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Panelists include Charles Taylor and Paul Thibaud. All presentations given in French.
Professor Paul Griffiths (Duke University) led a seminar on Augustine’s seminal later works, De Trinitate and De Civitate Dei at the University of St. Mary of the Lake Conference Center in Mundelein, Illinois.
The work of Pierre Hadot and, in his later years, Michel Foucault on the ancient pagan and Christian practices of askesis, or “spiritual exercise,” has proven to be of interest not only to scholars of the late classical and early Christian era, but to a much broader range of humanists working across a variety of […]
Fr. Benedict Ashley’s life at the University of Chicago in the 1930’s included Trotskyite activism and participation in the first Great Books Seminar led by President Robert Maynard Hutchins. His lecture will consider liberal education in light of this history and the life of scholarship and inquiry it inspired.
Jean-Luc Marion delivers a lecture titled "Is There a Christian Philosophy?" on November 10, 2010 at the University of Chicago.
Paul E. Sigmund, Professor of Politics at Princeton University, delivers a lecture titled "Aquinas, Thomism, and 20th Century Liberalism” on November 17, 2010 at the University of Chicago.
Friday, January 7, 8:00pm Rockefeller Chapel, 5850 S. Woodlawn Ave. Saturday, January 8, 8:00pm St. Clement Church, 642 W. Deming Place Tickets available at door: $20 general, $10 students and seniors, Free for University of Chicago students
Registration Form Saturday, January 8, 2011 Hotel Monaco 501 Geary Street San Francisco, CA 94102 http://www.monaco-sf.com/
Intended for university students, faculty, and recent graduates. Others interested in attending, please contact info@lumenchristi.org Thursday, January 13 Genesis 1-2: “Creation: Grace upon Grace” If the Hebrew word for God were treated as an unknown (so that we learned its meaning from the text, instead of bringing our catechism with us to the reading), these […]
Benedict Ashley, OP (Aquinas Institute of Theology, Emeritus) Herman Sinaiko (University of Chicago, Emeritus) To some, in the information age, we seem to know more things, to communicate more effectively, and to better interrelate scientific disciplines. To others, however this 'information explosion’ has produced a miscommunication, a superficial acquaintance with trivial facts, and fragmentation of […]
The Carolingian thinker Johannes Scottus Eriugena (810-877CE) is the author of numerous philosophical and theological works. Most famous among them is the Periphyseon or On Natures (864-866CE), a metaphysical dialogue drawing on the Greek and Latin patristic and classical traditions. Having been falsely condemned because of pantheism in 1225, Eriugena was only seriously studied in the twentieth century, which saw a […]
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Marilynne Robinson will deliver an Yves Simon lecture entitled, “The Freedom of a Christian.”
