The Thomistic Institute

Mar 24, 2020 • 54 min

This lecture was given at Tulane University on February 4, 2020. For more events and info please visit thomisticinstitute.org/events-1. Jay W. Richards, Ph.D., is the author of many books including the New York Times bestsellers Infiltrated (2013) and Indivisible (2012). He is also the author of Money, Greed, and God, winner of a 2010 Templeton Enterprise Award; and co-author of The Privileged Planet with astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez. His most recent book is “Eat, Fast, Feast: Heal Your Body While Feeding Your Soul—A Christian Guide to Fasting.” Richards is a Research Assistant Professor in the Busch School of Business at The Catholic University of America, a Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute, and executive editor of The Stream. In recent years he has been Distinguished Fellow at the Institute for Faith, Work & Economics, Contributing Editor of The American at the American Enterprise Institute, a Visiting Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, and Research Fellow and Director of Acton Media at the Acton Institute.

Mar 21, 2020 • 1h 5m

Professor Joseph Capizzi discusses why the Catholic Church is not pacifist, exploring the historical and theological contexts that justify the use of force in certain situations, particularly in defense of vulnerable people. This lecture was given at Duke University on February 13, 2020. For more events and info please visit  thomisticinstitute.org/events-1 . Prof. Joseph E. Capizzi is Ordinary Professor of Moral Theology at the Catholic University of America. He teaches in the areas of social and political theology, with special interests in issues in peace and war, citizenship, political authority, and Augustinian theology. He has written, lectured, and published widely on just war theory, bioethics, the history of moral theology, and political liberalism. Dr. Capizzi is also the Executive Director of the Institute for Human Ecology at Catholic University. He received his B.A. from the University of Virginia, his Masters in Theological Studies from Emory University, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Theology from the University of Notre Dame. He lives in Maryland with his wife and six children.

Mar 20, 2020 • 56 min

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 of Scripture AD 100-250 (Princeton University Press). Professor Ayres has also edited and co-edited numerous books including the The Cambridge History of Christian Literature (with Andrew Louth and Frances Young) and The Oxford Handbook of Catholic Theology (with Medi Ann Volpe). In addition to his research, writing, and editing projects, Professor Ayres has an interest in a number of in topics in modern Catholic fundamental and dogmatic theology. These include the modern reception of Patristic Trinitarian theology, the place of Scripture (and Tradition) in modern Catholic theology, and the modern use of post-idealist themes in the supposed “revivals” of Trinitarian theology that have occurred over the last two centuries. From 2009-2012, Professor Ayres was the inaugural holder of the Bede Chair fo Catholic Theology. From 2013-2015 he also served as Distinguished Fellow of Norte Dame’s Institute for Advanced Study. Professor Ayres is also a Visiting Professional Fellow at the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry of the Australian Catholic University in Melbourne. He has taught at Trinity College Dublin and Emory University in the United States. For more information on this and other events go to thomisticinstitute.org/events-1

Mar 18, 2020 • 57 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 graduating, he entered the Order of Preachers in 2010. He was ordained a priest in 2016 and holds an STL from the Dominican House of Studies. To access the handout for this lecture, go to thomisticinstitute.org/handouts. For more information on this and other events go to thomisticinstitute.org/events-1.

Mar 14, 2020 • 55 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 focused on the political thought of Plato and Aristotle, especially the question of how law cultivates or fails to cultivate human excellence. She received an MPhil in Classics from Cambridge and studied Social Thought and Philosophy at the University of Chicago before finishing her PhD in Philosophy at Princeton.

Mar 11, 2020 • 45 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 10, 2020 • 1h

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 other research interests include the theology and philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas, natural theology, and fundamental theology. He lives in Steubenville, Ohio with his wife, Laura, and their eight children. For more information on this and other events go to thomisticinstitute.org/events-1

Mar 7, 2020 • 48 min

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 graduating, he entered the Order of Preachers in 2010. He was ordained a priest in 2016 and holds an STL from the Dominican House of Studies. For more information on this and other events go to thomisticinstitute.org/events-1

Mar 5, 2020 • 51 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 (IVP, 2010), and Taking Rites Seriously: Law, Politics, and the Reasonableness of Faith (Cambridge University Press, 2015), winner of the American Academy of Religion's prestigious 2016 Book Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in Constructive-Reflective Studies. He is a graduate of the Washington University School of Law, St. Louis (MJS) as well as Fordham University (PhD, MA, philosophy).

Mar 4, 2020 • 1h

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 at the University of San Francisco before receiving a position in 2008 at Franciscan University of Steubenville. He was a Service-Learning Faculty Fellow at the University of San Francisco and received a NYS Professional Development Award from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 2007. He is a member of The Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy, The American Catholic Philosophical Association, and The American Philosophical Association. His research is mainly focused on areas in metaphysics and medieval philosophy.

Feb 29, 2020 • 1h 8m

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 ancient wisdom to life today. For more information on this and other events go to thomisticinstitute.org/events-1

Feb 27, 2020 • 1h 1m

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 History (Routledge: 2018). He was selected as a Member and Herodotus Fellow in the School of Historical Studies at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, a fellow at the Institute for Comparative History of Religious Orders at the University of Eichstätt, Distinguished Fellow at the NDIAS (twice), fellow of the Earhart foundation (twice), and fellow of the Humboldt and Friedrich von Siemens Foundation. In 2014 he was inducted into the European Academy for Sciences and Arts.

Feb 26, 2020 • 47 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 the Franciscan University of Steubenville, studying mathematics and humanities. Upon graduating, he entered the Order of Preachers in 2010. He was ordained a priest in 2016 and holds an STL from the Dominican House of Studies.

Feb 25, 2020 • 1h 24m

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 the New Atheism, Aquinas (A Beginner's Guide), Scholastic Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction, NeoScholastic Essays, Five Proofs for the Existence of God, and By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed: A Catholic Defense of Capital Punishment. He blogs at edwardfeser.blogspot.com/

Feb 22, 2020 • 1h 3m

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 Philosophical Quarterly and The Journal of Moral Theology.

Feb 20, 2020 • 1h 6m

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 Analogy: Rereading Cajetan’s De Nominum Analogia (2010), translator of Claude Panaccio’s Mental Language: From Plato to William of Ockham (2017), and co-author of A Mind at Peace: Reclaiming an Ordered Soul in the Age of Distraction (2017). His writing has appeared in First Things, Commonweal, Modern Age and the Wall Street Journal. For 2020-21 he’s been elected to serve as President of the American Catholic Philosophical Association. For more information on this and other events go to thomisticinstitute.org/events-1

Feb 15, 2020 • 1h 1m

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 working with colleagues to develop a new interdisciplinary community of scholarship and training focused on the intersection of theology, medicine, and culture. For more information on this and other events go to thomisticinstitute.org/events-1

Feb 13, 2020 • 1h 13m

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 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 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