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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150128T173000
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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:20260503T045251
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:20260503T045251
CREATED:20241003T165805Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260404T152034Z
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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:20260503T045251
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
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DTSTAMP:20260503T045251
CREATED:20241003T165820Z
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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:20260503T045251
CREATED:20241003T165823Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260404T162441Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20140425T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20140425T140000
DTSTAMP:20260503T045251
CREATED:20241003T165826Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165340Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20131114T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20131114T200000
DTSTAMP:20260503T045251
CREATED:20241003T165832Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260328T161656Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130501T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130501T190000
DTSTAMP:20260503T045251
CREATED:20241003T165838Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165644Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130227T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130227T200000
DTSTAMP:20260503T045251
CREATED:20241003T165843Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260404T145100Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130129T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130129T200000
DTSTAMP:20260503T045251
CREATED:20241003T165847Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260328T162703Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130124T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130124T200000
DTSTAMP:20260503T045251
CREATED:20241003T165851Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260328T164710Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130123T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130123T173000
DTSTAMP:20260503T045251
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20121107T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20121107T200000
DTSTAMP:20260503T045251
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20120523T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20120523T163000
DTSTAMP:20260503T045251
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20120425T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20120425T163000
DTSTAMP:20260503T045251
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20120411T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20120411T163000
DTSTAMP:20260503T045251
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:20260503T045251
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20110228T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20110228T163000
DTSTAMP:20260503T045251
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20101110T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20101110T200000
DTSTAMP:20260503T045251
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20100428T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20100428T153000
DTSTAMP:20260503T045251
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20100302T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20100302T163000
DTSTAMP:20260503T045251
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20100224T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20100224T173000
DTSTAMP:20260503T045251
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20091006T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20091006T163000
DTSTAMP:20260503T045251
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20090305T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20090305T173000
DTSTAMP:20260503T045251
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20080514T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20080514T163000
DTSTAMP:20260503T045251
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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