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Aquinas’ Third Way of Proving a God: Logic or Love?

Classics 110 1010 E 59th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

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, […]

Master Class on “The Causality of Petitionary Prayer: C.S. Lewis, Peter Geach, & Thomas Aquinas”

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

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 […]

Theology and Evolutionary Naturalism: How Much Can Biology Explain?

BSLC 001 924 E 57th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

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 […]

Schola Antiqua Concert: “The Lion’s Ear: Music for Leo X”

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

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 […]

The New Atheism: A Conversation with John Haught

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

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 […]

Science, Faith, and the New Atheism

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

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 […]

Lectio Divina at the Benedictine Monastery of the Holy Cross

The Monastery of the Holy Cross 3111 South Aberdeen St. Chicago, IL 60608, Chicago, IL

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 […]

John Paul II and the Crisis of Modern Times

Classics 110 1010 E 59th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

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 […]

Pope Benedict’s Jesus of Nazareth Non-Credit Course

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

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 […]

Science and Religion: The Myth of Conflict

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

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 […]

Is the Human Mind Reducible to Physics?

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

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, […]

The Emergence of the Church’s Culture of Biblical Interpretation and Theology: Rhetoric, Philology, and Gnosticism in the 2nd Century

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

Lewis Ayres (University of Durham) To understand the exegetical culture that nurtured and formed classical Patristic exegesis, we must attend to some understudied features of the generation of Irenaeus and Clement of Alexandria. This generation, in response to the exegetical cultures of ‘Gnostic’ thinkers, developed the exegetical practice that became fundamental for all later Christian […]