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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.

The University of Chicago is famous for its graduate student reading groups, in which students pursue their own intellectual interests among friends in an informal setting.
The Nicklin Fellows are the recipients of a competitive, application based fellowship for undergraduate students. Nicklin Fellows are granted exclusive access to research and development grant funds to pursue their intellectual interests.
On October 17-18, the Lumen Christi Institute convened the third annual meeting of the In Lumine Network at the University of Chicago. Funded by the John Templeton Foundation, the conference brought together representatives from the network's 13 member institutes.
The In Lumine Network, consisting of thirteen independent institutes for Catholic Thought located at elite research universities in the U.S., will hold its annual best practices meeting October 17th-18th at the Study Hotel at University of Chicago.
This past fall, the Lumen Christi Institute organized an academic collaboration with one of the world’s leading experts in the intersection of science, philosophy, and religion, Dr. Peter Harrison, who joined the Institute as its Fall Scholar-in-Residence.
We sat down for an interview with John Boyer, Martin A. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor of History at the University of Chicago and long-time Dean of the College (1992-2023).

What is a good life? How do we find a purpose from our talents and passions? And, how does religion (or its absence) inform our answers to these questions? These were the questions University of Chicago student Arjun Mazumdar (College

Can we be good on our own, or do we need divine assistance? Four scholars explored this question in a symposium that was the highlight of LCI’s spring University Program Series. With Emily Austin (University of

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December 28, 2023

We sat down with for an interview with Peter Casarella, professor of theology at Duke Divinity School and longtime friend of the Lumen Christi Institute. Casarella has been involved with the Lumen Christi Institute (LCI) since its founding over