Institute for Christian Personalism
Instructing the Intellect
Contributing to the Common Good
Preparing the Person
The Institute for Christian Personalism
The Institute for Christian Personalism (ICP) is an independent foundation with the aim of educating and spreading Christian Personalism.
Personalism is an influential philosophy divided into different currents. This think tank focuses on the Christian version of personalism by studying and teaching its anthropology, political philosophy, pedagogy and its vision on arts. The rich vision of the human person which Christian Personalism offers deserves to be studied and taught. Special attention will be given to Catholic personalistic thinkers, their political philosophy and their contribution to European institutions.
For who?
The Christian Institute for Personalism was founded in 2024. The ICP works together with researchers and academics from throughout Europe and the United States. Since it is a Christian Institute, it aims to be an ecumenic institute and is open for people who are interested in personalism in general.
Why study this tradition?
The Christian personalistic tradition is rich and includes thinkers such as Aurelius Augustine, Blaise Pascal, Søren Kierkegaard, John Henry Newman, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Pavel Florensky, Nikolai Berdyaev, Emmanuel Mounier, Jacques Maritain, Dietrich von Hildebrand, Edith Stein, Charles Malik, Paul Scholten, Simone Weil, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Pope John Paul II and Josef Pieper.
Their influence is enormous through their rich anthropology and application to political philosophy. Founding Fathers of the European Union such as Robert Schuman, Alcide De Gasperi and Konrad Adenauer were all personalists.
The ICP has the goal of studying and educating this tradition.
Agenda ICP
2nd November 2026: online lecture on the political philosophy of Christian Democracy
Fall 2026: New season with evening lectures in The Hague
Interesting events of other organisations related to Christian Personalism:
31st October: Lecture on John Henry Newman
The best of the Old
The best of the New
Study the insights on the human person of the Classics, the Church Fathers and the Moderns
Study, travel and encounter
Immerse yourselve in the great tradition of personalistic thinkers
Monday, the 2nd of November we will host an online lecture on the political philosophy of Christian Democracy. We will dive into the ideas which have shaped Christian Democracy and discuss the role of personalism. Furthermore, we will discuss the current crisis of the Christian Democratic movement and the possible way forward. Our speaker will be Maurits Potappel.
Time: 20.00.
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Course on Christian Democracy
ICP Essay Page
On this page we publish different essays on personalistic thinkers such as Frankl, Guardini, Maritain and John Paul II and personalistic themes such as human dignity.
Around the feast day of St. John Paul II (22nd of October 2026) we give special attention to the essays written on John Paul II.
Professor Christopher Garbowski wrote on ''Solidarity and the Personalism of Work: John Paul II’s Encyclical Laborem Excercens'' https://lnkd.in/eJ5jZbsc
And Fr. Thomas Dunton wrote on ''The Value of Addressing Subjectivity in Pastoral Ministry and Karol Wojtyla’s Support for its Primacy in the Philosophy of the Person'':
Training and Summer schools
“In each of us there dwells a mystery, and that mystery is the human personality”
— Jacques Maritain, The Rights of Man and Natural Law (1943)
Contact
You can register you email by filling out this form if you are interested in one of the programs.
Email
institutecpersonalism@gmail.com