The Institute for Adult Spiritual Renewal
at Loyola University Chicago, Lakeshore Campus
Week II ◆ July 4- July 9, 2010
WEEK II
MORNING - MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY
9 TO 11:30 A.M.
210 - JEROME MURPHY-O’CONNOR, OP
PAUL’S LETTERS TO CORINTH
The well-intentioned mistakes of the Corinthian church stimulated Paul to develop some of his most important theological insights. Among other things he was forced to define the nature of the church, and to defend the full equality of women in its evangelizing ministry. Reading the text together will also serve as an introduction as to how a Pauline letter should be studied. Thus all participants must have a copy of 1 and 2 Corinthians.
211 - WIL HERNANDEZ
LIVING WITH TENSION: JOURNEYING WITH HENRI NOUWEN
Henri Nouwen navigated his own journey by embracing the reality of tension. He lived with a “both and” as opposed to an “either or” modality while befriending the seeming polarities of integration and imperfection, solitude and community, stability and mobility, contemplation and action, among other things, in his own life. This course will help us wrestle with this same tension and hopefully enable us to live with and through it, following Nouwen’s example.
AFTERNOON
MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY - 2 TO 4:30 P.M.
220 - MICHAEL CROSBY, OFM, CAP
CHOOSING COMPASSION IN AN INTERDEPENDENT WORLD
Because of the individualism that defines our contemporary world, we fail to recognize our deep interconnectedness. Michael Crosby will show that, whether we speak of the "reign" or "rule" of God or the core of all that we see, connectedness rather than separateness is the norm. This interactive session will build on Crosby's web-based program, www.choosingcompassion.net. Participants will leave with a tool they can use in their own lives and ministries that will address the conflicts and violence in, among and around us in ways that will lead to increasing nonviolence, peace, love and compassion.
221 - ANTHONY PADOVANO
MAJOR SPIRITUALITY ISSUES OF OUR TIME
The major spirituality issues of our time to be explored in this course are:
Authenticity (and conscience);
Community (love and friendship);
Commitment (ideals, sacrifice and freedom);
Hope (the future energizes all life).
222 - KAYE ASHE, OP
LOVE POETRY
Whom shall we love? What shall we love? How should we love? These questions touch the heart of our relationship to god, to others, and to the planet we inhabit. May Sarton writes, “All poetry is love poetry….,” so we have a broad and beautiful field to explore. We’ll enter it, reflecting on and discussing poems across the centuries and the globe that address love’s mysterious paths and byways.
EVENING - MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY
6 TO 8:30 P.M.
230 - MICHAEL MORWOOD
MATTER, MIND AND HEART: JESUS IN EVOLUTIONARY THINKING
This course will focus on the humanity, the “earthiness” and the insights of Jesus rather than on “Cosmic Christ” to establish his importance to the human species in the context of evolution. His story is our story. So let us tell his story as we try to tell our story today - stardust become human and the divine actively present everywhere in ways beyond our imagining.
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