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Symposium on “Action versus Contemplation: Why an Ancient Debate Still Matters”

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

Listen to the symposium as a podcast episode. You can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page, iTunes channel, Stitcher, TuneIn, ListenNotes, Podbean, Pocket Casts, and Google Play Music. To view photos of the symposium, visit Lumen Christi's Facebook page. A symposium on the recent book Action versus Contemplation: Why an Ancient Debate Still Matters (University of Chicago Press, 2018) […]

CANCELLED: Master Class on “Thomas Merton at Columbia: On the Love of Learning and the Desire for God”

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

Due to unforseen circumstances, Professor Inchausti has to cancel his visit to Chicago and unfortnately this event has been cancelled. Open to current university students and faculty. Others interested in participating should contact us.  Copies of the readings will be provided to those who register. Thomas Merton is one of the most influential spiritual writers […]

Lumen Christi Institute – Young Catholic Professionals Great Books Seminar: The Novel and the Crisis of Faith

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, 28th Floor 155 North Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL 60606, Downtown, IL

REGISTRATION IS FULL. The Lumen Christi Institute is proud to announce a new program in partnership with the Chicago chapter of Young Catholic Professionals (YCP). The 2019 Lumen Christi Institute - Young Catholic Professionals Great Books Seminar is an adult educational initiative aimed at equipping Catholic professionals 40 and under with a deeper understanding of […]

Science, Creation, & the Catholic Imagination

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

Listen to the lectures as podcast episodes. You can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page, iTunes channel, Stitcher, TuneIn, ListenNotes, Podbean, Pocket Casts, and Google Play Music. To view photos of the conference, visit Lumen Christi's Facebook page. Have you ever wondered if science and religion can co-exist? Or whether it is rational (or irrational) to believe in God? How can the […]

Being, Nature, Grace: Clashing Visions in Milbank and Aquinas

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

To view photos of the lecture, visit Lumen Christi's Facebook page. Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion at the University of Chicago Divinity School and the Theology Club of the University of Chicago Divinity School. Persons with disabilities who may need assistance should contact us […]

Master Class on “Bernard Lonergan’s Christian Realism and the Word of God as True”

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

Open to current university students and faculty. Others interested in participating should contact us.  Copies of the readings will be provided to those who register. Bernard Lonergan, SJ (1904-1984), is widely praised as a giant of twentieth century theology and perhaps the most brilliant philosophical thinker of his generation. Still, he is an outlier in […]

Weekly Non-Credit Course: “Who Do You Say That I Am? Visions of Christ in the Christian Tradition”

Gavin House 1220 E 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, 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. "But what about you? Who you say that I am?" (Lk 9.20) The Christian […]

Symposium on “Science and Wonder”

BSLC 115 924 E 57th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Listen to the symposium as a podcast episode. You can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page, iTunes channel, Stitcher, TuneIn, ListenNotes, Podbean, Pocket Casts, and Google Play Music. To view photos of the symposium, visit Lumen Christi's Facebook page. Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Zygon Center for Religion and Science, the Seminary Coop Bookstore, and […]

Symposium on “Catholicism and Democracy”

Breasted Hall, Oriental Institute 1155 E 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Listen to the symposium as a podcast episode. You can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page, iTunes channel, Stitcher, TuneIn, ListenNotes, Podbean, Pocket Casts, and Google Play Music. To view photos of the symposium, visit Lumen Christi's Facebook page. Free and open to the public. Persons with disabilities who may need assistance should contact us at 773-955-5887 or by email. […]

Master Class on Romano Guardini’s “The End of the Modern World”

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

To view photos of the master class, visit Lumen Christi's Facebook page. Open to current students and faculty. Copies of the book will be provided for registrants. Romano Guardini (1885-1968)—Italian-born German priest—was one of the greatest Catholic minds of the 20th century. He helped shape Catholic theology between the two world wars and after, as […]

The Preferential Option for the Poor Today

One of the most important ideas in Catholic Social Teaching of the last half century is the “preferential option for the poor.” It is a phrase that describes the Church’s ethical positions in the world, but it also conveys important theological notions about God. Though utilized across a range of magisterial texts of recent memory, […]