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Can We Be Good On Our Own? Ancient Pagans and Modern Scientists on Thomistic Moral Virtue

Swift Hall, First Floor Common Room 1025 E 58th St,Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Open to students and faculty. For more information, contact dstrobach@lumenchristi.org.  This event is cosponsored by the University of Notre Dame Press and made possible through the support of ‘In Lumine: Supporting the Catholic Intellectual Tradition on Campuses Nationwide’ (Grant #62372) from the John Templeton Foundation. Thomas Aquinas, like a good Aristotelian, holds that the moral […]

Romano Guardini on Technology and the Liturgy

Swift Hall, First Floor Common Room 1025 E 58th St,Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

This lecture was cosponsored by the University of Chicago Divinity School and the In Lumine Network. It was made possible through the support of ‘In Lumine: Supporting the Catholic Intellectual Tradition on Campuses Nationwide’ (Grant #62372) from the John Templeton Foundation. Romano Guardini penned his Letters from Lake Como between 1923-1925 in order to think […]

Michelangelo’s Women: Feminine Genius in the Frescoes of the Sistine Chapel

Swift Hall, First Floor Common Room 1025 E 58th St,Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Cosponsored by the Department of Art History.  This convening is open to all invitees regardless of vaccination status and, because of ongoing health risks, particularly to the unvaccinated, participants are expected to adopt the risk mitigation measures (masking and social distancing, etc.) appropriate to their vaccination status as advised by public health officials or to […]

The Salvific Power of the Inner Life of Christ: The Witness of the Ecumenical Councils

Swift Hall, First Floor Common Room 1025 E 58th St,Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Free and open to the public. Registration for in-person attendance is not required, but requested. Contact us with any questions. Note the time for this event has been changed from 4:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. This event is cosponsored by the Harvard Catholic Forum. Standard accounts of salvation in both East and West typically do not include […]

The Hope of Exodus in Black Theology

Swift Hall, First Floor Common Room 1025 E 58th St,Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Listen to the panel discussion 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, visit Lumen Christi's Facebook page. To listen to Prevot's podcast interview with the Archdiocese of Chicago's Black Catholic Initiative podcast hosted by Deacon John […]

CANCELLED Monks, Silence, God: The History of the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance

Swift Hall, First Floor Common Room 1025 E 58th St,Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

DUE TO WEATHER, DOM MARK SCOTT HAS HAD TO POSTPONE HIS VISIT TO CHICAGO. THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Theology Club and the Calvert House Catholic Center. Persons with disabilities who may need assistance should contact us at 773-955-5887 or by email. At this talk Dom […]

What do We Mean When We Speak of Revelation?

Swift Hall, First Floor Common Room 1025 E 58th St,Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

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, visit Lumen Christi's Facebook page. Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought and The Philosophy of […]

Can Transcendence be Organized? The Catholic Church Between Universalism and Establishment

Swift Hall, First Floor Common Room 1025 E 58th St,Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Committee on Social Thought and the Theology Club. If a religion differentiates itself from the culture of specific peoples, states, or empires and represents the ideal of moral universalism and an understanding of transcendence, it cannot evade the problem of self-organization. While this is true of […]

Angels, Demons, Heaven, and Hell: On Christian “Mythology” and the Spiritual Life

Swift Hall, First Floor Common Room 1025 E 58th St,Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

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 public. Many traditional Christian beliefs and teachings about spiritual realities have become unpalatable to modern sensibilities. Accounts of angelic visitations, demonic possessions, the stain of […]

Catholic Reform: The Council of Trent and the Catholic Enlightenment

Swift Hall, First Floor Common Room 1025 E 58th St,Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

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 explained by reason is a fool, and unworthy of reasonable thought." This line, spoken by the notorious 18th-century libertine Giacomo Casanova, illustrates a deeply entrenched […]