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Symposium on “The Light that Binds: A Study in Thomas Aquinas’s Metaphysics of Natural Law”

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

A symposium on The Light that Binds: A Study in Thomas Aquinas's Metaphysics of Natural Law by Fr. Stephen L. Brock (Wipf and Stock, 2020). Free and open to the public. Registration is required. Cosponsored by Wipf and Stock Publishers, the Department of History at the University of Chicago, and the Seminary Co-op Bookstore.  Contact us with any […]

Bernard of Clairvaux: Writing a Biography of the Difficult Saint

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

A lecture with Professor Brian Patrick McGuire, author of Bernard of Clairvaux: An Inner Life (Cornell University Press, 2020). Free and open to the public. Registration is required. Cosponsored by the Bollandist Society, Cornell University Press, the Medieval Studies Workshop at the University of Chicago, and the Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion. Contact us […]

Friendship and Community: The Monastic Experience, 350-1250

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

A master class with Brian Patrick McGuire (Roskilde University). Open to current graduate students, faculty, and advanced University of Chicago undergraduate students. Others interested in participating should contact us. Registrants will receive copies of the prepared reading. Friendship has been apparent in our culture as a concern ever since the time of the Greeks. Today it […]

Descartes and Pascal on the Proofs of the Existence of God

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

A final Lumen Christi Master Class, with Jean-Luc Marion. Open to current graduate students, faculty, and advanced University of Chicago undergraduate students. Others interested in participating should contact us. Registrants will receive copies of the prepared reading. Texts: Descartes, Méditations on first philosophy, a latin-english edition by J. Cottingham, Cambridge, 2013, or the bare latin text. (With focus on book […]

The Catholic Imagination in Modern American Poetry

Ruth Lake Country Club 6200 South Madison Street, Hinsdale, IL

Part of our Western Suburban Catholic Culture Series. This event will be live streamed on Zoom. At the turn of the twentieth century, the American Historian Henry Adams wrote admiringly of the Catholic mind as it found expression in the medieval world. It was beautiful, it was good, but, alas, could not be true. Within a […]

Lunch Discussion on “The Vocation of the Poet: Humanism, Christianity, and Verse”

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

Open to current students and faculty. Others interested in joining should contact us. Lunch will be served. Join us for a lunch discussion with poet and professor James Matthew Wilson (University of St. Thomas, Houston) Poetry is, at best, a marginal art form in contemporary America, and yet its craft, technique, and tradition are all provocations […]

Master Class on T.S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets”

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

A master class with poet and professor James Matthew Wilson (University of St. Thomas, Houston). Open to current graduate students, faculty, and advanced University of Chicago undergraduate students. Others interested in participating should contact us. Registrants will receive copies of the prepared reading. Generally regarded as the greatest poem of the twentieth century, T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets is […]

Recovering Hymnography Symposium

University of Chicago–TBA N/A, Hyde Park, IL

The Lumen Christi Institute, The Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies, and the Fordham Center for Orthodox Christian Studies Present: Recovering Hymnography Symposium May 15-16, 2022 | University of Chicago Free and open to the public. Please note you must register for each day separately. This symposium will explore the tradition of hymnography as both […]

Icons of Sound: Concert with Cappella Romana

The internationally renowned musical group Cappella Romana presents their concert “Icons of Sound” featuring pieces composed by the 9 th century nun Kassia and interpretations of medieval Byzantine chant for the feast of the Holy Cross in Constantinople Leading scholar of late-antique Christian poetry Susan Ashbrook Harvey will precede the concert at 4PM with a keynote […]

The Vocation of the Patristic Theologian: Inheriting the Voice of Early Christians

University Club of Chicago 76 E Monroe St Chicago, IL 60603, Downtown, IL

This forum and reception, following the annual meeting of the North American Patristics Society, is co-sponsored by the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame. This forum invites graduate students and scholars of patristics to reflect on the nature of the craft and its relationship to contemporary theological studies, the academy, and […]