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“Origins:” The Inaugural Conference of the Society of Catholic Scientists

Millenium Knickerbocker Hotel 163 East Walton Place, Downtown, IL

WATCH VIDEOS HERE The first annual conference of the Society of Catholic Scientists cosponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute The conference brought together researchers on all aspects of origins, from cosmos to consciousness.  Specific topics included current cosmological ideas on the beginning and fate of the universe, fine-tuning and multiverse ideas, habitable planets and astrobiology, […]

Catholic and Protestant Reformations and the Genealogy of Modernity

REGISTER HERE Open to current graduate students and faculty At this master class seminar, participants will read and discuss Professor Carlos Eire's essay "Incombustible Weber: How the Protestant Reformation Really Disenchanted the World" from Faithful Narratives: Historians, Religion, and the Challenge of Objectivity, ed. Andrea Stark and Nina Caputo (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2014). A […]

The Only Way To Truth Is By Love

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

A lecture on the occasion of the publication of Believing In Order To See (Fordham University Press, 2017). Copies of the book will be available for purchase. Cosponsored by the Theology and Religious Ethics Workshop and the Seminary Coop Bookstore. "Non intratur in veritatem nisi per caritatem" -St. Augustine Believing does not always mean to […]

Lecture on the Easter Mysteries, Dinner, and Prayer at the Monastery of the Holy Cross

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

REGISTER HERE Open to current university students and faculty. Transportation from Hyde Park will be provided. 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 Vespers and Compline), and […]

Colloquium on “Givenness and Revelation”

Swift Hall, First Floor Common Room 1025 E 58th St,Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Part of the Lumen Christi Institute's faculty colloquia in philosophy and theology, which bring together scholars from the region to discuss important questions in Catholic thought. About Givenness and Revelation Givenness and Revelation represents both the unity and the deep continuity of Jean-Luc Marion's thinking over many decades. This investigation into the origins and evolution […]

Aquinas and the Life of the Mind

Harper Memorial Library 140 1116 East 59th Street, Hyde Park, IL

Saint Thomas Aquinas regards mind, or intellect, as a form of life.  It is even the most perfect form, he says, because it carries the power of free choice. Yet we may wonder how free he thinks we really are.  For he insists that our mind’s life depends, intimately, on a cause outside itself.  But […]

Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J.: The Priest & The Poet

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

REGISTER HERE 6:00pm Buffet Dinner  |  6:30pm Lecture Open to current students. G M Hopkins (1844-1889) converted to the Catholic Church while a university student and later became a Jesuit priest and lecturer in classical Greek.  The poems by which he is known today were unpublished in his own lifetime, but in some measure formed […]

All Things Hold Together: A Great Books Education and the Catholic Tradition

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

The Great Books can lead us to God and a liberal arts education finds its fulfillment in the liturgy.  Yet, the curriculum and culture of many universities today are, by their very structure, inimical to such ends.  Reflecting on his own education as a Fundamentals major at the University of Chicago and on the Catholic […]

Panel Discussion on “Natural Law in Court”

Loyola University Chicago School of Law, Power Rogers & Smith Ceremonial Courtroom (10th Floor) 25 E Pearson St. Chicago, IL 60611, River North, IL

REGISTER HERE $25 Registration / Free for Current Students and Faculty / 1 CLE CREDIT for an additional fee of $10 This program has been approved by the Illinois MCLE Board for 1 hour of General CLE credit. Cosponsored by the Catholic Lawyers Guild of Chicago and the Loyola University Chicago School of Law. Join […]

Economics and Catholic Social Thought: A Primer

Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome Piazza Santa Apollinare, 49, 00186 Roma, Italy, Rome, Italy

Applications are now closed for this seminar. This seminar is designed as an introduction and immersion into Catholic social thought for graduate students and 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 […]

What Should We Fear? Courage and Cowardice in Public Life

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

REGISTER HERE This talk is free and open to the public. The talk and Q&A will be livestreamed HERE at 7pm central time. Moral theologian Jean Porter will give the talk "What should we fear? Courage and cowardice in public life" on Monday, June 5, 2017 at 7pm in the Swift Hall 3rd Floor Lecture […]

Is God Knowable by Natural Reason? Philosophy, Theology, and Trinitarian Thought in the Middle Ages

Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome Piazza Santa Apollinare, 49, 00186 Roma, Italy, Rome, Italy

In this seminar, historian of medieval theology Mark Clark and scholar of medieval philosophy Timothy Noone will offer an intensive survey of theological and philosophical debates about the natural knowledge of God in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Participants will read and discuss the writings of Peter Abelard, Peter Lombard, Bonaventure, Albert the Great, and […]