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Perseverance in the Parish? Religious Attitudes from a Black Catholic Perspective

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

Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by Catholic Theological Union and the Ethics Club at the Divinity School. Do African-American Catholics perceive or experience aspects of racial intolerance and marginalization in their parishes? Does racial marginalization in the Church compel African-American Catholics to disengage and leave their parish? Darren Davis’ provocative new book, Perseverance […]

“Behold How Good and How Pleasant”: A Memorial Concert for Theodore C. Karp

Millar Chapel Northwestern University 1870 Sheridan Rd, Evanston

$25 General / $10 Students Schola Antiqua celebrates the life and contributions of musicologist and Northwestern University professor emeritus Theodore "Ted" C. Karp (1926-2015) with a program of music that reflects the wide-ranging areas of early music study that he touched in his fruitful career. One of the titans of plainchant scholarship, Karp can be […]

The Future of Liberalism: Relativism Confronts St. Augustine

Harper Memorial Library 130 1116 East 59th Street, Hyde Park, IL

Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Theology Club at the Divinity School. The future of political liberalism is a topic much discussed in recent scholarly books and popular journals. This lecture will integrate the recent argument of Patrick Deneen in Why Liberalism Failed, beginning where the book leaves off by addressing the […]

Master Class on “Karl Rahner’s Distinctive Theology of the Symbol”

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

Open to current university students and faculty. A link to the readings will be provided for registrants. In an era of outstanding theologians who made the teachings of the second Vatican Council possible, Karl Rahner (1904-84) stands out as a titan.  A German Jesuit, he studied under Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) in Freiburg (among others).  He […]

Athens, Jerusalem—and Alexandria: Christian Wisdom between the Bible and Greek Philosophy

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

A lecture by Rémi Brague with a response by Jean-Luc Marion. Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Ethics Club at the Divinity School. This lecture will be audio and video recorded and accessible via this webpage shortly after the event. Persons with disabilities who need an accommodation in order to participate in […]

Master Class on Paul Claudel’s “The Muse Called Grace”

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

Open to current students and faculty. A copy of the poem with English translation will be circulated to those who RSVP. Paul Claudel can be described as the greatest French Catholic poet of the 20th century.  His ode The Muse Called Grace celebrates the deep links between human and divine love, between poetry and faith. […]

Prayer, Dinner, and Discussion at the Benedictine Monastery of the Holy Cross

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

REGISTER HERE Transportation will be provided from Hyde Park. Open to current university students and faculty. Cosponsored by the Hildegard of Bingen Society. Join us for an evening of prayer with Benedictine Monks at the Monastery of the Holy Cross. Students will participate in the prayer of the Divine Office (including Solemn Vespers and Compline), […]

Elizabeth Anscombe on Living the Truth

Classics 110 1010 E 59th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Elizabeth Anscombe was one of the most important and influential analytic philosophers of the twentieth century. One of the last lectures she delivered was titled "Doing the Truth." In it, she set out to identify and clarify a specifically practical mode of truth as the proper goal of a specifically practical mode of reasoning and knowledge.  This […]

The Book of Job and the Transmission of Biblical Wisdom

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

Open to current students and faculty. Lunch will be served. All too often, reading Scripture is merely an exercise in self-flattery and reinforcing our own preconceptions. But reading Scripture cross-culturally draws us more deeply into the text and undoes some of those preconceptions. Reading Job, one of Scripture’s most enigmatic books, in Lomwe with Lomwe-speakers […]

Staged Reading of “Shakeshafte” by Rowan Williams

International House at the University of Chicago 1414 E 59th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

To view photos of the performance, visit Lumen Christi's Facebook page. You are invited to join the Shakespeare Project of Chicago for a special staged reading of a new play by Rowan Willams, a "fantasia" on the possible relationship between William Shakespeare and Edmund Campion. Free and open to the public. Online registration is recommended […]

The Hillbilly Thomist: Flannery O’Connor’s Catholic Imagination

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. The fiction writer and essayist Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) once complained that she was pegged […]

What is Freedom? Some Reflections on Augustine

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

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 lecture by Olivier Boulnois with responses by Jean-Luc Marion and Willemien Otten, and moderated by Ryan Coyne. Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the […]