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Magis Lecture | Faith, Belief, and Knowledge

Saint Ignatius College Prep 1076 W Roosevelt Rd, Chicago, IL
Fr. Adam Hincks, SJ, University of Toronto

"Believers are also thinkers: in believing, they think and in thinking, they believe." So said St. Augustine of Hippo, in contrast to our typical assumption that belief and knowledge are opposites, with belief associated with religious faith and knowledge with scientific thinking. In actual practice, though, there are many of instances of belief in science and many claims of knowledge in religion. In this talk Fr. Adam Hincks, S.J. (University of Toronto) will present knowledge and belief as interlocking rational activities and explore how they relate to religious faith.

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Christian Martyrdom in the Reformation Era: Reflections on Salvation at Stake (1999) after Twenty-Five Years

Saint Ignatius College Prep 1076 W Roosevelt Rd, Chicago, IL
Brad Gregory, University of Notre Dame

5:00 p.m. Mass. Lecture & reception to follow Cosponsored by the Bollandist Society, St. Ignatius College Prep. Supported by the Fr. Paul V. Mankowski, S.J., Memorial Fund for Jesuit Scholarship at Lumen Christi. Free and open to the public. Registration required.  In Reformation Europe, several thousand Christian men and women were executed for their religious beliefs. Brad Gregory told their stories and analyzed the implications in Salvation at Stake, his ground-breaking 1999 book comparing how Catholic, Protestant, and Anabaptist martyrs understood themselves. His book has been acclaimed widely and has shaped how many historians now write about religious belief and practice. In this lecture, Prof. Gregory will reflect on...

Magis Lecture | The Making of St. Ignatius

Saint Ignatius College Prep 1076 W Roosevelt Rd, Chicago, IL
Fr. Sam Conedera, SJ, University of St. Louis

5:00 Mass*  | 5:45 Drinks & Hors d’Oeuvres  | 6:30 Lecture  | 7:15 End REGISTER HERE Cosponsored by the Bollandist Society, St. Ignatius College Prep. Supported by the Fr. Paul V. Mankowski, S.J., Memorial Fund for Jesuit Scholarship at Lumen Christi. Free and open to the public. Registration required. For questions, please contact Marial Corona at mcorona@lumenchristi.org. Although the Church calls upon the saints as heavenly intercessors, their lives on earth unfold in time and space in the midst of their fellow men. The recognition of the saints’ holiness begins with the people who know them face-to-face, who often provide divergent testimonies...

The Saints: How They Save Us and We Save Them

Saint Ignatius College Prep 1076 W Roosevelt Rd, Chicago, IL

This event is in-person only. There is no cost to attend.  Please register by Thursday, October 27th. The Lumen Christi Institute, St. Ignatius College Prep, and The Bollandists Society in Belgium invite you to a special evening with Catherine M. Mooney, Associate Professor of Church History at Boston College’s School of Theology and Ministry.   For questions, please reach out to Andrea Lamacki at andrea.lamacki@ignatius.org Schedule Mass | 5:00 in Cuneo Chapel at Saint Ignatius College Prep Reception | 5:30-6:15pm in the Brunswick Room Presentation | 6:15-7:15pm in the Brunswick Room

Magis Lecture | Pro and Con: Does Faith Ignore Reason?

Saint Ignatius College Prep 1076 W Roosevelt Rd, Chicago, IL

Free and open to the public. Every Sunday, Christian worshipers profess the Nicene Creed. The Creed formulates and supports our belief in one God, but there appears to be scant empirical evidence for many of its claims that we acknowledge to be true.  We don’t profess the Creed because we’ve been persuaded by overwhelming evidence. Is it reasonable, then, to believe that the Creed's claims are true? Or does our profession of faith shove our reason into exile?  So says Sam Harris, a recent "popular atheist,” who argues that faith is by nature unreasonable. But William James, the 19th-century American psychologist,...

Magis Series on Faith and Reason

Saint Ignatius College Prep 1076 W Roosevelt Rd, Chicago, IL

Free and open to the public. Presented by the Lumen Christi Institute and Saint Ignatius College Prep. What does it mean to believe? Does one believe because of evidence? In spite of evidence? Is belief the beginning of wisdom or the opposite of science? For over two thousand years, the Catholic Church has defended the rich interrelation between faith and reason. As Pope John Paul II said in his encyclical, Fides et Ratio, "Faith and reason are like the two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth." Faith without reason leads to superstition. Reason without...