REGISTER HERE cosponsored by the Committee on Creative Writing and the Seminar Coop Bookstore In this informal conversation, Phil Klay and Scott Moringiello (DePaul University) will discuss how literature helps us reflect on themes of brutality, faith, fear, and morality to deepen our understanding of faith and humanity. In 2014, Phil Klay was awarded the […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
Cosponsored by the Theology and Religious Ethics Workshop
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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
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.
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 […]
