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Master Class on “For the Life of the World: Toward a Social Ethos of the Orthodox Church”

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

Open to current students and faculty. Others interested in participating should contact us. Copies of the book will be available for registrants. Students and faculty are invited to join us for a seminar on For the Life of the World: Toward a Social Ethos of the Orthodox Church with two of the document's drafters, Profs. Perry […]

Master Class on “Catholic Social Teaching and the Church-State Problem”

Open to current graduate students and faculty. Copies of the assigned readigns will be provided. This virtual master class will take place on Zoom.  Readings The Teachings of Modern Roman Catholicism: On Law, Politics and Human Nature, Eds. John Witte and Frank Alexander (Columbia University Press, 2007), pp. 1-75 The Syllabus of Errors, Pope Pius IX, […]

Walker Percy on the Pursuit of Happiness in Apocalyptic Times

This virtual event is free and open to the public. This virtual event will be livestreamed on Zoom. For more information about the in person event, please contact us. The in-person event will take place at Ruth Lake Country Club in Hinsdale, Illinois. In Walker Percy's novel, Love in the Ruins, the narrator, a wealthy and successful denizen of American […]

Lunch Discussion on “Walker Percy: Philosopher, Novelist, Catholic”

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

Open to current students and faculty. Others interested in joining should contact us. Lunch will be served. Join us for a lunch discussion with Prof. Jennifer Frey on the the work of novelist Walker Percy. Suggested readings from Signposts in a Strange Land "Naming and Being" (pp 130-138)  "Physician as Novelist" (pp 191-196)  "Why are you […]

Catholic Culture Series on “Catholic Literary Heritage”

Ruth Lake Country Club 6200 South Madison Street, Hinsdale, IL

The Lumen Christi Institute's West Suburban Catholic Culture Series returns in 2021-22 with a monthly series on the theme of Catholic literary heritage. We will survey the history of literature written by Catholics from the early middle ages to the late twentieth century. What is Catholic literature? What is our Catholic literary heritage? St. John […]

Justice or Vengeance? How To Watch John Wick

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

Open to current students and faculty. Others interested in joining should contact us. Lunch will be served. Is John Wick only a guilty pleasure? Or is there, at the heart of these movies, a desire for justice—however roughly delivered? This lecture proposes that at the heart of the movies is indeed the desire for retributive […]

Magis Series on Faith and Reason

Saint Ignatius College Prep 1076 W Roosevelt Rd, Chicago, IL

Free and open to the public. Presented by the Lumen Christi Institute and Saint Ignatius College Prep. What does it mean to believe? Does one believe because of evidence? In spite of evidence? Is belief the beginning of wisdom or the opposite of science? For over two thousand years, the Catholic Church has defended the […]

Music in Secret: Sounds from the Early Modern Convent

Rockefeller Memorial Chapel 5850 S Woodlawn Ave. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the University of Chicago Division of the Humanities, the Illinois Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts. The outstanding female contingent of Schola Antiqua presents a concert of medieval and early modern music by and for women in the convent. Their program "Music in Secret" includes works by […]

The Theology of Nature and the Nature of Theology

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

A conference held by the University of Chicago Divinity School, cosponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute. Download of Conference Abstracts. For more information see the Divinity School's conference webpage. Schedule: Wednesday, March 30 2:00pm-3:15pm Wesley Wildman (Boston University):  "Prospects for a Naturalist, Critically Humanist, and Mystical Transreligious Understanding of Ultimate Reality" 3:30pm-4:45pm Karmen MacKendrick (LeMoyne College): "Out […]

Negotiating Tragedy and the Tragic: Discursive, Performative, and Interpretive Strategies in Late Ancient Christian Literature

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

Free and open to the public.  Early Christian authors rarely composed tragedies, but they did discern elements of “the tragic” both in the background of sacred history and in the foreground of mundane experience. As a rhetorical, literary, and even theological artform, the mimesis of tragedy took shape concurrently in biblical interpretation and preaching, in […]