The Institute for Adult Spiritual Renewal
a program of
ADULT SPIRITUAL RENEWAL & EMPOWERMENT, INC.
at Loyola University Chicago, Lakeshore Campus
Weekend Courses 2010
WEEKEND I
JUNE 25-26: Friday 2 pm to 6 pm, Saturday 9 to 4
040 - JOHN DEAR, S.J.
APOSTLES OF NON-VIOLENCE; GANDHI, DAY AND KING
Jesuit priest, peacemaker and author, John Dear will offer reflections on the lives and lessons of Mahatma Gandhi, Dorothy Day and Martin Luther King, Jr., in light of the word's violence and the possibilities of creative nonviolence to learn how we can become more and more nonviolent, deepen our own faith, hope and love, and carry on their work to abolish war, poverty, racism and nulcear armaments. John will offer one presentation on each peacemaker, followed by small group and large group conversation. Besides learning more about Gandhi, Day and King, the class will encourage us to make the most of our lives by deepening our nonviolence and working for justice, disarmament and peace.
041 - JOHN SHEA, OSA
A LIVING GOD: SPIRITUALITY FOR ADULTS
How adequate is our imaging of God for who God is? How adequate is our imaging of God for who we are? Can our imaging of God undergo transformation as we grow and develop and how does this transformation happen? Three more questions frame this course: Why is our relating to God so often presented as static and not developing as we ourselves develop and mature? Why are so many adults still living with a God of childhood and adolescence, a superego God? How can mature adults find a Living God?
WEEKEND II
JULY 2-3: Friday 2 pm to 6 pm and Saturday 9 to 4 pm
140 - BARBARA FIAND, SND de NAMUR
CLAIMING OUR FAITH IN TIMES OF CHANGE
We live in difficult and often violent times. They are also times of great blessings and wonder. How do we live creatively today and embrace our moment in history and our faith with courage and joy? We will spend our time exploring these questions and attempt to claim the power that is ours as followers of Jesus. We will try to touch the depth meaning, transformation, and healing that opens up to us with these considerations, and truly embrace the freedom that is our heritage.
141 - ANTHONY PADOVANO
HOW DID GOD BECOME SO EASY TO DENY?
This course will be, in part, a survey of the time when certitude about God was easier. It will explore traditional material, such as Aquinas, in an effort to show how different things are now. We shall then explore issues concerning evil, absence, silence. Evolution will be a basis for our exploration of suffering, beauty and hope. On a personal note, I shall share my own arguments from reason about God’s existence. The final section of the course will be an extended reflection and synthesis moving the issue of God to Scripture and personal mystical experience.
WEEKEND III - SPECIAL EVENT
July 10-11, Friday 2 - 6 pm, Saturday, 9 - 4 pm
240 - JOHN DOMINIC CROSSAN
JESUS THE KINGDOM OF GOD
Before Jesus the Christ ever existed, Caesar the Augustus was proclaimed as Divine, Son of God, God Incarnate, and God from God. He was also Lord, Redeemer, Liberator, and Savior of the World. What did it mean to take all those titles from an emperor on the Palatine Hill in Rome and give them – instead – to a peasant from the Nazareth ridge in Galilee? What was the precise difference in content that made it not low lampoon but high treason?
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