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Expanding the Archive: Syriac Literature and the Study of Early Christianity Today

Through the work of editing and translating Syriac manuscripts, scholars continue to enrich our historiography of the formative centuries of Christianity. This research has been particularly fruitful in the areas of biblical interpretation, asceticism, the history of doctrine, and the role of women within the church. Dr. Walsh will provide a brief overview of these […]

Fearful Symmetry: Cosmic Order and a Divine Creator

Free and open to the public. This event is organized by the Harvard Catholic Forum and is co-presented with the Lumen Christi Institute. This event will be held on Zoom (registration required) and live-streamed to the Harvard Catholic Forum's YouTube page. --- For thousands of years, some philosophers and scientists have argued that order in the […]

Integral Bioethics in the Anthropocene

ONLINE World Wide Web, INTERNET

Free and open to the public. This event is being co-presented with the International Academy for Bioethical Inquiry, and co-sponsored by the Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics. This event will be held on Zoom (registration required) and live-streamed on YouTube. In 2000, scientists argued that human impact on the Earth reached levels meriting the creation […]

Christ, the True Origin of Humanity

This event is co-presented by the Society of Catholic Scientists and the Science and Religion Initiative at the McGrath Institute for Church Life, and is co-sponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute. "Its beginnings are no measure of its capabilities, nor of its scope." These words of St. John Henry Newman describing the character of great ideas works […]

The United Nations at 75: Catholic Perspectives

ONLINE World Wide Web, INTERNET

Free and open to the public. This event is co-presented with America Media, the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, and the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations, and is co-sponsored by the Beatrice Institute, the Collegium Institute, the Harvard Catholic Forum, the Institute for Faith and Culture, the Institute for Human Ecology, the Nova Forum […]

Great Texts in Legal History Seminar and Discussion

REGISTER HERE $104 Registration Fee/ $50 for JD students. Open to lawyers and law school students. CLE credit available. Others interested in participating should contact us. Seminars will be held online over Zoom. The Lumen Christi Institute has partnered with the Catholic Lawyers Guild to offer a monthly close-reading seminar on “Great Texts in Legal History.”  The […]

Education and the Catholic Intellectual Life

Open to current University of Chicago students (undergrads and grad students welcome). This event will take place over Zoom. Join Calvert House and the Lumen Christi Institute for an hour-long panel discussion and Q&A on the Catholic Intellectual Life. Why do we pursue education in the first place? Why study topics that may not be directly relevant […]

What Do Genesis 1-3 Tell Us About Creation in a Scientific Age?

Free and open to the public. This event is organized by the Harvard Catholic Forum, co-presented by the Lumen Christi Institute, and co-sponsored by the Society of Catholic Scientists and the Science & Religion Initiative at the McGrath Institute for Church Life. This event will be held on Zoom (registration required) and live-streamed to the Harvard Catholic Forum's […]

Venerating the Saints: An Ancient Tradition Actual Today

Free and open to the public. This event is co-presented with the Bollandist Society and America Media, and is co-sponsored by the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, the Nova Forum, the Harvard Catholic Forum, the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies at USC, the Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage, the Georgetown Office of Mission and Ministry, and the Collegium Institute. This […]

Thinking Inside and Outside the University: Zena Hitz on the Inner Life

Free and open to the public. This event will be held online through Zoom (registration required) and YouTube live-stream. This event is presented by the Lumen Christi Institute Forum on the Church in Higher Education as part of its Liberal Arts Colloquium. This event is cosponsored by The Point magazine, the Saint Benedict Institute, Calvert House Catholic Center, Princeton University […]

Quo Vadis: The Direction of Eastern Catholic Theology, a Pastoral Perspective for the 21st Century

Free and open to the public. This event will be presented on Zoom (registration required), as well as through live-stream on YouTube. This event is co-presented with the Godbearer Institute and the Collegium Institute. Metropolitan Borys Gudziak has spent his life committed to Catholic education. He helped to found Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, the only Catholic University […]