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SUMMARY:Early Modern Catholic Social Teaching and World Order
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies\, the Early Modern and Mediterranean Worlds Workshop\, and the Ethics Club at the Divinity School. \nWestern distrust in liberal internationalism offers an opportunity for renewed theological reflection on the moral foundations of world order. After the Second World War\, transitional popes and Thomistic philosophers articulated a Christian vision of supranational society to quicken the support of universal human rights. Their personalist global ethic outlines the contribution of sixteenth-century Spanish theologians who promoted a conception of world order that affirmed the basic rights of believers and nonbelievers against the violent excesses of colonial expansion in el Nuevo Mundo. \nThe turn to early modern Catholic social teaching among Spanish theologians associated with the School of Salamanca represents an effort to break out of the Westphalian world system that dominates modern thinking about international relations. This lecture retrieves early modern Spanish theological voices to expose the colonialist underbelly of Westphalian rights discourse\, typified by Thomas Hobbes and John Locke\, and its radical domestication of the Church and human nature. Going beyond Westphalia and its anarchical view of global society enables a reconsideration of the Church’s moral witness of world order anew and the ongoing struggle for justice among dispossessed peoples besieged by aggressive forms of neocolonialism. \nOn April 6\, David Lantigua also led a Master Class on “Bishop Bartolomé de las Casas\, OP: Christian Faith and Amerindian Rights.” \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-early-modern-catholic-social-teaching-world-order-david-lantigua/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, First Floor Common Room\, 1025 E 58th St\,Chicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180106T200000
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SUMMARY:Angels\, Demons\, Heaven\, and Hell: On Christian "Mythology" and the Spiritual Life
DESCRIPTION:Join the Lumen Christi Institute for a special Epiphany symposium and reception with medieval historian Rachel Fulton Brown and Benedictine Monk Fr. Peter Funk\, OSB. Free and open to the public. \nMany traditional Christian beliefs and teachings about spiritual realities have become unpalatable to modern sensibilities. Accounts of angelic visitations\, demonic possessions\, the stain of original sin\, and the threat of eternal torment are today considered untrue or irrelevant by non-believers and even many Christians. Why were such “myths” so central to Christian belief and practice for so many centuries? Is there any value in understanding why ancient\, medieval\, and contemporary Christians believe in such things? Or does Christianity need to be demythologized in order to survive in a post-enlightenment age? In this conversation\, Rachel Fulton Brown and Fr. Peter Funk\, OSB will consider the history of these “myths” and their relevance for contemporary spiritual practices. \nTo view photos of the symposium\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nImage: Michelangelo Buonarroti\, The Torment of Saint Anthony
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2018-01-angels-demons-heaven-hell-on-christian-mythology-spiritual-life-rachel-fulton-brown-fr-peter-funk/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, First Floor Common Room\, 1025 E 58th St\,Chicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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SUMMARY:Catholic Reform: The Council of Trent and the Catholic Enlightenment
DESCRIPTION:Cosponsored by the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. \nAbout Ulrich Lehner’s recent book The Catholic Enlightenment: \n“Whoever needs an act of faith to elucidate an event that can be explained by reason is a fool\, and unworthy of reasonable thought.” This line\, spoken by the notorious 18th-century libertine Giacomo Casanova\, illustrates a deeply entrenched perception of religion\, as prevalent today as it was hundreds of years ago. It is the sentiment behind the narrative that Catholic beliefs were incompatible with the Enlightenment ideals. Catholics\, many claim\, are superstitious and traditional\, opposed to democracy and gender equality\, and hostile to science. It may come as a surprise\, then\, to learn that Casanova himself was a Catholic. In The Catholic Enlightenment\, Ulrich L. Lehner points to such figures as representatives of a long-overlooked thread of a reform-minded Catholicism\, which engaged Enlightenment ideals with as much fervor and intellectual gravity as anyone. Their story opens new pathways for understanding how faith and modernity can interact in our own time. \nLehner begins two hundred years before the Enlightenment\, when the Protestant Reformation destroyed the hegemony Catholicism had enjoyed for centuries. During this time the Catholic Church instituted several reforms\, such as better education for pastors\, more liberal ideas about the roles of women\, and an emphasis on human freedom as a critical feature of theology. These actions formed the foundation of the Enlightenment’s belief in individual freedom. While giants like Spinoza\, Locke\, and Voltaire became some of the most influential voices of the time\, Catholic Enlighteners were right alongside them. They denounced fanaticism\, superstition\, and prejudice as irreconcilable with the Enlightenment agenda. \nIn 1789\, the French Revolution dealt a devastating blow to their cause\, disillusioning many Catholics against the idea of modernization. Popes accumulated ever more power and the Catholic Enlightenment was snuffed out. It was not until the Second Vatican Council in 1962 that questions of Catholicism’s compatibility with modernity would be broached again. \nTo view photos of Lehner’s 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/2017-10-catholic-reform-council-of-trent-catholic-enlightenment-ulrich-l-lehner/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, First Floor Common Room\, 1025 E 58th St\,Chicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170505T140000
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SUMMARY:Colloquium on "Givenness and Revelation"
DESCRIPTION:Part of the Lumen Christi Institute’s faculty colloquia in philosophy and theology\, which bring together scholars from the region to discuss important questions in Catholic thought. \nAbout Givenness and Revelation\nGivenness and Revelation represents both the unity and the deep continuity of Jean-Luc Marion’s thinking over many decades. This investigation into the origins and evolution of the concept of revelation arises from an initial reappraisal of the tension between natural theology and the revealed knowledge of God or sacra doctrina. Marion draws on the re-definition of the notions of possibility and impossibility\, the critique of the reification of the subject\, and the unpredictability of the event in its relationship to the gift in order to assess the respective capacities of dogmatic theology\, modern metaphysics\, contemporary phenomenology\, and the biblical texts\, especially the New Testament\, to conceive the paradoxical phenomenality of a revelation. \nThis work thus brings us to the very heart and soul of Marion’s theology\, concluding with a phenomenological approach to the Trinity that uncovers the logic of gift performed in the scriptural manifestation of Jesus Christ as Son of the Father. Givenness and Revelation enhances not only our understanding of religious experience\, but enlarges the horizon of possibility of phenomenology itself.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-05-colloquium-on-givenness-revelation-jean-luc-marion-david-bentley-hart-cyril-oregan/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, First Floor Common Room\, 1025 E 58th St\,Chicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170331T160000
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SUMMARY:The Greek East and the Spiritual Franciscan View of History
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\nCosponsored by the Theology & Religious Ethics Workshop \nThe Spiritual Franciscan Angelo Clareno (d.1337) fervently promoted the view that St. Francis’ life and Rule renewed the true evangelic life.  When ecclesiastical persecution led him to flee to Greece\, Angelo came into contact with both Greek monasticism and Greek theology based on the Church fathers. While in Greece\, he translated Greek texts and he found in Greek monastic traditions possibilities for living according to Francis’ rule outside the Franciscan order. Angelo’s time in Greece also led him to reflect on Church history and the relationship between Greek and Latin Christianity. Thus the eastern monastic tradition helped Angelo to explore ways of living the apostolic life and to develop a view of Church history that differed from other Spiritual Franciscans. \nIMAGE: Roma\, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale\, cod. Vitt. Em. 1167: Celestino V benedice Angelo Clareno e gli altri frati (particolare)
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-03-greek-east-spiritual-franciscan-view-of-history-brian-fitzgerald/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, First Floor Common Room\, 1025 E 58th St\,Chicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20161007T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20161007T153000
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SUMMARY:The Conciliar Heritage: The Politics of Oblivion
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\nCosponsored by the History Department and the Medieval Studies Workshop \nIn the early fifteenth century\, the general council assembled at Constance and\, representing the universal Church\, put an end to the scandalous schism which for almost forty years had divided the Latin Church between rival lines of claimants to the papal office. It did so by claiming and exercising an authority superior to that of the pope\, an authority by virtue of which it could impose constitutional limits on the exercise of his prerogatives\, stand in judgment over him\, and if need be\, depose him for wrongdoing. This lecture will consider the nature and history of the conciliarist tradition of ecclesiastical constitutionalism across the half millennium down to 1870 when Vatican I\, by confirming Cardinal Manning’s claim that “ultramontanism is Catholic Christianity”\, consigned it to oblivion. \nYou can read more about Professor Oakley’s book The Conciliarist Tradition HERE.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2016-10-conciliar-heritage-politics-of-oblivion-francis-oakley/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, First Floor Common Room\, 1025 E 58th St\,Chicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160512T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160512T180000
DTSTAMP:20260502T050648
CREATED:20241003T165647Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260404T152116Z
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SUMMARY:The Myth of Autonomy
DESCRIPTION:Modernity and post-modernity share an evolving notion of autonomy\, conceived along nominalist lines\,\nthat runs counter to earlier concepts of human freedom developed by the likes of Irenaeus and Anselm.\nPersona creatus is today displacing homo gratus\, both culturally and politically. What is at stake in\nthis evolution? Fundamental theology\, obviously\, and anthropology too. Perception of the body as well\,\ntogether with the legislation or policies by which we try to reinforce our sense of autonomy and our\nclaims to ‘dignity’ in the sphere of the body. So what if this sense is mistaken? What if we have autonomy\nwrong? Professor Farrow’s public lecture will ask us to think again about autonomy.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2016-05-myth-of-autonomy-douglas-farrow/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, First Floor Common Room\, 1025 E 58th St\,Chicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160507T170000
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DTSTAMP:20260502T050648
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260328T152714Z
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SUMMARY:Pope Francis\, Marriage\, and the Family
DESCRIPTION:In the wake of a synodal process that reflected on “the vocation and mission of the family today\,” (RF 1) Pope Francis recently released a sweeping and rich post-synodal Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia on love in the family\, in which he invites Christian families to “value the gifts of marriage and the family\, and to persevere in a love strengthened by the virtues of generosity\, commitment\, fidelity and patience” and invites everyone to “be a sign of mercy and closeness wherever family life remains imperfect or lacks peace and joy” (AL 5). Spouses Anna and Michael Moreland will consider how the themes and goals of the document address the place of marriage and the family in the life of the church today.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2016-05-pope-francis-marriage-family-anna-bonta-moreland-michael-moreland/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, First Floor Common Room\, 1025 E 58th St\,Chicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160414T180000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164533Z
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SUMMARY:Sin as Self-Sabotage: Saint Augustine on Ravishing One's Own Ruin
DESCRIPTION:When St. Augustine innocuously yet infamously stole some pears in his youth\, he confessed that he did it simply because he was in love with his own ruin.  Have you ever looked at your sins as the way you destroy that which you do not like about yourself?  Fr. Meconi’s talk will draw from this Augustinian insight that sin is really a form of self-sabotage\, a way of keeping ourselves away from an intimacy and a love we all know we in no way deserve.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2016-04-sin-as-self-sabotage-saint-augustine-on-ravishing-ones-own-ruin-david-vincent-meconi-s-j/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, First Floor Common Room\, 1025 E 58th St\,Chicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160330T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160330T153000
DTSTAMP:20260502T050648
CREATED:20241003T165707Z
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: In Praise of Purgatory
DESCRIPTION:Due to unforeseen personal reasons\, Carol Zaleski’s visit has been postponed. We hope to reschedule this event for a future date. \nCarol Zaleski (Smith College) \nREGISTER HERE \ncosponsored by the Medieval Studies Workshop and the Theology & Religious Ethics Workshop \nThe idea of Purgatory – “that second kingdom\,” as Dante puts it\, “where the human soul is cleansed and made fit to ascend to Heaven” — is present in germ throughout world religions\, fully articulated (and discriminated from ‘hell lite’) by the Catholic tradition\, rejected by the Reformers\, yet never wholly suppressed. Carol Zaleski will speak about the idea of purgatory with a view to its analogues in secular and religious literature\, its ecumenical possibilities\, and its enduring moral and spiritual significance.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2016-03-cancelled-in-praise-of-purgatory-carol-zaleski/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, First Floor Common Room\, 1025 E 58th St\,Chicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20151109T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20151109T193000
DTSTAMP:20260502T050648
CREATED:20241003T165718Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T164803Z
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SUMMARY:Master Class on Anselm of Canterbury: Reason\, Logic\, and Meditation
DESCRIPTION:Burcht Pranger (University of Amsterdam) \nREGISTER HERE \nOpen to current University of Chicago students. Dinner will be served. Readings will be provided for all participants. Others interested in attending\, please contact us. \nThis master class seminar will cover three major works by Anselm of Canterbury: Proslogion\, Cur deus homo and theFirst Meditation. The discussion will revolve around the question: how to read Anselm properly and comprehensively? Most often Anselm’s discourse in his various works is compartmentalized into either rational\, theological or meditative text blocks. By focusing on texts that differ as to their outlook\, we will try at once to honor the differences in discourse while at the same time tracing the various turns and moves Anselm makes both in argumentation and meditation. So doing\, it will become clear that\, where the various types may differ and are entitled to their independence\, Anselm’s rhetorical moves and turns will prove to be similar to each other to the point of telling us something comprehensive about his way of writing and reading. \nREADINGS: \nAnselm of Canterbury \n\nProslogion\, chapters 1-15\, 26.\nCur deus homo\, Preface\, book I\, chapters 1\,2\, 7\,21\, 25;  Book II\, chapters 17\, 18\, 19.\nFirst Meditation\n\nM.B. Pranger \n\nThe Artificiality of Christianity: Essays on the Poetics of Monasticism (Stanford\, Stanford University Press\, 2003); Introduction to Part Two: ‘Density.’
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2015-11-master-class-on-anselm-of-canterbury-reason-logic-meditation-burcht-pranger/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, First Floor Common Room\, 1025 E 58th St\,Chicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20151007T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20151007T190000
DTSTAMP:20260502T050648
CREATED:20241003T165724Z
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SUMMARY:Morals or Metaphysics: The Place of Charity in Christian Thought
DESCRIPTION:cosponsored by the Theology and Religious Ethics Workshop and the Early Christian Studies Workshop \nWhen modern persons think about assistance for the poor the two major categories that tend to dominate are the motivations of the donor (altruism) and the effects of the donation (social justice).  Though both of these attributes were part of classical Christian thinking\, they stood on a deeper foundation: a description of the type of world God had made. And so\, charity was as much about metaphysics as it was morality.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2015-10-morals-or-metaphysics-place-of-charity-in-christian-thought-gary-a-anderson/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, First Floor Common Room\, 1025 E 58th St\,Chicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130529T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130529T163000
DTSTAMP:20260502T050648
CREATED:20241003T165836Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T165526Z
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SUMMARY:Bernard of Clairvaux\, the Last of the Fathers and the End of the Middle Ages
DESCRIPTION:Cosponsored by The Medieval Studies Workshop\nand The Theology Workshop \nThe 12th century monastic reformer Bernard of Clairvaux recruited hundreds of young men to the cloister or claustrum (enclosure) of Cistercian monastic life. The rhythm of life in the monastic enclosure not only rules the structured existence of the monks but also alters their experience of time from linear to circular while maintaining the goal of the world to come. Bernard’s eloquent insistence on this way of life represents the end of an era and\, to an extent\, the end of the Middle Ages.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2013-05-bernard-of-clairvaux-last-of-fathers-end-of-middle-ages-burcht-pranger/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, First Floor Common Room\, 1025 E 58th St\,Chicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130516T163000
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SUMMARY:The Spirit's Bond: Gregory of Nyssa on the Inseparable Trinity
DESCRIPTION:The creed recited by Catholic\, Orthodox\, Anglican\, and many Protestant Christians every Sunday originated from the first two ecumenical councils of the Church\, Nicea (325) and Constantinople (381)\, which affirmed the divinity of Christ and the unity of the Trinity. Among the Cappadocian Fathers who developed and defended the affirmations of the creed\, Gregory of Nyssa (c. 335-395) is known for his contribution to the doctrine of the Trinity. Although he was cited by the Emperor Theodosius as an exemplar of Trinitarian orthodoxy\, the exact nature of his doctrine remains a matter of dispute. He has been accused of every heresy from modalism to tritheism. This lecture will attempt to sort out Gregory’s teaching by focusing on his discussion of the Spirit’s inseparable connection with the Father and the Son.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2013-05-spirits-bond-gregory-of-nyssa-on-inseparable-trinity-andrew-radde-gallwitz/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, First Floor Common Room\, 1025 E 58th St\,Chicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130425T163000
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SUMMARY:"Shameless": The Sense of a Pejorative\, from St. Augustine until Now
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by the Medieval Studies Workshop \nReaders interested in the history of Christian writing are often surprised and nonplussed by the uninhibited polemic they find; scholarship often treats such polemics as obviously pathological. This talk takes one common form of medieval denunciation “the habit of calling” certain opinions and practices “shameless\,”as a sort of laboratory specimen\, showing what it meant\, how it worked\, and why serious thinkers took to it. It will suggest that the same judgment\, in different words\, is still part of scholarly discourse today.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2013-04-shameless-sense-of-a-pejorative-from-st-augustine-until-now-steven-justice/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, First Floor Common Room\, 1025 E 58th St\,Chicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130226T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130226T173000
DTSTAMP:20260502T050648
CREATED:20241003T165844Z
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SUMMARY:“The Careful Rationality of Monotheism: Thomas Aquinas on Analogical Knowledge of God”
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by the Medieval Studies Workshop \nHow can philosophers speak about God in a reasonable fashion? Does speech about God exceed the capacities of human reason? In responding to these questions\, Thomas Aquinas develops a path between the extremes of apophaticism (rejecting the applicability of human language to God) and rationalistic optimism. This lecture will argue for the validity of Thomist doctrine of divine naming and its relevance to contemporary debates in analytic theism and to Heidegger’s critique of onto-theology (the theology of being).
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2013-02-careful-rationality-of-monotheism-thomas-aquinas-on-analogical-knowledge-of-god-thomas-joseph-white-o-p/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, First Floor Common Room\, 1025 E 58th St\,Chicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20120302T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20120302T170000
DTSTAMP:20260502T050648
CREATED:20241003T165914Z
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SUMMARY:"Emotion and Virtue in Thomas Aquinas"
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by the Templeton Foundation and The Philosophy Department \n\nAbstract: For Aquinas\, ethics is nothing other than the study of human psychology insofar as it flourishes or fails to flourish. Consequently\, his thought on emotion is crucial to his account of virtue. This lecture will discuss Aquinas’s theory of the emotions and its implications for his virtue theory.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2012-03-emotion-virtue-in-thomas-aquinas-fr-nicholas-lombardo/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, First Floor Common Room\, 1025 E 58th St\,Chicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20111115T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20111115T170000
DTSTAMP:20260502T050648
CREATED:20241003T165919Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T170353Z
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SUMMARY:“The Identity of Knower and Known in Aquinas”
DESCRIPTION:Lecture Abstract:\nThe claim that knowledge involves an identity of knower and known has its historical roots among the Greeks. This lecture explores this claim as one finds it in the writings of St. Thomas Aquinas. Professor O’Callaghan will explore these issues in critical dialogue with two different papers\, one by Wilfrid Sellars titled “Being and Being Known” and the other by John McDowell titled “Sellars’s Thomism.”
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2011-11-identity-of-knower-known-in-aquinas-john-ocallaghan/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, First Floor Common Room\, 1025 E 58th St\,Chicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20110601T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20110601T163000
DTSTAMP:20260502T050648
CREATED:20241003T165930Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T170437Z
UID:10000725-1306945800-1306945800@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:“From Natural Law to Human Rights in Jewish Thought”
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by the Ethics Club and Jewish Studies and the Hebrew Bible Workshop \nTO LISTEN: right click on below links to download or open in new window \n“From Natural Law to Human Rights in Jewish Thought\,” David Novak (part 1)\n“From Natural Law to Human Rights in Jewish Thought\,” David Novak (part 2)\n“From Natural Law to Human Rights in Jewish Thought\,” David Novak (part 3)
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2011-06-from-natural-law-to-human-rights-in-jewish-thought-david-novak/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, First Floor Common Room\, 1025 E 58th St\,Chicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20110427T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20110427T163000
DTSTAMP:20260502T050648
CREATED:20241003T165932Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T170554Z
UID:10000731-1303921800-1303921800@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:“The Dignity of Being a Substance”
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by the Committee on Social Thought and the Program in Medieval Studies \nThomas Aquinas characterized the person as “what is most perfect” and “most worthy” in all of nature. What grounds the dignity of the human being as a person? While in our day a metaphysical approach to the question is undervalued\, this lecture attempts to show the value of such an approach in terms of “substance” and “nature.”
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2011-04-dignity-of-being-a-substance-gilles-emery-op/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, First Floor Common Room\, 1025 E 58th St\,Chicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20110401T230000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20110402T230000
DTSTAMP:20260502T050648
CREATED:20241003T165933Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T170602Z
UID:10000733-1301698800-1301785200@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:Virtue\, Action\, and Reason: A Conference in Honor of Anselm Müller
DESCRIPTION:The University of Chicago Philosophy Department will host a conference entitled\, “Virtue\, Action\, and Reason” in honor of the Spring 2011 Lumen Christi visiting fellow\, Anselm Müeller. The Lumen Christi Institute\, along with a number of other institutes on campus\, are delighted to act as conference co-sponsors. \nThe publication of Elizabeth Anscombe Modern Moral Philosophy in 1958 is often taken to mark a watershed event in analytic philosophical ethics. In this justly famous paper\, Anscombe laid out three controversial theses. First\, she argued that philosophers should not do moral theory until they have worked out an adequate philosophy of action and practical reason. Second\, she argued that the idea of moral obligation\, so central to the project of modern moral philosophy\, is vacuous\, and we should learn to do moral philosophy without it.  Finally\, she argued that the differences within contemporary moral theorists are superficial once we consider the crucial respect in which they are the same: each rejects the idea that some forms of human action such as the procurement of the judicial condemnation of the innocent are intrinsically bad qua human and\, as such\, are absolutely forbidden. At the close of her paper\, Anscombe suggests that we give up the project of modern moral philosophy and return to the wisdom of a more ancient tradition of thought about the good life for man\, one whose roots lie in Plato and Aristotle. \nArguably\, no one has done more to advance progress in the direction Anscombe originally pointed than her student\,  Professor Anselm Müeller.  Over the course of his long and distinguished career\, he has articulated a theory of practical reason and action that seeks to demonstrate that man needs the virtues (dispositions for good practical inference) in order to achieve happiness. Moreover\, he develops his theory in such a way that eliminates the need for an unreflective appeal to a species of practical obligation that is special in virtue of being moral. And finally\, he has forcefully argued that predications of goodness and badness apply directly to actions and agents\, and only derivatively to states of affairs\, thereby showing that consequentialism rests upon a false picture of the relation between act and agent. In so doing\, Professor Müeller has made lasting contributions to the field of practical philosophy. \nProfessor Müeller will be a visiting faculty member in the Philosophy Department this Spring quarter\, and will be teaching a graduate seminar on the writings of Elizabeth Anscombe. To commemorate his visit to the University of Chicago\, and to honor his distinguished career\, the Philosophy Department is hosting a conference on his contributions to practical philosophy\, titled Action\, Virtue\, and Reason. Each presenter at our conference will give a talk that engages one of Professor Müeller’s seminal papers in practical philosophy\, with one hour of discussion to follow each presentation. Professor Müeller will also give the keynote address\, titled The Teleology of the Virtuous Life.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2011-04-virtue-action-reason-a-conference-in-honor-of-anselm-muller-anselm-muller/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, First Floor Common Room\, 1025 E 58th St\,Chicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20110221T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20110221T173000
DTSTAMP:20260502T050648
CREATED:20241003T165935Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T170620Z
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SUMMARY:A Philosophical Reading of the Prodigal Son
DESCRIPTION:While the parable of the prodigal son has traditionally been read as a story about a wayward son in need of repentance or the conflict of two siblings over their just treatment\, Hart will suggest that the father is the central character of the narrative. The phenomenological tradition is employed to shift the theological perspective of the parable toward a vision of the kingdom of God imagined through the forgiveness and unconditional love of the Father. This lecture was co-sponsored by the University of Chicago Theology Workshop.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2011-02-a-philosophical-reading-of-prodigal-son-kevin-hart/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, First Floor Common Room\, 1025 E 58th St\,Chicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20110208T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20110208T190000
DTSTAMP:20260502T050648
CREATED:20241003T165937Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T170628Z
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SUMMARY:“Eriugena: The Medieval Irish Genius Between Augustine and Aquinas”
DESCRIPTION:The Carolingian thinker Johannes Scottus Eriugena (810-877CE) is the author of numerous philosophical and theological works. Most famous among them is the Periphyseon or On Natures (864-866CE)\, a metaphysical dialogue drawing on the Greek and Latin patristic and classical traditions. Having been falsely condemned because of pantheism in 1225\, Eriugena was only seriously studied in the twentieth century\, which saw a major effort to complete all the critical editions of his works (until 2005). With all the modern tools in place\, it is time to map out a vista of what the tradition of medieval Western thought would have looked like\, had he not been excised from it. For Eriugena is by all accounts the most interesting and systematic thinker between Augustine and Thomas Aquinas. \nWhat Eriugena has in common with Augustine (354-430CE) is his deep attention to creation and to exegesis as the prime vehicle for conveying his ideas about it. Eriugena was familiar with Augustine’s interpretation of Genesis as well as with that of Gregory of Nyssa\, and he seems to have situated himself deliberately in between them. The latter half of his major work On Natures is cast entirely as a commentary on Genesis but exegesis was for Eriugena\, just like for Augustine\, also a vehicle for speculative thought. \nWith Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274CE) Eriugena has in common a deep interest in precise epistemological analysis: what can and cannot be known by the human mind\, and how do we distinguish the reach of the mind from the infinity of the divine? Here Eriugena daringly incorporates the negative theology of Pseudo-Dionysius in what is an unusual definition of nature. While we cannot know the divine\, as he transcends the human mind\, Eriugena still considers God an integral part of natura\, and it is through the via negativa that he wants to approach the divine. \nWith both Augustine and Aquinas Eriugena shares an attachment to the mystical structure ofexitus and reditus\, or procession and return\, as his intellectual journey ultimately parallels a mystical quest\, that of the soul on its way to salvation. Where Eriugena is most unlike Augustine and Aquinas\, however\, is in the neglect that has befallen his thought as opposed to theirs. It is time for a reappraisal\, therefore\, or rather\, time for a first integral appraisal of the thought of John Scottus Eriugena.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2011-02-eriugena-medieval-irish-genius-between-augustine-aquinas-willemien-otten/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, First Floor Common Room\, 1025 E 58th St\,Chicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20110128T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20110128T160000
DTSTAMP:20260502T050648
CREATED:20241003T165939Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T170633Z
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SUMMARY:“Knowledge\, Metaphysics\, and the Information Explosion”
DESCRIPTION:Benedict Ashley\, OP (Aquinas Institute of Theology\, Emeritus)\nHerman Sinaiko (University of Chicago\, Emeritus) \nTo some\, in the information age\, we seem to know more things\, to communicate more effectively\, and to better interrelate scientific disciplines. To others\, however this  ‘information explosion’ has produced a miscommunication\, a superficial acquaintance with trivial facts\, and fragmentation of once-related disciplines. In light of this\, Benedict Ashley and Herman Sinaiko will consider whether an Aristotelian ‘synthesis’ of the sciences might offer a means of integrating human knowledge.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2011-01-knowledge-metaphysics-information-explosion-benedict-ashley-op-herman-sinaiko/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, First Floor Common Room\, 1025 E 58th St\,Chicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20101117T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20101117T193000
DTSTAMP:20260502T050648
CREATED:20241003T165939Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T170800Z
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SUMMARY:Aquinas\, Thomism\, and 20th Century Liberalism
DESCRIPTION:Paul E. Sigmund\, Professor of Politics at Princeton University\, delivers a lecture titled “Aquinas\, Thomism\, and 20th Century Liberalism” on November 17\, 2010 at the University of Chicago.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2010-11-aquinas-thomism-20th-century-liberalism-paul-e-sigmund/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, First Floor Common Room\, 1025 E 58th St\,Chicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20100512T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20100512T153000
DTSTAMP:20260502T050648
CREATED:20241003T165946Z
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SUMMARY:From Curiosity to Studiousness: Catechizing the Appetite for Knowledge
DESCRIPTION:It’s a good thing\, almost everyone would say\, to want to know things; that view is certainly bone-deep in our universities and colleges\, as well as in the church. But there are different ways of coming to want to know things\, different ways of training and forming the appetite for knowledge. It has been traditional in Catholic Christianity to identify two such ways under the labels curiositas (curiosity) and studiositas (studiousness). This talk will explore the difference between the two\, and offer a sketch of what a well-formed appetite for knowledge is like.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2010-05-from-curiosity-to-studiousness-catechizing-appetite-for-knowledge-paul-griffiths/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, First Floor Common Room\, 1025 E 58th St\,Chicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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