Category: Communio
The Nature of Rationality: Does Love Trump Reason?
Friday November 9, 2007, 3-4:30 pm.
in the Waterloo Lutheran Seminary Committee Room, 2nd floor.
Paper for discussion:
The Nature of Rationality: Does Love Trump Reason? by Laurence Paul Hemming Heythrop College, University of London. It can be found on the communio site under the articles from the von Balthasar conference, 2006.
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Category: Communio
"Is gratuitousness possible today: A look at grace"
August 3 , 2007, 3:00pm - 4:30pm
POSTPONED TO SEPTEMBER 14, 2007
Location: Waterloo Lutheran Seminary Conference room
Topic: Javier Prades, "Is gratuitousness possible today: A look at grace", Winter 2006 issue of Communio.
If you need a copy of the article, contact Peter or Ania.
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Category: Communio, Events
Revelation Yesterday and Today - Study Session
Saturday, June 9, 9:30am to 5pm
Location at WLU: Wilfrid Laurier University
Bricker Academic Building, Room 431
A
registration fee of $10 is requested to cover incidental costs. Students are exempt.
Please contact Prof. Peter Erb or Ania to register as soon as possible (by Tuesday, May 29) - there are only a few places left!
Preparation: read
- Vatican II Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation (Dei verbum) If you are working from a published version of the Vatican II documents, we recommend the translation included in the edition by Austin Flannery (Walsh and Harrington translation)
- The Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraphs 26-165. We recommend that all persons attending the session bring a complete copy of the Catechism.
Please bring a copy of Dei Verbum and a Bible - any translation although one including the deutero-canonical writings is preferred.
Schedule:
9:15: Matins
9:30: (Lecture) .Struggling with Revelation: Catholic debates over Revelation, Scripture, and Tradition from Trent to Vatican II.
10:20: Question period
10:45: Coffee
11:00: General discussion of ."Dei Verbum"
12:30 lunch
1:15: Workshop on Scripture
2:45: break
3:00: Brief planning session
3:15: (Lecture) Revelation, Scripture and Tradition: The Background to Benedict XVI's
Jesus of Nazareth (German original in print; English edition release May, 2007)
4:00: Question period and discussion
4:30 Vespers
The Bricker Academic Building is on Bricker Street in Waterloo, one block south of University Ave., approximately halfway between Albert and King.
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Category: Communio
Friday, May 4, 3-4:30pm
Topic of discussion: D. C. Schindler's "Truth and the Christian Imagination: The Reformation of Causality and the Iconoclasm of the Spirit" from the most recent Communio Winter 2006, Art and Image.
For a copy see http://communio-icr.com/articles/PDF/DCS33-4.pdf.
Location: Committee Room, Second floor at Waterloo Lutheran Seminary
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Category: Communio
Friday, March 2, 3-4:30pm
Location: Committee Room, Second floor at Waterloo Lutheran Seminary
We will discuss the article
"The future of love: a reading of Benedict XVI's encyclical Deus Caritas Est" by John Milbank.
NOTE: the central article for discussion is Pope Benedict's
Deus Caritas Est on which all the articles we have been discussing are commentaries.
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Category: Communio
God is Love
Our next Communio meeting is
Friday, Feb. 2, 3:00-4:30 in the Seminary Committee Room, Second floor of Waterloo Lutheran Seminary.
This month we will begin to discuss articles on Pope Benedict's encyclical, "God is Love", to which the full issue of Fall 2006 is
devoted. For our February meeting we begin with "The Unity of Love and the Face of Man: An Invitation to Read Deus caritas est," by Angelo Cardinal Scola a section-by-section commentary on the encyclical, foccused on the anthropological significance of the unity of eros and agape.
If you are unable to find a copy of the article, please contact Ania.
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Category: Events
Thomistic Toast and Turkey Roast
Sunday, January 28, 2007
at St. Michael's Church, Waterloo -- on University Ave. W. across the road from WLU.
Note there has been a change in schedule. The dinner will now be held at 4pm, followed at 5pm by a presentation on Thomas' Scripture Commentaries, followed by Mass.
The meal is free for students (yes: seminarians are students); we would appreciate a donation to cover costs from all others attending. If you are attending the meal please RSVP to Ania as soon as possible.
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Category: default, Events
"Can Christians Think?"
Friday, January 12, 7:30pm
in the Bricker Academic Building, Room 113.
The evening will be opened by Dr Norm Klassen of St. Jerome's University, whose new book, The Passionate Intellect: Incarnational Humanism and the Future of University Education (Brazos Press, 2006), is an introductory guide to the challenges and insights offered to Christian undergraduate and graduate students by contemporary secular thinkers.
A discussion sponsored with the Laurier Catholic Chaplaincy at Wilfrid Laurier University,
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