The Lumen Christi Institute

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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

Episode Date
What Can We Say About God? An Interview with David Novak on God-Talk
Jun 21, 2025
Christianity, Culture, and Sport: From Play to Virtue
Jun 21, 2025
A Catholic Vision of Art: Beauty – The Highway to God
Jun 21, 2025
Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis
Jun 03, 2025
America's Real Sister Act: The Hidden History of Black Catholic Nuns in the United States
Jun 03, 2025
Care of Souls in Inquisition Spain
Jun 03, 2025
The Story of Catholic Education: Renewing Our Schools, Renewing Our Culture
Jun 03, 2025
Ecumenical Panel on For the Life of the World: Toward a Social Ethos of the Orthodox Church
May 27, 2025
A Marion Moment in Catholic Thought: A Conversation with Jean-Luc Marion and Ken Woodward
May 27, 2025
Pro and Con: Does Faith Ignore Reason?
May 27, 2025
Rethinking Economic Inequality: a Theological Perspective
May 27, 2025
Do We Know More than the Apostles? Or, Do Doctrines Develop?
May 27, 2025
The Bond of All Creation: Renaissance Humanism and the Incarnate Word
May 27, 2025
What is Catholic Culture?
May 27, 2025
On the Dignity of Society: Catholic Social Teaching and Natural Law
May 27, 2025
Is the Universe Made for Life? Anthropic Coincidences and Multiverse Ideas
May 20, 2025
Romano Guardini on Technology and Liturgy
May 20, 2025
Catholic Women in the Arts and Sciences
May 20, 2025
Quandaries of Biotechnology: Theory and Practice - Session 1
May 20, 2025
Quandaries of Biotechnology: Theory and Practice - Session 2
May 20, 2025
Populations, Persons, and Precision Medicine: The Ethics of Emerging Information Technologies
May 20, 2025
Can We Be Good On Our Own? Ancient Pagans and Modern Scientists on Thomistic Moral Virtue
May 20, 2025
AI Ethics, Human Flourishing, and Trust in Health Care
May 20, 2025
A Symposium on Gratitude, Creation, and the Technological Mindset
May 20, 2025
Technology, Liturgy, and the Work of Human Hands
May 20, 2025
A Conversation on Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of the Intellectual Life
May 13, 2025
Discursive, Performative, and Interpretive Strategies in Late Ancient Christian Literature
May 13, 2025
The Catholic Imagination in Modern American Poetry
May 13, 2025
Aristotle's Great-Souled Man in Jane Austen, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and Saint Augustine
May 13, 2025
Dante the Theologian: Ken Woodward Interviews Denys Turner
May 13, 2025
Dante and a Poet's Journey in Hope
May 13, 2025
Literary Traditions and the Pursuit of Truth: A Culture of Humility
May 13, 2025
Michelangelo's Women: Feminine Genius in the Frescoes of the Sistine Chapel
May 06, 2025
Singing the Sacred: Music and the Holy in Ancient Christianity
May 06, 2025
Symposium on The Light that Binds: A Study in Thomas Aquinas's Metaphysics of Natural Law
Apr 29, 2025
The Future of Natural Law
Apr 29, 2025
How Can We Flourish?
Apr 29, 2025
An Unknown Constellation: Hannah Arendt Reads Étienne Gilson and Jacques Maritain
Apr 29, 2025
Is Free Will an Illusion? St. Thomas Aquinas and Human Action
Apr 29, 2025
What is Ideology? A Conversation with Mark Shiffman and James Matthew Wilson
Apr 29, 2025
An Inquiry into the Value of Work: A Discussion of Matt Crawford’s Shop Class as Soulcraft
Apr 29, 2025
The One Thing Necessary: Monasticism and Philosophy
Apr 29, 2025
Virtue, Moral Formation, and the University
Apr 29, 2025
Conscience And Human Rights In Thomas Aquinas And Some Predecessors
Apr 29, 2025
Polarization, Social Cohesion, and the Economy
Apr 27, 2025
Saint Among the Skyscrapers: The American Afterlife of Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini
Apr 22, 2025
A Life in Service of the Truth: The Legacy of Fr. Paul Mankowski, SJ
Apr 22, 2025
Walker Percy and the Pursuit of Happiness in Apocalyptic Times
Apr 22, 2025
Gregor Mendel at his Bicentennial: Highlights of his Life and Legacy
Apr 22, 2025
A Philosophy of Work, Leisure, and Catholic Culture
Apr 21, 2025
Gender, the Body, and Holiness in the Middle Ages
Mar 24, 2025
Human Person and Biotechnology: Artificial Intelligence and its Limitations
Mar 19, 2025
The Vocation of a Theologian: The Legacy of Pope Benedict XVI
Sep 19, 2023
Race and Justice In America
Aug 05, 2021
René Girard, Conversion, and the Present Media Moment
Jun 04, 2021
The Crisis of Mysticism: Quietism in 17th Century Spain, Italy, and France
May 24, 2021
United by Their Loves: Deciphering Augustine’s Understanding of a People
May 24, 2021
Beauty and Justice in the City: the Restoration of St. Adalbert's, in Pilsen
May 24, 2021
Claudia Herrera and Jose Matos Auffant - Latino Youth and Evangelization
May 24, 2021
Was Something Lost? Thomas Aquinas, Intellectual Disability, & the 16th c. Spanish Colonial Debates
May 12, 2021
David Lantigua - Fratelli Tutti and the Latino Social Teaching of Pope Francis
May 12, 2021
David Meconi S.J. - Ambrose and Augustine on Christian Holiness
May 08, 2021
Hosffman Ospino - Teaching Catholic Doctrine en Español
May 05, 2021
The Origins of Mass Incarceration: The Courts and the 1960s Criminal Procedure Revolution?
May 05, 2021
Elizabeth Lev - A Good Man Is Hard to Find: St. Joseph in Art
Apr 08, 2021
Fr. Thomas Esposito, O.Cist - How to Be a Corinthian
Apr 08, 2021
Fragile Democracy: Technocratic Takeover and Popular Renewal
Apr 06, 2021
Fr. Mark Rotsaert, SJ - Spirituality and the Saints
Mar 13, 2021
Learning Poverty and Education Pluralism: The Global Catholic Education Report 2021
Feb 23, 2021
Patrick Geary - Pledges of the Saints: The Cult of Relics in the Catholic Tradition
Feb 23, 2021
Russell Hittinger - Yves Simon on Natural Law
Feb 23, 2021
Fr. John O'Malley, SJ - Humanism as an Educational Ideal
Feb 23, 2021
Beyond Test Scores: Measuring the Contributions of Catholic Schools
Jan 20, 2021
Partners in Charity: St. Louise de Marillac and St. Vincent de Paul
Jan 13, 2021
Is there a Catholic Vote? An Evangelical Vote? Religion, Polls, and Presidential Elections
Dec 22, 2020
John L. Allen Jr. - COVID-19 and the Worldwide Church
Dec 18, 2020
A Catholic Life in the Secular University: A Conversation with George Dennis O'Brien
Dec 18, 2020
Food Insecurity in the U.S.: Insights from Catholic Social Thought and Economics
Dec 09, 2020
Sam Conedera, SJ - Friends in Heaven: Edmund Campion and the Martyrs of England & Wales
Dec 09, 2020
Thinking Inside and Outside the University: Zena Hitz on the Inner Life
Dec 09, 2020
Metropolitan Borys Gudziak - Quo Vadis: The Direction of Eastern Catholic Theology
Nov 25, 2020
John O'Malley, SJ - Venerating the Saints: An Ancient Tradition Actual Today
Nov 24, 2020
Fratelli Tutti: Engaging Pope Francis's New Encyclical on Social Friendship
Nov 20, 2020
Stephen Barr - Fearful Symmetry: Cosmic Order and a Divine Creator
Nov 20, 2020
The United Nations at 75: Catholic Perspectives
Nov 20, 2020
Integral Bioethics in the Anthropocene
Nov 20, 2020
Erin Walsh - Expanding the Archive: Syriac Literature and the Study of Early Christianity Today
Oct 13, 2020
Alexander Laschuk - Eastern Churches, Latin Territories
Oct 01, 2020
Robin Darling Young - Christ the Lover of Mankind
Sep 23, 2020
Andrew Hayes - A Theology of Wonder: An Introduction to the Poetry of Ephrem the Syrian
Sep 15, 2020
Daniel Galadza - Introduction to Liturgical Mystagogy
Sep 10, 2020
Peter Casarella - Passage to Modernity: Renaissance Christianity Today
Sep 01, 2020
Torrance Kirby - Richard Hooker’s Sapiential Theology: Reformed Platonism?
Aug 27, 2020
Douglas Hedley - Reason and Beauty in Cambridge Platonism
Aug 26, 2020
Pondering Hiroshima
Aug 07, 2020
Valentina Zaffino - Giordano Bruno and the Poetry of the Cosmos
Aug 06, 2020
Richard Oosterhoff - Measure and Mathematics in Renaissance Philosophy
Jul 17, 2020
Tamara Albertini - Women Humanists in the Renaissance: Paradise and Free Speech in Moderata Fonte
Jul 09, 2020
Denis Robichaud - Marsilio Ficino and the Philosophy of Plato
Jul 06, 2020
What Evolution Does and Does Not Tell Us about Humans
Jun 26, 2020
Dante as Poet and Philosopher
Jun 24, 2020
Race, Justice, and Catholicism
Jun 24, 2020
Christians in Times of Catastrophe: Augustine's "City of God"
Jun 10, 2020
David Albertson - Nicholas of Cusa
Jun 10, 2020
Various - Lessons After the Lockdown: Public Health, Economics, and the Common Good
Jun 05, 2020
Bernard McGinn - Meister Eckhart
Jun 01, 2020
Kevin Hughes - Saint Bonaventure
May 23, 2020
Bernard McGinn and Willemien Otten - Apocolypticism in Times of Crisis
May 22, 2020
Katie Bugyis - The Wisdom of Enclosure in Julian of Norwich's Showings
May 19, 2020
Willemien Otten - Peter Abelard and Bernard of Clairvaux
May 19, 2020
Various - The Economic Costs of the Pandemic: Catholic Social Teaching and Economics in Dialogue
May 06, 2020
Disease and the Problem of Evil
Apr 30, 2020
Brian Carl - Thomas Aquinas on Ways to Know God
Apr 24, 2020
Aaron Canty - Anselm of Canterbury on the Rationality of Faith
Apr 24, 2020
Cardinal Francis George, the American Contribution to Catholic Social Thought, & Our Current Moment
Apr 24, 2020
Michel Zink - The Contemplation of God in Medieval Literature
Apr 14, 2020
Regina M. Schwartz - Love Your Enemies: Retribution and Forgiveness
Apr 10, 2020
Bernard McGinn - WEBINAR: Gregory the Great on Reading Scripture for Wisdom
Apr 10, 2020
Rémi Brague and Jean-Luc Marion - Does Christianity Need Metaphysics?
Apr 06, 2020
John Cavadini - The Grand Design: An Augustinian Reply to Stephen Hawking
Apr 02, 2020
John Haught - Science, Faith, and the New Atheism
Apr 01, 2020
Stephen M. Barr - Evolution and the Catholic Faith
Apr 01, 2020
Nicanor Austriaco, OP - Genome Editing with CRISPR: Dignity and Other Faith-Based Considerations
Mar 31, 2020
Stephen M. Barr - Science and Religion: The Myth of Conflict
Mar 31, 2020
Stephen Meredith - The Modern Scientist as a Palimpsest of Three Fausts
Mar 31, 2020
Peter Harrison - Religious Origins of Modern Science?
Mar 30, 2020
Jennifer Frey - Flannery O'Connor and the Vision of Grace
Mar 27, 2020
Gustavo Gutierrez - On Óscar Romero and Pope Francis
Mar 26, 2020
John Behr - Becoming Human in Light of the Gospel of John
Mar 26, 2020
Various - The Cross: History, Art, and Controversy
Jun 19, 2019
Andrew Prevot - The Hope of Exodus in Black Theology
May 20, 2019
Various - The Legacy of Fr. Theodore Hesburgh, CSC
May 08, 2019
Various - Achieving the Goals of "Oeconomicae et Pecuniariae Quaestiones"
May 07, 2019
Michael Lee - The Life and Legacy of Saint Óscar Romero
May 06, 2019
Various - Reconsidering the Values of Finance
Apr 30, 2019
Various - Financial Markets and Moral Inquiry
Apr 25, 2019
Various - Catholicism and Democracy
Apr 25, 2019
Various - Symposium On Science And Wonder
Apr 01, 2019
Michael Murphy - The Catholic Imagination
Mar 08, 2019
Rev. John Kartje - Creation And Cosmology
Mar 08, 2019
Meghan Sullivan - Faith And Reason
Mar 08, 2019
Various - Action Versus Contemplation: Why An Ancient Debate Still Matters
Mar 01, 2019
Various - Sacred Music in Context and Practice
Feb 18, 2019
John Inazu and Eboo Patel - Pluralism In A Polarized Age
Feb 14, 2019
Luigi Zingales - The Vatican And Finance
Feb 08, 2019
Jean-Luc Marion - What Do We Mean When We Speak Of Revelation?
Jan 25, 2019
Daniels, Hittinger, and Sweeney, OP - The Catholic Church In Crisis
Dec 05, 2018
Scott J. Freidheim - The Collapse of Lehman Brothers: An Inside Story
Dec 04, 2018
Fr. Michael Sweeney, OP - How Catholics Can Realize the Royal Priesthood of the Laity
Dec 03, 2018
Émilie Tardivel-Schick - Christian Citizenship: A Paradox?
Nov 28, 2018
Émilie Tardivel-Schick - Interview
Nov 16, 2018
Jonathan Lunine - Georges Lemaître: His Science, Faith, and Why “Hubble’s Law” Ought to be Renamed
Nov 13, 2018
O'Malley, Hittinger, Mueller - Vatican I: Loss and Gain With Papal Governance of the Catholic Church
Nov 06, 2018
Gerard Bradley - Interview
Oct 23, 2018
Joseph Singer - Judging as Judgment
Oct 10, 2018
Rachel Fulton Brown - Interview
Aug 21, 2018
Fr. Kevin Flannery, SJ - Interview
Aug 09, 2018
Bernie McGinn - Interview
Aug 02, 2018
Fr. Andrew Liaugminas - Interview
Jul 26, 2018
Donald Bungum - Interview
Jul 19, 2018
What Is Freedom? Some Reflections From Augustine
Jun 12, 2018
Russell Hittinger - Interview
May 29, 2018
Ulrich Lehner - Catholic Reform: the Council of Trent and the Catholic Enlightenment
May 23, 2018
Paul Mariani - A Final Seriousness: Wallace Stevens' Late Poems Revisited
May 23, 2018
David O'Connor - Plato's Bedroom: Desire, Union, and Procreation
May 23, 2018
Andrew Koppelman and Rick Garnett - The Future of Public Funding for Religious Entities
May 23, 2018
Emmanuel Falque - Body, Eros, And Eucharist
May 23, 2018
Jennifer Frey - Elizabeth Anscombe on Living the Truth
May 21, 2018
Jennifer Frey - Interview
May 17, 2018
Rémi Brague - Interview
May 07, 2018
Rémi Brague & Jean-Luc Marion - Athens, Jerusalem, and Alexandria
May 07, 2018
Ross Douthat and Panelists - Religion and Religious Expression in the Academy and Public Life
May 04, 2018
Karin Oberg - Science And Theology Of Habitable Worlds Around Other Stars
May 04, 2018
Ross Douthat - The State Of Religion In America
May 04, 2018
Peter O'Leary - Thick And Dazzling Darkness
May 03, 2018
Jim Stoner - The Dignity of Politics
May 03, 2018
Fr. Stephen Fields, SJ - Interview
May 02, 2018
Fr. Stephen Fields, SJ - The Future of Liberalism: Relativism Confronts St. Augustine
May 02, 2018
Darren Davis - Perseverance in the Parish? Religious Attitudes From a Black Catholic Perspective
Apr 23, 2018
Fr. Wojciech Giertych, OP - The Moral Theology of Aquinas
Apr 20, 2018
Fr. Wojciech Giertych, OP - Interview
Apr 20, 2018
Patrick Deneen - Why Liberalism Failed
Apr 20, 2018
Patrick Deneen - Interview
Apr 20, 2018
Anders Cardinal Arborelius - The Witness of Contemplative Women in the Heart of the Church
Apr 19, 2018
Anders Cardinal Arborelius - Silence, Prayer, and Contemplation in a Secular Society
Apr 19, 2018
Jean Bethke Elshtain - Reason & Regensburg: Pope Benedict and the Dialogue of Cultures
Apr 19, 2018
Hans Joas - Does Secularization Lead To Moral Decline?
Apr 19, 2018
Brad Gregory - Against Nostalgia: Catholicism, History, and Modernity
Apr 19, 2018
Denys Turner - Faith, Reason, and the Eucharist
Apr 18, 2018
Jean-Luc Marion - Is There A Christian Philosophy?
Apr 17, 2018
David Lantigua - Early Modern Catholic Social Teaching and World Order
Apr 17, 2018
Anders Cardinal Arborelius - Interview
Apr 17, 2018