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Burcht Pranger (University of Amsterdam) REGISTER HERE Open to current University of Chicago students. Dinner will be served. Readings will be provided for all participants. Others interested in attending, please contact us. This master class seminar will cover three major works by Anselm of Canterbury: Proslogion, Cur deus homo and theFirst Meditation. The discussion will revolve around the […]

cosponsored by the Medieval Studies Workshop The meaning of Anselm’s famous ‘sola ratione’ or ‘by reason alone’ has been the subject of much debate. Is it a principle of reason or a principle of faith? This lecture will argue that the sola ratione instead operates as a poetical principle in Anselm’s work at large, steering […]

REGISTER HERE Cosponsored by Calvert House. Open to current university students. Others interested in attending please contact info@lumenchristi.org. 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 (Vespers and Compline), and have dinner and discussion with Fr. Peter Funk, […]

Reinhard Hütter (Duke University) REGISTER HERE This master class is open to all graduate and undergraduate students, including non-University of Chicago students. Space is limited and offered on a first-come, first-served basis. If you have any questions, please contact Mark Franzen. This three-hour seminar will focus on the one of Newman’s works, which he himself called […]

Cosponsored by the Christian Legal Society Recent controversy over the HHS contraceptive mandate and the participation of faith-based organizations in federal grant programs has raised questions about religious freedom in the American legal and political systems. This discussion will consider the perceived conflict between civil rights and religious freedom and the roles of Congress, the […]

CLICK HERE for a recent article and photos from this event. Timothy Cardinal Dolan (Archbishop of New York) Robert Louis Wilken (University of Virginia) Join us for a reception in celebration of the newly released book A Godly Humanism: Clarifying the Hope that Lies Within (CUA Press, 2015) by the late Francis Cardinal George, O.M.I.  This occasion will […]

Fr. Paul Mankowski, S.J. (LCI Scholar-in Residence) 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. REGISTER HERE The most consequential and controversial of his writings, St. Paul’s Letter to the Romans was written to instruct new Christians on the meaning […]

Regina M. Schwartz (Northwestern University) cosponsored by the Department of English The law presumes not only the right but the duty to punish: it does not ask whether it should punish, but how much, who, when, and how. In contrast, Christianity offers a different response to wrongdoing: Jesus engaged in a polemical attack on “the […]

Timothy B. Noone (Catholic University of America) REGISTER HERE Cosponsored by the Philosophy Department and the Medieval Studies Workshop This lecture will situate Bonaventure’s thought on education, philosophy, and the sciences into the context of the thirteenth century’s controversies regarding the place of philosophy in the universities and human life generally.  While Bonaventure accepts the […]