Social Sciences, Room 122

Name: “What Makes Music Sacred?”
Start: 2012-10-18T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2012-10-18T19:00:00-05:00
Location: Social Sciences, Room 122

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April 2024
April 11th, 2024 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Dante and a Poet’s Journey in Hope

Social Sciences, Room 122 1126 E 59th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Denys Turner, Yale University, Emeritus

REGISTER HERE This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact dstrobach@lumenchristi.org. A wine and cheese reception will follow. This event is cosponsored by the University of Chicago Committee on Social Thought, the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, and the Medieval Studies Workshop. Often praised for its evocative treatment of heaven and hell, Dante’s Commedia is a significant work of theology. Denys Turner will explain how Dante accomplishes by means of poetry what the formal theological treatises of the Middle Ages demonstrate through prosaic inference and proof. Poetry, Turner argues, is the most natural language to articulate...
October 2022
October 20th, 2022 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Symposium on “The Future of Christian Art”

Social Sciences, Room 122 1126 E 59th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Is there a future for Christian Art? Can beauty save a “modern” world? This symposium features a presentation by Fr. Stephen Fields, SJ (Georgetown) in which he distinguishes between modernity and previous periods of the Western Christian experience and draws upon the work of Hans Urs von Balathasar to argue that Christians must reconceive the meaning of “beauty.” Responses will follow from University of Chicago art historian Karin Krause and Chicago Artist John David Mooney. This event is being supported by funds from the Fr. Paul V. Mankowski, S.J. Memorial Fund for Jesuit Scholarship. Fr. Paul, former Jesuit Scholar-in-Residence for the Lumen...
March 2020
March 5th, 2020 @ 8:00 pm

American Catholic Contours and Detours in a Fifty-Percent Hispanic/Latino Church

Social Sciences, Room 122 1126 E 59th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Free and Open to the Public The familiar expression “American Catholicism” often evokes mainly the presence and heritage of Euro-American Catholics and how this group defines religion, culture and politics in our nation. Though narrow and de facto blind to the contributions of many other groups that have been central to defining the American Catholic experience, this perception finds its ultimate challenge in the fact that nearly 50 percent of Catholics in the U.S. today are Hispanic/Latino. In this lecture Ospino explores key implications for church and society of being American Catholic in a largely Hispanic/Latino church. The lecture proposes a...
December 2019
December 4th, 2019 @ 6:15 pm

The Open Question of Church Polity and Governance: Trent, Vatican I, Vatican II

Social Sciences, Room 122 1126 E 59th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Theology and Ethics Workshop at the Divinity School and the Midwest Province of the Society of Jesus. Sexual and financial scandals are prompting Catholics to ask hard and painful questions about church government. Who is in charge? How is responsibility and accountability for governance distributed in the Church? By no means is this the first time that the Catholic Church has reckoned with the letter and the spirit of its own governance. Drawing from his latest book, When Bishops Meet: An Essay Comparing Trent, Vatican I, and Vatican II (Harvard, 2019), Fr. John...
October 2019
October 24th, 2019 @ 5:15 pm

Symposium on “The Life of Teresa of Avila: A Biography”

Social Sciences, Room 122 1126 E 59th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion at the Divinity School, the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, and the Medieval Studies Workshop. This program was made possible in part by a grant from the Our Sunday Visitor Institute. Copies of The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila: A Biography (Princeton University Press, 2019) are available for sale by the Seminary Coop Bookstore. Saint Teresa of Avila’s Life is among the most remarkable accounts ever written of the human encounter with the divine. The Life is not really an autobiography at all,...
November 2017
November 16th, 2017 @ 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm

Plato’s Bedroom: Desire, Union, and Procreation

Social Sciences, Room 122 1126 E 59th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Department of Philosophy. Plato found philosophy in some of the same erotic anxieties that permeate contemporary life, and even explored themes central to Catholic conceptions of sexuality. This lecture will be based on central themes from Plato's Symposium, drawing on David O'Connor's Plato's Bedroom: Ancient Wisdom and Modern Love. ABOUT Plato's Bedroom Plato’s Bedroom is a book for people who want to be better at falling in love and being in love, with all the ecstasies and dangers erotic life can bring. It is also an inviting book for readers who...
February 2017
February 23rd, 2017 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Tracing our Shared Deep History: Evolutionary Anthropology and Theo-Drama

Social Sciences, Room 122 1126 E 59th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Cosponsored by the Theology and Religious Ethics Workshop While theology and biological science often seem to be at odds, there are productive ways of telling the Christian story of who we are as human beings which resonate with newer evolutionary theories. This lecture will argue that the most convincing theological approach is theo-drama, where insights from the dramatic stage inform our theological reflections in relation to the drama of evolution. Such exchanges can be highly creative for theology and anthropology; neither party in the dialogue is reduced to the other, and both are enriched in new and interesting ways.
February 2016
February 25th, 2016 @ 7:00 pm

San Marco, the Dominican Monastery at the Heart of Renaissance Florence

Social Sciences, Room 122 1126 E 59th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

A lecture with Ada Palmer (University of Chicago) Cosponsored by the Department of History It is difficult today to imagine a world in which religious communities were deeply intertwined with the civic order and when a third of a town’s population might be priests, monks, and nuns. In Renaissance Florence the Dominican Monastery of San Marco was intimately tied to every aspect of city life, from commerce and patronage, to civil broils and foreign invasions, to education and medicine, to the great artists, architects and radical thinkers who earned the Florentine Renaissance its eternal fame. This lecture will explore the...
January 2015
January 16th, 2015 @ 5:00 pm

Thomas Merton: the Writing Life and the Contemplative Life

Social Sciences, Room 122 1126 E 59th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Lawrence Cunningham (University of Notre Dame) cosponsored by Calvert House and the Chicago Chapter of the International Thomas Merton Society Among the most well-known spiritual figures of the 20th Century, Thomas Merton (1915-1968) was an aspiring poet and writer before his conversion and eventual entrance into a Trappist Monastery in 1941. It took time for Merton to understand that his writing was not alien to his chosen contemplative vocation but integral to it. This realization helped him to write works such as Thoughts in Solitude and New Seeds of Contemplation and deepened his spiritual development in all of its complexity. Merton helps us to understand how...
May 2014
May 22nd, 2014 @ 4:30 pm

Baudelaire and Maistre: the Weight of Original Sin

Social Sciences, Room 122 1126 E 59th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

By 1851, the poet Charles Baudelaire had become obsessed — in contrast to his previous anarchist position — with the views of the reactionary and fiercely Catholic Joseph de Maistre. Maistre argued that Original Sin “explains everything,” a perspective that Baudelaire was to adopt, and which markedly changed his poetry. This lecture will consider Baudelaire’s preoccupation with sin in light of Kierkegaard’s treatment of anxiety and sin in The Concept of Anxiety.
October 2012
October 24th, 2012 @ 7:00 pm

“The Dialogue of Economics and Catholic Social Thought”

Social Sciences, Room 122 1126 E 59th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Cosponsored by the University of Chicago Ethics Club The presence of two Catholic candidates for vice-president have raised questions about Catholic social thought and American free market economics. In this symposium, an economist and a theologian consider how the Church's teaching bears on contemporary economic questions. The questions to be explored will include: What does the Catholic social thought developed by popes from Leo XIII and Pius XI to John Paul II and Benedict XVI say about economic issues? How can economists engage the principles of Catholic Social Thought and reflect on questions such as the just wage, social solidarity and the market...
October 18th, 2012 @ 7:00 pm

“What Makes Music Sacred?”

Social Sciences, Room 122 1126 E 59th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Cosponsored by the Department of Music and the Medieval Studies Workshop While it is easy to recognize traditional forms of sacred music: Gregorian chant, classical polyphony, organ music, choral music, and vernacular hymns it is difficult to pinpoint what it is that makes music sacred? This lecture will reflect upon the relation of the sacred and the beautiful in the liturgy. It will consider what is meant by sacred, as distinguished from holy and place those things considered sacred in the context of their reception and intrinsic suitability.