister Eckhart | Bernard McGinn (University of Chicago) \nThursday\, June 4\, 7PM\nNicholas of Cusa | David Albertson (University of Southern California)
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-04-thomas-aquinas-on-ways-to-know-god/
LOCATION:ONLINE\, World Wide Web\, INTERNET
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200416T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200416T200000
DTSTAMP:20260419T094802
CREATED:20241003T165113Z
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR: Anselm of Canterbury on the Rationality of Faith
DESCRIPTION:This event is free and open to the public. Online registration is required. Registrants will receive a link to the webinar via email. \nYou can also watch the live stream of the lecture on our YouTube Channel. \nJoin us for the second installment of our Spring Webinar Series. Professor Aaron Canty\, who teaches theology and medieval thought at Saint Xavier University\, will present on the thought of Saint Anselm of Canterbury (d. 1106). \nAnselm was a startlingly original monastic writer and thinker who drank deeply of Augustinian and patristic theology but formulated his own theological and philosophical writings in spare and compelling chains of reasoning. His Why God Became Man\, Monologion\, and Proslogion each chart new ways to practice ‘believing in order to understand (credo ut intelligam).’ \n\nThis lecture is part of our Spring Webinar Series on “Reason and Wisdom in Medieval Christian Thought” \nWhat can reason discover about God? Are there other possible ways to know God? Medieval Christians undertook great rational enterprises—including the sharp logic of Abelard and the grand system of Thomas Aquinas—as well as practiced experiential and contemplative modes of knowing\, as did Bernard of Clairvaux. This course will examine how different preeminent medieval Christian thinkers saw the relationship between reason and wisdom\, how to arrive at them\, and so how to seek the face of God. \nThis series is cosponsored by the Collegium Institute\, the Nova Forum\, the Saint Benedict Institute\, the Beatrice Institute\, the Harvard Catholic Center\, and Calvert House Catholic Center. \nUpcoming Seminars \nThursday\, April 23\, 7PM\n“Thomas Aquinas on Ways to Know God” | Brian Carl (University of St. Thomas\, Houston) \nThursday\, April 30\, 7PM\nHildegard of Bingen (Title TBD) | Barbara Newman (Northwestern University) \nThursday\, May 7\, 7PM\nAbelard and Bernard of Clairvaux (Title TBD) | Willemien Otten (University of Chicago) \nThursday\, May 14\, 7PM\nJulian of Norwich (Title TBD) | Katie Bugyis (University of Notre Dame) \nThursday\, May 21\, 7PM\nBonaventure (Title TBD) | Kevin Hughes (Villanova University) \nThursday\, May 28\, 7PM\nMeister Eckhart | Bernard McGinn (University of Chicago) \nThursday\, June 4\, 7PM\nNicholas of Cusa | David Albertson (University of Southern California)
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-04-anselm-of-canterbury-on-rationality-of-faith-aaron-canty-saint-xavier-university/
LOCATION:ONLINE\, World Wide Web\, INTERNET
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200407T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200407T190000
DTSTAMP:20260419T094802
CREATED:20241003T165117Z
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR: Gregory the Great on Reading Scripture for Wisdom
DESCRIPTION:This event is free and open to the public. Online registration is required. Registrants will receive an email witha link to join the webinar on Zoom. \nHow can scripture guide our search for wisdom? Bernard McGinn\, professor emeritus in the Divinity School of the University of Chicago\, begins our webinar series on Reason and Wisdom in Medieval Christian Thought by presenting on Gregory the Great and reading scripture for wisdom. \nPope Saint Gregory the Great lived in an age of tumult–war\, waves of disease\, economic depression\, and civil deterioration. Alongside his administrative reforms and leadership\, Gregory described a spirituality that centered around meditative and contemplative reading of sacred scripture. Gregory’s practice of reading scripture\, particularly the Book of Job\, and his description of the practice had great influence upon medieval meditative and contemplative practices of reading the Word of God. \n\nThis lecture is part of our Spring Webinar Series on “Reason and Wisdom in Medieval Christian Thought” \nWhat can reason discover about God? Are there other possible ways to know God? Medieval Christians undertook great rational enterprises—including the sharp logic of Abelard and the grand system of Thomas Aquinas—as well as practiced experiential and contemplative modes of knowing\, as did Bernard of Clairvaux. This course will examine how different preeminent medieval Christian thinkers saw the relationship between reason and wisdom\, how to arrive at them\, and so how to seek the face of God. \nThis series is cosponsored by the Collegium Institute\, the Nova Forum\, the Saint Benedict Institute\, the Beatrice Institute\, the Harvard Catholic Center\, and Calvert House Catholic Center. \nUpcoming Seminars \nThursday\, April 16\, 7PM\n“Anselm of Canterbury on the Rationality of Faith” | Aaron Canty (Saint Xavier University) \nThursday\, April 23\, 7PM\n“Thomas Aquinas on Ways to Know God” | Brian Carl (University of St. Thomas\, Houston) \nThursday\, April 30\, 7PM\nHildegard of Bingen (Title TBD) | Barbara Newman (Northwestern University) \nThursday\, May 7\, 7PM\nAbelard and Bernard of Clairvaux (Title TBD) | Willemien Otten (University of Chicago) \nThursday\, May 14\, 7PM\nJulian of Norwich (Title TBD) | Katie Bugyis (University of Notre Dame) \nThursday\, May 21\, 7PM\nBonaventure (Title TBD) | Kevin Hughes (Villanova University) \nThursday\, May 28\, 7PM\nMeister Eckhart | Bernard McGinn (University of Chicago) \nThursday\, June 4\, 7PM\nNicholas of Cusa | David Albertson (University of Southern California)
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-04-webinar-gregory-great-on-reading-scripture-for-wisdom/
LOCATION:ONLINE\, World Wide Web\, INTERNET
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