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February 7th @ 2:00 pm

Student Lunch with Stephen Barr on “Should a Catholic Scientist Care About the Liberal Arts?”

Feb 07
St. Thomas Aquinas on Free Choice

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Open to current graduate students and faculty. Cosponsored by Calvert House. Box lunches will be served.

Join us at Gavin House, home of the Lumen Christi Institute, for a discussion with physicist Stephen Barr (President, Society of Catholic Scientists) for a conversation on what a Catholic scientist can learn from the study of philosophy, theology, and literature. Open to all students and faculty. Box lunches will be served.

Prof. Barr will also give a lecture on Feb. 7 on “Is the Universe Made for Life? Anthropic Coincidences and Multiverse Ideas”


For all events held at Gavin House, the Lumen Christi Institute follows Chicago Department of Public Health Guidance for in-person gatherings. Please see here for the city’s most up-to-date guidelines. These are guidelines subject to change.

If you have any questions, please contact us.


This event was made possible in-part through the support of ‘In Lumine: Supporting the Catholic Intellectual Tradition on Campuses Nationwide’ (Grant #62372) from the John Templeton Foundation. The opinions expressed in this course are those of the presenters and do not necessarily reflect the views of the John Templeton Foundation.

Gavin House

1220 E 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637
Hyde Park, IL