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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 features 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). Two interviews with people who knew Fr. Mankowski well and can offer an entry point to his person and scholarship conclude the season.
How does the gendering of images in medieval hagiography render holy women vivid, compelling, and desirable? On February 27, five scholars set out to answer this question. Rachel Smith (Villanova University) opened the conversation.
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The Lumen Christi Institute participated in a two-year study with researchers and experts from Baylor University, to examine virtue formation in higher education moral communities, both secular and faith-based.
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The Lumen Christi Institute is excited to welcome Rev. Dr. Adam Hincks, S.J. as our scholar-in-residence for the winter quarter.
In an effort to better understand the impact and effectiveness of its mission, the Lumen Christi Institute conducted a comprehensive study on the career paths of alumni from its PhD summer seminars held between 2011 and 2019.
In their seventeenth year, the Lumen Christi Institute Summer Seminars in the Catholic Intellectual Tradition introduce participants to central themes, figures, and texts from the Catholic tradition. Please see the Event Calendar for details and application requirements.
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.
K.T. Brizek, PhD student in intellectual and Church history at the University of Illinois at Chicago, reviews "On the Dignity of Society: Catholic Social Teaching and Natural Law," a novel presented at the University of Chicago by author Russell Hittinger.
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.