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The Suspended Harp: Sounds of Faith in Medieval Jerusalem

The Met Cloisters - The Fuentidueña Chapel 99 Margaret Corbin Drive, New York, IL

A concert by Schola Antiqua of Chicago (Lumen Christi Institute Artists-in-Residence) BUY TICKETS HERE The vocal ensemble Schola Antiqua of Chicago brings "musicality and sound beyond question" (Early Music America) to the sacred repertoire of Jerusalem: Georgian and Armenian hymns; cantorial psalms; Sufic devotional music; and Jewish, Christian, and Muslim calls to prayer. This program features […]

With Nature Marveling: Advent Music from Long Ago

Rockefeller Memorial Chapel 5850 S Woodlawn Ave. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Schola Antiqua begins Advent with a rich array of late-medieval musical styles interwoven to promote a timeless sense of anticipation that befits the season. The group sings contemplative plainchant and a delightful set of medieval English carols, while also offering a glimpse into a splendid Netherlandish service of Matins for Christmas Eve.

Reason, Wisdom, and Beauty in Medieval Christian Thought

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

6:00 Dinner | 6:30 Lecture Intended for current students and faculty. Others interested in attending: please contact info@lumenchristi.org. Registrants are free to attend as many sessions as they choose. With the recovery of the works of Aristotle in the Latin West, the development of the scholastic method of reasoning, and the creation of the universities, a style […]

Augustine’s Theology of Love

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

Cosponsored by the Theology and Religious Ethics Workshop

Lunch Discussion with Lisa Ruddick: “When Nothing is Cool”

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

Open to current graduate students and faculty. Lunch will be provided. "I believe that the progressive fervor of the humanities, while it reenergized inquiry in the 1980s and has since inspired countless valid lines of inquiry, masks a second-order complex that is all about the thrill of destruction. In the name of critique, anything except […]

Visit to the Benedictine 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. Others interested in attending should contact us. 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 with Gregorian Chant and Compline), and have dinner and discussion with […]

Evolution and the Catholic Faith

Kent Hall, Room 107 1020 E 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

REGISTER HERE Many people imagine that the Catholic Church was historically opposed to the theory of evolution or that there is something dangerous or dubious about Darwinian evolution from the viewpoint of Catholic theology.  These ideas are based on a variety of confusions and misconceptions.  This talk will show how Catholic thinkers and Catholic Church […]

Reductionism in Science: Order from Chaos or Order from Ideas?

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

REGISTER HERE Open to current university students and faculty. Lunch will be served. Join us for a discussion with physicist Stephen Barr on his article from First Things on the philosophical assumptions behind a tendency toward reductionism in the natural sciences. "This tendency to downgrade and diminish reflects a metaphysical prejudice that equates explanatory reduction […]

Master Class: David Hume, Julian of Norwich, and the Problem of Evil

Faculty House at Columbia University 64 Morningside Drive, New York, NY

REGISTER HERE This master class is open to current graduate students and faculty. Others interested in participating should contact us. Digital copies of the readings will be made available to participants. More info TBA

Dei Verbum: Persons and Propositions

St. Procopius Abbey Church 5601 College Rd. Lisle, IL 60532, Lisle, IL

Presented by St. Procopius Abbey, Benedictine University, and the Lumen Christi Institute Free and open to the public. Contact Fr. Becket Franks, O.S.B. with any questions.

What Does it Mean to Say the Son of God is ‘Consubstantial’ with the Father? New Insights about Augustine’s Debt to Aristotle

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

REGISTER HERE Cosponsored by the Department of Philosophy It is commonly accepted that Aristotelian ideas did not inform Latin-language metaphysics until the translation of Aristotle in the 12th century. However, this opinion has arisen from a failure to understand how the metaphysics of Augustine fundamentally depends upon Victorinus’ assimilation of Aristotelian concepts and distinctions.  Victorinus, mentioned […]

Master Class: Augustine on Human Freedom and Divine Grace: What is Really Going on in the ‘Conversion Scene’ in Augustine’s Confessions?

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

REGISTER HERE This master class is open to graduate and undergraduate students, including non-University of Chicago students. Space is limited and offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Copies of the readings will be made available online to all participants. Although the part of Augustine’s Confessions that describes his conversion to Christianity is arguably the most […]