Bernard McGinn (University of Chicago) REGISTER HERE In this three-hour seminar, Prof. McGinn will lead students through the major themes of Teresa of Ávila’s The Interior Castle, a masterpiece of Christian mysticism by one of the most profound spiritual figures in the History of Christianity. Participants will be provided with a complimentary copy of the book […]
Cosponsored by the Medieval Studies Workshop Thomas Aquinas’ famous five ways of proving the existence of a God continue to intrigue and perplex his readers. The most troublesome is perhaps the third—the one based on the possible and the necessary—to which all sorts of objections can be heard: logical, scientific, theological, phenomenological, even Thomistic. Contrary to the usual assumption, […]
Stephen L. Brock (Pontifical University of the Holy Cross) REGISTER HERE If, as Christians believe, God is all-wise and all-good, what sense does it make to ask Him for things? He is already perfectly aware of our true needs, and He already wants to provide for them. Many of our petitions, it seems, will be […]
Thursday, February 19, 4:30pm BSLC 001, 924 East 57th Street John Haught (Georgetown University) REGISTER HERE Many scientists and philosophers claim that a Darwinian understanding of life has rendered the idea of God unnecessary. Descent, diversity, design, death, suffering, sex, intelligence, morality, and religion—features of life that had previously been understood theologically—now seem open to a […]
Friday, February 20, 2015, 7:30pm Bond Chapel, University of Chicago Saturday, February 21, 8:00pm St. Clement Church, Chicago A concert by Schola Antiqua of Chicago Tickets available online or at the door (cash, check or credit) $25 adults / $10 student and senior Schola Antiqua teams up the talented young lutenist Ryaan Ahmed to present music in […]
REGISTER HERE In this luncheon conversation with students, Prof. John Haught will discuss the New Atheist critiques of religion. Do such arguments live up to a strict adherence to reason? Do they do justice to the religions they rebuke or, for that matter, the atheism they champion? This event is open to all University of […]
John Haught (Georgetown University The bestselling books by the “New Atheists” Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett and Christopher Hitchens provide colorful portraits of the evils of religions, especially those that profess belief in a personal God. In their passionate denunciation of faith in God, the New Atheists appeal not only to morality but also […]
Intended for 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), dine with the monks, and learn about the Benedectine tradition of Sacred Reading or Lectio Divina with […]
Russell Hittinger (University of Tulsa) This lecture will compare the great pontificates that represented two “modern times”: Leo XIII at the end of the 19th century and John Paul II at the end of the 20th. Between Leo’s birth in 1810 to JPII’s death in 2005, the lived experience of these two men encompass all […]
Tuesdays, April 7-May 19 Gavin House, 1220 East 58th Street 6:00pm: Dinner 6:30pm: Presentation Paul Mankowski, S.J. (Lumen Christi Institute Scholar-in-Residence) REGISTER HERE Open to current university students and recent graduates. Others interested in attending please contactinfo@lumenchristi.org. “This book is solely an expression of my personal search ‘for the face of the Lord’.” Pope Benedict XVI’s Jesus […]
In many ways, the supposed conflict between science and religion is really a conflict between “scientific materialism” and religion. The lecture will review the story of the relation between Christianity and science, discuss several discoveries of the twentieth century (primarily in physics), and argue that these are more consonant with the traditional Judeo-Christian view of […]
a luncheon discussion with Stephen M. Barr (University of Delaware) REGISTER HERE This event is open to University of Chicago students. Lunch will be served. Others interested in attending, please contactinfo@lumenchrisit.org. Materialism or “physicalism” holds that all things, including human beings, are completely explicable in physical terms. While ancient and medieval thinkers expressed this view, […]
