Teilhard de Chardin, S.J. Fellow Presentation

  • October 26, 2021
  • 4:00 PM - 5:15 CST
  • Zoom Forum
  • Hank Center, HANKCENTER@LUC.EDU
  • Free
  • Open to the public.
  • https://www.luc.edu/ccih/teilharddechardinsjfellowship/pierreteilharddechardinlectureseries/archive/stevenschloesserlectureoctober262021.shtml
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    Please join us for the 2021 Tielhard de Chardin, S.J. Fellow Presentation:
    Dr. Stephen Schloesser, S. J. Presents: The Unbearable Lightness of Being: Taking the Roots of our Traditions and Making for the Mountain

    In 2015, Pope Francis remarked that *today we are not living an epoch of change so much as an epochal change* -- or put another way, *We are not living an era of change but a change of era.*

    Five years later, in the midst of the global pandemic, Francis concluded an interview by recalling the ancient poet Virgil's figure Aeneas. Having lost everything in the defeat of Troy, Aeneas faces a decision whether to remain in despair or move into the future. He picks up his   father and heads for the mountain. Francis concluded: *This is what we all have to do now, today: to take with us the roots of our traditions, and make for the mountain.*

    We live in a period of fleeting change whose lightness is nearly unbearable. In his lecture, The Hank Center's 2021 Teilhard de Chardin, S.J. Fellow, Dr. Stephen Schloesser, S.J. will explore the ways that we can re-source the Catholic Intellectual heritage so that we might creatively engender its innovative radiance. What elements of our traditions might we draw from as we make for the mountain? What materials, attitudes and dispositions will we need?

    Fr. Schloesser will integrate a sacramental approach and will draw on the insights of figures including Paul Claudel, Annie Dillard, Gerard Manley Hoplins, Milan Kundera, and Denise
    Levertov, as well as Caroline Walker Bynum and Alfred North Whitehead. The cultivation of amazement and wonder-- which admittedly also entail some fear will be encouraged as a response to the surprising, puzzling, astonishing and mysterious.

    Register here: https://luc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZElcuivrTgjH9VtCkSbV6OwYJeNd6tSEYz-