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The Thomistic Institute

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The Thomistic Institute exists to promote Catholic truth in our contemporary world by strengthening the intellectual formation of Christians at universities, in the Church, and in the wider public square. The thought of St. Thomas Aquinas, the Universal Doctor of the Church, is our touchstone. The Thomistic Institute Podcast features the lectures and talks from our conferences, campus chapters events, intellectual retreats, livestream events,  and much more.  Founded in 2009, the Thomistic Institute is part of the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, DC.
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Episodes

The Via Dolorosa | Fr. Basil Cole, O.P.

This talk was given as part of the Thomistic Institute's Holy Week Retreat, April 9-12, 2020. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website: thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Joining the Dominicans of the Western Province in 1960, Fr. Cole was ordained to the priesthood in 1966. He finished his theological studies at Le Saulchoir in Etiolles, France earning the lectorate and licentiate degrees in 1968. He later received the doctorate in sacred theology from the Ponti...

Aug 07, 202020 min

The Eucharist and Spiritual Communion | Fr. Dominic Langevin, O.P.

This talk was given as part of the Thomistic Institute's Holy Week Retreat, April 9-12, 2020. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website: thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Fr. Langevin entered the Order of Friars Preachers in 1998 and was ordained a priest in 2005. He was formerly assigned as a parochial vicar at St. Thomas Aquinas University Parish in Charlottesville, Virginia, serving the University of Virginia. While working on his doctorate at the University o...

Aug 05, 202021 min

The New Commandment | Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P.

This talk was given as part of the Thomistic Institute's Holy Week Retreat, April 9-12, 2020. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website: thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. serves presently as Assistant Director of Campus Outreach for the Thomistic Institute. 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 Phi...

Aug 03, 202017 min

Aquinas on the Blessed Mother | Fr. Thomas Petri, O.P.

This talk was livestreamed from the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C., as part of the Thomistic Institute's Quarantine Lecture series. For more information on upcoming events visit our website: thomisticinstitute.org

Jul 29, 20201 hr 1 min

The Catholic Imagination in JRR Tolkien and Flannery O'Connor | Prof. Raymond Hain

This lecture was given at Queen's University on February 5, 2020. For more events and info please visit thomisticinstitute.org/events-1. Professor Raymond Hain is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Providence College and Associate Director of the Providence College Humanities Program. He received his BA in Philosophy from Christendom College and his MA and PhD in Philosophy from the University of Notre Dame, where he studied under Ralph McInerny and David Solomon. He works primarily in moral p...

Jul 27, 20201 hr 1 min

Can Science Explain Everything? | Prof. John Lennox

This lecture was given at Oxford University on February 19, 2020. For more events and info, please visit thomisticinstitute.org Prof. John Lennox studied at the Royal School Armagh, Northern Ireland and was Exhibitioner and Senior Scholar at Emmanuel College, Cambridge University from which he took his MA, MMath and PhD. He worked for many years in the Mathematics Institute at the University of Wales in Cardiff which awarded him a DSc for his research. He also holds an MA and DPhil from Oxford U...

Jul 24, 202046 min

Is the Bible True and Accurate? | Fr. Terence Crotty

This talk was given at the University College Dublin on February 25, 2020. For more events and info please visit thomisticinstitute.org/events-1. Fr. Terence Crotty, OP, is a doctor of Biblical Theology and is Student Master of the Irish Dominican Province.

Jul 20, 202055 min

Four Futures: The Catholic Church in America | Prof. Gladden Pappin

This lecture was given at Southern Methodist University on March 10, 2020. For Prof. Pappin's slideshow, please see thomisticinstitute.org/four-futures-…ica-slideshow For the lecture audio synced with Prof. Pappin's slideshow, please see www.youtube.com/watch?v=odhqf4wdG48 For more events and info, please visit thomisticinstitute.org Prof. Gladden Pappin is assistant professor of politics at the University of Dallas, and is the cofounder of American Affairs. He is also a permanent research fello...

Jul 17, 20201 hr 1 min

How Is God Our Father? | Fr. John Baptist Ku, O.P.

This talk was livestreamed from the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C., as part of the Thomistic Institute's Quarantine Lecture series. For more information on the Quarantine Lectures and to subscribe, visit us online: thomisticinstitute.org/quarantine-lectures.

Jul 15, 20201 hr 2 min

An Unjust Law is No Law at All | Prof. Raymond Hain

This lecture was given at Florida State University on February 25, 2020. For more events and info please visit thomisticinstitute.org/events-1. Prof. Raymond Hain is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Providence College and Associate Director of the Providence College Humanities Program. He received his BA in Philosophy from Christendom College and his MA and PhD in Philosophy from the University of Notre Dame, where he studied under Ralph McInerny and David Solomon. He works primarily in mora...

Jul 13, 202040 min

Aquinas on Mystical Union with God | Fr. Bernhard Blankenhorn

This lecture was given at Stanford University on November 18, 2019. For more events and info, please visit thomisticinstitute.org/events-1. Fr. Bernhard is professor of theology at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) in Rome and associate director of its Thomistic Institute. He did his doctoral studies at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, under the direction of Gilles Emery. He has published The Mystery of Union with God: Dionysian Mysticism in Albert the Great a...

Jul 10, 20201 hr 6 min

Born Broken? Aquinas On Original Sin | Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P.

This talk was livestreamed from the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C., as part of the Thomistic Institute's Quarantine Lecture series. For more information on the Quarantine Lectures and to subscribe, visit us online: thomisticinstitute.org/quarantine-lectures.

Jul 08, 20201 hr

Does Nature Make Laws?: An Introduction to the Natural Law Tradition | Prof. Raymond Hain

This lecture was given at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on October 17, 2019. About the speaker: Professor Raymond Hain is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Providence College and Associate Director of the Providence College Humanities Program. He received his BA in Philosophy from Christendom College and his MA and PhD in Philosophy from the University of Notre Dame, where he studied under Ralph McInerny and David Solomon. He works primarily in moral philosophy in the Thomistic tr...

Jul 06, 20201 hr 4 min

Does God Exist? Defending the Divine Based on Reason | Prof. Alexander Pruss

This lecture was presented by the campus chapter of the Thomistic Institute at Stanford University on October 4, 2019. Prof. Alexander Pruss has doctorates both in philosophy and mathematics, and is currently Professor of Philosophy at Baylor University. His books include "The Principle of Sufficient Reason: A Reassessment" (Cambridge University Press), "One Body: An Essay in Christian Sexual Ethics" (Notre Dame University Press), and "Actuality, Possibility and Worlds" (Continuum). His research...

Jul 03, 20201 hr 24 min

Angels and Demons | Fr. Basil Cole, O.P.

This talk was livestreamed from the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C., as part of the Thomistic Institute's Quarantine Lecture series. For more information on the Quarantine Lectures and to subscribe, visit us online: thomisticinstitute.org/quarantine-lectures.

Jul 01, 202057 min

Moral Enhancement: Exemplars and Epistemic Trust | Prof. Stephen Napier

This talk was offered as part of our Thomistic Circles Series, "Neuroscience and the Soul" held at DHS on February 28th & 29th, 2020. Prof. Stephen Napier is Assistant Professor of moral epistemology, cognitive science of intuitions, bioethics, and metaphysics of persons at the Villanova University. Prof. Napier has over 18 peer reviewed publications. His research interests include epistemology, bioethics, cognitive science, social perception, and moral psychology and metaphysics of persons....

Jun 29, 20201 hr 17 min

Neuroscience and the Human Soul | Prof. Marie George

This lecture was given at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, DC, on February 29, 2020. For more events and info please visit thomisticinstitute.org/events-1. Marie George has been a member of the Philosophy Department at St. John's University since 1988. Professor George is an Aristotelian-Thomist whose interests lie primarily in the areas of philosophy of nature and philosophy of science. She has received several awards from the John Templeton foundation for her work in science and r...

Jun 26, 20201 hr 8 min

Is Belief In The Trinity Irrational? | Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P.

This talk was livestreamed from the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C., as part of the Thomistic Institute's Quarantine Lecture series. For more information on the Quarantine Lectures and to subscribe, visit us online: thomisticinstitute.org/quarantine-lectures.

Jun 24, 202053 min

The Rise of Modern Atheism: Distinguishing Fact from Fiction | Prof. Anna Moreland

This lecture was given at Harvard University Graduate school on March 5, 2020. About the speaker: Anna Bonta Moreland is an Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities at Villanova University. She received her B.A. in Philosophy at the University of Maryland, College Park, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Systematic Theology from Boston College. Anna Bonta Moreland’s areas of research include faith and reason, medieval theology with an emphasis on Thomas Aquinas, the theology of religious plura...

Jun 22, 20201 hr 6 min

Who Am I to Judge? Politics and the Problem of Moral Relativism | Prof. Francis Beckwith

This lecture was presented by the campus chapter of the Thomistic Institute at the University of Arizona on February 27, 2020. Prof. Francis J. Beckwith is Professor of Philosophy and Church-State Studies at Baylor University, where he also serves as Associate Director of the Graduate Program in Philosophy. Among his over one dozen books are "Defending Life: A Moral and Legal Case Against Abortion Choice" (Cambridge University Press, 2007), "Politics For Christians: Statecraft As Soulcraft" (IVP...

Jun 19, 202059 min

Friendship and the Common Good | Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau, O.P.

This talk was livestreamed from the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C., as part of the Thomistic Institute's Quarantine Lecture series. The hand out for this lecture can be found here: tinyurl.com/ycsedsu3 For more information on the Quarantine Lectures and to subscribe, visit us online: thomisticinstitute.org/quarantine-lectures.

Jun 17, 20201 hr 3 min

Aquinas as a Mystical Theologian | Fr. Bernhard Blankenhorn, O.P.

This lecture was presented by the campus chapter of the Thomistic Institute at the University of California, Berkeley on October 21, 2019. Fr. Bernhard Blankenhorn, O.P. is a Dominican friar of the Province of the Most Holy Name of Jesus. He is a professor of theology at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) in Rome, where he is an associate director of the Thomistic Institute. He did his doctoral studies at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, under the direction of ...

Jun 15, 20201 hr 10 min

Did Jesus Christ See the Father? | Fr. Simon Gaine, O.P.

This talk was livestreamed from the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C., as part of the Thomistic Institute's Quarantine Lecture series. For more information on the Quarantine Lectures and to subscribe, visit us online: thomisticinstitute.org/quarantine-lectures.

Jun 10, 20201 hr

The Inner Workings of Confession | Fr. Dominic Langevin, O.P.

This talk was livestreamed from the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C., as part of the Thomistic Institute's Quarantine Lecture series. For more information on the Quarantine Lectures and to subscribe, visit us online: thomisticinstitute.org/quarantine-lectures.

Jun 04, 20201 hr 3 min

Popular Neuroscience and Other Political Schemes | Prof. Jeffrey Bishop

This talk was offered as part of our Thomistic Circles Series, "Neuroscience and the Soul" held at DHS on February 28th & 29th, 2020. Prof. Jeffrey Bishop is a philosopher, bioethicist, author and the Tenet Endowed Chair of Health Care Ethics at Saint Louis University. The director of the Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics, he is most widely recognized and cited for work in medical ethics as relating to death and dying in addition to contributions in the field of medical humanities....

May 30, 202059 min

Freedom, Aquinas, and the Brain | Fr. Anselm Ramelow, O.P.

This talk was offered as part of our Thomistic Circles Series, "Neuroscience and the Soul" held at DHS on February 28th & 29th, 2020. Fr. Anselm Ramelow, O.P. is Professor of Philosophy and Philosophy Department Chair at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Berkeley, CA. He holds a Ph.D in Philosophy from the University of Munich. At Munich, he studied with Robert Spaemann, and wrote a dissertation titled "Gott, Freiheit, Weltenwahl. Die Metaphysik der Willensfreiheit zwischen ...

May 26, 20201 hr
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