This lecture was given at Trinity College Dublin on 13 February 2020. Professor Lewis Ayres is a professor of Catholic and Historical Theology at Durham University. His core research has focused on Trinitarian theology in Augustine and in the Greek writers of the fourth century. His current research concentrates on the development of early Christian cultures of interpretation between 100 and 250. He is currently working on a book titled As it is Written: Ancient Literary Criticism and the Rise o...
Mar 20, 2020•56 min
This lecture was given at Yale University on 12 February 2020. Fr. Gregory Pine, OP 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, he attended the Franciscan University of Steubenville, studying mathematics and humanities. Upon graduat...
Mar 18, 2020•57 min
This lecture was given at Georgetown University on February 12, 2020. For more events and info visit thomisticinstitute.org/events-1. Zena Hitz is a Tutor at St. John's College where she teaches across the liberal arts. She is interested in defending intellectual activity for its own sake, as against its use for economic or political goals. Her forthcoming book, Intellectual Life, is rooted in essays that have appeared in First Things, Modern Age, and The Washington Post. Her scholarly work has ...
Mar 14, 2020•55 min
This lecture was given on 12 September 2019 at Cornell University. Therese Scarpelli Cory is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, specializing in the thought of Thomas Aquinas and his Arabic sources. She loves discussing philosophy with her students, and is especially interested in problems relating to the human person, the mind / soul, and how to live well. For more information on this and other events go to thomisticinstitute.org/events-1...
Mar 11, 2020•45 min
This lecture was given on 5 February 2020 at North Carolina State University. Prof. Michael Sirilla is the former Director of Graduate Theology and currently Professor of Systematic Theology at the Franciscan University of Steubenville, where he has taught since 2002. He earned his Ph.D. in systematic theology from The Catholic University of America. His book, The Ideal Bishop: Aquinas’s Commentaries on the Pastoral Epistles (CUA Press, 2017) is a contribution to the field of ecclesiology. His o...
Mar 10, 2020•1 hr
This lecture was given on 6 February 2020 at Georgetown Law School. 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, he attended the Franciscan University of Steubenville, studying mathematics and humanities. Upon ...
Mar 07, 2020•48 min
This lecture was given at the University of Oklahoma on February 6, 2020. For more events and info visit thomisticinstitute.org/events-1. Francis J. Beckwith is Professor of Philosophy & 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 (...
Mar 05, 2020•51 min
This lecture was given at UC Berkeley on February 3, 2020. For more events and info visit thomisticinstitute.org/events-1. Professor Paul Symington graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in Philosophy and Religion from Roberts Wesleyan College in 1998. He received an M.A. in Theology from Northeastern Seminary in 2001 and an M.A. in Philosophy from Boston College in 2004. He graduated from the State University of New York at Buffalo with a Ph.D. in Philosophy in 2007. He then taught for one year ...
Mar 04, 2020•1 hr
This lecture was given at Ave Maria University on February 8, 2020. For more events and info visit thomisticinstitute.org/events-1. Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P., is the Director of the Thomistic Institute at the Angelicum and Professor of Theology. He did his doctoral studies at Oxford University. He entered the Order of Preachers in 2003. His research and teaching have focused particularly on topics related to Thomistic metaphysics and Christology as well as Roman Catholic-Reformed ecumenical ...
Mar 03, 2020•57 min
This lecture was given to the DC Young Adults Chapter on 10 February 2020. John A. Cuddeback, PhD, is professor of Philosophy at Christendom College, where he has taught for twenty-four years. He lectures widely on topics including virtue, fatherhood, friendship, and household, and his professional writings appear in various academic journals and books. His book True Friendship is being republished by Ignatius Press. His blogging at BaconFromAcorns and LifeCraft is renowned for applying an ancie...
Feb 29, 2020•1 hr 8 min
This lecture was given at Baylor University on February 6, 2020. For more events and info please visit thomisticinstitute.org/events-1. Ulrich L. Lehner specializes in religious history and theology of the Early Modern period, the Enlightenment, and the 19th century. Among his publications are ten authored books and sixteen edited volumes, including The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Theology, 1600-1800 (Oxford UP: 2016) and Women, Enlightenment, and Catholicism: A Transnational Biographical Hi...
Feb 27, 2020•1 hr 1 min
This lecture was given at the University of Arizona on January 28, 2020. For more events and information please visit thomisticinstitute.org/events-1. 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, he attended th...
Feb 26, 2020•47 min
This lecture was given at Cornell University on February 11, 2020. For more events and info please visit thomisticinstitute.org/events-1. Prof. Edward Feser is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Pasadena City College, and has also been a Visiting Assistant Professor at Loyola Marymount University. He received a PhD in philosophy from the University of California at Santa Barbara. He is the author of books including Philosophy of Mind (A Beginner's Guide), The Last Superstition: A Refutation of...
Feb 25, 2020•1 hr 24 min
This lecture was given at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health on February 4, 2020. For more events and info please visit thomisticinstitute.org/events-1 . Angela Knobel is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at The Catholic University of America. Her main areas of research are Thomas Aquinas’s virtue theory, ethics, and bioethics. Her papers have appeared or are forthcoming in such journals as The Thomist, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Nova et Vetera, International Philosophi...
Feb 22, 2020•1 hr 3 min
The hand-out referenced in the lecture is available at tinyurl.com/suqmdda . For more events and info visit thomisticinstitute.org/events-1 . Father Andrew Hofer, O.P., grew up as the youngest of ten children on a Kansas farm. He entered the Dominican Province of St. Joseph in 1995 and professed simple vows the following year. He made his profession of solemn vows in the Great Jubilee Year of 2000, and was ordained a deacon in 2001 and a priest in 2002. Father Andrew is on sabbatical in fall 201...
Feb 22, 2020•22 min
This lecture was given on 4 February 2020 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Joshua Hochschild is the Monsignor Robert R. Kline Professor of Philosophy at Mount St. Mary’s University, where he also served six years as the inaugural Dean of the College of Liberal Arts. His primary research is in medieval logic, metaphysics, and ethics, with broad interest in liberal education and the continuing relevance of the Catholic intellectual tradition. He is the author of The Semantics of Analo...
Feb 20, 2020•1 hr 6 min
This lecture was given at Harvard Medical School on 4 February 2020. Farr Curlin is Josiah C. Trent Professor of Medical Humanities and CoDirector of the Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative (TMC) at Duke University. Dr. Curlin’s ethics scholarship takes up moral questions that are raised by religion-associated differences in physicians’ practices. He is an active palliative medicine physician and holds appointments in both the School of Medicine and the Divinity School, where he is workin...
Feb 15, 2020•1 hr 1 min
This lecture was given on 30 January 2020 as the annual lecture in honor of St. Thomas Aquinas held at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, DC. Fr. Simon Gaine, OP, teaches a wide range of courses in dogmatic and fundamental theology. He a member of the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford.He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Aquinas Institute. For more information on this and other events go to thomisticinstitute.org/events-1...
Feb 13, 2020•1 hr 13 min
This lecture was given at the University of Oxford on 27 November 2019. Fr. Romanus Cessario, OP, holds a research fellowship at Ave Maria University in Florida and serves as associate editor of The Thomist, senior editor of Magnificat, and general editor of the Catholic Moral Thought series at the Catholic University of America Press. For more information on this and other events go to thomisticinstitute.org/events-1
Feb 11, 2020•46 min
This lecture was given at the University of Oxford on 27 November 2019. Fr. Romanus Cessario, OP, holds a research fellowship at Ave Maria University in Florida and serves as associate editor of The Thomist, senior editor of Magnificat, and general editor of the Catholic Moral Thought series at the Catholic University of America Press. For more information on this and other events go to thomisticinstitute.org/events-1
Feb 10, 2020•47 min
This lecture was given at the University of Oxford on 21 November 2019. The Hand Out for this lecture can be accessed here: tinyurl.com/r5t948s Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P., grew up as the youngest of ten children on a farm in Kansas, and studied history, philosophy, and classics at Benedictine College. He then went to St Andrews, Scotland for a Master of Letters in medieval history. He entered the Order of Preachers as a son of the Province of St. Joseph, and was ordained a priest in 2002. After fini...
Feb 07, 2020•55 min
This lecture was given 21 October 2019 to the DC Young Adults Chapter. Jennifer A. Frey received her BA from Indiana University in Bloomington Indiana in 2000, and her PhD at the University of Pittsburgh in 2012. In 2013 she was Collegiate Assistant Professor and Harper Schmidt Fellow at the University of Chicago prior to taking up her current appointment as Assistant Professor in the Philosophy department at the University of South Carolina. Jennifer's research interests lie at the intersection...
Feb 03, 2020•1 hr 11 min
This lecture was given on 13 December 2019 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Paige Hochschild is a professor of historical and systematic theology at Mount St. Mary's University (MD), specializing in Augustine, Thomas Aquinas and the early Church. She also teaches philosophy courses at the Seminary at Mount St. Mary's. She has written a book on the place of memory in Augustine's theological anthropology, and publishes on the Church, education, tradition, 20th c. theological debates w...
Jan 31, 2020•1 hr 11 min
This lecture was given at Vanderbilt Medical School on December 13, 2019. For more events and info please visit thomisticinstitute.org/events-1. Dr. Christopher Kaczor (rhymes with razor) is Professor of Philosophy at Loyola Marymount University and a member of the James Madison Society of Princeton University. In 2015, he was appointed to the Pontifical Academy for Life of Vatican City, and he serves as a Consultor to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. He graduated from the Honor...
Jan 29, 2020•35 min
This lecture was given at Trinity College Dublin on 21 November 2019. The hand out for this lecture is available here: tinyurl.com/rxd7o43 Fr. Conor McDonough, O.P. teaches theology at the Dominican House of Studies, Dublin. He studied science and theology at Cambridge University, and recently completed postgraduate studies in theology at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). For more information on this and other events go to thomisticinstitute.org/events-1...
Jan 24, 2020•49 min
This lecture was given at the University of Oregon on 21 November 2019. J. Budziszewski (Ph.D. Yale, 1981) is a professor of government and philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. His main area of research is the natural moral law, and he is most well known for his work on moral self deception, “the revenge of conscience” what happens when we tell ourselves that we don't know what we really do know. However, he has written about all sorts of things such as moral character, family and se...
Jan 22, 2020•1 hr 18 min
This lecture was given at St. Charles Borromeo Church in Arlington, VA for our DC Young Adults chapter. For more events and info please visit thomisticinstitute.org/events-1. 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 Philadelphia, PA, he attended th...
Jan 21, 2020•58 min
This lecture was given at UT Austin on December 5, 2019. For more events and info please visit thomisticinstitute.org/events-1. Catherine Ruth Pakaluk (Ph.D, 2010) joined the faculty at the Busch School in the summer of 2016, and is the founder of the Social Research academic area, where she is an Assistant Professor of Social Research and Economic Thought. Formerly, she was Assistant Professor and Chair of the Economics Department at Ave Maria University. Her primary areas of research include e...
Jan 17, 2020•1 hr 15 min
This lecture was given on December 3, 2019 at The United States Military Academy. For more events and info please visit thomisticinstitute.org/events-1. Angela Knobel is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at The Catholic University of America. Her main areas of research are Thomas Aquinas’s virtue theory, ethics, and bioethics. Her papers have appeared or are forthcoming in such journals as The Thomist, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Nova et Vetera, International Philosophical Quar...
Jan 14, 2020•1 hr 14 min
This event was given at Rutgers University on December 3, 2019. For more events and info please visit thomisticinstitute.org/events-1. Joshua Hochschild is the Monsignor Robert R. Kline Professor of Philosophy at Mount St. Mary’s University, where he also served six years as the inaugural Dean of the College of Liberal Arts. His primary research is in medieval logic, metaphysics, and ethics, with broad interest in liberal education and the continuing relevance of the Catholic intellectual tradit...
Jan 13, 2020•1 hr 1 min
