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Aristotle’s Great-Souled Man in Jane Austen, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and Saint Augustine

Swift Hall, 3rd Floor Lecture 1025 E 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

This event was co-sponsored by the Undergraduate Program in Religious Studies at the University of Chicago.  Augustine famous referred to the classical virtues as "splendid vices". Although he stood in the tradition that valued virtue, he was concerned that the pursuit of greatness through the life of virtue - a theme dating back to Aristotle's […]

Master Class on “The Myth of Unconditional Love: Augustine on the Love of God, Neighbor, and Self”

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

Open to current students and faculty. Others interested in participating should contact info@lumenchristi.org. All registrants will receive pdfs of the selected readings, which should be read in advance of the class. An optional wine and cheese reception will follow.  Following Kant’s insistence that individuals must be treated as ends in themselves and not means to […]

Red Mass with Address by Hanna Holborn Gray

Bond Chapel & Swift Hall 1025 E. 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact info@lumenchristi.org. The Lumen Christi Institute is glad to present its second annual Red Mass cosponsored by St. Thomas the Apostle, Calvert House, and the St. Thomas More Society at the University of Chicago Law School. Mass will be held at Bond Chapel at the University […]

Red Mass Lecture with Hannah Gray

Swift Hall, 3rd Floor Lecture 1025 E 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

REGISTER HERE This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact info@lumenchristi.org. Hannah Gray, former President of the University of Chicago and Renaissance Historian, will speak on St. Thomas More's Utopia. Preceding the lecture, there will be a Red Mass at Bond Chapel. You can register to attend the Mass and find more […]

Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis

Swift Hall, 3rd Floor Lecture 1025 E 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact info@lumenchristi.org. This event is co-sponsored by the History Department at the University of Chicago.  The story of Roman Catholicism has never followed a singular path. In no time period has this been more true than over the last two centuries. Beginning with the French […]

Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis

This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact info@lumenchristi.org. This event is co-sponsored by the History Department at the University of Chicago.  The story of Roman Catholicism has never followed a singular path. In no time period has this been more true than over the last two centuries. Beginning with the French […]

Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis

This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact info@lumenchristi.org. This event is co-sponsored by the History Department at the University of Chicago.  The story of Roman Catholicism has never followed a singular path. In no time period has this been more true than over the last two centuries. Beginning with the French […]

Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis

This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact info@lumenchristi.org. This event is co-sponsored by the History Department at the University of Chicago.  The story of Roman Catholicism has never followed a singular path. In no time period has this been more true than over the last two centuries. Beginning with the French […]

Master Class on “Catholicism and Upheaval Between the World Wars”

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

Open to current students and faculty. Others interested in participating should contact info@lumenchristi.org. All registrants will receive pdfs of the selected readings, which should be read in advance of the class. The first 20 registrants will receive a free copy of Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis. This Master Class will use […]

Winter 2023 Fundamental Questions Seminar: Sophocles’ Antigone

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

Open to current undergraduate students at the University of Chicago. Registration is capped at 20. Students who register after capacity has been reached will be put on a waitlist. All registrants will be provided with a copy of the text. “For death is gain to him whose life, like mine, is full of misery.”  Here is […]

Ash Wednesday Reflection with Archbishop Borys Gudziak

5554 S. Woodlawn Ave. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Registration required. Open only to current students at the Univesity of Chicago. Registration is capped at 20. This event will be held at the Lumen Christi Woodlawn Residence for Graduate Students.  Join us for a special evening program for students with Metropolitan Borys Gudziak. Metropolitan Borys is the head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in […]

Graduate Reading Group on “The Works of Frederick Douglass”

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

Open to current graduate students students at the University of Chicago. Participants can come to whichever sessions they choose. Others interested in participating should contact info@lumenchristi.org. Wine and cheese reception to follow.  Frederick Douglass is, without a doubt, a great American writer and orator. Largely self taught, he wove together the traditions of American rhetoric […]