Colloquium on “Givenness and Revelation”
Part of the Lumen Christi Institute’s faculty colloquia in philosophy and theology, which bring together scholars from the region to discuss important questions in Catholic thought. About Givenness and Revelation […]
Aquinas and the Life of the Mind
Saint Thomas Aquinas regards mind, or intellect, as a form of life. It is even the most perfect form, he says, because it carries the power of free choice. Yet […]
All Things Hold Together: A Great Books Education and the Catholic Tradition
The Great Books can lead us to God and a liberal arts education finds its fulfillment in the liturgy. Yet, the curriculum and culture of many universities today are, by […]
Master class on “On Hope” by Josef Pieper
REGISTER HERE Open to currently enrolled undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty. Copies of the readings will be provided for participants via web link. The first of Josef Pieper’s three books […]
Master Class on Ressentiment and Democracy
REGISTER HERE Open to currently enrolled undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty. Copies of the readings will be provided for participants via web link. Ressentiment is a term of art in […]
Master Class on “Saint Thomas Aquinas on the Metaphysics of Evil”
Registration Required. Open to current students and faculty. Copies of the readings will be provided. To view photos of the master class, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. Saint Thomas Aquinas’s […]
Plato’s Bedroom: Desire, Union, and Procreation
Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Department of Philosophy. Plato found philosophy in some of the same erotic anxieties that permeate contemporary life, and even explored themes […]
Master Class on “Plato’s Leaky Myths: How the Erotic Dialogues use Plato’s Literary Predecessors”
Registration Required. Open to current students and faculty. This seminar will look at striking examples of how in the Symposium and Phaedrus Plato read and re-wrote the myths available in […]
Body, Eros, and Eucharist
Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion. About The Wedding Feast of the Lamb: In The Wedding Feast of […]
The Future of Liberalism: Relativism Confronts St. Augustine
Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Theology Club at the Divinity School. The future of political liberalism is a topic much discussed in recent scholarly books and […]