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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.
For the past 20 years, the Lumen Christi Institute has worked to make the Catholic intellectual tradition a living dialogue partner to students and faculty at the University of Chicago and across the nation through masterclasses, lectures, summer seminars, and
This event is free and open to the public. Online registration is required. Registrants will receive an email witha link to join the webinar on Zoom. How can scripture guide our search for wisdom? Bernard McGinn, professor emeritus in the
In this Holy Week in a time of separation from our friends, we prepare ourselves for the celebration of our Lord’s Resurrection. This year, most of us will witness via video feed—rather than participate in—the Easter Vigil when the celebrant
The Lumen Christi Institute has been awarded a $30,000 grant from the OSV Institute for a program that will introduce teens in Chicagoland to the Catholic vision of intellectual life, culture, and liturgy.
All societies on earth today face the threat of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19. Nothing more need be said. We consume the same news, and many—virtually all—of us have had our lives disrupted, our economies paralyzed, and, most serious of all,
In these days, The Lumen Christi Institute has seen dispersed the community of scholars we bring together regularly for conversation and dialogue. We are separated from the communion of physical presence and interaction with our friends. Communio, communion, was central
The Lumen Christi Institute hosted world-renowned Orthodox theologian Father John Behr for a three-day ecumenical program that led into the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, observed each year from Jan. 18-25.
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.