Held each summer, The Civitas Dei Summer Fellowship Program supports rising scholars seeking to better understand the Catholic intellectual tradition. Sponsored by the Thomistic Institute and the Institute for Human Ecology, Civitas Dei Fellows spend a week together in Washington DC, examining the search for happiness as a fundamental end of the person and the polis. The week-long seminar introduced students to foundational themes in philosophy, political theory, and theology, dealing with law, ...
Aug 13, 2019•1 hr 27 min
Held each summer, The Civitas Dei Summer Fellowship Program supports rising scholars seeking to better understand the Catholic intellectual tradition. Sponsored by the Thomistic Institute and the Institute for Human Ecology, Civitas Dei Fellows spend a week together in Washington DC, examining the search for happiness as a fundamental end of the person and the polis. The week-long seminar introduced students to foundational themes in philosophy, political theory, and theology, dealing with law, ...
Aug 10, 2019•1 hr 17 min
Held each summer, The Civitas Dei Summer Fellowship Program supports rising scholars seeking to better understand the Catholic intellectual tradition. Sponsored by the Thomistic Institute and the Institute for Human Ecology, Civitas Dei Fellows spend a week together in Washington DC, examining the search for happiness as a fundamental end of the person and the polis. The week-long seminar introduced students to foundational themes in philosophy, political theory, and theology, dealing with law, ...
Aug 08, 2019•55 min
Held each summer, The Civitas Dei Summer Fellowship Program supports rising scholars seeking to better understand the Catholic intellectual tradition. Sponsored by the Thomistic Institute and the Institute for Human Ecology, Civitas Dei Fellows spend a week together in Washington DC, examining the search for happiness as a fundamental end of the person and the polis. The week-long seminar introduced students to foundational themes in philosophy, political theory, and theology, dealing with law, ...
Aug 06, 2019•1 hr 13 min
This was one of the lectures from our 2019 Summer Science Conference, "Novelty in Nature: Scientific and Philosophical Understanding of Flux and Chance in the Natural World." For more info about upcoming TI events, visit: www.thomisticinstitute.org/events Conference Theme: Modern science consistently presents us with new and surprising truths about the natural world, particularly about how new things come to be, whether stars and galaxies, plants and animals, or chemical and physical structures....
Aug 03, 2019•48 min
This was one of the lectures from our 2019 Summer Science Conference, "Novelty in Nature: Scientific and Philosophical Understanding of Flux and Chance in the Natural World." For more info about upcoming TI events, visit: www.thomisticinstitute.org/events Conference Theme: Modern science consistently presents us with new and surprising truths about the natural world, particularly about how new things come to be, whether stars and galaxies, plants and animals, or chemical and physical structures....
Aug 01, 2019•56 min
This was one of the lectures from our 2019 Summer Science Conference, "Novelty in Nature: Scientific and Philosophical Understanding of Flux and Chance in the Natural World." For more info about upcoming TI events, visit: www.thomisticinstitute.org/events Conference Theme: Modern science consistently presents us with new and surprising truths about the natural world, particularly about how new things come to be, whether stars and galaxies, plants and animals, or chemical and physical structures....
Jul 30, 2019•1 hr 12 min
This was one of the lectures from our 2019 Summer Science Conference, "Novelty in Nature: Scientific and Philosophical Understanding of Flux and Chance in the Natural World." For more info about upcoming TI events, visit: www.thomisticinstitute.org/events Conference Theme: Modern science consistently presents us with new and surprising truths about the natural world, particularly about how new things come to be, whether stars and galaxies, plants and animals, or chemical and physical structures....
Jul 27, 2019•1 hr 6 min
This was one of the lectures from our 2019 Summer Science Conference, "Novelty in Nature: Scientific and Philosophical Understanding of Flux and Chance in the Natural World." For more info about upcoming TI events, visit: www.thomisticinstitute.org/events The Hand Out for this lecture can be accessed here: tinyurl.com/ru5axoe Conference Theme: Modern science consistently presents us with new and surprising truths about the natural world, particularly about how new things come to be, whether star...
Jul 25, 2019•1 hr 8 min
This was one of the lectures from our 2019 Summer Science Conference, "Novelty in Nature: Scientific and Philosophical Understanding of Flux and Chance in the Natural World." For more info about upcoming TI events, visit: www.thomisticinstitute.org/events Conference Theme: Modern science consistently presents us with new and surprising truths about the natural world, particularly about how new things come to be, whether stars and galaxies, plants and animals, or chemical and physical structures....
Jul 23, 2019•1 hr 1 min
This was one of the lectures from our 2019 Summer Science Conference, "Novelty in Nature: Scientific and Philosophical Understanding of Flux and Chance in the Natural World." For more info about upcoming TI events, visit: www.thomisticinstitute.org/events Conference Theme: Modern science consistently presents us with new and surprising truths about the natural world, particularly about how new things come to be, whether stars and galaxies, plants and animals, or chemical and physical structures....
Jul 20, 2019•57 min
This was one of the lectures from our 2019 Summer Science Conference, "Novelty in Nature: Scientific and Philosophical Understanding of Flux and Chance in the Natural World." For more info about upcoming TI events, visit: www.thomisticinstitute.org Conference Theme: Modern science consistently presents us with new and surprising truths about the natural world, particularly about how new things come to be, whether stars and galaxies, plants and animals, or chemical and physical structures. In man...
Jul 18, 2019•1 hr 5 min
This was one of the lectures from our 2019 Summer Science Conference, "Novelty in Nature: Scientific and Philosophical Understanding of Flux and Chance in the Natural World." Conference Theme: Modern science consistently presents us with new and surprising truths about the natural world, particularly about how new things come to be, whether stars and galaxies, plants and animals, or chemical and physical structures. In many ways this creativity and flux in nature might seem antithetical to the c...
Jul 16, 2019•1 hr 13 min
This was the seventh lecture of our 2019 Summer Philosophy Workshop, "Aquinas on Human Action and Virtue." The annual four day conference was cosponsored by the Catholic and Dominican Institute and the Center for Ethics and Culture. The Conference ran from June 19th-23rd at Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh, NY. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: www.thomisticinstitute.org/events Speakers included: Fr. James Brent (Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception), Fr. Steve B...
Jul 13, 2019•1 hr 11 min
This was the sixth lecture of our 2019 Summer Philosophy Workshop, "Aquinas on Human Action and Virtue." The annual four day conference was cosponsored by the Catholic and Dominican Institute and the Center for Ethics and Culture. The Conference ran from June 19th-23rd at Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh, NY. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: www.thomisticinstitute.org/events Speakers included: Fr. James Brent (Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception), Fr. Steve Bro...
Jul 11, 2019•1 hr 16 min
This was the fifth lecture of our 2019 Summer Philosophy Workshop, "Aquinas on Human Action and Virtue." The annual four day conference was cosponsored by the Catholic and Dominican Institute and the Center for Ethics and Culture. The Conference ran from June 19th-23rd at Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh, NY. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: www.thomisticinstitute.org/events Speakers included: Fr. James Brent (Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception), Fr. Steve Bro...
Jul 10, 2019•1 hr 16 min
This was the fourth lecture of our 2019 Summer Philosophy Workshop, "Aquinas on Human Action and Virtue." The annual four day conference was cosponsored by the Catholic and Dominican Institute and the Center for Ethics and Culture. The Conference ran from June 19th-23rd at Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh, NY. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: www.thomisticinstitute.org/events The Hand out for this lecture is available here: tinyurl.com/wr2hf2f Speakers included: Fr. James ...
Jul 09, 2019•1 hr 8 min
This was the third lecture of our 2019 Summer Philosophy Workshop, "Aquinas on Human Action and Virtue." The annual four day conference was cosponsored by the Catholic and Dominican Institute and the Center for Ethics and Culture. The Conference ran from June 19th-23rd at Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh, NY. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: www.thomisticinstitute.org/events The hand out for this lecture can be found here: tinyurl.com/v4s78xx Speakers included: Fr. James B...
Jul 06, 2019•1 hr 19 min
This was the second lecture of our 2019 Summer Philosophy Workshop, "Aquinas on Human Action and Virtue." The annual four day conference was cosponsored by the Catholic and Dominican Institute and the Center for Ethics and Culture. The Conference ran from June 19th-23rd at Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh, NY. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: www.thomisticinstitute.org/events Speakers included: Fr. James Brent (Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception), Steve Brock ...
Jul 04, 2019•1 hr 8 min
This was the first lecture of our 2019 Summer Philosophy Workshop, "Aquinas on Human Action and Virtue." The annual four day conference was cosponsored by the Catholic and Dominican Institute and the Center for Ethics and Culture. The Conference ran from June 19th-23rd at Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh, NY. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: www.thomisticinstitute.org/events Speakers included: Fr. James Brent (Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception), Steve Brock (...
Jul 03, 2019•1 hr 5 min
This talk was offered for the Aquinas Society of Cincinnati and held at St. Gertrude Church, Cincinnati, OH 45243 This event was sponsored by the Aquinas Society of Cincinnati and the Thomistic Institute. For more info about upcoming TI events, visit: www.thomisticinstitute.org/events Event Description: What does it mean to call union with God ‘the highest common good’? Fr. Aquinas (Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception) will explain how understanding our heavenly homeland correctly sh...
Jul 02, 2019•1 hr 3 min
This lecture was given on April 9th, 2019 at Williams College, and was co-sponsored by Williams Catholic. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events About the Speaker: Fr. Thomas Davenport, O.P., received his Ph.D. in physics from Stanford University in 2010, working in theoretical particle physics and subsequently entered the Order of Preachers. He has written and spoken on the relationship of faith and science in a variety of venues, including being a m...
Jun 29, 2019•1 hr 3 min
This talk was offered for the Aquinas Society of Cincinnati, hosted at St. Gertrude's Priory on March 26th, 2019. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: www.thomisticinstitute.org Event Description: St. Augustine of Hippo has vastly influenced Catholic thinking, and is the most quoted theologian in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. He was a man always surrounded by friends, and came to have deep insight into friendship—especially with God. This talk will consider St. Augustine...
Jun 27, 2019•1 hr 4 min
This lecture was offered on May 15th, 2019 at the University of Oxford. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: www.thomisticinstitute.org/events Speaker Bio: Sr Catherine Joseph Droste, OP is a Dominican Sister of St. Cecilia, Nashville, TN. Sr. Catherine Joseph currently serves as Professor and Vice-Dean of Theology at the Pontifical University of St Thomas in Rome (The Angelicum).
Jun 26, 2019•59 min
This lecture was offered on May 7th, 2019 at the University of Oxford. For more information about upcoming TI events visit: www.thomisticinstitute.org/events Lecture Description: This lecture will discuss the vocation of a lawyer from the perspective of virtue, specifically the four cardinal virtues of prudence, justice, fortitude and temperance. These virtues are the hinges of happiness for every person, but they play out in different ways the circumstances of a person's life. In this talk the ...
Jun 25, 2019•1 hr 21 min
This lecture was given April 25th, 2019 at Tulane University. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: www.thomisticinstitute.org/events. Speaker Bio: Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. serves presently as the Assistant Director for Campus Outreach with the Thomistic Institute in Washington, DC. He served previously as an associate pastor at St. Louis Bertrand Church in Louisville, KY where he also taught as an adjunct professor at Bellarmine University. Born and raised near Philadelphia, PA, h...
Jun 22, 2019•1 hr
This lecture was offered at Vanderbilt Medical School on May 9th, 2019. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1 Event Description: The Christian virtue of hope orients persons toward the God-given happiness promised in heaven: indeed, toward God himself. But how does this hope take shape in our lives now? This lecture will explore how the sacraments of Jesus Christ are means toward heavenly bliss. The Catholic sacraments are instruments of hope. Inde...
Jun 19, 2019•1 hr 3 min
This talk was presented at the University of Mississippi on April 29th, 2019. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1
Jun 18, 2019•1 hr 3 min
This lecture was presented April 9th, 2019 at George Mason University and was sponsored by the Thomistic Institute and the Mason Catholic Patriots. For more info about upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1 About the Speaker: Thomas Hibbs is currently Distinguished Professor of Ethics & Culture and Dean of the Honors College at Baylor University. He is the author of books including Virtue's Splendor: Wisdom, Prudence, and the Human Good and Shows About Nothing, one of two...
Jun 18, 2019•1 hr 13 min
This talk was given on May 30th, 2019 at Stanford University. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1 Fr. Stephen Fields is an expert in philosophical theology and the history of Christian thought. He is the author of Being as Symbol: On the Origins and Development of Karl Rahner's Metaphysics and numerous scholarly articles. He is former president of the Jesuit Philosophical Association.
Jun 15, 2019•1 hr 56 min
