Teaching The Teachers; Forming Friendships in Pursuit of Truth.

Summer Seminars
National Program

Intensive Coursework in the Catholic Intellectual Tradition

Since 2008, the Lumen Christi Institute’s summer seminar program has offered intensive coursework and formation in the Catholic intellectual tradition. The seminars are designed to convey in one week the equivalent of a semester-long course, so that students can use the intellectual formation over the tenure of their own academic careers as teachers and researchers once they become future faculty. Students who have passed through the Lumen Christi Institute’s summer seminar program currently teach at Harvard University, the University of Notre Dame, the University of Dallas, and many other institutions.

Fostering Friendships, Pursuing Truth

Summer Seminars

Led by senior scholars, these seminars provide crucial fellowship opportunities, as well as the support that Catholic students at secular universities need in their pursuit of truth. In addition to engaging with texts from the Catholic intellectual tradition, the camaraderie that develops among the students makes a lasting impact on their professional and personal lives.

Jun 15
June 15th @ 4:00 pm - June 21st @ 11:00 am

Apply here Description: One of the most influential 20th century Catholic thinkers, René Girard transformed our understanding of culture, religion, and human desire. Through an intensive reading of Girard’s works, […]

Jun 16
June 16th @ 3:00 pm - June 19th @ 1:00 pm

Apply here We are pleased to announce the fifth annual seminar on “Business and Catholic Social Thought: A Primer.” During the seminar, graduate students and faculty members in business schools […]

Jun 22
June 22nd @ 5:00 pm - June 28th @ 2:00 pm

Apply Here This graduate seminar is designed as an advanced introduction to the thought of Bernard Lonergan, SJ. The seminar will examine Lonergan’s approach to self-knowledge and “self-appropriation,” epistemology, and […]

Jun 22
June 22nd @ 12:00 pm - June 27th @ 2:00 pm

Apply here Co-presented with the Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies at the University of St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto. Dionysius the Areopagite is a figure who is as […]

Jul 27
July 27th @ 5:00 pm - August 2nd @ 11:00 am

Apply here This seminar is an intensive week-long course in how to read, analyze, and discern the many themes in Augustine’s most ambitious and sprawling work. The City of God […]

Jul 28
July 28th @ 9:00 am - August 1st @ 5:00 pm

Apply here Now in its eight year, this seminar is designed as an introduction and immersion into Catholic social thought for graduate students and junior faculty in economics, finance, or […]