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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
- 140 - The Vocation of a Theologian: The Legacy of Pope Benedict XVI
A webinar discussion with Russell Hittinger (Lumen Christi Institute), Tracey Rowland (University of Notre Dame, Australia), and Fr. Thomas Esposito, O.Cist. (University of Dallas), moderated by Fr. Andrew Summerson (University of Toronto; Lumen Christi Institute). Originally recorded May 7, 2023. Presented by the Lumen Christi Institute, The Collegium Institute for Catholic Thought and Culture, First Things, and The Portsmouth Institute for Faith and Culture. -- From his role as a key peritus at the Second Vatican Council, a professor in Germany, to his tenure as prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, Joseph Ratzinger was a part of almost every Catholic theological conversation in the latter half of the 20th century. As pope, he brought his lifetime of learning to bear on his preaching, encyclicals, and continued publishing. In this webinar, our panel looks back upon Pope Benedict’s theological vocation and offers perspectives on his enduring legacy and witness.
Tue, 19 Sep 2023 - 1h 27min - 139 - Race and Justice In America
A panel discussion with Herschella Conyers(University of Chicago Law School), Darren Davis (University of Notre Dame), andBrandon Viadyanathan (Catholic University of America), moderated by Judge Thomas More Donnelly (Cook County). This event is part of the Lumen Christi Institute's Catholic Criminal Justice Reform Network. --- National conversation about racial bias in law enforcement has become increasingly polarized over the last year. Some deny the existence of any widespread discrimination, while others see systemic racism as an inextricable part of American criminal justice, and call for defunding or even abolishing police forces. Professor Brandon Vaidyanathan says that racial bias in the criminal justice system is more complicated. A number of factors, including personal prejudice, laws and policies with racist origins, and broader cultural disparities that reflect the history of American racial discrimination, all contribute to a system that is neither irredeemably racist nor free from racial bias. Recognizing this complex interplay of problems, says Vaidyanathan, can help us move toward solutions. Join Brandon Vaidyanathan, Herschella Conyers, and Darren Davis for a conversation moderated by Cook County Judge Tom Donnelly, as they discuss race in contemporary American criminal justice and a path to equality in a fractured nation. This event is cosponsored by the Institute for Human Ecology, and was originally broadcast as a live webinar June 23, 2021.
Thu, 05 Aug 2021 - 1h 12min - 138 - René Girard, Conversion, and the Present Media Moment
An online panel discussion with Professor Grant Kaplan (Saint Louis University), Carly Osborn (University of Divinity), and Fr. Steve Grunow (Word on Fire), moderated by Cynthia Haven (National Endowment for the Humanities). While social media has become a source of meaning and identity formation for many, its dangers have become clear in recent years, from promoting disinformation to algorithm-aided polarization. Despite these dangers, can social media be a medium for the Gospel? Does a model for discipleship within social media exist? René Girard’s theory of mimesis or imitation provides a powerful diagnostic for analyzing aspects of human behavior and culture that contribute to the current media climate, including rivalry, escalation, and scapegoating. It also points towards the fragile possibility of positive mimesis: imitation of Christ. This panel draws together Girard scholars and Catholic media experts to explore how Girard’s analysis can inform our understanding of the current media climate and how we might approach social media as a space for evangelization and conversion. Originally broadcast May 27, 2021
Fri, 04 Jun 2021 - 1h 24min - 137 - The Crisis of Mysticism: Quietism in 17th Century Spain, Italy, and France
A webinar conversation with Bernard McGinn (University of Chicago), David Tracy (University of Chicago), and Sandra Schneiders, IHM (Jesuit School of Theology at Santa Clara University), moderated by Willemien Otten (University of Chicago). The Crisis of Mysticism (Herder & Herder, 2021), by Bernard McGinn is the first book in English in seventy years to give a full account of the struggle over mystical spirituality that tore the Catholic Church apart at the end of the seventeenth century, resulting in papal condemnation of some mystics and the decline of mysticism in Catholicism for almost two centuries. Join Professors McGinn, David Tracy, and Sandra Schneiders for a conversation on "The Crisis of Mysticism," moderated by Professor Willemein Otten. Originally broadcast May 6, 2021. This event was co-sponsored by the Collegium Institute, the Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion, and Herder & Herder.
Mon, 24 May 2021 - 1h 21min - 136 - United by Their Loves: Deciphering Augustine’s Understanding of a People
A webinar discussion with Jennifer Frey (University of South Carolina), Russell Hittinger (Lumen Christi Institute), and Fr. Michael Sherwin, OP (University of Fribourg). Originally broadcast as a live webinar May 1, 2021 The president in his inaugural address quoted Augustine of Hippo’s definition of a people as “a multitude defined by the common objects of their love.” This surprising event offers us the occasion to consider Augustine’s definition and its implications for our understanding of life in society: what role do our loves play in fashioning us as people? Can disparate loves divide a people? What does Augustine think we should love in order to belong to the people who inhabit the City of God? Join us for a moderated conversation between Profs. Russell Hittinger, Michael Sherwin, O.P., and Jennifer Frey on Augustine and the loves that form a People. This event is cosponsored by America Media.
Mon, 24 May 2021 - 1h 25min - 135 - Beauty and Justice in the City: the Restoration of St. Adalbert's, in Pilsen
A webinar conversation with Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado (University of Scranton), and Juan Soto (Gamaliel), moderated by Peter Casarella (Duke University). Originally delivered May 11, 2021. Part of a Lumen Christi Institute webinar series on Hispanic Theology. Latinx Theology has always had a dual focus on the beauty of the symbols of Popular Catholicism and the cry of the poor in urban settings. In this session, one of the premier Latina voices on beauty and justice, Dr. Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado, will have a discussion with a long-time community activist in Chicago about the application of this dyad to the concrete setting of Latinx Catholic life in the city of Chicago. The ongoing discussion of the proposed restoration of St. Adalbert’s will serve as a case study for thinking about how “God lives in the city” (Pope Francis).
Mon, 24 May 2021 - 1h 16min - 134 - Claudia Herrera and Jose Matos Auffant - Latino Youth and Evangelization
A webinar conversation with Claudia Herrera (ACHTUS) and Jose Matos Auffant (St. Mary's University). Originally delivered May 4, 2021. Part of a Lumen Christi Institute webinar series on Hispanic Theology. There are complex dynamics to account for when examining the intersectionality of religious identity, social context, and the lived experience of young Latinx in the U.S. Current research shows that almost half of Catholics in the United States self-identify as Hispanic, and that more than half of those Hispanic Catholics are young. To better understand the religious dynamics of young Latinx, we first must identify those who are affiliated as Catholics and examine how they understand their relationship with the faith. This requires a process of listening, reflection and participatory-action. There is a large group of young Latinx who self-identify as Catholics and no longer affiliate nor participate in a local church or any form of pastoral activity. In some cases, their faith identity and daily practice as Catholics is a pilgrimage where the Church is the streets, their home, and other everyday spaces, and the practices of their everyday life represent Catholicism. This conversation aims to provide both practical and theological insight emerging from the particularities of pastoral and research work with young Latinx and their familias/comunidades. There is a great need to open concrete spaces in which young Latinx are listened to and are affirmed as active agents in the sharing of the good news of the Gospel.
Mon, 24 May 2021 - 1h 12min - 133 - Was Something Lost? Thomas Aquinas, Intellectual Disability, & the 16th c. Spanish Colonial Debates
A webinar lecture with Miguel Romero (Salve Regina University). Originally delivered April 27, 2021. Part of a Lumen Christi Institute webinar series on Hispanic Theology. In the 16th century, there was a subtle shift in the way the Spanish Dominican interpreters of Thomas Aquinas spoke about the anthropological and moral significance of our rational faculties. Historical and textual markers, indicating both the origin and development of this interpretive shift, present amid the fierce engagement of the Spanish colonial debates. Much has been written on the specific topic of those debates: i.e., the allegations concerning the rational status and moral aptitude of the Amerindian peoples and, by extension, the justice or injustice of the Spanish colonial enterprise in the Americas. However, it is difficult to find any scholarly work on the subject of the Spanish colonial debates: i.e., the anthropological and moral questions relevant to persons who seem to “lack the full use of reason.” Bearing that distinction in mind, between the topic and subject of the debates, this presentation for Lumen Christi is focused on persons who actually (and not allegedly) lack the full use of reason. Key interpretations, appropriations, and arguments about Aristotle and Aquinas—in the writing of John Mair, Francisco de Vitoria, and Bartolome de las Casas—will be retraced to show how Aquinas’s way of thinking about the intellectual dignity and inalienable contemplative aptitude of persons who “lack the use of reason” came to be displaced from the main currents of Thomistic theological discourse.
Wed, 12 May 2021 - 1h 13min - 132 - David Lantigua - Fratelli Tutti and the Latino Social Teaching of Pope Francis
"Globalization from the People: Fratelli Tutti and the Latino Social Teaching of Pope Francis" A webinar lecture with Prof. David Lantigua (University of Notre Dame). Delivered April 20, 2021, as part of a webinar series on Hispanic Theology, presented by the Lumen Christi Institute. The COVID-19 pandemic has been a flash point for globalization as a sign of the times, revealing the best and worst of our interconnected human family. Released during the pandemic, Pope Francis’s Fratelli tutti speaks directly to the political crisis of globalization, following the worldwide financial and ecological crises addressed in the previous two social encyclicals of the twenty-first century. Despite the public conversation about Fratelli tutti, very little attention concerns the Latino theological and political imagination of Pope Francis’s social teaching. This talk examines the new encyclical of the first Hispanic Pope from the global South as someone formed in a teología del pueblo. Among the relevant topics raised in Fratelli tutti, we will explore the peculiar relationship between neoliberalism and universal human rights, and the providential role of popular movements for promoting global solidarity in sharp contrast to populism.
Wed, 12 May 2021 - 1h 14min - 131 - David Meconi S.J. - Ambrose and Augustine on Christian Holiness
While Saints Ambrose and Augustine never define Christian holiness, this was the pursuit that fueled all of their writings, all of their sermons, and directed their everyday lives. By examining the writings of these two pillars of the Western Church, today's talk seeks to show how Ambrose and Augustine understood holiness and what that might mean for our lives today. Originally presented as a live webinar April 17th, 2021. Presented by the Lumen Christi Institute and the Bollandist Society as part of a webinar series on the saints.
Sat, 08 May 2021 - 55min - 130 - Hosffman Ospino - Teaching Catholic Doctrine en Español
Language matters, and it matters much when sharing the best of our faith convictions with one another. Without language there is no communication, understanding or community. Sharing faith in the United States of America in an increasingly Hispanic church demands that we take questions associated with language seriously. Nearly fifteen million Catholics in the U.S. are Spanish-speaking immigrants. Many are raising their children “in Spanish.” Even though the vast majority of Hispanics are U.S. born and English-speaking, Spanish constantly shapes their cultural and religious imagination. In this presentation, we will reflect on the intersectionality of language, culture and religious identity among U.S. Hispanic Catholics at the time of sharing the faith and reflect theologically. To teach Catholic doctrine “en español,” literally or metaphorically, is an invitation to embrace the many creative ways in which God calls us to be church in the twenty-first century. This lecture with Professor Hosffman Ospino (Boston College) was originally presented as a live webinar lecture April 13, 2021. This event is part of a webinar series on Hispanic Theology, made possible by a generous grant from the Our Sunday Visitor Institute.
Wed, 05 May 2021 - 1h 24min - 129 - The Origins of Mass Incarceration: The Courts and the 1960s Criminal Procedure Revolution?
A discussion with Judge Stephanos Bibas (3rd Circuit, Court of Appeals) and William Pizzi (University of Colorado Law School), moderated by Cook County Judge Tom Donnelly. American principles of justice and equality lead our culture to value the criminal trial as a fair hearing for the accused and vindication for the victims of crime. But the reality of the U.S. justice system falls far short of this ideal, making criminal trials the rare exception amidst a wave of plea bargains. When trials do take place, judges are often forced to impose mandatory sentences that do not fit the unique context of a given case. Join Judge Stephanos Bibas from the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals, and author of The Machinery of Criminal Justice (Oxford University Press, 2015), and Professor William Pizzi, as they discuss Pizzi’s new book, The Supreme Court’s Role in Mass Incarceration (Routledge, 2020). Pizzi provocatively argues that the Supreme Court’s attempts to expand defendants’ rights in the 20th century unexpectedly led to the mass incarceration crisis today. He points to Canada as a beacon of hope, where an unelected, professional judiciary customizes sentences to fit the actual case. Unlike American courts, where judges are forced by repeat-offender laws to sentence defendants to decades for a minor offense, Canada's judiciary freely metes out proportionate sentencing. This event is part of the Catholic Criminal Justice Reform Network, a new initiative of the Lumen Christi Institute. This event is co-sponsored by Georgetown University Law Center, Notre Dame Law School, Boston College Law School, the University of St. Thomas School of Law, the Catholic Lawyers Guild of Chicago, Catholic Prison Ministry Coalition, Kolbe House Jail Ministry, Seattle University, the Seattle University Crime and Justice Research Center, Loyola University Chicago School of Law, the Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage, Fordham University School of Law, the Institute on Religion, Law and Lawyer’s Work at Fordham University School of Law, The Center on Race, Law, and Justice (Fordham University School of Law), the University of Denver College of Law Federalist Society, and the University of Colorado Federalist Society
Wed, 05 May 2021 - 1h 11min - 128 - Elizabeth Lev - A Good Man Is Hard to Find: St. Joseph in Art
A webinar lecture with Elizabeth Lev(Duquesne University). This event is co-presented by the Harvard Catholic Forum and the Lumen Christi Institute. St. Joseph was an unassuming latecomer to the history of art, but once discovered, his images evolved rapidly to serve the Catholic Church during challenging times. From model for the papacy, to symbol of marriage and fatherhood, to guide for a good death and advocate for the worker, St Joseph's many guises have made him one of the Church's greatest spiritual treasures. Following Pope Francis' dedication of 2021 to St. Joseph, this talk will look at Giotto, Raphael, Murillo and others as we uncover the many faces of this quiet saint. This event co-sponsored by the Saint Benedict Institute, the Nova Forum, the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies, the Ars Vivendi Arts Initiative of the Collegium Institute, the St. Paul’s Catholic Center, the St. Lawrence Institute for Faith and Culture, and the New England Chapter of the Patron of the Arts Vatican Museums.
Thu, 08 Apr 2021 - 1h 00min - 127 - Fr. Thomas Esposito, O.Cist - How to Be a Corinthian
A webinar lecture with Fr. Thomas Esposito, O.Cist (University of Dallas). This event is cosponsored by Calvert House Catholic Center. The first recipients of St. Paul's letters did not keep their letters to themselves; as part of the organic life of the Church that Catholics call "Tradition," the letters of Paul were collected together and incorporated into the New Testament. One amazing consequence of this Tradition at work is that everyone who reads these letters, regardless of time or place, becomes a Corinthian, or a Roman, or an Ephesian, thanks to the unifying power of the Holy Spirit. This conference will reflect on how the early Church received these letters, and highlight specific texts that reveal how the voice of St. Paul still reaches us, both individuals and the Body of Christ collectively, today.
Thu, 08 Apr 2021 - 1h 12min - 126 - Fragile Democracy: Technocratic Takeover and Popular Renewal
A panel discussion with Charles Taylor (McGill University), Patrizia Nanz (German Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management), and Jason Blakely (Pepperdine University), moderated by Fr. Patrick Gilger, SJ (New School for Social Research). We are experiencing a crisis of democracy more powerful than anything seen in a generation: inequality continues at a galloping pace; policing is increasingly racialized and militarized; political decision-making appears remote and divorced from the lives of ordinary people. This panel discussion—including renowned philosopher Charles Taylor--will consider sources and solutions to the present crisis of democracy by drawing on two recent books: "Reconstructing Democracy" by Charles Taylor, Patrizia Nanz, and Madeleine Beaubien Taylor and "We Built Reality" by Jason Blakely. Both works identify within our political and cultural crisis the loss of democratic participation and the rise of top-down technocratic, managerial rule. This event is co-presented by the Lumen Christi Institute and the Nova Forum and co-sponsored by America Media, the Collegium Institute, the Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago, and the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies.
Tue, 06 Apr 2021 - 1h 23min - 125 - Fr. Mark Rotsaert, SJ - Spirituality and the Saints
A webinar lecture with Fr. Mark Rotsaert, SJ, President of the Bollandist Society. This event was co-presented by the Lumen Christi Institute and the Bollandist Society. Originally broadcast as a live event March 13, 2021. In this presentation, Fr. Mark Rotsaert, SJ will look to sanctity as a gift of the Spirit and reflect on the different ways one can become a saint and the universal call to holiness according to Pope Francis’ exhortation Gaudete et exsultate. Do saints have a specific kind of spirituality? Is sanctity the same as perfection? Are the saints perfect?
Sat, 13 Mar 2021 - 1h 11min - 124 - Learning Poverty and Education Pluralism: The Global Catholic Education Report 2021
Catholic schools serve close to 62 million students globally at the preschool, primary, and secondary levels, with in addition more than 6 million students enrolled at the post-secondary level. By managing the largest non-governmental network of schools and universities in the world, the Catholic Church plays an important role in efforts to achieve SDG4, especially in low-income countries. In 2020, OIEC released the first Global Catholic Education Report. The second edition of the report for 2021 under the new collaborative Global Catholic Education project (www.GlobalCatholicEducation.org) focuses on learning poverty, education pluralism, and the implications of the COVID-19 Crisis. The report explores the impact of the crisis on educational attainment and learning across countries, as well as the issue of education pluralism, suggesting that education pluralism should be taken into account when considering state support for nonprofit faith-based schools and universities. The report also discusses regulatory framework for Catholic schools and universities, as well as interventions that could improve educational outcomes. Finally, the report includes an updated statistical annex on enrollment trends in Catholic schools and universities in more than 100 countries. After a presentation summarizing the main findings from the Global Catholic Education Report 2021, panelists will share their views on how Catholic schools and universities globally could improve the education they provide and confront some of the most pressing challenges they face. This event is organized with the Catholic Research Economists Discussion Organization (CREDO), Global Catholic Education, Global Researchers Advancing Catholic Education (GRACE), the International Federation of Catholic Universities (IFCU), the National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA), and the International Office of Catholic Education (OIEC). This event is cosponsored by America Media, and the Roche Center for Catholic Education.
Tue, 23 Feb 2021 - 1h 27min - 123 - Patrick Geary - Pledges of the Saints: The Cult of Relics in the Catholic Tradition
Lecture with Patrick Geary (Institute for Advanced Study), delivered Feb 13, 2021. This event was co-presented by the Lumen Christi Institute and the Bollandist Society, and co-sponsored by America Media, the Collegium Institute, the Harvard Catholic Forum, the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, the Nova Forum, the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies at USC, the Saint Benedict Institute, and the Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage. --- The physical remains of saints are often referred to as pignora, that is, as security deposits or pledges of the continued concern that the saints, although in heaven, continue to show for those who venerate them. In this lecture will discuss the origin of the cult of relics, the process by which these cults, originally concentrated on the tombs of saints, became mobile, and how the veneration of saints led to the dismemberment of saints’ bodies and the distribution of relics throughout Christendom. It will also consider the resulting anxieties about relics’ authenticity, the efforts to control and regulate the cult of relics, and the competition that relics have received from other types of sacred or sanctified objects.
Tue, 23 Feb 2021 - 1h 04min - 122 - Russell Hittinger - Yves Simon on Natural Law
Review and lecture from a master class with Russell Hittinger, Delivered in December of 2020. The tradition of natural law is one of the foundations of Western civilization. At its heart is the conviction that there is an objective and universal justice which transcends humanity’s particular expressions of justice. It asserts that there are certain ways of behaving which are appropriate to humanity simply by virtue of the fact that we are all human beings. Recent political debates indicate that it is not a tradition that has gone unchallenged: in fact, the opposition is as old as the tradition itself. By distinguishing between philosophy and ideology, by recalling the historical adventures of natural law, and by reviewing the theoretical problems involved in the doctrine, Simon clarifies much of the confusion surrounding this perennial debate. He tackles the questions raised by the application of natural law with skill and honesty as he faces the difficulties of the subject. Simon warns against undue optimism in a revival of interest in natural law and insists that the study of natural law beings with the analysis of “the law of the land.” He writes not as a polemicist but as a philosopher, and he writes of natural law with the same force, conciseness, lucidity and simplicity which have distinguished all his other works.
Tue, 23 Feb 2021 - 46min - 121 - Fr. John O'Malley, SJ - Humanism as an Educational Ideal
A lecture by Fr. John O'Malley, SJ (Georgetown University), followed by Q&A. The ideal of educating the total human person – the project that took on the name “humanism” - became a widespread norm for education in the Christian world of early modern Europe, whence it spread to North and South America. This humanist ideal has competed for influence with other educational ideals, most especially with those pursued by universities. Fr. John O’Malley examines the sources of the humanistic style of learning, the place of that style in Catholic culture, and, more broadly, in the world in which we live. He examines the courses of study that came to characterize it, how humanism has developed and adapted over time, and what may be its prospects in the future. Originally presented as a live webinar lecture February 6, 2021. This event was co-presented by the Harvard Catholic Forum and the Lumen Christi Institute, and co-sponsored by the Saint Benedict Institute, the Collegium Institute, the Nova Forum, the Institute for Faith and Culture, the St. Paul's Catholic University Center, and the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry.
Tue, 23 Feb 2021 - 59min - 120 - Beyond Test Scores: Measuring the Contributions of Catholic Schools
A presentation by Quentin Wodon (International Office of Catholic Education), followed by discussion with Annie Smith (Director of Research and Data, National Catholic Education Association), Andrew Miller (Boston College), and Timothy Uhl (Superintendent, Catholic Schools for Montana). Catholic schools and universities aim to educate the whole person. Beyond strong academics, they aim to educate towards fraternal humanism. Do we have any evidence that they succeed? Based on recent research for the United States conducted under the new collaborative Global Catholic Education project, including a set of papers prepared for a special issue of the Journal of Catholic Education, this webinar will explore this question. Topics to be considered include (1) whether parents sending children to Catholic schools have different priorities for what children should learn in school than other parents; (2) whether students in Catholic schools exhibit self-discipline; (3) whether different stakeholders have different worldviews for Catholic schools; (4) whether there is less violence in Catholic schools than in other schools; (5) whether going to Catholic schools is associated with particular patterns of family formation later in life; and (6) more generally, what is meant by a Catholic identity. While the discussion will focus in large part on schools, implications for Catholic universities will also be discussed. After a presentation summarizing findings from recent research, panelists will share their views on how Catholic schools and universities could rely on these and other research findings to improve the education they provide "beyond test scores". This event is presented by the Lumen Christi Institute, the Catholic Research Economists Discussion Organization (CREDO), Global Catholic Education, Global Researchers Advancing Catholic Education (GRACE), the International Federation of Catholic Universities (IFCU), the National Catholic Education Association (NCEA), and the International Office of Catholic Education (OIEC). This event is cosponsored by America Media, and the Roche Center for Catholic Education.
Wed, 20 Jan 2021 - 1h 06min - 119 - Partners in Charity: St. Louise de Marillac and St. Vincent de Paul
A webinar lecture with Professor Bronwen McShea (Augustine Institute; Institute on Religion and Public Life). Originally delivered on January 7, 2021. This event was co-presented by the Lumen Christi Institute and the Bollandist Society. In this talk, we will examine side by side the lives and legacies of two major saints of French Catholicism's seventeenth-century golden age. Louise de Marillac and Vincent de Paul co-founded the Daughters of Charity, one of the most successful socially-oriented women's congregations in the Church's history, when the Tridentine-era bishops were attempting to enforce strict claustration for women religious. They also collaborated with a wide circle of lay and religious women and men of different social backgrounds in ways that transformed Christian life in and beyond France for centuries. We will reflect on the two saints' fruitful spiritual friendship of several decades. We will also consider why De Marillac is far less well known than De Paul in modern times, something that stems in part from the different trajectories their causes for sainthood took in the wake of each saint's death, only several months apart from the other's, in 1660.
Wed, 13 Jan 2021 - 1h 15min - 118 - Is there a Catholic Vote? An Evangelical Vote? Religion, Polls, and Presidential Elections
A panel discussion with Kenneth Woodward (Lumen Christi Institute), Peter Wehner (Ethics and Public Policy Center), and William McCready (University of Michigan), moderated by Joseph Capizzi (Catholic University of America). Originally presented as a live web event December 16, 2020. The 2020 presidential race seemed to highlight the central role of religion in the electorate. Democrats spent heavily on campaign ads emphasizing Joe Biden’s Roman Catholicism. President Trump has spent the past four years courting Evangelicals and conservative Catholics. But is there really a religious vote? In this panel, experts will examine the relationship between religion, polls, and presidential elections. This event was cosponsored by America Media and the Institute for Human Ecology.
Tue, 22 Dec 2020 - 1h 14min - 117 - John L. Allen Jr. - COVID-19 and the Worldwide Church
A webinar lecture with John L. Allen, Jr. (Crux) The pandemic of 2020 has disrupted the sacraments and public worship, scattered communities, and put local churches into new, sometimes strained, relationships with civil authorities. The Church has also been a significant actor in the crisis, offering relief services and spiritual care on a massive scale. What does all this mean for the worldwide Church, now and in the years to come? This event is organized by the Harvard Catholic Forum, co-presented with the Lumen Christi Institute, and co-sponsored by the Saint Benedict Institute, the Collegium Institute, the Institute for Faith and Culture, the Nova Forum, and St. Paul's University Catholic Center. This event was presented as a live webinar November 14, 2020
Fri, 18 Dec 2020 - 1h 11min - 116 - A Catholic Life in the Secular University: A Conversation with George Dennis O'Brien
A conversation with George Dennis O'Brien (University of Rochester) and Mark Alznauer (Northwestern University). John F. Kennedy once quipped that a Catholic would be president of the United States before a Catholic would be president of Harvard. As the Catholic president of two secular universities, Dennis O’Brien was a trailblazer. In this interview, O’Brien discusses his long career in higher education as a Catholic, a philosopher, and an administrator, with reflections on the past, present, and future of American higher education. O’Brien was raised in a south-side Chicago parish in the 1930s and 1940s. Educated at Yale, he came to the University of Chicago to write a PhD on Hegel. He was appointed president of Bucknell in 1976 and the University of Rochester in 1984. O’Brien’s varied career offers a fascinating window onto the history of American higher education in the twentieth century. Philosopher and fellow Hegelian Mark Alznauer will conduct this interview, focusing on higher education both Catholic and secular, as well as O’Brien’s experiences growing up in Chicago and attending the University of Chicago. Cosponsored by Commonweal Magazine, and the Sheil Catholic Center at Northwestern University. This event is presented by the Lumen Christi Institute Forum on the Church in Higher Education as part of its Liberal Arts Colloquium. This event was presented as a live webinar December 9, 2020.
Fri, 18 Dec 2020 - 1h 06min - 115 - Food Insecurity in the U.S.: Insights from Catholic Social Thought and Economics
A webinar panel discussion with theologian, Margaret Pfeil (University of Notre Dame), and economists Bruce Weber (Oregon State), and Craig Gundersen (University of Illinois), moderated by economist Chris Barrett (Cornell University). Food insecurity has become a leading indicator of well-being in the U.S. due to the tens of millions of food insecure Americans and the accordant negative physical and mental health outcomes and higher health care costs. Its importance has become even more stark during COVID-19, as rates are predicted to rise by almost 50% in 2020 in comparison to 2019. This program is co-presented by the Lumen Christi Institute and the Catholic Research Economists Discussion Organization (CREDO), and is co-sponsored by America Media, Catholic Charities USA, Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago, the Center for Social Concerns at the University of Notre Dame, the Department of Justice, Peace and Human Development for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, and the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO). Originally presented as a live web event on December 3, 2020.
Wed, 09 Dec 2020 - 1h 12min - 114 - Sam Conedera, SJ - Friends in Heaven: Edmund Campion and the Martyrs of England & Wales
A webinar lecture with Fr. Sam Z. Conedera, S.J. (Saint Louis University). Originally broadcast as a live web event on December 1, 2020, marking the feast day of St. Edmund Campion. This program was presented with the Bollandist Society. "The expense is reckoned, the enterprise is begun; it is of God; it cannot be withstood." With these bold words Edmund Campion, SJ, communicated to Her Majesty's Privy Council in 1581 the Catholic plan to restore the faith in England. On December 1, the Church celebrates Campion and his fellow martyrs of England and Wales. They did not succeed in restoring the faith, but they did carry out one of the most dangerous and fascinating clandestine missions in the history of the Church. "Friends in Heaven" explores the origin, activities, and ultimate demise of these men, as well as the lay Catholics who aided them, in the Elizabethan age, and concludes with a brief discussion of how they came to be canonized.
Wed, 09 Dec 2020 - 1h 09min - 113 - Thinking Inside and Outside the University: Zena Hitz on the Inner Life
A discussion with Professor Zena Hitz (St. John's College), moderated by Professor Jared Ortiz (Hope College). Originally broadcast as a live online event November 10, 2020. In a world where efficiency and utility are the standards by which we measure success, how do we appreciate what resists quantification? And at a moment of institutional change and instability for higher education, what do we hold onto? In her new book, Lost in Thought, Zena Hitz lays out the case for the inner life as a good in itself. Today, when even the humanities are often defended only for their economic or political usefulness, Hitz says our intellectual lives are valuable not despite but because of their practical uselessness. Within or without institutional structures, the intellectual life offers a source of meaning and fulfillment. In this webinar conversation with Jared Ortiz, Hitz will elucidate the hidden pleasures of contemplation, assess the possibilities for its re-emergence in the contemporary university, and debate whether figures as dissimilar as the Virgin Mary, Albert Einstein, and Malcom X can be said to participate in a common intellectual activity.
Wed, 09 Dec 2020 - 1h 17min - 112 - Metropolitan Borys Gudziak - Quo Vadis: The Direction of Eastern Catholic Theology
"Quo Vadis: The Direction of Eastern Catholic Theology, a Pastoral Perspective for the 21st Century" A webinar lecture with Metropolitan Borys Gudziak (Archeparchy of Philadelphia, Ukrainian Catholic Church in the USA). Part of a webinar series. "Eastern Catholic Theology in Action," presented by the Lumen Christi Institute, the Godbearer Institute, and the Collegium Institute. Originally delivered as a live web event November 12, 2020. Metropolitan Borys Gudziak has spent his life committed to Catholic education. He helped to found Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, the only Catholic University between Poland and Japan. The University’s mission was simple: to bring the Christian humanist vision of the Catholic University to Ukraine to heal the wounds inflicted by Soviet oppression. Gudziak was rector of Ukrainian Catholic University until 2012 and became president upon his episcopal ordination. After seven years as ordinary for Ukrainian Catholics in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Switzerland he was named metropolitan archbishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia in 2019. From the depths of his experience living between continents, eastern and western Europe, the academy and pastoral life, Gudziak will offer a pastoral perspective on the Eastern Catholic theological voice and its role in communicating the Gospel today.
Wed, 25 Nov 2020 - 1h 11min - 111 - John O'Malley, SJ - Venerating the Saints: An Ancient Tradition Actual Today
A webinar lecture with Fr. John O'Malley, SJ. Presented by the Lumen Christi Institute, the Bollandist Society, and America Media. Originally delivered as a live webinar on November 1, 2020. Few Christian practices are as ancient and widely popular as veneration of the saints. It is appropriate on this Feast of All Saints to review that history, consider the challenges it has faced, and reflect on its appeal even in our day. Beginning with the early veneration of the martyrs, especially in Rome, the presentation will show how it expanded to confessors who “confessed” or witnessed to the faith under trial and then came to include the veneration of images and relics, which provoked severe controversy. The talk will conclude with consideration of Jesuit saints, saints today, and the work of the Bollandist Society, a unique group of Jesuits based in Belgium who have, for centuries, provided crucial editing and scholarship that have defined the field of “hagiography,” the serious, critical historical study of the lives of the saints.
Tue, 24 Nov 2020 - 1h 04min - 110 - Fratelli Tutti: Engaging Pope Francis's New Encyclical on Social Friendship
An online panel discussion with Russell Hittinger (Lumen Christi Institute) and Joseph Capizzi (Catholic University of America), moderated by Jennifer Frey (University of South Carolina). Originally broadcast October 27, 2020. Who is my neighbor? Who is my brother and sister? Drawing on central gospel themes found in the Good Samaritan narrative, Pope Francis applies them to the whole “human family,” proposing that the logic of social friendship and neighborly love move beyond the personal to touch on every major social sphere. Join as this panel of experts in Catholic Social Thought discuss Pope Francis’s latest social encyclical, Fratelli Tutti. Cosponsored by the Institute for Human Ecology at Catholic University of America and America Media.
Fri, 20 Nov 2020 - 1h 14min - 109 - Stephen Barr - Fearful Symmetry: Cosmic Order and a Divine Creator
A webinar lecture with Stephen M. Barr (University of Delaware), presented by the Harvard Catholic Forum and the Lumen Christi Institute. Originally broadcast on October 15, 2020. For thousands of years, some philosophers and scientists have argued that order in the universe points to a creator God. How does this argument hold up against the scientific discoveries of recent decades? Join us as theoretical particle physicist Stephen Barr examines the cosmic order and its relationship to a Divine Creator.
Fri, 20 Nov 2020 - 1h 03min - 108 - The United Nations at 75: Catholic Perspectives
A panel discussion with Archbishop Gabriele Caccia, Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations; Joseph Donnelly, Delegate of Caritas Internationalis to the UN; and Mary Ann Glendon, former US ambassador to the Holy See and expert in human rights, and is moderated by Paolo Carozza (Notre Dame). This event was originally broadcast as a live web event on October 22, 2020 Historically, the Bishop of Rome and the diplomats representing the Holy See have played important roles in international affairs involving Empires and Kingdoms, sometimes in making war, sometimes negotiating marriages and alliances, ideally in making peace. With the loss of the Papal States in 1870 and the creation of, first, the League of Nations, and later, the United Nations, the Holy See has continued to play an important—and sometimes contested—role. Of course, lay Catholics played an important role in founding the UN—as they did for the EU and in writing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This panel discussion explores the history of the Holy See’s relations with the United Nations, the role of lay Catholics and Church leaders in developing the human rights tradition, and the growing role of Catholic NGOs as they work alongside the UN for justice, peace, religious freedom, and integral human development around the world. This event was co-presented with America Media, the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, and the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations, and is co-sponsored by the Beatrice Institute, the Collegium Institute, the Harvard Catholic Forum, the Institute for Faith and Culture, the Institute for Human Ecology, the Nova Forum for Catholic Thought, and the St. Paul Catholic Center.
Fri, 20 Nov 2020 - 1h 19min - 107 - Integral Bioethics in the Anthropocene
A panel discussion with Willis Jenkins (University of Virginia), Benjamin de Foy (Saint Louis University), and Simone Kotva (Emmanuel College). Originally broadcast as a live webinar October 16, 2020. In 2000, scientists argued that human impact on the Earth reached levels meriting the creation of a new geological epoch, naming it the Anthropocene. The challenge of the Anthropocene is more than just an acknowledgement of changes to our planet, but also a challenge to humanity, pressing us to reconsider human health, action, and ethics. Can theological insights, ranging from early Christian thinkers to Pope Francis's Laudato si', help orient us in the Anthropocene, or do they fall short of the challenge? Join as this interdisciplinary panel brings scientific, theological, and ethical perspectives to bear on integral bioethics in the Anthropocene. This event was co-presented with the International Academy for Bioethical Inquiry, and co-sponsored by the Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics.
Fri, 20 Nov 2020 - 1h 13min - 106 - Erin Walsh - Expanding the Archive: Syriac Literature and the Study of Early Christianity Today
A webinar lecture with Professor Erin Walsh (University of Chicago). Through the work of editing and translating Syriac manuscripts, scholars continue to enrich our historiography of the formative centuries of Christianity. This research has been particularly fruitful in the areas of biblical interpretation, asceticism, the history of doctrine, and the role of women within the church. Dr. Walsh will provide a brief overview of these developments before focusing on the importance of poetry for biblical storytelling and spiritual formation. Using examples from the poetry of Narsai and Jacob of Serugh, Dr. Walsh will explore the ways poets inherited the legacy of Ephrem and applied their own artistic brilliance to articulate a Christian worldview, exhorting believers to live with fervent faith both in their own time and today. This lecture is part of a webinar series on "Eastern Catholicism in Action," presented by the Lumen Christi Institute and the Godbearer Institute, and was originally delivered as a live webinar lecture on October 1, 2020
Tue, 13 Oct 2020 - 1h 05min - 105 - Alexander Laschuk - Eastern Churches, Latin Territories
"Eastern Churches, Latin Territories: Ecclesial Catholicity and the Notion of Diaspora." A webinar lecture by Fr. Alexander Laschuk (University of St. Michael's College; University of Toronto). Delivered Septemeber 24, 2020 as part of a webinar series on Eastern Catholic Theology in Action," co-presented by the Lumen Christi Institute and the Godbearer Institute. --- According to the teaching of the Second Vatican Council, all Eastern Catholic Churches have same rights and obligations as the Latin Church and are equal in dignity. They also share the obligation to preach the Gospel to the whole world. At the same time, the jurisdiction of the Eastern Churches is circumscribed to the notion of canonical territory. Inside this territory, the hierarchy has certain rights, while outside this territory there are numerous limitations. The talk will first discuss the notion of the Church sui iuris and the understanding of the Catholic Church as a communion of Churches. Second, it will then examine the idea of canonical territory in the Catholic Church. Historical roots of the juridical concept will be examined before looking at the current theological and canonical expression. Finally, the notion of canonical territory as currently existing will be critically examined, with special attention to the conciliar teachings as well as ecumenical implications.
Thu, 01 Oct 2020 - 1h 08min - 104 - Robin Darling Young - Christ the Lover of Mankind
"Christ the Lover of Mankind: Philanthropia, Mystery, and Martyria in Eastern Christianity" A webinar lecture with Robin Darling Young (Catholic University of America), originally delivered September 17, 2020. Presented as part of a series on "Eastern Catholic Theology in Action," co-presented by the Lumen Christi Institute and the Godbearer Institute. Three features are common to all Eastern Christian traditions—philanthropia, mystery, and martyria. They appear repeatedly in Eastern Christian writing, ritual, and personal practice from the preaching of Jesus to the present. Philanthropia, God’s love for humanity, prompts the mission of the Logos to provide for humanity’s return to the divine. Mystery, which paradoxically reveals and conceals, both in ceremony and in “ordinary” time, the Logos’ saving events. Martyria is the sign and demonstration of God’s beckoning love and the replication of the “priesthood of all believers.” Dr. Young will explore these themes through examples, not only from the Greek and Slavic traditions, but also from those of the Christian traditions of the East, the Caucasus and Ethiopian Christianity.
Wed, 23 Sep 2020 - 1h 09min - 103 - Andrew Hayes - A Theology of Wonder: An Introduction to the Poetry of Ephrem the Syrian
A webinar lecture with Andrew Hayes (University of St. Thomas, Houston). This event is presented in collaboration with the Godbearer Institute as part of a Fall webinar lecture series on "Eastern Catholic Theology in Action." St. Ephrem is the common teacher of the Syriac theological tradition whose preferred medium is poetry. Named a doctor of the Church by Benedict XV, Ephrem emphasizes that the ascetical and mystical experience of wonder is the criterion for authentic theologizing. Dr. Hayes will discuss how Ephrem’s notion of wonder purifies our freedom and rendering the whole person a clear and luminous receptacle for the experience of God.
Tue, 15 Sep 2020 - 1h 17min - 102 - Daniel Galadza - Introduction to Liturgical Mystagogy
A webinar lecture with Dcn. Daniel Galadza (University of Regensburg) This event is presented in collaboration with the Godbearer Institute as part of a Fall webinar lecture series on "Eastern Catholic Theology in Action." From the fourth to eighth centuries, liturgical commentaries flourished to explain the meaning of the sacramental life of the Church. Notably after the fourth century, the tradition of Jerusalem developed another genre for mystagogy, namely hymnography. As part of the structure of the liturgical services, they explain to the faithful what is happening during the services, rather than before or after the celebration. In this way, hymnography has an exegetical function, commenting on scripture and the mystery of salvation in Christ. In this presentation, Dr. Galadza explores this hymnographic tradition and its relation to the formation of liturgical theology.
Thu, 10 Sep 2020 - 1h 11min - 101 - Peter Casarella - Passage to Modernity: Renaissance Christianity Today
A webinar lecture with Peter Casarella (Duke University), originally delivered August 18, 2020. Part of our summer webinar series on "Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture," presented in collaboration with the American Cusanus Society Historian Jacob Burckhardt (d. 1897) famously argued that Italian humanism of the fourteenth and fifteenth century paved the way inevitably to modern individualism and secularism, but more recently Burckhardt's view has been largely discredited. Contemporary thinkers, Louis Dupré and Karsten Harries, each with very distinctive accents, made decisive contributions to overcoming of Burkhardtian forerunner mentality. In this concluding webinar, Professor Casarella will explore Dupré's and Harries' contributions to a post-Burckhardtian reading of the relationship of Italian humanism to modernity and also some of the limitations of the interpretations they proposed in the light of more recent ideas regarding post-structuralism and decolonial theory.
Tue, 01 Sep 2020 - 1h 10min - 100 - Torrance Kirby - Richard Hooker’s Sapiential Theology: Reformed Platonism?
An webinar lecture with Professor Torrance Kirby (McGill University), delivered August 11, 2020. Part of our summer webinar series on "Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture," presented in collaboration with the American Cusanus Society Richard Hooker (1554-1600) was a preeminent theologian and philosopher of the Elizabethan Church. His seminal book, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity (1593), set out a path for Anglican theology that was distinct from both Puritan and Roman Catholic thought. In Book I, Hooker identifies Law with Holy Wisdom and his treatment echoes the sapiential books of Scripture, viz. Proverbs, Job, and the Wisdom of Solomon. Hooker also appeals to a hierarchical disposition of the species of law in the medieval scholastic conception of the ‘lex divinitatis’, especially as formulated by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite and later by Thomas Aquinas. For Hooker, the First Eternal Law concealed in the ‘Bosome of God’ is unutterable, while its external emanation, the Second Eternal Law, is a ‘Voyce’ whose utterance constitutes the beautiful ‘Harmony of the Worlde’. This distinction between two species of Eternal Law owes much to the ancient Neoplatonic metaphysics of Proclus. Both Hooker’s sapiential theology and his invocation of the law of the ‘great chain’ stand in creative tension with his professed adherence to doctrine expressed by the Elizabethan Articles of Religion (1571). In this webinar, Professor Torrance Kirby will examine the tension between Hooker’s sources and his theology and will ask whether Hooker is successful in reconciling his legal metaphysics with his Reformed soteriology.
Thu, 27 Aug 2020 - 1h 19min - 99 - Douglas Hedley - Reason and Beauty in Cambridge Platonism
A webinar lecture with Douglas Hedley (University of Cambridge, originally delivered August 4, 2020. Part of our summer webinar series on "Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture," presented in collaboration with the American Cusanus Society. The Cambridge Platonists are the first modern Platonists. They are a group of English philosophers around the University of Cambridge in the seventeenth-century, in the context of reformed theology and the English Civil War. Yet while accepting the New Science of Copernicus and Galileo, they offer a fierce protest against mechanism and naturalism. Their notion of aesthetics and beauty--as historian Ernst Cassirer correctly saw--was one of the sources of the later Romantic movement. Their aesthetics has a theological foundation. As one of the Cambridge Platonists, Benjamin Whichcote (d. 1683) wrote: “There is that in God that is more beautiful than power, than will and Sovereignty, viz. His righteousness, His good-will, His justice, wisdom and the like’. In this webinar, Professor Douglas Hedley will discuss the Cambridge Platonists' thought on beauty and its theological dimension that is tied to a distinctly Platonic theory of enthusiasm or inspiration and that came to be a shaping force in 18th century thought.
Wed, 26 Aug 2020 - 1h 14min - 98 - Pondering Hiroshima
A webinar panel featuring Andrew J. Bacevich (Boston University), Archbishop Timothy Broglio (Archdiocese of the Military Services, USA), and Drew Christiansen, S.J. (Georgetown University), moderated by Joseph Capizzi (Catholic University of America). The event was initially broadcast on August 6, 2020, on the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. This event was dedicated to the late John P. Langan, S.J., noted professor, theologian and peace activist. This event was also cosponsored by America Media, The Institute for Human Ecology at the Catholic University of America, and the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University.
Fri, 07 Aug 2020 - 1h 08min - 97 - Valentina Zaffino - Giordano Bruno and the Poetry of the Cosmos
A webinar lecture with Valentina Zaffino (Pontifical Lateran University; Rome Global Gateway, University of Notre Dame). Part of our summer webinar series on "Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture," presented in collaboration with the American Cusanus Society Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, and cosmologist. Bruno’s notoriety is due both to his adventurous life and to his original reinterpretation of ancient thought in light of the new philosophical scenario. Valentina Zaffino will analyze Bruno’s image of the cosmos, focusing on his remodeled Neoplatonic background. In this context, as will be shown, the notions of harmony and beauty are closely related with Bruno’s fascinating claim of the infinity of the cosmos.
Thu, 06 Aug 2020 - 47min - 96 - Richard Oosterhoff - Measure and Mathematics in Renaissance Philosophy
A webinar lecture with Richard Oosterhoff (University of Edinburgh). Part of our summer webinar series on "Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture," presented in collaboration with the American Cusanus Society --- Perspective drawing, map-making, musical harmonics, astronomy, and number theory—these were all mathematical disciplines in the Renaissance. We tend to link measuring sounds, sights, and sensations with outstanding philosophers, from Nicholas of Cusa to Galileo and Descartes. But every university student met these topics, in their first textbooks. This webinar will focus on the hugely popular Paris master and humanist Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples (c. 1455–1536), who wove a programme of university reform out of authorities from Church Fathers and mystics, the Victorines, Ramon Llull, and Cusanus. Out of such sources, Lefèvre bequeathed European universities a shared philosophical culture in which mathematics offered an archetype of reason and beauty.
Fri, 17 Jul 2020 - 1h 18min - 95 - Tamara Albertini - Women Humanists in the Renaissance: Paradise and Free Speech in Moderata Fonte
An evening webinar lecture with Tamara Albertini (University of Hawai'i at Manoa). Part of our summer webinar series on "Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture," presented in collaboration with the American Cusanus Society After a brief review of women humanists like Laura Cerata, Cassandra Fedele, Lucrezia Marinella, and Isotta Nogarola, the presentation will focus on Moderata Fonte's dialogue The Merit of Women Where One Clearly Discovers How Dignified and Perfect They Are (1600). In that dialogue, Fonte creates a locus amoenus characterized by a centered garden visited by seven female interlocutors to discuss what options women have to take charge of their lives. The presentation will end by comparing and contrasting Fonte's garden with Giovanni Pico della Mirandola's paradise in his Oration on the Dignity of Man (1486)
Thu, 09 Jul 2020 - 1h 20min - 94 - Denis Robichaud - Marsilio Ficino and the Philosophy of Plato
A webinar with Professor Denis Robichaud (University of Notre Dame), originally presented June 30, 2020. Part of our summer webinar series on "Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture," presented in collaboration with the American Cusanus Society In the humanist recovery and study of Platonic thought and texts, Marsilio Ficino (1433-99) was a brilliant luminary. He produced the first translation into Latin of all of Plato’s texts and of Plotinus’s Enneads, and he translated and commented on numerous other Platonic works. Ficino was also more than a scholar, he was also a philosopher and theologian whose network of students, friends, and correspondents extended far beyond his Florentine home. His philosophical thought fed early modern philosophy for generations but also raised questions of Ficino’s orthodoxy. In this webinar, Professor Denis Robichaud (Notre Dame) will discuss Marsilio Ficino’s humanist, philosophical, and theological thought.
Mon, 06 Jul 2020 - 1h 18min - 93 - What Evolution Does and Does Not Tell Us about Humans
Cosponsored by the Society of Catholic Scientists. This event is made possible by a grant from the John Templeton Foundation. Does evolution fully explain the human? Recent paleontological and archeological work trace the deep lineages underlying many of our physical traits, and reveals our complicated history as one of many hominid species. It is abundantly clear that modern humans are subject to the same evolutionary pressures as the rest of the biological world and that evolution continues to shape our species. However, the developing story of our evolutionary history is frequently framed as a challenge to the claim of human uniqueness, fundamental to the Judeo-Christian understanding of the creation of man. Does evolution truly undercut the assumption of human uniqueness? Is our understanding of biological evolution sufficient to explain what makes us human? Here we present an online lecture with evolutionary paleobiologist, Simon Conway Morris, where he examines “What Evolution Does and Does not Tell Us about Humans.”
Fri, 26 Jun 2020 - 1h 01min - 92 - Dante as Poet and Philosopher
A conversation with Professors Jason Aleksander (San Jose State University) and Arielle Saiber (Bowdoin College). Part of our Summer webinar series on "Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture," presented in collaboration with the American Cusanus Society Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) was a Florentine writer and poet, whose long poetic work, The Divine Comedy, has received recognition as one of the greatest artistic achievements in the West. Dante's poetic artistry stands alongside his intellectual and philosophical thought throughout his writings and in his Comedy. In this webinar, Professor Jason Aleksander (San José State U) and Professor Arielle Saiber (Bowdoin College) will discuss Dante's interlocking poetic and philosophical production.
Wed, 24 Jun 2020 - 1h 24min - 91 - Race, Justice, and Catholicism
A discussion with Herschella Conyers (University of Chicago Law School), and Vincent Rougeau (Boston College Law School), moderated by Eduardo Peñalver (Cornell Law School). Cosponsored by America Media, Boston College Law School, the Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage, and the Catholic Lawyers Guild of Chicago. The cry in the streets of “no justice, no peace” echoes the teaching of Popes John XXIII and Paul VI. The recent crises have again brought to the fore the reality that interracial justice has eluded America, despite the promise of the civil rights movement. Slavery, its original sin, has dogged it from its founding. Segregation and mass incarceration continue this shameful legacy. Efforts to call Americans to take responsibility for this often find resistance in an individualistic ideology counter to the Catholic vision. Catholics find themselves on both sides of this history. The Gospel and Catholic social teaching clearly reject racism. Yet up to this moment, Catholic clergy and laity have often not lived up to this teaching, helping to sustain racism, rather than dismantle or reject it. If, as Pope Francis reminds us, we are all connected, then injustice anywhere is not only a threat to justice everywhere—it is injustice everywhere. In this event, a panel of distinguished legal scholars comes together to discuss our current moment and whether Catholicism can move from being part of the problem to becoming part of the solution.
Wed, 24 Jun 2020 - 1h 13min - 90 - Christians in Times of Catastrophe: Augustine's "City of God"
A discussion with Russell Hittinger (Senior Fellow Lumen Christi) and Fr Michael Sherwin, O.P. (University of Fribourg), moderated by Jennifer Frey (University of South Carolina). Cosponsored by America Media, the Collegium Institute, the Saint Benedict Institute, the Beatrice Institute, the Nova Forum, the Harvard Catholic Center, the Institute for Faith and Culture, and the Sacred and Profane Love podcast. Augustine of Hippo's City of God is one of the great theological books of the Christian tradition, laying out a vision of the Church and the Earthly City in parallel and of Christ's work of salvation in history in the context of the sack of Rome (410) and other calamities. Augustine's reflections on how Christians can understand and respond to catastrophes has become a wellspring in the Christian intellectual tradition and for us responding to todays troubles for the Church and for the world. In this web event, Professor Jennifer Frey (Philosophy, University of South Carolina) leads a moderated conversation between Professor emeritus Russell Hittinger (Senior Fellow LCI) and Fr Michael Sherwin, O.P. (Theology, University of Fribourg) on Augustine’s context and the continued relevance of his wisdom for Christians in the time of pandemic, economic turmoil, and political and social tumult.
Wed, 10 Jun 2020 - 1h 38min - 89 - David Albertson - Nicholas of Cusa
For the final installment of our Spring 2020 lecture series on "Reason and Wisdom in Medieval Christian Thought," Professor David Albertson leads us in exploring the work of German philosopher, theologian, astronomer, and mystic, Nicholas of Cusa. Nicholas of Cusa (d. 1464) was a great late medieval, early modern thinker and polymath who digested the medieval theological and contemplative traditions and pressed these in new directions. Living in tumultuous times, his career in the Church as a cardinal was occupied by his work as a reformer and his efforts to re-unify the Eastern and Western Churches. Professor David Albertson will offer an introduction to the lesser-known but rich life and thought of this great German personality.
Wed, 10 Jun 2020 - 1h 17min - 88 - Various - Lessons After the Lockdown: Public Health, Economics, and the Common Good
A Panel discussion with Joseph Capizzi(Catholic University of America), Kirk Doran (University of Notre Dame), Mary Hirschfeld (Villanova University), Paul McNelis, SJ (Gabelli School of Business at Fordham University), Daniel Sulmasy (Georgetown University). Originally broadcast as a web event on June 2, 2020 After two months of lockdown, nations across Europe and parts of the US are relaxing restrictions and facing new challenges. Where do we stand economically and socially? How might we have better protected the medically and economically vulnerable? How should we view the lockdown with its costs and benefits ethically? Our earlier event on "The Economic Costs of the Pandemic: Catholic Social Teaching and Economics in Dialogue,” provoked lively reactions. This event will consider what the principles of the common good, human dignity, justice, and solidarity mean in our present circumstances and how they ought to inform our prudential judgement going forward. Join as a panel of economists, theologians, and ethicists discuss lessons learned in the pandemic.
Fri, 05 Jun 2020 - 1h 26min - 87 - Bernard McGinn - Meister Eckhart
A webinar lecture delivered by Professor Bernard McGinn on May 28, 2020. This event is part of a larger series on "Reason and Wisdom in Medieval Christian Thought". Meister Eckhart (d. ca. 1328) was a famous and popular German mystical writer and preacher. After formal theological training in the University of Paris, following the footsteps of Thomas Aquinas and Bonaventure, Eckhart charted a distinctive mystical dialectical theological in his writings and sermons and drew theological controversy. His thought became an inspiration for a tradition of mystical thought after him and remains a wellspring of religious and theological thought today. Professor Bernard McGinn will introduce the life and some of the principal themes of Eckhart’s enigmatic thought.
Mon, 01 Jun 2020 - 1h 08min - 86 - Kevin Hughes - Saint Bonaventure
A webinar lecture by professor Kevin Hughes (Villanova) on Saint Bonaventure, delivered May 21, 2020. Part of a spring webinar series on "Reason and Wisdom in Medieval Christian Thought." Bonaventure (d. 1274) was a pivotal figure whose complex responded effectively to the challenges of his day and inspired both theological and philosophical thought up to the present day. As a contemporary of fellow mendicant St Thomas Aquinas, Bonaventure also taught at the University of Paris and formulated an original approach to the new Aristotelian thought. Later known as the Seraphic Doctor, Bonaventure fused profound theological thought with heart-felt spirituality and set out a vision of the life and charism of the recent St Francis of Assisi to provide peace-making leadership for the new Franciscan order. In this lecture, professor Kevin Hughes introduces the complex and multifaceted thought of Bonaventure.
Sat, 23 May 2020 - 1h 15min - 85 - Bernard McGinn and Willemien Otten - Apocolypticism in Times of Crisis
A conversation between University of Chicago professors, and scholars of medieval Christianity, Bernard McGinn and Willemien Otten. This event was broadcast live on May 19, 2020. Plague, political turmoil, famine—throughout Christian history, local catastrophes spurred on a sense of cosmic crisis, judgement, and prophetic fulfillment. What role has this apocalyptic imagination played for Christian communities? How does it continue to shape Christian responses to today's global pandemic? Cosponsored by America Media, the Saint Benedict Institute, the Nova Forum, the Collegium Institute, the Beatrice Institute, the Institute for Faith and Culture, the Harvard Catholic Center, Saint Paul's University Catholic Center, and the Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion at the University of Chicago Divinity School. For more information, see the event webpage: http://lumenchristi.org/event/2020/05/apocalypticism-in-times-of-crisis
Fri, 22 May 2020 - 1h 12min - 84 - Katie Bugyis - The Wisdom of Enclosure in Julian of Norwich's Showings
A webinar delivered by Professor Katie Bugyis (University of Notre Dame) on May 14th, 2020. Presented as part of a spring webinar series on "Reason and Wisdom in Medieval Christian Thought" Julian of Norwich (d. ca. 1416) was a widely respected and sought-out English thinker and spiritual counsellor. She lived as an anchorite, enclosed in a cell attached to a church in Norwich, Julian’s Showings are a book of spiritual visions that emerged from her life of prayer and that wrestle with the profound theological mysteries of fitting evil and suffering with God’s mercy and love. Professor Katie Bugyis will examine Julian’s thought in the context of her vocation of enclosed prayer.
Tue, 19 May 2020 - 1h 13min - 83 - Willemien Otten - Peter Abelard and Bernard of Clairvaux
A webinar delivered by Professor Willemien Otten (University of Chicago) on May 7, 2020. Part of a spring webinar series on "Reason and Wisdom in Medieval Christian Thought" Peter Abelard (d. 1142) and Bernard of Clairvaux (d. 1153) were contemporaries who both emerged from the new twelfth-century schools. But their dispositions, personalities, and eventual conflict have come to represent a conflict between the rising scholastic and the traditional monastic cultures of learning. Professor Willemien Otten will introduce these iconic twelfth-century personalities, the direction of their work, and the theological controversy that put them on opposing sides.
Tue, 19 May 2020 - 1h 14min - 82 - Various - The Economic Costs of the Pandemic: Catholic Social Teaching and Economics in Dialogue
A conversation between economists Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde (Penn), Joseph Kaboski (Notre Dame) and Casey Mulligan (University of Chicago) on Economics, Catholic Social Thought, and the cost of the pandemic. This webinar was live-streamed and recorded on May 5, 2020. --- Description: COVID-19 has put much of the world on standstill for the sake of reducing the risk to some of its citizens. What has been the cost of this in terms of economic recession, unemployment, human suffering, and even mortality? When the pandemic subsides, will government action be justified or will it have aggravated human suffering in an "economy that kills”? How do we measure or place values on the tradeoffs in terms of lives saved versus economic costs and human suffering? Economists Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde (Penn), Joseph Kaboski (Notre Dame) and Casey Mulligan (University of Chicago) join in conversation over these and other questions that have emerged in economics circles during the current 2020 pandemic.
Wed, 06 May 2020 - 1h 13min - 81 - Disease and the Problem of Evil
A web event with professors Steven Meredith (University of Chicago) and Jeffrey Bishop (Saint Louis University). Broadcast Tuesday, April 28, 2020. Cosponsored by America Media, the Society of Catholic Scientists, the Saint Benedict Institute, the Beatrice Institute, the Collegium Institute, the Nova Forum, and the Program on Religion and Medicine at the University of Chicago. This program is made possible by a grant from the John Templeton Foundation. Whether caused by pathogens, environmental exposure, or genetics, disease is typically understood to be an unwarranted and unwanted removal from one’s normal condition of good health. While a natural phenomenon, disease raises classic questions of theodicy. If illness is a privation of the good of health, should we also understand disease to be an evil? How can science, theology, philosophy, and literature help us to account for the occurrence of deadly diseases and the suffering that results from them? In this moderated conversation, Stephen Meredith, professor of pathology and molecular biology at the University of Chicago, and Jeffrey Bishop, healthcare ethicist and professor in philosophy and theology at Saint Louis University, will engage these questions and others surrounding disease and the problem of evil.
Thu, 30 Apr 2020 - 1h 08min - 80 - Brian Carl - Thomas Aquinas on Ways to Know God
A webinar lecture with Professor Brian Carl (University of St. Thomas), presented April 23, 2020. Part of Lumen Christi's 2020 Spring Webinar Series. Thomas was a friar of the Order of Preachers whose capacious mind bequeathed many treasures for the Christian tradition, including scriptural commentaries, philosophical treatises and commentary, his Summa theologiae, and devotional and liturgical texts. Thomas' approach to the knowledge of God is complex, acknowledging dialectical, rational, as well as revelatory, gracious, and mystical modes.
Fri, 24 Apr 2020 - 1h 16min - 79 - Aaron Canty - Anselm of Canterbury on the Rationality of Faith
An online webinar with Aaron Canty (Saint Xavier University), delivered April 16, 2020. This is the second installment of our 2020 Spring Webinar Series. Anselm was a startlingly original monastic writer and thinker who drank deeply of Augustinian and patristic theology but formulated his own theological and philosophical writings in spare and compelling chains of reasoning. His Why God Became Man, Monologion, and Proslogion each chart new ways to practice 'believing in order to understand (credo ut intelligam).'
Fri, 24 Apr 2020 - 1h 02min - 78 - Cardinal Francis George, the American Contribution to Catholic Social Thought, & Our Current Moment
A web panel discussion held April 17, 2020, upon the 5th anniversary of the death of Cardinal Francis George O.M.I. After his appointment as archbishop of Chicago, Cardinal George emerged as an intellectual leader within the Church, nationally and world-wide, and served as president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. His thought on American culture and society—expressed in numerous lectures and in three major books—provides a challenging, critical view of the American experiment from the perspective of post-Vatican II Catholic thought. Revisiting his book on social questions and public life—God in Action: How Faith in God Can Address the Challenges of the World—allows us to reflect on the American contribution to Catholic Social Thought and to apply it to consider our situation today as we confront a great global crisis. The panel will include Russell Hittinger, Senior Fellow of the Lumen Christi Institute and Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago Law School (Fall, 2020); Stephen Schneck, emeritus Professor at the Catholic University of America and Executive Director of the Franciscan Action Network; and Theresa Smart, assistant professor in the School of Civic and Economic Thought at Arizona State University. Each will draw from their own expertise and entertain the question of what distinctly American contributions have been made to Catholic Social Thought and how Cardinal George’s work fits within this tradition.
Fri, 24 Apr 2020 - 1h 33min - 77 - Michel Zink - The Contemplation of God in Medieval Literature
A lecture by French writer, medievalist, philologist and professor, Michel Zink, delivered March 5th 2009, at the University of Chicago. Michel Zink is Chair of Medieval Literature at the Collège de France. One of the preeminent medievalists of his generation, he has authored groundbreaking books on topics such as literary subjectivity in the medieval period, medieval literature and culture, and analysis of currently changing historiographical approaches. He is the author of La Subjectivité littéraire autour du siècle de saint Louis (1985, trans. 1999), Le Moyen Âge et ses chansons ou un passé en trompe-l'oeil (1996, trans. 1998), and Poésie et conversion au Moyen Âge (2004). He was elected to the Académie française in 2017.
Tue, 14 Apr 2020 - 51min - 76 - Regina M. Schwartz - Love Your Enemies: Retribution and Forgiveness
A lecture by Regina M. Schwartz (Northwestern University) given on January 14, 2016 at the University of Chicago The law presumes not only the right but the duty to punish: it does not ask whether it should punish, but how much, who, when, and how. In contrast, Christianity offers a different response to wrongdoing: Jesus engaged in a polemical attack on “the reciprocity code,” the assumption that good should be reciprocated with good and evil with evil. “Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you” (Luke 6:27-28). How are we to begin to comprehend this radical difference?
Fri, 10 Apr 2020 - 41min - 75 - Bernard McGinn - WEBINAR: Gregory the Great on Reading Scripture for Wisdom
A webinar recording from April 7, 2020, featuring Professor Bernard McGinn. Part of our 2020 Spring Webinar Series on "Reason and Wisdom in Medieval Christian Thought." For more information about this lecture series, visit http://lumenchristi.org/spring-webinar-series
Fri, 10 Apr 2020 - 58min - 74 - Rémi Brague and Jean-Luc Marion - Does Christianity Need Metaphysics?
A symposium with Rémi Brague (Sorbonne/University of Munich)and Jean-Luc Marion (University of Chicago), which took place November 6, 2014, at the University of Chicago. For more information in this event, see our event page: http://lumenchristi.org/event/2014/11/does-christianity-need-metaphysics-remi-brague-jean-luc-marion
Mon, 06 Apr 2020 - 53min - 73 - John Cavadini - The Grand Design: An Augustinian Reply to Stephen Hawking
A lecture by theologian John Cavadini (Notre Dame), given at the University of Chicago on February 2, 2012. In this talk, Professor Cavadini gives his response to a then-recent statement by acclaimed physicist Stephen Hawking that philosophy was dead, and that science is the only reasonable method for securing knowledge. In response, Professor Cavadini argues that philosophy is rooted in man’s wonder about the universe, and that scientific inquiry is only one aspect of true wisdom and should not be privileged over others.
Thu, 02 Apr 2020 - 1h 00min - 72 - John Haught - Science, Faith, and the New Atheism
This talk was delivered February 21, 2015, by John F. Haught, Distinguished Research Professor and Professor Emeritus of Theology at Georgetown University. His area of specialization is systematic theology, with a particular interest in issues pertaining to science, cosmology, evolution, ecology, and religion. - 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 aims to summarize the main claims of the New Atheists and examine whether these claims are themselves reasonable.
Wed, 01 Apr 2020 - 46min - 71 - Stephen M. Barr - Evolution and the Catholic Faith
Many people imagine that the Catholic Church was historically opposed to the theory of evolution or that there is something dangerous or dubious about Darwinian evolution from the viewpoint of Catholic theology. These ideas are based on a variety of confusions and misconceptions. This talk by University of Delaware physicist, Dr. Stephen M. Barr, explores how Catholic thinkers and Catholic Church authorities looked at evolution. It also responds to the arguments some Christians make against it, and examine some of the more subtle issues, such as the relation of chance to divine providence, and the questions surrounding human origins and human distinctiveness.
Wed, 01 Apr 2020 - 54min - 70 - Nicanor Austriaco, OP - Genome Editing with CRISPR: Dignity and Other Faith-Based Considerations
The discovery of CRISPR/Cas9 has revolutionized our ability to edit genomes, the human genome included. How do faith-based ethicists maneuver the landscape of human genetic engineering? What challenges do biotechnological advances pose to the dignity of the human person? Should genetic editing be celebrated? Cautiously advanced? Ruled out? In this lecture, biologist and Dominican Priest Nicanor Austriaco considers the prospects and challenges of CRISPR for the promotion of human dignity.
Tue, 31 Mar 2020 - 58min - 69 - Stephen M. Barr - Science and Religion: The Myth of Conflict
A lecture by Stephen M. Barr (University of Delaware) delivered at the University of Chicago on April 9, 2015. Stephen M. Barr is a theoretical particle physicist at the University of Delaware, where he is Professor of Physics and Astronomy and Director of the Bartol Research Institute. He has lectured widely on the relation of science and religion and is the author of Modern Physics and Ancient Faith, A Student’s Guide to Natural Science, and Science and Religion: The Myth of Conflict.
Tue, 31 Mar 2020 - 1h 04min - 68 - Stephen Meredith - The Modern Scientist as a Palimpsest of Three Fausts
A palimpsest is a manuscript or painting produced over a previous work. This lecture by Stephen Meredith, Professor in Pathology at the University of Chicago, examines “the modern scientist” as a palimpsest of three versions of the Faust story: The Faust Chapbook by an unknown author (1586), Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1808/1832), and the late masterpiece by Thomas Mann, Doctor Faustus (1947). While none of these Fausts is purely a scientist (someone who primarily knows or seeks knowledge), the same can be said for those we consider to be scientists today, who deal in various mixtures of science and technology. This talk focuses on three issues raised by these works: 1) the changing relationship between science and technology 2) the changing relationship between the pursuit of knowledge and technique on one hand, and religion on the other and 3) scientists’ changing view of causality – and in particular, of the final cause (telos).
Tue, 31 Mar 2020 - 1h 11min - 67 - Peter Harrison - Religious Origins of Modern Science?
It is often thought that modern science developed largely independently of, or even in opposition to, religion. Some historians, however, have suggested that religious factors played a key role in the emergence of modern science in the seventeenth century, and were important in establishing a permanent and prominent place for scientific activity at the heart of modern Western culture. This lecture explores a number of ways in which religion may have had a positive impact on the emergence and consolidation of modern science, paying particular attention to the values needed to establish its social and intellectual legitimacy.
Mon, 30 Mar 2020 - 57min - 66 - Jennifer Frey - Flannery O'Connor and the Vision of Grace
Flannery O’Connor is one of the most celebrated American fiction writers. Yet she has often been misunderstood by the very critics who praise her. O’Connor was sometimes called a hillbilly nihilist, but she responded that she was simply “a hillbilly Thomist.” In this talk, delivered February 13, 2020, at the University Club of Chicago, Dr. Jennifer Frey (University of South Carolina) explores the action of divine grace in the short stories of O’Connor, and how her vision of grace is inspired by the theology of St. Thomas Aquinas.
Fri, 27 Mar 2020 - 48min - 65 - Gustavo Gutierrez - On Óscar Romero and Pope Francis
A conversation with theologian Gustavo Gutierrez, from a 2015 event with students on contemplation and action.
Thu, 26 Mar 2020 - 36min - 64 - John Behr - Becoming Human in Light of the Gospel of John
A public lecture by Orthodox theologian, Fr. John Behr (St. Vladimir's Seminary), presented on January 16th, 2020 at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. Father Behr drew on two of his recent books, "Becoming Human: Meditations on Christian Anthropology in Word and Image" (2013), and "John the Theologian and his Paschal Gospel" (2019), exploring how the Gospel of John alludes back to Genesis to show that Christ is the true human being, inviting us also to become human.
Thu, 26 Mar 2020 - 56min - 63 - Various - The Cross: History, Art, and Controversy
A symposium on Notre Dame Professor of Theology Robin M. Jensen's 2017 book "The Cross: History, Art, and Controversy" (Harvard University Press) held at the University of Chicago on May 23, 2019. Panelists included Jensen, Bernard McGinn (University of Chicago, emeritus), and Karin Krause (University of Chicago). To watch the video of the lecture, which includes the Q and A session, visit http://lumenchristi.org/event/2019/05/symposium-on-cross-history-art-controversy-robin-jensen-karin-krause-bernard-mcginn
Wed, 19 Jun 2019 - 55min - 62 - Andrew Prevot - The Hope of Exodus in Black Theology
A public lecture delivered by Andrew Prevot (Boston College) on May 9, 2019 at the University of Chicago. To watch the video of Prevot's lecture, which includes Q and A, and to view photos visit http://lumenchristi.org/event/2019/05/hope-of-exodus-in-black-womanist-theology-andrew-prevot
Mon, 20 May 2019 - 46min - 61 - Various - The Legacy of Fr. Theodore Hesburgh, CSC
A panel discussion held May 2, 2019 at Skadden Arps Chicago on the life and legacy of Notre Dame's Father Theodore M. Hesburgh, CSC, on the occasion of the publication of "American Priest: The Ambitious Life and Conflicted Legacy of Notre Dame's Father Ted Hesburgh" by Fr. Wilson (Bill) D. Miscamble, CSC. Moderated by John Breen (Loyola University Chicago School of Law), the panel consisted of Fr. Miscamble (University of Notre Dame), William Cavanaugh (DePaul University), Jennifer Mason McAward (Notre Dame Law School), and Kenneth Woodward (former religion editor at Newsweek). To watch the video of the panel, which includes Q and A, and to view photos visit http://lumenchristi.org/event/2019/05/life-legacy-of-fr-ted-hesburgh-csc-william-t-cavanaugh-jennifer-mason-mcaward-fr-bill-miscamble-csc-kenneth-woodward
Wed, 08 May 2019 - 59min - 60 - Various - Achieving the Goals of "Oeconomicae et Pecuniariae Quaestiones"
The second of two panel discussions held on March 21, 2019 at the University of Chicago as part of Lumen Christi's Ninth Conference on Economics and Catholic Social Thought. Panelists include Bishop Oscar Cantú (Diocese of San Jose, CA), Galina Hale (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco), and James N. Perry, Jr. (Madison Dearborn Partners). Moderated by Joseph Kaboski (University of Notre Dame). To view the video of the panel, which includes Q and A) and see photos visit http://lumenchristi.org/event/2019/03/financial-markets-moral-inquiry
Tue, 07 May 2019 - 48min - 59 - Michael Lee - The Life and Legacy of Saint Óscar Romero
A luncheon address delivered by Michael Lee (Fordham University) on April 11, 2019 at the University Club of Chicago. To view the video and photos of the address visit lumenchristi.org/event/2019/04/life-of-saint-oscar-romero
Mon, 06 May 2019 - 59min - 58 - Various - Reconsidering the Values of Finance
A panel discussion featuring Maureen O'Hara (Cornell University), Fr. Peter Schallenberg (University of Paderborn), and Martijn Cremers (University of Notre Dame) held March 21, 2019 at the University of Chicago. This panel was the first of two private sessions comprising part of Lumen Christi's Ninth Conference in Economics and Catholic Social Thought. To learn more about the Conference and view videos and photos, click here: http://lumenchristi.org/event/2019/03/financial-markets-moral-inquiry
Tue, 30 Apr 2019 - 58min - 57 - Various - Financial Markets and Moral Inquiry
A public symposium featuring Cardinal Peter Turkson (Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development), J. Christopher Giancarlo (U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission), John Studzinski (PIMCO), and Mary Hirschfeld (Villanova University), moderated by Maureen O'Hara (Cornell University). The symposium, held March 20, 2019 at the University of Chicago, was the public component of the Lumen Christi Institute's Ninth Conference on Economics and Catholic Social Thought. It was made possible by a grant from the Our Sunday Visitor Institute. To view the video and photos of the symposium visit http://lumenchristi.org/event/2019/03/financial-markets-moral-inquiry
Thu, 25 Apr 2019 - 1h 32min - 56 - Various - Catholicism and Democracy
A symposium featuring Remi Brague (LMU/Sorbonne), Daniel Mahoney (Assumption College), and Gladden Pappin (University of Dallas) on the book "Catholicism and Democracy" by Emile Perreau-Saussine (Princeton University Press, 2012), moderated by Mary Keys (University of Notre Dame) and held at the Oriental Institute on April 5, 2019. To view the video and photos of the symposium visit lumenchristi.org/event/2019/03/sy…n-science-wonder
Thu, 25 Apr 2019 - 1h 16min - 55 - Various - Symposium On Science And Wonder
A symposium featuring Michael Coates (University of Chicago), Eric Elshtain (Field Museum), Robert Scherrer (Vanderbilt University), and Lisa Sideris (Indiana University Bloomington) and moderated by Krystal Clayville (Zygon Center for Religion and Science), held at the University of Chicago on March 13, 2019. To view the video of the symposium, view photos, and see a full list of cosponsors visit lumenchristi.org/event/2019/03/symposium-on-science-wonder
Mon, 01 Apr 2019 - 48min - 54 - Michael Murphy - The Catholic Imagination
A lecture by Michael Murphy (Loyola University of Chicago) given as part of the day-long conference for high-school students "Science, Creation & the Catholic Imagination," held on February 23, 2019 at the University of Chicago. To watch the other lectures visit http://lumenchristi.org/event/2019/02/science-creation-catholic-imagination
Fri, 08 Mar 2019 - 59min - 53 - Rev. John Kartje - Creation And Cosmology
A lecture by Fr. John Kartje (Mundelein Seminary/University of Saint Mary of the Lake) given as part of the day-long conference for high-school students "Science, Creation & the Catholic Imagination," held on February 23, 2019 at the University of Chicago. To watch the other lectures visit http://lumenchristi.org/event/2019/02/science-creation-catholic-imagination
Fri, 08 Mar 2019 - 55min - 52 - Meghan Sullivan - Faith And Reason
A lecture by Meghan Sullivan (University of Notre Dame) given as part of the day-long conference for high-school students "Science, Creation & the Catholic Imagination," held on February 23, 2019 at the University of Chicago. To watch the other lectures visit http://lumenchristi.org/event/2019/02/science-creation-catholic-imagination
Fri, 08 Mar 2019 - 59min - 51 - Various - Action Versus Contemplation: Why An Ancient Debate Still Matters
A symposium featuring Blakey Vermeule (Stanford University), Jennifer Summit (San Francisco State University), Lisa Ruddick (University of Chicago), and Fr. Peter Funk, OSB (Monastery of the Holy Cross), on Vermeule and Summit's book Action Versus Contemplation: Why An Ancient Debate Still Matters (University of Chicago Press, 2018). Held at the University of Chicago on February 15, 2019. The symposium was made possible by a grant from the Our Sunday Visitor Institute. To view the video of the symposium, view photos, and see a full list of cosponsors visit lumenchristi.org/event/2019/02/symposium-on-action-versus-contemplation-why-an-ancient-debate-still-matters
Fri, 01 Mar 2019 - 1h 27min - 50 - Various - Sacred Music in Context and Practice
A panel discussion featuring Michael Alan Anderson (Eastman School of Music and Artistic Director of Schola Antiqua of Chicago), Margot Fassler (University of Notre Dame), Fr. Peter Funk (Monastery of the Holy Cross), Peter Jeffery (University of Notre Dame), and Robert L. Kendrick (University of Chicago), hosted at the University of Chicago on February 2, 2019. To view photos of the lecture and listen to the Q and A from the symposium visit tinyurl.com/y9b6qva4
Mon, 18 Feb 2019 - 1h 11min - 49 - John Inazu and Eboo Patel - Pluralism In A Polarized Age
A conversation between John Inazu (Washington University in St. Louis) and Eboo Patel (Interfaith Youth Core), moderated by Chiara Cordelli (University of Chicago) and hosted at the University of Chicago's International House on January 31, 2019. Presented by the Veritas Forum at the University of Chicago and cosponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute. Q and A begins at 56:30. To view the video of the lecture, view photos, and see a full list of cosponsors visit lumenchristi.org/event/2019/01/pluralism-in-a-polarized-age-navigating-our-deepest-differences-together-eboo-patel-john-inazu.
Thu, 14 Feb 2019 - 1h 24min - 48 - Luigi Zingales - The Vatican And Finance
Luigi Zingales, Robert C. McCormack Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance at the Booth School of Business, delivered this lunchtime presentation on February 4, 2019 to members of Catholics at Booth and other Booth students. To view photos of Zingales' lecture visit https://www.facebook.com/pg/lumenchristiinstitute/photos/?tab=album&album_id=2710856538944484.
Fri, 08 Feb 2019 - 43min - 47 - Jean-Luc Marion - What Do We Mean When We Speak Of Revelation?
Jean-Luc Marion (Institut Catholique de Paris, University of Chicago) delivered this lecture on January 16, 2019 at the University of Chicago.To view the video of the lecture, which includes the Q and A session, visit http://lumenchristi.org/event/2019/01/what-do-we-mean-when-we-speak-of-revelation-jean-luc-marion.
Fri, 25 Jan 2019 - 1h 09min - 46 - Daniels, Hittinger, and Sweeney, OP - The Catholic Church In Crisis
A panel discussion by Kim Daniels (Georgetown University), Russell Hittinger (University of Tulsa), and Fr. Michael Sweeney, OP (Lay Mission Project) on November 15, 2018 at the University of Chicago. To view the video of the panel, which includes the Q and A session, visit http://lumenchristi.org/event/2018/11/catholic-church-in-crisis-a-panel-discussion-kim-daniels-russell-hittinger-fr-michael-sweeney-op
Wed, 05 Dec 2018 - 49min - 45 - Scott J. Freidheim - The Collapse of Lehman Brothers: An Inside Story
Scott J. Friedheim (Corporate & Private Equity CEO) delivered this lecture on November 1, 2018 at the University of Chicago. To view the video of the lecture, which includes the Q and A session, visit www.lumenchristi.org/event/2018/11/collapse-of-lehman-brothers-an-inside-story.
Tue, 04 Dec 2018 - 42min - 44 - Fr. Michael Sweeney, OP - How Catholics Can Realize the Royal Priesthood of the Laity
Fr. Michael Sweeney, OP (Western Dominican Province), delivered this address on November 15, 2018 at the University Club of Chicago. To view the video of the address, which includes the Q and A session, visit lumenchristi.org/event/2018/11/how-lay-catholics-can-realize-royal-priesthood-of-laity-rebuild-a-church-in-crisis-fr-michael-sweeney-op
Mon, 03 Dec 2018 - 42min - 43 - Émilie Tardivel-Schick - Christian Citizenship: A Paradox?
Émilie Tardivel-Schick (Institut Catholique de Paris) delivered this lecture on November 12, 2018 at the University of Chicago. To view the video of the lecture, please visit lumenchristi.org/event/2018/11/christian-citizenship-a-paradox-emilie-tardivel.
Wed, 28 Nov 2018 - 34min - 42 - Émilie Tardivel-Schick - Interview
Émilie Tardivel-Schick, Scientific Director of the Chair of the Common Good at the Institut Catholique de Paris, sits down with Lumen Christi to discuss her scholarship, why Christians must vote, and the Church Fathers' views on citizenship.
Fri, 16 Nov 2018 - 27min - 41 - Jonathan Lunine - Georges Lemaître: His Science, Faith, and Why “Hubble’s Law” Ought to be Renamed
Jonathan Lunine (Cornell University) delivered this lecture on October 31, 2018 at the University of Chicago. To view the video of the lecture, which includes the Q and A, please visit lumenchristi.org/event/2018/10/georges-lemaitre-his-science-faith-why-hubble-s-law-ought-to-be-renamed-jonathan-lunine.
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