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 […]
What Should We Fear? Courage and Cowardice in Public Life
REGISTER HERE This talk is free and open to the public. The talk and Q&A will be livestreamed HERE at 7pm central time. Moral theologian Jean Porter will give the […]
Catholic Reform: The Council of Trent and the Catholic Enlightenment
Cosponsored by the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. About Ulrich Lehner’s recent book The Catholic Enlightenment: “Whoever needs an act of faith to elucidate an event that can be […]
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 […]
The Gospel According to Matthew
6:00pm Buffet Dinner | 6:30pm Lecture Registration required. Open to current students and faculty. St. Matthew’s Gospel brings us into powerful contact with Israel’s longed-for Messiah and permits us to […]
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 […]
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 […]
Angels, Demons, Heaven, and Hell: On Christian “Mythology” and the Spiritual Life
Join the Lumen Christi Institute for a special Epiphany symposium and reception with medieval historian Rachel Fulton Brown and Benedictine Monk Fr. Peter Funk, OSB. Free and open to the […]
Science and Theology of Habitable Worlds Around Other Stars
Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Hildegard of Bingen Society for Christian Thought and Culture. You can view Professor Öberg’s recent presentation at the 2017 Society of […]
Master Class on Grace, Free Choice, and the Infused Virtues
Open to current university students and faculty. A link to the readings will be provided for registrants. SESSION I: “Grace and Free Choice” Primary Reading: Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, Ia, […]