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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
DTEND;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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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CREATED:20241003T165932Z
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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:20260502T062250
CREATED:20241003T165933Z
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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