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“The Theologico-Political Problem Today”

Rosenwald 405 1101 East 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Co-sponsored by the History of Christianity Club For three hundred years the modern nation-state appeared to determine the relationship between politics and religion. Indeed, the modern state was devised to solve this troubled relation. This is no longer the case. The present weakness of nations in discerning matters religious and theological, along with its cool disinterest in religion, presents a particular crisis for the Church. This lecture will consider the history of the theologico-political problem and address the condition of three essential institutions: marriage, polity and church.

“The Second Vatican Council and the Church’s Engagement with the Modern World”

Rosenwald 405 1101 East 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Cosponsored by the University of Chicago Ethics Club After decades of ideological upheaval that often placed the Catholic Church in conflict with modernity, Pope John XXIII convened the Second Vatican Council in part to open a dialogue with modern culture. This lecture will reflect on the theological developments that led to Vatican II's Pastoral Constitution on the Modern World, Gaudium et Spes, the document's text itself, and the history of its reception, and offer a perspective on the current health of the Church and its prospects for bringing the light of Christ to the world.

“Phenomenology and Naturalism: Attitude and Objectivity”

Rosenwald 405 1101 East 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Edmund Husserl was a philosopher, mathematician, and founder of the philosophical school of phenomenology. Professor Moran will argue that Husserl was correct to see naturalism as the dominant tendency of twentieth-century science and philosophy. Naturalism can be understood in many different senses, but it is typically defined by its commitment to science as the arbiter of what is objective. Husserl took naturalism to be self-refuting. Moran will discuss Husserl’s arguments, and in particular, the manner in which Husserl redefines ‘objectivity’ within his transcendental idealism, which is his alternative to naturalism. Moran’s lecture will be followed by commentary from Professors Jean-Luc...