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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 […]

People: James Matthew Wilson

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 […]

People: James Matthew Wilson

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 […]

People: Fr. Peter Bernardi, SJ

Catholic Culture Series on “Faith and Reason”

Ruth Lake Country Club 6200 South Madison Street, Hinsdale, IL

The West Suburban Catholic Culture Series returns in 2024 to continue its series on "Faith and Reason as the Two Wings: The History and Enduring Importance of Catholic Philosophy" REGISTER HERE (Business casual attire encouraged. For questions, please email Marial Corona at mcorona@lumenchristi.org). Schedule: 6:30 p.m. Drinks | 7:00 p.m. Dinner, Lecture, & Q&A | 8:30 p.m. End May […]

People: Matthew Gaetano

The Humanity of the Saints We Study: 2nd Annual Forum on the Vocation of the Patristic Theologian

Beane Hall, Lewis Towers, Loyola University of Chicago Water Tower Campus 111 East Pearson St, Chicago, IL 60611, Chicago, IL

Register Here  This reception and forum, following the annual meeting of the North American Patristics Society, is co-sponsored by the Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies and the Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage at the Loyola University of Chicago. “Grace, as we are out to believe, should preserve the pastors of the church and […]

People: Morwenna Ludlow, Paul Blowers, Lewis Ayres

Economics and Catholic Social Thought: A Primer

University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN 46556, Notre Dame, IN

Now in its seventh year, this seminar is designed as an introduction and immersion into Catholic social thought for graduate students and junior faculty in economics, finance, or related fields. Participants will cover foundational principles in Catholic social thought, starting with the human person, dignity, freedom, subsidiarity, solidarity, and the common good, and moving toward applications […]

People: Andrew Yuengert, Joseph Kaboski, Kirk Doran, Mary Hirschfeld

What is Social Science? Charles Taylor’s Catholic Vision of Human Behavior

University of Southern California University Park Campus 3551 Trousdale Pkwy Los Angeles, CA 90007, Los Angeles, CA

Are the social sciences properly scientific? Will we one day discover a social physics—perhaps a blend of psychology, economics, and algorithms—that allows us to predict and engineer our common life? No one has done more intellectual work to cast doubt on these techno-utopian claims than Catholic philosopher Charles Taylor. In this seminar we will explore […]

People: Jason Blakely