University Club of Chicago

Name: The Vocation of a Christian Law Professor
Start: 2015-01-02T17:00:00-06:00
End: 2015-01-02T20:00:00-06:00
Location: University Club of Chicago

76 E Monroe St Chicago, IL 60603
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October 2019
October 24th, 2019 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila

University Club of Chicago 76 E Monroe St Chicago, IL 60603, Downtown, IL

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 life and many afterlives of one of the most enduring mystical testaments ever written: The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila. Saint Teresa of Avila’s Life is among the most remarkable accounts ever written of the human encounter with the divine. The Life is not really an autobiography at all, but rather a confession written for inquisitors by a nun whose raptures and mystical claims had aroused suspicion. Despite its...
April 2019
April 11th, 2019 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

The Life and Legacy of Saint Oscar Romero

University Club of Chicago 76 E Monroe St Chicago, IL 60603, Downtown, IL

Listen to the address 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 talk, visit Lumen Christi's Facebook page. This program was made possible in part by a grant from the Our Sunday Visitor Institute. Join us for a luncheon talk on the recently canonized Óscar Romero. Since his death in 1980, the world is still absorbing the witness of Óscar Romero, the Archbishop of San Salvador, martyred for his commitment to the poor and social justice. Prof. Lee will consider how Romero’s witness...
November 2018
November 15th, 2018 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

How Catholics Can Realize the Royal Priesthood of the Laity and Rebuild a Church in Crisis

University Club of Chicago 76 E Monroe St Chicago, IL 60603, Downtown, IL

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 address, visit Lumen Christi's Facebook page. To read the published version of the address in Commonweal, click here. You can download the event poster here. $30 Student (with ID) / $60 General / $600 Host Committee Registration includes lunch. The Church has long taught that all baptized Christians share in Christ’s royal priesthood, and that we are “a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people,” who should “declare the wonderful deeds of him who...
March 2018
March 12th, 2018 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Silence, Prayer, and Contemplation in a Secular Society

University Club of Chicago 76 E Monroe St Chicago, IL 60603, Downtown, IL

Information on directions and parking can be found HERE. Information on the club's dress code can be found HERE. Our secular society does nothing to encourage us to discover God's presence in our lives through silent, prayerful reflection. To the contrary, the overload of media and noise discourage cultivating a habit of silent, meditative prayer. Yet prayer of this kind is essential if we are to recognize and accept God's mercy and love acting in our lives. The theological virtues of faith, hope, and charity grow in us when we cooperate with the grace that enables us to pray contemplatively...
January 2018
January 18th, 2018 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

The State of Religion in America

University Club of Chicago 76 E Monroe St Chicago, IL 60603, Downtown, IL

$60 General / $600 Host Committee Member Since publishing Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics in 2012, Ross Douthat’s commentary on American religious culture has established him as a prominent and thoughtful critic. This lecture will describe the three "world pictures" that dominate American religiosity: the biblical, spiritual, and secular. As these world pictures jockey for cultural dominance, interesting questions arise. Can the biblical world picture gain ground? Will the secular world picture carry the day? Will the spiritual world picture be forced to give way to one of its more inflexible alternatives? These and other questions will...
October 2016
Downtown Lectures

October 21st, 2016 @ 7:30 am - 8:30 am

Religious Faith and Modern War

University Club of Chicago 76 E Monroe St Chicago, IL 60603, Downtown, IL

REGISTER HERE $25 Registration includes breakfast You can read Phil Klay’s recent piece “The Citizen-Soldier: Moral Risk and the Modern Military” HERE. Photo courtesy of Hannah Dunphy
September 2016
Downtown Lectures

September 27th, 2016 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Getting Religion: Faith, Culture, and Politics from the Age of Eisenhower to the Era of Obama

University Club of Chicago 76 E Monroe St Chicago, IL 60603, Downtown, IL

ABOUT THE BOOK Impeccably researched, thought-challenging and leavened by wit, Getting Religion, the highly-anticipated new book from Kenneth L. Woodward, is ideal perfect for readers looking to understand how religion came to be a contentious element in 21st century public life. Here the award-winning author blends memoir (especially of the postwar era) with copious reporting and shrewd historical analysis to tell the story of how American religion, culture and politics influenced each other in the second half of the 20th century. There are few people writing today who could tell this important story with such authority and insight. A scholar...
April 2016
April 19th, 2016 @ 4:15 pm - 6:15 pm

Reception for A Godly Humanism: Clarifying the Hope That Lies Within

University Club of Chicago 76 E Monroe St Chicago, IL 60603, Downtown, IL

Join us for a reception to celebrate the recently released book A Godly Humanism: Clarifying the Hope that Lies Within (CUA Press, 2015) by the late Francis Cardinal George, O.M.I. on the one-year anniversary of his passing. Finished by Francis Cardinal George, O.M.I. nine days before his death, A Godly Humanismoffers an account of the Catholic intellectual life by one of the most gifted thinkers to serve as bishop in the American Church. It draws on figures such as St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, St. John Paul II, and Pope Benedict XVI to express a vision of the Church as a communion built...
March 2016
March 31st, 2016 @ 11:00 am - 12:30 pm

CANCELLED: The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings

University Club of Chicago 76 E Monroe St Chicago, IL 60603, Downtown, IL

Due to unforeseen personal reasons, Carol Zaleski’s visit has been postponed. We hope to reschedule this event for a future date. with co-authors Philip & Carol Zaleski REGISTER HERE $50 General/ $15 Student/ $500 Table Sponsorship At this luncheon event, authors Philip and Carol Zaleski will discuss their book The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams. For three decades, C.S. Lewis (author of The Chronicles of Narnia), J.R.R. Tolkien (author of The Lord of the Rings), and their closest associates met weekly in Oxford pubs as a literary club known as the Inklings. This...
February 2016
February 11th, 2016 @ 12:00 am

Putting First Things First: The Story of Richard John Neuhaus’ Vocation to Public Life

University Club of Chicago 76 E Monroe St Chicago, IL 60603, Downtown, IL

Randy Boyagoda (author of Richard John Neuhaus: A Life in the Public Square) Cosponsored by First Things, the Chicago Leadership Forum, and Relevant Radio For all the political controversies that Fr. Richard John Neuhaus was involved in over his four decades in American public life, and these were many, he really understood his work in vocational terms. In other words, he understood his work foremost as the work of a man of God. It’s too simple to dismiss him (or admire him!) as a Republican in a Roman collar, as many of his later critics and fans did. Learn the full...
February 2015
February 21st, 2015 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

Science, Faith, and the New Atheism

University Club of Chicago 76 E Monroe St Chicago, IL 60603, Downtown, IL

John Haught (Georgetown University The bestselling books by the “New Atheists” Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett and Christopher Hitchens provide colorful portraits of the evils of religions, especially those that profess belief in a personal God. In their passionate denunciation of faith in God, the New Atheists appeal not only to morality but also to reason to convince readers of the absolute wrongness of belief in God. This lecture will summarize the main claims of the New Atheists and examine whether these claims are themselves reasonable.
January 2015
January 2nd, 2015 @ 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm

The Vocation of a Christian Law Professor

University Club of Chicago 76 E Monroe St Chicago, IL 60603, Downtown, IL

An event for legal scholars and law students cosponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute and the Law Professors’ Christian Fellowship. FRIDAY, JANUARY 2 4:00-7:00PM University Club of Washington, DC 1135 16th Street NW Washington, DC 20036 with Barbara E. Armacost (University of Virginia Law School) Robert Vischer (University of St. Thomas School of Law) REGISTER HERE This event is intended for legal scholars and law students. Others interested in attending, please contact info@lumenchristi.org or 773-955-5887. EVENT SCHEDULE: 4:00 “The Vocation of a Christian Lawyer” with Barbara E. Armacost & Robert Vischer 5:15 Vespers, Fr. Paul K. Rourke, S.J. 5:45 Reception