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Metaphysics and the Soul in Thomas Aquinas

University of Chicago 5801 S. Ellis Ave., University of Chicago, IL

APPLICATIONS FOR THIS SEMINAR ARE CLOSED This seminar will be a five-day, intensive discussion of St. Thomas Aquinas's account of the nature of the soul, with particular attention paid to the metaphysical principles on which it rests. The sessions will center on Summa Theologiae, I, qq. 75-77, concerning the soul in itself, its essential relation to […]

Modern Science and the Catholic Faith for Graduate Students

Providence College 1 Cunningham Square, Providence, RI

Applications are now closed. The goal of this seminar is to provide students with the background knowledge and conceptual tools necessary to understand and think clearly about the relation of science and faith. This will help them to integrate scientific and theological ways of understanding in their own thinking, and make it possible for them […]

The Thought of John Henry Newman

Merton College, Oxford Merton St, Oxford OX1 4JD, UK, Oxford, United Kingdom

APPLICATIONS ARE CLOSED FOR THIS SEMINAR Now in its seventh consecutive year, this intensive seminar will examine the achievements of Blessed John Henry Newman as a theologian, philosopher, educator, preacher, and writer. Remarkably, in each of these areas Newman produced works that have come to be recognized as classics: An Essay on the Development of […]

The Thought of Rene Girard

Saint-Michel de Frigolet Abbey La Montagnette, 13150 Tarascon, France, Saint-Michel de Frigolet Abbey, France

APPLICATIONS FOR THIS SEMINAR ARE CLOSED One of the most influential 20th century Catholic thinkers, René Girard transformed our understanding of culture, religion, and human behavior. His “mimetic theory" builds on the demystifying power of the Old and New Testaments to illuminate the religious history of mankind. Through an intensive reading of his major works of […]

Catholic Social Thought: A Critical Investigation

University of California, Berkeley S Hall Rd. Berkeley, CA 94720, Berkeley, CA

APPLICATIONS FOR THIS SEMINAR ARE CLOSED In this seminar, students will read, analyze, and discern continuities and discontinuities in Catholic social thought from the late 19th century to the present. Lectures, seminar reports, and discussion will focus on original sources (encyclicals and other magisterial documents), beginning with Rerum novarum (1892) and concluding with Caritas in veritate (2009) and Evangelii Gaudium (2013). […]

POSTPONED: Catholic Social Teaching and Society: An Introduction to the Tradition and Substance of Christian Social Doctrine

Abtei Michaelsberg TBD, Siegburg, Germany

THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN POSTPONED TO SUMMER 2020 The manifold and deepening social, political, and economic crises that people and their governments face have called forth a strongly renewed interest in the Christian social teaching tradition, and the contributions that insights from the tradition might make to responding to these exigencies. This revival of interest […]

Undergraduate Seminar: Augustine on Self, God, and Society

St. Albert's Priory 5890 Birch Ct, Oakland, CA

APPLICATION COMING SOON Augustine is one of the great minds of the Church and of western history. In this week-long intensive seminar, undergraduates and recent graduates will learn how to read, analyze, and discern the theme of the self in relation to God and society across Augustine’s corpus. The seminar is anchored in an in-depth […]

Modern Science and the Catholic Faith for Undergraduates

Saint Joseph Abbey and Seminary College 75376 River Road, St. Benedict, LA

Applications are now closed. The goal of this seminar is to provide students with the background knowledge and conceptual tools necessary to understand and think clearly about the relation of science and faith. This will help them to integrate scientific and theological ways of understanding in their own thinking, and make it possible for them […]

2020 Newman Forum Summer Institute

ONLINE World Wide Web, INTERNET

The Newman Forum aims to run a week-long Summer Institute for high school students at Mundelein Seminary every year. Due to COVID-19 concerns, this year's Institute will run ONLINE, Mondays and Thursdays, from July 13th-30th. This year's Summer Institute will be centered on the three transcendentals: Truth, Goodness, and Beauty! Feelings of wonder point us to transcendental truths […]

ONLINE SEMINAR on Dominican Theological Anthropology: Albert the Great and Meister Eckhart

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

APPLICATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED FOR THIS SEMINAR On consecutive Mondays and Tuesdays in August (August 3, 4, 10, 11) Bernard McGinn and Fr. Bernhard Blankenhorn will lead a set of young scholars through questions relating to the theological anthropologies of Albertus Magnus and Meister Eckhart. Topics of special interest will include contemplation, Albert on the […]

The Thought of John Henry Newman

University of Saint Mary of the Lake 1000 East Maple Avenue Mundelein, IL 60060, Mundelein, IL

Now in its eighth year, this intensive seminar will examine the achievements of Saint John Henry Newman as a theologian, philosopher, educator, preacher, and writer. Remarkably, in each of these areas Newman produced works that have come to be recognized as classics: An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, The Grammar of Assent, The […]

2021 Newman Forum Summer Institute

University of Saint Mary of the Lake 1000 East Maple Avenue Mundelein, IL 60060, Mundelein, IL

In-person summer experience for high school students exploring truth, goodness, and beauty at Mundelein Seminary Presented by the Lumen Christi Institute’s Newman Forum. Open to current high school students and incoming college freshman only. This seminar is cosponsored by the University of Saint Mary of the Lake at Mundelein Seminary, and the Archdiocese of Chicago Vocation Office.  DRIVING QUESTIONS “It is through wonder […]