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Sacred Study Circle, Introduction to the Devout Life by St. Francis de Sales

Gavin House 1220 E 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Sacred study is the prayerful and attentive reading of a work with the initial goal of understanding it, the intermediate goal of reflectively appropriating it, and the final goal of making its teaching concrete in a life devoted to God. Sacred study is study because it puts ques­tions to the text, as an apprentice questions […]

“Reason and Wisdom in Medieval Christian Thought,” Non-Credit Course

Gavin House 1220 E 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Informal Dinner: 6:00PM Lecture: 6:30PM Intended for University students, faculty, and recent graduates. Others interested in attending, contact info@lumenchristi.org. With the recovery of the works of Aristotle in the Latin West, the development of the scholastic method of reasoning, and the creation of the universities, a style of academic philosophy and theology developed in the late […]

A Conversation on Faith and Science, with Mark Wyman and Minyoung Wyman

Gavin House 1220 E 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

This event is intended for college students. Dinner will be served. Contemporary culture is built in part on a mythology of the natural sciences. This mythology characterizes Christianity, particularly Catholicism, as a reactionary force clinging to a pre-modern worldview that brave men and women have replaced with a modern, scientific one. Two postdoctoral researchers at […]

“The Book of Psalms” Non-Credit Course

Gavin House 1220 E 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Lecture: 7:00PM Informal Dinner: 6:30PM October 16: The Prayer Book of Jesus What are the psalms and how did they become a psalter? The introductory class will address the nature of Jewish prayer and Hebrew poetry, lay out the various genres of psalms, and discuss the compilation of psalms into a book of the Old Testament […]

“John Climacus” Non-Credit Course

Gavin House 1220 E 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Lecture, 7:00pm Informal Dinner, 6:30pm Intended for University students, faculty, and recent graduates. Others interested in attending, contact info@lumenchristi.org. May 24 “John Climacus: Cleansing, Death, and Resurrection in his "The Ladder of Divine Ascent” Perry Hamalis (North Central College) Co-sponsored by the Orthodox Christian Fellowship John Climacus (ca. 579-ca. 659) uses a number of analogies to describe the […]

The Church Fathers: The Shaping of Christian Orthodoxy, Non-Credit Course

Gavin House 1220 E 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Lecture, 7:00pm Informal Dinner, 6:30pm Intended for University students, faculty, and recent graduates. Others interested in attending, contact info@lumenchristi.org. January 19 Athanasius of Alexandria: Theologian of the Incarnation” Aaron Canty (St. Xavier University) January 26  Jerome in Bethlehem Robin Darling Young (University of Notre Dame) February 2, 7:15pm Social Sciences 122 The Grand Design: An Augustinian Reply […]