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Master Class on “Thinking on One’s Knees: Von Balthasar and Nasr on Theology and Sanctity”

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

Fr. Raymond Gawronski, S.J. (Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, Berkeley) REGISTER HERE Open to all graduate and undergraduate students (including non-University of Chicago students). Copies of the readings will be provided. Registration is required as space is limited. Please contact Mark Franzen with any questions. Hans Urs von Balthasar’s distinction between “sitting” and “kneeling” theologies has become […]

Pope Francis and the New Evangelization

University Club of Chicago 76 E Monroe St Chicago, IL 60603, Downtown, IL

Fr. Robert Barron (Rector, Mundelein Seminary/University of Saint Mary of the Lake; founder, Word on Fire) Cosponsored by Word on Fire In this lecture, Fr. Robert Barron discussed how to put faith into action in today’s increasingly secular world. With Pope Francis as a model of how to present “the joy of the Gospel,” Barron argued […]

David Dancing Before the Ark: The Liturgical Theology Implicit in 2 Samuel 6

University of Chicago 5801 S Ellis Ave Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Fr. Robert Barron (Rector of Mundelein Seminary/University of Saint Mary of the Lake; founder of Word on Fire) David danced before the Ark as an image of humanity dancing with the Lord, recovering the effortless harmony of Eden. In this lecture, Robert Barron will explore the role of King David as a new Adam and […]

A Mother’s Mother: Music for St. Anne

Bond Chapel & Swift Hall 1025 E. 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

“A Mother’s Mother: Music for St. Anne” Friday, May 9: 7:30pm Bond Chapel, University of Chicago (northeast of Ellis Ave. and 59th St.) Saturday, May 10: 8:00pm St. Clement Church, 642 West Deming Place A concert Featuring Schola Antiqua of Chicago Tickets available online or at the door (cash or credit) $25 adults / $10 student or […]

Symposium on The Sacredness of the Person

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

Michael Geyer (University of Chicago), Moderator Hans Joas (University of Chicago) John D. Kelly (University of Chicago) Ben Laurence (University of Chicago) William Schweiker (University of Chicago) cosponsored by the Human Rights Program at the University of Chicago REGISTER HERE This symposium will discuss The Sacredness of the Person, a recent book by Professor Hans Joas. What are […]

Baudelaire and Maistre: the Weight of Original Sin

Social Sciences, Room 122 1126 E 59th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

By 1851, the poet Charles Baudelaire had become obsessed — in contrast to his previous anarchist position — with the views of the reactionary and fiercely Catholic Joseph de Maistre. Maistre argued that Original Sin “explains everything,” a perspective that Baudelaire was to adopt, and which markedly changed his poetry. This lecture will consider Baudelaire’s […]

Music of the Hours

St. Anthony of Padua Church 85 Harrison St. West Harrison, NY 10604, West Harrison, NY

June 14, 2014, 7:30pm St. Anthony of Padua Church West Harrison, NY June 15, 2014, 2:00pm The Morgan Library & Museum Gilder Lehrman Hall New York City, NY. Order tickets. Schola Antiqua debuts on the East Coast, presenting concerts inspired by prayer books of the late Middle Ages, including the Book of Hours. Roger Wieck, […]

St. Thomas Aquinas on Free Choice

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

  APPLY HERE This seminar will be a five-day, intensive discussion of St Thomas Aquinas’ philosophical account of liberum arbitrium and the psychological and metaphysical principles underlying it. The sessions will focus on passages from the Summa theologiae (including ST, I, 19, 59-60, 82-83; ST, I-II, 6, 9, 10, 13) and will refer to other works of Aquinas (such as the De […]

The Thought of John Henry Newman

Merton College, Oxford Merton St, Oxford OX1 4JD, UK, Oxford, United Kingdom

APPLY HERE Now in its third consecutive year, this seminar is an intensive five-day course for graduate students on the thought of Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman. It will examine Newman’s achievement as theologian, philosopher, educator, preacher, and writer. Remarkably, in each of these areas Newman produced works that have come to be recognized as […]

Truth and Authority in Augustine’s City of God

University of California, Berkeley S Hall Rd. Berkeley, CA 94720, Berkeley, CA

APPLICATION DEADLINE IS NOW FEBRUARY 15 APPLY HERE This seminar is an intensive five-day course in how to read, analyze, and discern the many themes in Augustine’s most ambitious and sprawling work. The City of God tells the history of two societies, and their respective origins, progress, and appointed ends. The story is engaged first from the […]

Spousal Vision: Seeing the Church with Lumen Gentium

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

John Cavadini (University of Notre Dame) The Lumen Christi Institute is pleased to cosponsor this lecture, which is part of an annual lecture series on “The Documents of the Second Vatican Council” sponsored by St. Procopius Abbey & Benedictine University. Previous lecturers in this series include Fr. Robert Barron and Francis Cardinal George. This event is free and […]