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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.

This event was Cosponsored by the Theology and Ethics Workshop, the Orthodox Christian Fellowship, and St. Makarios the Great Orthodox Mission. Fr. Behr also led a master class for students and faculty on January 17 on Maximus the Confessor. On

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January 14, 2020

A luncheon colloquium with Carols Eire, T. Lawrason Riggs Professor of History & Religious Studies at Yale University. October 24th, 2019 The University Club of Chicago — Saint Teresa of Avila’s Life is among the most remarkable accounts ever

A symposium on “The Life of Teresa of Ávila: A Biography”, by Carlos Eire, featuring Professors Carlos Eire (Yale University), Bernard McGinn (University of Chicago), Susan Schreiner (University of Chicago), and Keith Egan (Saint Mary’s College). October 24, 2019 The

Colloquium with Fr John O’Malley, S.J. (Georgetown), and Dr. Russell Hittinger (Lumen Christi). Moderated by Dr. Jennifer Newsome Martin (University of Notre Dame). December 4, 2019 at the University of Chicago, Social Science Lecture Hall — Sexual and financial scandals

Cosponsored by the Program on Religion and Medicine at the University of Chicago, McCormick Theological Seminary, and the Society of Catholic Scientists. This program was made possible by a grant from the John Templeton Foundation. The discovery of CRISPR/Cas9 has

A conversation with Fr. Ian Ker (Oxford), and Melissa Villalobos, moderated by journalist Kenneth Woodward. — On October 30th, 2019, the Lumen Christi Institute held “John Henry Newman’s Path to Sainthood” at the Holy Name Cathedral Auditorium. The event provided

A Colloquium with Fr. Ian Ker (Oxford) October 31, 2019 Swift Hall, University of Chicago —- John Henry Newman famously insisted that “the heart is commonly reached not through the reason, but through the imagination.” As a theologian, apologist, and

Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Theology and Ethics Workshop at the Divinity School and the Midwest Province of the Society of Jesus. Sexual and financial scandals are prompting Catholics to ask hard and painful questions about

We are at the very outset of the Age of Biotechnology. This presses anew questions regarding the limits of the human person. What is the human species from the point of view of evolutionary biology? How malleable is this definition?

This event was cosponsored by the Nicholson Center for British Studies. John Henry Newman famously insisted that “the heart is commonly reached not through the reason, but through the imagination.” As a theologian, apologist, and the 19th century’s most famous

This event was cosponsored by Mundelein Seminary, the Sheil Catholic Center at Northwestern University, the Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage at Loyola University Chicago, the Department of Catholic Studies at DePaul University, the Calvert House Catholic Center at