Welcome back! As school starts up again, the Lumen Christi Institute and Calvert House would like to invite all students to a welcome back social. Meet other Catholics and friends of LCI to kick off the year! Pizza and an ice cream bar will be available. All students are welcome. Grad students are invited to bring spouses and children.
Each quarter, the Lumen Christi Institute hosts a Tuesday evening non-credit course. Survey-style lectures are given over dinner.
This fall, faculty from the University of Chicago and beyond will investigate the works and legacy of St. Augustine. The fifth-century North African bishop stands as a giant in the history of theology and philosophy. He is also cited as an influence by Pope Leo XIV.
Join us over dinner to learn more about the City of God, On The Trinity, the Confessions, and more!
Each quarter, the Lumen Christi Institute hosts a number of student-led reading groups. The reading groups are usually held over a shared meal and all participants are provided a copy of the text.
In the Vice of Curiosity and Intellectual Appetite, esteemed theologian Paul J. Griffiths outlines an Augustinian critique of the modern academy’s ways of knowing, including the history of how modernity turned curiosity from vice into virtue, a theological criticism of patent law, and analysis of why plagiarism is not in fact theft.
Each week, a short essay from Vice of Curiosity will be read and discussed, with optional supplementary readings from Intellectual Appetite.
Each quarter, the Lumen Christi Institute hosts a Tuesday evening non-credit course. Survey-style lectures are given over dinner.
This fall, faculty from the University of Chicago and beyond will investigate the works and legacy of St. Augustine. The fifth-century North African bishop stands as a giant in the history of theology and philosophy. He is also cited as an influence by Pope Leo XIV.
Join us over dinner to learn more about the City of God, On The Trinity, the Confessions, and more!
The Fundamental Questions seminar is the Lumen Christi Institute’s flagship undergraduate program. This three-session seminar meets over dinner to read a great text together and discuss questions of existential importance. Participants will be provided a copy of the text and will be eligible for consideration as Nicklin Fellows.
This fall, Eric DeVilliers (LCI Postdoctoral Scholar) and Yousef Casewit (Chair of Islamic Studies, University of Chicago Divinity School) will lead students through The Ancient City, Numa Fustel de Coulange’s dramatic re-consideration of the ancient world.
Join us as we read selections of The Ancient City and discuss Fustel’s theses about the beginnings of religion, the birth of political life, and the nature of human society.
In this lecture, Prof. Moringiello will introduce the Confessions, one of the greatest books in the Western canon, and one especially dear to Pope Leo’s heart. He will talk about his experience teaching it to undergraduates at Villanova University and DePaul University. And he will focus on how one of the most famous lines in the book -- “our hearts are restless until the find rest in You, Lord” (1.1.5) – speaks to his students and to all of us who live in a world dominated by restlessness and who continually search for the rest that God’s love provides.
Lumen Christi Institute reading courses are faculty-led explorations of an important text. The reading courses are held over a shared meal and all participants are provided a copy of the text.
Fr. Peter Bernardi SJ, LCI’s scholar-in-residence, will lead an exploration of Alisdair MacIntyre’s important late-20th century work, Dependent Rational Animals. MacIntyre both draws from and critiques Aristotle in order to describe our biologically rooted condition and the need to cultivate the virtues that acknowledge our inescapable dependence and inter-dependency.
Each quarter, the Lumen Christi Institute hosts a number of student-led reading groups. The reading groups are usually held over a shared meal and all participants are provided a copy of the text.
InThe Silmarillion, JRR Tolkien spins out the cosmological and mythic stories that undergird The Lord of the Rings. In this group, we will discuss what Tolkien has to say about death, mortality, and suffering, along with his rich worldbuilding and epic tales.
Each quarter, the Lumen Christi Institute hosts a number of student-led reading groups. The reading groups are usually held over a shared meal and all participants are provided a copy of the text.
This quarter, the Greek New Testament reading group will take up the Letter to the Hebrews. All levels of Greek proficiency are encouraged to join. Advance preparation is recommended but not required.
Each quarter, the Lumen Christi Institute hosts a number of student-led reading groups. The reading groups are usually held over a shared meal and all participants are provided a copy of the text.
In the Vice of Curiosity and Intellectual Appetite, esteemed theologian Paul J. Griffiths outlines an Augustinian critique of the modern academy’s ways of knowing, including the history of how modernity turned curiosity from vice into virtue, a theological criticism of patent law, and analysis of why plagiarism is not in fact theft.
Each week, a short essay from Vice of Curiosity will be read and discussed, with optional supplementary readings from Intellectual Appetite.
In partnership with the Diocese of Lansing and the Michigan Catholic Conference, the Catholic Criminal Justice Reform Network is hosting an evening event entitled "Doing Justice and Loving Mercy: A Michigan Conversation on Criminal Justice." Rooted in Catholic Social Teaching, this program brings together individuals actively working within the criminal justice system and those directly impacted by it--returning citizens and survivors of crime. Registration Link For more information, contact CCJRN@Lumenchristi.org This event is intended for those working in or impacted by the criminal justice system.
Each quarter, the Lumen Christi Institute hosts a Tuesday evening non-credit course. Survey-style lectures are given over dinner.
This fall, faculty from the University of Chicago and beyond will investigate the works and legacy of St. Augustine. The fifth-century North African bishop stands as a giant in the history of theology and philosophy. He is also cited as an influence by Pope Leo XIV.
Join us over dinner to learn more about the City of God, On The Trinity, the Confessions, and more!
