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A Concert of Sacred Music, “Josquin: Master of the Notes”

St. James Chapel, Quigley Center 835 North Rush Street Chicago, IL 60611, Chicago, IL

Schola Antiqua of Chicago, Artists-in-Residence at the Lumen Christi Institute, presented a program exclusively dedicated to the music of Josquin des Prez, one of the most important composers from the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. His fluid and persuasive style of composition encapsulates the transition between the sound-world of the late Middle Ages and […]

“Politics as Vocation in Cicero and Burke”

Mandel Hall 1131 East 57th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Mary Ann Glendon A.B., J.D., M.C.L., University of Chicago Professor of Law, Harvard University Law School, President, The Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences On the occasion of the publication of her book The Forum and the Tower: How Scholars and Politicians Have Imagined the World, from Plato to Eleanor Roosevelt Co-sponsored by the Committee on Social […]

“Phenomenology and Naturalism: Attitude and Objectivity”

Rosenwald 405 1101 East 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Edmund Husserl was a philosopher, mathematician, and founder of the philosophical school of phenomenology. Professor Moran will argue that Husserl was correct to see naturalism as the dominant tendency of twentieth-century science and philosophy. Naturalism can be understood in many different senses, but it is typically defined by its commitment to science as the arbiter […]

“The Identity of Knower and Known in Aquinas”

Swift Hall, First Floor Common Room 1025 E 58th St,Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Lecture Abstract: The claim that knowledge involves an identity of knower and known has its historical roots among the Greeks. This lecture explores this claim as one finds it in the writings of St. Thomas Aquinas. Professor O’Callaghan will explore these issues in critical dialogue with two different papers, one by Wilfrid Sellars titled “Being […]

Conference on Christian Legal Thought

The University Club of Washington DC 1135 Sixteenth Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20036, Washington, D.C., DC

This conference is offered for legal scholars, law students, and others interested in Christian legal thought. Conference Schedule Registration: 8:45am Panel One: 9:00am-10:30am “Public Unions and the Current State of Organized Labor ” David L. Gregory, St. Johns University School of Law Thomas C. Kohler, Boston College Law School John O. McGinnis, Northwestern University Law School Panel […]

The Church Fathers: The Shaping of Christian Orthodoxy, Non-Credit Course

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

Lecture, 7:00pm Informal Dinner, 6:30pm Intended for University students, faculty, and recent graduates. Others interested in attending, contact info@lumenchristi.org. January 19 Athanasius of Alexandria: Theologian of the Incarnation” Aaron Canty (St. Xavier University) January 26  Jerome in Bethlehem Robin Darling Young (University of Notre Dame) February 2, 7:15pm Social Sciences 122 The Grand Design: An Augustinian Reply […]

“The Grand Design: An Augustinian Reply to Stephen Hawking”

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

Cosponsored by The Theology Workshop Stephen Hawking has recently declared that philosophy is dead, and that science is the only reasonable method for securing knowledge. In response, Professor Cavadini will argue that philosophy is rooted in man’s wonder about the universe, and that scientific inquiry is only one aspect of true wisdom and should not […]

“Benedict’s Teaching for Dark Ages, His and Ours”

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

While Roman civilization collapsed around him, Benedict a fifth-century monk and abbot authored his Rule for monks and set forth a way of life for the monasteries that would become one of the few lights of wisdom and civility in an age of increasing darkness and social isolation. Benedict taught those who lived in these dark ages how […]