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The Lumen Christi Institute — 236 episodes
AI, The Future of Work, and Pope Leo’s First Encyclical with Joseph Vukov and Michael Murphy
What Does Virtue Have to Do with the Law?
The Turn to Tradition in American Law and Culture
Developing a Catholic Social Vision for the Modern World with David Cloutier
Wisdom and the Tranquility of Order: Reflections on Popes Leo XIII and XIV with Scott Roniger
The Birth of Ossian with Martin Shaw
Mythopoetics and Faerie Stories: Theory and Practice of Mythmaking with Martin Shaw
Mythmaking and the True Myth - A Conversation with Martin Shaw
Augustine the Teacher with Erika Kidd
Season Finale - Special Episode
Why Do We Need Saints and Miracles? with Carlos Eire
A History of the Impossible: Carlos Eire on They Flew
Romans (Episode 3/3)
Romans (Episode 2/3)
Romans (Episode 1/3)
Matthew (Episode 5/5)
Matthew (Episode 4/5)
Our Hearts Are Restless: Augustine’s Confessions and Modern Anxiety with Scott Moringiello
Matthew (Episode 3/5)
Matthew (Episode 2/5)
Matthew (Episode 1/5)
Jeremiah (Episode 1/1)
Isaiah (Episode 2/2)
Isaiah (Episode 1/2)
Amos and Hosea (Episode 1/1)
Ezekial and Daniel (Episode 1/1)
Elijah (Episode 1/1)
Judges (Episode 7/7)
Judges (Episode 6/7)
A Spiritual Manual for the Technological Age: A Discussion of Paul Kingsnorth's Against the Machine
Judges (Episode 5/7)
Judges (Episode 4/7)
Judges (Episode 3/7)
Judges (Episode 2/7)
Judges (Episode 1/7)
Genesis (Episode 2/2)
Genesis (Episode 1/2)
BXVI- Jesus of Nazareth (Episode 6/6)
“In the One, we are One”: Christian Unity and the City of God with Jared Ortiz
BXVI- Jesus of Nazareth (Episode 5/6)
BXVI- Jesus of Nazareth (Episode 4/6)
BXVI- Jesus of Nazareth (Episode 3/6)
BXVI- Jesus of Nazareth (Episode 2/6)
BXVI- Jesus of Nazareth (Episode 1/6)
What Can We Say About God? An Interview with David Novak on God-Talk
Christianity, Culture, and Sport: From Play to Virtue
A Catholic Vision of Art: Beauty – The Highway to God
The Story of Catholic Education: Renewing Our Schools, Renewing Our Culture
Care of Souls in Inquisition Spain
America's Real Sister Act: The Hidden History of Black Catholic Nuns in the United States
Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis
On the Dignity of Society: Catholic Social Teaching and Natural Law
What is Catholic Culture?
The Bond of All Creation: Renaissance Humanism and the Incarnate Word
Do We Know More than the Apostles? Or, Do Doctrines Develop?
Rethinking Economic Inequality: a Theological Perspective
Pro and Con: Does Faith Ignore Reason?
A Marion Moment in Catholic Thought: A Conversation with Jean-Luc Marion and Ken Woodward
Ecumenical Panel on For the Life of the World: Toward a Social Ethos of the Orthodox Church
Technology, Liturgy, and the Work of Human Hands
The Boldness of Belief and Timidity of Technology
AI Ethics, Human Flourishing, and Trust in Health Care
Can We Be Good On Our Own? Ancient Pagans and Modern Scientists on Thomistic Moral Virtue
Populations, Persons, and Precision Medicine: The Ethics of Emerging Information Technologies
Quandaries of Biotechnology: Theory and Practice - Session 2
Quandaries of Biotechnology: Theory and Practice - Session 1
Catholic Women in the Arts and Sciences
Romano Guardini on Technology and Liturgy
Is the Universe Made for Life? Anthropic Coincidences and Multiverse Ideas
Literary Traditions and the Pursuit of Truth: A Culture of Humility
Dante and a Poet's Journey in Hope
Dante the Theologian: Ken Woodward Interviews Denys Turner
Aristotle's Great-Souled Man in Jane Austen, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and Saint Augustine
The Catholic Imagination in Modern American Poetry
Negotiating Tragedy and the Tragic: Discursive, Performative, and Interpretive Strategies in Late Ancient Christian Literature
A Conversation on Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of the Intellectual Life
Singing the Sacred: Music and the Holy in Ancient Christianity
Michelangelo's Women: Feminine Genius in the Frescoes of the Sistine Chapel
Conscience And Human Rights In Thomas Aquinas And Some Predecessors
Virtue, Moral Formation, and the University
The One Thing Necessary: Monasticism and Philosophy
An Inquiry into the Value of Work: A Discussion of Matt Crawford’s Shop Class as Soulcraft
What is Ideology? A Conversation with Mark Shiffman and James Matthew Wilson
Is Free Will an Illusion? St. Thomas Aquinas and Human Action
An Unknown Constellation: Hannah Arendt Reads Étienne Gilson and Jacques Maritain
How Can We Flourish?
The Future of Natural Law
Symposium on The Light that Binds: A Study in Thomas Aquinas's Metaphysics of Natural Law
Polarization, Social Cohesion, and the Economy
Gregor Mendel at his Bicentennial: Highlights of his Life and Legacy
Walker Percy and the Pursuit of Happiness in Apocalyptic Times
A Life in Service of the Truth: The Legacy of Fr. Paul Mankowski, SJ
Saint Among the Skyscrapers: The American Afterlife of Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini
A Philosophy of Work, Leisure, and Catholic Culture
Gender, the Body, and Holiness in the Middle Ages
The Human Person and Biotechnology: Artificial Intelligence and its Limitations
The Vocation of a Theologian: The Legacy of Pope Benedict XVI
Race and Justice In America
René Girard, Conversion, and the Present Media Moment
The Crisis of Mysticism: Quietism in 17th Century Spain, Italy, and France
United by Their Loves: Deciphering Augustine’s Understanding of a People
Beauty and Justice in the City: the Restoration of St. Adalbert's, in Pilsen
Claudia Herrera and Jose Matos Auffant - Latino Youth and Evangelization
Was Something Lost? Thomas Aquinas, Intellectual Disability, & the 16th c. Spanish Colonial Debates
David Lantigua - Fratelli Tutti and the Latino Social Teaching of Pope Francis
David Meconi S.J. - Ambrose and Augustine on Christian Holiness
Hosffman Ospino - Teaching Catholic Doctrine en Español
The Origins of Mass Incarceration: The Courts and the 1960s Criminal Procedure Revolution?
Elizabeth Lev - A Good Man Is Hard to Find: St. Joseph in Art
Fr. Thomas Esposito, O.Cist - How to Be a Corinthian
Fragile Democracy: Technocratic Takeover and Popular Renewal
Fr. Mark Rotsaert, SJ - Spirituality and the Saints
Learning Poverty and Education Pluralism: The Global Catholic Education Report 2021
Patrick Geary - Pledges of the Saints: The Cult of Relics in the Catholic Tradition
Yves Simon on Natural Law
Fr. John O'Malley, SJ - Humanism as an Educational Ideal
Beyond Test Scores: Measuring the Contributions of Catholic Schools
Partners in Charity: St. Louise de Marillac and St. Vincent de Paul
Is there a Catholic Vote? An Evangelical Vote? Religion, Polls, and Presidential Elections
John L. Allen Jr. - COVID-19 and the Worldwide Church
A Catholic Life in the Secular University: A Conversation with George Dennis O'Brien
Food Insecurity in the U.S.: Insights from Catholic Social Thought and Economics
Sam Conedera, SJ - Friends in Heaven: Edmund Campion and the Martyrs of England & Wales
Thinking Inside and Outside the University: Zena Hitz on the Inner Life
Metropolitan Borys Gudziak - Quo Vadis: The Direction of Eastern Catholic Theology
John O'Malley, SJ - Venerating the Saints: An Ancient Tradition Actual Today
Fratelli Tutti: Engaging Pope Francis's New Encyclical on Social Friendship
Stephen Barr - Fearful Symmetry: Cosmic Order and a Divine Creator
The United Nations at 75: Catholic Perspectives
Integral Bioethics in the Anthropocene
Erin Walsh - Expanding the Archive: Syriac Literature and the Study of Early Christianity Today
Alexander Laschuk - Eastern Churches, Latin Territories
Robin Darling Young - Christ the Lover of Mankind
Andrew Hayes - A Theology of Wonder: An Introduction to the Poetry of Ephrem the Syrian
Daniel Galadza - Introduction to Liturgical Mystagogy
Peter Casarella - Passage to Modernity: Renaissance Christianity Today
Torrance Kirby - Richard Hooker’s Sapiential Theology: Reformed Platonism?
Douglas Hedley - Reason and Beauty in Cambridge Platonism
Pondering Hiroshima
Valentina Zaffino - Giordano Bruno and the Poetry of the Cosmos
Richard Oosterhoff - Measure and Mathematics in Renaissance Philosophy
Tamara Albertini - Women Humanists in the Renaissance: Paradise and Free Speech in Moderata Fonte
Denis Robichaud - Marsilio Ficino and the Philosophy of Plato
What Evolution Does and Does Not Tell Us about Humans
Dante as Poet and Philosopher
Race, Justice, and Catholicism
Christians in Times of Catastrophe: Augustine's "City of God"
David Albertson - Nicholas of Cusa
Various - Lessons After the Lockdown: Public Health, Economics, and the Common Good
Bernard McGinn - Meister Eckhart
Kevin Hughes - Saint Bonaventure
Bernard McGinn and Willemien Otten - Apocalypticism in Times of Crisis
Katie Bugyis - The Wisdom of Enclosure in Julian of Norwich's Showings
Willemien Otten - Peter Abelard and Bernard of Clairvaux
Various - The Economic Costs of the Pandemic: Catholic Social Teaching and Economics in Dialogue
Disease and the Problem of Evil
Brian Carl - Thomas Aquinas on Ways to Know God
Aaron Canty - Anselm of Canterbury on the Rationality of Faith
Cardinal Francis George, the American Contribution to Catholic Social Thought, & Our Current Moment
Michel Zink - The Contemplation of God in Medieval Literature
Regina M. Schwartz - Love Your Enemies: Retribution and Forgiveness
Gregory the Great on Reading Scripture for Wisdom
Rémi Brague and Jean-Luc Marion - Does Christianity Need Metaphysics?
John Cavadini - The Grand Design: An Augustinian Reply to Stephen Hawking
John Haught - Science, Faith, and the New Atheism
Stephen M. Barr - Evolution and the Catholic Faith
Nicanor Austriaco, OP - Genome Editing with CRISPR: Dignity and Other Faith-Based Considerations
Science and Religion: The Myth of Conflict with Stephen M. Barr
Stephen Meredith - The Modern Scientist as a Palimpsest of Three Fausts
Peter Harrison - Religious Origins of Modern Science?
Flannery O'Connor and the Vision of Grace
Gustavo Gutierrez - On Óscar Romero and Pope Francis
Becoming Human in Light of the Gospel of John
Various - The Cross: History, Art, and Controversy
Andrew Prevot - The Hope of Exodus in Black Theology
Various - The Legacy of Fr. Theodore Hesburgh, CSC
Various - Achieving the Goals of "Oeconomicae et Pecuniariae Quaestiones"
Michael Lee - The Life and Legacy of Saint Óscar Romero
Various - Reconsidering the Values of Finance
Various - Financial Markets and Moral Inquiry
Various - Catholicism and Democracy
Various - Symposium On Science And Wonder
Michael Murphy - The Catholic Imagination
Rev. John Kartje - Creation And Cosmology
Meghan Sullivan - Faith And Reason
Various - Action Versus Contemplation: Why An Ancient Debate Still Matters
Various - Sacred Music in Context and Practice
John Inazu and Eboo Patel - Pluralism In A Polarized Age
Luigi Zingales - The Vatican And Finance
Jean-Luc Marion - What Do We Mean When We Speak Of Revelation?
Daniels, Hittinger, and Sweeney, OP - The Catholic Church In Crisis
Scott J. Freidheim - The Collapse of Lehman Brothers: An Inside Story
Fr. Michael Sweeney, OP - How Catholics Can Realize the Royal Priesthood of the Laity
Émilie Tardivel-Schick - Christian Citizenship: A Paradox?
Émilie Tardivel-Schick - Interview
Jonathan Lunine - Georges Lemaître: His Science, Faith, and Why “Hubble’s Law” Ought to be Renamed
O'Malley, Hittinger, Mueller - Vatican I: Loss and Gain With Papal Governance of the Catholic Church
Gerard Bradley - Interview
Joseph Singer - Judging as Judgment
Rachel Fulton Brown - Interview
Fr. Kevin Flannery, SJ - Interview
Bernie McGinn - Interview
Fr. Andrew Liaugminas - Interview
Donald Bungum - Interview
What Is Freedom? Some Reflections From Augustine
Russell Hittinger - Interview
Ulrich Lehner - Catholic Reform: the Council of Trent and the Catholic Enlightenment
Paul Mariani - A Final Seriousness: Wallace Stevens' Late Poems Revisited
David O'Connor - Plato's Bedroom: Desire, Union, and Procreation
Trinity Lutheran and the Future of Public Funding for Religious Entities
Body, Eros, And Eucharist
Elizabeth Anscombe on Living the Truth
Jennifer Frey - Interview
Rémi Brague - Interview
Athens, Jerusalem, and Alexandria: Christian Wisdom Between the Bible and Greek Philosophy
Religion and Religious Expression in the Academy and Public Life
Science And Theology Of Habitable Worlds Around Other Stars
The State Of Religion In America
Thick And Dazzling Darkness
Jim Stoner - The Dignity of Politics
Fr. Stephen Fields, SJ - Interview
The Future of Liberalism: Relativism Confronts St. Augustine
Perseverance in the Parish? Religious Attitudes From a Black Catholic Perspective with Darren Davis
The Moral Theology of Aquinas: Is it for Individuals?
Fr. Wojciech Giertych, OP - Interview
Why Liberalism Failed with Patrick Deenen
Patrick Deneen - Interview
The Witness of Contemplative Women in the Heart of the Church
Silence, Prayer, and Contemplation in a Secular Society
Jean Bethke Elshtain - Reason & Regensburg: Pope Benedict and the Dialogue of Cultures
Hans Joas - Does Secularization Lead To Moral Decline?
Against Nostalgia: Catholicism, History, and Modernity
Denys Turner - Faith, Reason, and the Eucharist
Jean-Luc Marion - Is There A Christian Philosophy?
Early Modern Catholic Social Teaching and World Order with David Lantigua
Anders Cardinal Arborelius - Interview