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Master Class on T.S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets”

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

A master class with poet and professor James Matthew Wilson (University of St. Thomas, Houston). Open to current graduate students, faculty, and advanced University of Chicago undergraduate students. Others interested in participating should contact us. Registrants will receive copies of the prepared reading. Generally regarded as the greatest poem of the twentieth century, T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets is […]

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Lunch Discussion on “The Vocation of the Poet: Humanism, Christianity, and Verse”

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

Open to current students and faculty. Others interested in joining should contact us. Lunch will be served. Join us for a lunch discussion with poet and professor James Matthew Wilson (University of St. Thomas, Houston) Poetry is, at best, a marginal art form in contemporary America, and yet its craft, technique, and tradition are all provocations […]

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Descartes and Pascal on the Proofs of the Existence of God

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

A final Lumen Christi Master Class, with Jean-Luc Marion. Open to current graduate students, faculty, and advanced University of Chicago undergraduate students. Others interested in participating should contact us. Registrants will receive copies of the prepared reading. Texts: Descartes, Méditations on first philosophy, a latin-english edition by J. Cottingham, Cambridge, 2013, or the bare latin text. (With focus on book […]

Friendship and Community: The Monastic Experience, 350-1250

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

A master class with Brian Patrick McGuire (Roskilde University). Open to current graduate students, faculty, and advanced University of Chicago undergraduate students. Others interested in participating should contact us. Registrants will receive copies of the prepared reading. Friendship has been apparent in our culture as a concern ever since the time of the Greeks. Today it […]

Lunch Discussion on “Theology and the Erotic: Has the Internet Killed Love?”

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

Due to circumstances outside our control, this event has been canceled. We hope to schedule events with Fr. Fields in future quarters. Open to current students. Others interested in participating should contact us. Lunch will be provided for registrants. What does theology have to say about erotic love?  Better yet, what is love? How can one […]

Finding Tragedy in the Bible with Its Early Christian Interpreters

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

Open to current students and faculty. Box lunches will be served. Prof. Blowers will also give a lecture on "Negotiating Tragedy and the Tragic: Discursive, Performative, and Interpretive Strategies in Late Ancient Christian Literature"  on March 30.  For all events held at Gavin House, the Lumen Christi Institute follows Chicago Department of Public Health Guidance for […]

Justice or Vengeance? How To Watch John Wick

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

Open to current students and faculty. Others interested in joining should contact us. Lunch will be served. Is John Wick only a guilty pleasure? Or is there, at the heart of these movies, a desire for justice—however roughly delivered? This lecture proposes that at the heart of the movies is indeed the desire for retributive […]

Lunch Discussion on “Walker Percy: Philosopher, Novelist, Catholic”

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

Open to current students and faculty. Others interested in joining should contact us. Lunch will be served. Join us for a lunch discussion with Prof. Jennifer Frey on the the work of novelist Walker Percy. Suggested readings from Signposts in a Strange Land "Naming and Being" (pp 130-138)  "Physician as Novelist" (pp 191-196)  "Why are you […]

Master Class on “For the Life of the World: Toward a Social Ethos of the Orthodox Church”

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

Open to current students and faculty. Others interested in participating should contact us. Copies of the book will be available for registrants. Students and faculty are invited to join us for a seminar on For the Life of the World: Toward a Social Ethos of the Orthodox Church with two of the document's drafters, Profs. Perry […]

Student Lunch with Stephen Barr on “Should a Catholic Scientist Care About the Liberal Arts?”

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

Open to current graduate students and faculty. Cosponsored by Calvert House. Box lunches will be served. Join us at Gavin House, home of the Lumen Christi Institute, for a discussion with physicist Stephen Barr (President, Society of Catholic Scientists) for a conversation on what a Catholic scientist can learn from the study of philosophy, theology, […]

Making a Case for the Humanities with Zena Hitz

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

Open to current graduate students and faculty. Box lunches will be served. In her recent book, Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of the Intellectual Life, Zena Hitz writes "For some time, intellectual institutions in the United States have been under significant financial and political pressure to abandon education for programs with economic or political uses... […]

POSTPONED: Jacques Maritain’s “Man and the State”

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

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED. WE WILL ANNOUNCE THE NEW DATE IN THE COMING WEEKS. THIS IS AN IN-PERSON EVENT. Open to current graduate students and University of Chicago Undergraduates. Others who are interested in participating should contact us. Copies of Man and the State (CUA Press, 1998) will be provided for registrants. Jacques Maritain (1882-1973) was perhaps […]