APPLICATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED “Understanding is wholly useless if it is not based upon wisdom, in that while it penetrates the higher mysteries without the counterpoise of wisdom, its own […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
You can view photos of the event HERE. Leo Strauss is well known for both his critique of modernity and his insistence on the productive (but irreconcilable) tension between reason […]
You can view photos of the event HERE. In this one-off seminar, participants will read and discuss the writings of late medieval German mystic and theologian Meister Eckhart (c. 1260-1327) […]
REGISTER HERE Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the John U. Nef Commitee on Social Thought. Cardinal Newman, who will be canonized on October 13, is well known […]
