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SUMMARY:Virtue\, Moral Formation\, and the University
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE FOR IN-PERSON \nREGISTER HERE FOR LIVESTREAM \nOpen to students and faculty. For more information\, contact gzokal@lumenchristi.org. \nThis event is made possible through the support of ‘In Lumine: Supporting the Catholic Intellectual Tradition on Campuses Nationwide’ (Grant #62372) from the John Templeton Foundation. \nAs scholars such as Julie Reuben have documented\, there has been a decline in the mission of moral formation of students over the history of US higher education and this role of the university is no longer to be taken for granted. What role\, if any\, does the university play in the moral formation of its students? Is moral formation beyond the bounds of its mission or is it inescapable? What virtues are formed in the modern university? This public panel\, part of the Annual Meeting of the In Lumine Network\, will serve to provide a broad conversation about the role of the university in regard to virtue and moral formation. \nImage courtesy of: Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center\, University of Chicago Library
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2024-10-virtue-moral-formation-and-the-university/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Symposia
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SUMMARY:America's Real Sister Act: The Hidden History of Black Catholic Nuns in the United States
DESCRIPTION:This event is free and open to the public. For more information\, contact info@lumenchristi.org.  \nThis event is co-presented by the Lumen Christi Institute and the Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion. Cosponsored by St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church in Chicago\, America Media\, the Center for Gender Studies\, the Center for Race\, Politics and Culture at the University of Chicago\, the History Department at the University of Chicago\, the Thea Bowman Foundation\, and the Catholic Theological Union.  \n\nFor most people\, Whoopi Goldberg’s performance as Sister Mary Clarence in Sister Act is the dominant interpretation of an African American nun and the desegregation of white Catholic sisterhood in the United States. In this presentation\, Dr. Shannen Dee Williams will explore the story of America’s real sister act: the story of how generations of Black women and girls called to the sacred vows of poverty\, chastity\, and obedience fought against racism\, sexism\, and exclusion to become and minister as consecrated women of God in the Roman Catholic Church.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2023-04-americas-real-sister-act-hidden-history-of-black-catholic-nuns-in-united-states-shannen-dee-williams/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230223T180000
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SUMMARY:Ideologies of War and Theologies of Healing: Ukraine one year later
DESCRIPTION:This event is free and open to the public. For more information\, contact info@lumenchristi.org. This event is co-presented with Fordham University’s Orthodox Christian Studies Center\, and co-sponsored by the Sheptysky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies\, Commonweal Magazine\, America Media\, the University of Chicago’s Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion\, the Three Hierarchs Orthodox Christian Fellowship\, and CNEWA.  \nOne year later\, the war in Ukraine has risen and fallen in the news cycle but remains an ever-pressing issue in Europe and abroad. Scholars\, pundits\, and public figures have done much to diagnose the ideological engines that drive the conflict\, yet even the most careful public reflection fails to grasp the interrelationship between the religious and cultural forces in play. Just as religion has been weaponized in this geopolitical conflict\, so too can it be wielded to tend to these wounds. This panel turns to Church leaders\, international relations experts\, scientists\, and scholars fluent in the traditions of the Christian East common to Russia and Ukraine—to explore principles that can aid in the just-peacemaking and the healing of trauma inflicted by the war. \nJoin us for this panel discussion featuring Metropolitan Borys Gudziak (Ukrainian Archeparchy of Philadelphia)\, Elizabeth Prodromou (Boston College)\, Perry Hamalis (North Central College)\, and Gayle Woloschak (Northwestern University). The event will be followed by a reception.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2023-02-war-ukraine-borys-gudziak/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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SUMMARY:Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis
DESCRIPTION:This event is free and open to the public. For more information\, contact info@lumenchristi.org. This event is co-sponsored by the History Department at the University of Chicago.  \nThe story of Roman Catholicism has never followed a singular path. In no time period has this been more true than over the last two centuries. Beginning with the French Revolution\, extending to the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s\, and concluding with present-day crises\, John T. McGreevy chronicles the dramatic upheavals and internal divisions shaping the most multicultural\, multilingual\, and global institution in the world. \nIn his latest book\, John McGreevy gives a magisterial history of the centuries-long conflict between “progress” and “tradition” in the world’s largest international institution.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2023-02-catholicism-a-global-history-from-french-revolution-to-pope-francis/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230204T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230204T193000
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SUMMARY:Red Mass Lecture with Hannah Gray
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\nThis event is free and open to the public. For more information\, contact info@lumenchristi.org. \nHannah Gray\, former President of the University of Chicago and Renaissance Historian\, will speak on St. Thomas More’s Utopia. \nPreceding the lecture\, there will be a Red Mass at Bond Chapel. You can register to attend the Mass and find more information here.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2023-02-red-mass-lecture-gray/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230126T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230126T193000
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SUMMARY:Aristotle's Great-Souled Man in Jane Austen\, Fyodor Dostoyevsky\, and Saint Augustine
DESCRIPTION:This event was co-sponsored by the Undergraduate Program in Religious Studies at the University of Chicago.  \nAugustine famous referred to the classical virtues as “splendid vices”. Although he stood in the tradition that valued virtue\, he was concerned that the pursuit of greatness through the life of virtue – a theme dating back to Aristotle’s ideal of the Great-Souled Man – could actually breed a sense of self-righteousness. Yet there is much to the Aristotelian ideal. The pursuit of greatness in the service of God seems preferable to complacent mediocrity that sadly characterizes so much of our life. This lecture\, focusing on Dostoyevsky and Austen\, seeks to discover the danger of the pursuit of greatness while examining how the category of “greatness” might be reconceived in Christian terms.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2023-01-aristotles-great-souled-man-in-jane-austen-fyodor-dostoyevsky-saint-augustine-j-warren-smith/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220428T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220428T170000
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SUMMARY:Bernard of Clairvaux: Writing a Biography of the Difficult Saint
DESCRIPTION:A lecture with Professor Brian Patrick McGuire\, author of Bernard of Clairvaux: An Inner Life (Cornell University Press\, 2020). Free and open to the public. Registration is required. Cosponsored by the Bollandist Society\, Cornell University Press\, the Medieval Studies Workshop at the University of Chicago\, and the Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion. Contact us with any questions. \nFrom the presenter: \nThis lecture will be a combination of biography and autobiography: my various attempts at writing a biography of Bernard of Clairvaux and the history of my own life. I think it is important for historians to be aware of the contents of individual human lives and their contributions to their own time. In the case of Bernard\, I began with the assumption that he was a monster\, a churchman who did his utmost to destroy Peter Abelard and his new theology. But in the course of gaining life experience I came to understand what Bernard was facing: a conviction that it was his duty to involve himself in the life of the Church while at the same time seeking the contemplative life he had chosen at Clairvaux. It became easier for me to accept Bernard’s situation when I became involved after 1985 in helping asylum applicants in Denmark\, in a society whose officials did their best to send these people back where they came from. During these years until the early 1990s my view of Bernard changed as my perception of my own time changed. I came to see how difficult it is to live up to a Christian way of life and to help other people. \nMy lecture will not be pure autobiography but will concentrate on the contents of Bernard’s life as I have come to perceive him in my own research and writing. I have deemed him “the difficult saint” and as such he well fits our own difficult times\, when decency and charity are more needed than ever. \nABOUT THE BOOK​​​​​​ \nIn this intimate portrait of one of the Middle Ages’ most consequential men\, Brian Patrick McGuire delves into the life of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux to offer a refreshing interpretation that finds within this grand historical figure a deeply spiritual human being who longed for the reflective quietude of the monastery even as he helped shape the destiny of a church and a continent. Heresy and crusade\, politics and papacies\, theology and disputation shaped this astonishing man’s life\, and McGuire presents it all in a deeply informed and clear-eyed biography. \nFollowing Bernard from his birth in 1090 to his death in 1153 at the abbey he had founded four decades earlier\, Bernard of Clairvaux reveals a life teeming with momentous events and spiritual contemplation\, from Bernard’s central roles in the first great medieval reformation of the Church and the Second Crusade\, which he came to regret\, to the crafting of his books\, sermons\, and letters. We see what brought Bernard to monastic life and how he founded Clairvaux Abbey\, established a network of Cistercian monasteries across Europe\, and helped his brethren monks and abbots in heresy trials\, affairs of state\, and the papal schism of the 1130s. \nBy reevaluating Bernard’s life and legacy through his own words and those of the people closest to him\, McGuire reveals how this often-challenging saint saw himself and conveyed his convictions to others. Above all\, this fascinating biography depicts Saint Bernard of Clairvaux as a man guided by Christian revelation and open to the achievements of the human spirit.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2022-04-bernard-of-clairvaux-an-inner-life/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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SUMMARY:Symposium on "The Light that Binds: A Study in Thomas Aquinas's Metaphysics of Natural Law"
DESCRIPTION:A symposium on The Light that Binds: A Study in Thomas Aquinas’s Metaphysics of Natural Law by Fr. Stephen L. Brock (Wipf and Stock\, 2020). \nFree and open to the public. Registration is required. Cosponsored by Wipf and Stock Publishers\, the Department of History at the University of Chicago\, and the Seminary Co-op Bookstore.  Contact us with any questions. \nABOUT THE BOOK \nIf there is any one author in the history of moral thought who has come to be associated with the idea of natural law\, it is Saint Thomas Aquinas. Many things have been written about Aquinas’s natural law teaching\, and from many different perspectives. The aim of this book is to help see it from his own perspective. That is why the focus is metaphysical. Aquinas’s whole moral doctrine is laden with metaphysics\, and his natural law teaching especially so\, because it is all about first principles. The book centers on how Aquinas thinks the first principles of practical reason\, which for him are what make up natural law\, function as laws. It is a controversial question\, and the book engages a variety of readers of Aquinas\, including Francisco Suarez\, Jacques Maritain\, prominent analytical philosophers\, Straussians\, and the initiators of the New Natural Law theory. Among the issues addressed are the relation between natural law and natural inclination\, how far natural law depends on knowledge of human nature\, what its obligatory force consists in\, and\, above all\, how it is related to what for Aquinas is the first principle of all being\, the divine will. \nYou can purchase the book from our partners at the Seminary Co-op Bookstore. \n\n\n\nThis convening is open to all invitees regardless of vaccination status and\, because of ongoing health risks\, particularly to the unvaccinated\, participants are expected to adopt the risk mitigation measures (masking and social distancing\, etc.) appropriate to their vaccination status as advised by public health officials or to their individual vulnerabilities as advised by a medical professional. Public convening may not be safe for all and carries a risk for contracting COVID-19\, particularly for those unvaccinated. Participants will not know the vaccination status of others and should follow appropriate risk mitigation measures. \n\nIf you are not currently affiliated with the University (enrolled student\, faculty\, or staff) it is expected that you review the University’s COVID mitigation efforts. The University expects every event attendee to adopt precautions designed to mitigate the risk of viral transmission.\nIf you have any questions\, please contact us.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2022-01-symposium-on-light-that-binds-a-study-in-thomas-aquinass-metaphysics-of-natural-law-stephen-l-brock-russell-hittinger-matthew-levering-candace-vogler/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220330T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220331T181500
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CREATED:20241003T164017Z
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SUMMARY:The Theology of Nature and the Nature of Theology
DESCRIPTION:A conference held by the University of Chicago Divinity School\, cosponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute. \nDownload of Conference Abstracts. \nFor more information see the Divinity School’s conference webpage. \n\nSchedule: \nWednesday\, March 30 \n2:00pm-3:15pm\nWesley Wildman (Boston University):  “Prospects for a Naturalist\, Critically Humanist\, and Mystical Transreligious Understanding of Ultimate Reality” \n3:30pm-4:45pm\nKarmen MacKendrick (LeMoyne College): “Out of Bounds: Collection\, Division\, Creation” \n5:00pm-6:15pm\nWillemien Otten (University of Chicago Divinity School): “Double or Nothing: Creation and Gender in Eriugena\, Hildegard\, and Hadewijch” (the inaugural Dorothy Grant Maclear Lecture) \nReception to follow \nThursday\, March 31 \n2:00pm-3:15pm\nWilliam Schweiker (University of Chicago Divinity School): “How Natural is Goodness?” \n3:30pm-4:45pm\nM. Burcht Pranger (University of Amsterdam): “Corpus Mysticum: Henri de Lubac on Nature and Supernature” \n5:00pm-6:15pm\nJean-Luc Marion (University of Chicago Divinity School): “Karl Barth on the Being of the World Before God”
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2022-03-theology-of-nature-nature-of-theology/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220217T183000
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SUMMARY:Ecumenical Panel on "For the Life of the World: Toward a Social Ethos of the Orthodox Church"
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. This program will be held as a hybrid\, in-person and online event. Presented by the Lumen Christi Institute and the Fordham Orthodox Christian Studies Center. Cosponsored by the Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion and the Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies. \n“As we make this journey towards full communion\, we already have the duty to offer common witness to the love of God for all people by working together in the service of humanity” \n—Common Declaration of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and Pope Francis\, May 2014. \nThis panel will examine the recent social document For the Life of the World: Toward a Social Ethos of the Orthodox Church\, published with the approval of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in 2020. The fruit of critical reflection by Orthodox Christian lay scholars and Church leaders\, For the Life of the World offers guidance to navigate contemporary challenges faced by the Orthodox Christian on a wide range of social issues—including racism\, bioethics\, ecology\, and human rights. The document also gives a synthetic presentation of the Orthodox Christian perspective to the wider Christian world. \nIn this spirit\, the Lumen Christi Institute and Fordham University’s Center for Orthodox Christian Studies will present a panel event that will put this document in an ecumenical conversation with leading scholars in order draw from it wisdom that benefits all Christians. \nStudents and faculty are invited to join for a master class with Perry Hamalis and Gayle Woloschak on For the Life of the World on February 18. \n\nThis convening is open to all invitees who are compliant with UChicago vaccination requirements and\, because of ongoing health risks\, particularly to the unvaccinated\, participants are expected to adopt the risk mitigation measures (masking and social distancing\, etc.) appropriate to their vaccination status as advised by public health officials or to their individual vulnerabilities as advised by a medical professional. Public convening may not be safe for all and carries a risk for contracting COVID-19\, particularly for those unvaccinated. Participants will not know the vaccination status of others and should follow appropriate risk mitigation measures. \nIf you are not currently affiliated with the University (enrolled student\, faculty\, or staff) it is expected that you review the University’s COVID mitigation efforts. The University expects every event attendee to adopt precautions designed to mitigate the risk of viral transmission. \nEvent attendees will be required to wear a N-95\, KN-95\, or KF-94 mask in Swift Hall. KN-95 masks will be provided  for anyone who needs one. \nIf you have any questions\, please contact us.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2022-02-life-of-the-world/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220202T180000
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DTSTAMP:20260501T004053
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SUMMARY:Conversation on "Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life"
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Undergraduate Program in Religious Studies at the University of Chicago. Copies of the book will be available for sale by the Seminary Co-op Bookstore at the event. This program will be held as a hybrid\, in-person and online event. \nJoin us for a conversation on Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life (Princeton University Press\, 2020) with author Zena Hitz. \nABOUT THE BOOK \nIn an overloaded\, superficial\, technological world\, in which almost everything and everybody is judged by its usefulness\, where can we turn for escape\, lasting pleasure\, contemplation\, or connection to others? While many forms of leisure meet these needs\, Zena Hitz writes\, few experiences are so fulfilling as the inner life\, whether that of a bookworm\, an amateur astronomer\, a birdwatcher\, or someone who takes a deep interest in one of countless other subjects. Drawing on inspiring examples\, from Socrates and Augustine to Malcolm X and Elena Ferrante\, and from films to Hitz’s own experiences as someone who walked away from elite university life in search of greater fulfillment\, Lost in Thought is a passionate and timely reminder that a rich life is a life rich in thought. \nToday\, when even the humanities are often defended only for their economic or political usefulness\, Hitz says our intellectual lives are valuable not despite but because of their practical uselessness. And while anyone can have an intellectual life\, she encourages academics in particular to get back in touch with the desire to learn for its own sake\, and calls on universities to return to the person-to-person transmission of the habits of mind and heart that bring out the best in us. \nReminding us of who we once were and who we might become\, Lost in Thought is a moving account of why renewing our inner lives is fundamental to preserving our humanity. \nWe will also host a lunch discussion with Zena Hitz for graduate students and faculty at 1:00 p.m. on February 2. \n\nThis convening is open to all invitees who are compliant with UChicago vaccination requirements and\, because of ongoing health risks\, particularly to the unvaccinated\, participants are expected to adopt the risk mitigation measures (masking and social distancing\, etc.) appropriate to their vaccination status as advised by public health officials or to their individual vulnerabilities as advised by a medical professional. Public convening may not be safe for all and carries a risk for contracting COVID-19\, particularly for those unvaccinated. Participants will not know the vaccination status of others and should follow appropriate risk mitigation measures. \nIf you are not currently affiliated with the University (enrolled student\, faculty\, or staff) it is expected that you review the University’s COVID mitigation efforts. The University expects every event attendee to adopt precautions designed to mitigate the risk of viral transmission. \nEvent attendees will be required to wear a N-95\, KN-95\, or KF-94 mask in Swift Hall. KN-95 masks will be provided  for anyone who needs one. \nIf you have any questions\, please contact us.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2022-02-conversation-on-lost-in-thought-hidden-pleasures-of-an-intellectual-life-zena-hitz-erin-walsh/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211007T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211007T170000
DTSTAMP:20260501T004053
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SUMMARY:Conscience and Human Rights in Thomas Aquinas and Some Predecessors
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. Registration is required. Contact us with any questions. Note the time for this event has been changed from 4:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. \nIn discussions of the history of the philosophy of human rights\, typically a distinction is made between theories that understand rights as objective and those that understand them as subjective (or\, to use a more contemporary term\, more “personalistic”).  This talk relates this issue to the history of reflection\, especially by Christian thinkers leading up to the thirteenth century\, regarding conscience.  It argues ultimately that Thomas Aquinas’s understanding of conscience\, influenced as it is by Aristotle\, entails an understanding of human rights that is primarily objective.  It concludes with a few remarks about the advantages of such an understanding. \n\nThis convening is open to all invitees regardless of vaccination status and\, because of ongoing health risks\, particularly to the unvaccinated\, participants are expected to adopt the risk mitigation measures (masking and social distancing\, etc.) appropriate to their vaccination status as advised by public health officials or to their individual vulnerabilities as advised by a medical professional. Public convening may not be safe for all and carries a risk for contracting COVID-19\, particularly for those unvaccinated. Participants will not know the vaccination status of others and should follow appropriate risk mitigation measures.\nIf you are not currently affiliated with the University (enrolled student\, faculty\, or staff) it is expected that you review the University’s COVID mitigation efforts. The University expects every event attendee to adopt precautions designed to mitigate the risk of viral transmission.\nIf you have any questions\, please contact us.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2021-10-conscience-human-rights-in-thomas-aquinas-some-predecessors-kevin-flannery-s-j/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
CATEGORIES:HYBRID EVENT
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20191031T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20191031T170000
DTSTAMP:20260501T004053
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SUMMARY:Newman’s Apologetics of the Imagination
DESCRIPTION:This event was cosponsored by the Nicholson Center for British Studies. \nJohn Henry Newman famously insisted that “the heart is commonly reached not through the reason\, but through the imagination.”  As a theologian\, apologist\, and the 19th century’s most famous convert\, Newman was keenly attentive to the foundations of religious belief.  His apologetic career is\, in some sense\, an appeal to the imagination in contradistinction to the prevailing empiricism of Locke and Hume.  In his novels\, sermons\, lectures\, and even his philosophical magnum opus\, the Grammar of Assent\, Newman defends an understanding of the imagination that harmonizes religious faith and rational inquiry.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-10-newman-s-apologetics-of-imagination-ian-ker/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190523T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190523T170000
DTSTAMP:20260501T004053
CREATED:20241003T165236Z
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SUMMARY:Symposium on "The Cross: History\, Art\, and Controversy"
DESCRIPTION:Listen to the symposium 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. \nTo view photos of the symposium\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nCosponsored by the Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion\, the Medieval Studies Workshop\, the Early Christian Studies Workshop\, and the Research in Art and Visual Evidence Workshop. Free and open to the public. Copies of the book will be available for sale at the event by the Seminary Coop Bookstore. Persons with disabilities who may need assistance should contact us at 773-955-5887 or by email.  \nJoin us for a symposium discussion of the recent book by Robin Jensen\, The Cross: History\, Art\, and Controversy (Harvard University Press\, 2017). \nIn The Cross\, Robin Jensen takes readers on an intellectual and spiritual journey through the two-thousand-year evolution of the cross as an idea and an artifact\, illuminating the controversies—along with the forms of devotion—this central symbol of Christianity inspires. Her wide-ranging study focuses on the cross in painting and literature\, the quest for the “true cross” in Jerusalem\, and the symbol’s role in conflicts from the Crusades to wars of colonial conquest. The Cross also reveals how Jews and Muslims viewed the most sacred of all Christian emblems and explains its role in public life in the West today.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-05-symposium-on-cross-history-art-controversy-robin-jensen-karin-krause-bernard-mcginn/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190411T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190411T170000
DTSTAMP:20260501T004053
CREATED:20241003T165303Z
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SUMMARY:Symposium on "Revolutionary Saint: The Theological Legacy of Oscar Romero"
DESCRIPTION:Cosponsored by the Theology Club at the University of Chicago Divinity School and Orbis Books. This program was made possible in part by a grant from the Our Sunday Visitor Institute. \nJoin us for a symposium of the recent book Revolutionary Saint: The Theological Legacy of Óscar Romero (Orbis Books\, 2018) by Michael Lee. Copies of the book will be available for sale by the Seminary Coop Bookstore at the event. \nAbout the book \nMany years after his death in 1980\, the world is still absorbing the witness of Óscar Romero\, the archbishop of San Salvador\, martyred for his commitment to the poor and social justice. In this work\, Michael E. Lee offers a profound reflection on the theological implications of Romero’s life and ministry. \nDrawing on Romero’s biography as well as his homilies and other writings\, Lee considers specifically how Romero’s witness challenges Christians in the U.S. to reimagine a robust Christian spirituality that is at once a mystical encounter with God and a prophetic engagement in the struggle for justice. In light of Romero’s beatification and canonization\, Lee reflects on the implications of the archbishop’s recognition as a martyr and on the model of holiness he offers for the wider Church today. \nProf. Lee also gave a luncheon talk in downtown Chicago earlier on the 11th on “The Life and Legacy of Saint Oscar Romero.”
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-04-symposium-on-revolutionary-saint-theological-legacy-of-oscar-romero-michael-lee-peter-j-casarella/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190228T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190228T170000
DTSTAMP:20260501T004053
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SUMMARY:Being\, Nature\, Grace: Clashing Visions in Milbank and Aquinas
DESCRIPTION:To view photos of the lecture\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nFree and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion at the University of Chicago Divinity School and the Theology Club of the University of Chicago Divinity School. Persons with disabilities who may need assistance should contact us at 773-955-5887 or by email. \nDrawing from a chapter taken from a book in draft\, in this talk DeHart will critically evaluate John Milbank’s understanding of the relationship between creation and divine grace and offer an alternative\, sourced in Aquinas\, that he considers more adequate.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-02-being-nature-grace-clashing-visions-in-milbank-aquinas/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190215T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190215T180000
DTSTAMP:20260501T004053
CREATED:20241003T165332Z
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SUMMARY:Symposium on "Action versus Contemplation: Why an Ancient Debate Still Matters"
DESCRIPTION:Listen to the symposium 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. \nTo view photos of the symposium\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nA symposium on the recent book Action versus Contemplation: Why an Ancient Debate Still Matters (University of Chicago Press\, 2018) by Jennifer Summit and Blakey Vermeule. Free and open to the public. Persons with disabilities who may need assistance should contact us at 773-955-5887 or by email. \nCosponsored by the English Department\, the Seminary Coop Bookstore\, the University of Chicago Press\, the Our Sunday Visitor Institute\, and the Theology Club at the Divinity School. Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event. \n“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone\,” Blaise Pascal wrote in 1654. But then there’s Walt Whitman\, in 1856: “Whoever you are\, come forth! Or man or woman come forth! / You must not stay sleeping and dallying there in the house.” \nIt is truly an ancient debate: Is it better to be active or contemplative? To do or to think? To make an impact\, or to understand the world more deeply? With Action versus Contemplation\, Jennifer Summit and Blakey Vermeule address the question in a refreshingly unexpected way: by refusing to take sides. Rather\, they argue for a rethinking of the very opposition. The active and the contemplative can—and should—be vibrantly alive in each of us\, fused rather than sundered. Writing in a personable\, accessible style\, Summit and Vermeule guide readers through the long history of this debate from Plato to Pixar\, drawing compelling connections to the questions and problems of today. \n\n\n\n\n“Though the book will be valuable to a wide readership\, the recurring theme of current trends in education makes it particularly important within the academy. This engaging and clever book will generate important conversations. Highly recommended.”\nChoice\n\n\n\n\n\n“A fascinating and inspiring tour of big ideas–worth both contemplating and acting on.“\nSarah Bakewell\, author of At the Existentialist Cafe\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Action versus Contemplation brings a cooling sense of balance to a whole range of important and often highly polarized arguments about technology\, work\, education\, and more. How liberating to discover that we don’t need to choose between nostalgia and philistinism\, Captain Ludd and Dr. Pangloss. Even better\, the authors give us not just historical elaborations of the theoretical complementarity of action and contemplation\, but actual\, already-existing examples of the middle position at work today. They show us that\, no matter how ‘soulless’ society seems to become\, meaning-seeking behavior does and always will continue.”\nWilliam Deresiewicz\, author of Excellent Sheep\n\n\n\n\n\n“This is a very subtle and surprising book that nevertheless goes down easy because you expect it to take a side in a binary (i.e.\, to take your side)\, but instead it seeks to transcend that binary. There’s great generosity of spirit in their writing and thinking\, and that generosity will have a salutary effect on all those whose thinking this book will touch. Action versus Contemplation is itself a contemplative document meant to intervene in the world it addresses\, to get us to rethink practical matters\, and to act in ways that will promote thinking. It urges action as a way of thinking\, and thinking as a way of acting\, and is a model of what it advocates for.”\n\nWilliam Flesch\, Brandeis University
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-02-symposium-on-action-versus-contemplation-why-an-ancient-debate-still-matters/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190202T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190202T133000
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SUMMARY:Mass for Candlemas with Schola Antiqua and  Symposium on Sacred Music in Context and Practice
DESCRIPTION:Listen to the symposium 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. \nTo view photos of the Mass and symposium\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nRegistration required. $15 for general audience/FREE for current students and faculty/FREE for those only attending the Mass.\nIn honor of Fr. Willard Jabusch (1930-2018)\, former Chaplain of Calvert House\, Priest of the Archdiocese of Chicago\, writer\, and composer. Cosponsored by Calvert House Catholic Center. Persons with disabilities who need an accommodation in order to participate in this event should email us or call 773-955-5887. \nThis Mass for the Feast of the Presentation (Candlemas) will feature chant by Schola Antiqua of Chicago. Following the Mass—for those registered—there will be a breakfast reception and a symposium\, which will consider historical perspectives on music for the feast from the medieval period and early modern Italy. In addition it will reflect on modern incorporations of the plainchant and polyphonic tradition in contexts such as a contemporary monastic community and a degree program in Sacred Music at the University of Notre Dame. \n\nSCHEDULE \n9:00-10:15am   |   Bond Chapel \n   Mass  \nPrior Peter Funk\, OSB\, Celebrant\nMichael Alan Anderson\, Director\, Schola Antiqua of Chicago \n10:15-11:00am   |   Swift Common Room (1st Floor) \n   Continental Breakfast and Registration \n11:00am-12:30pm   |   Swift Lecture Hall (3rd Floor) \n   Symposium “Sacred Music in Context and Practice” \nMichael Anderson\, University of Rochester\nMargot Fassler\, University of Notre Dame\nPrior Peter Funk\, OSB\, Monastery of the Holy Cross\nPeter Jeffery\, University of Notre Dame\nRobert Kendrick\, University of Chicago
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2019-02-candlemas-liturgy-symposium-on-sacred-music-in-context-practice-michael-alan-anderson-margot-fassler-fr-peter-funk-peter-jeffery-robert-l-kendrick-schola-antiqua-of-chicago/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20181013T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20181013T153000
DTSTAMP:20260501T004053
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SUMMARY:Vatican I: Loss and Gain with Papal Governance of the Catholic Church
DESCRIPTION: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. \nTo read O’Malley’s contribution to this panel discussion in the Notre Dame McGrath Institute for Church Life’s Church Life Journal\, click here. \nTo view photos of the symposium\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nFree and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Theology Club. \nA 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 the Seminary Co-op. \nVatican Council I (1869-1870) lasted barely eight months and produced only two documents.  The document Pastor Aeternus deeply reconfigured the government of the Church on the basis of the universal jurisdiction of the pope.  As we are now approaching the 150th anniversary of that event we can ask:  How has the papal-centered government fared over the centuries?  Did Vatican II initiate significant changes in the ecclesiastical government?  In light of these councils\, how should we evaluate the scandals and the fragmentation of episcopal governance in the Church? \nFr. O’Malley also gave a lecture on October 11 and taught a master class on October 12.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-10-vatican-i-loss-gain-with-papal-governance-of-catholic-church/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180525T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180525T150000
DTSTAMP:20260501T004053
CREATED:20241003T165422Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260322T142650Z
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SUMMARY:What is Freedom? Some Reflections on Augustine
DESCRIPTION: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. \nTo view photos of the symposium\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nA lecture by Olivier Boulnois with responses by Jean-Luc Marion and Willemien Otten\, and moderated by Ryan Coyne. \nFree and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Theology Club at the Divinity School. \nThis 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.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-05-what-is-freedom-some-reflections-on-augustine-olivier-boulnois-jean-luc-marion-willemien-otten-ryan-coyne/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180412T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180412T170000
DTSTAMP:20260501T004053
CREATED:20241003T165450Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260315T155806Z
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SUMMARY:Perseverance in the Parish? Religious Attitudes from a Black Catholic Perspective
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by Catholic Theological Union and the Ethics Club at the Divinity School. \nDo African-American Catholics perceive or experience aspects of racial intolerance and marginalization in their parishes? Does racial marginalization in the Church compel African-American Catholics to disengage and leave their parish? Darren Davis’ provocative new book\, Perseverance in the Parish? Religious Attitudes from a Black Catholic Perspective\, examines data from the first national survey of African American Catholics. He finds that African-American respondents\, though small in number\, are among the strongest religious identifiers in the Church. In contrast to narratives that stress the “double consciousness” of African-American Catholic churchgoers\, Davis suggests that the contemporary experiences and perspectives of black Catholics do not support this framework for understanding faith in the African-American Catholic community. His lecture will deal with the results of his survey and its implications for conversations about marginalization and racial bias in the Church. \nTo view photos of the lecture\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nYou can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page\, iTunes channel\, Stitcher\, TuneIn\, ListenNotes\, Podbean\, Pocket Casts\, and Google Play Music.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-04-perseverance-in-parish-religious-attitudes-from-a-black-catholic-perspective-darren-davis/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180313T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180313T160000
DTSTAMP:20260501T004053
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SUMMARY:The Witness of Contemplative Women in the Heart of the Church
DESCRIPTION:Cosponsored by the Theology Club of the University of Chicago’s Divinity School. \nFree and open to the public. \nIn this lecture\, Cardinal Arborelius explores the role that contemplative women have occupied in the Church throughout the ages and reflects on the witness they can offer to today’s secular society. By discussing women ranging from Mary the Mother of God through to Teresa of Ávila and the Little Flower\, Arborelius contends that the characteristically feminine charism for contemplative prayer can beautifully illuminate mystical union with God. Arborelius also contends that the feminine gift for loving presence to the marginalized\, modeled by Mother Theresa or St. Bridget of Sweden\, uniquely builds up a more just\, peaceful\, compassionate society. \nTo view photos of the lecture\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nYou can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page\, iTunes channel\, Stitcher\, TuneIn\, ListenNotes\, Podbean\, Pocket Casts\, and Google Play Music. \n\nCardinal Arborelius also gave an evening address on March 12 titled “Silence\, Prayer\, and Contemplation in a Seculary Society.” \nTo learn more about Cardinal Arborelius\, read this Lumen Christi news item about his visit.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-03-witness-of-contemplative-women-in-heart-of-church-anders-cardinal-arborelius/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180208T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180208T173000
DTSTAMP:20260501T004053
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260129T152132Z
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SUMMARY:The Moral Theology of Aquinas: Is it for Individuals?
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Theology Club at the Divinity School and the Hildegard of Bingen Society for Christian Thought and Culture. \nIs the moral teaching of Aquinas a purely cerebral\, speculative reflection that can hardly be correlated with practical Christian living\, or does it have a message that can be correlated with the experience and difficulties of an average individual? This lecture views the theology of Aquinas in the light of the concrete down-to earth approach focused on individuals that seems to be the basic gift of Pope Francis. It attempts to propose a reading of Aquinas that is spiritually nourishing. \nTo view photos of the lecture\, please visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nYou can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page\, iTunes channel\, Stitcher\, TuneIn\, ListenNotes\, Podbean\, Pocket Casts\, and Google Play Music. \n\nFr. Giertych also taught a master class on “Grace\, Free Choice\, and the Infused Virtues” on Friday\, February 9. \nOn Saturday\, February 10\, he joined with Notre Dame’s John C. Cavadini to lead a discussion on “The Role and Future of Theology” in the academy and the Church. View photos of that discussion.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-02-moral-theology-of-aquinas-is-it-for-individuals-wojciech-giertych-op/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180201T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180201T213000
DTSTAMP:20260501T004053
CREATED:20241003T165512Z
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SUMMARY:Why Liberalism Failed
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. \nCosponsored by the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought\, the Seminary Coop Bookstore\, and the Divinity School Theology Club. \nABOUT THE BOOK \nHas liberalism failed because it has succeeded? Of the three dominant ideologies of the twentieth century—fascism\, communism\, and liberalism—only the last remains. This has created a peculiar situation in which liberalism’s proponents tend to forget that it is an ideology and not the natural end-state of human political evolution. As Patrick Deneen argues in this provocative book\, liberalism is built on a foundation of contradictions: it trumpets equal rights while fostering incomparable material inequality; its legitimacy rests on consent\, yet it discourages civic commitments in favor of privatism; and in its pursuit of individual autonomy\, it has given rise to the most far-reaching\, comprehensive state system in human history. Here\, Deneen offers an astringent warning that the centripetal forces now at work on our political culture are not superficial flaws but inherent features of a system whose success is generating its own failure. \nYou can read recent reviews of Why Liberalism Failed in the Wall Street Journal  and the New York Times. \nProfessor Deneen also taught a master class on Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America on Friday\, February 2. \nTo view photos of the lecture\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nYou can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page\, iTunes channel\, Stitcher\, TuneIn\, ListenNotes\, Podbean\, Pocket Casts\, and Google Play Music.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-02-why-liberalism-failed-patrick-deneen/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180120T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180120T160000
DTSTAMP:20260501T004053
CREATED:20241003T165514Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260129T191050Z
UID:10000484-1516464000-1516464000@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:Science and Theology of Habitable Worlds Around Other Stars
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Hildegard of Bingen Society for Christian Thought and Culture. \nYou can view Professor Öberg’s recent presentation at the 2017 Society of Catholic Scientists Conference HERE. \nTo view photos of the event\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nYou can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page\, iTunes channel\, Stitcher\, TuneIn\, ListenNotes\, Podbean\, Pocket Casts\, and Google Play Music.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-01-science-theology-of-habitable-worlds-around-other-stars-karin-oberg/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20171129T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20171129T173000
DTSTAMP:20260501T004053
CREATED:20241003T165522Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260129T150031Z
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SUMMARY:Body\, Eros\, and Eucharist
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. \nCosponsored by the Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion. \nAbout The Wedding Feast of the Lamb: \nIn The Wedding Feast of the Lamb\, Emmanuel Falque links philosophy and theology in an original fashion that allows us to see the full effect of theology’s “backlash” against philosophy. \n\nBy attending closely to the incarnation and the eucharist\, Falque develops a new concept of the body and of love: By avoiding the common mistake of “angelism”―consciousness without body―Falque considers the depths to which our humanity reflects animality\, or body without consciousness. He shows the continued relevance of the question “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” (John 6:52)\, especially to philosophy. \nWe need to question the meaning of “this is my body” in “a way that responds to the needs of our time” (Vatican II). Because of the ways that “Hoc est corpus meum” has shaped our culture and our modernity\, this is a problem both for religious belief and for culture. \nTo view photos of the event\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nYou can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page\, iTunes channel\, Stitcher\, TuneIn\, ListenNotes\, Podbean\, Pocket Casts\, and Google Play Music.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-11-body-eros-eucharist-emmanuel-falque/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20171026T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20171026T163000
DTSTAMP:20260501T004053
CREATED:20241003T165538Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164049Z
UID:10000496-1509035400-1509035400@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:The Power of the Sacred: An Alternative to the Narrative of Disenchantment
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public \nCosponsored by the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought \n\n\nDisenchantment is one of the key concepts in the self-understanding of “modernity.” It was introduced by Max Weber\, but its precise meaning in his writings and in the discourse of modernity is quite controversial. This lecture is based on a new book in which Hans Joas traces this concept through Weber’s writings\, criticizes it in fundamental respects\, and develops an alternative understanding of the connections between the history of power and the processes of sacralization.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-10-power-of-sacred-an-alternative-to-narrative-of-disenchantment-hans-joas/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170605T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170605T190000
DTSTAMP:20260501T004053
CREATED:20241003T165549Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164211Z
UID:10000506-1496689200-1496689200@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:What Should We Fear? Courage and Cowardice in Public Life
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\nThis talk is free and open to the public. The talk and Q&A will be livestreamed HERE at 7pm central time. \nMoral theologian Jean Porter will give the talk “What should we fear? Courage and cowardice in public life” on Monday\, June 5\, 2017 at 7pm in the Swift Hall 3rd Floor Lecture Hall at the University of Chicago. An audience Q & A will be followed by a reception in the Swift Hall Common Room. \n\nThis event is presented by the Virtue\, Happiness\, and the Meaning of Life Project\, made possible by a generous grant from the John Templeton Foundation\, and is co-sponsored by the University of Chicago Divinity School\, Martin Marty Center\, and Lumen Chrisit Institute. \nIf you need assistance in order to fully participate in this event\, contact Valerie Wallace.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-06-what-should-we-fear-courage-cowardice-in-public-life-jean-porter/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170427T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170427T190000
DTSTAMP:20260501T004053
CREATED:20241003T165559Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260404T151859Z
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SUMMARY:The Only Way To Truth Is By Love
DESCRIPTION:A lecture on the occasion of the publication of Believing In Order To See (Fordham University Press\, 2017). Copies of the book will be available for purchase. \nCosponsored by the Theology and Religious Ethics Workshop and the Seminary Coop Bookstore. \n\n“Non intratur in veritatem nisi per caritatem” -St. Augustine\nBelieving does not always mean to make up for a deficit of knowledge\, but rather attaining the right stance to see that which appears. This rule applies not only to common perception\, but most of all to what Pascal\, following St. Augustine\, calls “divine things.” In faith\, as in beholding a beloved or a work of art\, what you see depends on how you stand in front of it.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-04-only-way-to-truth-is-by-love-jean-luc-marion/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170112T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170112T200000
DTSTAMP:20260501T004053
CREATED:20241003T165630Z
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SUMMARY:Augustine's Theology of Love
DESCRIPTION:Cosponsored by the Theology and Religious Ethics Workshop
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-01-augustines-theology-of-love-david-vincent-meconi-s-j/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20161021T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20161021T170000
DTSTAMP:20260501T004053
CREATED:20241003T165633Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164435Z
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SUMMARY:A Conversation with Phil Klay
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\ncosponsored by the Committee on Creative Writing and the Seminar Coop Bookstore \nIn this informal conversation\, Phil Klay and Scott Moringiello (DePaul University) will discuss how literature helps us reflect on themes of brutality\, faith\, fear\, and morality to deepen our understanding of faith and humanity. In 2014\, Phil Klay was awarded the National Book Award Prize for Redeployment\, a collection of short stories that takes readers to the frontlines of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan\, asking us to understand what happened there\, and what happened to the soldiers who returned.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2016-10-a-conversation-with-phil-klay-phil-klay-scott-d-moringiello/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160526T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160526T153000
DTSTAMP:20260501T004053
CREATED:20241003T165643Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260404T160333Z
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SUMMARY:Symposium on Heidegger's Confessions
DESCRIPTION:Cosponsored by the Philosophy of Religions Workshop and the Theology & Religious Ethics Workshop \nAlthough Martin Heidegger is nearly as notorious as Friedrich Nietzsche for embracing the death of God\, the philosopher himself acknowledged that Christianity accompanied him at every stage of his career. In Heidegger’s Confessions\, Ryan Coyne isolates a crucially important player in this story: Saint Augustine. Uncovering the significance of Saint Augustine in Heidegger’s philosophy\, he details the complex and conflicted ways in which Heidegger paradoxically sought to define himself against the Christian tradition while at the same time making use of its resources.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2016-05-symposium-on-heideggers-confessions-ryan-coyne-jean-luc-marion-gregory-freid/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160408T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160408T180000
DTSTAMP:20260501T004053
CREATED:20241003T165701Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260328T161809Z
UID:10000560-1460138400-1460138400@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:Interpreting Pope Francis: Evangelization and the Family
DESCRIPTION:cosponsored by the Theology and Religious Ethics Workshop \nThis lecture will address the potential changes in the Catholic Church’s approach to marriage and family life to result from the Extraordinary Synod on the Family convened by Pope Francis this month. It will examine what this synod reveals about the relationship between the doctrinal and the pastoral and the papacy and the episcopate.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2016-04-interpreting-pope-francis-evangelization-family-anna-bonta-moreland/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160407T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160407T133000
DTSTAMP:20260501T004053
CREATED:20241003T165703Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260328T143826Z
UID:10000562-1460035800-1460035800@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:Sacred Violence: The Legacy of René Girard
DESCRIPTION:A panel discussion with William Cavanaugh (DePaul University)\, Jean-Luc Marion (University of Chicago)\, and James B. Murphy (Dartmouth College) at the University of Chicago on April 7\, 2016. \nRené Girard (1923-2015) has been described as the Darwin of the human sciences for his theories of the origin of violence and religion and the imitative character of human behavior (mimesis). His books\, among them Violence and the Sacred and Things Hidden since the Foundation of the World\, span the fields of Literary Criticism\, Psychology\, Anthropology\, Sociology\, History\, Biblical Hermeneutics and Theology. While his theories have attracted many devoted disciples\, Girard has also sparked controversy for his sweeping general claims\, tendentious readings of canonical works\, and his explicitly Christian perspective. This panel discussion will consider the significance of Girard’s thought for the human sciences. \n\ncosponsored by the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought and the Theology & Religious Ethics Workshop
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2016-04-sacred-violence-legacy-of-rene-girard-james-bernard-murphy-william-t-cavanaugh-jean-luc-marion/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20151111T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20151111T163000
DTSTAMP:20260501T004053
CREATED:20241003T165718Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260328T153040Z
UID:10000584-1447259400-1447259400@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:Pondus Dei: The Weight of God in Anselm's Poetics
DESCRIPTION:cosponsored by the Medieval Studies Workshop \nThe meaning of Anselm’s famous ‘sola ratione’ or ‘by reason alone’ has been the subject of much debate. Is it a principle of reason or a principle of faith? This lecture will argue that the sola ratione instead operates as a poetical principle in Anselm’s work at large\, steering his various writings –treatises\, meditations\, prayers\, and letters – into a comprehensive oeuvre. As a result of this poetic use of sola ratione\, his work is characterized by a certain playfulness. However lofty questions of divine absence and presence may be\, the sola ratione guarantees that meditating about questions of faith and reason keeps within the boundaries of a ‘divina commedia’ of sorts.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2015-11-pondus-dei-weight-of-god-in-anselms-poetics-burcht-pranger/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20151015T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20151015T153000
DTSTAMP:20260501T004053
CREATED:20241003T165720Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260328T164601Z
UID:10000589-1444923000-1444923000@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:From Ancient Philosophy to Christian Wisdom: A Symposium
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2015-10-from-ancient-philosophy-to-christian-wisdom-a-symposium-remi-brague-reverend-brian-daley-sj/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150128T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150128T173000
DTSTAMP:20260501T004053
CREATED:20241003T165757Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165036Z
UID:10000618-1422466200-1422466200@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:The Interior Life: Literary\, Psychoanalytic\, and Spiritual Perspectives
DESCRIPTION:a symposium with\nJonathan Lear (University of Chicago)\nBernard McGinn (University of Chicago)\nLisa Ruddick (University of Chicago)\nRosanna Warren (University of Chicago)\nThomas Pavel\,  Moderator (University of Chicago) \ncosponsored by the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought \nREGISTER HERE \nMany of the cultural products of the world’s civilizations have arisen out of the inner life of religious figures\, poets\, and philosophers\, in which the roots of self-knowledge\, creative imagination\, or communion with God are found. Without neglecting the interior lives of ordinary people\, one can cite as examples Socrates’s mystic trances\, St. Teresa of Avila’s discovery of an “interior castle\,” Keat’s practice of “negative capability\,” or the self-knowledge Freud found in his dreams and self-analysis. What does it mean to have an interior life and to what extent is such a life made more difficult in the busyness of our technological culture?
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2015-01-interior-life-literary-psychoanalytic-spiritual-perspectives-jonathan-lear-bernard-mcginn-lisa-ruddick-rosanna-warren/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150121T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150121T173000
DTSTAMP:20260501T004053
CREATED:20241003T165757Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260325T185237Z
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SUMMARY:Abraham and the Absoluteness of God
DESCRIPTION:Jon Levenson (Harvard University) \nCosponsored by the University of Chicago Divinity School and the Jewish Studies Workshop \nThe patriarch Abraham has a central role in the self-understanding of Jews\, Christians\, and Muslims. He is also widely considered a symbol of common ancestry\, moral conviction and future unity among the three “Abrahamic” religions. This lecture will consider the distinct interpretations Judaism\, Christianity\, and Islam have given to the biblical narratives concerning Abraham\, exploring the enduring theological divergences and agreements.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2015-01-abraham-absoluteness-of-god-jon-d-levenson/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20141113T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20141113T173000
DTSTAMP:20260501T004053
CREATED:20241003T165805Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260404T152034Z
UID:10000624-1415899800-1415899800@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:The Myth of Romantic Love: Denis de Rougemont's Love in the Western World
DESCRIPTION:Mark Shiffman (Villanova University) \ncosponsored by the Medieval Studies Workshop \n“…is there a notion of love abroad in the world which\, although we do not yet realize it\, renders the marriage bond intolerable in its very essence?” Denis de Rougemont\, Love in the Western World \nThe celebration of passionate romantic love in the modern West has its cultural roots in the courtly poetry of medieval Provence. In Love in the Western World\, Denis de Rougemont argues that this poetic tradition tacitly communicates the religious vision of the Cathars\, a Gnostic dualist sect that disdained marriage and the body. His thesis unfolds into a provocative exploration of the sometimes hidden relationships of religion and culture\, eros\, God\, nihilism and the question of a good life. \nThis lecture celebrates the 75th anniversary of the original publication of L’Amour et l’Occident.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2014-11-myth-of-romantic-love-denis-de-rougemonts-love-in-western-world-mark-shiffman/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20141106T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20141106T173000
DTSTAMP:20260501T004053
CREATED:20241003T165806Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260325T164626Z
UID:10000626-1415295000-1415295000@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:Does Christianity Need Metaphysics?
DESCRIPTION:a symposium with\nRémi Brague (Sorbonne/University of Munich)\nJean-Luc Marion (University of Chicago) \ncosponsored by the France Chicago Center at the University of Chicago
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2014-11-does-christianity-need-metaphysics-remi-brague-jean-luc-marion/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20140514T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20140514T163000
DTSTAMP:20260501T004053
CREATED:20241003T165820Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260404T155905Z
UID:10000641-1400085000-1400085000@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:Symposium on The Sacredness of the Person
DESCRIPTION:Michael Geyer (University of Chicago)\, Moderator\nHans Joas (University of Chicago)\nJohn D. Kelly (University of Chicago)\nBen Laurence (University of Chicago)\nWilliam Schweiker (University of Chicago) \ncosponsored by the Human Rights Program at the University of Chicago \nREGISTER HERE \nThis symposium will discuss The Sacredness of the Person\, a recent book by Professor Hans Joas. \nWhat are the origins of the idea of human rights and universal human dignity? How can we most fully understand—and realize—these rights going into the future? In The Sacredness of the Person\, internationally renowned sociologist and social theorist Hans Joas tells a story that differs from conventional narratives by tracing the concept of human rights back to the Judeo-Christian tradition or\, alternately\, to the secular French Enlightenment. While drawing on sociologists such as Émile Durkheim\, Max Weber\, and Ernst Troeltsch\, Joas sets out a new path\, proposing an affirmative genealogy in which human rights are the result of a process of “sacralization” of every human being.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2014-05-symposium-on-sacredness-of-person-michael-geyer-hans-joas-john-d-kelly-ben-laurence-william-schweiker/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20140501T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20140501T180000
DTSTAMP:20260501T004053
CREATED:20241003T165823Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260404T162441Z
UID:10000646-1398967200-1398967200@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:Saint John Paul II and the Polish Catholic Experience
DESCRIPTION:Fr. Raymond Gawronski\, S.J. (Dominican School of Philosophy & Theology\, Berkeley) \ncosponsored by The Copernicus Foundation\, Calvert House\, and the Polish American Student Association \nOften referred to as “The Polish Pope\,” John Paul II is better described as a global pope. The Polish experience offers a unique perspective that bore fruit in the person of Pope John Paul II\, who held the world’s attention for decades and offered a way to be Catholic in the Church’s new situation of worldly powerlessness. Through the lens of the Polish experience in Europe and America  – the “Polish hermeneutic” – this talk will explore the contribution of the person and work of St. John Paul II to the Church and world. \n\n This lecture commemorates the April 27 canonization of Pope John Paul II.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2014-05-saint-john-paul-ii-polish-catholic-experience-raymond-gawronski/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20140425T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20140425T140000
DTSTAMP:20260501T004053
CREATED:20241003T165826Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165340Z
UID:10000647-1398434400-1398434400@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:After Huizinga: The Low Countries as Cradle of Spiritual Innovation in the Late Middle Ages
DESCRIPTION:Frits van Oostrom (Ultrecht University) \nThis public lecture is presented by the University of Chicago Divinity School. Cosponsored by the Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion\, the Medieval Studies Workshop\, and the Lumen Christi Institute. \nFree and open to the public. Reception to follow.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2014-04-after-huizinga-low-countries-as-cradle-of-spiritual-innovation-in-late-middle-ages-frits-van-oostrom/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20131114T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20131114T200000
DTSTAMP:20260501T004053
CREATED:20241003T165832Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260328T161656Z
UID:10000654-1384459200-1384459200@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:John of the Cross: A Mystic's Poetry
DESCRIPTION:John of the Cross (1542-1591)\, saint and doctor of the church\, is known for his mystical doctrine and his theme of the “dark night.” This lecture explores John’s stunningly beautiful poetry and makes a claim for the primacy of this poetry which was shaped by the erotic poetry of the Song of Songs and which John requested be sung for him as he lay dying. \nThis lecture is made possible in part by a grant from the Carmelite Friars at St. Thomas the Apostle Parish.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2013-11-john-of-cross-a-mystics-poetry-keith-egan/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130501T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130501T190000
DTSTAMP:20260501T004053
CREATED:20241003T165838Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165644Z
UID:10000665-1367434800-1367434800@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:The Interior Castle of St. Teresa of Avila: A Map for our Spiritual Journey
DESCRIPTION:Long before developmental psychologists charted the seasons and passages of our human journey\, St. Teresa of Avila mapped the transformation of her personality under the impact of God’s love in 16th century Spain. At age 62\, this Carmelite nun wrote The Interior Castle\, a classic summary of her prayer experience. She images the soul’s journey through a crystal castle to its center\, culminating in intimate union with God. \nThis lecture is cosponsored by the History of Christianity Club and made possible by a grant from the Carmelite Friars at St. Thomas the Apostle.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2013-05-interior-castle-of-st-teresa-of-avila-a-map-for-our-spiritual-journey-john-welch-o-carm/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130227T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130227T200000
DTSTAMP:20260501T004053
CREATED:20241003T165843Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260404T145100Z
UID:10000671-1361995200-1361995200@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:"The Virgin Mary as Model of the Church: From Vatican II to Thomas Aquinas"
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by the History of Christianity Club\n\nThe Second Vatican Council insisted that the Virgin Mary is to be understood in light of the Church\, and the Church is to be understood in light of the Virgin Mary. Why should the Church seek to recover today a greater emphasis on Marian devotion? How is the Virgin Mary a model of the faith and spiritual life of Christians? Thomas Aquinas provides the basis for a contemporary interpretation of the Council’s Marian teachings.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2013-02-virgin-mary-as-model-of-church-from-vatican-ii-to-thomas-aquinas-thomas-joseph-white-o-p/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130129T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130129T200000
DTSTAMP:20260501T004053
CREATED:20241003T165847Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260328T162703Z
UID:10000676-1359489600-1359489600@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:“The Capacious Mind of St. Thomas”
DESCRIPTION:Co-Sponsored by the Medieval Studies Workshop \nThe thought of Thomas Aquinas\, especially as it bears upon human action\, leads one to make difficult choices. Aquinas insists that a lie even to save the life of another is always a sin. He also insists that one ought not ever by means of a direct act to take the life an innocent human being. Understanding Thomas’s capacious mind” and the nature of the acts in question held us to understand why we should follow him in these matters.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2013-01-capacious-mind-of-st-thomas-kevin-flannery-s-j/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130124T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130124T200000
DTSTAMP:20260501T004053
CREATED:20241003T165851Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260328T164710Z
UID:10000678-1359057600-1359057600@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:"Francis of Assisi: Lost Between Myth and History"
DESCRIPTION:Cosponsored by the Department of History and the Medieval Studies Workshop \nAmong the most beloved of saints\, Francis of Assisi is celebrated for his dedication to poverty\, his love of nature\, and his desire to follow perfectly the teachings and example of Christ. His followers compiled numerous\, often legendary\, accounts. The man and his own concerns seem lost to view. Fr. Augustine Thompson\, O.P. will speak on the “Quest for the Historical Francis” and attempt to portray beyond the legends the man who was Francis of Assisi.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2013-01-francis-of-assisi-lost-between-myth-history-augustine-thompson-o-p/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130123T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130123T173000
DTSTAMP:20260501T004053
CREATED:20241003T165852Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260404T144608Z
UID:10000679-1358962200-1358962200@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:Book Symposium on "Francis of Assisi: A New Biography
DESCRIPTION:Cosponsored by the Department of History and the Medieval Studies Workshop\nwith\nAugustine Thompson\, O.P.\, Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology\, Berkeley\nKaren Scott\, DePaul University\nLawrence Cunningham\, University of Notre Dame \nIn this authoritative and engaging new biography\, Augustine Thompson\, O.P.\, sifts through the surviving evidence for the life of Francis using modern historical methods. The result is a complex yet sympathetic portrait of the man and the saint. Francis emerges from this account as very much a typical thirteenth-century Italian layman\, but one who\, when faced with unexpected crises in his personal life\, made decisions so radical that they challenge his own society and ours. Unlike the saint of legend\, this Francis never had a unique divine inspiration to provide him with rules for following the teachings of Jesus. Rather\, he spent his life reacting to unexpected challenges\, before which he often found himself unprepared and uncertain. The Francis who emerges here is both more complex and more conflicted than that of older biographies.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2013-01-book-symposium-on-francis-of-assisi-a-new-biography-augustine-thompson-o-p-karen-scott-lawrence-s-cunningham/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20121107T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20121107T200000
DTSTAMP:20260501T004053
CREATED:20241003T165857Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165800Z
UID:10000687-1352318400-1352318400@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:"Shakespeare\, Identity\, and Religion"
DESCRIPTION:Cosponsored by The Nicholson Center for British Studies \nWhether Shakespeare was Catholic has long been a point of speculation. Recent research into the life of Oxford philosopher and double agent William Sterrell has revealed a neglected group of Catholics connected to Shakespeare at and around the courts of Queen Elizabeth and King James. The potential influence of these crypto-Catholics practicing their faith in animo while outwardly complying with the legally enforced state religion offers a new understanding of Shakespeare’s works and audience.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2012-11-shakespeare-identity-religion-john-finnis/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20120523T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20120523T163000
DTSTAMP:20260501T004053
CREATED:20241003T165904Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260404T152422Z
UID:10000698-1337790600-1337790600@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:"The Making of Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae"
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by the Medieval Studies Workshop \nThe Summa Theologiae of Thomas Aquinas stands among the finest expressions of the Catholic “understanding of faith” (intellectus fidei). Over a thousand commentaries have been written on it. A leading historian of Medieval Christian thought\, Bernard McGinn explores Thomas’s reason for writing the Summa and its principles\, structure\, and originality.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2012-05-making-of-thomas-aquinas-summa-theologiae-bernard-mcginn/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20120425T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20120425T163000
DTSTAMP:20260501T004053
CREATED:20241003T165912Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260404T143730Z
UID:10000702-1335371400-1335371400@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:Newman\, Vatican II\, and the Hermeneutic of Continuity
DESCRIPTION:Often called the Father of the Second Vatican Council\, Newman both anticipated a number of its teachings and\, through his recovery of the thought of the early Church\, provides a hermeneutic of continuity for interpreting the Council’s documents.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2012-04-newman-vatican-ii-hermeneutic-of-continuity-ian-ker/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20120411T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20120411T163000
DTSTAMP:20260501T004053
CREATED:20241003T165914Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260404T164339Z
UID:10000705-1334161800-1334161800@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:"Thomas Aquinas on God and Evil"
DESCRIPTION:Many people find that they cannot reconcile belief in the existence of God with the reality of evil; for if an all powerful and perfectly good God exists\, then why is there so much suffering and injustice? Brian Davies\, in his most recent book\, Thomas Aquinas on God and Evil\, argues that Aquinas gives us the proper theoretical framework for dealing with these tensions.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2012-04-thomas-aquinas-on-god-evil-brian-davies-denys-turner-michael-kremer/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20120223T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20120223T200000
DTSTAMP:20260501T004053
CREATED:20241003T165915Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260315T160232Z
UID:10000708-1330027200-1330027200@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:"Benedict's Teaching for Dark Ages\, His and Ours"
DESCRIPTION:While Roman civilization collapsed around him\, Benedict a fifth-century monk and abbot authored his Rule for monks and set forth a way of life for the monasteries that would become one of the few lights of wisdom and civility in an age of increasing darkness and social isolation. Benedict taught those who lived in these dark ages how to make their daily lives an integrated whole of prayer and work\, enlightened by the wisdom of Christ. In this respect\, his Rule contains many lessons that apply to Christians in contemporary life.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2012-02-benedicts-teaching-for-dark-ages-his-ours-russell-hittinger/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20110228T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20110228T163000
DTSTAMP:20260501T004053
CREATED:20241003T165935Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T170615Z
UID:10000736-1298910600-1298910600@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:“The Christian Mystic in a Post-Modern Culture”
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by the University of Chicago Theology Workshop and the Center for World Catholicism and Intercultural Theology at DePaul University \nMaria Clara Bingemer (Catholic University at Rio de Janeiro)\nBernard McGinn (University of Chicago\, Emeritus)
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2011-02-christian-mystic-in-a-post-modern-culture-maria-clara-bingemer-bernard-mcginn/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20101110T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20101110T200000
DTSTAMP:20260501T004053
CREATED:20241003T165941Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T170804Z
UID:10000745-1289410200-1289419200@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:Is There a Christian Philosophy?
DESCRIPTION:Jean-Luc Marion delivers a lecture titled “Is There a Christian Philosophy?” on November 10\, 2010 at the University of Chicago.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2010-11-is-there-a-christian-philosophy-jean-luc-marion/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20100428T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20100428T153000
DTSTAMP:20260501T004053
CREATED:20241003T165946Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T170838Z
UID:10000754-1272468600-1272468600@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:Symposium on Caritas in Veritate
DESCRIPTION:Published upon the heels of the global financial collapse of 2008\, Benedict XVI’s social encyclical\, Caritas in Veritate\, has been received with great controversy in America. Conservatives have criticized the encyclical’s indictment of neoliberal policies while progressives have severed the encyclical’s social concerns from their origin in the sanctity of human life. This panel discussion of Caritas in Veritate will consider the encyclical in light of the tradition of Catholic social teaching\, the political difficulties facing economic reform\, and the challenge of inter-religious dialogue.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2010-04-symposium-on-caritas-in-veritate-david-nirenberg-patrick-deneen-william-t-cavanaugh/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20100302T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20100302T163000
DTSTAMP:20260501T004053
CREATED:20241003T165948Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T170845Z
UID:10000756-1267547400-1267547400@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:The Authority of Law in Recent Catholic Political Philosophy
DESCRIPTION:Cosponsored by the Center for Law\, Philosophy and Human Values \nThis lecture considers several recent attempts by Catholic political philosophers working in the natural law tradition to give an account of law’s authority\, and their success in answering some recent criticism. The difficulties in providing a successful natural law account of law’s authority gives us reason to rethink the sort of explanatory ambitions of new natural law theorists.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2010-03-authority-of-law-in-recent-catholic-political-philosophy-mark-c-murphy/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20100224T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20100224T173000
DTSTAMP:20260501T004053
CREATED:20241003T165948Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T170850Z
UID:10000757-1267032600-1267032600@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:Symposium on Gary Anderson’s Sin: A History
DESCRIPTION:In Sin: A History\, Gary Anderson shows how changing conceptions of sin lay at the heart of the biblical tradition. Spanning two thousand years\, the book demonstrates how sin\, once conceived of as a physical burden\, becomes\, over time\, eclipsed by economic metaphors. Transformed from a weight that an individual carried\, this Jewish revolution in thought shaped the way the Christian church understood the death and resurrection of Jesus.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2010-02-symposium-on-gary-anderson-s-sin-a-history-gary-a-anderson-cyril-oregan-jeffrey-stackert/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20091006T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20091006T163000
DTSTAMP:20260501T004053
CREATED:20241003T165949Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260129T192047Z
UID:10000764-1254846600-1254846600@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:Against Nostalgia: Catholicism\, History and Modernity
DESCRIPTION:Deeply ingrained assumptions about the nature of historical change prevent an adequate comprehension of the transformations that have created the contemporary Western world over the past half-millennium. Departures from traditional Christianity since the sixteenth century\, and related attempts to ground truth claims in scripture or reason alone yielded unintended pluralisms via Protestantism and modern philosophy that remain pervasively influential today. Catholicism continues to offer an intellectually viable alternative–provided one does not subscribe to inadequate views of how the past became the present. \nYou can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page\, iTunes channel\, or by searching for our profile on any of the following platforms: Stitcher\, TuneIn\, ListenNotes\, Podbean\, Pocket Casts\, and Google Play Music.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2009-10-against-nostalgia-catholicism-history-modernity-brad-gregory/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20090305T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20090305T173000
DTSTAMP:20260501T004053
CREATED:20241003T165949Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251027T211938Z
UID:10000766-1236274200-1236274200@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:The Contemplation of God in Medieval Literature
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2009-03-contemplation-of-god-in-medieval-literature-michel-zink/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20080514T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20080514T163000
DTSTAMP:20260501T004053
CREATED:20241003T165951Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T170935Z
UID:10000770-1210782600-1210782600@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:Faith\, Reason and the Eucharist
DESCRIPTION:Between doubts about “natural theology” and post-modern polemics against “modernity”\, an older view that the existence of God can be known “by the natural light of reason” gets little hearing. Perhaps it is time to revisit these older views in light of Aquinas’ understanding of the rational powers as “bodily presence”\, analogous to the power of signification found in music and\, more profoundly\, in the Eucharist; only within this broader conception of human reason can we speak of the existence of God as demonstrable by rational proof.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2008-05-faith-reason-eucharist-denys-turner/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, 3rd Floor Lecture\, 1025 E 58th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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