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From 2012 to 2020, Fr. Paul Mankowski, SJ delivered hundreds of lectures and master classes at the Lumen Christi Institute. Seeking to share the depth of his scholarship, this podcast offers many of his lectures (edited for coherence and quality) to the public in digital format for the first time. The first season will feature a course that Fr. Mankowski gave on Joseph Ratzinger’s Jesus of Nazareth and dozens of lectures centered around the books of the Bible (including Genesis, many of the prophets, the Gospel of Matthew, and St. Paul’s Letter to the Romans). Episodes will be released on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from September through December. To conclude the season, we’ll offer one or two interviews with people who knew Fr. Mankowski well and can offer an entry point to his person and scholarship.
It was a homecoming for philosopher Jennifer Frey, who gave a downtown lecture and two campus presentations sponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute last month.
Eighty high school students and a handful of eager eighth graders gathered at Swift Hall of the University of Chicago Divinity School to participate in the Newman Forum’s third daylong conference Feb. 15.
Georgetown University theology professor Father John W. O’Malley, SJ, broached the topic of Church governance during a lecture at the University of Chicago, sponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute Dec. 4.
The Lumen Christi Institute began a new series this quarter called, “The Great Books and the Christian Tradition,” for undergraduate students at the University of Chicago.
On Wednesday, October 30th, the Lumen Christi Institute held “John Henry Newman’s Path to Sainthood” at the Holy Name Cathedral Auditorium. The event provided an overview of Newman’s significance, influence, and sanctity.
For the past 10 years, the Lumen Christi Institute’s summer programming has become a gold-standard for intensive doctoral seminars.
This winter the Lumen Christi Institute partnered with Calvert House Catholic Center to host a Mass for Candlemas and the symposium “Sacred Music in Context and Practice.” The Mass and symposium honored the memory of Fr. Willard Jabusch (1930
Newman Forum's first event “Science, Creation, and the Catholic Imagination,” brought together 80 high school students from 24 schools and four states, along with two dozen parents, teachers, and chaperones, at the University of Chicago.
The Sister Thea Bowman Foundation has opened a search for a new executive director
“Science and Religion: A Dialogue of Cultures” will educate students, faculty, and the public through lectures, panel discussions, master classes, and summer seminars
Lumen Christi’s 2018 Summer Seminars, offered for the tenth consecutive year, afforded 67 doctoral students and junior faculty the opportunity to gather at prestigious academic institutions for discussion of important texts and topics from the Catholic intellectual tradition.