The Institute for Adult Spiritual Renewal
at Loyola University Chicago, Lakeshore Campus
Week II
WEEK OF JULY 1, 2012
WEEKLY ORIENTATION – SUNDAY, 5 P.M.
Morning Courses
Monday through Thursday 9 – 11:30 a.m.
#201
Edwina Gateley
Mystics, Rebels and Prophets - Women Who Went Before Us and Walk With Us Today
During this week we will explore the lives of some amazing and valiant women: Hildegard of Bingen, Julian of Norwich, Brigid of Kildare and those brave and largely unknown women - the Beguines of the Middle Ages. Their stories will make a profound impact on our lives today as we draw inspiration from their witness and courage and their call for a new and radical spirituality embracing the Divine Feminine and the sacredness of the earth.
#202
Rosemary Carbine
Feminist and Womanist Spirituality
This course takes a comparative approach to women and spirituality by exploring Euro-American feminist and African American womanist understandings of sacramentality, which is defined broadly as seeking signs of the just and transformative presence of the divine in the world. We will examine Catholic feminist and womanist writings on the body, narrative, and sacramentality as a lens through which to re-examine our own beliefs and practices about ways of seeking justice for bodies on the margins of the U.S. and perhaps world body politic.
#203
Paul Giblin
Spirituality of Men
This brief course will explore the contemporary context of men, including their relationship to their inner lives, emotions, bodies, work, friendships and intimacy and sexuality, in terms of their spiritual journeys, prayer lives, and meaning making processes. We will consider individual and group spiritual direction, workshop/educational approaches to men’s work.
Afternoon Courses
Monday through Thursday, 2 – 4:30 p.m.
#210
Patricia Coughlin, OSB
Dreams and Spirituality
".....spiritual dreams are those dreams that bring people experientially closer to the power of the sacred and that speak meaningfully to people's existential concerns" (Kelley Bulkely). Even our insignificant-seeming dreams can help us to access sources of wsidom both deep within us and beyond us as individuals and to integrate that wisdom into our everyday lives.
#211
Jason A. Carbine
Buddhist Spirituality
How can, if at all, Buddhist beliefs and practices help Christians and others to cultivate a more positive social, cultural, and religious environment? We will examine Buddhist perspectives on Jesus, Christian perspectives on the Buddha, and a range of other topics related to moral questions about the roles of monks and nuns in society and politics, faith and violence, and the influence of ethical values in an increasingly fragmented global world. We will explore the mutual relationship between Buddhist and Christian worldviews on the one hand and everyday life and practice on the other hand.
Evening
Monday through Thursday, 6 – 8:30 p.m.
#220
Michael J. Morwood
THOMAS BERRY: ECOSPIRITUALITY AND THE FUTURE OF CHRISTIANITY
We are, Berry believed, between stories. We need a story about our earth, about ourselves, about revelation "that will educate us, a story that will heal, guide and discipline us." In accepting and telling the "new story" dear to Berry, Christianity could rediscover solid ground on which to stand in the twenty-first century.
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