Lumen Christi Institute

6:00 Dinner | 6:30 Lecture

Intended for current students and faculty. Others interested in attending: please contact info@lumenchristi.org. Registrants are free to attend as many sessions as they choose.

With the recovery of the works of Aristotle in the Latin West, the development of the scholastic method of reasoning, and the creation of the universities, a style of academic philosophy and theology developed in the late medieval period in which the practice of reasoning about Christian revelation was developed independent of spirituality and, often, the search for wisdom. Previously, in the works of the Church Fathers and the great monastic writers, theology was rooted in a spiritual life uniting prayer and the search for understanding.

This course will introduce students to major Christian figures and themes of the medieval period, with special attention to the relationship of faith and reason.

Eriugena
Willemien Otten (University of Chicago)
October 11

Bernard of Clairvaux
Bernard McGinn (University of Chicago)
October 18

Anselm of Canterbury
Aaron Canty (Saint Xavier University)
October 25

Hugh & Richard of St. Victor
Robert Porwoll (University of Chicago)
November 1

Bonaventure
Peter Casarella (Univeristy of Notre Dame)
November 8

*Beauty as Splendor
Fr. Paul Mankowski, SJ (Lumen Christi Institute)
November 15

Thomas a Kempis
Ralph Keen (University of Illinois at Chicago)
November 22

John Climacus
Perry Hamalis (North Central College)
November 29

*Note the speaker and topic for this session has been changed. We hope to reschedule a talk by Denis McNamara in the future.