Lumen Christi Institute

Jennifer Newsome Martin is Associate Professor in the Program of Liberal Studies at the University of Notre Dame, where she also received a PhD in 2012. She is a systematic theologian with areas of research interest in 19th and 20th century Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox thought, trinitarian theology, theological aesthetics, religion and literature, French feminism, ressourcement theology, and the nature of religious tradition. Her first book, Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Critical Appropriation of Russian Religious Thought (University of Notre Dame Press, 2015),  was one of 10 winners internationally of the 2017 Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise (formerly the John Templeton Award for Theological Promise). She is also the co-editor of An Apocalypse of Love:  Essays in Honor of Cyril O’ Regan (Herder & Herder, 2018). Other work has appeared in Modern Theology, Communio: International Catholic Review, and in a number of edited volumes and collections of essays.

Andrew Horne holds a PhD in Classics from the University of Chicago (2018) and an AB in Greek and Latin from Brown University (2011). He was awarded a Rome Prize Fellowship by the American Academy in Rome in 2017. Andrew works on the history of ideas in antiquity, especially freedom, justice, leisure, and humanitas. His articles have appeared in Classical Antiquity and Vergilius, with another forthcoming in Ramus. At Lumen Christi, he contributes to the campus program, liberal arts programming, Greek and Latin reading groups, and great books seminars.