You can view Scott's presentation here. A link to the Zoom Q&A session will be sent via email to those who register. Cosponsored by Catholics at Booth and Catholics at Kellogg. Open to students, faculty, and alumni of Booth School of Business and the Kellogg School of Management. Registration is required. Scott Freidheim spoke in November 2018 for Catholics […]
Due to restrictions put in place in response to the spread of COVID-19, our major spring events have been postponed. We are likely unable to host this non-credit course at this time. Stay tuned for updates as we explore our options concrning web-enabled communications. REGISTER HERE 6:00 Dinner | 6:30 Lecture Tuesdays, April 7 - May […]
Meister Eckhart (d. ca. 1328) was a famous and popular German mystical writer and preacher. After formal theological training in the University of Paris, following the footsteps of Thomas Aquinas and Bonaventure, Eckhart charted a distinctive mystical dialectical theological in his writings and sermons and drew theological controversy. His thought became an inspiration for a […]
Cosponsored by America Media, CREDO, the Beatrice Institute, the Collegium Institute's Program on the Philosophy of Finance, the Nova Forum, the Saint Benedict Institute, the Institute for Faith and Culture, and the Institute for Human Ecology at the Catholic University of America After two months of lockdown, nations across Europe and parts of the US are relaxing restrictions and […]
For the final installment of our Spring 2020 lecture series on "Reason and Wisdom in Medieval Christian Thought," Professor David Albertson leads us in exploring the work of German philosopher, theologian, astronomer, and mystic, Nicholas of Cusa. Nicholas of Cusa (d. 1464) was a great late medieval, early modern thinker and polymath who digested the medieval theological and […]
Cosponsored by America Media, the Collegium Institute, the Saint Benedict Institute, the Beatrice Institute, the Nova Forum, the Harvard Catholic Center, the Institute for Faith and Culture, and the Sacred and Profane Love podcast. Augustine of Hippo's City of God is one of the great theological books of the Christian tradition, laying out a vision of the Church and […]
Presented by the Lumen Christi Institute’s Newman Forum, in cooperation with the University of St. Mary of the Lake, Mundelein, and the Archdiocese of Chicago Vocations Office. Open to current high school students. High school teachers and youth ministers are welcome to attend, and are encouraged to bring groups. Group leaders are now able to register […]
A conversation with Professors Jason Aleksander (San Jose State University) and Arielle Saiber (Bowdoin College). Part of our Summer webinar series on "Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture," presented in collaboration with the American Cusanus Society Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) was a Florentine writer and poet, whose long poetic work, The Divine Comedy, has received […]
Presented by the Lumen Christi Institute’s Newman Forum. Open to current high school students. We've run this event in-person, but now we're bringing it to you online! When you register, you will be sent a Zoom link to follow. The event will run from 3:00pm-4:00pm Are you already tired of being quarantined in your house? Feel […]
Cosponsored by America Media, Boston College Law School, the Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage, and the Catholic Lawyers Guild of Chicago. The cry in the streets of “no justice, no peace” echoes the teaching of Popes John XXIII and Paul VI. The recent crises have again brought to the fore the reality that interracial justice […]
An evening webinar with Professor of Architecture Il Kim (Auburn University). Part of our summer webinar series on "Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture," presented in collaboration with the American Cusanus Society Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) was a humanist and polymath. His On Painting (1435/36) and On Architecture (1440s-1472) theorized the arts of painting and […]
Cosponsored by the Society of Catholic Scientists. This event is made possible by a grant from the John Templeton Foundation. Does evolution fully explain the human? Recent paleontological and archeological work trace the deep lineages underlying many of our physical traits, and reveals our complicated history as one of many hominid species. It is abundantly […]
