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Texts of Existence: The Interplay of Religion, Individualism, and the Cosmos in Borges and Nietzsche.

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

This event is sponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute’s Nicklin Fellows Program, which supports and encourages University of Chicago undergraduate students to develop their intellectual maturity. Arjun Mazumdar, who designed this program, is a 2023-2024 Nicklin Fellow. This program is for undergraduate students only. REGISTER HERE In "Texts of Existence," we will explore the depths […]

What is Ideology? A Conversation with Mark Shiffman and James Matthew Wilson

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

5:30 Cocktail and Hors d’Oeuvres  |   6:30 Opening Remarks   |   6:45 Dialogue and Q&A   |   7:30 End   Co-presented by Public Discourse, the online journal of the Witherspoon Institute, dedicated to renewing the culture through thoughtful reflections on education, family, and religion. Supported by Wiseblood Books. Discounted student tickets are available. Please contact Marial Corona at mcorona@lumenchristi.org for more information on […]

The Managerial Revolution: What Went Wrong?

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

This event is sponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute’s Nicklin Fellows Program, which supports and encourages University of Chicago undergraduate students to develop their intellectual maturity. Max Baumeister, who designed this program, is a 2023-2024 Nicklin Fellow. This program is for undergraduate students only. REGISTER HERE “ has real intellectual courage, and writes about real […]

What is Ideology? A Conversation

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

“Ideology” is a word in near-ubiquitous use: it is deployed to describe everything from religious identity (‘the ideology of the Cross’) and political principle (‘the contest between woke and MAGA ideology’) to gastronomic preferences (‘the ideology of meat in US culture’). Being used so widely and vaguely, does this word still hold a meaning? In […]

Wendell Berry’s World-Ending Fire Graduate Reading Group

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

Open to current graduate students at the University of Chicago. Participants can come to whichever sessions they choose. Others interested in participating should contact Franklin Joyce at jfjoyce@uchicago.edu. Books and drinks will be provided.  Wendell Berry is America’s foremost contemporary advocate for a community-centered form of life he calls “agrarianism,”  which focuses on the American relationship to the […]

The Ontology of Beauty

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

Open to current graduate students and faculty. Advanced undergraduates and others interested in participating should contact dstrobach@lumenchristi.org. This event is in-person only. All registrants will receive copies of the selected readings, which should be read in advance of the class. An optional wine and cheese reception will follow.  The theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar once claimed […]

The Ontology of Beauty

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

Open to current graduate students and faculty. Advanced undergraduates and others interested in participating should contact dstrobach@lumenchristi.org. This event is in-person only. All registrants will receive copies of the selected readings, which should be read in advance of the class. An optional wine and cheese reception will follow.  The theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar once claimed […]

Greek New Testament Reading Group

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

Open to current students and faculty at the University of Chicago. Participants can come to whichever sessions they choose. Others interested in participating should contact Joe Haydt at jhaydt@uchicago.edu. Lunch will be provided.  This winter the Greek New Testament Reading Group will work through parables from the Gospel of Luke. We will pay particular attention to chapters […]

Non-Credit Course | Approaches to Virtue: Secular and Religious, Ancient and Modern

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

This event is in-person only. Intended for university students, faculty, and staff. Others interested in attending please contact dstrobach@lumenchristi.org. This non-credit course is cosponsored by the Hyde Park Institute and made possible through the support of ‘In Lumine: Supporting the Catholic Intellectual Tradition on Campuses Nationwide’ (Grant #62372) from the John Templeton Foundation. Registrants are free to attend as […]

Latin Vulgate Reading Group

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

Open to current students and faculty at the University of Chicago. Participants can come to whichever sessions they choose. Others interested in participating should contact Emily Barnum at ebarnum@uchicago.edu. Coffee, tea, and pastries will be provided.  St. Jerome's Latin translation of the Bible was used exclusively by the Western Church for centuries; its significance for the Roman Catholic […]

Visit to the Monastery of the Holy Cross

The Monastery of the Holy Cross 3111 South Aberdeen St. Chicago, IL 60608, Chicago, IL

Open to current university students and faculty. Others interested in attending please contact dstrobach@lumenchristi.org. Transportation will be provided. Join us for an edifying evening of prayer, dinner, and conversation with the Benedictine monks at the Monastery of the Holy Cross on the south side of Chicago. We will pray the Divine Office (Vespers and Compline), have dinner, and […]

G.K. Chesterton’s Orthodoxy: Reading Course

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

Open to current students at the University of Chicago. Participants can come to whichever sessions they choose. Books, lunch, and beverages will be provided.  Author of the Father Brown detective stories, journalist, poet and literary critic, social philosopher, hagiographer, and popular Christian apologist, the multi-faceted genius of Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) eludes easy classification!  You are invited to […]