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Lunch with Dr. Lucas Mix – What Part Does Science Play in Salvation?

Gavin House 1220 E 58th St., Chicago, IL

Open to current students. Presented by Brent House and the Lumen Christi Institute. One often hears of debates about science versus religion, or science’s compatibility with religion, but in the Christian tradition what might it mean to ask whether science plays a part in salvation? There are many possible answers: science can be interpreted as an alternative to grace (salvation by science alone), as a means of grace (God gives us science as part of redemption), as a product of grace (science as sanctification), or as fully irrelevant to salvation. Join us for lunch with the Rev. Dr. Lucas Mix, an Episcopal priest and astrobiologist,...

How to Run Away From Home: Preparing for College as a Catholic

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

Cosponsored by the Archdiocese of Chicago Vocations Office and the University of St. Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary.   You’ve been told since you started school that you need to go away to college. Leave home, get an education, and begin “adulting.” Everyone has a "guide" for the journey: Kaplan, Fiske, US News, Princeton Review, and so on. But if you're looking for an account of how to leave home in order to find it, you won't find a better guide than Scripture, believe it or not. The Bible can be considered one big story of leaving home in order...

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Michelangelo’s Women: Feminine Genius in the Frescoes of the Sistine Chapel

Swift Hall, First Floor Common Room 1025 E 58th St,Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Cosponsored by the Department of Art History.  This convening is open to all invitees regardless of vaccination status and, because of ongoing health risks, particularly to the unvaccinated, participants are expected to adopt the risk mitigation measures (masking and social distancing, etc.) appropriate to their vaccination status as advised by public health officials or to their individual vulnerabilities as advised by a medical professional. Public convening may not be safe for all and carries a risk for contracting COVID-19, particularly for those unvaccinated. Participants will not know the vaccination status of others and should follow appropriate risk mitigation measures. If...

Fall Non-Credit Course: “The Living Jesus at the Intersection of History and Faith”

Gavin House 1220 E 58th St., Chicago, IL

REGISTER HERE 6:00 Dinner | 6:30 Lecture This weekly non-credit course is open to current students and faculty. Registrants are free to attend as many sessions as they choose. Sessions do not presuppose previous attendance or prior knowledge of the subject. Jesus of Nazareth, a Galilean Jew crucified in a remote corner of the Roman Empire nearly 2,000 years ago, is considered one of the world’s greatest teachers and the founder of its oldest institution. More books and films have been produced about Jesus than any other historical person.  This non-credit class will consider both what historical methods can ascertain about Jesus...

MidCentury Catholic Modern: the Church and Other Possible Modernities

Presented by the Collegium Institute and cosponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute, America Magazine and the Nova Forum for Catholic Thought. In the ferment of the mid 20th-Century, Catholic writers and artists sought to develop a new, distinctly Catholic, modernity. They navigated the political challenges of fascism, communism, and liberalism. In this event, we look to the history of MidCentury Catholicism, with figures like Georges Rouault, the Maritains, Dorothy Day, and Claude McKay, and its response to the cultural, intellectual, and political ferment of the 1920s-60s. What can we learn from these great figures as 21st Century people grapple with the challenges...

The Search for God: Testimonies to Grace

Gavin House 1220 E 58th St., Chicago, IL
Fr. Peter Bernardi, SJ, Lumen Christi Institute

This weekly non-credit course is open to current Chicago area students and faculty. Others interested in attending should contact us. Registrants are free to attend as many sessions as they choose. Sessions do not presuppose previous attendance or prior knowledge of the subject. One hundred and fifty years ago, Matthew Arnold described the receding of "the Sea of Faith" in the poem "Dover Beach." Today the culture of unbelief is even more pervasive, especially in secular academia. The stories of those who have struggled with intellectual doubts and personal conflicts in their quest for God and religious faith have much to teach and to inspire...

Christian Intellectual Life in Today’s Universities: A Conversation with Fr. Thomas Joseph White, OP

Fr. Thomas Joseph White, OP is the newly appointed rector of the Angelicum, the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome. A prominent American theologian, Fr. White has also directed the Thomistic Institute in Washington, D.C. for many years. In this public webinar, Nova Forum executive director David Albertson interviews Fr. White about the state of Christian intellectual life in today’s universities, the challenges facing the secular academy, and the prospects of a renewal of Catholic intellectual formation. This event is presented by the Nova Forum for Catholic Thought, and cosponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute. Register for the event...

POSTPONED: Jacques Maritain’s “Man and the State”

Gavin House 1220 E 58th St., Chicago, IL

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED. WE WILL ANNOUNCE THE NEW DATE IN THE COMING WEEKS. THIS IS AN IN-PERSON EVENT. Open to current graduate students and University of Chicago Undergraduates. Others who are interested in participating should contact us. Copies of Man and the State (CUA Press, 1998) will be provided for registrants. Jacques Maritain (1882-1973) was perhaps the most influential Catholic social and political philosopher of the 20th century.  He taught at Columbia and Princeton, and was a frequent guest lecturer at the University of Chicago, where he gave the Walgreen Lectures, later published as Man and the State (1951).  Appointed the French...

Making a Case for the Humanities with Zena Hitz

Gavin House 1220 E 58th St., Chicago, IL

Open to current graduate students and faculty. Box lunches will be served. In her recent book, Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of the Intellectual Life, Zena Hitz writes "For some time, intellectual institutions in the United States have been under significant financial and political pressure to abandon education for programs with economic or political uses... we academic professionals have lost touch with our origins in ordinary human intellectual activity. We have thus lost the capacity to justify and explain to our fellow citizens or to philanthropists—much less to ourselves—why our institutions matter" (p.198). Should one studying or teaching in the...

Conversation on “Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life”

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

Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Undergraduate Program in Religious Studies at the University of Chicago. Copies of the book will be available for sale by the Seminary Co-op Bookstore at the event. This program will be held as a hybrid, in-person and online event.  Join us for a conversation on Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life (Princeton University Press, 2020) with author Zena Hitz. ABOUT THE BOOK In an overloaded, superficial, technological world, in which almost everything and everybody is judged by its usefulness, where can we turn for escape, lasting pleasure, contemplation, or connection to others? While...