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The Lumen Christi Institute for Catholic Thought was founded by Catholic scholars at the University of Chicago in 1997 to bring the light of Christ and the Catholic intellectual and spiritual tradition to the secular academy and the general public. On this station we make available our many lectures and programs, as well as interviews with visiting scholars. To support our work, visit www.lumenchristi.org/donate
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Author Paul Kingsnorth and Professor James Matthew Wilson on September 25, 2025 at the University Club of Chicago.“Our culture is not in danger of dying; it is already dead, and we are in denial. This, now, is the reality we have to wrestle with—and transcend.”We all experience how the rapid advance of technology, especially AI, has affected the wa…
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Dr. Jared Ortiz on September 10, 2025 at the Ruth Lake Country Club.In the City of God, Augustine eloquently speaks about “two cities” that are divided by their two loves. In God’s city, there are angels and humans united in their love of God. In the earthly city, there are demons and humans united in their devotion to their own wills. For Augustin…
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Dr. David Novak and Dr. Melanie Barrett on May 9, 2025 at the University Club of Chicago.David Novak, one of the most distinguished Jewish theologians in the world, offers a new interpretation of how the Jewish people and the Jewish tradition talk about God. What does the Torah say about God? How does the God of the Torah talk about Himself? And ho…
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Professor Clark Power on April 24, 2025 at Butterfield Country Club."I was his delight day by day,Playing before him every moment,playing in his inhabited world,delighting in Adam’s offspring."Proverbs 8:30-32 (trans. Brown, 2012: 28-29)Drawing on Brown’s exegetical exploration of Wisdom’s paideia in the Book of Wisdom, Clark Power explores the rel…
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Sarah Crow on May 14, 2025 at Ruth Lake Country Club.“In everything which gives us the pure authentic feeling of beauty there is really the presence of God…all art of the highest order is religious in essence”– Simone Weil Beautiful art reflects the glory of the living, incarnate God, Jesus Christ, whether or not explicitly religious in subject mat…
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Dr. Michael Naughton on November 20, 2024 at Ruth Lake Country Club.If we do not know where we come from, it is hard to know what role we play. In this lecture, Dr. Michael Naughton provided a compelling narrative of Catholic education that drew upon our personal, institutional, and cosmic stories. This narrative gave us a vision both to see our cu…
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Professor Lu Ann Homza on February 9, 2024 at the University of Chicago.What did the practice of Christianity look like in a place shadowed by an inquisition? Were personal preferences, conversations, spiritual friendships, and religious questions off the table by default? Did clergy under the Spanish Inquisition neglect their duty to care for soul…
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Prof. Shannen Dee Williams on April 27, 2023 at the University of Chicago.For most people, Whoopi Goldberg's performance as Sister Mary Clarence in Sister Act is the dominant interpretation of an African American nun and the desegregation of white Catholic sisterhood in the United States. In this presentation, Dr. Shannen Dee Williams will explore …
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This lecture is entitled Ecumenical Panel on For the Life of the World: Toward a Social Ethos of the Orthodox Church.It was presented by Aristotle Papanikolaou of Fordham University, William Schweiker of the University of Chicago, Stephen Meawad of Caldwell University, and Msgr. Peter Schallenberg of the Katholische Sozialwissenschaftliche Zentrals…
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Russell Hittinger, Scott Roniger, Mary Hirschfeld, and R. H. Helmholz on November 7, 2024 at the University of Chicago's Swift Hall.Prof. Hittinger has long been one of the world’s leading scholars of Catholic social teaching and natural law theory. His most recent book, "On the Dignity of Society," presents the fruit of his mature thinking on fund…
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Jennifer Newsome Martin on September 25, 2024 at Ruth Lake Country Club. Western culture owes a great deal to Christianity, but Christianity does not require any culture, as a culture, to be built with Christian materials. This does not reflect a weakness or defect in Christianity. It is a consequence of its genius. Christianity can and should info…
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Dr. Matthew Gaetano on May 15, 2024 at Ruth Lake Country Club.The Italian Renaissance rarely plays a central role in our understanding of the story of Catholic theology, even though many of us love Renaissance art and literature. In this talk, Dr. Gaetano showed how philosophers, poets, and painters of this era saw faith and reason as “two wings on…
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Professor Mary Hirschfeld and Professor Amir Sufi on March 30, 2023 at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.Secular discourse about the problem of economic inequality rests on two foundational premises that are problematic from a theological point of view. First, individuals enter into society with the aim of bettering their own condi…
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This lecture is entitled A Marion Moment in Catholic Thought: A Conversation with Jean-Luc Marion and Ken Woodward.It was presented by Jean-Luc Marion of the University of Chicago and Kenneth Woodward of the Lumen Christi Institute on May 31, 2022, at the Gavin House.De către The Lumen Christi Institute
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Professor Peter Casarella on October 19, 2023 at the University of Chicago's Swift Hall.Romano Guardini penned his Letters from Lake Como between 1923-1925 in order to think about the new technocratic relationship between nature and culture that was emerging in post-war and post-Enlightenment Europe. Guardini’s reflections on the technocratic parad…
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This lecture is entitled Populations, Persons, and Precision Medicine: The Ethics of Emerging Information Technologies.It was presented by Paul Scherz of (then) the University of Virginia on March 22, 2024, at the University of Chicago.De către The Lumen Christi Institute
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Angela Knobel, Candace Vogler, Daniel Lapsley, and Emily Austin on April 26, 2024 at the University of Chicago's Swift Hall.What would pagan philosophers and modern psychologists (or ‘scientists-of-mind’) make of what Thomas Aquinas says about the work of grace in the moral life?Thomas Aquinas holds that moral virtues can be cultivated in humans by…
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Professor Thomas Pfau, Professor Michael J. Pencina, Dr. Matthew Elmore, and Professor Norman Wirzba on June 26, 2024 at the Washington Duke Inn in Durham, NC.How are our imaginations deepened when the humanities and the sciences enter into a conversation? Join us for a lecture and panel discussion among scholars, including theologians, ethicists, …
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Matt Crawford, Mark Shiffman, and Melanie Barrett on October 11, 2024 at the Social Sciences Tea Room at the University of Chicago.In his "Introduction to Christianity," Joseph Ratzinger saw that at the root of the “technological mindset” was an anxiety about how humans come to know the world. Ratzinger contrasted the technological orientation to t…
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Dr. Jeffrey P. Bishop on November 14, 2024 at Loyola Academy McGrath Family Performing Arts Center.Technology always pushes the limits of our thinking and challenges us morally. In this presentation, we will see that our difficulty with evaluating the morality of technology is because technology sits very close to human identity. Human culture just…
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Kenneth Woodward and Professor Denys Turner on April 10, 2024 at the University Club of Chicago. Dante Alighieri was a great poet. But Denys Turner insists that he was also a great theologian—and that what makes his theology great is his poetry. Turner argues, Dante was able to write his masterpiece only after he had personally journeyed through He…
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