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 […]
Athens, Jerusalem—and Alexandria: Christian Wisdom between the Bible and Greek Philosophy
A lecture by Rémi Brague with a response by Jean-Luc Marion. Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Ethics Club at the Divinity School. This lecture will be […]
Elizabeth Anscombe on Living the Truth
Elizabeth Anscombe was one of the most important and influential analytic philosophers of the twentieth century. One of the last lectures she delivered was titled “Doing the Truth.” In it, she […]
What is Freedom? Some Reflections on Augustine
You can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page, iTunes channel, Stitcher, TuneIn, ListenNotes, Podbean, Pocket Casts, and Google Play Music. To view photos of the symposium, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. A lecture […]
Master Class on “Jacques Maritain, Étienne Gilson, and the Thomist Renewal in the 20th Century: Academic and Spiritual Approaches”
Open to current university students and faculty. PDFs of the assigned readings will be provided for those who register. For the Blessed Paul VI, Jacques Maritain (1882-1973) was a master […]
Non-Credit Course on “Faith, Crisis, Christ”
6:00 Dinner | 6:30 Lecture This weekly non-credit course is open to current students and faculty. Registrants are free to attend as many sessions as they choose. Sessions do not […]
What do We Mean When We Speak of Revelation?
Listen to the lecture as a podcast episode. You can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page, iTunes channel, Stitcher, TuneIn, ListenNotes, Podbean, Pocket Casts, and Google Play Music. To view photos of the lecture, […]
Symposium on “Action versus Contemplation: Why an Ancient Debate Still Matters”
Listen to the symposium as a podcast episode. You can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page, iTunes channel, Stitcher, TuneIn, ListenNotes, Podbean, Pocket Casts, and Google Play Music. To view photos of the symposium, […]