The full title of this lecture is: "Aquinas and Olivi on Job: A Franciscan-Dominican Dispute on Suffering, perfection, and Exegesis" This lecture was given on Sept. 28, 2018 to begin the Thomistic Circles conference "Friendly Rivals: Franciscan and Dominican Intellectual Traditions" in Washington, DC. Hand out available here: tinyurl.com/y8n8orkf
A lecture given during "Friendly Rivals: Franciscan and Dominican Intellectual Traditions" a Thomistic Circles conference at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C. Sept. 28-29, 2018. The hand out for this lecture is available here: tinyurl.com/ybo2qjxb
This lecture was given on Sept. 28, 2018 to begin the Thomistic Circles conference "Friendly Rivals: Franciscan and Dominican Intellectual Traditions" in Washington, DC. Handout available here: static1.squarespace.com/static/580e5b…Univocity.pdf
This talk was offered on Sept. 28,2018 to begin the Thomistic Circle "Friendly Rivals: Franciscan and Dominican Intellectual Traditions. " To learn more about upcoming Thomistic Institute events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events
This lecture was delivered by V. Bradley Lewis(Catholic University of America) to the UC Berkeley chapter of the Thomistic Institute on September 18th, 2018. V. Bradley Lewis is associate professor in the School of Philosophy in the Catholic University of America. He specializes in political and legal philosophy, especially that of the classical Greeks and in the Thomistic tradition, and is currently working on a book on the idea of the common good. In addition to these things he has served as a...
This lecture was delivered by Chad Pecknold (Catholic University of America) to the MIT chapter of the Thomistic Institute on September 18, 2018. To learn about upcoming Thomistic Institute events visit thomisticinstitute.org/events/
Fr. Nicanor Austriaco, O.P., completed his Bachelor’s Degree (B.S.E.) in Bioengineering, summa cum laude, at the University of Pennsylvania, and then earned his Ph.D. in Biology from M.I.T. in the laboratory of Professor Leonard Guarente, where he was a fellow of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). He was ordained a priest in the Order of Preachers in May of 2004. He completed his Pontifical License in Sacred Theology (S.T.L.) in Moral Theology, summa cum laude, at the Dominican House of...
This lecture was offered as part of our "Wisdom of Aquinas" series held at NYU on September 22, 2018. The link to the handout can be found here: docs.google.com/document/d/12a3xy…/edit?usp=sharing For upcoming Thomistic Insitute events visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events
This lecture was offered as part of our "Wisdom of Aquinas" series held at NYU on September 22, 2018. The link to the handout can be found here: drive.google.com/file/d/0ByaUbskx…view?usp=sharing
In this lecture, Professor Christopher Kaczor (Loyola Marymount University) draws on insights from Aristotle, Aquinas, and contemporary psychology to understand how to make good friendships and avoid bad ones. This lecture was given to the Baylor University chapter of the Thomistic Institute on September 6, 2018. View upcoming Thomistic Institute events at: thomisticinstitute.org/events.
What is happiness, and what is the best and happiest life a human being can live? Or even more directly and personally, what kind of life ought I to be living or ought I to be aiming for? In this lecture, Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P. (Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception and the Thomistic Institute) draws on wisdom from St. Thomas Aquinas and the classical tradition to answer these fundamental and perennial questions. This lecture was given to the Cornell University chapter of the Thomisti...
This lecture by Dr. Kevin Doak with a response by Fr. Joseph Koterski SJ was given on September 15th, 2018 during a day long conference on "Jesus of Nazareth and the Church's Tradition: The Enduring Legacy of Benedict XVI" held at Georgetown University.
This lecture by Fr. Dominic Legge with a response by Dr. Rebekah Eklund was given on September 15th, 2018 during a day long conference on "Jesus of Nazareth and the Church's Tradition: The Enduring Legacy of Benedict XVI" held at Georgetown University.
"No greater wonder could be accomplished than that God should become man." So writes St. Thomas Aquinas in his commentary on the Gospel of John. This statement follows a lifetime spent pondering the question of why God became man. If Aquinas fully acknowledges that the Incarnation marks an article of faith, that is, a doctrine that is accepted as true only by an act of faith, he was nonetheless convinced that the mystery of the Incarnation is not only in accord with human reason, it is deeply at...
This talk, "Deus adorans, Homo adorans: Joseph Ratzinger's Liturgical Christology & Anthropology" was offered on September 15th, 2018 during a day long conference on "Jesus of Nazareth and the Church's Tradition: The Enduring Legacy of Benedict XVI" held at Georgetown University.
The re-emergence of Israel as a nation-state caught the world by surprise. That Israel matters geo-politically cannot be doubted, but does it matter theologically? Is there a place for Israel, as there is for Jews, in Christian eschatology? In this lecture, Douglas Farrow (McGill University) gives a theological perspective on these questions. This lecture was given to the DC Young Adults chapter of the Thomistic Institute on September 5, 2018.
This talk was offered as the Thomistic Institute Lecture in Medieval Dominican Thought at the Boston College Colloquy in Historical Theology on August 4th, 2018. For more information on upcoming events, check out our events calendar: thomisticinstitute.org/events/?view=…eptember-2018
Is the existence of the soul compatible with the discoveries of neuroscience? It depends on whose conception of the soul, and which discoveries in neuroscience one has in mind. In this lecture, Daniel De Haan (Cambridge University) draws on recent research from the new mechanistic philosophy of neuroscience and psychology to help articulate a contemporary Aristotelian account of the human person as a “hylomorphically” ensouled body. This lecture was given to the London Young Adults chapter of th...
This is a recording from the panel discussion at the end of our Civitas Dei Summer Fellowship on July 20th, 2018 Civitas Dei is an annual summer fellowship sponsored by the Thomistic Institute and the Institute for Human Ecology.
This talk was given on July 19th, as part of the Civitas Dei Fellowship. Civitas Dei is an annual summer fellowship sponsored by the Thomistic Institute and the Institute for Human Ecology.
This talk was offered at our Civitas Dei Summer Fellowship program on July 19th, 2018.
This lecture by Dr. Chad Pecknold with a response by Fr. Stephen Fields SJ was given on September 15th, 2018 during a day long conference on "Jesus of Nazareth and the Church's Tradition: The Enduring Legacy of Benedict XVI" held at Georgetown University.
This talk was offered at our Civitas Dei Summer Fellowship program. For more information on future events, visit our website at: thomisticinstitute.org/events/?view=…eptember-2018 Civitas Dei is an annual summer fellowship sponsored by the Thomistic Institute and the Institute for Human Ecology.
This talk was offered on July 18th as part of the Civitas Dei Summer Fellowship program. For more information on future events, visit our website at: thomisticinstitute.org/events/?view=…eptember-2018 Civitas Dei is an annual summer fellowship sponsored by the Thomistic Institute and the Institute for Human Ecology.
This talk was offered on July 16th at our Civitas Dei Summer Fellowship program. For more information on future events, visit our website at: thomisticinstitute.org/events/?view=…eptember-2018 Civitas Dei is an annual summer fellowship sponsored by the Thomistic Institute and the Institute for Human Ecology.
This talk was offered on July 17th as part of the Civitas Dei Summer Fellowship program. For more information on future events, visit our website at: thomisticinstitute.org/events/?view=…eptember-2018 Civitas Dei is an annual summer fellowship sponsored by the Thomistic Institute and the Institute for Human Ecology.
This talk was offered on July 16th at our Civitas Dei Summer Fellowship program. For more information on future events, visit our website at: thomisticinstitute.org/events/?view=…eptember-2018 Civitas Dei is an annual summer fellowship sponsored by the Thomistic Institute and the Institute for Human Ecology.
This talk was offered on July 16th as part of the Civitas Dei Summer Fellowship program. For more information on future events, visit our website at: thomisticinstitute.org/events/?view=…eptember-2018 Civitas Dei is an annual summer fellowship sponsored by the Thomistic Institute and the Institute for Human Ecology.
This discussion was held June 16th, 2018 with the final 4 speakers of the annual Newburgh Summer Philosophy Workshop.
This talk was offered on June 16th, 2018 as part of the Newburgh Summer Philosophy Workshop on "Aquinas on Divine Attributes."
