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Catholic Social Thought: A Critical Investigation

Portsmouth Abbey 285 Corys Lane, Portsmouth, RI

In this seminar, students will read, analyze, and discern continuities and discontinuities in Catholic Social Thought from the late 19th century to the present. Lectures, seminar reports, and discussion will focus on original sources (encyclicals and other magisterial documents), beginning with Rerum novarum (1892) and concluding with Caritas in veritate (2009). This intensive course is multi-disciplinary, since this tradition […]

Symposium on “God, Freedom, and Public Life”

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

Co-sponsored by the Committee on Social Thought The Lumen Christi Institute is pleased to co-sponsor a symposium at the University of Chicago entitled “God, Freedom, and Public Life” on the occasion of the publication of Francis Cardinal George’s book God in Action: How Faith in God can Address the Challenges of the World. The symposium featured […]

“Irenaeus: Bishop, Martyr, and Opponent of Gnosticism”

Cobb Lecture Hall, Room 201 5811 S. Ellis Ave. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Thursday Evenings, Non-Credit Course, Autumn Quarter 2011 “The Age of the Church Fathers: From Pagan Philosophy to Christian Wisdom” Cobb Lecture Hall, Room 201 5811 S. Ellis Avenue Lecture, 7:00pm Informal Dinner, 6:30pm October 13 “Introduction: Why Study the Fathers?” Fr. Michael Heintz (University of Notre Dame) October 20 “Clement of Alexandria: Neo-Platonism and Christian […]

Symposium on Czesław Miłosz

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

Sponsored by The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, The Committee on Social Thought, The Committee on Creative Writing, The Program on Poetry and Poetics, and The Lumen Christi Institute. Saturday, October 22, 1:30pm-4:00pm Symposium on Polish poet, Czeslaw Milosz At the 100th anniversary of his birthday Social Sciences, Tea Room (2nd Floor) Program 1:30pm  Introductory […]

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 […]