Magis Series on Faith and Reason
Free and open to the public. Presented by the Lumen Christi Institute and Saint Ignatius College Prep. What does it mean to believe? Does one believe because of evidence? In […]
Logical to the Bitter End: Absurdity, Suicide, and Hope in Albert Camus’s The Myth of Sisyphus
Does the absurdity of life dictate death? Can one find hope—can one truly live—in an absurd universe? These are the questions Albert Camus labors mightily to answer in his seminal […]
Descartes and Pascal on the Proofs of the Existence of God
A final Lumen Christi Master Class, with Jean-Luc Marion. Open to current graduate students, faculty, and advanced University of Chicago undergraduate students. Others interested in participating should contact us. Registrants will […]
A Marion Moment in Catholic Thought: a Conversation with Jean-Luc Marion and Ken Woodward
Join us over Zoom for a conversation between Professor Jean-Luc Marion (University of Chicago), and Lumen Christi Institute Writer-in-Residence Ken Woodward.
Magis Lecture | Pro and Con: Does Faith Ignore Reason?
Free and open to the public. Every Sunday, Christian worshipers profess the Nicene Creed. The Creed formulates and supports our belief in one God, but there appears to be scant […]
Lunch Discussion: “Are We Falling Back Into Paganism?”
Open to current students and faculty. Others interested in participating should contact info@lumenchristi.org.
Master Class: “The Power of the Sacred” with Hans Joas
Open to current students and faculty. Others interested in participating should contact info@lumenchristi.org. All registrants will receive pdfs of the selected readings. The first 15 registrants will receive free copies […]
The Contribution of Theology to Rationality: a Conference in Honor of Jean-Luc Marion
This event is co-sponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute and organized by the Martin Marty Center. For more information about the speakers, visit https://martycenter.org/events/the-contribution-of-theology-to-rationality This conference is held in honor of […]
Aristotle’s Great-Souled Man in Jane Austen, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and Saint Augustine
This event was co-sponsored by the Undergraduate Program in Religious Studies at the University of Chicago. Augustine famous referred to the classical virtues as “splendid vices”. Although he stood in […]
Retribution and St. Thomas Aquinas’s Teaching on Justice
Open to current students and faculty. This event is co-sponsored by the St. Thomas More Society at the University of Chicago Law School. Others interested in participating should contact info@lumenchristi.org. […]