Symposium on “The Cross: History, Art, and Controversy”
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, […]
Mary at the Art Institute
REGISTER HERE Open to all university students. Registration Required. Cosponsored with Calvert House. Mary is the most-depicted woman in the history of Western art, which means that images of her […]
Master Class on “The Writings of Meister Eckhart”
You can view photos of the event HERE. In this one-off seminar, participants will read and discuss the writings of late medieval German mystic and theologian Meister Eckhart (c. 1260-1327) […]
Reason, Revelation, Tradition: The Limits of Leo Strauss?
You can view photos of the event HERE. Leo Strauss is well known for both his critique of modernity and his insistence on the productive (but irreconcilable) tension between reason […]
What St. Benedict Taught the Dark Ages: His and Ours
REGISTER HERE Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the John U. Nef Commitee on Social Thought. Cardinal Newman, who will be canonized on October 13, is well known […]
The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila
This program was made possible in part by a grant from the Our Sunday Visitor Institute. A luncheon talk with Professor Carlos Eire (Yale) on the recent book on the […]
Symposium on “The Life of Teresa of Avila: A Biography”
Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion at the Divinity School, the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, and the Medieval […]
John Henry Newman’s Path to Sainthood
This event was cosponsored by Mundelein Seminary, the Sheil Catholic Center at Northwestern University, the Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage at Loyola University Chicago, the Department of Catholic […]
Master Class on “The Life of Teresa of Avila”
This program was made possible in part by a grant from the Our Sunday Visitor Institute. The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila is one of the most remarkable accounts […]
Newman’s Apologetics of the Imagination
This event was cosponsored by the Nicholson Center for British Studies. John Henry Newman famously insisted that “the heart is commonly reached not through the reason, but through the imagination.” As […]